IDC - Analyst Teams

Analyst's Research

Brian McDonough
Research Manager, Analytics and Data Warehousing Software

Team:
Business Intelligence and Analytics
Directions 2012 (U.S) Participating Analysts
Worldwide Software Research

The Science and Art of Decision Management at a Large Bank
Dan Vesset, Brian McDonough
Dec 2012 - Doc # 238627 Buyer Case Study

This IDC Buyer Case Study highlights the use of decision management techniques and technology at a large bank.

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Optimizing Performance Management
Brian McDonough
Dec 2012 - Doc # lcUS23880712 IDC Link

On December 4th, 2012, SAP announced that the City of Boston released its new performance scorecard as part of its Boston About Results (BAR) initiative. The City of Boston implemented SAP’s Strategy Management offering to help it track per ...

A Positive Turning Point for Cloud-Based Analytics
Brian McDonough
Dec 2012 - Doc # lcUS23880812 IDC Link

On November 28, 2012, Amazon announced that it is entering the over $8 billion worldwide data warehousing (DW) market with a service it calls Redshift. The announcement is further analyzed in a related IDC Link. In summary, although Amazon ...

Worldwide Big Data Technology and Services 2012–2016 Forecast
Dan Vesset, Ashish Nadkarni, Carl W. Olofson, David Schubmehl, Maureen Fleming, Mary Wardley, Brian McDonough, Jean S. Bozman, Steve Conway, Rob Brothers, Rohit Mehra, Melissa Webster, Richard L. Villars, Henry D. Morris, Ali Zaidi, Mukesh Dialani
Dec 2012 - Doc # 238746 Market Analysis

This IDC study examines the Big Data technology and services market for 2012–2016. The study describes IDC's definition of Big Data and the criteria and methodology for sizing the market. Further, the study segments the Big Data market i ...

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Market Analysis Perspective: Worldwide Business Analytics, 2012
Brian McDonough, Dan Vesset
Dec 2012 - Doc # 238539 IDC Presentation: Forecast

This IDC Presentation summarizes key demand and supply trends driving the business analytics software market and provides guidance to business analytics solution vendors looking to improve their competitive position within the industry.< ...

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SAP Enters the Financial Performance, Strategy Management, and GRC (FPSM) Applications Market in the Cloud
Brian McDonough
Sep 2012 - Doc # lcUS23714312 IDC Link

On September 10, 2012, SAP announced that it would release the first in a series of cloud-based applications that extend the functionality of its FPSM product suite collectively called SAP EPM OnDemand. The applications are built on the SAP ...

Worldwide Business Analytics Software 2012–2016 Forecast and 2011 Vendor Shares
Dan Vesset, Brian McDonough, Mary Wardley, David Schubmehl
Jun 2012 - Doc # 235494 Market Analysis

This IDC study examines vendor revenue performance in the business analytics software market for 2009–2011 and presents a forecast of the market, including its 12 segments, for 2012–2016. The study further presents short profiles of the ...

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Business Analytics Survey 2012: How Satisfied Are Organizations with Their Analytic Solutions?
Brian McDonough
Jun 2012 - Doc # 235423 Survey

This IDC study examines the findings from a recent survey of business analytics buyers who were asked, among other questions, to rate their satisfaction with the attributes of analytics solutions in use at their organizations.: "Bus ...

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Apparel Manufacturer and Wholesaler Analyzes Retail Performance with Business Analytics-as-a-Service Offering
Brian McDonough
Jun 2012 - Doc # 235295 Buyer Case Study

This IDC Buyer Case Study highlights the experience of one customer of a business analytics SaaS offering. The document discusses why the technology was chosen and what the experience of using the platform has been like, and it also exam ...

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Worldwide Financial Performance, Strategy Management, and GRC Applications 2011 Vendor Shares
Brian McDonough
May 2012 - Doc # 234848 Competitive Analysis

This IDC study examines the financial performance, strategy management, and GRC applications market for the 2009–2011 period. It briefly discusses the events that drove growth in 2011 and outlines the drivers of future growth in the mark ...

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Business Analytics as a Key Practice Area for Services
Henry D. Morris, Mukesh Dialani, Brian McDonough, Ali Zaidi
Mar 2012 - Doc # DR2012_T2_HM Event Proceeding

The following was presented at the IDC Directions conferences in San Jose and Boston in March 2012.

Worldwide Public Platform as a Service 2012–2015 Forecast
Stephen D. Hendrick, Melinda-Carol Ballou, Maureen Fleming, Al Hilwa, Brian McDonough, Carl W. Olofson, Dan Vesset
Feb 2012 - Doc # 232215 Market Analysis

This IDC study provides a 2011–2015 forecast for the worldwide public platform-as-a-service (PaaS) market. This is a competitive market that reports vendor revenue for application development and deployment products that are delivered as ...

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Worldwide Public Platform as a Service 2010 Vendor Shares
Stephen D. Hendrick, Melinda-Carol Ballou, Maureen Fleming, Al Hilwa, Brian McDonough, Carl W. Olofson, Dan Vesset
Feb 2012 - Doc # 232178 Competitive Analysis

This IDC study provides 2008–2010 revenue share data for the worldwide public platform-as-a-service (PaaS) market. This is a competitive market that reports vendor revenue for application development and deployment products that are deli ...

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SAP's Application Portfolio Expands from a Recent Analytics Acquisition, Further Confirming Trend
Brian McDonough
Jan 2012 - Doc # lcUS23275712 IDC Link

In the IDC study, Recent Software Vendor Acquisitions Go Beyond the Battle for the Cloud (IDC #232175, December 2011), we stated that business analytics software vendors would continue to make acquisitions of vendors with the following char ...

Worldwide Business Analytics Technology and Services 2011–2015 Forecast
Dan Vesset, Matthew Eastwood, Gard Little, Brian McDonough
Dec 2011 - Doc # 232186 Market Analysis

This IDC study presents a forecast for the business analytics technology and services market from 2011 to 2015. It also includes commentary on the market drivers and forecast assumptions.: "After three decades, the business analytic ...

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Recent Software Vendor Acquisitions Go Beyond the Battle for the Cloud
Brian McDonough
Dec 2011 - Doc # 232175 Insight

This IDC Insight provides an overview and opinion of several acquisitions made during 2011 that point to the industry's drive to consolidate both cloud and analytic application functionalities.

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Oracle Real-Time Decisions at Dell: Decision Management in Practice
Brian McDonough
Dec 2011 - Doc # 232123 Buyer Case Study

This IDC Buyer Case Study examines the challenges faced by Dell as it sought to improve customer service and sales. The document further discusses the technology Dell implemented to help it achieve its goals and the experience it had onc ...

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Market Analysis Perspective: Worldwide Business Analytics Solutions, 2011
Dan Vesset, Brian McDonough
Dec 2011 - Doc # 232211 IDC Presentation

In this presentation the authors summarize key demand and supply trends driving the business analytics software market and provide guidance to business analytics solution vendors looking to improve their competitive position within the i ...

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