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Sage
Panel Reaches 10,000 Members
Thanks to accelerated recruiting efforts,
the Sage
Panels have
reached a new milestone10,000 members combined,
in the Enterprise and Service Provider Panels.
In operation since 1999, the Sage Panels consist of pre-screened,
highly qualified professionals who evaluate, use, and
purchase IT and networking products and services. Sage
often uses the Panels in recruiting participants for our
research projects, reducing your project costs through
rapid response times and high response rates. The Sage
Panels have been the exclusive sample source for more
than 50 client projects.
Contact us (email: [email protected])
and find out today how you can use the Sage Panels to
fulfill your market research needs
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 Sage’s
Matchmaker Program
Introduce
your pre-market products to target customers and get a head
start on finding beta testers
Are you launching
a new project, targeting a new vertical market, or re-focusing
your branding efforts? Sage’s newest offering, the
Sage Matchmaker Program is a valuable service
that puts you in touch with an objective audience for your
product preview presentations, and helps you overcome the
hidden costs of recruiting and screening target companies
yourself.
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Matchmaker
Benefits
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Time
– Sage can line up qualified Panelists in a matter of
days. The Matchmaker program frees vendors from the
time-intensive task of finding and courting beta-testers
for feedback.
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Cost
– Sage recruits participants from the Sage
Panels for a fraction of what it would cost
you to do it in-house.
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Candid
Feedback – Sage
puts you in touch with a whole new universe of technology
early adopters who are less likely to have pre-formed
opinions about your company and its offerings, and that
would otherwise be very difficult to reach.
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Beta
Testers – The participants are also excellent
candidates to become beta testers. At the client’s request,
Sage will offer these participants the opportunity to
become beta testers after the Matchmaker presentations
are completed.
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basic cost for a package of three product briefings is $5,000.
For more details on the Sage Matchmaker Program, contact us
at (508) 655-5400 or [email protected] |
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May Service
Provider Confidence Index:
Steady as She Goes
The May edition of Sage’s
bi-monthly Service Provider Confidence Index (SPCI) shows
the Current Conditions and Expectations indices both remaining
comparatively steady.
“After a sharp rise overall
in the SPCI from January to March of this year, service
providers’ attitudes have stabilized,” said Chris Neal,
a Sage research director. “This shows that service
providers are not yet ready to embrace an imminent recovery
of the industry, though their mood shouldn’t be characterized
as having grown darker, either.”
Among the SPCI sub-indices,
hopeful signs popped up particularly in the Employment Current
Conditions and Investor Confidence Expectations, while Revenue
Current Conditions and Service Deployment Current Conditions
slipped.
The SPCI is a tracking study of service provider perceptions,
published bi-monthly. For more details, get the entire report
at
http://sageresearch.com/SPCIForm_a.htm.
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Sage
Technology Roundtables
Join
Us to Observe Engaging Discussions
Among Technology Decision Makers
Every
three months, Sage hosts a Sage Technology Roundtable,
an online focus group with qualified high-tech decision-makers
that examines the critical issues surrounding a specific
technology or service.
At April’s Sage Technology Roundtable, “Enterprise
Network Security Issues,” nine panelists discussed
their most pressing network security issues. Among
their insights:
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Most
companies have been affected by an Internet-borne
virus or worm in the last 12 months.
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Enterprises are not very receptive to outsourcing
security functions.
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Security
concerns are impeding WLAN employment.
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Participants
prefer SSL to IPSec for remote access.
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Reputation
and perceived industry leadership are the most
important vendor selection criteria.
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Trade
publications are the most common source of information
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See more details herehttp://www.sageresearch.com/AprilSecurityRT.htm
At July’s Roundtable, “The Mobile Enterprise,”
eight panelists discussed mobility issues and technologies.
The report and transcript are now available in the
SageStore, at http://www.sageresearch.com/RoundtableReports.html.
Highlights of the discussion include:
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Most of the participants
cite that the perception of Wi-Fi security problems,
such as what they learn from trade publications,
is as sturdy an obstacle as the state of the
actual security technologies. The solution,
they say, is to change their perceptions by
offering proof of working, reliable security
within WLANs.
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Several
participants would consider putting voice over
WLAN if it could save them hard costs.
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The participants
are largely wary of outsourcing mobile applications,
preferring to maintain complete control within
their organizations. They cite cost savings
and mobility as the most desirable benefits,
but are concerned with lack of bandwidth.
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The participants
feel that the “tipping point,” at
which mobile enablement of enterprise applications
will become the norm, will occur once the security
and reliability problems of current mobile solutions
are resolved, which most estimate to be 5 years
from now.
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You have a standing invitation to observe these roundtables.
By observing, you can catch a rare glimpse of what
the people who buy technology products and services
are actually saying and doing about each roundtable’s
particular subjectand you also get a no-strings
look at one of Sage’s most innovative research tools,
the online focus group, in action.
Also, for each Roundtable there are a limited number
of opportunities for you to shape discussion by submitting
up to three of your own questions, for only $500.
Click
here to observe and contribute to the next
Sage Technology Roundtable.
Instant
Messaging in the Enterprise
(Monday, October 6th, 7:00-8:30 pm EDT):
Questions that will be addressed in this Roundtable
include:
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Centralized
management: what are the centralized management
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IM
security: what are the main concerns and priorities? |
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IM
integration: which collaborative applications
are highest priority
for IM integration, and how well do current
programs integrate?
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IM
outsourcing: what are the perceived pros and
cons of using a service provider for IM vs.
doing it in-house, and what would be the key
evaluation criteria for selecting an IM service
provider?
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Sage
in the News
See what the
media have been saying about Sage Research, and what Sage
Research has been saying in the media, through this sampling
of our recent press clippings:
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