Keiser monitors a database of 700 companies and listens to quarterly conference calls across the entire tech landscape: software, hardware, semiconductors, Internet services and telecommunications.
It provides another measure of the scale of software piracy and allows for important year-over-year comparisons of changes in the software piracy landscape.
The Internet began to even things out a bit, and the payment landscape became less about being able to integrate the hardware and more about online access to the right software for functions like inventory and accounting.