ARS

ARS is a competitive intelligence advisory firm for the IT hardware, components, and consumer electronics hardware and services industries.

ARS provides manufacturers, resellers and it buyers with tactical 'read and react' information, tools, and analysis to help minimize reaction time and maintain a 'level playing field' in today's dynamic markets. Using a team of field researchers, web scraping technologies, and a network of resources, ARS integrates timely, fact-based competitive intelligence and analysis, into a core, interactive database, which its analysts use to help clients in product positioning, negotiating, and benchmarking against market metrics. ARS also has an engineering lab that performs product 'tear downs' to create a Manufacturing Cost Analysis that empowers clients to benchmark competitors' products, monitor supplier pricing, and understand the quality and architecture of competitive products. ARS is headquartered in La Jolla, California, with regional offices in Texas and Japan. ARS also maintains a field network in most major metropolitan areas in U.S. and Europe to track pricing and promotional activity throughout each country.