Aberdeen vs. HG Insights Platform

Aberdeen's research and consulting services might be well suited for: - Companies looking to improve their sales and marketing performance. Aberdeen's research and consulting services can help companies understand the best practices and strategies being used by leading companies in their industry. This can help them identify areas for improvement in their own operations and take action to drive growth. - Companies looking to stay informed about emerging trends and technologies: Aberdeen's research can help companies stay informed about emerging trends and technologies in the sales and marketing field. This can help them make strategic decisions about how to adapt to changing market conditions. However, here are some scenarios where Aberdeen's services might be less appropriate: - Small or early-stage companies with limited resources: Aberdeen's services can be quite expensive, and may not be a good fit for small or early-stage companies with limited resources. - Companies looking for a free service: Aberdeen's research and consulting services are only accessible to clients that have a subscription and some users may not have the budget to access the research, this may limit the access to a specific group of clients.

Incentivized

The HG Insights Platform has helped us with GTM planning as we segment accounts amongst our verticals. There are verticals with specific tech stacks that we would like to prioritize, and HG Insights allows us to do that. The account scoring allows us to prioritize outreach efforts. We are able to use the technographics to weigh scoring and assign those accounts out accordingly.

Incentivized

• It works great for seeing if the site or app for a company is hosted on AWS.
• Intricately uses a different approach (vs the other tools we use) - which helps confirm from another angle.
• It has a great google chrome plug-in.
• UI/UX is modern and clean.

Incentivized

• integration with SFDC could be better
• Sometime provides back an incorrect/no match when a better is available from an uploaded file, though this is getting slightly better
• A way to gauge how many hits you will get off an intent topic before selecting them so you don't feel like one is going to waste could be useful.

Incentivized

It’s very easy to use, and the team is very responsive and friendly to work with. The information is unique and usable and can complement some of the data we get from call recordings. The integration with Salesforce is easy to implement and offers good insights into our database.

Incentivized

We have evaluated all of these vendors and some are used in tangent with the HG Insights Platform. We found that for technographic data in particular HG gave the best coverage, but a few of these do help "fill the gaps" when occasion calls. We also use multiple intent engines to help verify trends rather than being reliant on one platform. Other vendors also offer contact data as well which is integral for our outbound marketing campaigns which HG does not cover. Overall HG does perhaps stack up better than some of these however, it is only one source of data and using multiple is necessary to give a reliable result.

Incentivized

• I don't massively get involved in financial matters, but the propensity models we use internally to help run our campaigns are certainly a big factor when our sales people approach our clients.
• Every campaign sold now comes with a flat data fee for us to run and use a propensity model for the activity we complete on behalf of our clients.
• Whilst the client will never see the raw data behind the model (of which HG does play a part along with our other data sources) they are briefed on the methodology and reasoning behind them.

Incentivized