Its subsidiary companies provide performance benchmarking and marketing consultancy services. Inquisitor is a software suite used for hardware diagnostics, stress testing, certification and benchmarking platform. SPHINCS is implemented in the SUPERCOP benchmarking toolkit. The wide appeal and acceptance of benchmarking has led to the emergence of benchmarking methodologies. Gap analysis naturally flows from benchmarking and from other assessments. It also provides industry statistics and benchmarking services. In March 2017, Sage Group acquired Compass, an analytics and benchmarking platform. Ossiannilsson and colleagues identified this framework as useful for certification and benchmarking. The following is a list of notable methods and benchmarking software tools. Expand offers research and syndicated benchmarking for financial institutions. Benchmarking creates standardized test materials for a specific type of design. The status of recognition is achieved through a comprehensive benchmarking process. These algorithms are therefore only useful for benchmarking in small systems. Interpretation of benchmarking data is also extraordinarily difficult. The survey tracks 16 vertical markets to serve as a benchmarking tool for companies.