Our mission is to provide information technology (IT) vendors, buyers and users with indispensable source of experiential intelligence to help them design, promote, select and implement technology solutions successfully.

Our unique process of collaboration with IT departments and independent market experts, enables us to amass the deepest, broadest, most timely and most credible set of IT research data and analysis.

The continual stream of evaluations we collect from actual technology buyers, implementers and users provides IT vendors the needed competitive intelligence to design better solutions and market them optimally. Likewise, IT departments and consulting organizations can leverage us to help select and implement IT solutions with greater confidence, success and speed.

Evalubase Research differs considerably from IT analyst firms that collect erratic market data, dispense anecdotal analysis, and lack credibility due to their vendor relationships. Instead, we have established the first and foremost IT assessment knowledgebase in the world. It is continually fed with hands-on evaluations, robust data analyses, and insightful market analyses--all available anytime.

As an Evalubase subscriber, you have access to detailed evaluations, rich online reporting of comparative data and historical trends, custom research alerts, written market analyses, and consultations with evaluators and market experts.

Participating organizations and subscribers can also receive periodic scorecards that compare how their IT portfolio stacks up against other similar organizations.

With the hundreds of IT related investment and implementation decisions your organization makes each year, ensure you're making these decisions based on hard data and field-based insights, rather than biased research, anecdotal analysis or stale point-in-time surveys.

Thank you for visiting Evalubase Research. We look forward to enrolling you as an registered evaluator, market expert, participating IT organization or subscribing client.

We believe IT research shouldn't be influenced by vendor marketing and payola.

... how products and providers perform is what matters.

We believe the most knowledgeable people in IT are IT professionals themselves.

... most IT market experts haven't had real experience in years.

We believe our clients shouldn't wait months for market intelligence reports.

... markets and competitors nowadays move too quickly.

We believe in an unlimited breadth of research.

... niche research can't offer solutions to enterprise IT issues.

We believe IT executives need visibility into how their IT portfolios stack-up against others

... and have access to real-time, unbiased, detailed analysis anytime.

We believe it's high-time for research done right.

If you believe too, learn about how your organization can receive periodic IT portfolio scorecards™ at no charge, and have access to the richest set of IT market data, analysis and insights.

In the dictionary, you'll find our picture next to the word, "empirical." Well OK, not yet, but this word embodies Evalubase's research method.

em·pir·i·cal (em-PEER-i-kal), adj.
1) Relying on or derived from observation
2) Guided by practical experience, not theory

Our Collaborative Research Engine™ delivers the ratings, experiences and insights of actual IT users right to your desktop, and enables you to connect directly with them regarding your specific situation.

Evalubase's Collaborative Research Engine™ can offer you a quantity of research data much broader and deeper than any other source—up to 3 times more solutions and providers covered with 10 times more detail about each.

Furthermore, our approach eliminates the vendor bias that contaminates traditional research methods. No longer will you have to "question the data" when making important IT-related decisions.

Finally, let's talk about speed. If you think waiting 6-to-9 months for expensive one-time published survey data seems outrageous, so do we. That's no way to for you to keep up with the rapidly changing marketplace and ahead of agile competition. Our research data is available to you online the instant it's collected. (Sorry, the laws of physics currently prevent us from delivering research to you any sooner than immediately.)

Sometimes it's easier to say who you're not.

We're not an analyst firm. Yes we have analysts, but our field analysts and market experts are IT professionals with real experience, currently working on real IT solutions. To maintain the strict integrity of our research, we do not write whitepapers for clients. Neither are the breadth and depth of our research limited to the number of analysts we have.

We're not a survey house. Yes we execute surveys, but our IT product/service evaluation engine is always humming. Unlike occasional point-in-time surveys, our data is continual, integrated and cross-analyzable. To maintain the integrity of our research, our survey mechanism is standardized and structured.

We're not a market research company. Yes, we provide market/competitive research, but we do not regurgitate news, re-hash other firms' research, or resell whitepapers. Our research is fresh from the field and available nowhere else.

We're not a directory provider. Yes our clients have access to a potentially unbounded list of IT vendors and solutions, but none of our content consists of vendor marketing material masquerading as real research.

And we're definitely not a consulting firm, not a PR firm, and not a reseller.

Instead, Evalubase is a new kind of IT research firm, continually focused on what's really happening in the world of enterprise technology and making it instantly available to you. We provide you up-to-date ratings of IT providers and their solutions based on hard data, rather than a finger-in-the-wind, watching demos, or "green-mail" payola. We also offer you self-service online analysis of our data, custom alerts, customized surveys, and the means to track and valuate your IT portfolio.

Enterprises have hundreds of distinct IT solutions ranging from business applications to databases to hardware to professional services. On average, each solution is integrated with up to 10 others, upgraded annually, and considered for replacement every three years. This leaves your IT department with thousands of IT-related selection and implementation decisions annually. And when choosing new IT solutions, consider that most compete with 30 to 100 others... quite a jungle for an already overburdened project team to navigate.

However, traditional sources of information on vendors and solutions are increasingly suspect due to the relationships they have which introduce vendor bias.

• Minimize the time and expense of selecting IT solutions
• Ensure IT solutions meet your specific criteria
• Negotiate with vendors from a position of knowledge and power
• Avert implementation, customization, integration and deployment pitfalls
• Reduce IT asset overlap, waste and support costs by creating and updating an IT asset portfolio
• Rationalize IT solution expenditures—surfacing those that are providing you the best/worst value
• Gauge the value, cost, performance, functionality, etc. of your IT solutions versus organizations like yours

Unlike any other IT research resource, with Evalubase you have access to multi-dimensional ratings of IT solutions in nearly every market, access to detailed evaluations submitted by actual IT professionals, alerts about solutions or providers of interest to you, consultations with actual evaluators & hands-on market experts, and (hold onto your hat) zero influence from vendor marketing or hype.

Without spending $50,000 to $500,000 on custom research and evaluation projects for each IT solution you're interested in, there's really no better way to help your organization select and implement IT solutions than with Evalubase Research.

Find out more in our Overview

Leapfrog. It's not a game to your company, it's a way of life for you and your competition. Evalubase Research provides your organization the hard data and competitive intelligence you need to design products/services that meet and anticipate customer needs, and plan marketing & sales strategies that speak directly to buyer criteria & behavior.

• What do you want to know about "the ones that got away?" We can provide you details about deals you lost and insightful user ratings and feedback where you're the incumbent (for now!).
• What advantages and disadvantages does the market perceive you have, and how do they map to actual buyer criteria by industry, geography and company size? Yeah, we've got that too. Query to your heart's content.
• When are your and your competitors' customers thinking about upgrading and replacing their solutions? Like they say, "timing is everything," and we can help you synchronize your watches.
• What do they say about how easy you are to work with, or how easy your solution is to install, customize, integrate, and deploy? Our data will keep your development staff focused on the stuff that really matters rather than tinkering with bells and whistles.
• What's on users' wish-lists and in their cross-hairs? We collect details on the love-hate relationships customers have with your and your competitors' solutions.
• How put-off or turned-on are buyers by your (or your competitors') legal and accounting processes? We let their customers be the judge whether it means more than a hill-of-beans to them.
• Who should you be partnering with or acquiring based on their trend in the market? IT vendor divorce rates are higher than ever. Consider us for pre-marital counseling.

You probably have access to analyst firms or at least a customer advisory committee. But do these really fuel your marketing and product/service planning with much more than anecdotal data and fluffy market sizing numbers?

Unlike any other IT research resource, with Evalubase you have access to multi-dimensional ratings of your, your competitors, and your partners solutions; access to detailed evaluations submitted by actual IT professionals; alerts indicating market shifts; research written by IT professionals actually employed as IT professionals; and one-on-one consultations with actual evaluators and hands-on market experts.

Rather than spending $20-60K each for stale point-in-time studies or solely relying on strategic analyst firms lacking real data, consider how Evalubase's research can provide high-octane fuel for your marketing and development machines.

Find out more in our Overview

Differentiating is harder than ever for most professional services firms. Showing up with résumés in-hand but no real added value in your pocket gets you kicked out of the party pretty quick nowadays. Insourcing and off-shore outsourcing have become more than a nuisance. They drive the need for your firm to have something to leverage other than the clichéd "people and process."

With regard to helping your clients evaluate, select and implement IT solutions, the 90's are over. You've got to find lightning-quick ways to guide them through this process. Only then will you be invited to stay—in larger numbers, on more projects, for longer periods.

Sensing and responding to IT trends while picking winning/losing IT providers can really help fill the prospect pipeline and project backlog.

Furthermore, isn't it time for a couple novel methods for generating qualified leads?

And hey, wouldn't it also be handy to know how your clients rate you and what they really say about you and your competitors?

This is where Evalubase Research comes in.

Unlike any other IT research resource, with Evalubase you have access to multi-dimensional ratings of IT products & services; access to detailed evaluations submitted by actual IT professionals; alerts indicating market shifts; insightful written research; and one-on-one consultations with actual evaluators and hands-on market experts.

In addition to these subscriber benefits, consultants at your firm can qualify as one of our select market experts who author written research and provide brief phone/email consultations to Evalubase subscribers. What better way to promote your expertise and get put in-touch directly with enterprises in-need.

Consider how Evalubase can help your firm deliver higher value services, stay in the IT market slipstream, pick the most productive partners, position better versus competitors, provide an additional channel to promote your expertise, and get connected one-on-one with highly-qualified prospects.

Find out more in our Overview

Keeping tabs on the strengths and weaknesses of your technology clients and their competitors is an overwhelming task for most public relations firms... but one that's absolutely necessary to craft messages that resonate.

Evalubase Research provides your firm the critical data and competitive intelligence you need to develop corporate communication strategies that differentiate your IT clients and excite the marketplace.

Even simple access to a continually updated list of key buyer criteria can help you track market trends and create a public face for your clients that is attractive and relevant. But with our added wealth of additional buyer behavior data and written market analysis, the messaging you create will really hit home.

While PR professionals armed with hard data can not only certainly generate focused messaging, but also cohesive programs to strengthen corporate reputation and the ability to measure results.

• client reputation and the impression of their customer-facing functions
• buyer behavior & selection processes
• Implementer and user experiences
• prioritized buying criteria
• enterprise IT portfolio metrics
• industry trends and cross-market opportunities
• competitor strengths and weaknesses (and each of the above)

Unlike any other IT research resource, with Evalubase you have access to multi-dimensional ratings of your clients', your clients' competitors; access to detailed evaluations submitted by actual IT professionals; alerts indicating market shifts; analyses written by actual IT professionals; and one-on-one consultations with actual evaluators and hands-on market experts.

Rather than spending $20-60K each for stale point-in-time studies or solely relying on strategic analyst firms devoid of hard-data, consider how Evalubase's research can differentiate your firm and infuse your PR development activities.

Conventional methods for determining the value and viability of companies are passé. Combing a financial statement just scratches the surface. With market-to-book values of companies surging 400% since the early 80's, it is clear that investors now rely on much more than financial data. Although financial statements have become increasingly standardized and regulated, the true value indicators have not.

Factors like customer satisfaction, solution performance & compatibility, return on investment, implementation time & cost, alignment with buyer criteria, credibility & reliability, customer support, and internal process performance – particularly when trended – offer a real lens into a vendor's potential. (Just think: legitimate leading indicators!) Sure, IT vendors serve-up many of these numbers, but where do they get them from? Their marketing teams? Paid market analysts? Hmmm.

Evalubase offers the industry's first structured, standardized, unbiased method for comparatively assessing any and all varieties of IT solution. Our method offers investment professionals access to continuous, real-time, trended data comprising the non-financial indicators of IT solution providers' performance and buyer behavior. Leveraging this normative market data along with traditional financial market data can boost your investment decision-making competence significantly.

"Transparency" is the new buzzword for investors. Evalubase Research can help you pull-back the corporate veil further than ever before.

Unlike any other IT research resource, with Evalubase you have access to multi-dimensional ratings of the companies in your IT portfolio and their competitors; access to detailed evaluations submitted by actual IT professionals; alerts indicating market shifts; research written by actual IT professionals; and one-on-one consultations with actual evaluators and hands-on market experts.

Rather than spending $20-60K each for stale point-in-time studies or relying solely on strategic analyst firms devoid of hard-data, consider how Evalubase's research can differentiate your firm and fuel your investment decision-making process.