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REPAMA Guide Now Online

The Lustratus REPAMA Guide (1.00)Despite being available in “beta” form to REPAMA users for some time, I finally got round to packaging up a publicly downloadable version of the Lustratus REPAMA Guide. This can be downloaded from Lustratus.com for no charge.

I should say a big thank you to clients, colleagues and everyone else who has provided feedback on the guide, which studies should be included and how they should be presented.

So “Thank you”!

And for those looking to understand the product marketing and go-to-market strategies of TIBCO’s competitors in the High Performance Messaging space – specifically  Solace Systems’ Content Router, 29West’s LBM and IBM’s WebSphere MQ LLM – I’ve also put the High Performance Messaging REPAMA Segment Analysis Study in… Continue reading

“We all target the same prospects”

We all target the same prospects!

I hear this a lot in the high-tech marketing world.  Organisations tell me that when they are prospecting they and their competitors target the same organisations and the same people.

I want to highlight how assumptions like this can be very dangerous in competitive marketing.  It’s lazy to assume that your closest competitors are saying the same thing to the same people as you are targeting.

Sure there are major similarities in most highly competitive markets but when Lustratus studies the protagonists and their relative offerings in detail we always find significant clear blue water between them.

We developed the REPAMA methodology to bring a little clearer insight into competitive marketing. … Continue reading


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