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Agilent Fast Facts
Net Revenue FY '08
U.S. $5.8 billion
Number of Employees
18,000
President and CEO
William P. (Bill) Sullivan
Headquarters
Santa Clara, California |
As the world’s premier measurement company, Agilent works in close collaboration with engineers, scientists, and researchers around the globe to meet the communications, electronics, life sciences, and chemical analysis challenges of today and tomorrow. The company operates two primary businesses -- electronic and bio-analytical measurement -- supported by Agilent Laboratories, its central research group. Agilent is committed to providing innovative measurement solutions that enable our customers and partners-- the leaders in their fields -- to deliver the products and services that make a measurable difference in the lives of people everywhere. With a singular focus on measurement, Agilent helps:
- Test more than half of the world’s 1.3 billion cell phones
- Equip more than 200 communications service providers
- Analyze the causes and cures for disease
- Advance next-generation integrated voice, video and data
- Enable the military to be more flexible, mobile and reliable
- Make the world more safe and secure from crime and drugs
- Aid the discovery and quality of medicines
- Keep our air, water, soil and food clean and safe
Market Leadership
Agilent holds many product and market leadership positions, including being first worldwide in overall test and measurement products, as well as gas chromatographs and liquid chromatography/mass spectrometry. Agilent is also a leading test and measurement equipment supplier to the telecommunications industry.
History
Agilent spun off from Hewlett-Packard Company in 1999 as part of a corporate realignment that created two separate companies. Its roots date to 1939, when Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard started a company that helped shape Silicon Valley and the technology industry. The two founders are renowned for their visionary approach to management (known as the “HP Way”) and for their commitment to making products that contribute to advances in science and technology.
Culture
Agilent continues to support the values that made Dave Packard and Bill Hewlett’s company a success: dedication to innovation; trust, respect and teamwork; and uncompromising integrity. Added to these are speed, focus and accountability to meet customer needs and create a culture of performance that draws on the full range of people’s skills and aspirations.
Community and Social Responsibility
Agilent’s effect on the global community is not only measured by the company’s precision tools, but also by the impact it makes on people’s lives. Agilent’s worldwide community programs enrich people’s lives around the globe via grants, employee volunteerism, and community partnerships in our focus areas of science education and health and human services. In addition, through Agilent’s University Relations program, we collaborate closely with leading universities worldwide, contributing funds and the expertise of our employees to important research projects.
 Agilent's electronic measurement business provides standard and customized electronic measurement instruments and systems, monitoring, management and optimization tools for communications networks and services, software design tools and related services that are used in the design, development, manufacture, installation, deployment and operation of electronics equipment and communications networks and services. |
Markets
The markets for our electronic measurement business include communications test and general purpose test.
Product areas
In communications test, Agilent sells products and services for the following types of networks and systems:
- Fiber Optics Networks
- Transport Networks
- Broadband and Data Networks
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- Wireless Communications
- Microwave Networks.
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We also provide solutions to enable network, service and customer assurance for network operators.
General purpose test products include:
- General Purpose Instruments
- Modular Instruments and Test Software
- Digital Design Products
- Parametric Test Products
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- High Frequency Electronic Design Tools
- Electronics Manufacturing Test Equipment
- Thin-film Transistor Array Test Equipment
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Product Backgrounders:
See all available Electronic Measurement backgrounders.
Bio-Analytical Measurement
 Agilent's bio-analytical measurement business provides application-focused solutions that include instruments, software, consumables and services that enable customers to identify, quantify and analyze the physical and biological properties of substances and products.
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Markets
Our bio-analytical measurement business focuses on life sciences and chemical analysis. Within life sciences, our markets are:
- Pharmaceutical Companies
- Biotechnology Companies
- Academic and Government Laboratories
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- Contract Research Organizations and Contract Marketing Organization
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Within chemical analysis, Agilent focuses on the following markets:
- Petrochemical
- Environmental
- Food Safety
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- Forensics
- Bioagriculture
- Homeland Security
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Market Backgrounders:
See all available Life Science and Chemical Analysis backgrounders.
Product areas
The key product categories for the bio-analytical measurements business include:
- Gas Chromatography
- Liquid Chromatography
- Mass Spectrometry
- Microarrays
- Microfluidics
- Consumables and Services
- ICP-MS
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- Reagents
- Capillary electrophoresis
- Lab automation
- Software and Informatics
- Atomic-Force Microscopy
- Scanning Probe Microscopy
- Particle analyzers
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Product Backgrounders:
See all available Life Science and Chemical Analysis backgrounders.
 Agilent Laboratories is our central research organization based in Santa Clara, California, with additional locations in Beijing, China; Leuven, Belgium; and South Queensferry, Scotland. Agilent Laboratories creates competitive advantage through high-impact technology, driving market leadership and growth in Agilent’s core businesses and expanding Agilent’s measurement footprint into adjacent markets. At the cross-roads of the organization, Labs is able to identify and enable synergies across Agilent’s businesses to create competitive differentiation and compelling customer value.
The technical staff at Agilent Laboratories have advanced degrees that cover a wide range of scientific and engineering fields, including biology, chemistry, computer science, distributed measurement, electrical engineering, image processing, materials science, mathematics, microfabrication, microfluidics, software, informatics, optics, physics, physiology and signal processing. |
Agilent Sales and Support
 We sell our products primarily through direct sales, but we also utilize distributors, resellers, manufacturer’s representatives, telesales and electronic commerce.
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