IT Research & Intelligence
Research Built on
Real Evaluations,
Not Analyst Opinion
Olive's requirements intelligence comes from thousands of active IT consultants and enterprise buyers running real software evaluations — not vendor briefings and annual surveys that are 18 months stale before they publish.
Olive Intelligence Platform
Data from active evaluations on the Olive platform
A Different Kind of IT Research
Analyst firm research is funded by the vendors it rates. Olive's intelligence comes from the buyers and consultants who actually live with these decisions.
Gartner, Forrester, IDC
- Published annually — data is 12–18 months stale by release date
- Vendor-sponsored research creates structural conflicts of interest
- Magic Quadrant positions driven heavily by marketing spend and sales scale
- Small survey panels — hundreds of respondents, not thousands of live evaluations
- Generic category coverage, not tailored to your requirements or industry
- $30,000–$100,000+ per year for a subscription
Research & Intelligence Platform
- Updated continuously as evaluations complete — no publication cycle lag
- No vendor funding — requirements come from buyers and working consultants
- Vendor scores tied to real buyer requirements, not analyst perception
- Built from thousands of active evaluations across 40+ software categories
- Requirements filtered by your industry, org size, and use case
- Included with your Olive subscription — no separate research budget
Where the Intelligence Comes From
Every requirement in Olive's library has been used in a real evaluation. The data is the product.
Consultants Run Real Evaluations on the Platform
Active IT consultants use Olive to run software selection projects for their clients. Every evaluation contributes anonymized requirements, priority weights, and vendor scores back to the platform's intelligence layer.
Requirements Are Validated Across Thousands of Projects
When thousands of evaluators across healthcare, finance, manufacturing, and the public sector use similar requirements, patterns emerge. Olive surfaces those patterns as pre-validated libraries organized by category and use case.
You Start With What Took Others Years to Learn
When you begin a new evaluation, Olive suggests requirements from organizations like yours that have already done this work. You skip the blank page and start with intelligence grounded in hundreds of comparable decisions.
What's Included
Practical intelligence you can use in your next evaluation — not a 200-page report you'll read once and file away.
Pre-Built Requirements Libraries
Hundreds of consultant-validated requirements organized by software category — ERP, HCM, CRM, EHR, and 40+ others. Each includes context on why it matters and how vendors typically score against it.
Explore the libraries →Vendor Scorecards
See how vendors perform against the requirements that actually matter to buyers — not analyst rankings based on market presence. Filter by industry, org size, and deployment model for results relevant to your evaluation.
See vendor data →Category Market Intelligence
Understand which capabilities are table stakes, which are differentiators, and which are emerging in each software category — based on what buyers are actually weighting in live evaluations, not what analysts predict.
Read sample reports →Evaluation Templates
Full evaluation templates — requirements, scoring rubrics, vendor questionnaires — built from consultant best practices already validated on the platform. Start an evaluation in hours, not weeks.
View templates →From the field