Strategic Research
Clear thinking, based on experience
Red Embedded Consulting brings in-depth technical understanding to inform your key strategic business decisions. Our strategic research services are tailored to your exact requirements. Our careful, focussed thought and thorough assessments of your technology choices will create a clear picture from an often daunting array of conflicting demands and claims.
Invest in success
With Red Embedded director involvement where appropriate, we help avoid costly mistakes due to lack of research. Bringing our hands on, practical backgrounds we focus on setting realistic timescales and expectations. Your investment in our service will pay dividends throughout your project's life cycle.
Supplier Assessment and Selection
Our experienced consultants help our clients find the best fit partners to supply them. We evaluate suppliers to ensure that they have the capability to produce the equipment or provide the service that meet your needs and are cost competitive. We also assess their skill range and capacity to deliver on time and with appropriate quality.
This attention to detail in the selection process reduces the risk for such a substantial investment, reduces the cost of ownership and enables ARPU growth for years to come.
Our team augments a wider client team to assist in a range of activities including writing selection documentation such as RFI, RFP and RFQ. We also have proven experience in assessing supplier responses and performing audit activity to validate responses and claims. With our technical background, we know the questions to ask and can quickly recognise suppliers' strengths and weaknesses.
Project Scoping and Initiation
The initial phase of any project is the most critical and often the most difficult. To gain executive buy-in, a solid assessment of the costs and duration of the project is required. Red Embedded Consulting has the expertise to tackle this daunting task.
We work with customers to rapidly outline a project bringing together silicon availability, past metrics for device development and knowledge of typical qualification cycles.
Red Embedded staff have extensive, relevant project management experience and are practised in current project management techniques. We have proven tools and procedures that can be brought to bear quickly to develop a realistic project plan for our customer.
Our early stage development work, such as creating proof of concept prototypes, has proven invaluable to customers. Our skills and experience are then often used to provide further assistance as the project moves ahead.
Technical Competitive Assessment
Inform your business decisions in the increasingly competitive and fast moving environment that we work in with our technical competitive assessment service.
When introducing a new product or service it pays to understand what others are doing in similar spaces. You may wish to benchmark own feature sets and cost points to ensure that you understand the strengths and weaknesses of competitive offerings.
We can provide you with specific, up-to-date information gathered from our wide vision of the market supplemented by specific research and investigation.
Our breadth of skills means we can help. Whether you require a high level market review or detailed product performance and BOM estimation, we provide one-off short investigations or work over a longer period to provide regular updates.
System & Requirement Analysis
The extensive use of System-on-chip designs means that the selection and design of silicon has become an increasingly critical factor for a successful product. However well designed such components may be there is always some element of compromise. Our clients often have their own applications and system use cases that mean that such components are found not to be optimal.
Having worked with virtually all the leading players in the market, our consultants have a wealth of experience in this area. Our relationships with operators, silicon vendors and client device manufacturers gives us a unique perspective on the market and trends in requirements and specifications. This vision, coupled with our analysis, development and integration skills, makes us an ideal choice to assist clients in understanding the practical options to realise the feature set required for their business.
With our system analysis expertise, our consultants have worked with silicon vendors and operators to benchmark new designs against criteria we defined to represent future demands. We provided the operator with a clear set of data points to inform their selection of key components. We are now able to draw on this experience to give silicon vendors and device manufacturers an impartial view of what is needed for the next generation, and on how to maximise returns on existing products in the market.
Technical Due Diligence
Red Embedded consultants have carried out due diligence work for a number of organisations to evaluate technology assets and IPR, and to assess the capability of engineering teams. Due diligence is required as part of the acquisition process and in some legal systems failure to make this effort may be considered negligence.
Technology assets often change hands as companies seek:
- to expand their asset base
- to address new markets
- to gain access to competing technology as part of a wider merger and acquisitions activity.
The acquiring company may not have the detailed technical expertise required or may wish not to involve their own staff and seek an independent expert. Red Embedded Consulting has the expertise and rigorous approach to carry out this critical process.
