Products that customers have identified they need or that technologists believe they can produce as a result of their technologies.  Product needs are derived by merging both market pull and technology push.  Products involve the application of technologies to solve problems of customers.  Roadmaps also depend on the technologist’s forecast of product capabilities that our customers maynot be aware of.  In some cases, a roadmap addresses a need for which there is no current product.

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