Independent Software Vendors Survey

Hagen/Sinclair Research is looking for Independent Software Vendors, Developers, and Technical Product Managers Nationwide.

INCENTIVE: Participants completing the study will be paid $250.

DATE/TIME: The study will take place Friday May 17th to Friday June 14th.

FORMAT: It will be a 45 minute telephone interview.

If you are interested in participating, please provide the following information. If your answers pre-qualify you for the study, one of our recruiters will call you to complete the screening process

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1. Demographics:

Name:

Company:

Address:

Address 2:

City/Town:

State:

ZIP:

Email Address::

Cell Number:

Phone Number:

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2. What is your job title?

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3. What is the name of your company?

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4. What is the principal industry of your company?

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5. Which one of the following best describes your current activities / employment status?

Employed Full Time ( 30 +)

Employed Part time (< 30 )

Self Employed

Student Full Time

Student Part Time

Volunteer work

Retired

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6. Is the primary business of your company to develop software products, software applications or software delivered as a service (SaaS) for customers and clients?

Yes

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7. Which one of the following descriptions best describes your company’s PRIMARY line of business?

DISTRIBUTOR

HOSTED SERVICES PROVIDER

NETWORK SERVICES PROVIDER

ISV

OEM Manufacturer

RESELLER (VAR),

RETAILER

SERVICES PROVIDER

Other (please specify)

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8. Which one of the following descriptions best describes your company’s SECONDARY line of business?

DISTRIBUTOR

HOSTED SERVICES PROVIDER

NETWORK SERVICES PROVIDER

ISV

OEM Manufacturer

RESELLER (VAR),

RETAILER

SERVICES PROVIDER

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9. Does a regular part of your Services Provider work involve software integration with on-premise or cloud based services/solutions?

Yes

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10. What is the approximate annual revenue from the ISV portion of your business perannum?

<$250k

$250k - $500k

$500k - $1 mill

$1 mill - $4 mill

$4 mill - $10 mill

$10 mill - $50 mill

$50 mill -$100 mill

$100 mill+

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11. Which of the following are your company’s target customer segments?

Home/consumer

Small Business (1-24 PCs)

Medium Business (25-249 PCs)

Large Business (250-499 PCs)

Enterprise (500+ PCs)

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12. Please select your company’s top 3 target industry segments.

Accounting

Agriculture or Mining

Non- or Not-For-Profit

Banking

Construction/Engine/Arch.

Consulting

Education

Finance

Government

Health/Medical/Pharmaceutical

Insurance

Legal

Manufacturing

Petroleum

Printing/Publishing

Real Estate

Retail

Telecommunications

Transportation

Travel/Tourism

Utilities

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13. Which of the following platforms do your product offerings integrate with (select all that apply)?

Force.com

Windows Azure

Google Apps

Microsoft Office 365

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14. Which of the following statements best describes the integration of your company’s products with Google Apps? (By integrate, we mean embedding or exposing your applications, data, and/or content inside of one or multiple applications within Google Apps)

We have integrated some or all of our products to Google Apps

We have started work to integrate some or all of our products to Google Apps

We are considering options to integrate some or all of our products to Google Apps

We have no current plans to integrate our products to Google Apps

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15. How familiar are you, personally, with integrating your product offerings with Google Apps?

1-Not at all familiar

9-Very Familiar

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16. Please describe your role in the integration of your company’s products with Google Apps

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17. Thinking about your primary role at work, please indicate what percentage of your time you spend on each of the following tasks.

Business strategy/ tech direction of the co.

Executing your co.’s marketing strategy

Sales and bus. develop.

Design, develop, and test software apps for customers.

Interface w/ customers to guide your software teams

Crafting customer IT strategy

Customer supp./Help Desk

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18. Which of the following statements most accurately describes your level of involvement in developing and deploying products or solutions that integrate with Google Apps?

I have sole responsibility

I have shared responsibility

I influence, but do not directly design

I am not involved in the design

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19. Please indicate your level of insight into customer needs and scenarios your company would like to enable by integrating your offerings with Google Apps.

1-None

9-Very Familiar

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20. In your own words, please describe one customer scenario you would like to enable (e.g. customer need you want to satisfy such as sales contact management) by integrating your offerings with Google Apps.

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21. How did you hear about this study?

Hagen/Sinclair email invitation

Facebook

FG Global

Find Focus Groups

Craigslist

Referred by friend

Thank you for taking the time to fill out our survey. A recruiter will call you to complete the screening process if your answers are a match to the study qualifications.

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* 1. Demographics:

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* 2. What is your job title?

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* 3. What is the name of your company?

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* 4. What is the principal industry of your company?

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* 5. Which one of the following best describes your current activities / employment status?

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* 6. Is the primary business of your company to develop software products, software applications or software delivered as a service (SaaS) for customers and clients?

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* 7. Which one of the following descriptions best describes your company’s PRIMARY line of business?

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* 8. Which one of the following descriptions best describes your company’s SECONDARY line of business?

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* 9. Does a regular part of your Services Provider work involve software integration with on-premise or cloud based services/solutions?

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* 10. What is the approximate annual revenue from the ISV portion of your business perannum?

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* 11. Which of the following are your company’s target customer segments?

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* 12. Please select your company’s top 3 target industry segments.

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* 13. Which of the following platforms do your product offerings integrate with (select all that apply)?

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* 14. Which of the following statements best describes the integration of your company’s products with Google Apps? (By integrate, we mean embedding or exposing your applications, data, and/or content inside of one or multiple applications within Google Apps)

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* 15. How familiar are you, personally, with integrating your product offerings with Google Apps?

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* 16. Please describe your role in the integration of your company’s products with Google Apps

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* 17. Thinking about your primary role at work, please indicate what percentage of your time you spend on each of the following tasks.

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* 18. Which of the following statements most accurately describes your level of involvement in developing and deploying products or solutions that integrate with Google Apps?

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* 19. Please indicate your level of insight into customer needs and scenarios your company would like to enable by integrating your offerings with Google Apps.

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* 20. In your own words, please describe one customer scenario you would like to enable (e.g. customer need you want to satisfy such as sales contact management) by integrating your offerings with Google Apps.

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* 21. How did you hear about this study?

1. Demographics:

2. What is your job title?

3. What is the name of your company?

4. What is the principal industry of your company?

5. Which one of the following best describes your current activities / employment status?

6. Is the primary business of your company to develop software products, software applications or software delivered as a service (SaaS) for customers and clients?

7. Which one of the following descriptions best describes your company’s PRIMARY line of business?

8. Which one of the following descriptions best describes your company’s SECONDARY line of business?

9. Does a regular part of your Services Provider work involve software integration with on-premise or cloud based services/solutions?

10. What is the approximate annual revenue from the ISV portion of your business perannum?

11. Which of the following are your company’s target customer segments?

12. Please select your company’s top 3 target industry segments.

13. Which of the following platforms do your product offerings integrate with (select all that apply)?

14. Which of the following statements best describes the integration of your company’s products with Google Apps? (By integrate, we mean embedding or exposing your applications, data, and/or content inside of one or multiple applications within Google Apps)

15. How familiar are you, personally, with integrating your product offerings with Google Apps?

16. Please describe your role in the integration of your company’s products with Google Apps

17. Thinking about your primary role at work, please indicate what percentage of your time you spend on each of the following tasks.

18. Which of the following statements most accurately describes your level of involvement in developing and deploying products or solutions that integrate with Google Apps?

19. Please indicate your level of insight into customer needs and scenarios your company would like to enable by integrating your offerings with Google Apps.

20. In your own words, please describe one customer scenario you would like to enable (e.g. customer need you want to satisfy such as sales contact management) by integrating your offerings with Google Apps.

21. How did you hear about this study?