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Sandra Ng
Group Vice President, Practice Group, IDC Asia/Pacific

Team: Asia/Pacific Communications Team
Asia/Pacific Emerging Technology Advisory Services
Asia/Pacific Personal Computing Team
Asia/Pacific Printers and Peripherals Team
Asia/Pacific Services Team
Asia/Pacific Software Team
Asia/Pacific Vertical Markets
Channels
Directions 2012 (U.S) Participating Analysts

Sandra Ng has been in the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) advisory and consulting industry for 20 years. While her technology research expertise is vast and diverse, she is best known in the industry for her Telecommunications knowledge and opinions within the Asia Pacific region. Her ability to discuss broad, strategic and converged issues across the ICT industry enables her to engage with many C-level management teams and technology executives in Asia.

In her current role as the Head of the Practice Group at IDC Asia/Pacific, Sandra leads a team of IDC's senior analysts with collective expertise across the entire ICT industry. This team leverages the core research created by IDC's Asia/Pacific Domain Research Group, through contextualizing the content and increasing its relevance for clients and their businesses. This value creation process enhances the proposition IDC brings to strategy, planning and market intelligence stakeholders. This unique delivery of research content also brings with it IDC's thought leadership analysis and business executive insights for marketing, product management, sales and strategic leadership teams within the client's organization.

Along with the Domain Research team, the Practice Group extensively collaborates with IDC’s Integrated Marketing Programs (IMP), IDC’s Industry Insights and IDC’s Consulting organizations to provide a comprehensive scope of intelligence services to meet the diverse needs of today’s dynamic and complex technology marketplace.

From research to IDC's customized go-to-market services (GMS) to executive roundtables and end-user events, Sandra and her team provide independent and insightful perspectives of market conditions, assisting clients in making informed business decisions and achieving business goals.

Sandra’s role also extends beyond quality research content delivery. She plays a key role in driving forward-looking assessment and analysis, often sharing her market insights and predictions to Asia Pacific management teams and heads of strategy within her customer base. She moderates and engages extensively with the client communities, including both traditional technology buyers and increasingly influential CFO and line of business heads.

Prior to joining IDC, Sandra was with Gartner/Dataquest for more than four years, where she was managing a variety of IT research projects ranging from midrange systems to peripherals. In addition to base unit research, she was actively leading in channel and consulting work.

Sandra has established a keen following within the Asia Pacific media fraternity and is frequently quoted in leading regional business and trade publications such as the Asian Wall Street Journal, Computer World, Telecom Asia, tele.com and Wireless World, and also in locally-based media such as Singapore's Business Times and Hong Kong's South China Morning Post. She is often invited to present IDC's opinions on CNBC Asia, Bloomberg and Channel News Asia. Sandra is also a regular keynote speaker at global and regional ICT conferences.

Fluent in English and Mandarin, Sandra graduated from National University of Singapore with a Bachelor of Business Administration degree.


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Oracle OpenWorld 2012: Simplifying IT to Deliver Super-Economics
Sandra Ng
Oct 2012 - Doc # lcSG23732212      IDC Link
In the keynote presentation of Mark Hurd at Oracle OpenWorld 2012, he articulated Oracle’s strategy as simplifying IT for enterprises and public organizations throughout the globe. The world is evolving as consumers interact differently, to ...
Oracle OpenWorld 2012: The Radical Social Progress Through Innovation
Sandra Ng
Oct 2012 - Doc # lcSG23723112      IDC Link
In the keynote session of SD Shibual of Infosys, the focus was on the radical progress made possible through corporate-led innovations. With organizations focusing on IT-based innovations to deliver business outcomes, ideas that can change ...

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Telstra Bets on a Software-Defined Industry
Dustin Kehoe, Chris Lewis, Sandra Ng
Jan 2013 - Doc # AU3054115V      Event Flash
This IDC Flash discusses Telstra's plans of setting up a new business unit, Global Applications and Platforms (GAP). The new group will be part of the Innovation, Products, and Marketing business led by Kate McKenzie. The new unit will h ...
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Verizon Entrprise Services Undertake Transformation in the New Era of ICT
Mayur Sahni, Adrian Dominic Ho, Sandra Ng, Ryan Tay, Rajkumar P, Linus Lai
Jan 2013 - Doc # AP2579501V      Insight
This IDC Insight is based on IDC's analysis of Verizon Enterprise Services strategy for the Asia/Pacific market, as shared at the Annual Analyst event held by Verizon Enterprise Services in Singapore. At the event, the company presented ...
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