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Our Company History
Evans Data Corporation was created to fill the demand for market research, market intelligence, and strategic planning in the software development industry. Since then we have become the industry leader in market intelligence focused on all areas of development from software to hardware to mobility.
Developers present a highly focused, highly technical and very influential segment of the software industry, and the need to keep a finger on the pulse of the development community is well understood by many manufacturers. Because of the nature of development and the quickly changing technologies that form their world, traditional market research and consulting services seldom achieve adequate results.
At EDC we have in-depth and focused experience working with high-tech professionals, and we specialize in conducting market research in the IT and development community. We are experts in analyzing technology trends and attitudes. We know how to speak the language and ask the right questions and more importantly, we can understand the answers.
Whether you wish to drill down on a current topic in a well crafted report, need custom research done quickly and accurately, or desire the insight from professional focus groups, EDC can provide answers.
Panel Profile
When conducting demand-side primary research it becomes important to recruit the participants (or samples) from sources that are as unbiased as possible. During the years that EDC has been recruiting developers to participate in surveys this ideal has continuously been foremost in our efforts. Consequently, though we have used over 100 different individual sources for recruiting, the following principles are strictly adhered to and consistently applied:
- No vendor lists have ever been used in EDC subscription surveys and none have ever been added to the panel
- No platform-specific lists have ever been used in any EDC general subscription surveys and none have ever been added to the general panel
- No language-specific lists have ever been used in any EDC subscriptions surveys and none have ever been added to the panel
In this way we provide the most eclectic and unbiased sample available anywhere. With thousands of developers chosen in a deliberately unbiased way from a wide variety of neutral lists, our data truly provides in-depth looks at representative samples of the developer population.
The EDC panel of developers includes about 75,000 professional developers in over 80 countries. The following presents a profile of those developers.
Job Titles
- 40% - Programmers/ software developers
- 30% - Software architects, systems analysts, project or product managers
- 25% - CIOs, CTOs, MIS Management
- 5% - Other
Market Segment
- 40% - Corporate end-users
- 30% - Systems integrators, VARs, consultants
- 25% - ISVs
- 5% - OEMs, other
Purchasing Involvement
- 80% Identify needs and make recommendations
- 50% Requisition specific tools and components
- 40% Approve/authorize expenditures
Types of Purchases Made or Approved
- 90% - Development Tools
- 65% - Office software
- 55% - App servers
- 50% - Web servers
Geography
- 35% - North America
- 30% - EMEA
- 30% - APAC
- 5% - Latin America
Experience
- 80% have been programming 5 years or more
- Average number of years experience = 16
Types of Development
- 56% - work on databases
- 48% - work on web apps
- 47% - work on client/server apps
- 40% - have written a Linux app
- 40% - use Java
- 27% - use C#
Our Analysts
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Name: Janel Garvin
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Janel Garvin is the CEO of Evans Data Corp, and a Research Director focused on several disciplines. She founded the company in 1998 in order to fill a need for in-depth research into software development trends and adoption patterns amongst developers that was entirely lacking in the industry before Evans Data Corp, and which Evans Data Corp to this day exclusively supplies. Janel is currently actively involved with Evans Data’s international initiatives and is also heading up and directing Evans Data studies on multi-core processing and parallel programming, as well as all development tools and application servers, and cloud computing. She also directs private competitive intelligence studies for clients and advises on tactical marketing to developers. |
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Name: Steven M. Fullmer, PMP
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Steven Fullmer shares more than 26 years experience in the high technology arena. He has architected, developed and deployed leading edge technology in the supercomputer, financial, security, telecommunications and Internet industries. He has bachelor's degrees in Chemistry and Biology, graduate work in Biochemistry, and an MBA in Management and Services Marketing. He is a certified Project Management Professional and member of the Internal Institute of Business Analysis. He has honed business analysis both as founder of an entrepreneurial consultancy and as an employee of Fortune 500 companies, regularly managing projects based upon his analysis into practical application. He is currently president of Blue Sphere Solutions, providing outsource CTO services to emergent and growth oriented businesses. For his customers and employers, he regularly shines light into theoretical black boxes. He has contributed to InformIT and Dr. Dobbs Journal, as well as Evans Data Corp North American, APAC, EMEA and Wireless survey analysis. |
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Name: Joe McKendrick
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Joe McKendrick is lead analyst and author of Evans Data Corp.'s highly regarded bi-annual Web Services and Enterprise Development Management Issues surveys, which are widely quoted and referenced as premier benchmark reports. Joe is also author of ZDNet's popular "Service Oriented Architecture" blog, as well as ebizQ's "SOA in Action" blog. Joe is also a regular columnist for Database Trends & Applications journal. He speaks frequently on Web services and SOA topics, and is also a regular commentator for a weekly SOA and Web services industry podcast. Prior to his consulting career, Joe served as director of the Administrative Management Society (AMS), an international professional association for IT, financial, and human resource executives. |
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Name: Michael Rasalan
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Michael Rasalan is the Director of Research at Evans Data Corp. He brings several years of experience as a developer in the finance, IT consulting and telecommunications sectors, as well as background in political and economic systems in emerging markets, with a specialization in Southeast Asia. Michael authors custom analytics and syndicated reports like the Developer Relations Programs Report, and is a contributor to EDC's Global Developer Population and Demographics Report . He is also a good cook. |
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Name: Esther Schindler
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Esther Schindler has been writing about technology subjects since 1992. She has focused on software development topics for the last several years, with her byline appearing in Software Test & Performance, SD Times, Informit.com, IT Business Network, and DevSource.com. Currently, she is senior online editor at CIO.com, where she has written such articles as "Five Things CIOs Need To Know About Software Requirements” and “The Enterprise Committer: When Your Employee Develops Open-Source Code on the Company Payroll.” |
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Name: Ann R. Thryft
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Ann R. Thryft has over 20 years of industry knowledge in embedded technology. She has held editorial positions with RTC Magazine, COTS Journal, EE Times, Computer Design and Electronic Buyers’ News. Currently, she is a Contributing Technical Editor for EDN. An award-winning trade journalist, Ann has introduced readers to several emerging trends ahead of the curve, including early cell-phone architectures, set-top box system design, open network server and switch/router architectures, software-defined radio and RFID. At Electronic Buyers’ News, she won two independently-judged CMP Media Excellence in Editorial Awards for Best Technology Feature.
Before entering technical trade journalism, Ann spent 10 years in marketing communications for a variety of companies in industrial and business-to-business markets, including software development systems, aerospace/defense environmental testing, telecommunications, test and monitoring, and power line protection. She received a Certified Business Communicator certificate from the Business Marketing Association (formerly B/PAA).
Ann graduated with a BA in Cultural Anthropology from Stanford University, where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. Her honors thesis was published the same year in The Western Canadian Journal of Anthropology. |
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Name: Arthur Kenjora
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Arthur Kenjora, President and CEO of Aware Labs LLC., is an entrepreneur and Business Analyst consultant with professional experience in project management, product implementation, and corporate finance. He has held several positions with the Phoenix Chapter Project Management Institute (PMI) and is a charter board member establishing the Phoenix chapter of the International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA).
Arthur brings successes in IT entrepreneurship, technology, sales, and finance IT project leadership within several large financial corporations. He is a co-founder of Aware Labs LLC., and an Associate of Blue Sphere Solutions. He holds a Bachelors of Science in Economics from Arizona State University |
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Name: Ben Hanley
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Ben Hanley is a senior analyst at Evans Data Corporation. Ben authors custom analytics and syndicated reports, manages EDC's Global Developer Population and Demographics Report, and directs private competitive intelligence studies for clients. Ben specializes in statistics, econometrics, and computer simulation modeling for use in strategic and business decision making. Prior to Evans Data, Ben was a senior investment professional at PCG Holdings where he evaluated and made investment recommendations to domestic and international pensions regarding private market investments in technology. Prior to that, Ben was a Senior Consultant at Bates White, LLC, where he developed sophisticated computer simulation models and other rigorous quantitative analysis for clients in industries such as media, telecommunications, semiconductors, and software. Ben began his career in Salomon Smith Barney's investment banking division. Ben graduated cum laude, with special departmental honors, from Harvard University. |
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