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Albert Pang
Research Director, Enterprise Applications Research

Team: Enterprise Applications
Enterprise Workplace
Human Resource Management
Albert Pang is responsible for the overall direction of enterprise applications market coverage at IDC. Mr. Pang has spent nearly 20 years analyzing and writing about the software industry from the early days of ERP deployment to the latest innovation in Web services architecture.

As director of enterprise applications research for IDC, Mr. Pang is considered an expert on ERP, and financial and human capital management applications markets. Mr. Pang provides strategic advice and best-practice perspectives to vendors and customers on technology adoption trends and vertical industry dynamics.

An author of hundreds of studies on enterprise-wide software implementations and product development cycles, Mr. Pang is using a new research technique drawn from a database of 3,000 enterprise applications vendors to deliver quantitative and qualitative market data and analyses on how enterprise software vendors can survive and succeed amid industry consolidations, changing revenue models, and often competing views between business and IT users. The result is a combination of metrics-based opinions and survey data that cover software buying preferences, selection criteria and implementation templates, all within the ecosystems established by successful vendors to develop and sell solutions to new and emerging market segments.

Mr. Pang is regularly quoted in business and technology media and publications from the New York Times to the Wall Street Journal, and he is a frequent speaker on such topics as ERP, workforce optimization, strategic sourcing, as well as fast-growing segments from HR performance management to services-based enterprise applications for the mid-market.

Prior to joining IDC, Mr. Pang was the senior online editor at Ziff-Davis where he helped launch a number of websites and publications focusing on electronic commerce and enterprise application development. At Ziff, Mr. Pang was instrumental in helping built ZDNet, now a part of Cnet, into a leading high-tech website. Before that, Mr. Pang held a series of editorial and management positions at CMP Media, where he also won a number of awards for his news coverage.

A graduate of the University of Southern California, Mr. Pang resides in Silicon Valley with his family.

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Microsoft Dynamics Grows Its Fan Base with New Tunes
Albert Pang
Mar 2008 - Doc # lcUS21144808      IDC Link
Following a series of management changes and strategy shifts, Microsoft is singing a different tune with its Dynamics enterprise applications business. The new tune comes at a time of increased competition in the enterprise resource ...
Amid Recession Talks, Enterprise Apps Vendors Issue Customer Win Alerts
Albert Pang
Feb 2008 - Doc # lcUS21102608      IDC Link
Despite the talks of a global economic slowdown, customer win announcements from enterprise applications vendors came in at a steady clip throughout the month of January 2008, suggesting that deals were still being consummated.
Though ...


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Business Process IP as Competitive Advantage: Redefining Services and Software Market Strategies
Henry D. Morris, Albert Pang, Maureen Fleming, Sandra Rogers, David Tapper, Amy Konary, Michael Fauscette, Steve White, Darren Bibby
Oct 2008 - Doc # 214495      Industry Development and Models
This IDC study explores the battle being waged by software and services companies to gain the upper hand with buyers as the lead business process provider, competing via alliance and acquisition strategies to gain needed busine ...
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Worldwide ERP Applications 2008–2012 Forecast and 2007 Vendor Shares
Albert Pang
Sep 2008 - Doc # 214060      Market Analysis
This IDC study provides the latest software license and maintenance revenue shares of more than 110 enterprise resource planning (ERP) applications vendors between 2005 and 2007 and the overall market trends that form the basis ...
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The Challenges and Opportunities of Selling Enterprise Software to Vertical Markets
Burlingame, CA United States
April 23, 2008