Technology Discovery Reimagined: Unlocking Innovation

We’re excited to welcome back to the Vation Ventures Platform, re-envisioned and enhanced after two years of dedicated redevelopment. Our commitment to driving innovation and technology discovery has never been stronger. Today, we’re excited to guide you through the Platform’s evolution, key features, and the solutions it offers to critical industry challenges. 
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A Brief History of the Vation Ventures Platform

Since its inception, the Vation Ventures Platform has been the go-to resource for companies seeking cutting-edge technologies without the burden of costly, outdated research. We recognized the fragmentation in accessing detailed vendor information - from firmographics and GTM maturity to partnership details and in-depth solution analysis. Our research Platform emerged as the solution, consolidating these crucial insights into one powerful hub.

Over the years, our mission has remained unchanged, but our tools and capabilities have evolved significantly. The latest redevelopment was initiated to address technology landscapes’ expanding complexity and interconnectivity, aiming to provide a more intuitive and all-encompassing research ecosystem. 

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How can technology research platforms benefit me?

Technology research platforms provide access to the latest innovations, trends, and data in various tech fields. Researchers and innovators can leverage these platforms to stay updated, conduct in-depth analyses, collaborate with peers, and gain insights that drive their projects forward effectively.

Our Platform tackles the challenges of disparate data and organization of this information head-on by providing a streamlined, integrated, and user-friendly interface that simplifies the process of technology research and evaluation. Our research Platform ensures you spend less time browsing and more time innovating within your team, making it easier to move from insights to action, whether you’re a dedicated research analyst, sales expert, or an executive. 

By eliminating redundant data-gathering steps, we empower you to focus on what truly matters: discovering groundbreaking innovations, refining your research, and executing data-driven strategies. 

Key platform benefits that help you discover and prioritize companies

• Unified Innovation Hub: Experience the convenience of a single pane of glass for all your innovation needs. Discover emerging technologies, uncover funding insights, analyze product offerings, and assess security ratings - all within one interface. 
• Exclusive, Real-Time Research: Stay at the forefront of innovation with continuous updates from our industry-leading landscape reports. Our expert analysts provide real-time insights, allowing you to build personalized reports using our robust data as your foundation. 
• Collaborative Innovation Ecosystem: Foster a culture of innovation across your organization. Our Platform serves as the definitive source of truth for all research and discovery needs, facilitating seamless collaboration and driving cohesive innovation strategies. 
• Actionable Innovation Insights: Transform data into strategy with customizable lists, matrices, and reports. Evaluate technologies effectively using processes tailored to your team’s unique requirements, ensuring your innovation portfolio management is always on point. 
• On-Demand Expert Guidance: Leverage our Live Analyst Access feature to chat directly with industry experts. Invite them into your research space for real-time assistance, simplifying complex information and streamlining your decision-making process. 

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Features enabling users with how to manage innovation

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How to find new companies and solutions with Explore

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Our Explore feature is designed to assist you in navigating our taxonomy from high-level landscapes down to specific use cases and the companies pioneering these areas. Whether looking at conversational AI, cybersecurity for IoT devices, or automotive security trends, Explore helps you understand and engage with these sectors. 

Our taxonomy is designed to guide users from a high-level overview to specific, actionable insights from landscapes to sectors to use cases. Here’s how it empowers you to navigate through the layers of technology discovery: 

• Landscape Overview: Updated regularly by our Intelligence team, this high-level perspective helps you grasp the vast landscape of current and emerging technologies. Understanding these categories provides the foundation for deeper exploration and strategic decision-making. 
• Sector Analysis: This view breaks down the landscape into its constituent parts—different components, processes, and market segments. This level of detail is crucial for understanding the dynamics of each sector, how they interconnect, and their potential evolution. You can identify key areas of interest and opportunity within the broader category by analyzing sectors. 
• Use Case Exploration: This granular view showcases real-world implementations of technologies and their impact. Understanding these use cases helps you see the practical applications of theoretical concepts and innovations, providing clear examples of how technology drives change in various industries. 

Our research taxonomy ensures that you stay informed about the latest trends and innovations, understand their practical implications, and how they can be applied to solve real-world problems. Whether you’re a researcher, strategist, or innovator, we organize technology in a structured pathway to uncover and harness the best technologies and solutions across diverse industries. 

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Understanding technology market dynamics with matrices and customizable market maps 

Our Matrices and Market Maps features are integral components of the Vation Ventures Platform, designed to offer a structured and dynamic approach for analyzing and visualizing the competitive landscape. These tools are indispensable for making informed, data-driven decisions in technology discovery. The Matrix Builder allows for the customization and comparison of vital company information across numerous criteria. At the same time, the Market Maps provide a visual representation of the competitive field, helping users identify gaps and opportunities. Together, these features facilitate deep insights into market dynamics and strategic positioning, making them essential tools for businesses navigating the complexities of the tech industry. 

• Customizable Matrix Builder: Our Matrix Builder is at the heart of this feature, which provides complete customization to suit your specific analytical needs. With this tool, you can create matrices that compare vital information about companies across numerous criteria. Whether you are looking into financial performance, technological capabilities, market presence, or strategic alignments, the Matrix Builder allows you to tailor your analysis to highlight the factors most critical to your goals. 
• Customizable Market Maps: In addition to matrices, our research Platform features customizable market maps that visually represent the competitive landscape. These maps help users identify gaps and opportunities, facilitating strategic planning and effective stakeholder communication. Whether you’re building internal frameworks or architectures for customer engagement, market maps are invaluable tools for visualizing and strategizing around the technology landscape. 
• Enhanced Visibility and Comparisons: The matrices and market maps you create serve as a dynamic data source that offers enhanced visibility into the competitive landscape. Organizing data in a structured format allows you to easily compare and contrast company metrics, gaining insights into strengths, weaknesses, and overall market positions. This level of analysis is crucial for strategic planning, investment decisions, and partnership evaluations. 
• Flexible and Collaborative: Understanding that collaboration is key to innovation, our matrices and market maps include the capability to add custom columns and elements with checkboxes and text fields. This flexibility allows multiple team members to contribute to the content, making it a living document that evolves with your project or research. Team members can flag opportunities, note considerations, and track changes over time, making it a collaborative tool that adapts to your organizational workflow.

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You can transform raw data into actionable insights using matrices and market maps. By leveraging the customizable features of our Matrix Builder and market maps, you can streamline your analysis process, highlight opportunities for innovation or improvement, and confidently make strategic decisions. 

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vChat: AI capabilities for enhanced interactions and insights 

vChat is an essential feature enabling more effective communication, quicker data retrieval, and more intelligent business decisions based on enhanced insights and analyses.

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The chat feature on the Platform leverages GPT technology’s power to revolutionize how users interact with data and conduct their research. Here’s an overview of how vChat transforms user experiences through advanced chat capabilities: 

• Intelligent Content Search: vChat utilizes a GPT-based chat interface to streamline the process of discovering relevant information. Users can quickly find specific content, interact with it, and explore alternative vendors through intuitive conversational interactions. This tool significantly reduces the time and effort required to locate and understand your needed data. 
• Dynamic Competitive Analysis: With vChat, users can effortlessly compile competitive battle cards and sales enablement materials. By leveraging the chat feature’s conversational text capabilities, vChat simplifies the creation of detailed, dynamic content that enhances internal and external marketing efforts. This allows quicker adjustments to market changes and more effective positioning against competitors. 
• Customized Interaction: vChat supports natural language queries, making it significantly easier for users to navigate complex datasets and extract actionable insights. This customization ensures that each interaction is tailored to the user’s needs, allowing for a more personal and relevant experience. Whether you’re a marketer, a strategist, or a C-suite executive, vChat adapts to your inquiry style and informational needs, delivering precise and valuable insights.

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Build custom technology research reports in minutes 

The Platform’s Report Builder feature streamlines how users compile and present data, allowing for the quick creation of custom reports. This tool is designed to save time and enhance the quality of information shared within and outside your organization.  

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• Quick Compilation of Detailed Insights: Users can generate reports encompassing various vendor information with just a few clicks. This includes details from the latest funding rounds to recent news stories featuring the vendor. The process is streamlined to transform what typically takes hours into a task that can be completed in minutes. 
• Efficient and Customizable Reporting: The Report Builder enables further customization of reports to meet specific needs, including adding executive summaries, titles, and authors. These features help ensure your report can be exported straight from the Platform into your team’s inbox.  
• Incorporation of Visual Tools: The Report Builder also supports the integration of matrices or market maps that you or your team have created. Including these visual tools in your reports enriches the content and aids in strategically presenting data, making complex information more accessible and understandable. 

Report Builder empowers users to create tailored, insightful reports efficiently, ensuring that vital information is clearly communicated and readily available for strategic decision-making. ‍

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Vation Ventures Company Strength Score: your strategic metric In evaluating companies

The Vation Company Strength Score offers a multifaceted evaluation of a company’s market standing. It encompasses financial indicators, investor quality, and workforce dynamics to provide a thorough understanding of a company’s health and trajectory. This score contrasts a company’s performance against peers within the same sector, ensuring a contextual industry comparison.

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Making technology discovery a team sport: enhancing teamwork with collaboration  

The Vation Ventures Platform is designed to foster a collaborative environment, enabling users to share insights, data visualizations, and reports seamlessly within their teams and beyond. Here’s how our collaboration features enhance teamwork and strategic alignment:

• Seamless Sharing of Resources: Users can easily share lists, matrices, tags, market maps, and custom reports directly within the Platform. This feature simplifies the distribution of information and ensures that all team members have access to the same resources, facilitating a unified approach to project management and decision-making. 
• Engagement with Vation Research: Beyond internal collaboration, the Platform uniquely invites Vation Research experts into your collaborative space. This allows teams to gain custom insights directly from Vation’s analysts, enriching their understanding and enhancing the quality of their work with expert guidance tailored to their specific needs. 

Through these collaboration features, the Vation Ventures Platform ensures that all team members—from strategists and analysts to executives—can collaborate more effectively, share critical information seamlessly, and leverage expert insights to drive their organization forward. 

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How the Vation Ventures Platform Features converge

The Vation Ventures Platform’s true power lies in its features and how they seamlessly integrate to create a holistic innovation discovery and portfolio management ecosystem. We’ve built a workflow transforming how organizations approach technology research, strategic planning, and decision-making. 

Imagine starting your innovation journey with the Explore feature, where you navigate through landscapes, sectors, and use cases to identify emerging trends. As you uncover potential areas of interest, you can leverage the advanced search capabilities to dive deeper into specific companies or technologies. The insights gathered here feed directly into the Matrices and Market Maps feature, allowing you to visualize the competitive landscape and identify strategic opportunities for investing.

As you build your understanding, vChat becomes your intelligent assistant, helping you quickly extract relevant information and generate competitive analyses. Combined with the visual representations from your matrices and market maps, these insights can be swiftly compiled into reports using the Report Builder. Throughout this process, the Vation Ventures Company Strength Score provides a quantitative backbone, offering objective metrics to support your qualitative research. 

The Platform’s collaborative nature ensures that your team can collaborate seamlessly at every step, sharing insights, refining strategies, and engaging with Vation Research experts for additional guidance. This interconnected workflow streamlines the innovation discovery process and ensures that your organization can move from insight to action with unprecedented speed and confidence. 

By leveraging these features, the Vation Ventures Platform becomes more than just a tool—it evolves into a dynamic extension of your team’s collective intelligence, driving informed decision-making and fostering a culture of continuous innovation. 

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Who is the Vation Ventures Platform for? 

The Vation Ventures Platform is designed for a diverse range of professionals who play critical roles in their organizations’ success. Here’s how our research Platform empowers key roles across various sectors: 

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Technology Leaders: CIOs, CISOs, CTOs, VPs 

Staying ahead in an ever-evolving landscape is crucial for CIOs, CISOs, CTOs, and other technology leaders. The Vation Ventures Platform provides a holistic suite of tools that help these leaders anticipate and respond to technological and security challenges. It enhances strategic decision-making through real-time insights into IT and cybersecurity trends and fosters effective team collaboration for implementing technology strategies. Security leaders, like CISOs, benefit from integrations with services like SecurityScorecard, ensuring they are on top of their cybersecurity posture and can react swiftly to vulnerabilities, giving their company a competitive advantage.

The Technology Channel: MSPs, VARs, Distributors, SIs 

Our Platform catalyzes innovation and service excellence for those in the technology channel—MSPs, VARs, Distributors, and Systems Integrators (Sis). It gives MSPs insights into emerging technologies, helping them continuously offer cutting-edge solutions. VARs and Distributors gain access to integrated solutions and market insights to manage supply chains better and provide value-added services. SIs benefit from a curated selection of technologies and insights, ensuring optimal integration solutions for their clients. 

Venture Capital and Private Equity Firms 

Venture Capital and Private Equity firms find invaluable support in the Platform’s deep market analysis and insights into emerging technologies and sectors. It facilitates informed investment decision-making, offering a clear view of potential high-growth areas. Our Platform also supports collaborative deal-making, providing tools that enrich interactions among stakeholders and enhance the evaluation process for startups and buyouts through online platforms and databases.

Account Managers and Sales Executives 

Account Managers and Sales Executives leverage the Platform to master the competitive terrain of technology sales. By providing access to the latest market trends and enabling the alignment of solutions with client needs, our research Platform helps sales professionals tailor their strategies effectively. The collaborative features ensure that client interactions are informed and data-driven, adding depth and credibility to client relationships. 

Each of these groups finds tailored, strategic benefits from the Vation Ventures Platform, enhancing their ability to navigate complexities, anticipate market needs, and drive innovation within their industries. ‍

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Your Innovation, Our Platform 

As we reintroduce the Vation Ventures Platform, we invite you to harness its full potential. Whether you’re aiming to stay ahead of industry trends, collaborate on cutting-edge technology evaluation, or gain actionable insights from global research, our research Platform is your compass in the complex world of innovation. 

From exploring emerging landscapes and building dynamic market maps to leveraging AI-powered insights and creating custom reports, the Vation Ventures Platform is designed to accelerate your innovation discovery process. Our collaborative features ensure that your entire team can contribute to and benefit from this wealth of knowledge, fostering a culture of continuous innovation within your organization. With seamless integration into existing business processes, our platform maximizes the advantages of the Discovery Platform through training and education, ensuring that team members are well-trained and comfortable using these tools.

Join us in shaping the future of technology and business. Your next breakthrough discovery is just a Platform visit away. 

Ready to transform your approach to innovation portfolio management? Embark on your journey of discovery with the Vation Ventures Platform today. Learn more here to experience how we can revolutionize your technology research and innovation strategy.