Analyst Profile
Ricardo Villate
Vice President, Research and Consulting ,Latin America
Ricardo Villate is responsible for the management and direction of IDC's consulting and research business across the Latin America region.
Mr. Villate has more than 15 years of experience in the IT and financial industries in Latin America. During his tenure at IDC, he has held various positions within the organization. Prior to becoming Research and Consulting Vice President for Latin America, he was General Manager, Southern Cone (Argentina, Chile, Peru). Before that, he was a Director of hardware, software, services and telecom research programs for the Latin American region. His knowledge comes through his years as an IT market consultant combined with his background in the financial services industry.
Mr. Villate spends much of his time traveling throughout Latin America presenting at industry and client events on outsourcing, security, the convergence of the software and services industries, cloud computing, infrastructure consolidation, mobility and new IT ecosystems, among other topics.
He is a frequently quoted analyst in the Latin America media including the Wall Street Journal, America Economia, LatinTrade, and BNAmericas.
Prior to joining IDC in 1997, Mr. Villate worked as a director for Fiduciaria Popular, a financial institution in Colombia, in charge of strategic marketing planning, systems planning, procurement, and human resources. Mr. Villate initiated his career as a quality analyst for IBM Colombia and as a marketing analyst in MM Data, Bogota.
Mr. Villate is a graduate from the Universidad Javeriana in Bogota, Colombia, with a degree in Industrial Engineering. He also holds a marketing degree from the University of California at Berkeley and a specialist degree in Economics from the Universidad de los Andes in Bogota. While in the Colombian army, Mr. Villate lived in the Middle East. He is a native Spanish speaker.
Research Authored by Ricardo Villate
SAPPHIRE NOW 2010: SAP Broadens Offerings and Sets Out a Road Map for an In-Memory Future
Henry D. Morris, Bo Lykkegaard, Mary Wardley, Robert Parker, Ruediger Spies, Stephen D. Drake, Praveen Sengar, Gard Little, Kimberly Knickle, Michael Fauscette, Alan Tong, Ricardo Villate, Brian McDonough, Mariana Zamoszczyk, Melinda-Carol Ballou, Raymond Boggs
Jun 2010 - Doc # 223698
Vendor Profile
This IDC Vendor Profile presents a review of SAP's user conference, SAPPHIRE NOW 2010.
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Latin America Predictions 2010
Romina Adduci, Federico Amprimo, Diego Anesini, Matias Berardi, Maricela De La Cruz, Alejandro Florean, Jay Gumbiner, Lidice Fernandez, Eric A. Prothero, Christopher Real, Cristina Rivas, Reinaldo Roveri, Reinaldo Sakis, Juan Seminara, Renato Troya, Alejandro Valdes, Natalia Vega, Ricardo Villate, Cesar Longa, Mariana Zamoszczyk, Patrick Melgarejo
Jan 2010 - Doc # LA10103
Top 10 Predictions
As global markets return to growth in 2010, Latin America IT adoption is at a crossroads: Will most buyers return to pre-crisis spending behaviors or will buying patterns be changed forever, scarred by the experience of living ...
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IDC Predictions 2010: Recovery and Transformation
Frank Gens, Cushing Anderson, Irene Berlinsky, Raymond Boggs, Angèle Boyd, Jean S. Bozman, Jeanne Capachin, Godfrey Chua, Matt Davis, Crawford Del Prete, Stephen D. Drake, Scott Ellison, Robert Farish, Michael Fauscette, Susan Feldman, Steven J. Frantzen, John F. Gantz, Tim Grieser, Greg Ireland, Earl C. Joseph, Ph.D., Gary Koch, Danielle Levitas, Amy Lind, Ramon T. Llamas, Scott Lundstrom, Robert P. Mahowald, Stephen Minton, Masaaki Moriyama, Chris Morris, Henry D. Morris, Courtney Munroe, Tomoaki Nakamura, Rick Nicholson, Bob O'Donnell, David Potterton, Eric A. Prothero, Joseph C. Pucciarelli, Bill Roch, Junichi Saeki, William Stofega, David Tapper, Vernon Turner, Richard Vancil, Richard L. Villars, Ricardo Villate, Hideo Wada, Mark Walker, Janet Waxman, Karsten Weide, Meredith Whalen, Mark Winther
Dec 2009 - Doc # TB20091203
Event Proceeding
IDC's annual predictions offer an important preview of the industry events, user trends, and vendor strategies that promise to define the IT industry in the year ahead. Drawing on IDC's industry-defining research and fresh insi ...
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