This IDC study focuses on the rise of the 3rd Platform and the ways in which software business models will change as a result.: "The 3rd Platform is not just a technology revolution; it's also a customer revolution. As a result, exp ...

This IDC study provides market intelligence details for SAP from September 2012 to December 2012. Data on financial performance, sales highlights, and recent acquisitions sets the stage for a detailed examination of select products and d ...

This IDC study provides market intelligence details for Microsoft, with a focus on the Microsoft Business Solutions Dynamics product group for the period from October 2012 to December 2012. Data includes financial performance and sales h ...

This IDC Government Insights report looks at current government SharePoint challenges, with an eye toward helping agencies solve those challenges. Microsoft's SharePoint is the dominant collaboration platform within government agencies t ...

This IDC study defines and presents IDC's worldwide applications software analyst team's 2013 top 10 predictions for the applications software market, including enterprise applications (EA), customer relationship management (CRM) and cus ...

The inaugural Microsoft Lync Conference took place February 18–21, 2013, in San Diego. More than 800 attendees including 300 partners and 350 customers gathered at the sold-out event to get a first look at Microsoft's consolidated unifie ...

The inaugural Lync Conference took place February 19–21, 2013, in San Diego, with 900 partners, sponsors, and customers attending the sold-out event. Initial expectations for 500 attendees were easily exceeded, highlighting the community co ...

This IDC study provides market intelligence details for Oracle's FY 2Q13. Detailed descriptions of select products and the Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN) are also included.: "According to Oracle President Mark Hurd, applications, middl ...

On January 15, 2013, YouSendIt, Inc. (YSI), announced the acquisition of Found Software, Inc., a U.S.-based software company that enables users to instantly locate their files, documents, and data across devices and cloud services. With the ...

This IDC study examines the enterprise social software market in 2011 and reflects the first semiannual period in 2012 (CY 1H12).: "The enterprise social software market saw good adoption in the first half of 2012, with many vendors ...

This IDC Forecast Update presents an updated five-year forecast for the enterprise social software market. Historical and forecast revenue data is shown for the total worldwide market and by geographic region. This document does not cont ...

This IDC study provides market intelligence details for salesforce.com, covering the third calendar quarter of 2012, with historical reference points included throughout. Data on financial performance, sales highlights, and recent acquis ...

This IDC study provides market intelligence details for Microsoft, with a focus on the Microsoft Business Solutions Dynamics product group for the period from July 2012 to September 2012. Data includes financial performance and sales hig ...

This IDC Insight explores the market for mobile collaboration software. Most often, mobile collaboration solutions are extensions of back-end collaboration applications or components of platforms that have already been deployed to deskto ...

This IDC study shows that in Australia and Asia/Pacific, ad networks are only in their infancy in most markets and many publishers and advertisers are only now beginning to gather experience with these services. The former are concerned ...

This IDC Insight discusses Cisco's annual worldwide Collaboration Summit, held this year in Los Angeles October 15–17, for Cisco partners and customers as well as industry consultants and analysts. The event gave all an opportunity to li ...

This IDC Insight discusses how enterprise social networks (ESNs) will support collaboration inside and outside an organization. ESNs will come to encompass all social solutions and networks that are active in an organization, including i ...

This IDC study uses the IDC MarketScape model to provide an assessment of a number of vendors participating in the enterprise social software market. The IDC MarketScape is an evaluation based on a comprehensive framework and a set of pa ...

This IDC study provides market intelligence details for Oracle's FY 1Q13. Detailed descriptions of select products and the Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN) are also included.: "According to Oracle President Mark Hurd, the company is prep ...

This IDC Flash summarizes the key themes from VMworld 2012 held August 25–31, 2012, based on the social deep-dive session. During the event, IDC also spoke with customers, Humana Health Insurance and SAS Institute, to highlight their use ...

This IDC study provides market intelligence details for SAP from April to June 2012. Data on financial performance, sales highlights, and recent acquisitions sets the stage for a detailed examination of select products and distribution m ...

This IDC study provides market intelligence details for salesforce.com, covering the second calendar quarter of 2012, with historical reference points included throughout. Data on financial performance, sales highlights, and recent acqui ...

Yesterday's announcement ends weeks of rumor and speculation that Yammer would be acquired by Microsoft, inked in a deal worth $1.2 billion in cash. Yammer will continue to be led by its CEO David Sacks as it becomes part of Microsoft's Off ...

This IDC study provides a sizing of the worldwide enterprise social software market in 2011 and the 2012–2016 market forecast. Historical and forecast revenue data is shown for the total worldwide market and by geographic region. This st ...

This IDC study examines the team collaborative applications market from 2009 to 2011. Revenue and market share of the leading vendors are provided for 2011.: "Social experiences will continue to shape the way end users collaborate," ...

This IDC study examines the social software applications market from 2009 to 2011. Revenue and market share for the leading vendors are provided for 2011.: "Social software is gaining in momentum in the enterprise," says Michael Fau ...

This IDC study examines the email applications market from 2009 to 2011. Revenue and market share of the leading vendors are provided for 2011.: "Organizations are increasingly looking to mobile and social solutions that complement ...

This IDC study presents spending and relative vendor market shares across the Australian software market in 2011. It highlights key trends that traverse the market, as well as insight into software buying behaviour. This study presents g ...

This IDC Insight provides an overview of the business intelligence (BI) applications and services in Australia, including current levels of deployment. It highlights the emerging opportunities for BI applications and services in Australi ...

This IDC study shows that social business transformation across industry verticals in Australia is at varying levels of adoption maturity. The consumer social networking experience that has quickly evolved in recent years has provided th ...

This IDC Insight summarizes our analysis of key themes presented at Lotusphere 2012, IBM's worldwide customer and partner event held in Orlando, Florida, in January 2012.

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This IDC Insight delivers an analysis of the priority database workloads driving data mart, data warehouse, and database appliance deployments in Australia. It articulates current state perceptions of information management, tools and te ...

This IDC study outlines IDC Australia's ICT predictions for 2012. Whilst the industry has been undergoing a period of transformation and cost reduction, 2012 will be the year Australian organisations look to reap rewards of the technolog ...

This IDC Insight highlights the main challenges for organisations when looking to manage the current information management environment, taking a focus on requirements for master data management (MDM). This study also provides the IDC Au ...