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Al Hilwa
Program Director, Application Development Software

Team: Application Development
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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VMware Expands Beyond Infrastructure with SpringSource Acquisition
Gary Chen, Maureen Fleming, Al Hilwa, Mary Johnston Turner
Aug 2009 - Doc # lcUS21967409      IDC Link
On Monday, August 10th, VMware announced its intent to acquire SpringSource for $420 million. This represents an astonishing estimated multiple of roughly 20 times SpringSource's 2008 revenue. SpringSource leads the open source Spring proje ...
Microsoft’s Next Visual Studio Play
Al Hilwa
Sep 2008 - Doc # lcUS21453308      IDC Link
On September 29, 2008, Microsoft played out part of its hand on what might be coming in the next generation of its development tooling or ...

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Worldwide Application Development Software 2008 Vendor Analysis: Review of Customer and Partner Win Announcements
Al Hilwa, Stanley Thompson
Dec 2009 - Doc # 221394      Competitive Analysis
This IDC study analyzes vertical, region, customer size, and market segment trends from customer and partner deals announced in 2008 for application development software vendors. The listings also include descriptions of the de ...
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SharePoint 2010: Rethinking Information Work
Susan Feldman, Al Hilwa, Caroline Dangson, Melissa Webster, Melinda-Carol Ballou, Henry D. Morris, Robert P. Mahowald
Nov 2009 - Doc # 220660      Update
This IDC update reports on the SharePoint 2009 Conference and discusses the impact of SharePoint on the future of information work and the software industry. Microsoft SharePoint is a phenomenon that obviously answers a need fo ...
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