Minitab of course
Spotfire was compelling in Semiconductor
In the field I've seen a lot of Tableau
@HydeMiller Thank you, Hyde!
I now regularly see Alteryx at Defense conferences, Now on their mailing list, I receive emails weekly. Here are the last 4:
On the User Acquisition team, we try to deliver a compelling experience that speaks to our target customer. We’d like to monitor how other businesses are reaching this same customer whatever their product may be. We hope to pull from your previous industry knowledge when you were in JMP’s target market. We are looking for companies that sell other things to our target market--not our competitors, but they are trying to reach the same user as JMP with other products or services.
We’d like you to highlight brands that you think do a good job at this, are an industry standard, or you used at your previous company. Please reply to this thread with the names of those businesses that you think share our target customer of scientists and engineers but are not JMP's competitors because they sell a different product or service. For example, maybe JMP was the industry standard in statistical software at your previous company, but what was the industry standard for consulting services, lab equipment, etc.?
Thanks for your help!
In chemical R&D, we interacted with many software, materials, and equipment companies. Like JMP, these companies target scientists, engineers, and product formulators. The ones listed below are those that I think are either best in class for their product or user experience. I'm sure there are others that I am not remembering right now, but will edit if they come to me.
Literature and patent searching
I always used SciFinder and considered it the best in class software for literature and patent searching in the chemistry field. Most important was its chemical structure search tool which set it apart from other text-only search functions (Google Scholar, Google Patent, Web of Science) and the other main structure searching service: Reaxys. Just like JMP, it has a learning curve, but they provide training and online resources to help you get started.
Chemicals and Materials
Millipore Sigma is probably the most comprehensive chemical supply vendor. They have the largest inventory, transparent pricing, and a really good search function. If you couldn't find it here, it was not likely commercially available.
Other chemical vendors in this space are: VWR (Avantor), Alfa Aesar, TCI (Fisher Scientific)
Equipment
There are many different equipment and instrument suppliers I have used. Here are two that stand out as being easy to use or full of additional resources that we found most helpful:
McMaster Carr - Not just chemical industry focused. If we needed a single gasket or several pallets drums, we went here. Delivery was usually one business day without any additional cost. The website is essentially an online catalog that you can either search directly or "flip" through pages to see what else you might want that you weren't thinking of. "Shuffle Products" was a fun way to discover new products.
Mettler Toledo - Wide variety of basic lab equipment and precision analytical instruments. Not the best website, but if you know what you are looking for, it has a lot of resources. I am not sure if other equipment suppliers provide the level of technical support that MT does, but MT provides technical support, webinars, and success stories to help you use the products most effectively.
@scott_allen Thank you for reading the replying!
