Research Report on Multiparty Automation

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Research Report on Multi-Party Automation

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Description

Related to the work outlined in [BLIP-] Analyst Report On Multiparty Workflow Spend and Tools, this item tracks the efforts for IDC to conduct an original study on multiparty automation. The effort will be sponsored by several organizations that aim to solve the same problems as the Baseline Protocol, around optimizing processes and spending between organizations, and gather research design requirements from participating organizations.

Anyone is welcome to join these efforts by reaching out to Baseline Outreach Members - Sonal Patel, Carol Geyer, or Paula Lowe.

Definition of 'Done'

• Several companies join the effort as sponsors / stakeholders
• Report is complete based on agreed upon proposal, including all research design reqs.

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Steps

• Contact analyst firms to find good fit for report
• Work through draft proposals from IDC
• Obtain final proposal from IDC
• Start list of prospects to sponsor the study
• Write out messaging template for outreach to sponsors
• Outreach to prospective organizations to sponsor the study
• Finalize list of sponsors for study
• Outline needs for sessions to collect design requirements from sponsors
  To be continued...

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Updates

Issue comments will be used for logging updates and labels will be used for current status and work group responsible for current stage.

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7/5/22:

• Group meeting this week with Oasis, EEA, IDC team to move forward outreach for report sponsors

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7/18/22:

• Group session last week to align on immediate steps
• Report Proposal being finalized with team to ensure it covers focuses
• Prospects lists being wrapped up
• Draft message being worked on
• All these items to be complete this week to begin outreach

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8/1/22:

• Almost done with proposal
• Sponsorship outreach will begin this week

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8/15/22:

• Report proposal, messaging for content, and prospects list is complete
• IDC will be joining baseline show this week to explain proposal
• Community should have consistency in messaging in case we are reaching out to the same companies

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9/12/22:

• Sonal will inform group on next steps

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9/26/22:

• Workgroup began outreach
• Sonal working with EEA for marketing push

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10/24/22:

• 2 potential sponsors replied to outreach
• Sonal connecting with IBM today (ask about RedHat as well)

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12/5/22:

• IDC Report is being slow rolled into 2023 with the end of year causing delays

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1/30/23:

• Currently iceboxed as pending sponsor interest