Case Study: IndustryBuildingBlocks achieves rapid on-demand industry analysis and transforms corporate planning with TIBCO Software (Spotfire Cloud)

IndustryBuildingBlocks.com Leverages TIBCO Spotfire® to Revolutionize the Corporate Planning Process

IndustryBuildingBlocks.com, founded by former corporate planner Alan Michaels, built a proprietary taxonomy covering ~11,784 line-of-business industries (about 97% of the global economy) to give planners and marketers Harvard Porter–style five-forces insight at a far deeper level than traditional databases. The company’s challenge was to put this vast, granular data into an easy-to-use, on-demand analytics platform—something that would normally take years and significant expense to develop.

Michaels deployed TIBCO Spotfire Cloud to create interactive, web-published visualizations that let users drill from sector to specific industry in as few as four clicks and access detailed data (definitions, revenue projections, competitors, products, channels, trends, etc.). The Spotfire solution enabled rapid deployment—full on-demand capability in about four weeks—accelerating the site’s launch by roughly a year and giving clients immediate, self-service strategic analysis.

IndustryBuildingBlocks

Alan Michaels

IndustryBuildingBlocks