Datanomix vs. Competitors
With so many companies vying for your attention, how do you separate the signal from the noise?
How do you compare Datanomix to other solutions?
No matter which software vendor you choose, you will be making a multi-year investment representing a very real amount of money that needs to return profit to your business. This alone suggests it is probably not in your best interest to decide based solely on abstract information from vendors themselves.
If you try to buy based only on information, it is actually in every vendor’s best interest to tell you they “do the same thing,” which renders any information you gather basically useless. There is so much “me too-ing” in this space that it has actually done a disservice to buyers because it creates market confusion and paralyzes the buying process.
The first question to ask yourself is, “Is this vendor’s approach giving me more clarity or more confusion?”…. and the only way to really figure that out is to go through the sales process.
P.S. A Pilot and a Free Trial are not the same thing!
Where to Start?
Do you compare features? Support? Pricing? The answer to all of these is no. Our suggested two-step approach below should help you out.
STEP 1: Evaluate If They Actually Know How To Help You Get Better
- Are they demonstrating a professional, prescriptive process that makes it clear they know how to help you be successful?
- Can they specifically map features and functionality to your pains and challenges with similar success stories and product workflows that are a direct hit for what you want to solve?
- When you find gaps and challenges, are they mitigating your concerns by showing you or telling you?
- Are they offering references with many monitoring experiences (failed and successful) who can help you separate the signal from the noise in your evaluation?
STEP 2: Have Them Prove It
Once it is clear exactly what problems you are trying to solve, evaluate if they can pave the way to show you how simple it is to solve those problems with a Pilot of the solution.
A Pilot will allow you to evaluate the vendor’s ability to solve your problems, the usability of the software, the vendor’s commitment to making you successful, and the time to good, valuable data and insights.
Common Questions We Get…
Trust and integrity is ingrained in everything we do. Here are some of the common things people are sadly telling us are happening out there in the market:
“Competitor XYZ said Datanomix will make me do something that sounds dumb or hard. Is that true?”
How dumb or hard did it sound? Because the dumber and harder it sounded, the more false it probably is.
We don’t make customers do dumb or hard things. Remember, everybody else made humans do data entry to get “useful” information from their monitoring systems until we came along, which makes us the antidote for dumb and hard things.
Some companies out there are experiencing very high churn (loss of customers), and are particularly experiencing high churn of those customers to Datanomix. We have dozens of references that have switched from other solutions to us. In fact, one of the best questions you could ask a vendor is “why do customers leave you for Datanomix?”
If one of our competitors uses the “Datanomix makes you do dumb stuff” tactic with you, we’re sorry. Just ask us directly, regardless of the topic, and we’ll gladly show you the simple path to victory with Datanomix.
“I was recently at a tradeshow and another monitoring vendor explicitly told me NOT to visit your booth. Why?”
Hahaha, no they didn’t! Seriously!?!? They did? Wow.
That’s why it’s important to really get to know your vendors, including the team that will support you, other customers who already work with that vendor, and the product itself, so you get a full sense of the experience of being a customer.
“Why should I work with Datanomix?”
If you’ve read the page to this point, it should be obvious what kind of partner we are to work with. We’re principled, direct, collaborative, and here to help you win.
Transparency is Key
The cost of disrupting the market is that the incumbents get angry and start making things up about those who are disrupting them. We are always transparent in our sales process and with our customers, and if you want to know what makes us the best, we’ll always offer to put our product in your hands to find out for yourself through our “prove it” Pilot Program.
The Datanomix Difference
- Simple machine and data connectivity, handled by us.
- Data that makes sense on day one → Datanomix delivers good part numbers and good part counts for any equipment type.
- No Operator Input™ means 100% useable data and reports with zero burden on your team for data entry.
- Kick-Ass Coaching that keeps you winning:
- Better Production Meetings
- Shop Floor Communication and Change Management
- Driving Real-Time Action with Real-Time Data
- Automated Win/Loss Analysis
- Improving On-Time Delivery
- Best-in-class partnerships and integrations that automate deeper insights.
- The Datanomix Community is built on real Relationships.
- Mountains of success stories with manufacturers just like you.
- Every customer starts with our Pilot Program.
“Datanomix gives us the precision performance data we need to improve operations for our team, support our growth, and deliver a better experience for our customers.”
—Tim Walls, President at Pazmac in Langley Township, BC