Feeling the pinch in your negotiation with IDC on your subscription contract? Do you feel comfortable in buying the various Customer Segment (CS) options being pushed your way? Are you confident that you are getting value from your contracts? You’re not alone – many of your peers and IIAR members have commented (see the IIAR Tragic Quadrant 2017)
IDC may be amongst the top IIAR Analyst Firm of the Year 2017 but are you getting the best value from your relationship? As per the IIAR Analyst Firm of the Year 2017 survey, AR professionals mentioned that they felt a push by IDC for running joint events, buying new CS which themselves are granular subset of the larger IDC CS access. As the analysts manage the P&L, they too seem to want to push buying multiple granular CS.
In 2017, China Oceanwide Holdings Group, a Chinese privately owned investment company, acquired IDC. While IDC continues to offer global, regional, and local expertise on technology and industry opportunities and trends in over 110 countries. As per the IIAR Analyst Firm of the Year 2017 survey, AR professionals mentioned costs seem to be increasing at 10-20% yoy. They also felt that IDC was not investing enough on improving the IDC website or better visualisation of data.
Building on our previous conversations (see links below), the IIAR will host an in-depth discussion with IIAR members, looking at IDC’s commercial practices and explore potential solutions.
- Date: Friday, April 13, 2018
- Location: webinar > REGISTER
- Time: 1600pm GMT / 1700pm CET / 0700 PDT / 1000 EDT
Held under Chatham House Rule the discussion will be chaired by Aniruddho Mukherjee (@aniruddho, LinkedIn), IIAR UK Co-Lead and Head of AR and Branding, Europe for HCL Technologies) and Ludovic Leforestier (@lludovic, LinkedIn, IIAR co-founder and Director Influencer Relations at Criteo).
Of course, by attending you will not only have the opportunity to give your knowledge and opinions but also gain from that of others and have the advantage to submit questions directly. Let us have a lively discussion, the more of you that join in the better, so please don’t forget to REGISTER. Attending IIAR Events is free and restricted to AR professionals active members of the IIAR. So if you work at an Industry analysis firm, we request you save yourself some time, have a beer and chill.
IIAR will act as channel for anonymised and aggregated IIAR Member feedback to Industry Analyst firms. This is to provide an opportunity for Industry Analyst firms to present their responses to ensure balanced view of the topic being discussed and help the industry effectively address the issues raised.
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