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Features & Benefits

Pricing Coverage

Gain access to detailed coverage of manufacturer list pricing, including historical perspectives. International pricing perspectives are also available. CPService even provides proactive email notifications of price changes.

• Stay well informed about product price positioning and changes.

Cost of Ownership Analysis Tools

Server, Storage and Blades cost of ownership coverage is available, which includes thousands of pre-built configurations with details on the three year cost of acquisition and maintenance.

• Save significant amounts of time by being able to very quickly compare and contrast the relative costs of various product configurations from different vendors.

Services Descriptions and Features Comparisons

Free format descriptions and structured services features analysis allow you to directly compare and contrast competing services offerings.

• Better understand the subtle differences of competing services.

Robust and Consistent Presentation Techniques

Powerful presentation techniques, including  tabular product and configuration comparisons, as well as relative price, performance  and capacity charts in consistent formats.

• Save time and effort by building standard intelligence gathering processes and reporting. The presentation consistency also leads to more effective analysis and insights.

Continuous Updates

The Competitive Profiles research teams respond daily to product releases and updates.

• Keeping up to date in near real time, as major industry developments unfold.

User-Friendly Web Delivery

The full Competitive Profiles interface is delivered through a web browser.

• No client-side software is needed. The service is available 24x7 and can be easily accessed by all registered users, making it very easy and convenient to use.

Support

Subscribers receive defect, and how-to support, as well as being able to pose questions, for additional insights from the experienced IDEAS researchers and analysts.

• Giving you easy and quick access to specialist knowledge when you need it.

Save with Rapid Recall

Save customized comparisons and analysis

• Save time not having to re-construct your competitive perspectives. Simply save them away and recall when needed via just a few mouse clicks.

Scope

• Hardware maintenance
• Software support
• Warranty upgrades
• Post warranty services
• Installation services
• Mission critical support

Featured Companies

• 3PAR
• BlueArc
• Compellent
• Dell
• EMC
• HDS, HP
• IBM, Isilon
• NetApp
• Oracle
• Pillar
• Red Hat
• StorageTek, Sun