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Research Outline

Prepared for Romain F. | Delivered September 14, 2019

Mobile Subscriptions Management Platform Providers

Goals

To find 4 providers of mobile subscriptions management platform and determine their founding date, size (by employee or revenue), market share as available, value to customers, strengths and weaknesses, and competitive advantages. Research will be used to guide a business plan and determine a list of competitors. 

Early Findings

REVENUECAT RevenueCat handles pain points of mobile in-app purchases for mobile subscription businesses.
The company states, "We manage subscriptions the right way to unlock the power of your data."
The company provides a free API key. 
RevenueCat offers cross-platform support for mobile subscription management. 
STRIPEStripe offers subscription and billing management for businesses.
Stripe's billing and subscription API allows management of subscriptions from its Dashboard platform.
The company's billing API can be integrated into mobile apps.
 RevenueCat named Stripe as one of its competitors that offer cross-platform support as well including mobile.  
RECURLY  Recurly offers enterprise mobile solutions for subscription businesses and mobile payments.
Its subscription management platform is native and mobile web ready.
It offers a centralized platform for tracking all subscription-related data. 
Its mobile options include native mobile SDK, Apple Pay, Recurly.js (a customized mobile checkout) and hosted payment pages. 
ZUORAZuora offers a centralized hub for subscription management.
Their capabilities include subscription order management, rating and billing, global payments across multiple gateways, and subscription accounting among others.
It also includes mobile subscription quoting capabilities for Salesforce. 
Zuora is named as a leading competitor of Recurly and Stripe Billing.
SDM MARKET REPORT 2016-2021The Subscriber Data Management Market report offers a preview on the global landscape of SDM providers.
The report shows a preview of market competitors including mobile players: Ericsson, Hewlett Packard, Nokia, Cisco, Huawei, and Redknee solutions among others. 
According to the report, medium-sized players are shifting to next-generation subscriber data management platforms such as cloud-based solutions. 