Market Research Technology Centers

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The companies listed below exist specifically to generate market, competition, and technology information for sale to members of the affected industries. They often use employees pulled from those industries and sometimes simply use employees skilled in pulling information from public sources. After a period of time these companies build up impressive databases of information and contacts in the chosen industries - exceeding the results that most companies can get with the funding they are willing to put into the research.

The results are typically made available as yearly reports with periodic updates. Companies may make one-time purchases of the information or may subscribe to yearly/monthly updates, as well as consultation rights. Yearly fees often run into the thousands, if not tens of thousands of dollars but have the potential of enabling companies to make decisions worth significantly more.

• Analysys Ltd.

• ARC Group
  ARC Group provides a range of Analysis and Research services to leading clients around the world, with a team of full time consultants based in the UK supported by a global network of associates and analysts. Our prime objective is to provide our clients with first class advice, information and support in making key decisions for their business. Core specialisations include, wireless internet, wireless technologies and infrastructure, digital broadcasting, broadband access, and telematics.

• BCC
  Industry research and technical market analysis: newsletters, magazines, and industry reviews, in the fields of advanced materials, electronic devices and materials, biotechnology and healthcare, chemicals, energy systems, flame retardency and other formulation additives, food and beverage ingredients and processing, information technology, instruments and sensors, plastics and polymers, membranes and separations, safety and security and transportation. BCC is also well-known for its annual conferences in energy, flame retardency, membranes, biotechnology and nanomaterials.

• IN-Stat MDR
  In-Stat/MDR offers a broad range of information resources and analytical assets to technology vendors, service providers, technology professionals and market specialists worldwide. The company stands alone in its ability to integrate both supply-side and demand-side research methodologies into a single, comprehensive view of technology markets and products. This capability relies on a unique ability to cover the entire value chain from engineering-level semiconductor technology, through equipment, infrastructure, services and end-users.

  In-Stat and MicroDesign Resources (MDR) merged in late 2000 to become In-Stat/MDR. The merger allowed us to integrate the unparalleled technical depth that goes into MDR's renowned Microprocessor Report, with In-Stat's comprehensive market analysis.

• Datamonitor Publications
  Datamonitor is a premium business information company helping 5000 of the world’s leading companies across the Automotive, Consumer Markets, Energy, Financial Services, Healthcare & Technology sectors.

• ElectroniCast Corp.
  ElectroniCast forecasts trends in communication networks and in the products and components used in those networks. ElectroniCast conducts studies and provides forecasts in the worldwide fiber optic/photonic, optoelectronic and network product industries. This includes technology forecasting, markets and applications forecasting, strategic planning, competitive analysis, and marketing/sales consultation. ElectroniCast, founded in 1981, as a technology-based independent forecasting firm, meets the information needs of communication industry planners and related suppliers. These studies are either multiclient or custom.

• eMarketer
  Gathers the latest research and news from over 1,000 sources and is a leading provider of internet and e-business statistics. Information is turned into intelligence using a unique methodology, and present the data from multiple sources, accompanied by eMarketer analysis, giving a fast, yet comprehensive, overview.

• Euromonitor International
  

• Freedonia Group
  The Freedonia Group is a leading international business research company, founded in 1985, that publishes more than 100 industry research studies annually. Our industry analysis provides an unbiased outlook and a reliable assessment of an industry and includes product and market forecasts, industry trends, threats and opportunities, competitive strategies, market share determinations and company profiles. More than 90% of the industrial companies in the Fortune 500 use Freedonia research to help with their strategic planning.

• Frost & Sullivan
  Since 1961, Frost & Sullivan has provided world-class market consulting on emerging high-technology and industrial markets. Frost & Sullivan pioneered market research, monitoring new technologies, tracking changes in distribution channels, forecasting market trends, and performing strategic analysis of competitors.

  Frost & Sullivan continues to provide participants with unique strategic content, competitive benchmarking, industry focus, and the opportunity to network with other key industry executives.

  Frost & Sullivan's eBroadcast Division eBroadcast Division will start delivering valuable, cutting-edge content to its executive clients through interactive forums on the internet, beginning July 2002. By combining the power and cost-efficiency of the Web with the impact of streaming audio and video, Frost & Sullivan's eBroadcasts are one hour topic-specific seminars that are both engaging and informative.

  In March 2001, Frost & Sullivan acquired Technical Insights (TI) adding a superior technology research capability to its suite of services. Technical Insights offers several technology subscription services as well as high-end technology analysis reports.

• Global Industry Analysts
  GIA is one of the largest publishers of off-the-shelf market research providing business intelligence and strategy support to companies worldwide. GIA ranks amongst the world’s most reputed market research firms, known for comprehensive coverage and reliability.

  GIA publishes the single largest and most diverse portfolio of multilingual market research content worldwide - 650,000+ pages of current research content covering 13,000+ topical areas and 27,000+ companies from 84 industries in 46 major geographic markets in the form of 8000+ research reports.

  GIA publishes several types of off-the-shelf research. Some of our popular reporting formats are Global Strategic Business Reports; Market Trend Reports; Brand Intelligence Reports; Private Company Profiles; Competitive Assessment Reports; IPO Evaluation Reports; M&A Impact Analysis Reports (Industry-Specific); and Investment Research Reports.

• Gobi International
  Gobi International is a fast expanding business information company based in London. We publish reports on markets for wire and cable, telecommunications, electronics, ferrous and nonferrous metals, industrial minerals, chemicals, plastics, building materials, electrical power equipment, energy and soft commodities (including foodstuffs).

  Our clients include governments, banks, management consultants, the leaders in the markets we study, their partners and clients. A high proportion of our business is repeat orders from existing clients. Typically, Gobi International research reports are longer and contain significantly more statistical information, tables and charts than alternative sources. Our business reports are long on facts and short on padding and opinion.

• Hitwise
  Hitwise - provides real-time competitive intelligence. Each day we track and report on thousands of websites, as visited by millions of surfers in each market we monitor. Because our sample size is so large, only Hitwise can provide you with insights about your immediate competitors.

  Many of our clients find that being the first to know what works - or doesn't work - in a specific online industry helps to maximize the effectiveness of their programs. Hitwise knowledge gives our clients the advantage in website and content development, online marketing, identifying alliance partners and maximizing performance with search engines. Our clients recognise that not having this knowledge wastes time and money.

  Hitwise offers competitive insights to clients in two ways - access to the Hitwise Competitive Intelligence Service and Hitwise Research Reports.

• IDC
  IDC is the world's leading provider of technology intelligence, industry analysis, market data, and strategic and tactical guidance to builders, providers, and users of information technology. Our management team is comprised of some of the most experienced and respected industry luminaries.

  IDC delivers dependable, high-impact insights and advice on the future of ebusiness, the Internet, and technology to help our clients make sound business decisions. We forecast worldwide markets and trends and analyze business strategies, technologies, and vendors, using a combination of rigorous primary research and in-depth competitive analysis. We provide global research with local content through more than 720 analysts in 43 countries worldwide. IDC's customers comprise the world's leading IT suppliers, IT organizations, ebusiness companies, and the financial community.

• International Interconnection Intelligence
  International Interconnection Intelligence (III or I3) is celebrating its 13th year of providing market research to the packaging, interconnection and thermal industries. The company is a partnership of Linda Jardine and David Francis. Both principals have more than 20 years of technical and market experience in the areas of packaging and interconnection, materials, processes and product development.

  Prior to forming III, Ms. Jardine was Manager of the Packaging and Interconnection Group at ElectroniCast Corporation and Executive Vice President And Manager Of Interconnection, Packaging And Materials at Gnostic Concepts. She has completed major reports on Leading Edge IC Packages, TAB, Surface Mount, PWB, Contract Assembly And Equipment.

  Mr. Francis has more than 20 years of package design and manufacturing experience. He has written and published extensively on packaging and surface mount. He provided technical support to Dataquest for four years. Mr. Francis has been Director Of Engineering And Operations for an IC packaging group, President and Chairman of Board and founder of Microelectronic Industries, a hybrid manufacturing company. He has more than 10 years of packaging experience in various capacities at Motorola.

  III provides the following services to the electronics industry: Multiclient studies of US and foreign markets on key technology trends and issues Consulting services including competitive analysis and benchmarking Custom market research in various packaging and interconnect technologies Patent research and analysis in packaging, interconnection and thermal areas

  Packaging and interconnection areas of expertise include: Flip chip and other advanced interconnect technologies including -- bump, bumpless, elastomeric, anisotropic(Z-axis), 3D, dendrite and many other technologies Multichip modules (MCM-H, -C, -C/D, -L, -L/D, -A and MCM-SP All types of IC packages-ceramic, plastic, microwave, power, BGA, CSP, BLP and WLP Thermal solutions for most electronic applications Patent research and analysis in packaging, interconnection and thermal areas

• MindBranch
  MindBranch provides a single objective source for market research across multiple industries and publishers. Use MindBranch.com to search and buy research publications. You can register now to receive targeted product recommendations, free whitepapers, and the MindBranch Monitor newsletter.

• Pyramid Research
  Founded in 1986, Pyramid provides international market analysis and consulting services to the global communications industry. Pyramid covers fixed, wireless, and Internet/media markets in more than 80 countries.

• Reuters Business Insight
  Reuters Business Insight is a joint venture between Reuters, the world's leading information and news group and Datamonitor, a leading international market research company renowned for providing independent market analysis.

  The object is to provide a single, off-the-shelf, objective source of data analysis and market insight.

  Focus is on these areas: consumer goods, energy, financial services, healthcare, technology telecoms, eCommerce, and human resources.

• STS Marketing Research
  STS Marketing Research provides market research for major commercial and defense corporations. These high-technology companies hire STS Marketing to accelerate business success in both new products and new markets.

  Founded in 1989, STS clients are larger, high-technology companies with sales of $100 million and over. STS research projects are split evenly among U.S. and international markets.

  Clients include a wide range of top organizations such as L-3 Communications, Motorola, Rockwell, Raytheon, Boeing, United Technologies, Lord Corporation, Kollmorgen, Ensign Bickford, Eaton, Lockheed, Kollsman, Goodrich, and many others.

  Markets of special concentration at STS include Aerospace and Defense, Public Safety, Transportation, Aircraft and Aviation, Medical Devices, Telecommunications, Energy and Utilities, Factory Automation, and Government Markets.

• TowerGroup
  Founded in 1993, TowerGroup is the leading research and advisory firm specializing in the impact and direction of technology within the financial services industry. TowerGroup does more than make recommendations; it gives its clients insight into the business of financial services so they understand the issues affecting their critical decisions. With solid research heritage and the proven practical experience of its consultants, TowerGroup empowers clients to make better-informed business decisions.

• Venture Development Corp
  VDC provide independent market assessment. It is an independent technology market research and consulting firm that has been in business for over 30 years. It has no equity stake in any of the companies participating in covered markets. Clients are provided with realistic, unbiased, fact-driven research, analysis and strategic advisory services.

  Focus areas include components and semiconductors, embedded systems industrial automation, power conversions & control, telecom & datacom.

• The Yankee Group
  The Yankee Group is a globally established leader in technology research and consulting services, covering communications, and IT products and services. Spanning numerous industries, the company provides strategic planning assistance, technology and market forecasting, and cross-industry analysis to support a wide range of clients on a worldwide basis with the development of their business, market, technology, and enterprise initiatives.

  Now in its fourth decade, the Yankee Group has built a worldwide reputation for its accurate, reliable, and trusted research of key technology issues and the industry's only personalized one-to-one approach for client interaction. These interactive, one-to-one client relationships help the Yankee Group to fully understand its clients core business and thereby assist in the advancement of their technology initiatives. The Yankee Group relies on its time-tested interactive research methodology, including the collective experiences and best practices of hundreds of client companies analyzed on a daily basis. This reliable, results-driven research helps clients understand their target customer, technology demand, and shifting market dynamics, thereby enabling them to shape successful business strategies. The Yankee Group’s research provides significant quantitative validation and support for its qualitative analysis.

Technology Centers

• Networking
  Just like professional organizations create memberships of like-minded individuals, so do technology organizations pull together companies with like-minded technology interests. This allows the member companies of each organization to more easily contact and collaborate with technologists in their areas of specialty.
• External Funding
  Sources of funding, for products or technology development, often look for bidders who utilize the capabilities of many companies (and universities) to meet the contract requirements. This ensures that the development will be available to many companies (all members of the technology center) and thus will have a higher impact on the entire MCM industry. Development efforts executed by an individual company are notorious for having minimal technology dispersion and for being directed towards the specific marketing goals of that company.
• Resource Multiplication
  Development of technology capabilities is often very expensive, well beyond the financial means of smaller companies or even well beyond the allocated resources of much larger companies. By banding together towards common goals, companies can gain access to technology results far in excess of what their limited resources could create. The down-side of being part of a coalition is the more limited control over the direction of the technology development - sometimes to the point that the results may not be easily integrated into the company or that the specific goals of the company are simply not reached.
• Market Share Protection
  With limited funding resources a company which does not participate in a group technology effort may find itself at a technology disadvantage to its competitors. Participation in the results of a multi-company technology development effort can raise a company above its competitors - those who did not participate in the technology effort.

There is considerable debate on the overall value of technology centers. While there are well-documented developments which have come as a result of such centers, those companies not involved in the centers typically continue developments on their own, often coming up with competing technologies. Perhaps the largest benefit is not the specific technologies that come from joint development efforts but rather the continued support and growth of a larger MCM community which provides MCM users with a more competitive environment (cost and technology).

• MCNC
  MCNC is a unique corporation that offers cost-effective access to advanced electronic and information technologies and services for businesses, for state and federal government agencies and for North Carolina's education communities to provide our clients with a competitive advantage.

  MCNC maintains advanced capabilities -- staff and facilities -- in emerging electronic and information technologies. Partnering with a variety of customers, MCNC uses its resources to develop and apply technologies with commercial value, to help businesses integrate the latest innovations into their products and to help build a competent work force.

  MCNC features two service centers for the state's universities. One runs a statewide network, providing Internet access, data sharing and videoconferencing. The second center features a variety of world-class, advanced supercomputing resources.

• International SEMATECH
  Originally created to reinvigorate the U.S. semiconductor industry, International SEMATECH has evolved into the world's premiere research consortium, recently entering into globalization with the formation of International SEMATECH from our original consortium, SEMATECH. Member companies cooperate precompetitively in key areas of semiconductor technology, sharing expenses and risk. Their common aim is to accelerate development of the advanced manufacturing technologies that will be needed to build tomorrow's most powerful semiconductors.

  International SEMATECH's leading-edge work encompasses essential areas of semiconductor science, including lithography, interconnect, front end processes, advanced technology, manufacturing methods, and environment, safety and health. International SEMATECH also provides important resources to the semiconductor industry, including coordinating global standards for 300 mm manufacturing; enhancing relationships between manufacturers and tool suppliers; and developing application-focused statistical training for the industry. Additionally, International SEMATECH and its people play active roles in the Austin community through career programs with local schools, scholarship contributions, and various development and charitable programs.

• Semiconductor Research Corporation
  SRC, based in Research Triangle Park, N.C., with an office in San Jose, Calif., operates globally to provide competitive advantage to its member companies as the world's premier university research management consortium delivering relevantly educated technical talent and early research results.

  SRC plans and manages a program of basic and applied university research on behalf of its participating members. Currently, SRC sponsors research at universities worldwide. Since it was established in 1982, SRC has funded more than $500 million in long-term semiconductor research contracts. To learn more, see:

  The SRC operates globally to provide competitive advantage to its members as the world's premier university research management consortium delivering relevantly educated technical talent and early research results.

  SRC's Mission is to deliver managed, innovative, semiconductor technology research responsive to members' needs and guided by the ITRS, focusing on universities