Technology Intelligence Data-driven decision-making — Elizabeth Cholawsky // HG Insights

Elizabeth Cholawsky, CEO of HG Insights, delves into how to unleash the potential of technology intelligence. When HG Insights coined the term technographics13 years ago, it was narrowly defined as a technology installation at a company. Fast forward to the present and technology intelligence is helping businesses gain insights into market trends, competition, empowering decision-makers to make informed choices and solve complex problems. Today, Elizabeth discusses technographic based data-driven decision-making
About the speaker

Elizabeth Cholawsky

HG Insights

 - HG Insights

Elizabeth is the CEO of HG Insights, which is a sponsor of the MarTech podcast and a platform that uses advanced data science methodologies to process billions of unstructured digital documents to produce the world's best technology installation information and contract intelligence to accelerate their sales, marketing and strategy efforts.

Show Notes

  • 02:27
    The definition and evolution of technographic data
    Technographic data is narrowly defined as the technology installations at a company. Over time, the view of technology intelligence has expanded to include contracts, IT spend information, near real-time signal data from the internet, historical data, and technographics.
  • 04:06
    Applications of technology intelligence
    Applications of technology intelligence include corporate development, strategy, campaign execution, and competitive takeouts. Product management and other teams have also embraced technology intelligence for problem-solving and decision-making.
  • 05:06
    Leveraging IT spend information for strategic decision making
    Large corporations can utilize an IT spend report for market planning and budget allocation in the upcoming year. Additionally, that report can be leveraged to make strategic decisions for companies in terms of identifying growth and opportunities within market segments.
  • 07:52
    Leveraging HG Insights granular data for strategic decision making
    HG Insights' big data set enables regional and global technology landscape analysis and the comparison of cloud vendor market share and trends. Furthermore, the granularity of the intelligence is useful for large companies making major decisions like funding growth in a region.
  • 09:28
    How marketers are using technology intelligence
    Marketers are using technology intelligence primarily for competitive campaigns. Competitive campaigns enable marketers to identify trends, target companies with a higher likelihood of switching from their current technology, and find whitespace opportunities in other companies.
  • 10:19
    Contextualizing intent data with technology intelligence for effective marketing
    HG Insights intent data is sourced from bitstream data, making it a long-term viable intent signal. By overlaying this intent data with their technology intelligence, they can differentiate between buying signals, enabling marketers to focus on genuine buying opportunities.

Quotes

  • "HG insights invented the term technographics 13 years ago, and it was narrowly and still is narrowly defined as a technology installation at a company."

  • "If you can imagine having a report on IT spend in any way you want to shape it, it can be used for market planning for the next year to allocate budgets within a big corporation."

About the speaker

Elizabeth Cholawsky

HG Insights

 - HG Insights

Elizabeth is the CEO of HG Insights, which is a sponsor of the MarTech podcast and a platform that uses advanced data science methodologies to process billions of unstructured digital documents to produce the world's best technology installation information and contract intelligence to accelerate their sales, marketing and strategy efforts.

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