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    • Mobile Banking and Payment
    • Enterprise Risk Management
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    • Buy Side Operations

    IDC Financial Insights assists financial services business and IT leaders in making more effective technology decisions by providing insightful fact-based research and consulting services. Our global research analyzes and advises on business and technology issues facing the banking, insurance, and securities and investments industries.

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    • Infrastructure Consolidation
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    IDC Government Insights assists Government and IT leaders in making more effective technology decisions by providing insightful fact-based research and consulting services. Our global research analyzes and advises on business and technology issues facing the Federal/Central and local/provincial Governments.

  • HEALTH

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    • EMR and EHR for Providers
    • Connected Health
    • Healthcare Industry Reform
    • Life Sciences Value Chain

    IDC Health Insights assists health businesses and IT leaders in making more effective technology decisions by providing insightful fact-based research and consulting services. Our global research analyzes and advises on business and technology issues facing the payer, provider and life sciences industries.

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    • Supply Chain Modernization
    • Next Generation Product Lifecycle Management
    • Operational Technology

    IDC Manufacturing Insights assists manufacturing businesses and IT leaders in making more effective technology decisions by providing insightful fact-based research and consulting services. Our global research analyzes and advises on business and technology issues associated with design, development and distribution of goods across markets.

  • RETAIL

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    • Retail PLM and Sourcing Optimization
    • Customer Experience (Retail Omnichannel)
    • Merchandising Strategies

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Meet Our Team

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Philip Carter
Associate Vice President, IDC Asia/Pacific Tomoko Akagi Photo
Tomoko Akagi
Group Manager, Software & Security, IDC Japan Cesar Longa Photo
Cesar Longa
Program Manager, Enterprise Software, Latin America Dan Vesset Photo
Dan Vesset
Program Vice President, Business Analytics Sharon Tan Photo
Sharon Tan
Research Manager, Application Tools Software Research, IDC Asia/Pacific Henry D. Morris Photo
Henry D. Morris
Senior Vice President, Worldwide Software and Services Research Brian McDonough Photo
Brian McDonough
Research Manager, Analytics and Data Warehousing Software Alys Woodward Photo
Alys Woodward
Program Manager, European Business Analytics, Enterprise Collaboration and Social Solutions

Business Analytics

ONGOING ANALYSIS

Convergence of intelligent devices, social networking, pervasive broadband networking, and analytics is ushering in a new economic system. In the enterprise, these trends have resulted in a significant decrease in the ability of managers to rely effectively only on experience or intuition to make decisions. The demand to respond faster and with greater insight to ongoing internal and external events based on facts is increasing. This new environment is moving us from the information economy to "the intelligent economy," where it is not only access to information, but the ability to analyze and act upon it, that creates competitive advantage in commercial transactions, enables sustainable management of communities, and promotes appropriate distribution of social, healthcare, and educational services. IDC's ongoing research focuses on best practices in data warehousing, buisness intelligence, and advanced analytics that help prepare organizations to compete more effectively in the intelligence economy.