Research and Markets: Mazda Motor Corporation IT Sales Opportunities 2008 Is Meant For IT Vendors And Intends To Help Them Identify Selling Opportunities Within The Company

Business Wire, June 6, 2008

DUBLIN, Ireland -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c94069) has announced the addition of "Mazda Motor Corporation - IT Sales Opportunities - 2008" to their offering.

Headquartered at Hiroshima, Mazda Motor Corporation (Mazda) is engaged in the manufacture and distribution of automobiles, together with 58 subsidiaries and 13 associated companies. The company offers sports utility vehicles (SUVs), mini vans, compact vehicles, sports cars, light cars, commercial vehicles, welfare vehicles and special edition automobiles, as well as automobile accessories, including car navigation systems, automobile audio systems, electronic toll collection systems, security products, driving support products and child seats, among others. The company distributes its products to both domestic and overseas markets.

Industry trends and drivers have a direct or indirect affect on IT spending of all companies operating within an industry. For example - increase in sourcing from low cost countries might influence Mazda to relook at their supply chains, resulting in selling opportunities for SCM solutions, collaboration tools etc. Thus, we can conclude that industry spending on any particular IT product or service is an important indicator of the criticality of that product or service for the industry. Based on the IT spend information available in 'TechNavio', we have computed a 'criticality score' for various IT products and services, for Mazda.

Various company level developments and events are important indicators of selling opportunities and drive the sales of IT products and services. For example - an acquisition by Mazda might result in opportunities for IT migration and integration services. By tracking these sales drivers (using 'TechNavio'), we have arrived at a demand score for each product and service.

Through an in-depth analysis of industry trends and drivers and company level developments and events, we have made the 'IT Selling Opportunities Map' for hardware, software and IT services for Mazda. These maps have been divided into four zones representing Level I, Level II and Level III opportunity areas. Level I opportunity areas have the highest scores and hence, there is a high probability that Mazda will buy these products and services. Level II opportunity areas have lower scores and hence, lower probability to sell to Mazda Level III opportunities have the lowest scores and hence, unlikely to sell to Mazda.

The report is meant for IT vendors and intends to help them identify selling opportunities within the company. Furthermore, the identified sales drivers can be used to penetrate these accounts or increase current share of the customer's wallet. Also, the report lists key IT spending decision makers, which enables the salesperson to directly contact the key executives within the company.

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Contents:

1. Company Overview

1.1 Business Overview

1.2 Key Figures

1.3 Corporate Headquarters

2. IT Spending & Deployments

3. IT Sales Opportunities

3.1 IT Sales Opportunities - Software

3.2 IT Sales Opportunities - Hardware

3.3 IT Sales Opportunities - Services

4. Sales Drivers

4.1 Being Environmental Friendly

4.2 Capacity Expansion

4.3 Collaboration & Partnership

4.4 Cost Cutting & Operational Efficiency

4.5 Geographical Expansion

4.6 Introducing New Products

4.7 Maintaining Quality Standards

4.8 Offshoring & Outsourcing

4.9 Online Sales & Marketing

4.10 Undertaking New Sales & Marketing Initiative

5. Conclusion

Appendix A: Key IT Decision Makers

Japan

Appendix B: Definitions

B.1 Software

B.2 Hardware

B.3 Services

Appendix C: Methodology

C.1 Evaluating Criticality Score

C.2 Evaluating Demand Score

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