Illuminata uses its unique cross-discipline, architectural approach to assist users, vendors, and investors in understanding and making good choices about emerging technologies, industry standards and future directions. Specialized programs for people engaged in IT strategic planning, deployment, manufacture and service include:

• Strategic positioning and planning to help you understand the competition, optimize resources, and address customer needs.
• Product counseling will provide business-savvy perspective to set product development priorities, make sensible investment decisions, identify market opportunities, and choose the right course of action. We specialize in early stage and major stage lifecycle changes.
• We also can help you with custom projects such as competitive analyses, opportunity investigations, due diligence, and project redirects or post mortems.
• Our message counseling is based on our extensive message communication experience that combines deep technical expertise with a clear business sense.
• We provide world-class speakers for keynotes, sales meetings, and client seminars.
• Illuminata research papers can be purchased; contact us.

Illuminata subscription programs provide research library and ongoing analyst support. They are available in four (4) practice areas:

• Application Strategies (AS) supplies insight on enterprise-wide application architecture, deployment, management and evaluation to accelerate an organization’s development efforts and improve functionality and quality. This includes sophisticated, network-savvy middleware, development tools, and application construction techniques, application lifecycle issues, development methodologies, industry standardization, process integration, and architectural approaches.
• Computing Foundations (CF) provides perspective on the products, technologies, techniques and vendors that support enterprise applications for those deploying servers, clusters and networks for high-scale mission critical applications. This includes servers, processors, system interconnects, operating systems, clusters, datacenter and enterprise requirements, client devices and the requirements that they impose on an overall IT infrastructure.
• Information Architectures (IA) examines information storage and retrieval in the context of business critical applications. We evaluate vendors and guide IT executives who make critical decisions in outsourcing, systems integrations and choosing system/storage vendors. The focus is on the architectures enterprises use to structure, access, and protect information assets including data storage, storage networking, data protection, and information access.
• Infrastructure Management (IM) offers a sophisticated perspective on products, technologies, techniques and vendors providing distributed management tools, frameworks, utilities and services to make dispersed networks more efficient. These include dynamic datacenter management tools and strategies such as virtualization, Grid, heterogeneous platform management, and provisioning.