Buyers Guides for Products

2025 Software Provider and Product Assessment

Products and services are the foundation of every organization, regardless of its industry or size. Across all channels and departments, nearly every interaction relates to answering questions or gaining access to product information. Every organization must ensure that products get the attention they deserve as they are marketed, sold, serviced and enhanced to meet customer expectations.

The Buyers Guides for Products evaluate providers across six software categories with a unique Buyers Guide and research for each category to help enterprises assess and select software providers.

• The Product Experience Management (PXM) Buyers Guide evaluates the software providers and products in support of functional areas, including catalog management, commerce, business and enterprise needs, content management infrastructure, alignment to benefits, data management infrastructure, digital asset management, digital innovation, digital merchandising, direct-to-consumer, integration-specific requirements and industry standards. The guide assesses the following providers: Acquia, Akeneo, Bluestone PIM, Boyum IT, censhare, Comosoft, Contentserv, Informatica, inriver, Netcore Unbxd, insightsoftware, novomind, Pimcore, Plytix, Sales Layer, Salsify, SAP, Stibo Systems, Syndigo and Viamedici.
• The Product Experience Management for Retail Buyers Guide evaluates products based on support for analyst and administrative-specific requirements, catalog management, commerce, consumers, content management infrastructure, data management infrastructure, digital asset management, digital innovation, digital merchandising and more. The guide assesses the following providers: Acquia, Akeneo, Bluestone PIM, censhare, Comosoft, Contentserv, fabric, Feedonomics, inriver, insightsoftware, Netcore Unbxd, novomind, Pimcore, Plytix, Productsup, Sales Layer, Salsify, SAP, Stibo Systems and Syndigo.
• The Product Information Management Platform Buyers Guide evaluates the software providers and products in support of functional areas, including catalog management, business, content management infrastructure, data management infrastructure, digital asset management, digital innovation, enterprise, integration-specific needs, industry standard, the product life cycle and the ability to demonstrate alignment to benefits. The guide assesses the following providers: 1WorldSync, Acquia, Akeneo, Bluestone PIM, Boyum IT, censhare, Comosoft, Contentserv, fabric, Feedonomics, IBM, Informatica, inriver, insightsoftware, Netcore Unbxd, novomind, Oracle, Pimcore, Plytix, Precisely, Productsup, Propel Software, SAP, Sales Layer, Salsify, Stibo Systems, Syndigo and Viamedici.

• The Product Information Management for Manufacturing Buyers Guide evaluates the software providers and products in support of functional areas, including catalog management, business, content management infrastructure, data management infrastructure, digital asset management, digital innovation, enterprise, integration-specific needs, industry standard, the product life cycle and the ability to demonstrate alignment to benefits. The guide assesses the following providers: 1WorldSync, Acquia, Akeneo, Bluestone PIM, Boyum IT, censhare, Comosoft, Contentserv, fabric, Feedonomics, IBM, Informatica, inriver, insightsoftware, Netcore Unbxd, novomind, Oracle, Pimcore, Plytix, Precisely, Productsup, Propel Software, SAP, Sales Layer, Salsify, Stibo Systems, Syndeton and Viamedici.
• The Product Intelligence Buyers Guide evaluates software providers and products in key areas that require support for digital representation of what we call product intelligence, and underlying support in content and data management, support for integration into digital systems, and the support for analyst, product managers, operations and administrative roles. The guide assesses the following providers: Adobe, Amplitude, Contentsquare, Fullstory, Gainsight, Glassbox, MixPanel, Pendo, QuantumMetric and Sensor Tower.
  

• The Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) Buyers Guide evaluates software providers and products in key areas based on analyst and administrative specific support, catalogue management support, content management infrastructure support, alignment to benefits and more. The guide assesses the following providers: Aras, Arena, Bamboo Rose, CentricSoftware, CONTACT Software, Dassault Systems, Epicor, IBM, Infor, Logility, Oracle, Propel Software, PTC, Revalize, SAP and Siemens.

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