Companies/organisations with lots of IT-connected staff

[48k]

Any system which facilitates remote collaborative working is going to need to include video IME

[768]

The system doesn't do remote collaborative working. This thread isn't for the product. Which is why I haven't said what the product is.

[essayer]

Financial co's are not a bad bet. I know you're worried about them stealing it, but from what I've seen they're increasingly replacing legacy in-house apps with commercial products like all those mentioned in this thread.
Considered going to industry events and doing a bit of networking?

[SHutchinson]

essayer said:

Financial co's are not a bad bet. I know you're worried about them stealing it, but from what I've seen they're increasingly replacing legacy in-house apps with commercial products like all those mentioned in this thread.
Considered going to industry events and doing a bit of networking?

I work for a FTSE 100 financial services company deploying collaboration software across 26 countries to our 16,000 users. We use the software mentioned on this thread. I'm struggling to find a gap in our offerings.

But I'm all ears.

[jammy-git]

Large retail? Specifically the back offices for large chains.

[w1bbles]

Consultancies of all flavours - management consultancies, engineering consultancies, design & environmental etc.

[omniflow]

768 said:

Financial services or defence contractors might be a possibility, but paranoia tells me they'll have a stack of bored devs who'll nick the idea before I've gone anywhere with it.

Can anyone suggest other places that might be suitable?

It sounds to me like you're touting an Infrastructure product. In most large organisations, IT Infrastructure and IT Development are 2 separate teams, possibly not even coming together until directly below the CIO level. If you target the Infrastructure organisation, they won't have the skills or the mandate to do in-house development. They are also highly unlikely to engage their development colleagues to enhance this system, as that would show them as incapable. Do not under-estimate internal politics in large organisations.

[768]

Few good ideas there, thanks guys.

omniflow said:

stuff

I suspect that's as accurate as it is humourous and painful. Thanks.

[jammy-git]

A lot of enterprise level sales is painful and slow!

[edc]

Am I missing something here but you are asking for recommendations for organisations that might buy your product or service but won't tell anybody exactly what it's supposed to be? People are making suggestions based on what their interpretation of your offering might be ... sounds like too much guess work going on.

[b0rk]

I'm guessing it's an integration product that ties various colaberative working tools together to form a more unified whole, which is why you'd need to do extensive integration for an initial customer?

Have you considered pitching the product at an IT services company as they'd tick your boxes in terms of size, extent of remote working, including multi country, or maybe oil and gas.