CIMI Corporation publishes both newsletters and special reports.  Both are produced and distributed only via Adobe Acrobat® using the latest version of the Reader software available from Adobe's website.  These publications are licensed based on controlled circulation targeting, meaning that we reserve the right to refuse to offer the material to companies outside our target markets, to competitors, to publishers of research or industry news, or where we believe intellectual property rights may not be properly protected.

The following special reports are now in production and will be released starting late in 2008:

• Surviving a Tech Market "Nuclear Winter", a network (and also IT) vendors' guide to how to sell in the tech market over the next three years and what to expect from your buyers.  This report covers both the service provider and enterprise space and will include information on market conditions, user attitudes, and other relevant factors.  Now available; Click Here for a table of contents and pricing information as a pdf file!  There is also a January 2009 update to this report with additional details and figures!
• Service Management: Trends and Opportunities, a comprehensive look at how the "network management" or OSS/BSS/NMS processes are changing in the new market environment, and how various standards including IPsphere and TMF align with these changes.   Now available; Click Here for a table of contents and pricing information as a pdf file!
• Total-Cost-of-Ownership Analysis, the first in-depth look at how cost of ownership is really calculated, what impacts it and by how much, and how TCO and ROI are related to technology choices.
• Technology Cycles and IT Spending, an analysis of the historical relationship between IT spending trends and GDP, showing that IT investment is really a decade-long cyclical process driven by technology and other factors and creating different market opportunities at various points in the cycle.  An in-depth analysis of how technology spending and economic trends are related.
• Technology Directions for Enterprise IT, the results of a survey of enterprise users into their key technical priorities, and an analysis of how these priorities will impact their strategic plans and future purchases.  Why enterprise customers buy, what they'll buy, and how to make your offerings relevant.
• Advertising and Online Services, an analysis of the advertising market and how it relates to the market for online advertising, focusing on how advertising and services will become increasingly symbiotic.  What can we really expect ads to sponsor, and how can we make it work?
• The Evolution of Voice Services, showing how public carrier voice will evolve from the present TDM-dominated model to a future P2P dominated model where revenue comes from features and not transport or connection.  From P2P to IMS, you have it all here!
• Telco and Online Video, explaining the opportunities, issues, and risks associated with all of the models of online video and telco video.  There are many possible telco/online video models, and each has significantly different sweet spots in an opportunity sense, and requirements in an infrastructure sense.

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We will be updating this page as these reports become available; contact us for suggestions on reports!