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Company HistoryPWR, formerly Plant-Wide Research, was founded by William (Bill) McSpadden in 1988, as an industrial sector spin-off from International Data Corporation (IDC). Although several analyst organizations such as Gartner, Dataquest, and IDC existed at the time, covering broad-ranging technology infrastructure trends such as: Hardware Platforms, Networking Architectures, Data Management Applications and Operating System Environments, a gap existed in the availability of adequate coverage of mission critical industrial business application solutions and practices for manufacturers and distributors. By 1990, PWR revenue reached $1 Million US, and in 1991 PWR introduced the first weekly market analysis and industrial sector weekly news report, called the Plant-Wide Late Breaking News report. This industry classic weekly news and market analysis report gained industry-wide recognition and readership of over 200,000 regular readers after the first year in print. PWR launched its industry flagship Annual Industry Review and Forecast report in 1992 and have since published 14 annual editions of the report. The Annual Review and Forecast was the first of its kind in the industrial sector, providing critical vendor and vertical market trends and growth projections which led to PWR’s 1998 prediction of the technology industry collapse at the end of Y2K. The Annual Review and Forecast also became the industry baseline for many well known industry publications seeking to publish vendor revenue and growth trends and became the basis for the annual Manufacturing Systems (Manufacturing Business Technology) Top 100 Software Company listing. In 1993, PWR introduced its Business to Business (B2B) Web Site called the "Intell Mall" based on a retail mall metaphor with 17 "stores". The Intell Mall reached over 100,000 industry professional visitors in 1996 and each year after. 2001 marked another major milestone, our entry into the management and business consulting industry. Today, the company is moving more heavily into business consulting, strategy, and program execution in response to the rapidly maturing technology market and our increasingly competitive global economy. PLANT-WIDE RESEARCH |