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Philip Carter
Associate Vice President, IDC European Software

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Red Hat Drives Significant Growth in Europe as Open Source Software Gains Traction
Philip Carter, Andreas Olah, Carla Arend
May 2013 - Doc # lcDE24113213      IDC Link
Recently, Red Hat announced its fourth quarter financial results as well as its full year fiscal results for 2013. Total revenue for the Q4 was $348 million, an increase of 17% in U.S. dollars from the year ago quarter, or 18% measured in c ...
2013 End-User Software Trends in Europe
Bo Lykkegaard, Alys Woodward, Spencer Izard, Carla Arend, Philip Carter, Kevin Bailey
May 2013 - Doc # LC52V      Event Proceeding
In this IDC Web Conference, IDC shares the results from its large, annual end-user survey of 700 European IT decision makers from small, midsize, and large European organizations. IDC asked the respondents on their business and IT priori ...
Assessing the Impact of the European Macroeconomic Environment on Software Spend in Western Europe in 2013 and Beyond
Rasmus Andsbjerg, Philip Carter
Apr 2013 - Doc # LC04V      Market Analysis
This document provides readers of this research with an understanding of the state of the Western European software market — currently and in the future. Historically, as part of the IT forecasting process, IDC has always assumed a tight ...
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Box: Cloud Content-Based Collaboration for the Enterprise Comes to Europe
Alys Woodward, David Bradshaw, Philip Carter
Apr 2013 - Doc # lcUK24068513      IDC Link
At a recent analyst event in London, Box provided an insight into its progress and future direction as it expands into Europe. Box provides a service that enables the sharing of files between users and between different devices owned by eac ...
Western Europe M2M Trends, Partnerships, and the Key to Success
Angela Salmeron, Philip Carter, John Gole
Mar 2013 - Doc # EP52V      Event Proceeding
This Web Conference was presented on March 19 by Angela Salmeron (research manager, EMEA Enterprise Mobility), John Gole (program director of the Telecommunications Practice in Central and Eastern Europe, Middle East, and Africa), and Ph ...
Machine-to-Machine (M2M): Where Is the Market Opportunity in Europe?
Angela Salmeron, Philip Carter, John Gole
Mar 2013 - Doc # LM01V      Industry Development and Models
This IDC study examines the Western European machine-to-machine (M2M) market for 2012–2017 with revenue trends and market growth forecasts. This study identifies the characteristics that wireless operators need to be successful in the M2 ...
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HP's Q1 2013 Results – A European Software Perspective
Philip Carter
Feb 2013 - Doc # lcDE23973813      IDC Link
For its first fiscal quarter ended January 31, 2013, HP reported a 6% decline in overall revenue to $28.3 billion (down 4% in constant currency) year over year. However the key metric within the financial statements that HP highlighted was ...
IDC European Software Predictions, 2013: Cloud, Social, Mobile, and Big Data Intersect to Drive Transformation
Alys Woodward, Bo Lykkegaard, Carla Arend, David Bradshaw, Kevin Bailey, Philip Carter, Spencer Izard
Jan 2013 - Doc # LT51V      Event Proceeding
This IDC Presentation describes IDC's European software predictions for 2012. The predictions are::
  • Cloud ERP Reaches a Tipping Point in 2013
  • More European Cloud Datacenters Will Address Users' Data Residency Concerns ...
  • Assessing IBM's Software Portfolio and Strategy: What Partners Need to Know
    Philip Carter, Henry D. Morris
    Jan 2013 - Doc # EP51V      Insight
    This IDC Insight provides an assessment of IBM's software portfolio based on its recent acquisitions, announcements, and activities in this space but with a specific focus on the implications of these for its partners in the European reg ...
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    SAP Enables Its Flagship Business Suite to Run on Its HANA In-Memory Computing Platform
    Bo Lykkegaard, Alys Woodward, Philip Carter
    Jan 2013 - Doc # lcDK23908113      IDC Link
    On January 10, 2013, SAP announced that it has enabled its flagship ERP suite, SAP Business Suite, to run on its HANA in-memory database. Two months earlier at SapphireNOW in Madrid, SAP announced that its CRM application, SAP CRM, was able ...
    IBM in Europe: The Juggernaut Moves Forward, but is it Fast Enough?
    Philip Carter, Alys Woodward, Dom Webb, Marianne Kolding, José Curto
    Jan 2013 - Doc # LT52V      Insight
    This document provides an assessment of IBM's overall business in Europe based on its recently announced financial results for its fiscal year 2012, as well as the IBM Analyst Insights Event in Madrid in December 2012.: It also aims ...
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    Mastering Before Selling: ec4u's Innovative Approach to CRM in the Cloud
    Jan van Vonno, Philip Carter
    Jan 2013 - Doc # EP52U      Vendor Profile
    This IDC Partner Profile assesses ec4u expert consulting ag, a platinum Oracle partner for CRM in the German-speaking regions of Europe. With over 170 employees in total and more than 70 certified Oracle consultants, ec4u is recognized a ...
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    European ISVs on the Salesforce.com Platform
    David Bradshaw, Philip Carter, Jan van Vonno
    Jan 2013 - Doc # SP55U      Event Flash
    At a recent event in London, salesforce.com demonstrated that it is capable of attracting European ISV partners and helping them to succeed in taking their solutions to market. It highlighted three partners at this event — Cameleon Softw ...
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    Key Takeaways from SAPPHIRE NOW, Madrid 2012: SAP's HANA Journey Continues
    Philip Carter, Henry D. Morris, Bo Lykkegaard, Raymond Boggs, Ranjit Rajan, Spencer Izard, Tomasz Sloniewski, Alex Kwiatkowski, Lorenzo Veronesi, David Bradshaw, Christine Bardwell, Silvia Piai, Matthias Zacher, Kimberly Knickle, Massimiliano Claps, Alys Woodward
    Dec 2012 - Doc # LC58U      Insight
    This IDC Insight examines the recent SAPPHIRE NOW event from November 12–16, 2012, in Madrid, Spain. It aims to provide an overview of SAP's key announcements at the event, how these fit into its ongoing technology and go-to-market strat ...
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    Betapond: Facebook Innovators Leveraging Salesforce.com's Heroku Platform
    Jan van Vonno, Philip Carter
    Dec 2012 - Doc # EP51U      Vendor Profile
    This IDC Vendor Profile assesses Betapond, a Facebook marketing technology company that helps brands build Web-based applications that connect audiences to specific brands and events. The study highlights Betapond's "social by design" ap ...
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    Fujitsu's Forum: Reshaping ICT, Reshaping Business — The European Services Perspective
    Lionel Lamy, Mette Ahorlu, Annsofie Petersson, Philip Carter
    Nov 2012 - Doc # PM57U      Event Flash
    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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    Oracle's 1Q FY13 Report: As the Company Shows Hardware-Related Decline in Quarterly Growth, It Meets Profit Expectations and Expands Business Globally
    Jean S. Bozman, Crawford Del Prete, Michael Fauscette, Philip Carter
    Sep 2012 - Doc # lcUS23712912      IDC Link
    Oracle Corp. reported $8.2 billion in revenue for Q1 FY13, a slight decline of 2% year over year, as announced in its quarterly earnings call on September 20, 2012. Net income grew 11% to $2.03 billion, equaling Wall Street analysts' estima ...
    SAS Inside Intelligence 2012 — Analyst Conference: High-Power Business Analytics on a High-Performance Analytics Platform
    Craig Stires, Daniel-Zoe Jimenez, Sharon Tan, Michael Araneta, Philip Carter
    Sep 2012 - Doc # AP2670117U      Insight
    This IDC Insight provides some of the key highlights from the SAS Inside Intelligence 2012: A SAS Conference for Industry Analysts, which took place on June 12–14, 2012 at Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain. This will cover the overall high ...
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    The End of Statistical Sampling? SAS Contributes to a New Era of Analytics with the International Launch of High Performance Analytics Server (HPAS)
    Philip Carter, Alys Woodward
    Jul 2012 - Doc # lcDE23630112      IDC Link
    As organizations start to adopt the new class of technologies required to process, discover and analyze the increasingly growing data sets that cannot be dealt with using traditional databases and architectures, IDC believes that it will be ...
    How European Organizations Procure and Deploy Software: The IT Versus Line of Business Balance of Power
    Philip Carter
    Jul 2012 - Doc # LC56U      IDC Presentation
    This IDC Presentation aims to assess the balance of power between IT and LOB executives as it relates to the software procurement and deployment life cycle in European organizations.: It leverages IDC's European Software E ...
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    SAP Posts Strong Results Across Geographies for an Outstanding Quarter
    Henry D. Morris, Daniel-Zoe Jimenez, Philip Carter, Thomas Vavra
    Jul 2012 - Doc # lcUS23624812      IDC Link
    SAP announced a record FYQ2 with 19% software license growth and 15% software and software-related services (SSRS) growth in constant currency. This is a rebound from Q1, putting SAP back on track to meet its annual guidance of 10–12% SSRS ...
    Vendor Consolidation Expected to Drive Increased Adoption of Social CRM in Europe
    Philip Carter, Alys Woodward, Bo Lykkegaard, Mary Wardley
    Jul 2012 - Doc # lcDE23598212      IDC Link
    This link assesses a flurry of acquisitions in the Social CRM space and their expected impact on the marketing budgets of European organizations moving forward. Most of this activity has been driven by Oracle, with its acquisitions of Vitru ...
    Emerging ISVs in Asia/Pacific: The ISS Group
    Philip Carter, Suchitra Narayan
    Apr 2012 - Doc # AP8247502U      Vendor Profile
    This IDC Vendor Profile assesses ISS Group, a publicly listed ISV with headquarters in Australia, which has a key stronghold in key emerging growth industries in Asia/Pacific, namely oil and gas, as well as mining and minerals. The objec ...
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    "Engineered for Innovation" at Oracle: The IDC Opinion on Implications for Customers and Prospects in Asia/Pacific
    Philip Carter, Matthew Oostveen
    Mar 2012 - Doc # AP2670108U      Insight
    This IDC Insight provides an overview of Oracle's recent announcements across its various business lines. Some of these came at Oracle OpenWorld 2011 in San Francisco, but it also includes an assessment of Oracle's movements subsequent t ...
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    IDC Asia/Pacific (Excluding Japan) Channel 2012 Top 10 Predictions
    Suchitra Narayan, Philip Carter, Kerstin Baxter
    Mar 2012 - Doc # AP8247501U      Top 10 Predictions
    This IDC study presents our 2012 top 10 predictions for the Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan), or APEJ, channel ecosystem, with influencing technology trends and market views.: "By 2015, emerging countries in APEJ will contribute appro ...
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    SAP Excels Across All Regions for a Record 2011
    Henry D. Morris, Daniel-Zoe Jimenez, Philip Carter, Bo Lykkegaard
    Jan 2012 - Doc # lcUS23288112      IDC Link
    (Scott Guinn also contributed to this link.)SAP wrapped up 2011 with a strong quarter to finish up a banner 2011, preannouncing the results 10 days early, as the company exceeded the preestablished guidance. Highlights were:· Software and s ...
    SAPPHIRE NOW Beijing 2011: Enabling Technology and Business "Co-Innovation" in China
    Philip Carter, Chris Zhang, Toby Chen
    Jan 2012 - Doc # AP2670110U      Insight
    This IDC Insight examines the recent SAPPHIRE NOW & TechEd event that took place in Beijing in November 2011. It provides an overview of SAP's key announcements at the event and how these fit into its ongoing technology, marketing, and s ...
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    SAP Analyst Base Camp Singapore 2011: Assessing the Opportunity for HANA, Mobility, and Cloud in Asia/Pacific
    Philip Carter, Daniel-Zoe Jimenez, Sabharinath Balasubramanian, Chris Zhang
    Jan 2012 - Doc # AP2670107U      Insight
    This IDC Insight provides IDC's assessment of SAP's strategy for the region based on the information presented at the Analyst Base Camp in Singapore, as well as ongoing discussions with SAP's clients and partners. It will specifically fo ...
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    Asia/Pacific (Excluding Japan) Social Business and Social Media 2012 Top 10 Predictions
    Claus Mortensen, Audrey Heng, Philip Carter, Daniel-Zoe Jimenez
    Dec 2011 - Doc # AP6684806T      Top 10 Predictions
    This IDC study discusses the factors that we believe will have the biggest impact on social media and social business across the Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) or APEJ region in 2012.: "Understanding the value of the term "social," ...
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    Asia/Pacific (Excluding Japan) Business Analytics 2012 Top 10 Predictions: Measure, Predict , and Prevent — Business Analytics to Become the Center of Business Value for Asian Organizations
    Daniel-Zoe Jimenez, Philip Carter, Sharon Tan, Vanessa Thompson, Arun Kumar Singh, Nirupam Chaudhuri, Kathy Pan, Daphne Chung, Simon Piff, Sandra Ng
    Dec 2011 - Doc # AP2670122T      Top 10 Predictions
    This IDC study presents the top 10 predictions for business analytics (BA) in Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan), or APEJ. Every year, IDC software analysts across the region discuss the current year and collaborate to identify the major tre ...
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    Asia/Pacific (Excluding Japan) 2012 Top 10 ICT Predictions
    Sandra Ng, Claus Mortensen, Bryan Ma, Adrian Dominic Ho, Bill Rojas, Simon Piff, Philip Carter, Chris Morris, Gary Koch, Tim Dillon, Sherlin Pang, Ryan Tay
    Dec 2011 - Doc # AP3053524T      Top 10 Predictions
    This IDC study discusses the factors that will have the biggest commercial impact on the ICT market across Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) or APEJ, in 2012. Although market volatility is at an all time high, companies will still expect gr ...
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