TowerGroup.com is populated with TowerGroup's global advisory research, and ancillary resources covering the major players in financial services and key industry metrics. Expert information on critical business and technology Easy-to-use features make TowerGroup.com an essential tool for financial services leadership.

TowerGroup clients can view reports in brief, full format or exhibit slideshow mode. Each report contains key take-aways, coverage overview (subject area and research approach), and insights from TowerGroup's world-class analysts. TowerGroup.com publishes new reports weekly to keep clients in tune with the latest trends and developments in the financial services industry.

The power and usability of these reports are greatly enhanced by our site's advanced functionality such as My Research to which content may be bookmarked; Search and Browse, and Advanced Tools providing updated information on industry leaders and key IT and other metrics mentioned in our reports. The innovative Slideshow Generator and Numbers Almanac allow subscribers to download exhibits and other data into their own presentations.

Advanced Tools

My Research

My Research makes it easier to find, save, and reuse the research you need to do your job efficiently and successfully. You can bookmark information (reports, exhibits, charts, etc.) for future use. My Research also lets you customize your online experience by indicating your topic preferences in your account profile. For example, you can choose to have TowerGroup e-mail you Research Alerts of new reports that will be of interest to you. In addition, a function called the Slide Show Generator lets you:

• Select charts and exhibits, reorder them, and download them in PowerPoint or PDF formats
• Save exhibits, charts, reports, and presentations to a personal folder for future access
• Sort content by date saved, title, or author for easier reference
• Get the information you're most interested in from a list of recently published TowerGroup research on the topics you indicated in your account profile

Search/Browse

Our powerful new search engine and browse feature make it easy to find the information you need, including data that may be buried deep within a report and otherwise difficult for you to find without talking with one of our analysts. The browse capability guides you through a series of topics and related research to help you find what you're looking for easily and quickly. You can look at a report in brief, full format, or exhibit slideshow mode.

Advanced Tools: The Almanacs

TowerGroup.com's Advanced Tools provide access to a wealth of information and actionable research, ready to be put into the format you need:

Players Almanac

Thousands of companies make the financial services industry go - financial institutions, technology suppliers, professional services firms, and many others. Keeping track of all the key industry "players" is the job of the TowerGroup Players Almanac. The Players Almanac profiles key players in the financial services industry, who are cited in TowerGroup research. Each profile classifies the company by industry sector, gives a synopsis of the company's business, and includes a list of competitors.

What's most beneficial is that each player profile is electronically linked to relevant TowerGroup reports and exhibits in which the company has been discussed. This linkage lets you quickly retrieve company-specific information, research, and analysis from the TowerGroup archive. The Players Almanac is an easy way to find suppliers of the products and services you are looking for - by name (listed alphabetically), industry, or geographic region. The Almanac profiles the key vendors of technology products and services for the financial services industry. The write-up for each product or service supplier lists the company's top competitors and related businesses.

TowerGroup's Players Almanac also profiles financial services institutions. Each profile discusses the parent company of the financial institution as well as its major subsidiaries and the industry sectors they serve. The Players Almanac also profiles industry associations and utilities.

All in all, the Players Almanac provides company profiles and tools for quick access to practical information and insightful analysis covering thousands of key financial institutions, technology companies, service suppliers, and other organizations vital to the financial services business. We have profiled more than 2,800 companies in the Players Almanac, and the number is growing by the month.

Numbers Almanac

The financial services industry is an industry of numbers - numbers on the trends and status of the many sectors that make up the business. TowerGroup researches and compiles some of the most sought-after information in the industry, particularly on technology spending, both overall and by industry sector.

The Numbers Almanac has the most up-to-date trend data presented in TowerGroup research reports. It also provides key analytic data on the financial services industry, including economic and demographic data, and stores it in one location. TowerGroup clients can easily find the data they are looking for by industry, region, company, date, or keywords.

Along with the raw data, this section of our Web site provides information on the sources of the data and how it was derived. The "See All Related Research" feature found in all of our Web site's almanacs lets you find every TowerGroup research report and exhibit that mentions the data. To save a specific report or exhibit, you simply download it into your My Research folder.

The Numbers Almanac is designed to let you easily manipulate data and create your own charts and tables, save them for future use, and download the data and exhibits (charts, graphs, etc.) you need directly into your spreadsheets, documents, and presentations. Information can be downloaded directly to an Excel spreadsheet or a text file. Graphs can be created online using an exclusive graphing tool, with the resulting image sized appropriately for presentations or documents.

By using your My Research folder, you can also save these custom exhibits directly on the site for easy retrieval at any time. By concentrating so much industry data in one user-friendly location, the Numbers Almanac saves time, helps you increases the accuracy of your data via direct downloads, and lets you perform more complex comparative research searches.