Technologies & Markets

Today, the Internet economy is overshadowed and merging with an even bigger, more dynamic phenomenon: the wireless economy. Enterprises sense the growing need to support mobile customers and employees with relevant information services based on their locations. SI focuses on the key technologies that enable the mobile/wireless enterprise:

Mobile software and applications
Portable hardware and hand-held devices
Wireless integrated communications
Location-aware and geospatial technologies
Internet/Intranet-based networks

We apply these technologies to solve real business problems--not just technology for its own sake. Currently, we focus primarily on two primarily enterprise applications:

Field Force Automation. If an enterprise has people working in the field, field force automation offers the best opportunity to improve performance with measurable results.

Location-Aware Services. The biggest advance in wireless communications in the next decade will not be third-generation (3G) high-bandwidth networks, but the ability to add location intelligence to the network and provide personalized services based on people's locations. And the enterprises will be the first to deploy and benefit from these services.

Sharper Insight is different from other research companies. We focus on the intricacies of the market, not just the big picture. We recognize that most companies do not buy or sell in the global or national market- so we focus our attention on market subsets.

SI drills deeper, studying the impact on specific vertical industries and niche markets, discovering the dynamics of specific submarkets to provide the kind of detailed market insights upon which to build a winning mobile/wireless strategy. Our expertise focuses in on these industries:

Energy
Telecommunications
Cable/Broadband

To these industries, SI brings the intelligence focus-research, analysis and decision support-for successful IT development. We provide the context within which executives, and project managers can make the right decisions about which systems to choose; how those systems will affect your business processes; and how decisions made today can strengthen your company in the future.