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    • Clean Energy
    • Intelligent Oil & Gas

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    • Mobile Banking and Payment
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IDC IT Advisory Tools – SmartBuy – Chart Your Price Position

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SmartBuy

One of our most innovative and relied-upon 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.

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We save money for every one of our clients! Can you afford not to see how IDC can save you money on your next IT hardware purchase? SmartBuy is the only:

  • One-stop pricing resource for over 100,000 products worldwide
  • 24x7 online service that includes desktop PCs, laptops, servers, workstations, and peripheral accessories
  • Worldwide Industry Standard

Benefits

With IDC's SmartBuy:

  • Instantaneous price checks with the click of a button, save you time hunting for prices.
  • Detailed specifications in a common format allow you to view models side by side.
  • Data is refreshed daily, ensuring the most accurate and timely IT hardware pricing anywhere in the industry.

Without IDC's SmartBuy:

  • You'll spend countless hours price hunting for accurate pricing.
  • It is nearly impossible to analyze price and feature sets on multiple products in a common format.
  • Negotiations NOT in your favor without accurate pricing to chart your price position.

Want to retain control when negotiating with suppliers?

SmartBuy is a 24x7 Web-based pricing database. This accurate source gives you a benchmark to chart your price position, allowing you to retain control and receive aggressive pricing through the negotiating process.

Purchasing products on a one-off basis? (monitors, printers, etc.)

SmartBuy is a true value-based analysis tool detailing specifications and pricing on over 40,000 products, allowing you to make more informed purchase decisions.

Product Coverage

Storage
Desktop PCs
PC servers
Servers
Portable PCs
Options
Networking
Monitors
Printing
All PCs

Contact Information

To learn how you can streamline your IT decision-making process and save time and money, contact Chris Murphy at 508.935.4134 or cmurphy@idc.com.