The Decision Support Database is a collection of tables that show fundamental quantitative market measurements, both historic and forecasted, for the market sector of interest. This comprehensive quantitative research provides insights into what factors are driving your markets and where they are forecasted to go in the future. 

The Frost & Sullivan Decision Support Database provides clients with a solid foundation for making critical business decisions. Each Decision Support Database offers essential quantitative measurements for the market that can be used to identify underlying factors that are influencing supply and demand, market growth, and market potential for new products.  We combine five measurement categories to provide invaluable market intelligence for each market sector:

• Industry Measurements - Size, activity and growth of the industry to which the particular market sector belongs
• Sector Measurements - Activity, international trade, regulatory status and other variables specific to the market sector
• Dependent Sector Measurements - Status and growth of sectors that are crucial to growth of the business sector in focus
• Resource Measurements - Data on the entire spectrum of resources relevant to the market sector 
• Social & Economic Measurements - Demographic, psychographic, social and economic growth trends related to the business sector

The Decision Support Database is an essential tool that should be used to support and add conviction to your decision-making process. The quantitative historic and forecast data available in each Decision Support Database can be used for a variety of strategy and planning initiatives, and by members of many departments within your organization, including research & development, marketing, and sales.  Utilize the Frost & Sullivan Decision Support Database (DSD) to:

• Monitor growth rates across major regions and countries
  Identify high growth and low growth regions and countries for each measurement or set of measurements. Rate the country positions across measurements to complete a quick analysis of the global market.
• Identify market size and estimate market potential
  Use information in DSD tables for a bird’s eye view of the best performing countries for a particular market segment.  Derive estimates of the market potential for a product or service through the application sector or end-user measurements. 
• Support your business planning process
  Use the diverse set of measurements to bolster your decision on allocation of sales force within a region, investment in product upgrades, new product introduction or expansion, and allocation of resources by region.
  

DECISION SUPPORT DATABASES BY MARKET

Aerospace & Defense			Chemicals, Materials & Foods
Communication & IT			Electronics
Environment & Energy			Healthcare
Industrial Automation			Transportation