GI offers assistance to vendors in tailoring their products and services to the demands of the emerging distributed environment. Employing a holistic approach, we assist vendors in determining the most affective technology(s) to employ in its product line, appropriate marketing strategies and product positioning.

MGI’s mix of expertise provides an external mechanism for technology transfer, allowing different industries to apply the "Best of Breed" from other industries. For example, MGI may apply an advance in hardware technologies to systems development techniques.

MGI vendor consulting is divided into four segments:

Internet Service Providers

With the massive changes in the ISP industry, it is even more important to build a long term strategy. We have worked with ISPs, both large and small, helping define strategic plans and identify and structure new product areas. We can help you chart a course through the turbulence that will occur over the next three years. Should you refocus your business? Should you sell your company or buy other ISP? What new services will help your company achieve differentiation? We can help you make these decisions critical to your company’s future.

Telecommunications Service Providers

The deregulation of the "Bell System," technology and a thriving world economy have resulted in increased network construction, new product development by telecommunications suppliers of many disciplines, and a worldwide market demand. The monopoly breakdown resulted in reduced domestic and international long distance costs initially, alternative suppliers of local services, and advances in network and customer hardware.

MGI management has experience in all of these areas of communications. MGI can help you become a switched or non-switched reseller, a facilities based carrier, or carrier’s carrier. MGI’s Private Carrier Service is a unique product enabling large commercial enterprises with high volume telephone usage to become its own carrier-- thereby eliminating the need of a traditional carrier and reducing cost 60% to 75%.

Hardware Vendors

New and old hardware products will be part of the enhanced computing environment brought on by the expansion of the Internet. The Internet will accelerate new ways to connect with the Net, encourage the use of highly portable devices and, eventually permeate your entire product lines.

We envisage new hardware platforms, ranging from the desktop to the wallet. As these new platforms emerge, changes to the entire hardware industry will emerge. We help vendors determine what new products that will become significant within the next five years. These products range from smart cards to new computer architectures to storage systems.

Software Vendors

As the Internet evolves, new software and application architectures will become necessary. We envision the Internet changing the entire application architecture that will become standard by 2005. We see that companies and offices will become more virtual over the next five years. The consumer market will expand dramatically as pervasive, low cost Internet access becomes a reality.

As these changes unfold, new market leaders will emerge and current leaders will fade into the background. It is necessary for software vendors to be positioned to take advantage of these changes before they occur if they expect to remain significant market players.

We work with vendors to determine the application domains their current and future software offerings will become an integral component. We assist management in building strategic plans for future product lines. Then, we work with software and business planners to identify the elements that will make their software the best available. We also work with management to determine potential business relationships, mergers or acquisitions the further their future product lines.