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 1.13 billion cell phones
• Equip more than 200 communications service providers
• Advance next-generation integrated voice, video and data
• Analyze the causes and cures for disease
• 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

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 supplier to the telecommunications industry.

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.

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.

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.

The markets for our electronic measurement business include communications test and general purpose test.

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
• Wireless Communications
• Microwave Networks.

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
• High Frequency Electronic Design Tools
• Electronics Manufacturing Gest Equipment
• Thin-film Transistor Array Test Equipment 

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.

Our bio-analytical measurement business focuses on life sciences and chemical analysis.  Within life sciences, our primary market categories are:

• Pharmaceutical Companies
• Biotechnology Companies
• Contract Research Organizations and Contract Marketing Organizations
• Academic and Government Organizations
• Clinical Diagnostics 

Within chemical analysis, Agilent focuses on the following markets:

• Petrochemical
• Environmental
• Homeland Security
• Forensics
• Bioagriculture
• Food Safety 

The key product categories for the bio-analytical measurements business include:

• Microarrays
• Microfluidics
• Gas Chromatography
• Consumables and Services
• Nano-positioning Systems
• Liquid Chromatography
• Mass Spectrometry
• Software and Informatics
• Atomic-Force Microscopy
• Scanning Probe Microscopy 

Agilent Labs is our central research organization based in Santa Clara, California, with satellite offices in Beijing, China; Everett, Washington; Leuven, Belgium; and South Queensferry, Scotland. Agilent Labs engages primarily in two types of research: 1) applied research that leads to technology that can be transferred to our existing businesses in communications, electronics, life sciences and chemical analysis, and 2) research that creates new businesses that are outside of our current markets but within our fields of interest. Agilent Labs also provides technology integration across our company.

We sell our products primarily through direct sales, but we also utilize distributors, resellers, manufacturer’s representatives, telesales and electronic commerce.