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Partnerships

Buyer side pricing data, for the firms that need it.

We work with investment firms and with research and data partners. Each partnership is a package built on the same benchmark library, covering 1,471 vendors, and the same analysts who run our customer benchmarks.

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Investment firmsDiligence and value creation

Private equity, growth equity and infrastructure funds: what a target pays for software, and what a portfolio can take back.

Investment researchMarket pricing signal

Public and private market analysts covering software vendors: discount and price movement by vendor and product line.

Research and data partnersLicense, publish, embed

Analyst houses, research firms and software platforms: our data in your research, your reports or your product.

Investment firms

Three packages, from one deal to the whole fund.

Start with one target or one portfolio company. Move up as the fund uses it.

Package 1
Diligence Read

For a deal team with a target under exclusivity.

  • The target's software contracts read from the data room
  • Each major contract benchmarked against comparable customers
  • Renewals and price increases due in the hold period, with the money at stake
  • License and audit exposure on the vendors that audit
  • A diligence brief written by an analyst, ready for the investment committee
Scope a diligence read
Package 2
Portfolio Program

For an operating partner running value creation.

  • The platform for every portfolio company, each in its own secure workspace
  • One fund view: renewals due, spend by vendor and savings found across companies
  • Where several companies buy from the same vendor, the case for one negotiation
  • Analysts on the large renewals, with a named analyst for the fund
  • Savings reported company by company, for the value creation plan and the board pack
Scope a portfolio program
Package 3
Market Data

For investment research covering software vendors.

  • Discount and price movement by vendor and product line
  • The Software Price Index and the vendor discount curves
  • Renewal pressure: price increases, licensing changes and AI add ons by vendor
  • Quarterly briefings with our analysts
  • Aggregated and anonymized; never a single customer's contract
Scope a data package
Research and data partners

Three ways to work with the data.

Each one can be taken alone or combined with the others.

Package 1
Data Licensing

For research firms and analyst houses.

  • Benchmark ranges by vendor, product line and deal size
  • Delivered through the REST API or a warehouse export
  • Refreshed on a schedule agreed in the license
  • Field definitions and the method behind every range
  • Aggregated and anonymized; never a single customer's contract
Discuss a license
Package 2
Research Partnership

For firms that publish to enterprise buyers.

  • Joint reports and vendor briefings, written with our analysts
  • Co-hosted webinars and sessions for your audience
  • Our data cited in your research, with the method stated
  • Both brands on the work, under terms agreed in writing
  • An editorial calendar planned each quarter
Discuss a partnership
Package 3
Embedded Benchmarks

For ITAM, procurement and contract management platforms.

  • A benchmark inside your product, next to the contract or the renewal
  • The three answers: the cost, what peers pay and where the deal ranks
  • Delivered through the REST API with signed webhooks
  • Single sign on into the full platform for your customers who want more
  • A technical contact on our side for the build
Discuss an integration
Advisory firm or reseller? See the partner program →Investing in VendorBenchmark itself? Investors →
How it works

Four steps to a signed package.

One partnerships contact from the first call to the first delivery.

01

First call

Tell us the fund, the deal or the research you have in mind, and what you need to know.

You30 minutes
02

Scope

We propose the package: what is covered, how it is delivered, how often and to whom.

UsA written proposal
03

Agree terms

Confidentiality, data use and security review first, then the agreement.

BothNDA and agreement
04

First delivery

The first brief, the first data drop or the first workspace, with a review call after it.

UsA named analyst
Every package

The same data, the same controls.

What holds whichever package you take.

One benchmark library

Data

1,471 vendors and their product lines, the same library our customers benchmark against.

Vendors · product lines · deal sizes

Analysts behind it

People

Briefs and reports are reviewed by an analyst before they leave us.

Named analyst · review

Customer data stays private

Rule

Shared data is aggregated and anonymized. No customer, contract or price is ever identifiable.

Aggregated · anonymized

Separate workspaces

Security

Each target and each portfolio company sits in its own workspace, isolated at the database.

Isolation · audit log

Enterprise security

Security

Single sign on, two factor sign in, encryption in transit and at rest, and a security review package.

Security →

Enterprise pricing

Commercials

Every package is priced to its scope and agreed with our partnerships team. No published rates.

Scoped with you

Talk to our partnerships team.

Tell us about the fund, the deal or the research. We come back with a scoped package. Enterprise pricing only.

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