Micro Focus is an Industry Leader in Consulting within Information Management and Governance

According to Customers, how do we measure how we perform at consulting compared with our Competitors?

Micro Focus uses double-blind competitive benchmarking in order to gauge how well we are doing against the competition. This strategy means we can understand how we are performing with a high degree of statistical accuracy using a highly repeatable and scientific method. There are a number of customer lifecycle touchpoints and brand image attributes that are tracked, and ‘Consulting / Professional Services Engagements’ is one of them. Consulting is defined as your ‘Overall experience with their consulting/professional services organization to implement, upgrade, fix and/or optimize your software.’

How important as a Touchpoint is good ‘Consulting’ to customers?

Micro Focus, via Competitive Benchmarking and driver modelling, also knows that ‘Consulting’ is an important touchpoint within Information Management and Governance. This is important to realize since all touchpoints and brand image attributes contribute in some way to the overall ‘relationship’ metric with a company, and thus, using the right metric at the right time is not only important, but necessary.

So how is Micro Focus Information Management and Governance performing against the competition in ‘Consulting’?

Results from the latest Micro Focus Competitive Benchmark.

The figure above presents the “Consulting” top-two box satisfaction for each brand at the worldwide level for Information Management and Governance. This percentage shows the number of customers responding with the top scores. A way of interpreting this is if there is a value of 50%, then 1 in 2 of customers thought the brand is good at Consulting and 1 in 2 didn’t. On average, most software companies are not rated as being good at Consulting (average being 52% satisfaction) and so for Micro Focus to be second in the industry, out of 12 competitors, is a great feat indeed. Micro Focus is ranked 9% better than the average competitor in the industry and is 2nd out of all competitors with a top-two box satisfaction of 61%. When we compare against some of our competitors, we see that for consulting, Micro Focus is ranked 4% better than Veritas (on 57%), 5% better than Google, 7% better than IBM, 8% better than Microsoft and 27% better at consulting than Citrix.

Why is the Competitive Benchmark industry so reliable?

We do not know who the respondents are, and they themselves do not know that Micro Focus is sponsoring the study, and thus, this study has a dramatically lower bias than other surveys.  We can safely say that the data analytics is performed at the 90% Confidence Level, which is unheard of in the industry.  This means if any of our competitors performed the same study, they would have the same results.  Couple these points with a data sample size of over 15,000 respondents per rolling quarter and we have a Benchmark that truly is indicative of the marketplace.

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