Cambashi is an Anglo-American independent research firm, focused on the market for Information Technology in the manufacturing, distribution, energy, utilities and construction industries. The company serves both suppliers and users of Information technology. It provides advisory services to most of the top ten suppliers in its field, especially in the fields of Product Lifecycle Management and Industrial Automation applications such as Manufacturing operations management.
| Cambashi | |
|---|---|
| Privately-held company | |
| Founded in 1984 by Mike Evans | |
| Cambridge, United Kingdom | |
| Boston, Massachusetts, USA | |
| Market research | |
| www.Cambashi.com |
Cambashi is well known both for its qualitative analysis, such as white papers for long-time clients Infor[1], SAP[2], and Siemens[3]; its quantitative analyses of the market for IT applications in industry, both custom studies for companies such as Cisco[4] and published studies such as the Cambashi Market Observatories; and training programs. Cambashi's international market forecasts are widely quoted in the trade press.[5]
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The company was founded in 1984 by Mike Evans. It focused on advisory services for users adopting CAD/CAM and related Computer-aided technologies and their suppliers. In 1988, it co-founded CATN, the Computer Aided Technologies Network, a European Consortium providing advisory services on these technologies.
In 1990, Cambashi began to supply quantitative information on technical applications markets to support clients' market planning. For this, Cambashi published the first annual Marketing Managers Handbook. In 1991, when the IMS[6] project for international cooperation on research and development activities in the domain of intelligent manufacturing systems was being established, Cambashi assisted European Community officials. In 1993, CATN conducted a large scale CIME Vertical Markets study for the European Commission investigating user demand for software solutions.
In 1995, in Cambridge UK, Cambashi organized the first annual networking seminar on sales and marketing issues affecting the Information Technology Industry. In 1997, Cambashi developed a comparative analysis of Enterprise resource planning solutions and authored the first edition of Ovum Evaluates "ERP for Manufacturers."[7]
Cambashi is active in trade and industry associations. In 1996, in association with the Computing Suppliers Association, it published a study on the Document Management market. Cambashi has partnered with the Manufacturing Enterprise Solutions Association (MESA) International on several research studies in the manufacturing industry. In 2006, the first MESA Metrics that Matter report was conducted by Industry Directions on behalf of MESA International.
Since 1998, Cambashi has developed a training curriculum that covers the business use of ICT in vertical industry sectors for suppliers' customer facing staff. In 2005, the first release of e-learning courseware was published on line.
In 2003, Cambashi published the first Market Observatory providing global quantitative research on the Technical Applications software markets. In 2007, Cambashi delivered an invited submission to the UK Governments Science and Innovation Policy "Sainsbury Review."[8]
In 2008, Boston, MA USA based Industry Directions, a research firm specialising in shop floor and supply chain solutions, merged its operations with Cambashi to form Cambashi Inc..
Cambashi is frequently quoted in major publications and the international trade press: