Custom Consulting

Custom Consulting

CIR offers customized consulting for clients with market analysis and forecasting needs that go beyond syndicated reports.  We offer clients a full range of services and project scopes that address markets, technologies, products and patents across all technologies that are transforming AI data centers. These include photonics, next-generation transceivers, networking technologies, machine learning, small language models, quantum AI, nuclear power, clean fossil fuels, Ultra Ethernet, Co-packaged Optics, intra-rack interconnects, quantum data centers, powering and cooling for the data center, high-speed GPUs, HPC, data center security, etc.

Forecasting

CIR has been providing market and technology forecasts to leading companies around the globe for more than 35 years.  We undertake various kinds of forecasts, ranging from expert forecasts based on market knowledge and understanding of market development to forecasts using sophisticated statistical techniques such as Monte Carlo. We can deliver forecasts broken out by technology, product type, TAM/SAM, country-specific, and distribution/marketing channel.  CIR offers insightful forecasts and related analysis for any market or market segment.

New Product and Service Introduction

In addition to providing market forecasts to clients, CIR also assists clients in launching new products and services. We use targeted end-user interviews to help better understand what features, performance, functions, bells and whistles impress customers.  CIR has extensive experience in building panels of insiders that provide us with feedback on what their requirements are for AI and networking products and services.  We also carry out comparative studies of marketing and design strategies that are being used in emerging technology businesses.

Technology Scouting and Roadmapping 

CIR helps clients identify the latest technologies that are changing the shape of the data center business worldwide. Our extensive experience with technology development enables us to provide detailed roadmaps for new networking, optical, data center and AI technologies. We also provide revenue scenarios for these technologies and insight into which startups we expect to be commercially successful in these new areas, as well as an assessment of the challenges that the latest technologies need to overcome.

Competitive Analysis and Company Assessments

CIR provides competitive analysis for a variety of situations.  For example:

• CIR has helped clients understand how competitors’ product/market strategies impact our clients’ business and what opportunities and challenges this presents.
• Clients have asked us to provide in-depth profiles of potential acquisition candidates along with an assessment of their strengths and weaknesses in the optical component and subsystems markets.
• We have also been asked to provide internal analyses so our clients can better understand their strengths and weaknesses and effectively evolve their product portfolios, market messaging or competitive positioning.

CIR has considerable experience with presenting senior level management with findings they can act upon.

Support for Presentations

CIR has considerable experience with presenting senior level management and investors with findings they can act upon. We are experts on building convincing presentations and business plans that include our assessments and forecasts of markets, as well as messaging that is focused on the issues that concern venture capitalists, senior managers and others in the data center industry.