Analyst Profile Detailed
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Amy Konary
Research Director, Software Pricing, Licensing, and Delivery
Team:
Open Source
Pricing Strategies
Software as a Service
Software Business Strategies
Software Pricing and Licensing
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Amy Mizoras Konary is a Program Director with IDC, focusing on software pricing, licensing, and delivery research. In this role, Ms. Konary is responsible for providing coverage of software as a service, volume license programs, evolving license models, and other trends impacting the business models of software vendors and their customers with market analysis, research, and consulting. In her coverage of software as a service, Ms. Konary has been instrumental in forecasting future market size and growth. She is currently using feedback modeling and simulation techniques to forecast technology markets and predict market shares and adoption rates. These methodologies are unique to IDC in the IT market research industry.
Since Joining IDC in 1998, Ms. Konary has received a number of honors and awards, including IDC Research Quality Awards in 2000, 2001, 2002, and 2004, as well as IDC’s 2002 Analyst-of-the-Year. In 2005, Ms. Konary was honored with IDC’s James Peacock award for research excellence, IDC’s highest honor.
Ms. Konary has authored groundbreaking and award-winning research on supply chain exchange applications, personal and collaborative software as service market forecasts, and partnering strategies. Ms. Konary is a frequent speaker at high-level industry events and seminars, and is often quoted in the industry and business press.
Prior to focusing exclusively on software pricing, licensing, and delivery research, Ms. Konary contributed to the Product and Services Supply Chain research programs, where she provided coverage of topics such as retail, financial services, and insurance industry-specific applications.
Ms. Konary holds a B.A. from Lehigh University, where she majored in Science and Technical Writing and minored in Environmental Science.
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Intraware to Be Acquired by Acresso
Amy Konary
Oct 2008 - Doc # lcUS21485508
IDC Link
On October 20, Intraware, Inc. and Acresso announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Intraware will be acquired in a transaction valued at approximately $27 million. Under the terms of the agreement, Intraware ...
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Software vendors generally agree that traditional licensing models are no longer suitable in today's environment. The software market will move toward licensing models and practices that increase the predictability of vendor revenues, make it easier for customers to manage and comply with software license contracts, and clearly establish the business value of software.
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