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Brian McDonough
Research Manager, Analytics and Data Warehousing Software

Team: Business Intelligence and Analytics
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Brian McDonough is a Research Manager in IDC's Analytics and Data Warehousing Software research service. In his role, Mr. McDonough is responsible for providing coverage of supply-side trends within the business analytics market as well as user demand for technologies related to the implementation of business analytics. Primary areas of coverage in 2006 include workforce and business analytics and decision process automation software, including data visualization and contextual business intelligence delivery. Mr. McDonough develops market sizing and forecasts growth for these markets as well as investigates and reports on market dynamics and software suppliers.

Previously at IDC, Mr. McDonough covered the enterprise portal software market and composite applications research. Prior to this focus Mr. McDonough covered several markets including knowledge management, accounting, human resources and payroll, maintenance management, project management and materials management. He introduced coverage for the treasury management, self-service procurement, workforce management and travel and expense management application software markets in 1999. Mr. McDonough served as IDC's Software Research Group's inquiry analyst in 1997 prior to joining the cross-industry applications research group.

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Mr. McDonough has a B.S. from Babson College where he majored in Finance with a concentration in Economics.

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Optimizing Performance Management
Brian McDonough
Dec 2012 - Doc # lcUS23880712      IDC Link
On December 4th, 2012, SAP announced that the City of Boston released its new performance scorecard as part of its Boston About Results (BAR) initiative. The City of Boston implemented SAP’s Strategy Management offering to help it track per ...
A Positive Turning Point for Cloud-Based Analytics
Brian McDonough
Dec 2012 - Doc # lcUS23880812      IDC Link
On November 28, 2012, Amazon announced that it is entering the over $8 billion worldwide data warehousing (DW) market with a service it calls Redshift. The announcement is further analyzed in a related IDC Link. In summary, although Amazon ...

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The Science and Art of Decision Management at a Large Bank
Dan Vesset, Brian McDonough
Dec 2012 - Doc # 238627      Buyer Case Study
This IDC Buyer Case Study highlights the use of decision management techniques and technology at a large bank.

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Worldwide Big Data Technology and Services 2012–2016 Forecast
Dan Vesset, Ashish Nadkarni, Carl W. Olofson, David Schubmehl, Maureen Fleming, Mary Wardley, Brian McDonough, Jean S. Bozman, Steve Conway, Rob Brothers, Rohit Mehra, Melissa Webster, Richard L. Villars, Henry D. Morris, Ali Zaidi, Mukesh Dialani
Dec 2012 - Doc # 238746      Market Analysis
This IDC study examines the Big Data technology and services market for 2012–2016. The study describes IDC's definition of Big Data and the criteria and methodology for sizing the market. Further, the study segments the Big Data market i ...
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