Tuesday, February 24, 2009

CIA- CRN Industry Audit

CRN Industry Audit was a quarterly Audit of the IT industry where the Analysis and Data collection is done through the Channels, which is the supply side.

While various Research project are been conducted, in the industry, by independent Research Agencies like IDC and Gartner or associations such as MAIT. These researches are done either form the demand side where the end-users are polled or the supply side where the vendors are polled.

CIA is the only research project conducted by a neutral media - CRN to gauge the performance of the industry across various product segments such as Systems, Peripherals, Networking, Software and Services. More importantly it keeps a tab on the pulse of the industry by having a quarterly audit of the industry.

The data Collection is conducted by a Research Agency across 11 cities and involves 350 resellers. The panel includes traders, retailers, Solution providers and Distributors.

The Cities Covered were Bombay, Delhi, Bangalore, Hyderabad/ Secunderabad, Chennai, Kanpur, Calcutta, Nagpur, Ahmedabad, Chandigarh, Cochin/Ernakulam.

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