Plant-wide Research - Poviding Advisory Services and Expertise in ERP, SCM, CRM, and PLM

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PLANT WIDE RESEARCH

IS A LEADING INDEPENDENT INDUSTRY

CONSULTING AND MARKET RESEARCH FIRM

Plant Wide Research (PWR) is a leading Advisory and Market Research firm engaged in tracking and trending the manufacturing mission critical applications software industry. We are also a Syndicated Content Provider to leading providers of on-demand, e-learning, and performance support solutions for global enterprises, government, education and small- to medium-size businesses.

As a Consulting & Advisory firm for manufacturers and software vendors. we offer our clients years of expertise gained from hands-on field experience.

As a support group for our sister company, PWR-Consulting and a partner with some of the finest consultation groups. We focus on supporting clients in the manufacturing systems sector. PWR also provides industry's leading publishers with concise contemporary reports.
Our content clients are market e-learning leaders such as SkillSoft , Books24x7, industry trade journals, and the public media.
Our published research reports are read by thousands of industry professionals around the world. These reports contain critical IT industry insight into news, events, mission critical applications software, and Enterprise financial and other data .
Our clients are premiere business and manufacturing industry leaders such as Nova Chemicals, Fairchild Semiconductor, IBM, Oracle, SAP, Agresso, Syspro, Infor, IFS, and more.

PWR IS HIGHLY RESPECTED IN THE MANUFACTURING

SOLUTIONS CONSULTING AND ADVISORY SERVICES

We have provided our clients with cost effective services for 20 years. We are the leading advisory firm to many leading manufacturing enterprises. Our focus is on enterprise level mission critical applications technology research and consulting services to the manufacturing and vendor communities.

PWR HAS HELPED MANUFACTURING CLIENTS DEVELOP

COST EFFECTIVE IT PROGRAMS

Formed in 1988, PWR not only provides our clients with regular, timely insight into market trends and critical analysis of industry news. We also serve as a knowledge base for many consulting engagements. We are hands-on practitioners who have worked in both the end-user and vendor communities.

PWR believes that research should be communicated in a straight forward manner so that it can be easily understood in the context of a client’s business, with information that is actionable.

WE HAVE HELPED VENDOR CLIENTS PUT TOGETHER

SUCCESSFUL "GO TO MARKET PROGRAMS."

In addition to our research reports, read by thousands of industry professionals, PWR offers custom research for client programs and special projects, including the following examples:

Competitive Analysis: Providing customers 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.

RESULTS BASED SALES & MARKETING ACCELERATION SERVICE
THIS IS OUR PREMIER SUPPORT SERVICE FOR VENDORS. These are difficult economic times. Vendors need all the help they can get. We leverage our state of the art call and opportunity engines, our proven sales methodology, and our experienced team of industry professionals to support your revenue targets!. We focus on sales acceleration services providing a new focus on helping technology companies grow market share primarily in the U.S. and Canadian markets. We help our clients gain new customers grow revenues in the most cost effective way.
Doing Business in the unique and expandig market requires conducting focused research, indepth conversations based on a position of knowledge and hands on exerience. The Results Based Sales Support team members have been providing quality sales execution over 15 years. It is our mission to be the premier provider of   market intelligence, sales strategy, and leveraging our exertese. This methodology enables us to provide the most efficient market identification, lead generation stragesy and rospect qualification programs designed to generate a higher return on investment (ROI) to close ratio with our customers! We also offer sales representation services to manage the final stages of the sales cycle leading to contract and opportunity closure.
We believe the best way to achieve this goal is to offer professional sales execution and provide the highest market intelligence by leveraging our technology, methodology and people.
FOCUSED CONSULTING

Plant-Wide's business, technology, and market consulting services complement our mission critical enterprise-level Research and Analysis Services (RAS) group. The consulting group addresses the issues and challenges you face in the areas of:
Enterprise software solutions selection.
Application implementation education, project team support, and pilot execution.
Technology research and innovation analysis
Customer Relationship Management
Supply Chain Management initiatives
Information systems programs
Lead generation programs
Alliance programs
Venture capital programs
e-Business and e-Manufacturing support
SUPPORT FOR CONSULTANTS AND RESEARCHERS
Plant-Wide maintains a speialized service designed to support consultants and researchers who do not have a mission critical software practice or who need supplemental resources for IT projects including such areas as:
Product Selection
Implementation
Software and Vendor due diligence
Establishing an IT practice
Project Leadership
Education
Plant-Wide also provides supplemental IT consulting, executive education, sales training and other consulting services to the mission critical software vendor community in such areas as:
Market Risk Analysis
Product Reviews
Trend Analysis
Customized Projects
PLANT-WIDE CONSULTING RATES
PER DIEM - Plant-Wide has a scaled rate structure* on a per diem basis:
Note: Travel and out-of-pocket expenses are billed at cost - minimum rate is ½ day
RETAINER - Retainer fees are quoted by request only
NEED MORE INFORMATION? Contact our consultants at info@pwr-consulting.com or call us directly at 860-319-9972 and tell the receptionist why you are calling so that she may direct you to the right party.

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We are proud members of the following organization:

IMTI (the Integrated Manufacturing Technology Initiative)

PWR's founder, Bill McSpadden is a Board Member of IMTI - IMTI was launched in January 2000 to bring together industry, academic, and government partners to support and strengthen the nation’s manufacturing community. IMTI is a powerful public/private partnership that includes five federal agencies as well as leading companies including Rockwell Collins and Procter & Gamble. Through R&D and strategic collaboration, IMTI members are defining the future of manufacturing technology and manufacturing enterprises.

Books24x7

Books24x7 is a leading SaaS provider of on-demand e-learning and analyst research services. It is a subsidiary of SkillSoft, serving 3000 organizations and 10 million users worldwide.

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