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Academic Information Systems Research Centers
Governmental Information Systems Research CentersArmy High Performance Computing Research Center
Army Corps of Engineers Waterways Experiment Station High Performance Computing Center, Wicksburg, Mississippi
Information
Technology Office, Defence
Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
Excellent Web site with information about the many IT-related
projects that are run under DARPA's (the original Internet sponsor)
auspices.
Information Analysis Centers, Defence Technical Information Center (DTIC), Department of Defense
Information Technology Division of the Naval Research Laboratory, Office of Naval Research
HPCC Agency
and Activity Servers, National
Coordination Office for High Performance Computing and Communications,
Arlington, Virginia
Provides links to many HPCC related centers
National
Institute for
Standards & Technology
Provides listing of publications for sale, links to
various research projects, and some online standard conformance testing
services
Center
for Technology
in Government, University at Albany, State University of New
York,
Albany, New York
"... pursues new ways of applying computing and
communications technologies to the practical problems of information
management and service delivery in the public sector."
Commercial Information Systems Research CentersNorut
Information
Technology Ltd., The NORUT Group
Ltd,
Tromsø
Telenor Research and
Development, Telenor
Norway's largest telephone operator.
Swedish Center for Systems
Development, Kista (Stockholm)
Industrial research center with systems development
and business process redesign projects. Has page with description of
research projects.
Institute for
Media Technology, Stockholm
Technology research institute owned by the graphics
industry. Most of the Web site is in Swedish.
Electronic
Commerce Association, London
Membership organization for companies and
consultants in electronic commerce.
National Computing Centre, Manchester
Ovum,
London
Market research on IT and IS technology, primarily
delivered through comprehensive reports.
UNICOM, Uxbridge
Holds seminars (overview on Web) on advanced
information technology issues.
Xephon,
Newbury, Berkshire
Research and information on IBM enterprise systems.
American Society for
Industrial Security, Washington, D.C.
Membership organization not specifically concered
with IT, but increasingly focusing on information systems security.
AMR Research, Boston,
MA
Market research in "enterprise applications and
related trends and technologies."
AT&T Labs, AT&T, Murray Hill, New Jersey
Computer
Economics, Inc., Carlsbad, California
Financial IT market research service, focused on
equipment prices and financing terms
CSC
Research Services, Computer
Science
Corporation, Cambridge, Massachusetts
I/S and business strategy meeting and research
subscription services. Large library
of research, accessible to subcribers only.
The Concours Group,
Kinwood, Texas; Cambridge, Massachusetts; and various European offices
Meeting and research subscription service with
Executive, CIO, and Human Resources perspective. Some perspective
papers on site. Best practices and participative research under
the Re.sults
program. Various education
programs and a consulting practice.
Corporate Research, Compaq Corporation (now HP)
EDVenture
Holdings, New York, New York
Publishes the widely read monthly newsletter Release
1.0., and arranges the PC Forum,
annual very informal meeting of movers and shakers in IT and media. Not
a research center in a strict sense, but included because of its
industry influence. Nice layout of Web site, contains a few sample
issues of Release 1.0.
Faulkner
Information Services, Pennsauken, New Jersey
IT information service, sells publications on line
Forrester
Research, Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts
"Analyzes emerging technologies and IT impact on
Global 2,000 companies, consumers and society." Rather slow
Website with
lots of cookies, no reports without filling out a (longish) form.
Frost &
Sullivan, Mountain View, California
"Market research and consulting services." Rather
broad in scope--high-tech in general rather than just IS.
Gartner
Group, Inc., Stamford, Connecticut
"IT advisory and market research services." Largest
of the commercial IT advisory companies with more than 550 analysts
worldwide.Many subsidiaries, among them:
Dataquest,
San Jose, California
"IT market research service"
Global Business
Network, San Francisco, California
Small but highly connected company doing futuristic
research. Famous for pioneering scenario analysis. Excellent and very
eclectic
selection in their Book
Club, run by Stewart Brand.
C4Lab,
Gemini Consulting,
Cambridge, Massachusetts
"Gemini's strategic research group, a think tank
focused exclusively on the 'converging' industries of computers,
communications,
consumer electronics, and content (C4)." Content rather thin, but has a
glossary
of information technology terms.
Hurwitz
Group, Newton, Massachusetts
Small consulting/research company focused on
client-server and distributed technologies. Content-free web site.
Research
Division, IBM Corporation
IBM's Research
Division home page is very updated, content-rich and graphically
pleasing with a magazine-like format. The individual research center
pages contain visitor information only, no research content, except Zürich). When looking for
research material, use IBM's
general search facility.)
Input,
California
Market research on IT, geared towards government
use.
Insight
Research
Corporation, Parsippany, New Jersey
Market research and strategic analysis for
telecommunications
industry.
International
Data Corporation (IDC), Framingham, Massachusetts
Market research in all aspects of information
technology, emphasis on software and applications.
Intelliquest,
Austin, Texas
Market research with a focus on high tech, geared
towards computer industry. Very slow loading site--lots of gratuitous
graphics.
Jupiter Research, New York
& London
Focused on ECommerce and "consumer interactivity".
Site
requires registration.
Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies
META Group,
Stamford, Connecticut
IT market assessment and consulting to large
end-user organizations and technology vendors, growing rapidly, geared
to CIOs and below.
Microelectronics
and
Computer Technology Corporation (MCC), Austin, Texas
Sponsored by many organizations,
most known for Doug Lenat's CYC project. Site shutting down, as
projects
are spun out.
Microsoft
Research, Microsoft
Corporation, Redmond, Washington
Content-rich site.
Advanced Research Group, The Open Group, Cambridge, Massachusetts
The
Research Board
Membership group for CIOs of large companies.
Content-free
web-page.
Patricia
Seybold Group, Boston, Massachusetts
Choice between graphical and text-only home page,
sells research reports about various aspects of computing on-line.
Software Patent
Institute,
Michigan
Interest group focused on how software patents
should be set up. Articles and a newsletter that can be downloaded.
Software Product
Expertise (SPEX),
Reston, Virginia
Provides software package evaluations, reports can
be downloaded after paying. Comprehensive and well organized web
site.
Software
Productivity Consortium, Herndon, Virginia
". . . established [..] in 1985 to develop
processes, methods, tools, and services that improve the design and
implementation
of high-quality, software-intensive systems." Membership organization
doing
research and technology transfer.
Software
Productivity Research, Burlington, Massachusetts
Small consulting/research company, led by Capers
Jones, focused on programming languages and systems complexity
measurement. Informative web site.
Research Division,
Software Publishers Association,
Washington,
D.C.
Used to have Information on sales of software, by
month.
Now largely content-free.
SRI,
Menlo Park, California
Formerly Stanford Research Institute. Home of Peter Neumann.
World
Information Technologies, Inc.
Market research into electrical and electronic
components and equipment.
PARC (Palo Alto Research Center), Xerox Corporation, California
The
Yankee Group, Boston, Massachusetts
"[...] market research on communications and
computing technologies to vendors and users."
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