8 competitive intelligence software companies
We have blogged before about competitive intelligence companies, but we did not discuss a related type of competitive intelligence provider: competitive intelligence software companies. These typically provide self-service tools for collecting data at scale and filtering through that data trying to obtain insights about competitors. Some of these tools may work on a hybrid model, where there is a services element provided by the vendor, for example creating reports or helping to set up alerts.
Below is our current list of competitive intelligence software specialists. We have focused on companies that specifcally target competitive inelligence, rather than more general software including social media monitoring, press monitoring or business analytics, that also plays some role in competitive intelligence. And we exclude a common, but irrelevant-to-us category, which is the set of tools for SEO competitor research (and there are many, many such tools).
If we have missed anyone out, please tweet @aquteintel .
Cipher, USA, @ciphersysllc
Comintelli, USA, @comintelli
Digimind, EU, @digimindci
M-Brain, EU, @mbraingroup
Plain Sight, Israel
It is difficult from the outside to compare the software platforms that these vendors provide. It may also be that, not surprisingly for competitive intelligence, they require custom setups so that there is no standard product to compare. As such, we cannot recommend any of them, but hopefully having a list in one place provides a convenient starting point for evaluating these vendors.
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