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Michael Fauscette
Group Vice President, Software Business Solutions

Team: Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
Enterprise Applications
IDC Predictions Team
Product, Project and Portfolio Solutions
Software Business Strategies
Michael Fauscette leads IDC's Software Business Solutions Group which includes research and consulting in ERP, SCM, CRM, and PLM Applications (and the associated business process that the software supports), small and medium business applications, partner and alliance ecosystems, open source, software vendor business models (SaaS) and software pricing and licensing. With extensive executive experience with software vendors ranging from large enterprise companies to small Silicon Valley start ups, Mr. Fauscette brings a unique perspective by relating research data and trends to the overall strategic focus and go to market strategy of application software companies. Having spent an extensive amount of time working with software end users throughout his career, Mr. Fauscette has a business process oriented and end user focused approach to software research and analysis. He conducts market research, analysis and consulting on emerging markets, go to market strategies, end user requirements, application implementation, vendor business models, partner strategy and end user experience.

Prior to joining IDC Mr. Fauscette held senior consulting and services roles with seven software vendors including Autodesk, Inc., PeopleSoft, Inc. and MRO, Inc. His software experience spans the entire enterprise life-cycle process and covers all facets of the Global software business. An ex-US Naval Officer, he began his technology career as a Surface Line Engineering Officer. Mr. Fauscette is a published author and accomplished public speaker on software and software services strategies.

Mr. Fauscette graduated with special honors from Jacksonville State University with a BA in Sociology and History; and with honors from Widener University with a MS in Business.

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NetSuite Ups the Ante in the Service Resource Planning (SRP) Market Through The Acquisition of QuickArrow.
Sanjeev Pal, Michael Fauscette
Jul 2009 - Doc # lcUS21947409      IDC Link
Despite the economic recession the Services Resources Planning (SRP) market has continued to be a bright spot and has seen close to double digit growth this year. Netsuite is making a strong play for market share in both the overall SRP mar ...
Rhomobile Launches Rhodes, an Open Source Cross-Platform Mobile Development Framework
Michael Fauscette
Mar 2009 - Doc # lcUS21769609      IDC Link
Last week, Rhomobile announced the release of Rhodes 1.0, an open source framework that enables rapid, multiplatform mobile applications development. Using simple HTML, developers can write a smartphone application once and then have Rhodes ...

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Worldwide PLM 2010 Top 10 Predictions
Sanjeev Pal, Michael Fauscette
Feb 2010 - Doc # 221891      Top 10 Predictions
This IDC study presents the top 10 predictions for the product life-cycle management applications market for 2010. As the global economy stabilizes, it will provide opportunity and challenges moving forward for PLM vendors as w ...
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The Intersection of Web 2.0, Enterprise 2.0, and Collaboration: The Social Business
Michael Fauscette
Jan 2010 - Doc # 221413      Insight
This IDC Insight examines the changing business trends around enterprise use of the concepts developed on the social Web (Web 2.0) and the growing movement for cultural and process change inside the enterprise.:
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Appearances

Envisioning the New Normal: IDC Software Predictions 2010
Framingham,, MA United States
February 18, 2010

Envisioning the New Normal: IDC Software Predictions 2010
Burlingame, CA United States
January 26, 2010

The Future of Project -- Based Applications
San Mateo, CA United States
April 29, 2009

The IDC Software as a Service Summit
New York, NY United States
March 26, 2009

IDC Cloud Computing Forum
San Francisco, CA United States
February 18, 2009