Request for Question Clarification by
pafalafa-ga
on
20 Mar 2005 09:07 PST
Hi there,
I tried constructing some well-targeted searches to provide results
for companies that self-identify as preferred vendors for Fortune 1000
clients. Although a few companies turned up in the search, the
results weren't all that clean.
An alternative you may want to consider is to make use of the many
lists that appear regularly -- things like the Top X-hundred Software
Firms, or The Fastest-Growing IT Companies, and other lists of that
ilk.
For instance, I searched one such list for some of the top CRM service
providers, and came up with a set of 23 companies, including:
Siebel Systems
www.siebel.com
Acxiom Corporation
www.acxiom.com
Harte-Hanks, Inc
www.harte-hanks.com
Aspect Communications Corp.
www.aspect.com
Concerto Software
www.concerto.com
Group 1 Software
www.g1.com
Witness Systems
www.witness.com
KANA
www.kana.com
Onyx Software Corporation
www.onyx.com
and about a dozen others.
It seems to me that the reason firms like these are making the "Top"
lists is that they already are -- or or on their way to becoming --
the type of preferred providers of IT services to the big boys that
you're looking for.
Let me know if you would like more information about these lists as an
answer to your question, in lieu of the actual lists of "Preferred
Vendors" from Fortune 500 firms (which are likely kept private,
anyway).
I look forward to hearing back from you.
pafalafa-ga
