360DegreeVendor

21. April 2008 by Rick Abbott.

Over the past 2+ years, I have developed a database of vendors (currently 575+) that play in the business intelligence, data warehouse, data integration, etc… space.  I’ve developed an “offering taxonomy” that defines vendor offerings along three broad categories: product, service, and research.  I’ve further broken those categories down into specific offerings, such as “Extract, Transform, Load” under “Product”, or “System Integration” under “Service”.  The third category, “Research”, has not been fully developed, but I felt it was necessary to break this out separately.  Since the space is so unwieldy (IMHO), a component of this database is a list of “buzzwords” that are commonly used within the industry.    Following is an overview and a list of the reports that I’ve produced to date.  I plan on adding a few more, with the long term goal of making the information in the database available via an ad-hoc reporting capability.  You’re free to download and use these reports, all I ask is that you shoot me an e-mail letting me know which reports you download, and provide feedback (both good and bad).  Additional reports, as well as updates to these reports, will be available on my web site in the next couple of weeks. 

• 360DegreeVendor© is a database of 575+ vendors with product, service, and research offerings in the business intelligence, data warehouse, and data integration space
• Contains specific vendor information including leadership, corporate structure,  URL, and parent organizations
• All vendors are categorized as small, medium, or large, with further breakouts such as listing status, venture backing, and leadership structure
• Catalog of all offerings, including services, software products, training, and research
• Vendor offerings are further defined along taxonomy of over 40 detailed product and service categories
• Venture backed organizations include venture fund name and total annual investment (where available)
• Public companies include listing agency, market cap, and other summary financial information 

Vendor Focused Reports:     

• Vendor Offerings - Alphabetical listing of all vendors, with product offerings and corporate information
• Corporate Structure – Listing of vendors by their corporate type (e.g., Listed, Venture Backed, Partnership)
• Vendor Category Summary - Number of vendors by category (small, medium, large) and type (e.g., individual, venture backed, publicly listed) 

Offering Focused Reports:

• Offering Summary Report -  Summary count of vendors by offering (e.g., product, service, research)
• Offering Listings - Listing of all vendor offerings by detailed product (e.g., ETL, Data mining, Reporting), service (e.g., Consulting, Database Marketing, Hosted Services), or research offering type
  • Product Listing, Services Listing, Research Listing
• Open Source Offerings– Listing of all vendor offerings that are Open Source or freeware

Venture Capital Focused Reports:

• Venture Firms– Listing of all venture-backed vendors sorted by venture firm
• Venture Backed Vendors– Listing of all venture-backed vendors sorted by vendor
• Venture Statistics– Summary of vendor offering statistics for venture backed firms 

Reference Reports:

• Vendor Categories– Listing of vendor categories (e.g., Listed, Venture backed)
• Vendor Offerings Categories– Listing of vendor offerings (e.g., ETL, System Integration, Reporting)
• Buzzwords– Listing of all buzzwords, with descriptions

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