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SAMPLE RESEARCH PROJECTS

Given below is a short list of selected projects that we have recently undertaken for various clients. Projects of a very sensitive nature have not been included. The list below is not intended to be comprehensive but only to provide a quick overview of our capabilities.

 

Hands-on Product Evaluations, Benchmarking & White Papers

  • Conducted a hands-on evaluation of Open Source Vs Commercial ERP/CRM packages

  • Conducted a competitive analysis of RSS feed servers

  • Evaluated competing SOA middleware offerings

  • Evaluated competing mobile application development & deployment tool sets for a large company.

  • Developed a white paper for a major software vendor on the company’s e-Forms solution offering

  • Developed a white paper for a major software vendor on the company’s Portal solution offering

  • Compared the developer productivity of building an identical business process application with BPM software and a traditional Java Development Environment for a major software vendor. Published white paper.

  • Evaluated the relative strengths and weaknesses of several competing Java development environments for a major Fortune 500 company.

  • Evaluated the relative strengths and weaknesses of J2EE and Oracle database performance management tools for a large corporation.

  • Evaluated competing Application Servers for developing product road map and product positioning for a large software vendor.

  • Evaluated competing offerings of Integration Servers for a Fortune 500 corporation.

  • Evaluated the combined development and deployment environments of two leading software vendors for a Fortune 1000 company.

  • Performed benchmarking tests of two major Java development environments for a major software vendor. Published white paper.

  • Performed benchmarking tests on competing debuggers using Pendragon Software CaffeineMark for a large software vendor. Published white paper.

  • Developed a large software application using Microsoft technologies for capturing Business Requirements in any solution domain and matching the results with vendor offerings for an enterprise software company.


Business Strategy Development & Market Research

  • Helped the Vice-President and head of hi-tech SBU of a large packaged software applications manufacturer in the formulation of a business strategy for the mid-market. Identified issues responsible for low penetration of the company’s solutions and formulated alternative strategies that the company could implement in the short and long term. The project involved interviewing customers of the company and the competition, interviewing senior executives, estimating market opportunity and most importantly providing clarity to the issues and the damage being caused by not addressing them.

  • Helped the Executive Vice President of a major Fortune 500 software company to revise the strategic direction of the company's Enterprise Server Division. Project involved numerous customer interviews at CIO level, interviews of senior management and extensive review of confidential internal documents to determine: (a) Strategic Issues; (b) Operational Issues; (c) Market Segmentation & Partner Development; (d) Generating Alternative Solutions to the issues and defining a Strategic Direction for the company.

  • Identified new business opportunities for a medium sized software firm in the architectural/database/language conversion tools and services market. Project involved evaluating the potential of these markets including market analysis, sizing and forecasts, partner analysis and development.

  • Strategic analysis, market sizing and forecasts of the e-business platform market for a major software vendor.

  • Strategic analysis, market sizing and forecasts of Internet and Intranet software Markets.

  • Conducted a large phone survey of 300+ phone interviews of CIO's, VP's & IT Directors to determine the major issues and trends in the EAI and Enterprise Portal Markets.

  • Conducted a large phone survey of 300+ phone interviews of CIO's, VP's, IT Directors and Software Developers to determine the issues and trends in the Web & Java application development Markets.

  • Conducted a large mail survey for a Fortune 200 computer company to evaluate competing technologies for component based software development.

  • Conducted numerous studies and phone surveys for multiple clients on Software Development Markets in USA, Europe and Japan.

  • Developed a go-to market strategy for a major PC vendor.

To learn more, please send an e-mail to jay@strategicfocus.com.