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Carl W. Olofson
Research Vice President, Application Development and Deployment

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Application Development and Deployment
Client Computing
Integration
Worldwide Software Research
Worldwide Public Application Development and Deployment as a Service: 2010–2014 Forecast
Stephen D. Hendrick, Melinda-Carol Ballou, Maureen Fleming, Al Hilwa, Carl W. Olofson
Aug 2010 - Doc # 224052      Market Analysis
This IDC study provides a sizing of the worldwide public application development and deployment as a service (ADDaaS) market from 2005 through 2009 and a 2010–2014 forecast for this market. Historical and forecast revenue data is shown f ...
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Worldwide RDBMS 2009 Vendor Analysis: Top 10 Vendor License Revenue by Operating Environment
Carl W. Olofson
Aug 2010 - Doc # 224350      Competitive Analysis
This IDC study identifies the license component of software revenue for the top 10 vendors in the relational database management system (RDBMS) software market in 2009 as well as the market overall and breaks it down by operating environ ...
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Worldwide Database Development and Management Tools 2009 Vendor Shares
Carl W. Olofson
Jun 2010 - Doc # 223903      Competitive Analysis
This IDC study provides vendor share data for the database development and management tools (DDMTs) market for 2007–2009, with a 2009 breakdown by geographic region and operating environment. It also offers analysis of the market in 2009 ...
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Worldwide Database Management Systems 2009 Vendor Shares
Carl W. Olofson
Jun 2010 - Doc # 223912      Competitive Analysis
This IDC study presents the software revenue shares for vendors in the database management systems (DBMS) markets, including the relational DBMS (RDBMS) and the nonrelational (NDBMS) markets, presented both collectively and individually, ...
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Worldwide Data Integration and Access Software 2009 Vendor Shares
Carl W. Olofson
Jun 2010 - Doc # 223899      Competitive Analysis
This IDC study includes vendor share figures and analysis for the data integration and access (DIA) software market in 2007–2009. It also includes an analysis of market share by geographic region and operating environment for 2009. Brief ...
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SAP Acquires Sybase: A Bet on Future Styles of Computing for Business Applications
Henry D. Morris, Stephen D. Drake, David Bradshaw, Ruediger Spies, Dan Vesset, Carl W. Olofson, Luisa Bordoni
May 2010 - Doc # 223414      Update
This IDC update examines SAP's announcement on May 12, 2010, to acquire Sybase for $5.8 billion (www.sap.com/about/investor/press.epx?pressid=13202). Sybase's management has accepted the offer, but it will be up to Sybas ...
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Worldwide Application Development and Deployment: 2010 Predictions
Melinda-Carol Ballou, Maureen Fleming, Al Hilwa, Stephen D. Hendrick, Carl W. Olofson
Apr 2010 - Doc # 222850      Update
This IDC update identifies and discusses the top 10 trends that IDC believes will have a material impact on the application development and deployment (AD&D) markets during 2010 and the first half of 2011. These trends speak of ...
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Worldwide Master Data Management Software 2010–2014 Forecast
Carl W. Olofson
Apr 2010 - Doc # 223029      Market Analysis
This IDC study examines the master data management (MDM) software market, providing a brief analysis of the market in 2009 and a five-year forecast by market segment for the period 2010–2014.: "The worldwide mast ...
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Methods and Practices: Introducing the "Tagged Data Authority Engine" — Assurance and Data Integrity for Government Agencies and Fusion Centers
Shawn P. McCarthy, Carl W. Olofson
Apr 2010 - Doc # GI222672      Market Overview
This IDC Government Insights report highlights an ongoing problem that is being experienced by the federal government — uncontrolled redundancy and long-term accuracy of data as it is shared across multiple agencies and systems. IDC Gove ...
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Worldwide Database Management Systems 2010–2014 Forecast: An Initial Look
Carl W. Olofson
Mar 2010 - Doc # 222644      Market Analysis
This IDC study presents a five-year forecast from 2010 to 2014 for each of two markets: the nonrelational database management systems software market and the relational database management systems software market, as well as a ...
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Worldwide Database Development and Management Tools 2010–2014 Forecast: An Initial Look
Carl W. Olofson
Mar 2010 - Doc # 222600      Market Analysis
This IDC study presents an initial forecast for the database development and management tools (DDMT) market from 2010 to 2014. It includes a breakdown of that forecast by operating environment.: "The economic cri ...
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Worldwide Data Integration and Access Software 2010–2014 Forecast: A First Look
Carl W. Olofson
Mar 2010 - Doc # 222575      Market Analysis
This IDC study offers an initial forecast of the data integration and access (DIA) software market from 2010 through 2014, with some commentary on market performance in 2009. It also breaks down the forecast by operating enviro ...
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Nonschematic DBMS: A Revolution in the Clouds
Carl W. Olofson
Feb 2010 - Doc # 222178      Industry Development and Models
This IDC study investigates the emerging phenomenon of nonschematic DBMS, sometimes inappropriately called "NoSQL" DBMS. This study discusses the technology itself and its context in key/value memory caching, its current uses, ...
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Oracle's Acquisition of Sun: Implications for MySQL
Carl W. Olofson
Feb 2010 - Doc # 222027      Insight
This IDC Insight reviews comments made by Oracle's senior management during an open briefing regarding the Sun acquisition and examines those remarks that referred to MySQL specifically. This document analyzes those remarks in ...
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The Third Generation of Database Technology: Vendors and Products That Are Shaking Up the Market
Carl W. Olofson
Feb 2010 - Doc # 221939      Industry Development and Models
This IDC study examines emerging trends in DBMS technology as elements of a third generation of such technology, describing several specific technology developments and listing a number of vendors and products that represent th ...
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Oracle Strengthens Its Product Data Quality by Acquisition of Silver Creek
Sanjeev Pal, Carl W. Olofson
Jan 2010 - Doc # 221689      Product Flash
This IDC Flash provides insights on Oracle's acquisition of Silver Creek, a leading provider of product data quality solutions. This Flash looks at the possible application of Silver Creek solutions to enhance product data qual ...
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Worldwide Embedded DBMS 2010–2013 Forecast and 2008 Vendor Shares
Carl W. Olofson
Jan 2010 - Doc # 221438      Market Analysis
This IDC study contains embedded DBMS vendor shares for 2008 and a forecast for the period 2010–2013. This is a competitive market made up of those elements of the relational and nonrelational DBMS markets that are sold as embe ...
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Worldwide RDBMS 2008 Vendor Analysis: Top 10 Vendor License Revenue by Operating Environment and 2009 Year in Review
Carl W. Olofson
Dec 2009 - Doc # 221469      Competitive Analysis
This IDC study offers a commentary on the relational database management systems (RDBMS) market in 2009 and provides data and analysis regarding license revenue for the top 10 vendors in 2008, with breakdowns by vendor and by v ...
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Worldwide Information Management and Data Integration Software 2008 Vendor Analysis: Review of Customer and Partner Win Announcements
Carl W. Olofson, Stanley Thompson
Dec 2009 - Doc # 221075      Competitive Analysis
This IDC study contains summary results from the collection, collation, and analysis of hundreds of software deals in the information management and data integration software markets. : "The deals in this study r ...
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Oracle RAC One Node: Moving Enterprise Workloads Across the Oracle Grid
Jean S. Bozman, Carl W. Olofson
Dec 2009 - Doc # lcUS22101809      IDC Link
Oracle's Real Application Clusters (RAC), which supports scale-out computing on a grid of physical servers running the latest release of the Oracle database product, Oracle Database 11g Release 2, has a new packaged offering called Oracle R ...
Worldwide Database Development and Management Tools 2008 Vendor and Segment Analysis
Carl W. Olofson
Dec 2009 - Doc # 220931      Competitive Analysis
This IDC study breaks down the market share and forecast data found in Worldwide Database Development and Management Tools 2009–2013 Forecast and 2008 Vendor Shares (IDC #219230, July 2009) by submarket segment. It also ...
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Worldwide Master Data Management Software 2009–2013 Forecast
Carl W. Olofson
Nov 2009 - Doc # 220953      Market Analysis
This IDC study presents a forecast of the master data management (MDM) competitive software market for the years 2009–2013, including historical data from 2005, by segment.: "Master data management represents a k ...
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Worldwide Data Integration and Access Software 2008 Vendor and Segment Analysis
Carl W. Olofson
Nov 2009 - Doc # 220559      Competitive Analysis
This IDC study takes data integration and access software market vendor shares for 2008, and the forecast for 2009–2013, and breaks them down by submarket segment. These segments include bulk data movement software, dynamic dat ...
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Oracle to Acquire GoldenGate Software to Enable Real-Time Business Analytics and Data Integration
Dan Vesset, Carl W. Olofson, Brian McDonough
Jul 2009 - Doc # lcUS21948709      IDC Link
On July 23, 2009, Oracle announced its intent to acquire GoldenGate Software, a deal expected to close in the second half of 2009. GoldenGate Software boasts over 400 customers who use its products to support a range of solutions requiring ...
Worldwide Database Development and Management Tools 2009–2013 Forecast and 2008 Vendor Shares
Carl W. Olofson
Jul 2009 - Doc # 219230      Market Analysis
This IDC study presents the database development and management tools software market from 2006 to 2008, and a forecast for the five-year period from 2009 through 2013. It also provides revenue and market share of the leading v ...
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Worldwide Database Management Systems 2009–2013 Forecast and 2008 Vendor Shares
Carl W. Olofson
Jul 2009 - Doc # 219232      Market Analysis
This IDC study presents vendor shares for 2008, and a five-year forecast for 2009–2013 for both the nonrelational database management system and the relational database management system software markets. It also considers thes ...
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Worldwide Data Integration and Access Software 2009–2013 Forecast and 2008 Vendor Shares
Carl W. Olofson
Jul 2009 - Doc # 219231      Market Analysis
This IDC study presents the vendor shares for the data integration and access software market in 2008, with a forecast from 2009 to 2013 by geographic region and operating environment. : "2008 was a good year for ...
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Beyond Data Integration: Informatica's Acquisition of Applimation
Carl W. Olofson
May 2009 - Doc # 218521      Insight
This IDC Insight reviews the merger details regarding Informatica and Applimation. It examines the resulting combined technology portfolio and considers its strategic implications for Informatica's market and customers.: ...
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Decision Management: A Strategy for Organizationwide Decision Support and Automation
Dan Vesset, Henry D. Morris, Susan Feldman, Maureen Fleming, Stephen D. Hendrick, Brian McDonough, Carl W. Olofson
May 2009 - Doc # 218353      Industry Development and Models
This IDC study presents the IDC Decision Continuum Model, which uses five dimensions to evaluate three categories of decisions. As organizations move along the path toward more pervasive use of BI, the number and type of differ ...
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Oracle's Acquisition of Sun: Whither MySQL?
Carl W. Olofson
May 2009 - Doc # 218309      Insight
This IDC Insight considers the meaning of Oracle's acquisition of Sun Microsystems for MySQL, and for the MySQL open source community. It should be noted that Oracle is unable to comment on its plans for MySQL as of this writin ...
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Worldwide Application Development and Deployment Software: Predictions for 2009
Melinda-Carol Ballou, Maureen Fleming, Al Hilwa, Stephen D. Hendrick, Kathleen Quirk, Carl W. Olofson, Sandra Rogers
Apr 2009 - Doc # 217523      Update
This IDC update identifies and discusses the top 10 trends that IDC believes will have a material impact on the application development and deployment (AD&D) markets during 2009 and the first half of 2010. These trends speak of ...
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Worldwide Information and Data Management Software 2009–2013 Forecast: An Initial Look
Carl W. Olofson
Mar 2009 - Doc # 217438      Market Analysis
This IDC study contains initial forecasts for the four information and data management software functional markets for 2009–2013. Included are forecasts for and discussions regarding relational database management systems, nonr ...
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