But then you are essentially saying single vendor solution = vision.
My comment *does* read that way, but that's not what I meant.
Canon would be higher on the vision scale, as I mentioned above, but probably more in the middle. Their overall vision so far is recognizing the fact that there is a trend towards complete solutions, but what they are doing right now is more following than leading. A company that buys or builds a mass notification platform and also shows a clear layout for integrating it into their (presumably) existing CCTV and Access Control platform might rank higher on the visionary scale for example (as mass notification systems still seem to be this side-car to everything else).
Also, the reason I figured things would have to be re-ranked over time is that something that might have been "visionary" 8 years ago (a 5MP camera) is mainstream today. I think IQI is an example of a company that went from Visionary to not over time.
But I think I was trying to fit things into the existing scale before realizing it might be the wrong categorizations. Some companies might have a less than end-to-end solution, but be more visionary than others. Arecont, as much as most people hate them, would have at least previously ranked higher on the visionary scale for promoting multi-imager cameras that had solid applications. Scallop maybe less so, as they too made multi-imager cameras, but with much less clearly defined applications. Arecont hasn't had too much of a 2nd act to their multi-imager cameras, but Scallop is still trying to emerge as some kind of a player, perhaps they will eclipse Arecont on the Visionary scale at some point?
Maybe we need something closer to a 3D chart, Vision, Execution, Applicability? Vision, Execution, Breadth?
The benefit of such rankings is often for end users, or even integrators, to find similar products. Maybe you watch a webinar from HID about their bluetooth-based reader and you want to see what companies cluster around them? Is there another company with similar vision but lower on the execution scale? Is HID itself low on the execution scale?
I don't think these kinds of charts are frequently used as 1-stop buying decisions, but more as a quick visual rankings filter.