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Nicholas McQuire
Research Director, Enterprise Mobility Strategies EMEA

Team: Telecommunications
 Nicholas McQuire joined IDC in 2010 as research director for the EMEA Enterprise Mobility research program. In this role he is primarily responsible for research into the adoption, supply, and emerging technology trends in the mobile business market, including strategic guidance on end-user trends, vendor and service provider go-to-market strategies, and market forecasting across communications, mobile enterprise applications, mobile device management and security and mobile enterprise services in the EMEA region.

McQuire has over 10 years’ experience working in the enterprise mobility sector. Before joining IDC, he was a senior manager in the Insight, Strategy, and Planning division of BT Global Services' Marketing Centre of Excellence, where he provided regular strategic insight on win-loss activity, market/competitor analysis, and product/proposition development for the mobility and unified communications portfolios. Before joining BT Global Services, he headed up European enterprise mobility research at Yankee Group.

He has an MA in economics and international relations from the University of St Andrews in the U.K. and a BA with first class honors from Mount Allison University in Canada.

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Is RIM Losing Its Grip on the Enterprise? Devcon Europe Provides Some Answers
Nicholas McQuire
Feb 2012 - Doc # lcUK23316212      IDC Link
On 7 February 2012, RIM staged its European Blackberry Developer Conference (Devcon), at the RAI Exhibition centre in Amsterdam. Concurrent with the Devcon was RIM's EMEA Analyst Summit. This first ever European Developer Conference was par ...
Tablets, BYOD, Android and Outsourcing: Another Big 6 Months in European Enterprise Mobility according to IDC's 2nd Half 2011 European Enterprise Mobility Bi-Annual Survey
Nicholas McQuire
Dec 2011 - Doc # lcUK23191811      IDC Link
RIM's recent announcement to write off nearly half a billion dollars in unsold or discounted Playbook tablets in its third quarter earnings call last week raised immediate speculation on the demand for business-focused tablets. However, las ...

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European Cloud 2012 Top 10 Predictions
Mette Ahorlu, Carla Arend, David Bradshaw, James Eibisch, Chris Ingle, Nathaniel Martinez, Nicholas McQuire, Donna Taylor, Alys Woodward
Feb 2012 - Doc # QL52U      Event Proceeding
This presentation was made in a Web conference to IDC's customers on February 7, 2012.: In the presentation, IDC highlights 10 key predictions and trends for cloud in Europe in 2012, including public cloud, private cloud, "c-gov" (g ...
EMEA Enterprise Mobility Bi-Annual End-User Survey 2011: Western Europe Country Sample
Nicholas McQuire, Furutan Celebi
Dec 2011 - Doc # LM59T      IDC Presentation: Survey
The bi-annual EMEA Enterprise Mobility survey was conducted in two parts in March and October 2011. In total, 728 businesses were surveyed across seven countries of Western Europe for the year focusing on technology purchasing preference ...
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Enterprise Mobility
London, United Kingdom
February 21, 2012