Fresenius SE - IT Sales Opportunities - 2008

Fresenius SE is a Germany-based holding company of the Fresenius Group, operating in the healthcare sector, with products and services for dialysis, hospitals and outpatient medical care. The Group also offers engineering and services for hospitals and other healthcare facilities. It is organized in four business segments: Fresenius Medical Care, Fresenius Kabi, Fresenius Helios and Fresenius Vamed. Fresenius Medical Care focuses on dialysis care and manufactures and markets products for the treatment of patients with end stage renal disease (ESRD). Fresenius Kabi specializes in the production and sale of products for infusion therapy, clinical nutrition and transfusion technology. Fresenius Helion operates hospitals and as of December 31, 2007, had a network of 60 clinics, mainly in Germany. Fresenius Vamed provides engineering and services for hospitals and other healthcare facilities on an international basis.

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 Fresenius 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 Fresenius.

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 Fresenius 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 Fresenius. 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 Fresenius will buy these products and services. Level II opportunity areas have lower scores and hence, lower probability to sell to Fresenius Level III opportunities have the lowest scores and hence, unlikely to sell to Fresenius.

The report is meant for IT vendors and intends to help them identify selling opportunities within the company. Further, 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 will enables salesperson to directly contact the key executives within the company.

TechNavio Insights is a set of reports based on TechNavio - a market intelligence platform for the IT industry. It builds on the intelligence available within TechNavio, and leverages on the custom research experience of the 'Technology Navigators'. TechNavio is built on years of experience of Infiniti Research in deep dive custom research and consulting for over 30 Fortune 500 companies and numerous large and mid-sized companies.