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Market Research Reports
The Future of Biometrics:
Groundbreaking research providing strategic insight into the evolution
of the biometrics market through 2020 and forecasts through 2015.
Preview the Introduction, Table of Contents, and Executive Summary.
Market Forecasts
Worldwide ID Solutions Demand Curves: Demand curves for
the Public Sector and Commercial markets that will drive identification solutions
market development.
Worldwide Integrated eBorders Solutions Market Forecast:
This forecast
includes all revenues for biometric and other ID technology components as well as consulting,
integration, support and service. The forecast is based on an analysis of the opportunity
to replace or augment existing automated or manual processes i.e. travel documents, expedited passengers,
facility and vehicle security, logical access control, etc.
Worldwide ID Solutions Value Chain Forecast: This forecast
uses mean values from publicly available biometric core technology forecasts to size the components of
biometrically enabled identification solutions.
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Market Development Analysis
The Trusted Password Model©:
An introduction to an evolving model for transforming traditional weak passwords into
trusted and secure biometric passwords.
Modeling Emerging-Technology Markets:
A framework for
understanding and exploiting the dynamics of technology adoption.
Market Development Methodology: An overview of Acuity's MDM© customized
approach to identifying and targeting the most lucrative market opportunities.
Industry Reports: These reports identify, prioritize and
size the most lucrative opportunities for emerging technology applications in
targeted vertical markets. Coincident with the production of these reports, Acuity
offers semi-custom research and analysis to a limited umber of sponsor organizations.
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Industry Analysis
Biometrics Industry Evolution: An industry market map
illustrates the likely evolution of the categories of industry players and thetypes of
relationships that will develop as the marketplace matures.
Biometrics Market Overviews
Biometrics Market Outlook 2004
The Identity Crisis - What Comes After the Post 9/11 Terrorism Hype?
Battle of the Biometrics
Biometrics Market: 911 Plus One
Vertical Industry and Application Analysis
Biometrics Comes of Age: From Core Technology to Identification Solutions
Biometrics and Border Control: Beyond US VIST
"I want my POS" - Biometrics in the Financial Services Arena
Biometrics and the Global Transportation Infrastructure
"Halt, who goes there? - Biometrics and the Enterprise
Digital IDs - Carving A Path for Worldwide Biometrics Adoption?
Whose Minding The Store? - Securing The World’s Food Supply
Combating Identity Theft - Biometrics and Trusted Identity
Waiting for the Windfall - Biometrics and the Government
Biometrics in Healthcare - HIPAA and Beyond
Technology Market Analysis
Voice Authentication - The Bastard Child of Biometrics
Signature Recognition - Is The Pen Mightier Than The Finger, The Iris, The Face...?
Smart Cards and Biometrics: Technology Integration and Market Synergy
Embedded Mobile Biometics - Is EMB The Industry's Future?
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Vendor Analysis
Public Company Players - Market Performance: The progress of public sector biometrics companies offers some interesting insight onto
how this market has evolved post 9/11. Surprisingly, an evaluation of eight of these
companies — those where revenue data publically available — indicate that there has been
no significant market growth.