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About The Group
The 451 Group is an analysis firm covering the business of emerging information technologies for a senior executive audience. The firm delivers timely, research-based insight that delves deeply into the dynamics and impact of newly commercialized technologies in all major segments of the enterprise computing marketplace.
The analysts of The 451 Group are uniquely focused at the nexus of technology innovation, corporate strategy and financial/financing impact. The firm's coverage identifies and illuminates the critical issues in emerging markets, and it assesses the product, marketing and business strategies of key market participants. These participants are not only the global IT industry stalwarts and the scale sector leaders, but also emerging specialized players and unusually strong pure plays with an ability to significantly impact the broader marketplace or an important segment. The coverage of the Group's analyst team spans the hardware, software and services aspects of these markets, from the component to the systems level. This marketplace coverage is deepened in the area of acquisitions, investments and mergers through complementary investigation by the Group's weekly M&A analysis service, 451 TechDealmaker. Finally, 451 analysts always deliver briefs, reports and counsel on the leading edge of marketplace activity, which helps clients stay ahead of their competitors.
Clients of The 451 Group are primarily senior executives at technology vendor companies. The firm also serves public market, private equity and venture capital investors. Additional clients include investment banks, management consultancies, marketing communication/public relations firms and other professionals operating in and around emerging information technology markets. A growing number of innovative, early-adopter corporate IT strategists also use the Group's services to tap into future-forward technology trends.
The 451 Group is headquartered in New York, with staff in key regional locations, including San Francisco and Silicon Valley, the Boston/Route 128 area and London.
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Analysis services
451 Market Insight Service
On a daily basis, The 451 Group provides 7-10 new tactical market intelligence reports in four major sectors, delivered via a password-protected Web portal (accessed via the451.com).
The enterprise computing and IT sectors covered are:
451 TechDealmaker
This M&A analysis service, also delivered via a password-protected Web portal, serves both finance and corporate development professionals with weekly insight that helps them anticipate future deal activity within the emerging information technology markets covered by 451 analysts. The service includes comprehensive deal tracking, deal-flow metrics and forward-looking analysis that dissects the deal rationale for announced transactions and for what the Group believes are potential, future mergers and acquisition activity.
451 Special Reports
Delivered on a near-monthly basis to select clients via the Web portal or via hard copy, these lengthy reports cover emerging information technology markets and are often the first analysis-firm review of a new market space.
451 Strategic Counsel
Clients of The 451 Group have access to direct counsel from the analyst team through the firm's analyst inquiry program, which provides clients with the ability to get analyst insight on key initiatives and concepts as appropriate and based on their specific business or investment needs.
About the name
451 degrees Fahrenheit is the temperature at which paper burns. Ray Bradbury's 1953 novel 'Fahrenheit 451' describes a dystopia where information is censored through the destruction of books. In order to perpetuate freedom of thought, the protagonists take decisive action to subvert this process.
The 451 Group does not claim that the technology industry's information channels are dictated by an authoritarian regime; however, economic forces and market dynamics have combined to undermine the imperative for delivering compelling, timely and convergent analytic insights into the business of emerging information technologies.
We choose the name "451" because we see an analogy between a world that burns books and a world in which the imperatives of objective and insightful research are subverted to those of pay-for-play propaganda.
By applying skepticism, vigorous research and unrelenting scrutiny, 451 analysts are able to deliver to senior executives the independent and unique perspectives on emerging information technology markets that are necessary to make complex yet successful business and investment decisions.
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