NTT-AT launches a service for having specialists accompany IT-related survey tours abroad and supporting overseas survey staff in their analyses.

Background and history

Since 1998, NTT-AT has been offering Mekikies services of collecting, analyzing and evaluating IT-related information. Its team of specialists, including engineers active in the front lines, carries out this effort by exploiting the company's advanced know-how and information base. The services have earned a reputation for high quality. They have been constantly evolved and fine-tuned to respond to the diverse and specific needs of customers. Recently, customers have been voicing needs for new services, in which the overall activities of their own overseas survey staff are supported by IT specialists. Also, foreign companies and overseas offices of Japanese companies are increasingly looking for opportunities to use Mekikies' high-quality information collection, analysis and evaluation services. In light of these needs, NTT-AT has developed global survey and analysis support services as the anxiously awaited new additions to its profile of Mekikies services.

What is offered in these services

• Accompanying and supporting overseas survey tours
  NTT-AT's technology analysts, who are well-versed in the latest IT developments, will accompany overseas survey tours of its customer companies. An advantage of the service is that a preliminary survey, including exhaustive hearings, is carried out in Japan prior to departure so that it is possible to plan an efficient survey tour. This preparation will avoid the unnecessary, wasteful collection of information at the visited sites, which is likely on high-tech tours organized by travel agencies. The main target area covered by this service is Silicon Valley in the U.S.

Service items provided

Discussions and hearings with technology analysts; survey of information in Japan; development of an overseas survey tour plan; accompanying and supporting an overseas survey tour; and sorting and analyzing the collected information and producing a report after returning to Japan.

Service fee

From 6 million yen per tour.

• Coaching and supporting Japanese survey personnel overseas
  NTT-AT provides a total service of supporting business and living environments of survey personnel, who are dispatched by a Japanese company and stay in the U.S. for a few months. The company, by finding appropriate residences and providing personnel with office space within NTT-AT's US office, will set up an environment so that they are able to start working immediately. NTT-AT's senior analysts in Japan will act as coaches and provide appropriate advice regarding information collection activities. In other words, NTT-AT will provide a thoughtful support service for small and medium companies that do not have their own overseas offices in the U.S.

Service items provided

Discussions and hearings with technology analysts; finding residences (near Silicon Valley); providing an office space (within NTT-AT's U.S. office); advice by technology analysts about information collection activities; and other supports for living in the U.S.

Service fee

From 10 million yen per person per three-month stay (including house rent).

• Reporting based on a template
  Intended for foreign companies, this service offers competitive comparison of products intended for the Japanese market, business feasibility evaluation, survey of relations between different corporations, and discussions with technology analysts. The analysts are engineers or specialists active in the front lines, many of whom used to work for NTT. With their rich experiences in technical research and product development, they are capable of producing reports of high quality, the level of quality that cannot usually be expected from survey services by general consulting firms. This service has been made possible by the alliances between NTT-AT's U.S. office and U.S. consulting firms.

Service items provided

Discussions with technology analysts; and production of a report

Service fee

From 2 million yen per case.

• Customized reports for overseas offices of Japanese companies
  Intended for overseas offices of Japanese companies, this service surveys and analyzes IT-related information about Japan and evaluates business feasibility. The service is customized to the needs of the client. Two types of services are available. First, Customized Report A spans 1 to 4 weeks and includes a technology survey, business feasibility evaluation, and escort on a technology survey tour. Second, Customized Report B spans 1 to more than 3 months and produces a report about corporate strategies, alliances and M&A through fixed point observation and a survey of the concerned industry and companies.

Service items provided

Discussions with technology analysts (if necessary): production of a report; and submission of reference materials

Service fee

0.6 to 2.4 million yen or more for Customized Report A.
2 to 10 million yen or more for Customized Report B.

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