Pricing Evaluation Service: Enterprise ComputingAN IDC DATABASE PRODUCT
IDC's Pricing Evaluation Service: Enterprise Computing product provides vendors and resellers with the intelligence and analysis necessary to create winning price and product positioning strategies. The product covers all servers (enterprise and workgroup), including blades. Clients can access real-time pricing, promotions, and specifications through IDC's Pricing eValuator Web site. Clients can also receive detailed analyses on current and future price trends and access to robust analysis tools.
Markets Covered
This product covers the following segments of the enterprise computing market:
Enterprise servers
Industry-standard servers
System software
Subjects Analyzed
Throughout the year, this product will address the following topics:
Impact of pricing on emerging distribution channels
Declining reseller and vendor margins
Opportunities in a maturing market
Winners and losers in the protracted price war
Multiple sources of components fueling a supplier price war
Emerging pricing trends in corporate procurement
Key Questions Answered
Our research addresses the following issues that are critical to your success:
1. How do component costs affect overall system prices and vendor
selling strategies?
2. What are the defining issues and predictors of pricing over the next
year?
3. Which vendors initiate/dominate price leadership in the
marketplace?
4. How do technology changes affect the procurement decisions of
major corporate buyers?
Price Collection Methodology Overview
Source: IDC
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Companies Analyzed
IDC's Pricing Evaluation Service: Enterprise Computing product analyzes the product strategies, competitive positioning, financial viability, and overall strategic direction of major providers in the enterprise computing market in the United States, Canada, most European countries, and many
countries in Asia. Companies tracked include
Dell, HP, IBM, and Sun.
Timely Delivery and Support
Internet access to data and analysis tools is provided via IDC's Pricing eValuator Web site. The tools and services available to clients include the
following:
Price and specifications database includes list-, street-, and
distributor-level pricing as well as specifications, historical pricing,
and product availability information.
Configure-to-order pricing database captures pricing for each feature of every configuration that a vendor presents on its configure-to-
order Web site. For example, a vendor might have more than 5,000
individual features that can be built into unique system configurations. This database reports any change to an individual
feature, such as a charge for incremental memory, and its impact on
the price of an overall configuration.
Promotions database includes detailed information on current
promotions and rebates. Full promotion descriptions, pricing, and
valid offer dates are included.
Product comparison builder tool matches clients' products with peer products from competitors and updates pricing and differences on a
daily basis.
Quick-response IDC updates detail price and promotion changes
and new product announcements as they happen, emphasizing fast
delivery of pricing data, so clients can react rapidly.
Custom consulting is available for special projects.
Product Snapshot
Source: IDC
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