Liftr Insights’ Market Intelligence as a Platform is the software platform and methodology that drives our data collection and analysis.

We gather intelligence about deployed internet-attached infrastructure via Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) using DevOps software development and operations methodology. We measure infrastructure availability (what exists), capability (what’s in it) and pricing (what it costs). We provide customers with hybrid alternative data about the internet-attached infrastructure ecosystem, including servers, processors, accelerators, edge computing, IoT, 5G, and other hardware infrastructure connected to the internet.

Market Intelligence as a Platform is different from traditional data collection and analysis. Traditional data collection relies on expensive and time-consuming surveys, which are outdated by the time they are published. Surveys depend on vendors to respond and to respond honestly. Traditional survey analysis also requires statistical modeling to extrapolate small survey sample sizes to an overall market. Often times, survey results are only produced on a quarterly or annual basis, several months after the data was first collected. This results in data that can be subjective, imprecise, and slow.

With Market Intelligence as a Platform, data collection is faster and more complete, and analysis is more thorough and reliable. Liftr Insights uses Market Intelligence as a Platform to collect comprehensive data from service description APIs in order to provide customers with objective quantitative analysis. As a result, customers receive the hybrid alternative data that they need to understand the internet-attached infrastructure ecosystem.