Primary Research and Competitive Research

PWR, (formerly Plant-wide Research) is perhaps best known for it’s origin in the primary research and competitive analysis arena. PWR continues to provide focused primary research on the technology and industrial sector and can provide focused research on a vendor or market trend, as well as be retained to follow the timely developments of selected vendors or trends for its clients on a regular basis. In either case, primary research and market trend awareness continues to be a key foundation service that all PWR clients can benefit from, either directly or indirectly.

PWR has been providing industry leading manufacturing business and technology research since 1988. The PWR research effort not only provides clients with regular, timely insight into market trends and critical analysis of industry news, it also serves as a foundation of knowledge for many of the consulting engagements. Our industry experience, as practitioners that have worked in both the end-user and vendor sides of the business, enables us to provide a highly grounded and realistic view of market trends and events. We believe that research should be communicated in as straightforward a manner as possible so that it can be easily understood in the context of a client’s business, with information that is actionable rather than research for the sake of research.

In addition to many standard research reports, PWR also offers custom research for targeted programs and projects, including the following example engagements:

• Competitive Analysis: Providing limited engagements with a “snapshot” analysis of a specific competitor(s) or retained engagements to track and report regularly on competitor movements and trends.
• Market Segment Analysis: Providing analysis on industry segment of vertical market trends and segment size and growth forecasts.
• Technology Analysis: Providing insight and analysis on specific technology directions and the impact they are having on the industry, as well as emerging technologies to watch.
• Business Process Analysis: Providing analyses on the latest best practices and processes that can help companies improve their profitability and maintain a competitive edge in their market.

PWR offers a variety of subscription-based research reports that provide weekly and monthly analysis of industry news and events, including:

Late Breaking News: The LBN is a free weekly research newsletter providing a summary of industry and vendor news along with critical insight into the impact the news events will likely have on the industry and the technology market. Click here to subscribe

The Expert Advisor: The Expert Advisor is a monthly subscription based report that focuses in on a specific high profile vendor in each issue, providing in-depth analysis of their recent accomplishments, financial results and their relative market positioning and impact on the market. Click here to subscribe

Plant-Wide Expert: The Plant-Wide Expert is a monthly subscription based report that takes a look at the most striking industry events, technology trends and vendor news over the past month and provides an in-depth, monthly analysis on these topics. Click here to subscribe

Annual Review & Forecast: The Annual Review and Forecast is a fee based, annual report that provides a review of the current state of the manufacturing and industrial sector market, including growth trends and results; and a comprehensive review of all vendors, big and small in every major market category, such as ERP, Supply Chain, MES, CRM, and PLM. Click here to order.