What is RainKing?
RainKing identifies and targets key IT decision makers at major companies and organizations and maps technology buying processes. Through our on-demand, subscription-based platform, we provide accurate and constantly updated contact information and intelligence on key technology managers and executives. RainKing also provides deep intelligence on: (a) how technology decisions are made; (b) how and which specific technologies are deployed; and (c) how I.T. staffs are organized. RainKing comes with innovative and clever tools to manipulate, organize, and act on this incredible data and intelligence.
Why Our Customers Get an Enormous ROI Using RainKing
RainKing is extremely valuable to any company marketing a technology related product or service. RainKing customers include software and hardware vendors, research firms, integrators, consultants and I.T. training companies. With RainKing, our clientele finds higher quality prospects, and quickly turns those prospects into customers. RainKing customers are able able to dramatically increase time selling and servicing accounts and decrease their time on sales research. Customers use RainKing for (a) targeting high-quality leads, (b) conducting targeted and more efficient marketing campaigns, (c) improving existing account penetration and knowledge, (d) improving account mapping process, and (e) highly accurate market segmentation and analysis.
Why RainKing Stands out in the Marketplace
We hear it over and over: RainKing leads the IT sales data industry in quality and service by a large margin. (
Testimonials) We believe there are five main reasons we stand out: 1) we have an extremely rigorous and carefully managed data gathering and quality assurance process, (
How we do it) 2) we employ the largest, best-trained, and best-educated research department in the industry; 3) through proprietary communication links, we receive a large flow of real-time research leads and fixes directly from our customers throughout every day, greatly enhancing our own internal data verification processes; 4) we are fanatical about customer service; and 5) we innovate aggressively and constantly.
Research Methodology: TIP™ The Intelligent Phonecall
RainKing data and intelligence is gathered exclusively by phone interviews with principals and key sources within target companies and organizations. The interviews are conducted by smart, well-trained, and well-educated professional research analysts. Many are former journalists, many have advanced college degrees. The TIP™ methodology is time-consuming and expensive, but it ensures remarkably high levels of detail, accuracy and meaningful context. (
Meet Our Researchers)
How is RainKing Sold?
RainKing is an on-demand application and is sold on an annual subscription basis. Our first 2 products, the RainKing 500 and soon to be completed RainKing 1000, provide a complete map and database of the I.T. organizations of the 1,000 largest US companies based on revenue. Additional products include profiles of the RainKing 1500, and 2000 databases, which include the next largest public and private companies and foreign subsidiaries with significant IT operations in the US.
Leadership and Pedigree
RainKing is led by a team of experienced and successful information and software executives. RainKing was founded by
Bill Kapner, who previously founded and ran bigdough, a company built around the largest and most successful sales database and marketing platform for Wall Street capital markets. Bigdough was twice named to the INC 500 list of fastest growing companies in the USA — ranking #78 in 2002 AND #57 in 2003. The company was acquired in late 2004 by the private equity firm of Veronis Suhler Stevenson.
John Renehan, a highly seasoned software company executive is our CFO and head of operations. He was a senior executive for many years at Group 1 Software.
Jon Brickman, who built an award-winning sales and service operation at bigdough, runs sales and service. This management team has a long and successful record of building great, customer-centric companies and enriching shareholders.
Data Center
RainKing's servers are located in one of the Washington DC-area's largest and most secure data centers — Equinix. Our server farm consists of multiple load-balanced servers and incorporates redundant high speed gigabit connections directly to OC-48 Internet backbones to elminate Website downtime.
Capitalization and Financial Strength
RainKing is very well capitalized and has sufficient financial resources to achieve our ambitious growth and innovation goals. RainKing also has ready access to additional capital should that be required in the future.
