Elaina Stergiades is the Research Manager for IDC's Software Support Services program. In this position, she provides insight and analysis of industry trends and market strategies for software vendors supporting applications, development environment and systems software. Elaina is also responsible for research, writing and program development of the software support services market.

Prior to joining IDC, Elaina spent 10 years in the software and web design industries. As a quality assurance engineer at Parametric Technology and Weather Services International (WSI), she led testing efforts for new applications and worked closely with customers to design and implement new functionality. Elaina also worked in product marketing at WSI, directing an initiative to launch a new weather crawl system. More recently, she was a project manager at Catalyst online. At Catalyst, Elaina was responsible for managing client search marketing campaigns targeting increased website traffic, revenue and top search engine rankings.

Elaina has a B.S. in mechanical engineering from Cornell University and an M.B.A. from Babson College.