• IDC Insights:

    Industry Focus:

    • Energy
    • Financial
    • Government
    • Health
    • Manufacturing
    • Retail

    IDC Insights lines of business assist businesses and IT leaders in making more effective technology decisions by providing insightful fact-based research and consulting services. Our global research and analysis is focused on mitigating technology risks and maximizing the effectiveness of IT investments.

  • ENERGY

    Areas of expertise:

    • Smart Grid
    • Clean Energy
    • Intelligent Oil & Gas

    IDC Energy Insights assists energy businesses and IT leaders in making more effective technology decisions by providing insightful fact-based research and consulting services. Our global research analyzes and advises on business and technology issues facing the utility and oil & gas industries.

  • FINANCIAL

    Areas of expertise:

    • Mobile Banking and Payment
    • Enterprise Risk Management
    • Cash Management & Liquidity
    • Buy Side Operations

    IDC Financial Insights assists financial services business and IT leaders in making more effective technology decisions by providing insightful fact-based research and consulting services. Our global research analyzes and advises on business and technology issues facing the banking, insurance, and securities and investments industries.

  • GOVERNMENT

    Areas of expertise:

    • Infrastructure Consolidation
    • Open Government

    IDC Government Insights assists Government and IT leaders in making more effective technology decisions by providing insightful fact-based research and consulting services. Our global research analyzes and advises on business and technology issues facing the Federal/Central and local/provincial Governments.

  • HEALTH

    Areas of expertise:

    • EMR and EHR for Providers
    • Connected Health
    • Healthcare Industry Reform
    • Life Sciences Value Chain

    IDC Health Insights assists health businesses and IT leaders in making more effective technology decisions by providing insightful fact-based research and consulting services. Our global research analyzes and advises on business and technology issues facing the payer, provider and life sciences industries.

  • MANUFACTURING

    Areas of expertise:

    • Supply Chain Modernization
    • Next Generation Product Lifecycle Management
    • Operational Technology

    IDC Manufacturing Insights assists manufacturing businesses and IT leaders in making more effective technology decisions by providing insightful fact-based research and consulting services. Our global research analyzes and advises on business and technology issues associated with design, development and distribution of goods across markets.

  • RETAIL

    Areas of expertise:

    • Retail PLM and Sourcing Optimization
    • Customer Experience (Retail Omnichannel)
    • Merchandising Strategies

    IDC Retail Insights assists retail businesses and IT leaders in making more effective technology decisions by providing insightful fact-based research and consulting services. Our global research analyzes and advises on business and technology issues facing the retail industry.

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Using QPI for Sales Enablement

Whether we provide you with a custom solution, or one of our standard interface options, we deliver high quality datasets and interfaces as one turnkey solution.

QPI Server Performance Certificate

Create Sales Collateral Specific to the Opportunity In Seconds

  • Ready to use sales collateral
  • Easy method to validate your server’s performance
  • Common metric compares all servers of all major vendors over the past 15 years
  • Solidify cost justification with wary buyers
Certificate lists IDC’s performance values for each chosen server.
*Certificates capable of showing additional third party benchmarks (TPC, SPEC, etc.), energy ratings and rack units.
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Server Decision Metrics

Quickly Identify and Compare User’s Existing Vs Proposed Servers

  • Import user servers from a file for quick comparisons
  • Provides a balanced scorecard of the most important server buying attributes
  • Build an evaluation in minutes that will help validate your solution’s overall value proposition
  • Common metric compares all servers of all major vendors over the past 15 years
A more robust version of the QPI Server Performance Certificate taking a deeper dive into comparative metrics, including energy and space.

A Solution Specific To Your Needs

Complex ROI/TCO Tools, Custom Variants of Our Standard Tools

Between our own vast experience in building interfaces that support our data sets, and that of our qualified partners, such as Alinean, IDC fills any and all client requirements for a solution.

For more information about the IDC Qualified Performance Indicator (QPI) please contact Brian Clarke at bclarke@idc.com or (508) 935-4765 or Ken Hoyt at khoyt@idc.com or (508) 935-4238.