by gartner inc. industry it research founded 1981 1 headquarters hornsby new south wales australia key people stephen bowhill ceo products competitive profiles servercar ideas advantage cloudsizer rpe2 parent gartner website www.ideasinternational.com founded in 1981 ideas international ideas was an it analyst company specializing in technology insight and comparisons of competitive server and storage technology . acquired by gartner in june 2012 . clients included it end users and it vendors . 2 ideas was the creator of rpe2 a computer benchmark that compares the relative performance of servers . in 1986 ideas began distributing information about it products in a printed volume called competitive profiles which contained different pages profiles for each product . 3 ideas began trading as a public company on the australian stock exchange in 2001 . 4 in 2004 ideas acquired d.h. brown associates a research company based in the united states focused on in depth analysis of computing technologies . 5 6 in 2009 the australian information industry association named ideas as the new south wales winner of its iaward under the category sustainability and green it . the following year in 2010 ideas won the new south wales ict exporter of the year iaward . 7 ideas was an associate member of the transaction processing performance council 8 and a member of standard performance evaluation corporation . 9 on 1 august 2012 gartner acquired ideas international . 10 references edit ideas international limited gartner . www.investsmart.com.au . retrieved 2011 07 31 . rising stars 10 ideas international . australian financial review . retrieved 2011 08 02 . national library of australia online catalogue competitive profiles . national library of australia . retrieved 2011 07 31 . ideas international limited ide asx listed company information fact sheet . asx . retrieved 2011 07 31 . ideas international acquires dh brown associates for 1 million . computerworld . retrieved 2011 07 31 . bloomberg businessweek d.h. brown associates inc. . businessweek . retrieved 2011 07 31 . iawards 2010 winners . www.iawards.com.au . retrieved 2011 07 31 . transaction processing performance council who we are . transaction processing performance council . retrieved 2011 07 31 . spec consortium . spec . retrieved 2012 04 21 . gartner s plan for ideas international . retrieved 2012 08 01 . external links edit official site companies portal retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title ideas international & oldid 740672243 categories information technology companies of australiacompanies established in 1981international information technology consulting firmsresearch and analysis firmshidden categories use dmy dates from september 2016use australian english from september 2016all wikipedia articles written in australian english navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 22 september 2016 at 14 57 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view