The Financial Times led its front page earlier this week with a story about Microsoft "preparing to reverse course over key elements of its Windows 8 operating system, marking one of the most prominent admissions of failure for a new mass-m ...

On April 4, HP announced an improved enterprise mobility offering with cloud-based management solution. HP then briefed the analyst community in early May on the details of the Enhanced Enterprise Cloud (ECS) mobility offering.

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The EMEA Network Life-Cycle Services Taxonomy defines the services that are covered through research in the EMEA network life-cycle services Continuous Information Services (CIS) from IDC's European Services Group. Network life-cycle ser ...

On February 27, 2013, KPN published its annual report for calendar year 2012. KPN's 2012 revenue was down 4.7% to €12.4 billion, with EBITDA (excluding restructuring costs) down 11% to €4.7 billion. Net profit for the period was reported do ...

This IDC Presentation was delivered in April 2013 to organizations subscribing to IDC's European Services programs.: The presentation comments on the main events in 1Q13, discusses the revenue progress of the key vendors during 4Q12 ...

This IDC Presentation was presented to a vendor audience on March 26, 2013. It highlights the impact of the mobility and BYOD trends on the desktop or workplace services market. It also recommends a course of action for vendors that wish ...

This IDC Insight presents the main findings and discussion points from three IDC mobility-related presentations given as part of a vendor-focused IDC event held in London on March 26, 2013. The aim of this event was to explore and discus ...

This IDC presentation shows end-user organizations' attitudes toward network services. The study is part of a series of studies based on IDC's annual European Enterprise Services Survey that looks at different aspects of Eu ...

This IDC Presentation was delivered in January 2013 to organizations subscribing to IDC's European services programs.: The presentation comments on the main events in 4Q12, discusses the revenue progress of the key vendors during 3Q ...

Dell Wyse recently briefed IDC about its desktop virtualization solutions. This Event Flash highlights the company's portfolio and provides IDC's opinion on the company's strengths and weaknesses within this market in Europe.

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This IDC study contains our forecasts for the enterprise and service provider markets of the EMEA network consulting and integration services (NCIS) market for 2011–2016. As we have seen from the various forecasts presented in this study ...

 On November 29, Cisco announced its intention to buy privately owned Cariden Technologies Inc., a Sunnyvale, California-based supplier of network planning, design, and traffic management solutions for telecommunications service providers.C ...

This IDC study looks at end-user organizations' attitudes toward network services. The study is part of a series of studies based on IDC's annual European Enterprise Services Survey that looks at different aspects of ...

On November 15, Cisco announced its intention to acquire Cloupia for $125 million. Cloupia's infrastructure software automates the management of converged datacenter infrastructures with a view to "simplify the deployment and configuration ...

Avaya gave a briefing to analysts on November 20, focusing on its EMEA operations market activity go-to-market strategies and execution for 2012–2013. At the same time Avaya also provided its long-term vision to 2017. This was followed b ...

Consumerization will bring a sea change in the desktop services arena. The convergence of traditional desktop and mobile devices, the emergence of new device types, new applications and the changing attitudes of the new end-user generati ...

Fujitsu Limited held its annual customer and analyst forum in Munich on November 6–8. This IDC Event Flash takes a look at the company's vision and services strategy across Europe.

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This week, BT published its 2Q financial results for the period up to September 30, 2012. The headline results are as follows: total revenue is down 9% to £4,474 million (5% underlying ex-transit; down only 0.2% sequentially), EBITDA flat t ...

This IDC Presentation was delivered in October 2012 to organizations subscribing to IDC's European Services programs.: The presentation comments on the main events in 3Q12, discusses the revenue progress of the key vendors in 2Q12, ...

This IDC Presentation was delivered in July 2012 to organizations subscribing to IDC's European Services programs.: The presentation comments on the main events in 2Q12, discusses the revenue progress of the key vendors during 1Q12, ...

This IDC Event Flash reviews the Verizon Analyst Forum, held in London on May 23, 2012. During the event, executives from Verizon provided a comprehensive view on the company's portfolio of service offerings and laid out their strategy f ...

This IDC study forecasts developments in the Western European network life cycle services (NLCS) market and provides an analysis of trends vendors can expect over the 2011–2016 forecast period. Services within NLCS include consulting, in ...

This IDC study represents a vendor assessment of the European desktop virtualization services market through the IDC MarketScape model. This assessment discusses both quantitative and qualitative characteristics that lead to vendor succe ...

In this IDC presentation, we highlight IDC's top 10 predictions for the EMEA network life-cycle services market in 2012. The predictions were presented internally in February 2012 and complement a broader set of services presented to IDC ...

This IDC study presents our latest forecast (still preliminary) for the EMEA network consulting and integration market for 2010–2015. This study highlights the overall market size and growth for Western Europe as well as the EMEA region. ...

In this IDC presentation, we look at expectations for the European services market in 2012 in 10 predictions. The predictions were presented to IDC's customers in a Web conference on December 13, 2011.