Research

OpenDecision publishes a catalog of software pricing, and Juukbox helps people decide with it. Both rest on claims that are easy to make and harder to show: that the prices are read from the vendor rather than guessed, that we say when we read them, and that no vendor can pay to be recommended.

These pages show the working. Every number on them is counted from the catalog when the page is built, and carries the date it was counted. Where we cannot count something, the sentence is not there.

• How we verify a price

  Every component in the catalog is bound to the vendor page it was read from. What that binding is, what it is not, and one price you can go and check yourself.

• How matching works, and what cannot be bought

  What determines which products a decision surfaces, what plays no part in it, and the one thing we are not yet willing to state precisely.

• What Juukbox does with it

  The catalog is the asset. Juukbox is what turns it into a decision you can defend to the people who have to live with it.

• What to bring it

  The decisions it can answer from verified pricing, the ones it cannot answer yet, and why the difference is about data rather than ambition.