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We provide guidance using our market research and expertise to significantly improve your marketing, sales and product efforts. We offer a portfolio of advisory, research, thought leadership and digital education services to help optimize market strategy, planning and execution.
For inclusion in the Ventana Research CRM and Customer Experience Management (CXM) Buyers Guides for 2024, a software provider must be in good standing financially and ethically, have at least $50 million in annual or projected revenue, sell products and provide support on at least two continents, and have 100 or more customers. The principal source of the relevant business unit’s revenue must be software-related and there must have been at least one major software release in the last 18 months. In addition, a provider's offering must include some of the capabilities listed below pertaining to the corresponding Buyers Guide evaluation.
Completed surveys and customer references for this Buyers Guide are due on May 17, 2024. The scoring period is scheduled to last through June 2024, during which time we will contact references and schedule a briefing. The publication is currently scheduled for the July of 2024.
Please upload the submission package and all supporting documents in our FileCloud portal. For all questions regarding FileCloud, please contact the research analyst Hayden at hayden.christie@isg-one.com
We ask that you provide three to five customer references along with your completed submission package. You can enter this information in the appropriate fields in the Intro & Data document, or you can provide it directly to the research program manager. We send each reference an email message with the questions below; alternatively, we are happy to have a phone call if the reference prefers to answer the questions that way. In all the process should not require more than 15 minutes of a reference’s time. All responses are confidential; while customer feedback is a valuable part of our evaluation, we do not share the content of reference interviews with the vendor or the general public.
Below is a list of questions we ask references. Analysts may follow up with an email message or phone call for clarification or further details.
We strongly encourage full participation in the Buyers Guide, but if this is not possible, we suggest you provide whatever documentation you have on your product — release notes,
any publicly available information and anything else that will help provide an accurate picture of the product for the analyst. We also suggest you provide customer references and
schedule a briefing with the analyst during the scoring period. Please contact Research Analyst Mawish Rahman for further information about limited participation.
Prior to initiating any new Buyers Guide, our leadership team develops criteria that include the nature of the product, product marketing, overall revenue and countries of operation. All products that meet the criteria are included in the Buyers Guide. In our view, this policy is essential for ensuring our evaluation is unbiased and that it accurately represents the state of the marketplace and the needs of business executives pursuing RFPs.
Yes, briefings are required for the purpose of confirming the analysts’ assessment and clarifying any outstanding issues. The analyst or research program manager will contact you to set this up during the scoring period.
We ask that you imagine the briefing as a final pitch for a $1 million deal. Please plan for an hour and understand that schedules often prevent extending these sessions. We suggest you structure the briefing as follows, allotting about 15 minutes per segment: Company overview, product overview and demo, discussion of product as relates to the Value Index evaluation categories and Q&A.
More information about the Ventana Research Buyers Guide is on our website here. To purchase a buyers guide, please contact sales@ventanaresearch.com.
We will share the courtesy copy of the Buyers Guide Report 72 hours prior publication.