IT Advisory Tools

IDC Advisory Tools form a growing set of solutions designed to ensure that your technology purchasing and deployment decisions are optimized. IDC has been the pioneer in developing these valuable tools and is the unmistakable leader in the industry for a rigorous, fact-based approach to facilitating IT decision making. Our mission is to turn your IT expenditures into sound investments.

IT Advisory Tools

SmartIndex
SmartIndex is an invaluable, customized, third-party, objective, price benchmarking service designed to ensure that buyers will maintain competitive pricing both at the beginning and over the course of their contract with their IT suppliers. This solution focuses on your organization's specific system configurations, thus providing you with the most accurate and relevant competitive pricing benchmark. Buyers save thousands to millions of dollars by ensuring your agreed-upon discount level today will be maintained and honored throughout the length of the contract.

SmartBuy
One of our most innovative and relied-on tools for procurement professionals, SmartBuy offers clients a one-stop online resource, giving you a benchmark to chart your price position. With SmartBuy, your bargaining power is strengthened when negotiating with suppliers. We've created a common, easy-to-use format that incorporates detailed specifications on all desktop PC, laptop, server, and workstation products so that you can accurately view models side by side across manufacturers.

SmartValues
IDC's SmartValues is an objective solution that can save corporations time and money when establishing financial terms for IT hardware acquisitions, leases (lease versus buy), or analysis on residual value. Large companies often find it difficult to establish a mutually acceptable forecast value on technology. The repercussions of this can result in financing too large a cost, budget issues, and paying too much for end-of-lease equipment, or even predicting disposal costs.

Smart Fair Market Value
An objective third-party solution, IDC's Smart Fair Market Value service saves corporations time and money when establishing financial terms for used IT hardware acquisitions, end-of-lease purchases, liquidation of IT assets, or analysis related to fair market values. Given the state of the industry and the need to tightly manage costs, Smart Fair Market Value is an invaluable resource for accurate, objective pricing that ensures clients save money.