What We Do

Informa provides academics, businesses and individuals with unparalleled knowledge, up-to-the minute information and highly specialist skills and services. With around 7,000 employees working in some 150 offices in over 40 countries, our global reach and breadth of offer is unique.

Our academic information division publishes books and journals with over 55,000 titles available that provide individuals and organisations with the knowledge they need to carry out their work.

Our professional and commercial information businesses offer structured databases, subscription-based services, real-time news, research and business-critical information creating business advantage.

We are the largest publicly-owned organiser of exhibitions, events and training in the world providing inspiring marketplaces and the opportunity for knowledge to be shared.

In all businesses we have the technology to deliver dynamic, multi-platform solutions tailored to our customers needs, we have many leading product brands in the various markets we work in and, due to our focus on operational efficiency and excellent management, we are highly respected by shareholders and the financial markets.

Where We Work

IT, Telecoms & Media

The fast moving sector of IT, Telecoms & Media is shaping the future of how the world works and behaves. New generation broadband, tag clouds, graphic tablets, smart phones, virtual events, streaming video, music on demand, dynamic content and multi-platform connectivity are some of the terms we hear and use everyday but what business opportunities do they present? How does government regulation effect their development and what’s the latest trends and thinking in digital communications?

Informa offers essential, comprehensive and cutting-edge knowledge in this sector via Informa Telecoms & Media, Ovum (a division of Informa Telecoms & Media) and CRC press (a division of Taylor and Francis).

Informa Telecoms & Media have been helping clients make better business decisions for 25 years. Our 65 in-house analysts are all experts in the collection, interpretation, analysis and forecasting of primary market data. With research offices in 9 countries and 100+ annual conferences across five continents, our mix of deep topic and detailed local intelligence is unrivalled.

Relied upon by industry decision makers across the converging worlds of wireless and fixed telecoms through to television, film and entertainment, our online services, reports and consultancy guides the daily decisions of over 10,000 leading companies.

Informa Telecoms & Media actively foster and empower the communities we serve, assisting them in debating and sharing best practice, solving problems and stimulating innovation. From our magazines to online information portals, from our large exhibitions to intimate networking lunches at focused conferences, we bring the industry together to enable change.

Ovum is a global IT and telecoms advisory firm providing high-value advice on the commercial impact of technology and market changes in telecoms, software, and IT services. Ovum research provides organizations with independent and objective analysis to enable them to make better business and technology decisions.

The company acts as a well-respected and trusted source of industry data, knowledge and expertise on the commercial impact of technology, regulatory and market changes. Ovum engages in continuous research and industry analysis to determine market dynamics in its specialist sectors.

CRC Press is a premier publisher of scientific and technical work, reaching around the globe to collect essential reference material and the latest advances and make them available to researchers, academics, professionals, and students in a variety of accessible formats. CRC publishes over 750 books on key subjects in Information Technology.

Academic

Taylor & Francis, our academic publisher, offer a range of titles in the IT, Telecoms & Media sector including the journal - Sciences and Technology Libraries which is published four times a year and aimed at information professionals.

CRC Press also has Secure and Resilient Software Development, which details how to apply best practices and standards for consistent and secure software development and provides a strong foundation for anyone getting started in application security

Professional & Commercial

Ovum (a division of Informa Business Information (IBI) provides premium business information across the IT, Telecoms & Media sector, with Ovum's analyst and consulting teams help companies to make smarter business and technology decisions. Drawing on over 400,000 interviews a year with business, technology, telecoms, and sourcing decision-makers, Ovum’s research provides unparalleled insight into the telecoms and technology trends that matter.

This research is delivered via Ovum’s four online ‘knowledge centre’ portals – for ‘Telecoms’, ‘Enterprise IT’ and ‘Industries and Technology’ and ‘Sourcing’, which include analytical tools and databases such as the ICT Opportunity Profiler, Global Telecoms Analyzer, IT Spending Predictor and IT Services Contracts Analytics.

Informa Telecoms & Media (ITM) delivers strategic insight founded on global market data and primary research. ITM works in partnership with clients, informing their decision-making with practical services supported by analysts and consulting engagement.

ITM provide core data, forecasts and insight via the World Cellular Information Service (WCIS) and World Broadband Information Service (WBIS). Launched in 1985, WCIS is the industry’s favourite source of mobile granular historical and forecast subscription numbers and key financial and operational indicators. WBIS is the benchmark for broadband, multi-channel TV and fixed-line telephony statistical data and five year forecasts.

ITM also delivers market insight into the telecoms and broadcasting sectors through its ‘Intelligence Centre’ (IC) online portals. Each of the 10 topic and market focussed IC channels delivers analysis, commentary, market metrics, forecasts and conference papers. Intelligence Centre is the first choice for clients looking to benchmark performance, inform technology decisions and grow customer, market and competitor insight.

Events & Training

We offer a comprehensive and market-leading range of conferences, forums, exhibitions and training courses in the IT, Telecoms & Media sector. Informa Telecoms & Media is the leading provider of business intelligence and strategic services to the global telecoms and media markets.

The World Broadband Information Service provides granular and localised KPI and forecast data for the global fixed-line, broadband and multichannel TV sectors.

Broadband World, now in its 10^th year, attracts more than 6000 decision makers from across the world and over 200 visionary speakers including 120 global carriers who have current information and experiences to share.

The IP & TV World Forum is the world’s leading event on hybrid, IP and connected TV and attracts over 6000 attendees from over 87 countries.

IIR Telecoms & Technology produce the TETRA World Congress, the meeting place of the international TETRA community and offers a unique opportunity to meet with over 2500 TETRA users, manufacturers, network operators, application developers and system integrators from around the world.

What We Do

Where We Work

IT, Telecoms & Media

Academic

Professional & Commercial

Events & Training

Our global network

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