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Welcome to the m2mpremier.com Analyst Firm Guide. This section features profiles of
every research analyst firm covering machine-to-machine technology, breaks down
what services they offer, and breaks down what reports and briefs they’ve published.
To begin, please select the name of one of the analyst firms below.
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PROFILES |
| | | Aberdeen Group | | www.aberdeen.com | | Aberdeen is a research-centric analyst firm with a manufacturing background that began covering M2M in 2004. Within M2M, the firm’s focus is strictly on RPS (remote-product service) for manufacturers, and for a time, it held the lead in that space over chief competitor Harbor Research. While Aberdeen’s focus on M2M has waned since the 2007 departure of its three lead analysts, it still issues weekly Service Chain Advisor email newsletters, conducts frequent benchmark surveys, and hosts an annual Chief Service Officer Summit (www.chiefserviceofficer.com). | | | | | ABI Research | | www.abiresearch.com | | ABI Research has climbed to the upper echelon of firms covering M2M, thanks largely to the recent emergence of senior analyst Sam Lucero as one of the best in the business. ABI’s M2M Research Service covers cellular markets, sensor networking, home automation, building control, smart metering, and telematics. Its research reports are issued approximately every 2-3 months with intermittent briefs and insights published as well. Along with Gartner’s figures, ABI’s annual cellular-module marketshare data is the most widely accepted in the industry. | | | | | AMR Research | | www.amrresearch.com | | Founded in 1986, AMR Research provides subscription advisory services and peer networking opportunities to operations and IT executives in the consumer products, life sciences, manufacturing, and retail sectors. The company’s M2M coverage is mainly focused on RFID (radio frequency identification) and other supply-chain and service-based applications. | | | | | ARC Advisory Group | | www.arcweb.com | | ARC is an research and consulting firm for the manufacturing industry, focused mainly on supply-chain and plant-floor technology. Its coverage of M2M is informal and somewhat infrequent, yet still ranks among the industry’s most insightful. ARC’s research focus overlaps with machine-to-machine technology in two key areas: industrial remote monitoring (specifically SCADA) and sensor networking. While the firm doesn’t have a research track dedicated to the space, senior analyst Harry Forbes’ coverage of sensor networking is among the best available. | | | | | Axendia | | axendia.com/ | | Axendia provides independent research, analysis and strategic advise focused on the Life-Sciences and Healthcare markets. | | | | | Beecham Research | | www.beechamresearch.com | | Beecham Research focuses on the growing M2M (machine-to-machine) market. M2M is also referred to by the terms: embedded networking, embedded connectivity, remote device monitoring, remote device management, Pervasive Internet. Beecham Research tracks a wide range of applications across nine key sectors. Beecham Research also monitors the use of all major communication technologies for use in M2M, including fixed technologies like Ethernet, power line communications (PLC), broadband (DSL), cable, and wireless technologies like cellular (GSM, SMS, GPRS, CDMA, HSDPA, EVDO), WLAN (WiFi), WiMAX, Bluetooth, ZigBee, and RFID. | | | | | Berg Insight | | www.berginsight.com | | The two-man team of Johan Fagerberg and Tobias Ryberg have turned Berg Insight into one of the leading M2M analyst firms in Europe. Berg has around two-dozen reports in its library, almost half of which are on M2M and M2M-related subjects. While it’s best known for its coverage of the European market, Berg has also covered North America and often takes a global focus in its vertical application reports. In June 2006, Berg Insight launched an online media site, LBS Insight (www.lbsinsight.com) for location-based services technology. | | | | | DisplaySearch | | www.displaysearch.com | | Since 1996, DisplaySearch has been recognized as a leading global market research and consulting firm specializing in the display supply chain, as well as the emerging photovoltaic/solar cell industries. DisplaySearch provides trend information, forecasts and analyses developed by a global team of experienced analysts with extensive industry knowledge and resources. In collaboration with the NPD Group, its parent company, DisplaySearch uniquely offers a true end-to-end view of the display supply chain from materials and components to shipments of electronic devices with displays to sales of major consumer and commercial channels. | | | | | Forrester Research | | www.forrester.com | | After a long hiatus, Forrester Research appears to be back again covering M2M—or as the firm calls it, the “X (Extended) Internet”. Forrester first introduced that term in 2000 and organized X Internet Strategy Forums in 2001 and 2003 for senior-level executives. In 2004, the firm aggressively promoted its research in the space, released a slew of reports and briefs, and even launched a dedicated website. In the three years since, the website has come down, the reports have slowed, and its analysts have moved on to other subjects. Today, Forrester’s lead analyst covering M2M is Roy Wildeman, whose last report on the subject was released in July 2007. | | | | | Frost & Sullivan | | www.frost.com | | Frost & Sullivan's 1800 analysts, consultants and visionaries cover more than 300 markets and 250,000 companies from our 35+ global offices helping our clients accelerate growth and develop best practice levels in growth, innovation and leadership. | | | | | Gartner | | www.gartner.com | | Gartner’s on-again, off-again coverage of M2M appears to be on again in a big way, with machine-to-machine technology referenced or covered in more than a dozen reports in 2007. Gartner, which is the world’s largest IT research firm, has two leads in M2M: Dan Miklovic, research vice president, and the penta-lingual Leif-Olof Wallin, who authored Gartner’s in-depth study of the M2M cellular module market in 2007. The firm doesn’t have a dedicated research track, but a search for M2M on its website turns up all of its coverage of the space for the last two-plus years. | | | | | GTM Research | | www.gtmresearch.com/ | | GTM Research, a Greentech Media company, provides critical and timely market analysis in the form of concise and long-form market research reports, monthly newsletters and strategic consulting services. GTM Research’s analysis also underpins its webinars and live events. Its analyst team combines diverse backgrounds in the energy, environmental, emerging technology, investment banking, information technology and strategic consulting sectors. Complementing decades of real world experience, the staff holds advanced degrees in finance, engineering, public policy, law and environmental management. GTM Research is situated in the major global markets for greentech innovation worldwide, with offices in San Francisco, Boston, New York and Germany. | | | | | Harbor Research | | www.harborresearch.com | | Founded in 1983, Harbor Research, Inc. has more than twenty years of experience in providing strategic consulting and research services that enable our clients to understand and capitalize on emergent and disruptive opportunities in high technology. In our history, the firm has provided guidance to a wide range of technology suppliers and adopters through major market discontinuities driven by emergent technologies. | | | | | Heavy Reading Mobile Networks Insider | | www.heavyreading.com/mobile-networks/ | | Heavy Reading's Insider research services deliver independent, unbiased intelligence on the technologies and business trends that are shaping the future of telecommunications and enterprise data networking. | | | | | IDATE | | www.idate.org | | IDATE's consultants and analysts conduct a wide range of studies and consultancy missions on behalf of our clients. Multi-disciplinary teams of economists and engineers excel at analyzing the professional and strategic impacts of markets developments, regulations, and technologies. | | | | | IDC (International Data Corp.) | | www.idc.com | | IDC is a global provider of market intelligence, advisory services, and events for the information technology, telecommunications, and consumer technology markets. IDC helps IT professionals, business executives, and the investment community make fact-based decisions on technology purchases and business strategy. Analysts provide global, regional, and local expertise on technology and industry opportunities and trends worldwide. | | | | | IDTech EX | | www.idtechex.com | | IDTechEx is a knowledge-based consulting company providing research and analysis on RFID, printed and organic electronics, and smart packaging. | | | | | IMS Research | | www.imsresearch.com | | IMS Research’s initial success as a provider of market research was heavily influenced by its close ties to the semiconductor industry. Over the last ten years, however, the company has broadened its focus and now provides detailed information on a wide range of electronic markets, such as wireless communications, automotive, consumer, power, factory automation and security. | | | | | Informa Telecoms & Media | | www.informatm.com/itmgcontent/icoms/index.html | | Informa Telecoms & Media delivers strategic insight founded on global market data and primary research. The firm works in partnership with our clients, informing their decision-making with practical services supported by analysts. Informa's aim is to be accessible, responsive and connected, both to the markets it serves and to it's clients’ business goals. | | | | | InfoTrends | | www.infotrends.com | | InfoTrends is a leading worldwide market research and strategic consulting firm for the digital imaging and document solutions industry. InfoTrends provides research, analysis, forecasts, and advice to help clients understand market trends, identify opportunities, and develop strategies to grow their businesses. | | | | | In-Stat | | www.instat.com | | In-Stat’s market intelligence combines technical, market and end-user research and database models to analyze the Mobile Internet and Digital Entertainment ecosystems. In-Stat provides its research through reports, annual subscriptions, consulting and advisory services to inform critical decisions. Technology and semiconductor vendors, infrastructure and device manufacturers, service providers and media companies worldwide rely on partnerships with In-Stat’s staff and on the in-depth market intelligence to support critical business, product and technology decisions. | | | | | iSuppli | | www.isuppli.com | | iSuppli Corp. helps clients improve performance in the electronics value chain by providing them with the facts, analysis, and advice they require to know precisely how to succeed. iSuppli's team of industry veterans monitor the status of the electronics value chain, and continuously update a score of self-consistent databases that track industry performance. Services afforded by iSuppli range from electronic component research to device-specific application market forecasts, from teardown analysis to consumer electronics and from display device and systems research to automotive markets. | | | | | Juniper Research | | www.juniperresearch.com/ | | Juniper Research is a telecoms analyst firm specialising in the mobile and wireless sector with particular emphasis on business models, applications, content and device strategies. Juniper Research provides market expertise and advice to organisations operating across the telecoms and related sectors. The firm publishes regular off-the-shelf research reports and provide business modelling, market sizing, forecasting and competitive analysis to consultancy clients across the world. | | | | | Manufacturing Insights | | www.manufacturing-insights.com | | Manufacturing Insights is based in Framingham, MA and operates throughout the world utilizing IDC's network of global facilities. Our focus is to provide strategic business technology and application advice for the manufacturing industry. IDC is the foremost global market intelligence and advisory firm with more than 900 analysts spanning over 90 countries. IDC forecasts worldwide markets and trends to deliver dependable service and client advice. IDC is a subsidiary of IDG, the world's leading IT media, research, and exposition company. | | | | | Mind Commerce | | www.mindcommerce.com/ | | The Mind Commerce mission is to provide customized research, consulting, training, and writing services for the telecommunications and IT industry within our areas of expertise. Mind Commerce clients include manufacturers, developers, service providers, industry organizations, and government. Mind Commerce partners include various leading firms in the telecommunications industry. Mind Commerce differentiates itself from its competition by meeting the unique needs of its clients through customized product development and service delivery. | | | | | NanoMarkets | | www.nanomarkets.net/ | | NanoMarkets is a leading provider of market and technology research and industry analysis services for the energy, advanced materials and devices businesses. Since the firm’s founding, NanoMarkets has published over four dozen comprehensive research reports on emerging technology markets. Topics covered have included smart grids, sensors, displays, OLEDs, HB-LEDs, e-paper, RFID, photovoltaics, smart packaging, novel battery technologies, printed electronics, organic electronics, emerging memory and storage technologies and other promising technologies. | | | | | NextGen | | www.nextgenresearch.com/index.jsp | | NextGen Research is a research firm dedicated to understanding the potential of new technologies, forecasting and quantifying near and mid-term market opportunities, and assessing the strengths and weaknesses of the players involved. | | | | | NPD Group | | www.npd.com/ | | The NPD Group, founded in 1967, is the leading global provider of consumer and retail market research information for a wide range of industries. We provide critical consumer behavior and point-of-sale (POS) information and industry expertise across multiple industries. NPD market research products and services are available for the following industry sectors: Automotive, Beauty, Commercial Technology, Consumer Technology, Entertainment, Fashion, Food & Beverage, Foodservice, Home, Office Supplies, Software, Sports, Toys, and Wireless. | | | | | ON World | | onworld.com/ | | ON World is a research firm focused specifically on emerging wireless markets. | | | | | Parks Associates | | www.parksassociates.com/ | | Parks Associates is a market research and consulting firm focused on all product and service segments that are "digital" or provide connectivity within the home. The firm study home networks, digital entertainment, consumer electronics, broadband and Internet services, wireless connectivity, and home systems. | | | | | Pike Research | | www.pikeresearch.com/ | | Pike Research's Smart Energy practice focuses on new technology and business models that are driving innovation in renewable energy, energy storage, and the smart grid, both on the utility scale and on a distributed basis. Research coverage includes the hardware, software, and systems required to deploy Smart Energy technologies, along with an examination of demand drivers, business issues, and regulatory/policy issues associated with their adoption. | | | | | Smart Grid Analysis | | www.smartgridanalysis.com | | The mission of Smart Grid Analysis is to provide comprehensive and actionable industry analysis of the emerging Smart Grid market that clients can leverage to meet their business and technology objectives. The data is available in market research reports, white papers and consulting engagements or through one-on-one engagements with the firm's analysts. | | | | | Strategy Analytics | | www.strategyanalytics.com/ | | Strategy Analystics conducts a wide variety of technology research. They have a wireless communications group, as well as several analysts well-versed in M2M technology. | | | | | Yankee Group | | www.yankeegroup.com | | As an independent technology research and consulting firm, Yankee Group is a source of insight and counsel on the impact of global connectivity revolution on enterprises and consumers. Its coverage includes the technologies creating communications change and the regions and industries affected by that transformation. | | | |
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