The Global Industry DashboardTM has unique benefits
The Global Industry Dashboard is so different from what other industry and company information vendors provide, that our service should be viewed as a complementary service rather than a direct competitive offering. In general, Hoover's Inc. and other information providers are much better in terms of financial data at the corporate level, and our Global Industry Dashboard is far superior in providing "strategically relevant" industry and corporate information at the Strategically Relevant Industry1 level and enabling users to analyze that data.
Strategically Relevant
Information | Global Industry Dashboard | D&B's Hoover's 2 | All
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Global Information
Providers |
| List of "industries" covered | 10,000 | Fewer than 1,000 3 | Mostly fewer than 1,000 |
| Ability to quickly view strategically relevant industries in terms of product varieties, buyer types, channel types, and trends impacting the industry | Yes | No | In some cases |
Ability to select strategically relevant industries based on any or all of the following criteria: - Company or Brand Name
- Industry Revenue
- Industry Attractiveness
- Buyer Decision Maker
| Yes | No | In rare cases |
| Ability to group strategically relevant industries to analyze that portion of the global economy of interest | Yes | No | In some cases |
| Ability to compare companies side by side in terms of the strategically relevant industries they compete in | Yes | No | Rarely |
Ability to combine companies and view the combined entity in terms of: Official Company Financials Strategically Relevant Industries
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Some Yes
Rarely
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Provides company data including: - Executive Names & Bios
- Contact Information
- Historical Information
- News Articles
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Mostly Yes
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| Ability to view and analyze over 90% of the global economy in terms of strategically relevant industries*. | Yes | No | No |
1A Strategically Relevant Industry (or SRI) is a grouping of one or more products and/or services that are direct substitutes and sold by one or more businesses to one or more external customers - and the right level to perform a Michael E. Porter industry analysis. (See "Competitive Advantage" by Michael E. Porter 1985, published by The Free Press.) The Global Industry Dashboard provides access to over 10,000 Strategically Relevant Industry DashboardsTM - a non-redundant list of industries that account formore than 95% of the global economy. It also provides a unique profile of companies by identifying the businesses they are in. (Or, as we like to say: the strategically relevant industries they compete in.)
2 Includes offerings from both D&B and Hoover's and across multiple subscription levels, including customer ability to download data for further computation and integration
3 Hoover’s web site January 5, 2008 says it covers “600 industries that are representative of the modern global economy" [Source: www.hoovers.com/free/ind/fr/list.xhtm]