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Objective Advice to Support Business Goals

Metrics consists of three programs: IDC IT Intelligence, IDC Benchmarking and IDC Sourcing. These programs provide IT Leaders with clear guidance on how you or your vendors compare to peers and the market with objective advice, help to optimize projects and processes to support business goals and improve sourcing strategies, selection, design, and management across the entire lifecycle.

With IDC Metrics, you will:

Position Your Company Success Against Benchmark Data

  • Analyze the efficacy of company strategies and create new strategies with our market comparisons and data-driven insights.
  • Maximize IT investments for the business through effective sourcing and management of partners.

Innovate with Trusted Research

  • Manage innovation with insights that deliver understanding, improvement and optimization of your technology capabilities.
  • Foster new ideas by using our market comparisons to discover your company’s positioning and drive improved decision making with in-depth data.

Access Data-Driven Insights to Define your Digital Strategy and Operate Efficiently

  • Optimize your technology capabilities and business enablement with data-driven insights.
  • Develop the vision and strategy with our market comparisons to understand how you are positioned against peers to drive informed change.

Improve Your Vendor Relationships & Contracts with Confidence

  • Access clear guidance on how you or your vendors compare to peers and the market with our benchmarking and market comparisons.
  • Improve sourcing strategies, selection, design, and management across the sourcing lifecycle, and get contract reviews from IDC experts to maximize savings.

IDC Metri

IDC Metri is at the forefront of data-driven solutions, providing technology consulting on the most cutting-edge benchmarking, performance, and optimization data. Metri provides objective analysis and global perspective in solving complex challenges for IT organizations, and leverages a deep understanding of industry dynamics and best practices to deliver actionable insights that empower clients to optimize their technology and drive peak performance. IDC Metri offers:

  • IT Intelligence, delivering data driven insights, advice and optimization from our team of experts
  • IT Benchmarking to see how you are positioned against peers with market comparison data
  • IT Sourcing, enabling effective souring and management of partners and improved vendor selection
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IDC Sourcing Advisory Services

IDC Sourcing Advisory Services drives measurable savings within global sourcing and procurement organizations. Our Sourcing Advisory Services (SAS) blends seamlessly with our world-class research offering, with concierge-level access to benchmarking data and market intelligence all with quick turnaround times on requests.

  • Dedicated Customer Relationship Managers for client inquiries related to vendor product/pricing strategy, product positioning, and more
  • Deal Reviews - Tactical intelligence on individual deals and vendor proposals with on-demand response delivered within three to four days
  • Formal Benchmarking - Dedicated projects, complex deals like major ELA renewals, managed service benchmarking and multi-vendor analysis
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IDG Environmental Policy

International Data Group is committed to protecting the environment, the health and safety of our employees, and the community in which we conduct our business. It is our policy to seek continual improvement throughout our business operations to lessen our impact on the local and global environment. We are committed to environmental excellence, pollution prevention and to purchasing products that reduce the use of natural resources.

We fulfill this mission by a commitment to:

  • Encouraging all partners to share in our mission
  • Understanding environmental issues and sharing information with our partners
  • Recognizing that fiscal responsibility is essential to our environmental future
  • Instilling environmental responsibility as a corporate value
  • Developing innovative and flexible solutions to bring about change
  • Using our platforms and position in the IT industry to promote sustainability
  • Minimize air travel to help reduce our impact on the environment
  • Minimize use of materials and energy consumption in our offices
  • Create a working environment that efficiently uses our office space
  • Develop and maintain a hybrid working model that benefits both our employees and business partners
  • Encourage employees to measure, minimize and collaborate on reducing energy consumption at home and in the office
  • Engaging employees and promoting active participation in environmental and sustainability initiatives

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