Many companies commission internal surveys to seek questions to pressing market research, competition, and market trend answers – just as many also completely ignore the findings and recommendations. Much can be gained from surveys and research, and much of it is free and easily accessible online. Various websites and legal associations publish annual technology spending, purchasing and IT trend surveys that include very useful statistics and trending info anyone can utilize. ALM Research publishes a plethora of firm-specific statistics, from revenue information (AmLaw surveys) to scorecards to rankings of "who represents who" in corporate America; Law Firm Inc. publishes the popular AmLaw Tech purchasing survey (spanning the AmLaw 200 firms) in the Fall; ILTA and Envision Agency produce an annual survey of IT spending trends among large ILTA member firms (over 100 attorney firms), and ILTA also provides a comprehensive technology survey spanning its entire membership. Add to that the comprehensive ABA technology survey (which based on its membership covers a larger segment of the small firm legal market), and tech companies can rely on these available resources to get a better grasp of what their law firm and corporate legal clients are buying, how much they are spending, and what they are looking to purchase in the future.  If we left off anyone, let us know.