Stephen Elliot is Research Director for IDC's Enterprise Systems Management Software Service and Industry Insights' IT Management Service. Mr. Elliot's primary focus is research, analysis, and strategy advisory on enterprise management markets and the impact of emerging and evolving technologies on IT organizations. Mr. Elliot is a noted analyst who is quoted regularly in the trade and business press, and is a frequent presenter at business and technology conferences around the world. In 2005, he was named "Analyst of the Year" by IDC customers.

Before joining IDC, Mr. Elliot was a Research Director covering storage management at Hurwitz Group. Prior to Hurwitz, he was a Product Marketing Manager at Inteq, where he focused on product marketing and partner development. Previously, as part of the Network and Systems Management (NSM) team at Gartner, Mr. Elliot delivered research and consulting on issues in enterprise IT infrastructure and management service providers.

Additionally, Mr. Elliot developed strategic research on NSM software and networking vendors at Instat Group and Forrester. Mr. Elliot holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Southern California with graduate work at American University. He has also completed Harvard Business School's Executive Education course on Strategic Financial Analysis for Business Valuation.