Welcome to HydrasightSearch:

Hydrasight is an IT industry analyst firm focused on enterprise software and services in Asia Pacific. The goal is to make technology and business analysis more accessible.

Within two years of being founded, Hydrasight has expanded to provide research to over 470 organisations, and has a library of more than 300 reports available online. You are entitled to access Hydrasight's research database free of charge (you can register for access here). Hydrasight provides a large selection of short research articles both online and via our regular research newsletter. You can also subscribe to our RSS feed. Our published research however, is only the "tip of the iceberg". Our primary value is working "face-to-face" with organisations to help them improve their IT performance management practices.

Hydrasight has been built with accessibility as a key design principle. The aim is to increase the choice and availability of quality IT industry analysts within Asia Pacific. To do this, Hydrasight works with its clients more regularly and more deeply than traditional IT analyst firms, taking into account specific business issues and environments.

Hydrasight Research Surveys

Hydrasight periodically runs industry surveys to augment our research database. If you would like to participate, or know of someone who should, please click on the appropriate survey(s) below. Invited participants to Hydrasight research projects are entitled to automatically receive a free analyst report of the summary results.

Recent, open, and upcoming surveys include:

Enterprise Security 2008Examines the current state and information security challenges within organisations and highlights the state of their defences.
IT Business Performance Management 2008Investigation into the evolving area of IT business performance management.
Enterprise Project and Programme Management 2008Intends to explore the current level of maturity, and future plans, for enterprise project and programme management in Asia Pacific
Business Process Management (BPM) 2008Intends to explore the current level of maturity, and future plans, for business process modelling, automation, and management in Asia Pacific
Service oriented architecture (SOA) 2007Exploration of service oriented architecture in Australia / New Zealand
Enterprise content management (ECM) 2007Covers topics including Web 2.0, blogs, wikis, collaborative document management, and records management amongst others.
Server virtualisation 2007Exploration of the state of server virtualisation in Australia / New Zealand
IT service management (ITSM) 2007Includes IT management processes (e.g., IT operations, technology governance) as well as management technology (e.g., utility software, enterprise management software).

Latest Hydrabits Research

You are entitled to access Hydrasight's research database free of charge. Hydrasight provides a large selection of short research articles both online and via our regular research newsletter. You can also subscribe to our Copy this link into your favourite RSS client to gain access to our research using Really Simple Syndication feed.

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03 Jul 2008 The risks of un-managed managed services
03 Jul 2008 Thought-leaders are in over-supply: herald the era of thought-movers
16 Jun 2008 Trends (and fallacies) in electronic social networking: part 2 - Attracting and retaining younger employees
16 Jun 2008 Trends (and fallacies) in electronic social networking: part 1 - Asia Pacific
16 Jun 2008 Enterprise content management in Australia and New Zealand (2007)
16 Jun 2008 HP aspires to climb the tower
16 Jun 2008 Measuring the real value of SaaS, hosted and managed software services
22 May 2008 Microsoft enterprise search: a continuing strategy of inconsistency
14 May 2008 Commodity is not (necessarily) a dirty word
13 May 2008 EMC acquires Infra(structure software)

Hydrasight Press Releases


12 Apr 2007NEW APPLICATION SECURITY RESEARCH AND FREE ONLINE SOLUTIONS CENTER ANNOUNCED
21 Jan 2007AUTONOMIC COMPUTING: READY OR NOT?
15 Dec 2006APPLICATION PERFORMANCE AND SOA MEETS NETWORK MANAGEMENT
22 Sep 2006STUDY HIGHLIGHTS REAL-WORLD ENTERPRISE SERVICE-ORIENTED ARCHITECTURE (SOA) PROJECTS
22 Aug 2006EMA EXPANDS GLOBAL REACH THROUGH ALLIANCE WITH HYDRASIGHT
10 Oct 2005ANNOUNCING HYDRASIGHT -- BRAND AND WARRILOW LAUNCH NEW IT ANALYST FIRM IN ASIA PACIFIC