- From: vic xianto <vxianto@yahoo.com>
- Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 22:19:28 -0800 (PST)
- To: www-rdf-interest@w3.org
Dear www-rdf-interest mailist participants: Would you mind to participate in our short data mining survey intended for vendors, consultants, and software developers? Should you agree to participate, just complete the questionnaire enclosed below and send it back within 5 days upon receipt of this e-mail. Looking forward to hearing further from you, and kindest regards. Yours, BCC Researcher Project Analyst vxianto@yahoo.com ========= Datamining Vendor Survey: Questionnaire Thanks for time you grant us to ask you this questionnaire. This questionnaire was part of a survey of datamining market, which will result in a report volume. Overview Within each market segmenthealthcare, insurance, retail, e-commerce, professional services, and manufacturingeach industry varies in need according to its own business processes, market segment and results desired. Once this questionnaire has been fulfilled, kindly send it back to us at vxianto@yahoo.com. Of course we will also greatly appreciate other supporting documents from your internal publications, such as market projection, datamining technology description/advantages, research focus etc. Thanks in advance. Time : . Date : . Name of responder/participant : . Name of company represented : . Name of major data mining product : . A. Company Profile related questions: 1. What are your companys strengths? (technology leadership, market share dominance, price, relationship, training, etc.) .. 2. What additional share of the market would you realistically like to obtain this year? (regional/territory, technological niche, internet focus etc.) .. 3. What was your most successful datamining product? .. B. Datamining product related questions: 1. What is the significant difference of your datamining products with others? a. technology approach b. marketing strategy c. pricing d. relationship e. training f. others, describe ... 2. Why is your datamining product important? .. 3. What existing problem(s) in IT areas would it solve? .. 4. Who (or what) would benefit by these products? Who are the stakeholders needing a solution of your products? .. 5. What form would this benefit take? . 6. What is the major form of your data mining products? a. Hardware (storage etc) b. Software (analytical tools etc) c. Applications (ASP, internet data miner etc) d. Consulting service e. Analysts service f. Other, specify 7. What is the major group of your data mining products? a. data service providers b. systems integrators c. package vendor d. macromining e. micromining f. data visualization g. other, specify 8. Which industry(s) are these products intended for? a. Healthcare b. Insurance c. Retail d. E-commerce e. Professional Service f. Manufacturing g. Banking & Finance h. Others, describe .. 9. What market share is obtained by the products? a. Below 5% b. Between 5%-10% c. Between 11%-25% d. Between 26%-50% e. Above 50% 10. What is the overall return on investment (measured in percentage) of your data mining products? a. Below 5% b. Between 5%-10% c. Between 11%-25% d. Between 26%-50% e. Above 50% 11. How do your company predict the data mining market prospect in the next six month? a. Excellent b. Very bright c. Steady/flat d. Not so good e. Shrinking market f. We consider to change to other IT market g. Other, describe 12. How do your company predict the data mining market prospect in the next few years (1-3)? a. Excellent b. Very bright c. Steady/flat d. Not so good e. Shrinking market f. We consider to change to other IT market g. Other, describe C. Datamining market related questions: 13. What is the worldwide sales figure of your datamining product(s) for the last year? a. Below US$50 millions b. Between US$51-US$200 millions c. Between US$201-US$500 millions d. Above US$500 millions (describe in details if possible, by technology field). 14. What is your market projection for the worldwide sales figure of all datamining product(s) for this year 2002? a. Below US$50 millions b. Between US$51-US$200 millions c. Between US$201-US$500 millions d. Above US$500 millions (describe in details if possible, by technology field). 15. What is the US sales figure of your datamining product(s) for the last year? a. Below US$50 millions b. Between US$51-US$200 millions c. Between US$201-US$500 millions d. Above US$500 millions (describe in details if possible, by technology field). 16. What are the most significant market drivers of your datamining products sales? a. country economic growth b. e-commerce growth rate c. internet growth rate d. industrial growth rate e. marketing expenditures f. others, describe .. 17. What are the worldwide sales figure of your datamining product(s) for the recent year (s), based on industry area? What is the worldwide sales figure of your datamining product(s) for the last year? a. Below US$50 millions b. Between US$51-US$200 millions c. Between US$201-US$500 millions d. Above US$500 millions (describe in details if possible, by technology field). 18. What are the key technologies used in your datamining products? a. Nearest Neighbor b. Case-based Reasoning c. Logical Rule induction d. Logical Genetic Algorithm e. Logical Decision Trees f. Agents g. Belief Nets (causal network) h. Statistics (incl. Fuzzy Logic, Rough Sets etc) i. Neural Nets j. Data visualisation k. Others, describe . 19. Qualitative impact of datamining: How you describe the future of datamining technologies in each industry application (describe in details if possible, by product types, such as datamining software, hardware, application market, consulting service etc.)? How could these improvements different from existing products? What qualities could be expected from new research in datamining? End of questionnaire. Thanks for your participation in this survey. March 8, 2002 BCC Researcher Project Analyst vxianto@yahoo.com whisper@ekilat.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Try FREE Yahoo! Mail - the world's greatest free email! http://mail.yahoo.com/
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