Forrester Report: Vendor Product Catalog of Community Platforms For The Interactive Marketer
Categories: Forrester, Social Networking, White Label Social NetworkPosted on August 4th, 2008A few months ago, I put a call out to the industry to submit to this catalog of the Community Platform space (also known as the White Label Social Network space), my interest in this space grew from a list I started over a year ago on my blog even before I was an analyst covering this space. The list continues to grow, as commodity software is fueled by market demand for brands to create their own hosted communities.
Forrester Report: Announcing Vendor Product Catalog of Community Platforms For The Interactive Marketer (part 1/2)
This report is the first of two, If you’re a client, you probably have access to the report, or you can purchase it on the site, we stand by our work and offer a money back guarantee if you’re not completely satisfied.
This Vendor Product Catalog which we’re launching today is more or less the “yellow pages” of the space, but unlike my generic list on my blog, the companies have been vetted and important information has been added such as:
Enterprise focus (percent of clients with more than 1000 employees) SMB focus (percent of clients with less than 1000 employees) Categorization of their business model (Breakdown of Hardware, Hosted Web Service, Services, Software, Support) Top three industries the vendor is involved with Focus on external/vs internal community deployment (customer/employee)
Brands should use this report to:
You should use this report to help narrow down specific needs and questions you have – given this is such a large industry, these key attributes will help you filter.
In the spirit of Social Computing, this report has rating and comment features, this way clients can rate and rank their experience with the vendors, much in the way CNET or Amazon.com does for consumer products. So if you’ve used these vendors –leave a comment and rank the experience.
There were almost 50 products submitted to this Vendor Product Catalog which is pretty amazing considering how young the market is. The data has helped us to select the vendors for my next report:
Vendors should use this report to:
If you didn’t initially submit to this catalog but feel you should be on it, you can submit their information online here and selecting ‘Community Platforms For The Interactive Marketer’ from the VPC topic drop down menu.
Underway: Wave Report on Community Platforms (part 2)
I recently announced my intent to complete a Forrester Wave report which will focus on the nine firms best suited for Fortune 5000 interactive marketers. This is currently underway. I’m gathering market requirements from clients and analysts to create a detailed and thorough scorecard which will be completed during in depth meetings with each of the nine final vendors. In order to keep the process simple, I won’t be disclosing who the nine vendors are until the report goes live in October. You can learn more about this and other Wave reports on the Forrester site.
In addition to thanking all the vendors who submitted, I’d like to recognize Sarah Glass who has been instrumental in getting this catalog done. Although you can’t often see, behind the scenes, there is a large research group here that supports the analysts – I’m grateful.
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[...] It’s important that we place you into these buckets so buyers will know which vendor matches to their particular need. We will use your specific revenue numbers for internal research purposes only, and not publish or share outside of our company. If you still have questions email me at jowyang at forrester.com Update June 10th A few days ago, I announced the call for White Label Social Networking vendors (I cover the social networking space at Forrester, for the Interactive Marketer) to complete a spreadsheet and send back to me. Thank you all for completing it, the following companies will be in the Vendor Catalog (A report for Forrester clients): I used to have a list of vendors who submitted to the report, instead, you can now access the report directly on the Forrester site, or read my background info on my blog. [...]
Posted by Forrester Underway to Catalog the White Label Social Networking Space on August 4th, 2008 at 10:52 am
Just wondering, is there a specific reason Ning isn’t there? Or am I missing something?
Posted by Rosie on August 4th, 2008 at 12:33 pm
Rosie, They are more than welcome to submit, and I hope they do, as they will be included.
I was very active in blog posts, tweets and reaching out to get as many as I could to submit. I can’t personally contact the 80-120 vendors (depending on how you count) but was able to get more than half the market.
Posted by jeremiah_owyang on August 4th, 2008 at 12:36 pm
Jeremiah, thanks. Sure I understand. Saw you reaching out over the past few months.
Is it a longer term goal to include as many as possible? or is it mostly down to companies to make the effort to get listed?
I really appreciate the list and in the meantime I’ve got some homework to do!
Posted by Rosie on August 4th, 2008 at 1:34 pm
Jive isn’t listed. Did we fark it up?
Posted by Sam Lawrence on August 4th, 2008 at 1:49 pm
Sam
Naw, we had a DB error, it’s being added now. hang tight. Forwarding this to techies.
Rosie, this is intended to catalog the entire industry of vendors that want to participate.
Now the Wave on the other hand (what I’m working on now) is just going to be a select few that meet the needs of Fortune 5000 interactive marketers, there will only be 9 vendors in that one.
Posted by jeremiah_owyang on August 4th, 2008 at 2:03 pm
I just put in a nomination for social text 3.0, and reached out to the vendor hopefully they will submit.
I know they are technically a wiki, but they are just releasing some really social networking features in version 3.0 of their product.
Posted by Jeff Anderson on August 6th, 2008 at 10:43 am
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Posted by List of “White Label” or “Private Label” (Applications you can Rebrand) Social Networking Platforms on August 7th, 2008 at 6:38 am
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