Buyers Guides for Products

2026 Software Provider and Product Assessment

The ISG Buyers Guides for Products are the distillation of continuous market and product research. They are an assessment of how well software providers’ offerings address enterprises’ requirements for platforms software. The Value Index methodology is structured to support a request for information (RFI) for a request for proposal (RFP) process by incorporating all criteria needed to evaluate, select, utilize and maintain relationships with software providers. The ISG Buyers Guide evaluates customer experience and the product experience in its capability and platform.

The 2026 ISG Buyers Guides™ for Products evaluate leading software providers across five platform industry areas: Product Information Management Platforms, Product Information Management Emerging Providers, Product Lifecycle Management, Product Intelligence and Product Experience Management. Each guide delivers unique research, detailed ratings and rankings and in-depth analyses to help enterprises assess and select the operations and supply chain software that best fits their requirements.

• The Product Information Management Platforms Buyers Guide evaluates 21 software providers offering products that support catalog management, content and data management infrastructure, digital asset management, the product lifecycle, integration and business alignment. The guide assesses the following providers: Acquia, Akeneo, Censhare, Centric Software, fabric, Feedonomics, IBM, Inriver, insightsoftware, novomind, Oracle, Pattern, Pimcore, Precisely, Productsup, Propel Software, Salesforce, Salsify, SAP, Stibo Systems and Syndigo.

• The Product Information Management Emerging Providers Buyers Guide evaluates eight software providers offering products that support catalog management, content and data management infrastructure, digital asset management, product lifecycle support, integration and business alignment. The guide assesses the following providers: Bluestone PIM, Boyum IT, Comosoft, Digital Wave Technology, PIMworks, Plytix, Sales Layer and Viamedici.
  
  
• The Product Lifecycle Management Buyers Guide evaluates 20 software providers offering products that support product management, lifecycle management, supplier support, governance, integration, data management and enterprise requirements. The guide assesses the following providers: Aptean, Aptean (Logility), Aras, Arena, Autodesk, Bamboo Rose, Bentley Systems, CentricSoftware, CONTACT Software, Dassault Systèmes, Epicor, IBM, Infor, Odoo, Oracle, Propel Software, PTC, SAP, Schneider Electric and Siemens.
  
  
• The Product Intelligence Buyers Guide evaluates 18 software providers offering products that support behavioral analytics, experimentation, journey analysis, sentiment analysis, performance measurement, AI-enabled insights and digital optimization. The guide assesses the following providers: Adobe, Amplitude, Cisco, Contentful, Contentsquare, Fullstory, Gainsight, Glassbox, LogRocket, Mixpanel, Optimizely, Pendo, PostHog, Quantum Metric, Rokt, Sensor Tower, Sitecore and Syndigo.
  
  

• The Product Experience Management Buyers Guide evaluates 14 software providers offering products that support catalog management, commerce, digital merchandising, content management, the product lifecycle and integration. The guide assesses the following providers: Acquia, Akeneo, Censhare, Centric Software, Inriver, insightsoftware, novomind, Pattern, Pimcore, Salesforce, Salsify, SAP, Stibo Systems and Syndigo.

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