IT Research Service

The Technology Opportunity Report (TOR) is a custom research exercise which, based on the specifics of your business requirement, identifies potential technology ROI options for your organization.  

Consideration of Innovative Technology and Trends such as;

• data abstraction / master data management
• enterprise, web, service oriented architecture
• model driven development and enterprise mashups
• business process and rules management software
• semantic technology, including universal search
• Web 2 and SaaS applications
• commercial open source software
• leading industry standards
• governance, security and compliance

The report is suitable for organizations in one or more of the following situations;

• do not have the resource, or time, to extensively research the technology marketplace
• struggling to trawl through the complexity and quantity of technology information available
• experiencing issues with the current system and are unsure of strategic future options
• have identified a technology route forward but would like to ensure that they are not missing a better alternative
• reliant on a particular vendor and would like to check out other options from a 3rd party without a software sales agenda
• struggling to move away from operational and technical features to a strategic, business led ROI approach
• concerned about the costs of maintaining existing systems and curious about lower cost alternatives
• concerned about the delays in implementing technology changes to keep up with business changes
• concerned that the business is falling behind, relative to peers who are adopting innovative technology and approaches

Based on initial information provided by the client,  an experienced technology research consultant will use various internal and external resources to produce a custom report which includes the following;

1. Executive Summary
2. Case studies for comparable business domains
3. Case studies for comparable business requirements
4. Relevant analyst reports
5. Potential technology vendors
6. Relevant vendor white papers
7. Relevant links for further research
8. Suggested next steps to maximize ROI

 

Given the rapid change within the technology sector, much of the base report information will be sourced from a myriad of the latest credible public domain web sources, appropriately acknowledged and linked.  Relevant additional analyst report information will be identified, along with links to the full analyst reports should the client wish to purchase this further research from them. The 'top and tail' of the report will focus on how the technology opportunity relates to the clients specific situation, supplemented with initial and closing site visits for more elaborate research requirements.

The report is intended as a technology snapshot to highlight potential ROI opportunities for further investigation.

To conduct the research, the following steps are carried out in sequence;

• Client completes an online form to identify the business domain and requirement
• MaxTunity review the requirement to ensure that value can be added and request any clarifications from the client
• MaxTunity scope the research, report and quote for the effort involved
• Client accepts quote and provides purchase order if they wish to proceed
• MaxTunity conduct the research and deliver the PDF report with 14 days from order acceptance
• MaxTunity invoice client upon order for payment with 28 days from order

The cost of the report ranges from £1000 (€1320) for smaller desk based research requirements to £5000 (€6600) for more elaborate research requirements with initial and closing site visits. 

TOR offers clients the opportunity to save significant sums by;

• avoiding the purchase of expensive technology where superior, lower cost technology exists
• identifying innovative approaches to drive out inefficiencies and maximize effective knowledge transfer
• identifying tools which abstract technology complexity, enable rapid business change and reduce development timescales

Please contact us if you wish to consider purchasing the Technology Opportunity Report for your organization.

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