Messaging. Collaboration. Compliance. Ferris Research analysts bring more experience in these areas than any other firm. Period.

Major areas of interest are email, spam and malware control, archiving, e-discovery, information leak prevention, unified communications, instant messaging, SharePoint, and mobile communications. We help:

• IT staff evaluate, implement, and maintain these technologies
• Vendors understand the marketplace and its technologies; explain their products or services to the marketplace; and find strategic partners, raise funds, or sell their company
• Investors find and evaluate investment opportunities

We've been in business since 1990-longer than any other analyst firm in our field:

• Clients include many of the world's largest organizations as well as computer vendors from major corporations to small startups.
• We have published more than 200 formal reports and 1,100 short bulletins.
• Our news service has approximately 10,000 readers and covers more than 2,000 highly specialized announcements annually.
• Our research team shares many decades of experience in our core competencies.

In short, our technology and industry depth helps you understand today's products, where they've come from, where they're going, and their value.