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IDC events deliver dependable, relevant, and high-impact data and insight to help organizations make sound business and technology decisions.
Thousands of vendor and IT end user executives attend our in-person and virtual events every year. At an IDC event, you'll hear first hand from IDC's thought leaders about the latest technology trends; gain a deeper insight into emerging IT trends; network with the leading thinkers in the industry, industry peers and IT vendors; acquire best practices and concrete solutions; benchmark your IT strategy against industry peers; and, find solutions for the IT challenges that you face.

IDC events deliver dependable, relevant, and high-impact data and insight to help organizations make sound business and technology decisions.

IDC in-person briefings provide direct opportunities to hear from industry thought leaders and create an interactive dialogue with peers. These events deliver dependable, relevant, and high-impact data and insight to help organizations make sound business and technology decisions.

IDC events deliver dependable, relevant, and high-impact data and insight to help organizations make sound business and technology decisions.

Speakers Bureau is a service provided by IDC that helps identify and secure the right IDC analyst for your next event. For on-line or in-person events, IDC Speakers Bureau will:

Identify the best IDC analyst based on topic, audience, and event objective

Confirm analyst availability for the event

Establish and manage the schedule for analyst pre-briefing, materials submission, and event appearance

Review and submit all materials by agreed-to deadlines

Suggest options and provide support for event promotion

Help clients receive more value from IDC's event participation

IDC Web Conferences deliver the latest dependable, relevant, and high-impact data and insight to help organizations make sound business and technology decisions.

The intelligent economy produces a constant stream of data that is being monitored and analyzed. Social interactions, mobile devices, facilities, equipment, R&D, simulations, and physical infrastructure all contribute to the flow. In aggregate, this is what is called Big Data. In the enterprise, the large amount of data makes it more difficult for business leaders to rely only on experience or intuition to make decisions. There is simply too much information to assimilate; change happens too rapidly and the demand to respond faster and with greater insight to ongoing internal and external events is increasing. Big Data technologies describe a new generation of technologies and architectures, designed to economically extract value from very large volumes of a wide variety of data, by enabling high velocity capture, discovery and/or analysis. The data management and analytics challenges of the intelligent economy are likely to overwhelm organizations that are unprepared for these changes. Big Data technology needs to be understood in order to apply the most appropriate software and hardware to each type of use.

The IT cloud services market continues to grow and evolve at an astonishing rate. New offerings come to market regularly, often defining new functional segments and new deployment options. Recent IDC cloud research shows that by 2015, one of every seven dollars spent on packaged software, server, and storage offerings will be through the public cloud model. Cloud cannot be sufficiently understood as a standalone phenomenon in the IT market, but rather as a core ingredient of a larger transformation of the IT industry - and many other industries using IT to transform themselves. Other ingredients enabled by cloud - and, in turn, accelerating cloud adoption - include the expanding "species" of mobile devices, the explosion of mobile apps, the growing availability of wireless broadband, and the explosion of Big Data tools.

IDC examines consumer markets by devices, applications, networks, and services to provide complete solutions for succeeding in these expanding markets. IDC's consumer knowledge is far reaching with comprehensive research services that cover all major geographies, device platforms and technologies, and service or subscription offerings. Through interviews and surveys in distinct areas such as gaming, audio, video, home networking, automotive, and broadband, IDC provides insights on buyer requirements, as well as applications and services, technology awareness, branding, usage patterns, and buying intentions. For more than a decade, consumer market leaders have turned to IDC for advice on how to grow their business, increase revenues, launch new products, and win more market share.

IDC's IT Overview offerings provide customers with a broad understanding of IT spending patterns and market trends at the worldwide, regional and country levels. These data-intensive programs aggregate top-level intelligence to provide invaluable analysis regarding the impact of economic trends on both current and future IT spending in the hardware, software, IT services and telecommunications markets. Through rigorous IDC research methods, these programs ultimately help customers navigate the ever-changing landscape of the ICT market.

IDC examines infrastructure hardware markets to provide a holistic view of the technologies, solutions, and trends impacting the changing enterprise. IDC's Infrastructure Hardware team delivers in-depth, global market intelligence derived from rigorous primary research and extensive end-user surveys. From datacenter energy management to enterprise adoption of public cloud storage to technical server market dynamics, IDC provides you with the core research assets necessary for meeting your most important business growth objectives

IDC's Executive Advisory Group provides Marketing and Sales Executives with critical insights and research-based information to plan investments, prepare operations, mobilize resources and measure results.

IDC is the premier global provider of market intelligence, advisory services, and events for the Mobile industry. Its mission is to assist service providers, device manufacturers, infrastructure vendors, and application developers, as well as the investment community, to make tactical and strategic decisions on technology and business planning. More than 75 IDC analysts provide global, regional, and local expertise on mobility opportunities and trends in over 40 countries worldwide.

IDC's pricing evaluation services provide IT manufacturers with the intelligence and analysis necessary to create winning price and product positioning strategies. Clients access real-time list, street, and cost pricing and specifications.

IDC is uniquely positioned in providing:

Reliable pricing intelligence built from strong sourcing relationships with vendors, resellers, distributors, lessors and corporate IT buyers.

An analyst team with the skills and data needed to build accurate product comparisons.

Detailed pricing analysis tools.

IDC's global services research team - along with our robust forecasting methods and processes - provide an unbiased competitive analysis of service providers and supplies benchmarks for performance and strategic direction. IDC's services research assists IT and service providers with:

Deal tracking and competitive market shares

An understanding of key criteria for success in application, business process and IT outsourcing

A thorough understanding of who is winning contracts and why

An understanding of the impact of emerging technologies

Knowledge about changing customer priorities and acceptance of new delivery models

IDC's extensive small and medium-sized business (SMB) technology market research provides in-depth intelligence and analysis on this ever changing SMB market landscape. Grounded in comprehensive primary research and unmatched methodological rigor, IDC 's SMB research can help technology vendors understand the adoption plans of SMBs, take advantage of emerging partnering opportunities, and create valuable messaging and positioning that will resonate most clearly with their SMB customers.

With the large amount of attention that social networking has garnered from a consumer perspective, it is no wonder that businesses have also begun to make the shift to incorporate social networking tools into their organizational strategies. IDC believes that this has provided the IT industry with exciting opportunities to address a new breed of companies, called social businesses, which are beginning to incorporate consumer social Web principles into business culture and process through the technology they adopt. In the software industry, established and emerging vendors have taken notice of this trend and offer a variety of socially specific and socially enabled applications for collaboration and business processes such as enterprise social software, project and portfolio management (PPM), human capital management (HCM), customer relationship management (CRM), and digital commerce.

IDC's software research provides insights and comprehensive analysis of global trends that assist vendors in determining strategic direction, go-to-market strategies, and how to build share. Across the globe, IDC's software research organization is focused on assessing market opportunities and business models for applying technology to help answer questions such as:

How fast are cloud offerings such as platform-as-a-service penetrating software markets?

What are the best opportunities for social applications?

What is the impact on enterprise software as the workforce becomes more mobile?

How are compound products that cross software markets threatening standalone offerings?

IDC is the premier global provider of market intelligence, advisory services, and events for the Telecom and Networks sector. Its mission is to assist Telecommunications and Networking businesses, as well as the investment community, to make tactical and strategic decisions on technology and business planning. More than 150 IDC analysts provide global, regional, and local expertise on Telecom and Networks opportunities and trends in over 40 countries worldwide.

IDC's Vertical Markets research group offers qualitative and quantitative IT spending, vendor share and trend analysis across 18 industry and 7 company-size bands. Interlocked data enables interactive queries by region, technology, industry, company size, and by companies themselves. Data includes technology forecasts; vendor share analysis; purchasing behavior and priorities of the world's largest companies; IT spending trends and future investment priorities; and historical technology adoption, IT intensity and propensity to spend, usage patterns, and go-to-market strategies.

IDC is the premier global provider of market intelligence, advisory services, and events for the information technology, telecommunications, and consumer technology markets. IDC helps IT professionals, business executives, and the investment community make fact-based decisions on technology purchases and business strategy. More than 1,000 IDC analysts provide global, regional, and local expertise on technology and industry opportunities and trends in over 100 countries. For more than 44 years, IDC has provided strategic insights to help our clients achieve their key business objectives.

IDC's Access services are designed to save you time and provide you with answers when you need them. You receive a personable, responsive, and rich experience that addresses your IT research needs. Clients have access to dedicated analyst-account managers, inquiry hours, and several web conferences and live events throughout the year.

IDC's Channel research offers global insight and counsel of experienced analysts to help vendors and resellers design and implement effective channel strategies.

IDC examines consumer markets by devices, applications, networks, and services to provide complete solutions for succeeding in these expanding markets. IDC's consumer knowledge is far reaching with comprehensive research services that cover all major geographies, device platforms and technologies, and service or subscription offerings. Through interviews and surveys in distinct areas such as gaming, audio, video, home networking, automotive, and broadband, IDC provides insights on buyer requirements, as well as applications and services, technology awareness, branding, usage patterns, and buying intentions. For more than a decade, consumer market leaders have turned to IDC for advice on how to grow their business, increase revenues, launch new products, and win more market share.

IDC examines infrastructure hardware markets to provide a holistic view of the technologies, solutions, and trends impacting the changing enterprise. IDC's Infrastructure Hardware team delivers in-depth, global market intelligence derived from rigorous primary research and extensive end-user surveys. From datacenter energy management to enterprise adoption of public cloud storage to technical server market dynamics, IDC provides you with the core research assets necessary for meeting your most important business growth objectives.

IDC's IT Overview offerings provide customers with a broad understanding of IT spending patterns and market trends at the worldwide, regional and country levels. These data-intensive programs aggregate top-level intelligence to provide invaluable analysis regarding the impact of economic trends on both current and future IT spending in the hardware, software, IT services and telecommunications markets. Through rigorous IDC research methods, these programs ultimately help customers navigate the ever-changing landscape of the ICT market.

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.

IDC's Executive Advisory Group provides Marketing and Sales Executives with critical insights and research-based information to plan investments, prepare operations, mobilize resources and measure results.

IDC's Pricing and Leasing analyst team provides IT Manufacturers, IT Buyers, and Leasing and Financing companies with unparalleled access to product pricing and financing intelligence. The team pioneered a number of valuable pricing tools including the SmartIndex used by hundreds of corporate and government end users as a price benchmarking standard for IT contracts and the Pricing Evaluator used by IT manufacturers to ensure the price positioning of their products in an ultra competitive market.

Covering hardware products from mainframes down to iPods as well as software and service offerings, the IDC Pricing and Finance team is committed to providing real-time and historical data on list, street, cost, promotion, fair market and secondary market pricing as well as insight on pricing and financing strategies through its worldwide family of advisory services, databases and tools.

IDC's global services research team - along with our robust forecasting methods and processes - provide an unbiased competitive analysis of service providers and supplies benchmarks for performance and strategic direction. IDC's services research assists IT and service providers with:

Deal tracking and competitive market shares

An understanding of key criteria for success in application, business process and IT outsourcing

A thorough understanding of who is winning contracts and why

An understanding of the impact of emerging technologies

Knowledge about changing customer priorities and acceptance of new delivery models

IDC's extensive small and medium-sized business (SMB) technology market research provides in-depth intelligence and analysis on this ever changing SMB market landscape. Grounded in comprehensive primary research and unmatched methodological rigor, IDC 's SMB research can help technology vendors understand the adoption plans of SMBs, take advantage of emerging partnering opportunities, and create valuable messaging and positioning that will resonate most clearly with their SMB customers.

IDC's software research provides insights and comprehensive analysis of global trends that assist vendors in determining strategic direction, go-to-market strategies, and how to build share. Across the globe, IDC's software research organization is focused on assessing market opportunities and business models for applying technology to help answer questions such as:

How fast are cloud offerings such as platform-as-a-service penetrating software markets?

What are the best opportunities for social applications?

What is the impact on enterprise software as the workforce becomes more mobile?

How are compound products that cross software markets threatening standalone offerings?

IDC is the premier global provider of market intelligence, advisory services, and events for the Telecom and Networks sector. Its mission is to assist Telecommunications and Networking businesses, as well as the investment community, to make tactical and strategic decisions on technology and business planning. More than 150 IDC analysts provide global, regional, and local expertise on Telecom and Networks opportunities and trends in over 40 countries worldwide.

IDC's Vertical Markets research group leverages the expertise of both IDC's technology and industry analysts to offer qualitative and quantitative IT spending, vendor share and trend analysis across 18 industry and 7 company-size bands. The products quantify historical adoption, current IT budgets, project future spending and develop vendor share analysis and market entry guidance for 11 hardware, 80+ software, 14+ service and telecom/enterprise networks markets. Interlocked data enables interactive queries by region, technology, industry, company size, and by companies themselves.

IDC Financial Insights provides independent research, custom consulting, and detailed multiclient studies on the technology issues and challenges facing the financial services industry. Its global research covers topics of strategic importance to corporate and retail banks, insurance carriers, and asset management, securities, and brokerage firms. In addition to the United States, local practices in Asia/Pacific, Canada, Europe, and Latin America add in-depth regional viewpoints.

IDC Government Insights is uniquely qualified to track, analyze, and forecast government technology spending based on in-depth government budget and spending analysis globally. Expert analysts examine IT value based on government-defined key result areas; decipher policy and regulatory goals to identify game-changing government strategies and inform critical decision making; and survey government decision-makers to determine effectiveness of IT vendors' go-to-market strategies.

IDC Health Insights provides health and life science industry executives, and the suppliers who serve them, with market research and advisory services. The company's coverage spans the entire health industry value chain and closely follows the payer, provider and life science markets with special emphasis on developing and employing strategies that leverage IT investments to maximize organizational performance. Staffed by expert analysts and consultants with extensive industry experience, IDC Health Insights delivers a portfolio of offerings that are relevant to both IT and business needs.

IDC Manufacturing Insights provides business and IT decision-makers with fact-based research and analysis to inform and support critical business decisions. The global independent research and advisory firm closely follows processes associated with the design, development and distribution of goods across markets including Discrete Manufacturing, Process Manufacturing, High Tech/Electronics Manufacturing, and Consumer Packaged Goods. IDC Manufacturing Insights' research and analysis is critical for end-users, as well as hardware and software suppliers, and technology service providers.

IDC Retail Insights provides research-based advisory services and custom research focused on market and technology developments in the retail industry, covering the entire retail value chain - from global sourcing and supply chain to demand-based merchandise planning, straight through to the consumer shopping experience - providing independent, timely, and relevant analysis focused on key business issues. IDC Retail Insights provides a portfolio of research and advisory services that are relevant to the needs of retailers and retail IT suppliers.

IDC Financial Insights provides independent research, custom consulting, and detailed multiclient studies on the technology issues and challenges facing the financial services industry. Its global research covers topics of strategic importance to corporate and retail banks, insurance carriers, and asset management, securities, and brokerage firms. In addition to the United States, local practices in Asia/Pacific, Canada, Europe, and Latin America add in-depth regional viewpoints.

IDC Government Insights is uniquely qualified to track, analyze, and forecast government technology spending based on in-depth government budget and spending analysis globally. Expert analysts examine IT value based on government-defined key result areas; decipher policy and regulatory goals to identify game-changing government strategies and inform critical decision making; and survey government decision-makers to determine effectiveness of IT vendors' go-to-market strategies.

IDC Health Insights provides health and life science industry executives, and the suppliers who serve them, with market research and advisory services. The company's coverage spans the entire health industry value chain and closely follows the payer, provider and life science markets with special emphasis on developing and employing strategies that leverage IT investments to maximize organizational performance. Staffed by expert analysts and consultants with extensive industry experience, IDC Health Insights delivers a portfolio of offerings that are relevant to both IT and business needs.

IDC Manufacturing Insights provides business and IT decision-makers with fact-based research and analysis to inform and support critical business decisions. The global independent research and advisory firm closely follows processes associated with the design, development and distribution of goods across markets including Discrete Manufacturing, Process Manufacturing, High Tech/Electronics Manufacturing, and Consumer Packaged Goods. IDC Manufacturing Insights' research and analysis is critical for end-users, as well as hardware and software suppliers, and technology service providers.

IDC Retail Insights provides research-based advisory services and custom research focused on market and technology developments in the retail industry, covering the entire retail value chain - from global sourcing and supply chain to demand-based merchandise planning, straight through to the consumer shopping experience - providing independent, timely, and relevant analysis focused on key business issues. IDC Retail Insights provides a portfolio of research and advisory services that are relevant to the needs of retailers and retail IT suppliers.