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Paul Calvo
Research Analyst, Pricing Evaluation Services

Team: Pricing Strategies
Paul Calvo is a Research Analyst contributing to IDC’s Pricing Evaluation Services and IT Advisory Tools programs. Mr. Calvo focuses on tracking market trends and analyzing commodity IT hardware pricing including PC’s, notebooks, rack & blade servers. Utilizing the SmartIndex price assurance methodology, Mr. Calvo assists global clients in achieving best-in-class price competitiveness for initial and subsequent IT hardware purchases. The SmartIndex price assurance methodology is an industry standard among many Fortune 1000 corporations and government entities, providing noteworthy savings within supply chain and global procurement organizations.

Mr. Calvo assists a wide range of global sourcing and procurement professionals with aligning long term pricing to IDC benchmarks driving long term cost containment and savings.

Mr. Calvo holds a B.S. in Business Management from Providence College with a concentration in Finance.