Analyst Profile
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Al Hilwa
Program Director, Application Development Software
Team:
Application Development and Deployment
Directions 2012 (U.S) Participating Analysts
Worldwide Software Research
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Al Hilwa serves as Program Director for IDC's Application Development Software research. In this role, Mr. Hilwa provides thought leadership, expert opinion, analysis, research and competitive intelligence on all issues related to Application Development technologies, processes and audiences. Mr. Hilwa also offers technology and vendor advice to, investment and technology firms as well as Global 2000 end-user companies that subscribe to IDC's services.
In addition to market sizing and forecasting, the Application Development Software Program provides comprehensive coverage of the vendors and technologies in the space, including the various technologies being utilized today in developing applications, trends in the classic 3GL and 4GL areas, the ensuing battles in the Unified Development Environments, relevant developments in Open Source and AD offered as a Service, and the broadening of the space into web-design bolstered by trends in Web 2.0 and social networking.
Mr. Hilwa comes to IDC with over 20 years of work experience in both the supply and demand sides of the market. In 2000, Mr. Hilwa joined Microsoft as a Senior Product Manager on the SQL Server database team. In his seven years at Microsoft, Mr. Hilwa covered almost all aspects of product management, including running the SQL Server Customer Advisory Network and the Technology Adoption Program (TAP) for SQL Server 2005. Mr. Hilwa spent his last two years at Microsoft as a Senior Strategist in the Application Platform marketing team where he drove internal projects to enhance Microsoft's enterprise selling capabilities. Mr. Hilwa started his analyst career in 1995 at Gartner where he was a Research Director on core database technology. In his tenure at Gartner, Mr. Hilwa published over one hundred research units, gave tens of conference presentations, was often quoted by the press and handled over 2000 client inquiries. Prior to Gartner Mr. Hilwa worked on the IT side in various industries including Education, Healthcare, Transportation, and Financial Services. Mr. Hilwa launched his career in the University where he did his graduate studies by running the academic computing labs for several years.
Mr. Hilwa holds a Master of Science Degree in Computer Science from Washington University and a BA in Mathematics and Computer Studies from Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin.
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Opera Switches to WebKit: And Then There Were Two
Al Hilwa
Apr 2013 - Doc # lcUS24048513
IDC Link
On February 21, 2013, Opera Software announced that it plans to make a gradual shift to the WebKit open source browser engine in lieu of its current technology developed in-house for JavaScript rendering known as Presto. Opera is effectivel ...
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NetBeans IDE 7.3: An IDE for All Seasons
Al Hilwa
Mar 2013 - Doc # lcUS24048413
IDC Link
Living in the shadow of the Eclipse IDE (Integrated Development Environment), with its massive ecosystem of tools and add-ons, may sometimes feel like being in the permanent shadow of the sun. However, the open source NetBeans IDE has made ...
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