Quotes from F1000 IT Professionals on using TIP Research

CalPERS:
“Pretty cool! The graphs and charts are very useful – they show relationships between companies, prioritized by market share and customer preferences. Most useful are the market leaders. Helps to determine which vendors to seek out and which ones to avoid. We use the information for researching vendors and products.”

TIAA-CREF:
“The reports will be very useful. It's a comfort to see that we are thinking along the same lines about vendors as other people. The information is useful to make comparisons of what products others are selecting, as well as what they said. It will be helpful in purchasing decisions in the future, we will know what to expect from vendors.”

MasterCard International:
“I found the report on storage management produced by TheInfoPro to be excellent! It was clear, concise and in-depth. The report was organized in a way which enabled the reader to quickly focus on a specific aspect of storage... versus having to wade through reams of paper. On a more personal note, the report helped confirm that our storage strategy aligns with the direction industry is taking as a whole.”

Michelin Tire:
“Excellent report overall, great to get everyone’s opinions. We would use it when we are forecasting our plans to see where everyone else is and make sure we’re not out in left field. All of the information was useful to a degree. We would use this in conjunction with other sources. This report is better than some others we have paid a lot of money for.”

International Paper:
“Very impressed with the reports, have a lot of useful information for me and my company. More interested in what my peers say with the narratives and graphical user ratings both useful. When reviewing hardware and software products, I would look at the ratings and comments before moving forward, if I saw comments about a vendor that concerned me, I'd ask the vendor to address the issue.”

SunAmerica (div. Of AIG):
“The reports will be very useful in selecting vendors and products in the future. We will use both the narrative comments and the graphical ratings for this.”

Raytheon:
“Pretty useful information. From buyer perspective, charts & graphs were most useful – we have set standards on what we buy, so we use the info to verify our choices. Found the comments on other users' dealings with vendors very interesting, problems were more serious than I expected.”

Wachovia:
“Good data in there - trends, who is doing what. We looked at financial services groups to gauge what they were doing, and where vendors are relative to technologies. Industry differences in data and the way they are doing things. Larger companies deploy technologies earlier because they are forced to be on the bleeding edge. We got into SAN earlier because our infrastructure has gotten so big that we were forced to go to SAN. Investor data good when looking at smaller vendors, as well as larger vendors who are having financial difficulties. Use as background material for management to make decisions.”

Merck Rosetta Biosoftware:
"The first TIP Storage reports confirmed my thinking and were valuable to me. I'll bet that the Investor community is very happy with your results."

Major European Bank:
“It's a fairly comprehensive thing; was able to take it home and look it over. I've seen one report, and it looked interesting. Good ammunition for selling vendors and technologies to management.”

TIP is in dialogue with hundreds of companies like these on a regular basis.

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