List of technology analysts
Below are a list of companies providing specialist reports and analysis for different technology markets. These companies may have the report you are looking for, or provide the data you want for free in their press releases.
The brief description of what the company does is based on our assessment of the what we found when we reviewed the sites.
We'd also encourage you to read our notes about what to expect and look for from off-the-shelf market reports as the quality and standard of reports can be weak at times (even among our recommended companies). We do not make any endorsement for quality of any of the sites or their information.
Other sources of information on this site include lists of electronic magazines, and lists of mailing list providers. Some of this information may be out of date by the time you read it as analyst houses appear and disappear relatively frequently (list last checked 2011).
Specialist technology analyst houses
- Aberdeen.com - IT - More technical than stats
- Adv-forecast.com - Chip supplies
- Alliedworld.com -wireless and broadband
- Amrresearch.com - Manufacturing
- Arcweb.com - Industrial automation
- Bloor.com - IT - Related to “The Register” magazine
- Ce.org - Home automation
- Clinica - medical devices
- ComputerEconomics.com - Internet and e-commerce
- CorporateInformation.com - Corporate Information.
Good worldwide set of links to corporate information, lists and financial data - Daratech.com - CAD/CAM
- Datamonitor.com - Good vertical market stats
- Dataquest.com - IT
Good background and market share stats, mainly PC based - Displaysearch.com - LCD displays
- Decision resources - Health and pharmaceuticals
- Forrester.com - IT - more technical than stats
- Frost.com - Frost & Sullivan – broad technology markets (eg ATMs, EPOS, Kiosks)
Useful for data on electronics markets. Often only source - Gartner.com - IT
Very big and extensive collection. Parent of Dataquest (above) - Globalsources.com - Electronic Components suppliers
- Healthcaremarkets.com - Healthcare
- IDC.com - IT
Main source of market share stats in IT markets - Imsglobal.com - Pharmacology
- Imsresearch.com - Electronics
- Informit.com -software
- Infotrends-rgi.com - Imaging devices
- Insightresearch.com - Internet
- Instat.com - Cahners In-Stat Group - Electronics
Large source of information on electronic components and semi-conductor markets - Biosphere/Instrumenta.com -health and lab equipment
- Intelliquest.com - Internet
- Jisa.or.jp - Couple of reports on Japanese IT market
- Keynote.com - General marketing stats (UK)
- Lexis-nexis.com - financial reports
- MetaGroup.com - IT - e-commerce & internet
- Mintel.co.uk - General consumer research (UK)
Produce large quantity of reports based on end-consumer studies with good quality data - Ovum.com - Mainly UK focused PC stats
- Medicine regulatory affairs
- RealityResearch.com - IT - linked to CRN (Computer Reseller News)
- Rer.co.uk - Electronics - Reed Electronics Research
- Ronin.com - Internet use
- Screendigest.com - Cinema/media
- Prescription medicines
- Sematech.org - Semiconductors
- Semico.com - Semiconductors & display market
- Stanfordresources.com - Displays
- StrategyAnalytics.com - IT devices (was BIS research)
- Yankee.com - IT - e-commerce & internet
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