Templates/tools for benchmarking/competitive comparison

Hi,
my english is not the best, so I will write this shortly.
Im searching a template/tool to compare an amount of companys.
We want do create a SharePoint-Project, where we can put all data we have about These companys.
Does anyone know a good tool?
Thank you for your help. :)

Hi,
We have a similar requirement. Have you integrated with any other software to enable this?
Thanks.
JP

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