Providing industry insights, data, analysis and advisory services in the technology space, our industry leading analysts help guide strategic decision-making.
- Our Research Coverage
- Applied Infrastructure & DevOps
- Cloud & Managed Services
- Customer Experience & Commerce
- Data, AI & Analytics
- Datacenter Services & Infrastructure
- Fintech
- Information Security
- Internet of Things
- Workforce Productivity & Collaboration
Research, data and insights across key technology sectors
451 Research uniquely covers all phases of technology innovation from adoption to investment, through a variety of research techniques including expert market insights, end-user surveys, forecast modeling, revenue tracking, in-depth interviews, acquisition tracking and face-to-face analyst briefings.
Our customers use our research and data products to develop business cases, create strategic plans, identify potential customers, partners and acquisition targets and execute on other key tasks.
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Research, data and insights across ten key channels
Applied Infrastructure & DevOps
Enhance and enable digital transformation and value creation. We cover the evolution of IT infrastructure to adapt to rapidly changing workloads born from emerging DevOps environments.
Uncover new design philosophies, uncover shifts in the environment, and learn strategies to win within it.
Research, data and insights across ten key channels
Cloud & Managed Services
Cloud is no longer a separate category from IT: quite simply, it is IT. Learn how organizations can procure, deploy, integrate, manage and transform their digital infrastructure stacks.
Track new use cases and the intersection of economics and business models driving enterprise cloud transformation.
Research, data and insights across ten key channels
Customer Experience & Commerce
It’s all about customer experience. Our insights uncover what’s behind new concepts of the ideal total experience and multidimensional approaches achieving transformational outcomes for businesses.
Explore rapidly changing trends in the employee, customer and partner ecosystem and the design of contextually relevant experiences.
Research, data and insights across ten key channels
Data, AI & Analytics
Drive your digital transformation goals forward with data-driven decision making and strategies for implementation.
Data science, machine learning, artificial intelligence, self-service analytics, data governance, and data warehouses all have a part to play in making pervasive intelligence a reality across an enterprise.
Research, data and insights across ten key channels
Datacenter Services & Infrastructure
Track global datacenter activity from operators and hyperscalers along with the impacts of new products, services, and technologies.
Access critical metrics such as capacity and utilization used by companies building and managing advanced, resilient and efficient datacenters.
Research, data and insights across ten key channels
Fintech
Pin point the shifting intersection of finance and technology, and examine how the fintech sector is rewiring the financial services landscape.
Gather the latest intelligence on use cases, tech requirements and usage patterns of both consumers and enterprises.
Research, data and insights across ten key channels
Information Security
The risk of numerous high-profile attacks has expanded, from ransomware to IT supply chain threats.
Use our insights to track the evolution of technologies and services that deliver resilience, threat detection, and response to incidents across industries.
Research, data and insights across ten key channels
Internet of Things
Access insights that help companies virtualize the physical world, and then connect and analyze massive data flows across their enterprise devices, machines and business processes.
Explore IoT’s business-altering insights and the use cases it can deliver on.
Research, data and insights across ten key channels
Workforce Productivity & Collaboration
The pandemic has fundamentally and permanently changed the way we work and drive innovation.
Advance corporate goals such as operational agility, business resilience, talent recruitment and retention, and even overall employee engagement with our deep research.
Our Global Technology Coverage
5,000+
independent enterprise tech companies tracked by our experts
11,000+
colocation, wholesale and hyperscaler datacenter facilities via Datacenter KnowledgeBase
80,000+
tech and telecom company transactions tracked via M&A KnowledgeBase
480+
cloud price benchmarks tracked via Cloud Price Index
Explore the global technology landscape with trusted data and expert insights
Enterprise Technology Research
Explore technology innovation from adoption to investment through expert market insights, end-user surveys, forecast modeling, revenue tracking, in-depth interviews, acquisition tracking and face-to-face analyst briefings.
M&A KnowledgeBase
Explore proprietary insights and in-depth analysis of rationales for nearly 80,000 tech M&A transactions classified into more than 600 granular tech industry categories.
Cloud Price Index
Compare pricing for specific cloud services from the largest cloud providers in the world, tracking 480 price benchmarks and more than 5 million SKUs.
Datacenter KnowledgeBase
Navigate our global database of 11,000+ colocation and wholesale datacenter facilities across North America, EMEA, Asia-Pacific and Latin America.
Analyst expertise
The 451 Research analysts are highly focused on innovation and disruptive technologies, delivering unrivalled niche market insights to the market. Their analysis reaches thousands of clients each week, is presented at marquee global events, and is showcased in S&P Global’s renowned industry reports. Meet the leadership team:
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Datacenter KnowledgeBase
Global datacenter intelligence from 451 Research
The Datacenter KnowledgeBase is a global database of 11,000+ colocation and wholesale datacenter facilities across North America, EMEA, Asia-Pacific and Latin America. It covers more than 100 data points per facility, including location, facility type, services provided, capacity and current utilization.
- Monitor the competitive landscape
- Develop market and product positioning
- Identify target companies
- Track estimates and valuations
- Evaluate datacenter portfolios
- Anticipate IT buyer sentiment
Understand the marketplace
- Access information on more than 5,000+ vendors and service providers covered by 451 Research.
- Follow market developments with short- and long-form analysis by our team of expert analysts.
- Explore vendor lists across emerging technology markets through our Market Monitor & Forecasts.
Understand the marketplace
- Understand enterprise customer sentiment to develop product portfolio, including plans around technology adoption and spending and budget changes.
- Analyze product portfolios and competitor comparison with Market Monitor & Forecast.
- Leverage analyst inquiry and our consulting practice to develop products and messaging and enhance positioning with custom research and reports.
Understand the marketplace
- Leverage our 20+ years of experience tracking tech M&A, supporting sourcing, valuing and pitching technology companies.
- Engage with our experts to identify acquirers or potential targets.
- Track new market entrants through 451 Research’s ongoing coverage of emerging technology companies.
Understand the marketplace
- Access private company data and proprietary deal estimates through M&A Knowledgebase.
- Keep an eye on market movements with our M&A Daily newsletter and analysis.
Understand the marketplace
- Access site-level records of 11,000+ datacenter facilities across 112 countries and 350 markets with Datacenter Knowledgebase.
- Meet with our multi-lingual experts to understand opportunities and challenges in specific datacenter markets.
- Access strategic consulting services to maximize sales in datacenter facilities and determine addressable market and customer requirements.
Understand the marketplace
- Access survey-based data and insight from panels of individuals driving technology spending in both the business and consumer categories.
- Measure near- and long-term intent to spend on technology.
- Discover predictive signals of revenue performance for vendors of B2B and B2C technology.
Tech Trends in Focus: Generative AI
451 Research M&A KnowledgeBase
The 451 Research M&A KnowledgeBase (MAKB) is a global online database of nearly 80,000 tech M&A transactions. Subscribers gain unique value from proprietary insight on undisclosed private-company valuations and in-depth analysis of the rationales for key deals that are classified into more than 600 granular tech industry categories.
Daily M&A insights, delivered to your inbox
451 Research Consulting
Strategic advisory and go-to-market services
Our dedicated team of experts is committed to guiding businesses through the complexities of emerging technologies and achieving their go-to-market objectives with precision and agility. Through strategic consulting and go-to-market services, we equip clients to navigate change seamlessly, make informed decisions, and engage their target audience. Leverage our consulting services to:
- Identify and assess potential investments, partnerships or acquisition targets
- Develop products and services
- Develop a differentiated market position with custom research and co-branded reports
- Support sales initiatives
- Enhance product messaging and engage prospects
- Surveys
- Market Sizing and Forecasts
- Research
- Databases
Explore our portfolio of market intelligence solutions
Voice of the Enterprise (VoTE)
Survey-based data and insight from a global panel of enterprise IT decision-makers. VotE provides consistent intelligence for vendors and service providers looking to navigate market shifts.
Voice of the Service Provider (VSP)
Survey-based data and insight from a global panel of service provider decision-makers. Qualify and quantify buying behaviors and strategic priorities for the expanding universe of public cloud providers, hosting providers, managed service providers, systems integrators, SaaS companies and colocation providers.
Voice of the Connected User Landscape (VoCUL)
Survey-based data and insight from panels of Leading Indicator and Population Representative consumers. Understand real consumer sentiment on technology adoption, demand and pricing data, discretionary spending and future intent, confidence and trust in economy, and product features and usage of early adopters and mainstream users.
Tech Demand Indicator (TDI)
Survey-based data and insight from panels of individuals driving technology spending in both the business and consumer categories. Measure near- and long-term intent to spend on technology. Gain insight into predictive signals of revenue performance for vendors of B2B and B2C technology.
Explore our portfolio of market intelligence solutions
Market Monitor & Forecast
451 Research’s Market Monitor & Forecast products provide a thorough competitive analysis of specific markets, including vendor and product/service identification at an aggregate market and subsector level. Built on a bottom-up methodology, they include granular estimates and forecasts as well as insight across the total market, subsectors and specific use cases.
Explore our portfolio of market intelligence solutions
Market Insight
Concise and ongoing daily analysis of the impact of innovation, disruption and change in the enterprise IT marketplace and vendor ecosystem.
Technology & Business Insights
Designed to complement our Market Insight service, these longer-form reports provide an informed take on what matters most to clients. Our research draws on our market data, analysis of customer adoption, early visibility into technology innovation, and deep understanding of new market dynamics.
Explore our portfolio of market intelligence solutions
Cloud Price Index
Analysis on the cost of public and private cloud computing globally, enabling buyers and sellers to make data-driven, strategic decisions.
Datacenter KnowledgeBase
Global database of 11,000+ colocation and wholesale datacenter facilities across North America, EMEA, Asia-Pacific and Latin America.
M&A KnowledgeBase
Global database of nearly 80,000 tech M&A transactions with proprietary insight on undisclosed private-company valuations and in-depth analysis of deal rationales.
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