Portelligent belongs to the TechInsights group of United Business Media. Among our sister units within TechInsights is Semiconductor Insights, the premier provider of IC analysis services to the intellectual property sector.
Portelligent, founded in 2000, was a spin-out of the Austin, Texas-based MCC research consortium. The founders of Portelligent were members of the research staff at MCC, and conducted initial development of our product teardown methodologies within the consortium. Portelligent operated as an independent information services company until its acquisition by United Business Media in November 2007.
Portelligent now belongs to the TechInsights group of United Business Media.
Portelligent is a business-to-business (B-to-B) information services provider specializing in product teardown analysis for consumer electronics. Our customer companies span the full spectrum of the "food-chain" of the electronics industry, and apply product teardown data throughout the product lifecycle. Portelligent customers include electronics component suppliers, to semiconductor makers, to fables IC design houses, to handset and electronic product makers, to wireless carriers, to financial analysts who track the semiconductor and wireless sectors. While these different customer segments apply product teardown data in diverse ways, they all find it an important element of their overall analytical and decision-making processes.
Within our customer companies, a broad set of departments and functions use Portelligent product teardown data and analysis, throughout the management of the product lifecycle. These departments and functions include research and development, strategic planning, technical marketing, product planning, competitive intelligence and analysis, procurement, and financial analysis.
The maintenance of customer confidentiality is a central tenet of Portelligent's business model. In addition to the content of all of our engagements with customers, Portelligent considers the identity of its customers to be confidential information. With thus do not publish customer lists nor attributed testimonials. Even within the same customer company, we share contact information among Portelligent users only with the permission of those customer contacts and groups.
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