Introducing the Enterprise Connectivity Score

When it comes to a location's connectivity and whether it meets your organization's requirements, it's not easy to get a lay of the land. Especially for enterprises and carriers, cloud service providers, and data center operators that provide enterprise service, your organization's complex connectivity needs require tons of research—until now.

Introducing the Enterprise Connectivity Score: the interactive tool for evaluating 3,000 global cities as hubs for multinational corporate operations.

Let's take a look at how this powerful tool can help identify the best locations for your enterprise-level connectivity needs. You can find it in our Cloud and WAN Research Service. (If you're a subscriber, you can log in and start using it now.) 

At first glance, the Enterprise Connectivity Score might look a little like our Market Connectivity Score tool, since they both have interactive dashboards and rank 3,000 cities worldwide. But that's about where the similarities end.

The ECS and MCS each answer very different questions and draw upon unique datasets to help you get the answers you need.

Answering your questions with targeted datasets

Just as every tool solves specific problems, we've tailored each of our telecom research data tools to solve your specific, pressing issues. 

The Market Connectivity Score was designed to answer questions like:

• Where should we invest in cloud infrastructure or data center infrastructure?
• Where is there available power to do so?
• Where is the next big hub going to be?

The new Enterprise Connectivity Score helps enterprises and carriers, cloud service providers, and data center operators that provide enterprise service answer questions like:

• Where should enterprises locate their regional headquarters and IT hubs to get the best connectivity?
• Where should carriers decide to expand their WAN service?
• How does one carrier’s footprint stack up with another?

Data categories: Enterprise Connectivity Score vs. Market Connectivity Score

By bringing together proprietary datasets from our suite of research platforms, each tool gives a full picture of the problems you're tackling through data. While the ECS and MCS both share some data categories, they also draw upon datasets unique to each tool to answer the questions above. This Venn diagram compares and contrasts datasets.

The ECS tends to reward large population centers where many large company headquarters are located, such as New York City, Los Angeles, and Sydney, while the MCS tends to highly rank cities that are already IP or cloud networking hubs but aren’t necessarily very large cities, such as Frankfurt, Amsterdam, and Marseille.

New major features in the Enterprise Connectivity Score

Compare countries

In addition to comparing cities, the ECS allows you to compare countries with the toggle at the top of the dashboard. This allows you to see which countries rank the highest, and within those countries, which carriers rank the highest.

Compare carriers within sets of cities

You can also compare carrier connectivity within filtered cities, generating a score for tracked carriers based on the sum of city scores where they have connectivity.

We created this robust tool by bringing together proprietary datasets across many of our platforms: Cloud and WAN Research Service, Network Pricing Database, Data Center Research Service, and other TeleGeography products. Take a quick video tour of how the Enterprise Connectivity Score works.