Strategic Partners
MEF's strategic partners are high-calibre companies, organisations or individuals who provide expertise in a range of disciplines and offer unique opportunities for advancing the industry. The MEF selects strategic partners who have a proven track record and add value to the MEF and its members.
Strategic partners gain access to MEF's resources and network and are provided public recognition of their relationship with MEF.
Research, Data, Analysis
Distimo is an innovative app store analytics company built to solve the challenges created by a widely fragmented app store marketplace filled with equally fragmented information and statistics.
Distimo Report provides in-depth reports for companies interested in the mobile application ecosystem providing valuable insight into important trends happening within application stores. Distimo Monitor offers mobile developers a free analytics tool to monitor their own and competitive applications across all app stores, without any adjustments needed to their application's code.
Distimo is a privately held company based in The Netherlands.
The GfK Retail and Technology division, part of the GfK Group is the world's leading market researcher for tracking point-of-sale data (POS) in the technical consumer goods and entertainment media markets. We co-operate with retailers and resellers in more than 80 countries worldwide. The GfK data platform, Star Track ensures that manufacturers and industry leaders receive comparable information at an international level. GfK Retail and Technology market experts offer fact-based consultancy on brand share and channel performance at both country and international level. GfK offers complete market coverage by collecting data from all major distribution channels - be it traditional retailers, online pure players, B2B or resellers.
KPMG LLP, the audit, tax and advisory firm, is the U.S. member firm of KPMG International. KPMG International’s member firms have 137,000 professionals, including more than 7,600 partners, in 144 countries.
KPMG delivers a globally consistent set of multidisciplinary services based on deep industry knowledge. Our industry focus helps KPMG professionals develop a rich understanding of clients' businesses and the insight, skills, and resources required to address industry-specific issues and opportunities.
Advising on the commercial impact of technology and market changes in telecoms, software and IT services. Ovum is the leading authority on telecoms, software and IT services, with unique expertise where these sectors converge. We deliver essential advice on market trends and drivers, and unrivalled insight into companies, markets and technologies.
Ovum offers a range of integrated services that includes tailored consultancy, advisory services that give clients direct access to our analysts, and specialist research. Our expertise is based on more than two decades of research conducted globally.
Ovum has a unique insight into global markets through offices in Europe, North America and Asia-Pacific. We are resolutely independent: we do not endorse or accept sponsorship from anybody.
For enquiries email info@ovum.com
Informa Telecoms & Media is the leading provider of business intelligence and strategic marketing solutions to the global telecoms and media markets. Driven by constant first-hand contact with the industry our 90 analysts and researchers produce a range of intelligence services including news and analytical products, in-depth market reports and datasets focused to technology, strategy and content. Informa Telecoms & Media also organizes more than 125 annual events, attended by more than 70,000 executives. In addition to the GSM 3G World Series, our events cover subjects as diverse as fixed and mobile operator strategy, technology, TV, mobile music and games.
Academic Institutions
Under the auspices of Politecnico di Milano’s School of Management and in collaboration with its ICT Institute, the Osservatori ICT & Management (www.osservatori.net) aim to provide an accurate and continuously up-to-date picture of the impact of ICT (Information and Communications Technology) on companies, public entities, industries and markets.
Since 2001, Politecnico di Milano School of Management has been studying the mobile market from a 360-degree angle, analyzing in depth the various innovative segments, including Mobile Content & Internet (in Italy, Brazil, Poland, Turkey, ect.), Mobile Marketing & Service, NFC & Mobile Payment, Mobile Banking & Trading, Mobile Social Network, and Mobile in the Cinematographic Industry. Each research stream is summarized in an annual report (15,000 reports have been distributed to date) presented during one of the many special topic-based conventions, each averaging approximately 800 attendees.
There are also numerous ICT & Management Observatories dealing with a wide range of the most innovative ICT topics: RFId, Mobile & Wireless Business, eProcurement and eSupply Chain, eCommerce B2c, eProcurement in the Public Sector, Intranet Banking, Enterprise 2.0, ICT Strategic Sourcing, ICT Strategic Management, ICT in Small & Medium Enterprises, Electronic Invoicing & Dematerialization, New Tv & Media, Intelligent Transportation Systems, ICT Accessibility for Disabled Persons, Information Security Management, ICT in the Health Sector, Multi-channel Marketing, WiFi & WiMax, ICT & CIO in the Fashion-Retail Sector, Business Intelligence, ICT Trade, ICT in Real Estate Sector and eGoverrnment.
Branding, Design & Communication
Sparkloop. Design Company, London / t. 020 7359 8383 / www.sparkloop.com
There’s something in our name that we love. A spark, in fact. The spark of an idea that brought our company together. The loop? You’re already in it.
As a company we simply set out to create great designs that are as nice to look at as they are effective to use. Our approach and skills are as versatile as our client list is broad – from branding to web, Red Bull to The Prince’s Trust – we have taken on projects large and small with this same focus.
Get in the loop: hula@sparkloop.com
Web Development
Net Efficiency is a different kind of web development company. We're experienced developers, designers and consultants who work for organisations that require us to be business and community savvy; combining creative flair with technically and intellectually robust solutions Design and programming are important but, in addition to these, Net Efficiency can offer strategy and functionality that many technology firms overlook. We deal with the technology so you can focus on your job.
Net Efficiency has an ambitious team. Our experience working for organisations such as MEF, Autoglass, the V&A, Guide Dogs for the Blind, Channel 4 and the Labour Party means we are very used to demanding, high exposure work. For many of our clients, failure would result in negative press coverage and lost revenues. We've not let them down yet, and this is why so much of our new business comes from referrals.
For enquiries contact info@netefficiency.co.uk or call +44(0) 7359 7333