Links to Research Agencies

... or where you can find the data you need

Find Articles						Contains searchable links to freely available articles dating back to 1998 from more than 300 magazines and journals.
Magportal						Hunt up articles from a large number of magazines. They also have a newsletter which dishes out links to the best articles.
GSM world						A site which provides updates information on the different forms of wireless communication - GSM, SMS, GPRS, EDGE, 3GSM, etc.
MobileStreams						A site which contains useful news, white papers, research reports, etc. on all forms of mobile communication. This site serves as an umbrella site for a number of other specific sites, such as mobilegprs.com, etc.
Juran Institute						A firm, which provides research and consultancy and training on quality management, aimed at providing solutions to help companies achieve their goals. They have a number of reports and articles on quality management, which are available for free download.
SIAM						Representing the Indian Automobile Industry, the Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers website is a good source for statistics and other information pertaining to the state and progress of the Automotive Industry in India.
COAI						The Cellular Operators Association of India website, is a good source for information on the latest happenings in the Indian Cellular scenario, as well as the latest statistics on the same.
Search PDF						Adobe's site allows users to search through summaries of more than 1 million Acrobat files on the Web.
A C Nielsen						Part of the VNU group, this research company has a number of service areas on which they provide research reports, etc. but do not have any reports which are free to the public.
Frost & Sullivan						Provide reports on a number of industries. You will need to register, to access some of their reports. They also have a section on Technical Insights.
Gartner						One of the better research companies, which make available to the public, part of the studies which they conduct. In the "Research" tab, they have a section on Focus Groups, which provides some excellent data. They also have Gartner G2 which provides research etc. on business and strategy (some of articles are free).
AT Kearney						Apart from paid for services, they provide a number of free articles and reports on the "Publications" and "Latest Thoughts " section.
IDC						International Data Corporation. They have some newsletters, which sound interesting. They also have an Indian arm, which provides India-specific data.
Accenture						Formely Anderson Consulting, this is a very interesting site, with a lot of free interesting features articles.
Rabobank						Basically an investment bank specialising in agriculture and pharma. They have some interesting research reports in that field.
NCAER						The National Council for Applied Economic Research
Mistubishi Research						The site is mainly in Japanese - most of the reports are in Japanese, with only their summaries available in English.
CMIE						Center for Monitoring Indian Economy
CEPS						The Center for European Policy Studies. Understandably, the reports etc. are very Europe centric, and stress more on the political and economic aspects.
KPMG						They have a number of interesting surverys. Their Indian arm too has a few interesting downloads.
Goldman Sachs						They have a good Quantitative Strategies Research section, which has a number of articles/ reports, which deal with the financial aspects. Another good section, is their High Technology section.
Ernst & Young						A good resource for information on strategy and management. Their Global Thought Center and Library have some interesting articles/ reports, for which you have to register. Their Indian arm seems to be coming up well too.
McKinsey						Apart from the online site of their publication McKinsey Quarterly, they have a number of interesting articles in their Knowledge section, and in the McKinsey Global Institute.

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