Methodology
How we keep this current.
Every supported claim on this page is checked automatically before it goes live. A claim cannot publish in the supported state without at least one external source attached — and every source must carry the publisher name, the version date of the cited report, and the date the entry was last verified. If any of those fields are missing, the page does not update and the change is rejected. Each source also records whether it is a primary or secondary citation and whether it is public, behind a publisher paywall, or available under NDA on request.
When a public source URL goes dead — the publisher moves the page, retracts the report, or paywalls a previously-public link — the citation is reviewed by the VendorX team and either downgraded to limited (with a short qualifier disclosing the verification gap) or removed entirely. Claims do not move from limited or roadmap back up to supported without a fresh sourced citation. Every status change updates the review date shown next to the claim above, so the date a buyer sees always reflects when the claim was last vetted by VendorX.
On-request sources cite verification artifacts that VendorX cannot publish openly — internal benchmarks, customer-permissioned references, deal-tier evidence. The publisher, version date, and verification timestamp are recorded the same way as every other source; the URL, where present, is not publicly resolvable, which is why the publisher name on those rows is not a clickable link. Verification of an on-request source happens under NDA on written request, rather than through the automated public-link check used for the other rows.
- Source check
- Automatic before publish · supported claims cannot ship without a cited source
- Link freshness
- Public links re-verified by VendorX on request and on dead-link reports · on-request sources verified under NDA · dead links downgrade or remove the claim
- Status changes
- Manually reviewed · review date shown next to each claim