Aperture Spaces

Aperture Spaces is a tool designed to facilitate opportunity exploration for innovators, ranging from startups to Fortune 500 companies. According to the vendor, this data-driven platform provides a customized and fully explorable view of unmet market needs in areas relevant to an organization. Business analysts, innovation managers, market researchers, product managers, and technology consultants across various industries can utilize Aperture Spaces to gain insights and identify emerging opportunities.

Key Features

Maps: Users can instantly visualize the landscape of a specific market, technology, trend, or other focus area. They can identify important and emerging needs in the market or filter for areas that align best with their company's products and technologies, according to the vendor.

Problems: Aperture Spaces goes beyond trends and technologies to uncover specific unmet market needs and customer problems within a given space. Users can explore and analyze over a thousand unique problems to find inspiration for building new products, services, or strategies, as claimed by the vendor.

Tech Fit: The Tech Fit feature helps users find connections between their specific technologies and the opportunities within a Space. According to the vendor, Aperture Spaces can pinpoint the applications and problems that users' technologies can address. Users can see how their technologies map onto specific markets or widen the view to identify the best opportunities across all markets.

Example SpacesTM Topics: Aperture Spaces offers a range of curated datasets, known as Spaces, covering various topics such as Carbon Capture, Utilization, & Storage, Fire Protection Technologies, E-Mobility, 3D Printing, Smart Materials, Batteries, Quantum Computing, and Smart Grids. Each Space provides insights into market challenges, emerging technologies, and unmet needs in the respective topic area, according to the vendor.

Customization: Most SpacesTM in Aperture Spaces are customized to fit the specific needs and topics of interest for clients. The vendor states that the customization process takes approximately 1-2 weeks to tailor a Space that aligns with the client's requirements.

Specific: Aperture Spaces provides data-driven insights about technologies, companies, and their unmet market needs, down to specific products, services, components, and more. According to the vendor, the platform offers detailed and actionable data-driven insights, going beyond superficial analysis.

Immersive: Unlike generic market research reports, Aperture Spaces allows users to explore the underlying data sources and drill down into the details, uncovering hidden connections that might go unnoticed. The vendor claims that this feature enables users to gain a deeper understanding of key trends and innovations.

Accessible: Aperture Spaces is priced at approximately the cost of a market report, making it affordable for teams of all sizes, from startups to Fortune 500 companies. The vendor ensures that there are no required long-term commitments or user restrictions, making the platform accessible to a wide range of users.