Analyst Profile Detailed
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Mark Levitt
Program VP, Collaboration and Enterprise 2.0 Strategies
Team:
Collaborative Applications
Digital Marketplace and New Media
Directions Presenters
Enterprise Workplace
IDC Predictions Team
Open Source
Unified Communications
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Mark Levitt is IDC's lead strategist and researcher for collaborative applications which includes email, integrated collaborative environments, team collaboration, conferencing, instant messaging and presence, unified messaging and communications, as well as enterprise 2.0 social networking, blogs and wikis delivered either as on-premises software or software as a service.
Mr. Levitt regularly publishes market forecasts, vendor analysis, and analysis of emerging trends such as contextual collaboration and the enterprise workplace. He also provides customers with assessments of vendor strategies and market opportunities. In 2005, Mr. Levitt was awarded IDC's prestigious James Peacock Memorial Award for professional excellence in market research.
Since joining IDC in 1989 as a research analyst in IDC's PC software and PC hardware programs, Mr. Levitt has conducted research in the areas of PC pricing, worldwide and regional PC markets, PC distribution channels, storage, and printers. Since 1995, he has focused on messaging and collaboration.
Mr. Levitt is often quoted in business and computer trade publications. He delivers speeches, moderates panels, and presents webinars on collaboration market trends and issues. As an attorney and legal consultant, Mr. Levitt has written about the privacy of email in the workplace and government access to information contained on computers.
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