Companies that build and sell technology to monitor, intercept, identify or track people, mostly to governments and police. This is its own schema, version 1.
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Focused research on the organizations with the fewest mapped parts in surveillance technology vendors; what it finds is public for everyone.
| Primitive | Part | Layer | Description | Parameters | Organizations |
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Product lines and target agencies market_positioning | Demand: winning customers | Decisions | Which capabilities are sold, and to which kinds of agencies and companies. | 0 | 955 |
Trade fairs and government outreach lead_generation | Demand: winning customers | Process | Security trade fairs, tenders and introductions that bring in buyers. | 0 | — |
Government sales and account teams sales | Demand: winning customers |
Organizations: how many of the 956 organizations mapped in public on Surveillance technology vendors and below have a sourced part on the primitive. Primitives are matched by key, so organizations on earlier versions count.
| People |
| Who meets agency buyers and negotiates deals. |
| 0 |
| — |
Licence and deployment pricing pricing | Demand: winning customers | Decisions | Prices per licence, target, seat, site or deployment. | 0 | — |
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Tender responses quoting | Demand: winning customers | Process | Responses to tenders and direct offers with scope and price. | 0 | — |
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Government contracts and end-use terms contracts | Demand: winning customers | Decisions | Contracts with agencies, including limits on how the product may be used. | 0 | — |
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Resellers and brokers resellers_brokers | Demand: winning customers | People | Intermediaries and local partners that sell or install on the vendor's behalf. | 0 | — |
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Product development offer_design | Supply: making or delivering the offer | Process | Building and updating the capabilities the products provide. | 0 | 956 |
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Planning and scheduling planning | Supply: making or delivering the offer | Process | When work happens and who does it. | 0 | — |
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Procurement procurement | Supply: making or delivering the offer | Process | Buying what delivery needs. | 0 | — |
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Suppliers and partners suppliers | Supply: making or delivering the offer | People | Who the company depends on. | 0 | — |
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Deployment and integration delivery | Supply: making or delivering the offer | Process | Installing the product and connecting it to the customer's systems. | 0 | — |
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Accuracy testing quality | Supply: making or delivering the offer | Process | Measuring error rates and reliability of detection and matching. | 0 | — |
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Inventory and assets inventory | Supply: making or delivering the offer | Data | What the company holds and where. | 0 | — |
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Logistics and fulfilment logistics | Supply: making or delivering the offer | Process | How the offer reaches the customer. | 0 | — |
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Capability linesPremium capability_lines | Supply: making or delivering the offer | Decisions | Included for Members | Members | Members |
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Customer vetting and onboarding customer_onboarding | Customers: keeping them | Process | Checking a new customer and bringing its operators into service. | 0 | — |
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Technical support support | Customers: keeping them | People | Answering operators when the product fails or needs updating. | 0 | — |
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Account management account_management | Customers: keeping them | People | Who owns the relationship after the sale. | 0 | — |
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Customer and deployment records customer_data | Customers: keeping them | Data | Which customers run which products where. | 0 | 51 |
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Retention and renewal retention | Customers: keeping them | Process | How customers come back. | 0 | — |
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Government and agency customersPremium government_customers | Customers: keeping them | People | Included for Members | Members | Members |
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Customer operator training operator_training | Customers: keeping them | Process | Courses that teach customer staff to run the product. | 0 | — |
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Billing and invoicing billing | Money: getting paid and paying | Process | Turning delivered work into claims. | 0 | — |
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Collections and receivables collections | Money: getting paid and paying | Process | Turning claims into cash. | 0 | — |
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Payments and payables payables | Money: getting paid and paying | Process | Paying suppliers and partners. | 0 | — |
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Payroll payroll | Money: getting paid and paying | Process | Paying people. | 0 | — |
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Accounting and close accounting | Money: getting paid and paying | Software | The ledger and the month-end. | 0 | — |
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Budgeting and forecasting budgeting | Money: getting paid and paying | Decisions | What the company expects. | 0 | — |
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Cash and treasury treasury | Money: getting paid and paying | Data | What the company has and owes. | 0 | — |
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Investors and funders investors_funders | Money: getting paid and paying | People | Venture, private equity, corporate and state investors and their rights. | 0 | — |
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Org structure org_structure | People: who does the work | People | Teams, roles and reporting lines. | 0 | 53 |
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Hiring hiring | People: who does the work | Process | How people join. | 0 | — |
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Onboarding and training training | People: who does the work | Process | How people become productive. | 0 | — |
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Performance and pay performance_pay | People: who does the work | Decisions | How people are reviewed and rewarded. | 0 | — |
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Scheduling and capacity capacity | People: who does the work | Process | Who is available when. | 0 | — |
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Policies and culture people_policies | People: who does the work | Decisions | The rules people work under. | 0 | — |
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Core system of record system_of_record | Systems: tools and data | Software | The main tool the business runs on. | 0 | — |
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Communication tools communication | Systems: tools and data | Software | How people talk. | 0 | — |
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Integrations integrations | Systems: tools and data | Software | Which tools exchange data without re-keying. | 0 | — |
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Reporting and dashboards reporting | Systems: tools and data | Data | What leaders see, how often. | 0 | — |
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Data management data_management | Systems: tools and data | Data | Where records live and who owns them. | 0 | 1 |
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Security and access security | Systems: tools and data | Decisions | Who may see and change what. | 0 | — |
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Data collected and retainedPremium collected_data | Systems: tools and data | Data | Included for Members | Members | Members |
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Model training data model_training_data | Systems: tools and data | Data | The images, voices or records used to train recognition models, and their provenance. | 0 | — |
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Export and dual-use licencesPremium licensing | Control: rules the company runs under | Decisions | Included for Members | Members | Members |
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Export control and sanctions compliance compliance | Control: rules the company runs under | Decisions | Classifying products, screening parties and keeping export records. | 0 | — |
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Insurance and risk insurance | Control: rules the company runs under | Decisions | What is covered and what is not. | 0 | — |
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Legal and contracts administration legal_admin | Control: rules the company runs under | Data | Where agreements and obligations live. | 0 | — |
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Health, safety and environment hse | Control: rules the company runs under | Decisions | How harm is prevented. | 0 | — |
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