INSIGHT ENTERPRISES INC - Annual Report: 2010 (Form 10-K)

 

 

UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM 10-K

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INSIGHT ENTERPRISES, INC.

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Delaware (State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization)		86-0766246 (IRS Employer Identification No.)

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ANNUAL REPORT ON FORM 10-K
Year Ended December 31, 2010

TABLE OF CONTENTS

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PART I
ITEM 1. Business			2
ITEM 1A. Risk Factors			10
ITEM 1B. Unresolved Staff Comments			17
ITEM 2. Properties			17
ITEM 3. Legal Proceedings			18
ITEM 4. (Removed and Reserved)			18
PART II
ITEM 5. Market for Registrant’s Common Equity, Related Stockholder Matters and Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities			18
ITEM 6. Selected Financial Data			20
ITEM 7. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations			22
ITEM 7A. Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk			40
ITEM 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data			41
ITEM 9. Changes in and Disagreements With Accountants on Accounting and Financial Disclosure			77
ITEM 9A. Controls and Procedures			77
ITEM 9B. Other Information			77
PART III
ITEM 10. Directors, Executive Officers and Corporate Governance			77
ITEM 11. Executive Compensation			78
ITEM 12. Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management and Related Stockholder Matters			78
ITEM 13. Certain Relationships and Related Transactions, and Director Independence			78
ITEM 14. Principal Accounting Fees and Services			78
PART IV
ITEM 15. Exhibits, Financial Statement Schedules			78
SIGNATURES			79
EXHIBITS TO FORM 10-K			80
Exhibit 10.16
Exhibit 10.17
Exhibit 21
Exhibit 23.1
Exhibit 24.1
Exhibit 24.2
Exhibit 24.3
Exhibit 24.4
Exhibit 24.5
Exhibit 24.6
Exhibit 24.7
Exhibit 24.8
Exhibit 31.1
Exhibit 31.2
Exhibit 32.1

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FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS

Certain statements in this Annual Report on Form 10-K, including statements in “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” in Part II, Item 7 of this report, are forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements may include: projections of matters that affect net sales, gross profit, operating expenses, earnings from continuing operations, non-operating income and expenses, net earnings or cash flows, cash needs and the sufficiency of our capital resources and the payment of accrued expenses and liabilities; the effect resulting from changes being implemented by our largest software partner to elements of our channel incentive programs; our business strategy and our strategic initiatives, including the launch of new product and services offerings in international markets; effects of acquisitions or dispositions; projections of capital expenditures; plans for future operations and acquisitions; the availability of financing and our needs or plans relating thereto; the effect of new accounting principles or changes in accounting policies; the effect of guaranty and indemnification obligations; projections about the outcome of ongoing tax audits; statements related to accounting estimates, including estimated stock-based compensation award forfeitures, the timing of the payment of restructuring obligations and the realization of deferred tax assets and the resolution of uncertain tax positions; our positions and strategies with respect to ongoing and threatened litigation; our ability to grow sales to new and existing clients and increase our market share and the resulting effect on our results of operations and profitability; our plans to grow our sales team; the timing of the effect of our initiatives to expand our international product and services offerings; our plans to consolidate and upgrade our IT systems, including the timing and costs relating thereto; the sufficiency of our facilities; our intentions relating to future stock repurchases; the possibility that we may take future restructuring actions; our intentions to reinvest foreign earnings; our plans to use cash flow from operations to pay down debt and make capital expenditures; our exposure resulting from off-balance sheet arrangements; statements of belief; and statements of assumptions underlying any of the foregoing. Forward-looking statements are identified by such words as “believe,” “anticipate,” “expect,” “estimate,” “intend,” “plan,” “project,” “will,” “may” and variations of such words and similar expressions and are inherently subject to risks and uncertainties, some of which cannot be predicted or quantified. Future events and actual results could differ materially from those set forth in, contemplated by, or underlying the forward-looking statements. There can be no assurances that results described in forward-looking statements will be achieved, and actual results could differ materially from those suggested by the forward-looking statements. Some of the important factors that could cause our actual results to differ materially from those projected in any forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, the following:

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our reliance on partners for product availability and competitive products to sell as well as our competition with our partners;

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our reliance on partners for marketing funds and purchasing incentives;

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disruptions in our information technology systems and voice and data networks, including risks and costs associated with the integration and upgrade of our IT systems;

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general economic conditions, including concerns regarding our ability to collect our accounts receivable and client credit constraints;

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actions of our competitors, including manufacturers and publishers of products we sell;

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changes in the IT industry and/or rapid changes in product standards;

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failure to comply with the terms and conditions of our commercial and public sector contracts;

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stockholder litigation and regulatory proceedings related to the restatement of our consolidated financial statements;

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the availability of future financing and our ability to access and/or refinance our credit facilities;

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the security of our electronic and other confidential information;

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the variability of our net sales and gross profit;

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the risks associated with our international operations;

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exposure to changes in, interpretations of, or enforcement trends related to tax rules and regulations;

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our dependence on key personnel; and

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intellectual property infringement claims and challenges to our registered trademarks and trade names.

Additionally, there may be other risks that are otherwise described from time to time in the reports that we file with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Any forward-looking statements in this report should be considered in light of various important factors, including the risks and uncertainties listed above, as well as others. We assume no obligation to update, and do not intend to update, any forward-looking statements. We do not endorse any projections regarding future performance that may be made by third parties.

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PART I

Item 1.		Business

General

Insight Enterprises, Inc. (“Insight” or the “Company”) is a global provider of information technology (“IT”) hardware, software and service solutions to businesses and public sector clients. The Company is organized in the following three operating segments, which are primarily defined by their related geographies:

				% of 2010
Operating Segment*		Geography		Consolidated Net Sales
North America		United States and Canada		70%
EMEA		Europe, Middle East and Africa		27%
APAC		Asia-Pacific		3%

We help companies design, enable, manage and secure their IT environments with our process knowledge, technical expertise and product fulfillment and logistics capabilities. Our management tools, capabilities and expertise make designing, deploying and managing IT solutions easier while helping our clients control their IT costs. Insight has locations in 21 countries, and we serve clients in 191 countries with software provisioning and related services, transacting business in 18 languages and 14 currencies. Currently, our offerings in North America and the United Kingdom include IT hardware, software and services. Our offerings in the remainder of our EMEA segment and in APAC are almost entirely software and select software-related services. On a consolidated basis, hardware, software and services represented 53%, 42% and 5%, respectively, of our net sales in 2010, compared to 50%, 44% and 6%, respectively, in 2009.

We were incorporated in Delaware in 1991 as the successor to an Arizona corporation that commenced operations in 1988. Our corporate headquarters are located in Tempe, Arizona. We began operations in the U.S., expanded into Canada in 1997 and into the United Kingdom in 1998. In 2006, through our acquisition of Software Spectrum, Inc. (“Software Spectrum”), we expanded deeper into global markets in EMEA and APAC, where Software Spectrum already had an established footprint and strategic relationships. In 2008, through our acquisitions of Calence, LLC (“Calence”) in North America and MINX Limited (“MINX”) in the United Kingdom, we enhanced our global technical expertise around higher-end networking and communications technologies, as well as managed services and security. As part of our focus on core elements of our growth strategy, in 2007 we sold PC Wholesale, a seller of IT products to other resellers in the U.S., and in 2006 we sold Direct Alliance Corporation (“Direct Alliance”), a business process outsourcing provider in the U.S.

Business Strategy

Our strategic vision is to be the trusted advisor to our clients, helping them enhance their business performance through innovative technology solutions. With the continual emergence of new technologies and technology solution options in the IT industry, we believe businesses continue to seek technology providers to supply value-added advice to help them identify and deploy IT solutions. We believe that Insight has a unique position in the market and can gain profitable market share and provide enhanced value to our clients. We have a multi-partner approach (we refer to our suppliers as “partners” and our employees as “teammates”) and excel at providing broad product selection at competitive prices through an efficient supply chain. We have deeper services and solutions capabilities than many of our competitors, we are the only value-added reseller with a multi-national footprint, and our client base covers a broader cross-section of clients than many of our competitors.

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To further refine our strategic focus and strengthen our execution and operational effectiveness, Insight is focused on four strategic initiatives:

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Strengthen the foundation of our business;

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Continue to expand our higher-margin services offerings;

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Expand our hardware offerings in select global markets; and

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Integrate our IT systems.

Strengthen the foundation of our business. Insight’s core business is providing IT hardware, software and services to large, medium and small businesses and public sector institutions. We believe that what differentiates Insight from our competitors is:

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Our Scale and Reach — we had $4.8 billion in net sales in 2010 and have sales and distribution capabilities in 21 countries.

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Our People — we have 5,115 teammates worldwide, including over 1,000 skilled, certified services professionals.

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Our Business Foundation — we have a broad offering of hardware and software products, with access to over $3 billion in virtual inventory, efficient supply chain execution and customizable e-commerce capabilities.

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Our Breadth and Depth of Services — we have developed services capabilities focused on managed services and professional and consulting services, which are particularly strong in the United States and the United Kingdom.

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Our Partnerships and Clients — we have a multi-partner approach with over 5,000 partnerships with manufacturers and publishers and over 70,000 commercial and public sector clients globally.

In order to strengthen the foundation of our business, we are refocusing our North America business on our traditional core. Through our new North America sales engagement model, we have created a single, geographically aligned sales and delivery organization which is focused on organic, profitable growth and market share gain. Key components of the new model include:

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Alignment of Sales Teams and Clients — we defined and mapped our current U.S. resources and clients into three regions: East, Central, West, and because of its unique characteristics, a separate Public Sector unit.

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Alignment with Partners — we redefined our client groups to help ensure our sales strategies are in sync with our partners.

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Training — we designed and implemented training programs for our sales managers, directors and pre-sales support to ensure that all sales teammates have access to expertise across our product offerings.

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Operational Excellence — we adopted metrics and a new management system to track our performance and implemented a weekly management commitment process to ensure we have real time visibility into our business and to ensure resources are aligned to drive results.

We are also focusing on selling into a specific set of targeted clients that are part of our total addressable market, or as we call it, our TAM. In North America, we are putting particular focus on commercial and corporate clients, and in EMEA and APAC, we continue to focus on increasing our share of the middle market and public sector client groups. We are addressing these opportunities to grow market share by continuing to invest in our sales teams in EMEA and APAC and by growing the sales teams in North America and investing in enhanced training initiatives.

In addition to our focus on new clients, we seek to increase our share of our current clients’ annual IT budgets. We are investing in focused training programs in North America to ensure our sales teammates are able to sell across our broad portfolio of offerings and we are implementing the management system necessary to track our progress. As we launch our new IT system in EMEA, we intend to deploy similar programs as necessary to ensure we are able to bring our new hardware capabilities to our existing clients in additional markets. Our operating model allows us to tailor offerings based on the size and complexity of our client. Accordingly, we believe that there are opportunities for Insight to expand our relationships with our existing clients and increase the types of products and services that each of our existing clients buys from us.

We are also implementing operational excellence and execution initiatives, such as establishing clear roles and accountabilities for all teammates and aligning compensation models and business processes to ensure our productivity improves across our business. We believe that by gaining a clear understanding of baseline productivity performance in our business, we will be better positioned to rationalize investments and achieve better scale on our cost structure as our business grows.

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Further, to continue to enhance our core business, we intend to seize growth opportunities in new technologies. As manufacturers, publishers and service providers develop new technologies and as new ways of buying and supplying technology take hold, we are committed to taking advantage of and leveraging these opportunities. In North America, we are building an “as-a-service” aggregation portal (or cloud portal) linked to Insight.com to take advantage of opportunities such as “Software as a Service” (“SaaS”). As an aggregator, we are designing our portal to enable the procurement, delivery, billing, administration and support of on-demand services provided through the cloud. We are planning to bring this solution to the market during 2011.

Additionally, we are strengthening our partnerships to ensure we deliver value to our partners and increase partner access to target clients. By aligning more closely with our partners, we expect to gain market share and improve our profitability by optimizing partner incentive programs. We are focused on understanding our partners’ objectives and developing plans and programs to grow our mutual businesses. We measure partner satisfaction regularly and hold quarterly business reviews with our largest partners to review business results from the prior quarter, discuss plans for the future and obtain feedback. Additionally, we host annual partner conferences in North America, EMEA and APAC to articulate our plans for the upcoming year.

Continue to expand our higher-margin services offerings. While Insight’s business was built on hardware and software product sales that are the foundation of many of our client relationships today, we believe our strong services capabilities differentiate Insight in the marketplace and enhance our profitability. We offer certain standard and customized solutions to our clients through our managed and professional and consulting services capabilities. While these capabilities are most developed in our United States business, we are growing our capabilities in the United Kingdom and plan to selectively launch the offering of such services in other countries in our EMEA segment and in Canada.

Managed services, which enable a client to drive improved efficiency and generate cost savings by outsourcing non-core IT capabilities, are among our most advanced capabilities. This allows internal IT departments to focus on more value-add activities. Insight’s managed services capabilities currently available in the United States include:

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World-class Network Operations Center (“NOC”), with

	•		24/7 operations and
	•		Best-in-class management tools

	•		SaaS
	•		Complete integration services
	•		Software asset management
	•		Managed warranty solutions
	•		Help desk support
	•		Complete end-of-life asset management, including asset disposal, redeployment and remarketing

Our professional and consulting services help clients manage and deploy IT assets within their environments to minimize the total cost of ownership. Insight’s professional and consulting services capabilities include:

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Strategy, assessment and implementation services around

	•		Infrastructure/Security
	•		Data Center
	•		Software
	•		Collaboration

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Broad technology deployment

Our team is composed of over 1,000 professionals with approximately 3,000 certifications and delivers services using a proprietary methodology and dedicated project management office.

Expand our hardware offerings in select global markets. Currently, our offerings in North America and the United Kingdom include IT hardware, software and services. Our offerings in the remainder of our EMEA segment and in APAC are almost entirely software and select software-related services. We intend to continue to offer global software licensing and related asset management services, as we believe these global capabilities meaningfully differentiate us from our competitors. In addition, we are planning to selectively expand our core hardware capabilities into other existing countries in our European footprint. We expect to introduce hardware sales in selected countries in Europe upon the development of IT systems capabilities in our EMEA operating segment. The roll out is planned to occur in phases, and we expect a positive contribution to our financial results beginning in 2012. In addition, we are expanding our service partner network in the United Kingdom and Canada (where we currently offer the full suite of Insight capabilities) to further augment capabilities to deliver select managed and professional and consulting services.

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In other countries where we will not expand beyond software, we intend to continue to enhance our software offerings by introducing SaaS solutions, expanding our software services capabilities, and extending our client reach with medium-sized businesses and public sector clients. In addition, we will maintain our global software capabilities differentiation in supporting our multinational clients.

For a discussion of risks associated with international operations, see “Risk Factors — There are risks associated with our international operations that are different than the risks associated with our operations in the United States, and our exposure to the risks of a global market could hinder our ability to maintain and expand international operations,” in Part I, Item 1A of this report.

Integrate our IT systems. One of our North America segment’s key initiatives is to improve its IT infrastructure in order to fully leverage our core capabilities. As part of this initiative, we intend to consolidate systems and remove operational barriers created by the multiple IT environments inherited in past business acquisitions. We believe this systems integration will drive operational efficiency and simplify engagement among our teammates and with our clients and our partners.

Integrating our current systems will:

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Provide a consistent interface for our clients, partners and teammates;

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Facilitate the alignment of business processes and resources to support the engagement model;

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Simplify account management by consolidating to one Customer Relationship Management (CRM) tool;

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Improve productivity by streamlining process, applications and infrastructure;

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Improve data integrity and simplify access to information to enhance the speed, accuracy and completeness of responses to our clients and partners;

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Improve our ability to bring the full set of product and solution offerings to our clients; and

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Provide a common IT platform from which to grow in future years.

Our plan is to fully integrate our IT systems in North America onto an integrated platform over the next two years. Significant internal and external resources have been devoted to the successful completion of this project.

We are also in the process of converting our EMEA operations to a new IT system platform that will allow us to expand our sales of hardware and services, in addition to software, to clients in that region to promote future sales and profit growth.

Hardware, Software and Services Offerings

Hardware Offerings. We currently offer our clients in North America and the United Kingdom a comprehensive selection of IT hardware products. We offer products from hundreds of manufacturers, including such industry leaders as Hewlett-Packard (“HP”), Cisco, Lenovo, IBM, Panasonic and American Power Conversion Corporation. Our scale and purchasing power, combined with our efficient, high-volume and cost effective direct sales and marketing model, allow us to offer competitive prices. We believe that offering multiple partner choices enables us to better serve our clients by providing a variety of product solutions to best address their specific business needs. These needs may be based on particular client preferences or other criteria, such as real-time best pricing and availability, or compatibility with existing technology. In addition to our distribution facilities, we have “direct-ship” programs with many of our partners, including manufacturers and distributors, allowing us to expand our product offerings without increasing inventory, handling costs or inventory risk exposure. As a result, we are able to provide a product offering with billions of dollars of products in virtual inventory. Convenience and product options among multiple brands are key competitive advantages against manufacturers’ direct selling programs, which are generally limited to their own brands and may not offer clients a complete or best in class solution across all product categories.

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Software Offerings. Our clients acquire software applications from us in the form of licensing agreements with software publishers, boxed products, or through a growing delivery model, SaaS. Under a SaaS arrangement, clients subscribe to software that is hosted either by the software publisher or a dedicated third-party hosting company on the internet. The majority of our clients obtain their software applications through licensing agreements, which we believe is a result of their ease of administration and cost-effectiveness. Licensing agreements, or right-to-copy agreements, allow a client to either purchase a license for each of its users in a single transaction or periodically report its software usage, paying a license fee based on the number of users.

As software publishers choose different models for implementing licensing agreements, businesses must evaluate the alternatives to ensure that they select the appropriate agreements and comply with the publishers’ licensing terms when purchasing and managing their software licenses. We work closely, either locally or globally, with our clients to understand their licensing requirements and to educate them regarding the options available under publisher licensing agreements. Many of our clients who have elected to purchase software licenses through licensing agreements have also entered into software maintenance agreements, which allow clients to receive new versions, upgrades or updates of software products released during the maintenance period, in exchange for a specified annual fee. We assist our clients and partner publishers in tracking and renewing these agreements. In connection with certain enterprise-wide licensing agreements, publishers may choose to bill and collect from clients directly. In these cases, we earn a referral fee directly from the publisher.

Services Offerings. We currently offer a suite of managed services and professional and consulting services in the U.S. and the United Kingdom via our own field service personnel, augmented by service partners to fill gaps in our geographic coverage or capabilities. We also utilize partners to deliver these services in Canada. We believe that developing these capabilities internally or through targeted acquisitions over time in other geographies will be a key differentiator for us.

The breadth and quality of our technical and service capabilities are key points of differentiation for us. We have, and intend to continue to develop, an array of technical expertise and service capabilities to help identify, acquire, implement and manage technology solutions to allow our clients to address their business needs. We don’t believe that our competition is able to offer the same breadth and depth of technology service solutions that we offer across our target client groups in North America and the United Kingdom.

To strengthen our solutions offerings, we have focused on the following specific solutions/value-added practice areas:

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Managed Services

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Infrastructure/Security

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Data Center

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Software

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Collaboration

These technology practice groups are responsible for understanding client needs and, together with our technology partners, customizing total solutions that address those needs. These groups are made up of industry- and product-certified engineers, consultants and specialists who are current on best practices and the latest developments in their respective practice areas.

We are a Cisco Gold Certified partner in the United States and the United Kingdom and have Master Certifications in unified communications and security in the United States. Our data center practice in the United States is an HP Authorized Enterprise Provider and holds HP Storage Elite, HP Blade Elite and HP Services Elite partner status. We also have been awarded premier partner status by a number of other partners, such as IBM, EMC and VMware.

Managed Services. We know that our clients have to utilize limited resources while providing reliable support to end users and maximizing the life cycle and value of their IT investments. Our managed services technology practice offers the advanced technical resources to support key components of our clients’ networks. We offer ISO-certified integration services and asset disposal services. We help simplify ownership, from assessment and acquisition through deployment and end-of-life and technology refresh. Operating 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and 365 days a year through our network operations center, we serve as an extension of our clients’ teams, with dedicated resources to keep their networks operating.

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Further, we can help our clients preserve capital and expand limited resources by delivering business-critical applications and programs from the cloud. With low upfront costs and no need for in-house maintenance, SaaS is an effective alternative to potentially more expensive on-premise solutions. We partner with providers to deliver solutions around collaboration and messaging, managed security and data management, including Microsoft, Symantec, CA Technologies, IBM, McAfee and DataPipe.

Infrastructure/Security. Today’s networks are becoming increasingly complex. Support for critical enterprise applications and converged communication systems have increased demand for network availability and performance. Insight’s core networking competency is the architecture and deployment of infrastructure. We offer services to plan, design, implement and support the operation of complex and secure wired and wireless networks. Solution offerings also include network strategy, network assessment and application delivery infrastructure services.

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Network strategy services assist clients in ensuring that their network is positioned to support their business and provides a roadmap to guide investments in people, operations and technology.

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Network assessment services help clients ensure their network is ready to support their business, is designed based on industry best practices and is operating at peak performance.

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Application delivery infrastructure services allow clients to deploy next generation solutions, such as application acceleration, WAN optimization and load balancing, to optimize the performance of critical applications on their networks and better utilize their technology infrastructure.

To properly implement a security strategy, a client must first define its risk. From regulatory compliance and business operations to asset protection, threat mitigation and vulnerability identification, a security program is essential to maintaining productivity and profitability. Every organization requires a comprehensive security program and procedures to ensure data integrity, confidentiality and availability. Our security solutions include a range of offerings including: strategy solutions to quantify the skills, methodologies and experience needed for a comprehensive security program; assessment solutions to help clients identify gaps and risks as well as make the right decisions to manage them; security design, implementation and operation services; security compliance solutions to help clients make certain their internal processes are able to repel attempts to breach security; and risk and vulnerability assessments in which security testing is utilized to highlight unmanaged security risks.

Data Center. The growth of data in organizations has created demand for solutions that simplify server, storage and data center management. We help our clients consider total costs, critical data availability and environmental impact through server consolidation and virtualization, backup, disaster recovery and continuity solutions for complex storage environments.

Using technology and products from various partners, we provide high-end servers, data disk arrays, hard drives, tape libraries, blades, and virtualization software to help clients build and maintain responsive IT infrastructures that allow them to quickly adapt to changes in business priorities. We also provide IT professional services for designing, implementing and managing adaptive server and storage environments for our clients — ensuring a resilient and cost-effective data center while reducing the client’s maintenance and management costs. We offer the technical expertise and manufacturer relationships to deliver innovative and scalable solutions.

Software. We help our clients transform their software into an asset for their business. Our software professional services include solutions to help clients improve business productivity, optimize their core infrastructure and manage their software licenses.

We help our clients increase the productivity and overall effectiveness of their people with solutions for messaging, collaboration and unified communications. The sharing of ideas is vital to success, and it is imperative that organizations facilitate collaboration among workers. We are part of the Microsoft Partner Network and hold high level accreditations in a range of technical disciplines, including delivery of and support for Microsoft toolsets including Exchange, Office and SharePoint.

We also help our clients simplify the deployment of Microsoft core infrastructure technologies — from the desktop to the data center. Current business environments require reflexive yet cost-effective adaptation to change. As a result, the capacity to centrally manage and alter a company’s software environment from the core is vital. We help clients improve the agility, security and manageability of their environment with solutions for identity and access management, desktop and server deployment and operation, and more. We also provide expertise around delivery of and support for Microsoft Forefront and Windows.

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Additionally, we help our clients standardize their software environment while reducing costs and limiting risk through optimal license use and compliance management. We offer clients a portfolio of Software Asset Management (“SAM”) services, including SAM consultation, assessment of ISO standard attainment, license reconciliations, and our proprietary Insight:LicenseAdvisor^® SAM solution platform. We help clients determine their license rights and utilization rates, reconcile the difference, and then proactively track, analyze, and manage their software asset portfolio from procurement to retirement.

Collaboration. Advanced networking technologies that merge voice, data and video applications are increasingly becoming a critical component of an enterprise’s strategic IT infrastructure and the backbone of an organization’s unified communications strategy. With advanced collaboration technology implementations, we offer our clients an integrated combination of email, chat, audio, video and web conferencing capabilities. These solutions offer a more cost effective answer than traditional audio, video and web conferencing with increased productivity, increased functionality and added security over internet-based solutions as well as the ability for clients to leverage existing investments in IT infrastructure. This practice area also includes unified communications, unified contact center solutions and video solutions.

In addition to these specific solutions/value-added practice areas, we continue to offer clients a suite of services designed to streamline the deployment cycle of IT assets, as well as minimize the complexity and cost of managing those assets throughout their life cycle. We:

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provide advice on hardware, software licensing and financing programs;

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streamline procurement;

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plan and manage the rollout;

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assist with developing standards and implementing best practices;

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pre-configure systems, load custom software images and tag assets;

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provide logistics planning and drop-ship to locations;

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provide on-site implementation;

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offer help desk support for users; and

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provide IT maintenance services and disposal of equipment at end-of-life (including redeployment and remarketing).

Currently, these services are available primarily in North America and the United Kingdom.

Our Information Technology Systems

We have committed significant resources to the IT systems we use to manage our business and believe that our success is dependent upon our ability to provide prompt and efficient service to our clients based on the accuracy, quality and utilization of the information generated by our IT systems. Because these systems affect our ability to manage our sales, client service, distribution, inventories and accounting systems and our voice and data networks, we have built redundancy into certain systems, maintain system outage policies and procedures and have comprehensive data backup. Our U.S. and foreign locations are not on a single IT system platform, but we are focused on driving improvements in sales productivity through upgraded IT systems to support higher levels of client satisfaction and new client acquisition, as well as garnering efficiencies in our business as more processes become automated. For additional discussion of our plans to make enhancements and upgrades to our IT systems, see “Business Strategy — Integrate our IT systems” previously in Part I of this report and for a discussion of risks associated with our IT systems, see “Risk Factors — Disruptions in our IT systems and voice and data networks, including the integration and upgrade of our IT systems, could affect our ability to service our clients and cause us to incur additional expenses,” in Part I, Item 1A of this report.

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Competition

The IT hardware, software and services industry is very fragmented and highly competitive. We compete with a large number and wide variety of marketers and resellers of IT hardware, software and services, including:

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direct marketers and resellers, such as CDW (North America), Systemax (Europe), SoftChoice, PC Ware, PC Connections, Worldwide Technology and SHI;

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national and regional resellers, including value-added resellers, specialty retailers, aggregators, distributors, and to a lesser extent, national computer retailers, computer superstores, Internet-only computer providers, consumer electronics and office supply superstores and mass merchandisers;

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product manufacturers, such as Dell, HP, IBM and Lenovo, and software publishers, such as IBM, Microsoft and Symantec;

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systems integrators, such as Compucom Systems, Inc.;

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national and global service providers, such as IBM Global Services and HP/EDS; and

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e-tailers, such as New Egg, Buy.com and e-Buyer (United Kingdom).

The competitive landscape in the industry is changing as various competitors expand their product and service offerings. In addition, emerging models such as cloud computing are creating new competitors and opportunities.

For a discussion of risks associated with the actions of our competitors, see “Risk Factors — The IT hardware, software and services industry is intensely competitive, and actions of our competitors, including manufacturers and publishers of products we sell, can negatively affect our business,” in Part I, Item 1A of this report.

Partners

During 2010, we purchased products and software from approximately 5,400 partners. Approximately 63% (based on dollar volume) of these purchases were directly from manufacturers or software publishers, with the balance purchased through distributors. Purchases from Microsoft and Ingram Micro (a distributor) accounted for approximately 27% and 10%, respectively, of our aggregate purchases in 2010. No other partner accounted for more than 10% of purchases in 2010. Our top five partners as a group for 2010 were Microsoft, Ingram Micro, HP, Cisco and Tech Data (a distributor). Approximately 61% of our total purchases during 2010 came from this group of partners. Although brand names and individual products are important to our business, we believe that competitive sources of supply are available in substantially all of our product categories such that, with the exception of Microsoft, we are not dependent on any single partner for sourcing products.

We obtain incentives from certain product manufacturers, software publishers and distribution partners based typically upon the volume of sales or purchases of their products and services. In other cases, such incentives may be in the form of participation in our partner programs, which may require specific services or activities with our clients, discounts, marketing funds, price protection or rebates. Manufacturers and publishers may also provide mailing lists, contacts or leads to us. We believe that these incentives (or partner funding) allow us to increase our marketing reach and strengthen our relationships with leading manufacturers and publishers. This funding is important to us, and any elimination or substantial reduction would increase our costs of goods sold or marketing expenses, resulting in a corresponding decrease in our earnings from operations.

During 2010, sales of Microsoft, HP and Cisco products accounted for approximately 26%, 16% and 12%, respectively, of our consolidated net sales. No other manufacturer’s products accounted for more than 10% of our consolidated net sales in 2010. Sales of product from our top five manufacturers/publishers as a group (Microsoft, HP, Cisco, Lenovo and Adobe) accounted for approximately 64% of Insight’s consolidated net sales during 2010.

As we move into new service areas, we may become even more reliant on certain partner relationships. For a discussion of risks associated with our reliance on partners, see “Risk Factors — We rely on our partners for product availability and competitive products to sell, and we also compete with many of our partners,” and “Risk Factors — We rely on our partners for marketing funds and purchasing incentives,” in Part I, Item 1A of this report.

Teammates

As of December 31, 2010, we employed 5,115 teammates, of whom 2,893 were engaged in management, support services and administration activities, 2,055 were engaged in sales related activities, and 167 were engaged in distribution activities. Our teammates are not represented by a labor union, and we have never experienced a labor related work stoppage.

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For a discussion of risks associated with our dependence on key personnel, including sales personnel, see “Risk Factors — We depend on certain key personnel,” in Part I, Item 1A of this report.

Seasonality

We experience some seasonal trends in our sales of IT hardware, software and services. For example:

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software sales are seasonally higher in our second and fourth quarters, particularly the second quarter;

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business clients, particularly larger enterprise businesses in the U.S., tend to spend more in our fourth quarter as they utilize their remaining capital budget authorizations and less in the first quarter;

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sales to the federal government in the U.S. are often stronger in our third quarter; and

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sales to public sector clients in the United Kingdom are often stronger in our first quarter.

These trends create overall seasonality in our consolidated results such that sales and profitability are expected to be higher in the second and fourth quarters of the year. For a discussion of risks associated with seasonality see “Risk Factors — Our net sales and gross profit have historically varied, making our future operating results less predictable,” in Part I, Item 1A of this report.

Backlog

The majority of our backlog historically has been and continues to be open cancelable purchase orders. We do not believe that backlog as of any particular date is predictive of future results.

Intellectual Property

We do not maintain a traditional research and development group, but we do develop and seek to protect a range of intellectual property, including trademarks, service marks, copyrights, domain name rights, trade dress, trade secrets and similar intellectual property relying, for such protection, on applicable statutes and common law rights, trade-secret protection and confidentiality and license agreements, as applicable, with teammates, clients, partners and others to protect our intellectual property rights. Our principal trademark is a registered mark, and we also license certain of our proprietary intellectual property rights to third parties. We have registered a number of domain names, applied for registration of other marks in the U.S. and in select international jurisdictions, and, from time to time, filed patent applications. We believe our trademarks and service marks, in particular, have significant value, and we continue to invest in the promotion of our trademarks and service marks and in our protection of them.

Available Information

Our annual report on Form 10-K, quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, current reports on Form 8-K and amendments to reports filed pursuant to Sections 13(a) and 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), and the reports of beneficial ownership filed pursuant to Section 16(a) of the Exchange Act are available free of charge on our web site at www.insight.com, as soon as reasonably practicable after we electronically file them with, or furnish them to, the Securities and Exchange Commission. The information contained on our web site is not included as a part of, or incorporated by reference into, this Annual Report on Form 10-K.

Item 1A.		Risk Factors

We rely on our partners for product availability and competitive products to sell, and we also compete with many of our partners. We acquire products for resale both directly from manufacturers and publishers and indirectly through distributors, and the loss of a partner relationship could cause a disruption in the availability of products to us. In addition to being our partners, manufacturers and publishers are also our competitors, as many sell directly to business clients and, particularly, larger corporate clients. There is no assurance that, as manufacturers and publishers continue to sell both through the distribution channel and directly to end users, they will not limit or curtail the availability of their product to resellers like us. In addition, the manner in which publishers distribute software is changing, and many publishers now offer their programs as hosted or SaaS solutions. These changes in distribution may intensify competition and increase the volume of software sold through these competitive programs or distributed directly electronically to end-users. Any significant increase in direct sales or directly-sold SaaS solutions by publishers could have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations and financial condition.

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We rely on our partners for marketing funds and purchasing incentives. Certain manufacturers, publishers and distributors provide us with substantial incentives in the form of rebates, marketing funds, purchasing incentives, early payment discounts, referral fees and price protections. Partner funding is used to offset, among other things, inventory costs, costs of goods sold, marketing costs and other operating expenses. Certain of these funds are based on our volume of sales or purchases, growth rate of net sales or purchases and marketing programs. If we do not grow our net sales over prior periods or if we are not in compliance with the terms of these programs, there could be a material negative effect on the amount of incentives offered or paid to us by manufacturers and publishers. We anticipate that in the future, the incentives that many partners make available to us may either be reduced or that the requirements for earning the available amounts will change. If we are unable to react timely to any fundamental changes in the programs of publishers or manufacturers, including the elimination of, or significant reductions in, funding for some of the activities for which we have been compensated in the past, particularly related to incentive programs with our largest partners, HP and Microsoft, the changes would have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations and financial condition. No assurance can be given that we will continue to receive such incentives or that we will be able to collect outstanding amounts relating to these incentives in a timely manner, or at all.

Disruptions in our IT systems and voice and data networks, including the integration and upgrade of our IT systems, could affect our ability to service our clients and cause us to incur additional expenses. We believe that our success to date has been, and future results of operations will be, dependent in large part upon our ability to provide prompt and efficient service to our clients. Our ability to provide that level of service is largely dependent on the ease of use, accuracy, quality and utilization of our IT systems, which affects our ability to manage our sales, client service, distribution, inventories and accounting systems, and the reliability of our voice and data networks and managed services offerings. Our plan is to fully integrate our IT systems in North America onto an integrated platform over the next two years. Significant internal and external resources have been devoted to the successful completion of this project. In 2011, we expect to incur between $5 and 10 million of incremental selling and administrative expenses associated with the North America systems integration project. We expect total incremental selling and administrative expenses to support the project through to completion to approximate $15 million, with a similar amount of incremental capital expenditures over the next two years. We are also in the process of converting our EMEA operations to a new IT system platform. There can be no assurances that these integration and conversion projects will not cause disruptions in our business, and any such disruption could have a material adverse effect on our results of operations and financial condition. Any delay in the projects or disruption of service during those projects would have an adverse effect on current results and future sales growth. Further, any delay in the timing could reduce and/or delay our expense savings, and any such disruption could have a material adverse effect on our results of operations and financial condition. Additionally, if, as a result of the completion of the projects, existing technology is determined to have a shorter useful life or the value of the existing system is impaired, we could incur additional depreciation expense and/or impairment charges. Although we have built redundancy into most of our IT systems, have documented system outage policies and procedures and have comprehensive data backup, we do not have a formal disaster recovery plan. Substantial interruption in our IT systems or in our voice and data networks, however caused, would have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations and financial condition.

General economic conditions, including concerns regarding our ability to collect our accounts receivable and client credit constraints, or unfavorable economic conditions in a particular region, business or industry sector, may lead our clients to delay or forgo investments in IT hardware, software and services, either of which could adversely affect our business, financial condition, operating results and cash flow. Weak economic conditions generally or any broad-based reduction in IT spending adversely affects our business, operating results and financial condition. A prolonged continued slowdown in the global economy, or in a particular region, or business or industry sector, or tightening of credit markets, could cause our clients to have difficulty accessing capital and credit sources; delay contractual payments; or delay or forgo decisions to (i) upgrade or add to their existing IT environments, (ii) license new software or (iii) purchase services (particularly with respect to discretionary spending for hardware, software and services). Such events could adversely affect our business, financial condition, operating results and cash flow.

The failure of our clients to pay the accounts receivable they owe to us or the loss of significant clients could have a significant negative impact on our business, results of operations, financial condition or liquidity. A significant portion of our working capital consists of accounts receivable from clients. If clients responsible for a significant amount of accounts receivable were to become insolvent or otherwise unable to pay for products and services, or were to become unwilling to make payments in a timely manner, our business, results of operations, financial condition or liquidity could be adversely affected. Economic or industry downturns could result in longer payment cycles, increased collection costs and defaults in excess of management’s expectations. A significant deterioration in our ability to collect on accounts receivable could also impact the cost or availability of financing under our accounts receivable securitization program discussed below.

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The IT hardware, software and services industry is intensely competitive, and actions of our competitors, including manufacturers and publishers of products we sell, can negatively affect our business. Competition in the industry is based on price, product availability, speed of delivery, credit availability, quality and breadth of product lines, and, increasingly, on the ability to tailor specific solutions to client needs. In addition to manufacturers and publishers of products we sell, we compete with a large number and wide variety of marketers and resellers of IT hardware, software and services. Additionally, we believe our industry will see further consolidation as product resellers and direct marketers combine operations or acquire or merge with other resellers, service providers and direct marketers to increase efficiency, service capabilities and market share. Moreover, current and potential competitors have established or may establish cooperative relationships among themselves or with third parties to enhance their product and service offerings. Accordingly, it is possible that new competitors or alliances among competitors may emerge and acquire significant market share. Generally, pricing is very aggressive in the industry, and we expect pricing pressures to continue. There can be no assurance that we will be able to negotiate prices as favorable as those negotiated by our competitors or that we will be able to offset the effects of price reductions with an increase in the number of clients, higher net sales, cost reductions, greater sales of services, which are typically at higher gross margins, or otherwise. Price reductions by our competitors that we either cannot or choose not to match could result in an erosion of our market share and/or reduced sales or, to the extent we match such reductions, could result in reduced operating margins, any of which could have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations and financial condition.

Certain of our competitors in each of our operating segments have longer operating histories and greater financial, technical, marketing and other resources than we do. In addition, some of these competitors may be able to respond more quickly to new or changing opportunities, technologies and client requirements. Many current and potential competitors also have greater name recognition and engage in more extensive promotional activities, offer more attractive terms to clients and adopt more aggressive pricing policies than we do. Additionally, some of our competitors have higher margins and/or lower operating cost structures, allowing them to price more aggressively. There can be no assurance that we will be able to compete effectively with current or future competitors or that the competitive pressures we face will not have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations and financial condition.

Another growing industry trend is the SaaS business model. In many cases, the SaaS model allows enterprises to obtain the benefits of commercially licensed, internally operated software without the associated complexity or high initial set-up, operational and licensing costs. Advances in the SaaS business model and other new models could increase our competition or eliminate the need for a resale channel. There can be no assurance that we will be able to adapt to, or compete effectively with, current or future distribution channels or competitors or that the competitive pressures we face will not have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations and financial condition.

Changes in the IT industry and/or rapid changes in product standards may result in substantial inventory obsolescence and may reduce demand for the IT hardware, software and services we sell. Our results of operations are influenced by a variety of factors, including the condition of the IT industry, shifts in demand for, or availability of, IT hardware, software, peripherals and services, and industry introductions of new products, upgrades or methods of distribution. The IT industry is characterized by rapid technological change and the frequent introduction of new products, product enhancements and new distribution methods or channels, each of which can decrease demand for current products or render them obsolete. Net sales can be dependent on demand for specific product categories, and any change in demand for or supply of such products could have a material adverse effect on our net sales and/or cause us to record write-downs of obsolete inventory, if we fail to react in a timely manner to such changes. In addition, in order to satisfy client demand, protect ourselves against product shortages, obtain greater purchasing discounts and react to changes in original equipment manufacturers’ terms and conditions, we may decide to carry inventory products that may have limited or no return privileges. There can be no assurance that we will be able to avoid losses related to inventory obsolescence on these products.

The failure to comply with the terms and conditions of our commercial and public sector contracts could result in, among other things, fines or other liabilities. Sales to commercial clients are based on stated contract terms or terms contained in purchase orders on a transaction by transaction basis. Sales to public sector clients are derived from sales to federal, state and local governmental departments and agencies, as well as to educational institutions, through open market sales and various contracts and programs. Noncompliance with contract terms, particularly in the highly regulated public sector business, or with government procurement regulations could result in damage awards against us or termination of contracts, and, in the public sector, could also result in civil, criminal, and administrative liability. With respect to our public sector business, the government’s remedies may include suspension or debarment. In addition, almost all of our contracts have default provisions, and substantially all of our contracts in the public sector are terminable at any time for convenience of the contracting agency. The effect of any of these possible actions or the adoption of new or modified procurement regulations or practices could materially adversely affect our business, financial position and results of operations.

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We are subject to stockholder litigation and regulatory proceedings related to the restatement of our consolidated financial statements. In 2008, we identified errors in the Company’s accounting related to trade credits in prior periods and determined that corrections to our consolidated financial statements were required to reverse material prior period reductions of costs of goods sold and selling and administrative expenses because of the incorrect releases of certain aged trade credits.

Our internal review and related activities have required the Company to incur substantial expenses for legal, accounting, tax and other professional services, and ongoing litigation could require further, significant expenditures and could harm our business, reputation, financial condition, results of operations and cash flows. Further, if the Company is subject to adverse findings in litigation, regulatory proceedings or government enforcement actions, the Company could be required to pay damages or penalties or have other remedies imposed, which could harm its business, reputation, financial condition, results of operations and cash flows.

For a discussion of legal proceedings, see Note 16 to the Consolidated Financial Statements in Part II, Item 8 of this report.

We have outstanding debt and may need to refinance that debt and/or incur additional debt in the future, and general economic conditions and continued volatility in the credit markets could limit our ability to obtain such financing or could increase the cost of financing. Our credit facilities include a five-year $300.0 million senior revolving credit facility, a $150.0 million accounts receivable securitization financing facility (the “ABS facility”), and a $150.0 million inventory financing facility. As of December 31, 2010, we had $92.6 million of outstanding indebtedness, of which $90.0 million was borrowed under our senior revolving credit facility and $2.6 million was outstanding under a capital lease obligation. As of the end of fiscal 2010, the following amounts were available under our credit facilities, subject to the limitations discussed below:

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$210.0 million under our senior revolving credit facility;

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$150.0 million under our accounts receivable securitization financing facility; and

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$14.9 million under our inventory financing facility.

Our consolidated debt balance that can be outstanding at the end of any fiscal quarter under our senior revolving credit facility and our ABS facility is limited by certain financial covenants, particularly a maximum leverage ratio. The maximum leverage ratio is calculated as aggregate debt outstanding divided by the sum of the Company’s trailing twelve month net earnings plus (i) interest expense, less non-cash imputed interest on our inventory financing facility, (ii) income tax expense, (iii) depreciation and amortization and (iv) non-cash stock-based compensation (referred to herein as “adjusted earnings”). The maximum leverage ratio permitted under the agreements was 2.50 times the Company’s trailing twelve-month adjusted earnings as of December 31, 2010. A significant drop in adjusted earnings would limit the amount of indebtedness that could be outstanding at the end of any fiscal quarter, to a level that would be below the Company’s consolidated maximum debt capacity. As a result of this limitation, of the $450.0 million of aggregate maximum debt capacity available under our senior revolving credit facility and our ABS facility, the Company’s debt balance that could have been outstanding as of December 31, 2010 was limited to $414.1 million based on 2.50 times the Company’s trailing twelve-month adjusted earnings.

Our borrowing capacity under our ABS facility is limited by the value and quality of the accounts receivable under the facility. While the ABS facility has a stated maximum amount of $150.0 million, the actual availability under the facility is limited by the quantity and quality of the underlying accounts receivable. As of December 31, 2010, the full $150.0 million was available.

Our senior revolving credit facility, ABS facility and inventory financing facility all mature on April 1, 2013. We may not be able to refinance our debt without a significant increase in cost, or at all, and there can be no assurance that additional lines of credit or financing instruments will be available to us. A lack, or high cost, of credit could limit our ability to: obtain additional financing for working capital, capital expenditures, debt service requirements, acquisitions or other purposes in the future, as needed; plan for, or react to, changes in technology and in our business and competition; and react in the event of a further economic downturn.

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We can provide no assurance that we will continue to be able to meet our capital requirements, particularly if current market or economic conditions continue or deteriorate further. The future effects on our business, liquidity and financial results of these conditions could be material and adverse to us, both in ways described above and in other ways that we do not currently foresee.

Failure to adequately maintain the security of our electronic and other confidential information could materially adversely affect our financial condition and results of operations. We are dependent upon automated information technology processes. Privacy, security, and compliance concerns have continued to increase as technology has evolved to facilitate commerce. As part of our normal business activities, we collect and store certain confidential information, including personal information with respect to clients and teammates. We may share some of this information with vendors who assist us with certain aspects of our business. Moreover, the success of our operations depends upon the secure transmission of confidential and personal data over public networks, including the use of cashless payments. Any failure on the part of us or our vendors to maintain the security of our confidential data and our teammates’ and clients’ personal information, including via the penetration of our network security and the misappropriation of confidential and personal information, could result in business disruption, damage to our reputation, financial obligations to third parties, fines, penalties, regulatory proceedings and private litigation with potentially large costs, and also result in deterioration in our teammates’ and clients’ confidence in us and other competitive disadvantages, and thus could have a material adverse impact on our business, financial condition and results of operations.

Our net sales and gross profit have historically varied, making our future operating results less predictable. Our operating results are highly dependent upon our level of gross profit as a percentage of net sales, which fluctuates due to numerous factors, including changes in prices from partners, changes in the amount and timing of partner funding, volumes of purchases, changes in client mix, the relative mix of products sold during the period, general competitive conditions, and strategic product and services pricing and purchasing actions. In addition, our expense levels are based, in part, on anticipated net sales and the anticipated amount and timing of partner funding. Therefore, we may not be able to reduce spending quickly enough to compensate for any unexpected net sales shortfall, and any such inability could have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations and financial condition.

In addition, a reduction in the amount of credit granted to us by our partners could increase our need for and cost of working capital and have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations and financial condition.

There are risks associated with our international operations that are different than the risks associated with our operations in the United States, and our exposure to the risks of a global market could hinder our ability to maintain and expand international operations. We have operation centers in Australia, Canada, Germany, France, the U.S., and the United Kingdom, as well as sales offices in Austria, Australia, Belgium, Canada, China, Denmark, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Italy, the Netherlands, Russia, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the U.S., and sales presence in Finland, New Zealand, Norway and Portugal. In the regions in which we do not currently have a physical presence, such as Africa, Japan and India, we serve our clients through strategic relationships. In implementing our international strategy, we may face barriers to entry and competition from local companies and other companies that already have established global businesses, as well as the risks generally associated with conducting business internationally. The success and profitability of international operations are subject to numerous risks and uncertainties, many of which are outside of our control, such as:

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political or economic instability;

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changes in governmental regulation or taxation;

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currency exchange fluctuations;

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changes in import/export laws, regulations and customs and duties;

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trade restrictions;

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difficulties and costs of staffing and managing operations in certain foreign countries;

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work stoppages or other changes in labor conditions;

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taxes and other restrictions on repatriating foreign profits back to the U.S.;

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extended payment terms; and

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In addition, until a payment history is established with clients in a new region, the likelihood of collecting receivables generated by such operations, on a timely basis or at all, could be less than in established markets. As a result, there is a greater risk that reserves established with respect to the collection of such receivables may be inadequate. Furthermore, changes in policies and/or laws of the U.S. or foreign governments resulting in, among other changes, higher taxation, tariffs or similar protectionist laws, currency conversion limitations or the nationalization of private enterprises could reduce the anticipated benefits of international operations. Any actions by countries in which we conduct business to reverse policies that encourage foreign trade could have a material adverse effect on our results of operations and financial condition.

We have currency exposure arising from both sales and purchases denominated in foreign currencies, including intercompany transactions outside the U.S. Changes in exchange rates between foreign currencies and the U.S. dollar, or between foreign currencies, may adversely affect our operating margins. For example, if these foreign currencies appreciate against the U.S. dollar, it will become more expensive in U.S. dollars to pay expenses with foreign currencies. In addition, currency devaluation against the U.S. dollar can result in a loss to us if we hold deposits denominated in the devalued currency. We currently conduct limited hedging activities, and, to the extent not hedged, we are vulnerable to the effects of currency exchange-rate fluctuations. In addition, some currencies are subject to limitations on conversion into other currencies, which can limit the ability to otherwise react to rapid foreign currency devaluations. We cannot predict with precision the effect of future exchange-rate fluctuations on business and operating results, and significant rate fluctuations could have a material adverse effect on results of operations and financial condition.

International operations also expose us to currency fluctuations as we translate the financial statements of our foreign operations to U.S. dollars.

Changes in, interpretations of, or enforcement trends related to, tax rules and regulations may adversely affect our effective income tax rates or operating margins and we may be required to pay additional tax assessments. We conduct business globally and file income tax returns in various U.S. and foreign tax jurisdictions. Our effective tax rate could be adversely affected by various factors, many of which are outside of our control, including:

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changes in pre-tax income in various jurisdictions in which we operate that have differing statutory tax rates;

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higher corporate tax rates in the U.S. and elsewhere;

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changes in tax laws, regulations, and/or interpretations of such tax laws in multiple jurisdictions;

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tax effects related to purchase accounting for acquisitions; and

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resolutions of issues arising from tax examinations and any related interest or penalties.

The determination of our worldwide provision for income taxes and other tax liabilities requires estimation, judgment and calculations in situations where the ultimate tax determination may not be certain. Our determination of tax liabilities is always subject to review or examination by tax authorities in various jurisdictions. Any adverse outcome of such review or examination could have a negative impact on our operating results and financial condition. The results from various tax examinations and audits may differ from the liabilities recorded in our financial statements and may adversely affect our financial results and cash flows.

We depend on certain key personnel. Our future success will be largely dependent on the efforts of key management teammates. The loss of one or more of these leaders could have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations and financial condition. We cannot offer assurance that we will be able to continue to attract or retain highly qualified executive personnel or that any such executive personnel will be able to increase stockholder value. We also believe that our future success will be largely dependent on our continued ability to attract and retain highly qualified management, sales, service and technical teammates, but we cannot offer assurance that we will be able to attract and retain such personnel. Further, we make a significant investment in the training of our sales account executives and services engineers. Our inability to retain such personnel or to train them either rapidly enough to meet our expanding needs or in an effective manner for quickly changing market conditions could cause a decrease in the overall quality and efficiency of our sales teammates, which could have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations and financial condition.

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We may not be able to protect our intellectual property adequately, and we may be subject to intellectual property infringement claims. To protect our intellectual property, we rely on copyright and trademark laws, unpatented proprietary know-how, and trade secrets and patents, as well as confidentiality, invention assignment, non-solicitation and non-competition agreements. There can be no assurance that these measures will afford us sufficient protection of our intellectual property, and it is possible that third parties may copy or otherwise obtain and use our proprietary information without authorization or otherwise infringe on our intellectual property rights. The disclosure of our trade secrets could impair our competitive position and could have a material adverse effect on our business relationships, results of operations, financial condition and future growth prospects. In addition, our registered trademarks and trade names are subject to challenge by other rights owners. This may affect our ability to continue using those marks and names. Likewise, many businesses are actively investing in, developing and seeking protection for intellectual property in the areas of search, indexing, e-commerce and other Web-related technologies, as well as a variety of on-line business models and methods, all of which are in addition to traditional research and development efforts for IT products and application software. As a result, disputes regarding the ownership of these technologies are likely to arise in the future, and, from time to time, parties do assert various infringement claims against us, either because of our practices or because we resell allegedly infringing software, in the form of cease-and-desist letters, licensing inquiries, lawsuits and other communications and demands. If there is a determination that we have infringed the proprietary rights of others, we could incur substantial monetary liability, be forced to stop selling infringing products or providing infringing services, be required to enter into costly royalty or licensing agreements, if available, or be prevented from using the rights, which could force us to change our business practices or hardware, software or services offerings in the future. Additionally, as we increase the geographic scope of our operations and the types of services provided under the Insight brand, there is a greater likelihood that we will encounter challenges to our trade names, trademarks and service marks. We may not be able to use our principal mark without modification in all geographies for all of our offerings, and these challenges may come from either governmental agencies or other market participants. These types of claims could have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations and financial condition.

Some anti-takeover provisions contained in our certificate of incorporation, bylaws and stockholders rights agreement, as well as provisions of Delaware law and executive employment contracts, could impair a takeover attempt. We have provisions in our certificate of incorporation and bylaws which could have the effect (separately, or in combination) of rendering more difficult or discouraging an acquisition deemed undesirable by our Board of Directors. These include provisions:

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authorizing blank check preferred stock, which could be issued with voting, liquidation, dividend and other rights superior to our common stock;

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limiting the liability of, and providing indemnification to, directors and officers;

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limiting the ability of our stockholders to call special meetings;

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requiring advance notice of stockholder proposals for business to be conducted at meetings of our stockholders and for nominations of candidates for election to our Board of Directors;

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controlling the procedures for conduct of Board and stockholder meetings and election and removal of directors; and

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specifying that stockholders may take action only at a duly called annual or special meeting of stockholders.

These provisions, alone or together, could deter or delay hostile takeovers, proxy contests and changes in control or management. As a Delaware corporation, we are also subject to provisions of Delaware law, including Section 203 of the Delaware General Corporation Law, which prevents some stockholders from engaging in certain business combinations without approval of the holders of substantially all of our outstanding common stock.

Our bylaws provide that the Company will seek stockholder approval prior to its adoption of any stockholder rights plan, unless the Board, in the exercise of its fiduciary duties, determines that, under the circumstances existing at the time, it is in the best interest of our stockholders to adopt or extend a stockholder rights plan without delay. The amendment further provides that a stockholder rights plan adopted or extended by the Board without prior stockholder approval must provide that it will expire unless ratified by the stockholders of the Company within one year of adoption. Despite these bylaw provisions, we could adopt a stockholder rights plan for a limited period of time, and such a plan could have the effect of delaying or deterring a change of control that could limit the opportunity for stockholders to receive a premium for their shares.

Additionally, we have employment agreements with certain officers and management teammates under which severance payments would become payable in the event of specified terminations without cause or terminations under certain circumstances after a change in control. If such persons were terminated without cause or under certain circumstances after a change of control, and the severance payments under the current employment agreements were to become payable, the severance payments would generally range from three months of a teammate’s annual salary up to two times the teammate’s annual salary and bonus.

INSIGHT ENTERPRISES, INC.

Any provision of our certificate of incorporation, bylaws, employment agreements or Delaware law that has the effect of delaying or deterring a change in control could limit the opportunity for our stockholders to receive a premium for their shares of our common stock and also could affect the price that some investors are willing to pay for our common stock.

Sales of additional common stock and securities convertible into our common stock may dilute the voting power of current holders. We may issue equity securities in the future whose terms and rights are superior to those of our common stock. Our certificate of incorporation authorizes the issuance of up to 3,000,000 shares of preferred stock. These are “blank check” preferred shares, meaning that our Board of Directors is authorized, from time to time, to issue the shares and designate their voting, conversion and other rights, including rights superior, or preferential, to rights of already outstanding shares, all without stockholder consent. No preferred shares are outstanding, and we currently do not intend to issue any shares of preferred stock. Any shares of preferred stock that may be issued in the future could be given voting and conversion rights that could dilute the voting power and equity of existing holders of shares of common stock and have preferences over shares of common stock with respect to dividends and liquidation rights.

Item 1B.		Unresolved Staff Comments

None.

Item 2.		Properties

Our principal executive offices are located at 6820 South Harl Avenue, Tempe, Arizona 85283. We believe that our facilities will be suitable and adequate for our present purposes, and we anticipate that we will be able to extend our existing leases on terms satisfactory to us or, if necessary, to locate substitute facilities on acceptable terms. At December 31, 2010, we owned or leased a total of approximately 1.3 million square feet of office and warehouse space, and, while approximately 70% of the square footage is in the United States, we own or lease office and warehouse facilities in 12 countries in EMEA and we lease office facilities in four countries in APAC.

Information about significant sales, distribution, services and administration facilities in use as of December 31, 2010 is summarized in the following table:

Operating Segment		Location		Primary Activities		Own or Lease
Headquarters		Tempe, Arizona, USA		Executive Offices, Sales and Administration		Own
North America		Tempe, Arizona, USA		Sales and Administration		Own
		Tempe, Arizona, USA		Administration		Own
		Tempe, Arizona, USA		Network Operations Center		Lease
		Bloomingdale, Illinois, USA		Sales and Administration		Own
		Hanover Park, Illinois, USA		Services, Distribution and Administration		Lease
		Plano, Texas, USA		Sales and Administration		Lease
		Liberty Lake, Washington, USA		Sales and Administration		Lease
		Tampa, Florida, USA		Sales and Administration		Lease
		Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada		Sales and Administration		Lease
		Montreal, Quebec, Canada		Sales and Administration		Own
		Mississauga, Ontario, Canada		Sales and Administration		Lease
		Montreal, Quebec, Canada		Distribution		Lease
EMEA		Sheffield, United Kingdom		Sales and Administration		Own
		Sheffield, United Kingdom		Distribution		Lease
		Uxbridge, United Kingdom		Sales and Administration		Lease
		Munich, Germany		Sales and Administration		Lease
		Paris, France		Sales and Administration		Lease
APAC		Sydney, New South Wales, Australia		Sales and Administration		Lease

INSIGHT ENTERPRISES, INC.

In addition to those listed above, we have leased sales offices in various cities across North America, EMEA and APAC. For additional information on operating leases, see Note 8 to the Consolidated Financial Statements in Part II, Item 8 of this report. These properties are not included in the table above. A portion of the administration facilities that we own in Tempe, Arizona included in the table above is currently leased to Direct Alliance Corporation, a discontinued operation that was sold to a third party in 2006.

Item 3.		Legal Proceedings

For a discussion of legal proceedings, see Note 16 to the Consolidated Financial Statements in Part II, Item 8 of this report. For an additional discussion of certain risks associated with legal proceedings, see “Risk Factors — We are subject to stockholder litigation and regulatory proceedings related to the restatement of our consolidated financial statements,” in Part I, Item 1A of this report.

Item 4.		(Removed and Reserved)

PART II

Item 5.		Market for Registrant’s Common Equity, Related Stockholder Matters and Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities

Market Information

Our common stock trades under the symbol “NSIT” on The Nasdaq Global Select Market. The following table shows, for the calendar quarters indicated, the high and low sales price per share for our common stock as reported on the Nasdaq Global Select Market.

		Common Stock
		High Price				Low Price
Year 2010
Fourth Quarter		$	16.66			$	12.61
Third Quarter			16.01				12.37
Second Quarter			16.27				13.16
First Quarter			14.84				11.47
Year 2009
Fourth Quarter		$	14.00			$	10.14
Third Quarter			12.43				8.44
Second Quarter			9.80				3.41
First Quarter			7.20				2.06

As of February 18, 2011, we had 46,358,895 shares of common stock outstanding held by approximately 90 stockholders of record. This figure does not include an estimate of the number of beneficial holders whose shares are held of record by brokerage firms and clearing agencies.

We have never paid a cash dividend on our common stock. We currently intend to reinvest all of our earnings into our business and do not intend to pay any cash dividends in the foreseeable future. Our senior revolving credit facility contains restrictions on the payment of cash dividends.

INSIGHT ENTERPRISES, INC.

Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities

Although we did not repurchase shares of our common stock during the year ended December 31, 2010, we have repurchased shares of our common stock in the past and may consider doing so again in the foreseeable future. Additional information about our share repurchase programs can be found in Note 15 to the Consolidated Financial Statements in Part II, Item 8 of this report and is incorporated by reference herein.

Stock Price Performance Graph

Set forth below is a graph comparing the percentage change in the cumulative total stockholder return on our common stock with the cumulative total return of the Nasdaq Stock Market U.S. Companies (Market Index) and the Nasdaq Retail Trade Stocks (Peer Index) for the period starting January 1, 2006 and ending December 31, 2010. The graph assumes that $100 was invested on January 1, 2006 in our common stock and in each of the two Nasdaq indices, and that, as to such indices, dividends were reinvested. We have not, since our inception, paid any cash dividends on our common stock. Historical stock price performance shown on the graph is not necessarily indicative of future price performance.

		Jan. 1,				Dec. 31,				Dec. 31,				Dec. 31,				Dec. 31,				Dec. 31,
		2006				2006				2007				2008				2009				2010
Insight Enterprises, Inc. Common Stock (NSIT)			100.00				95.35				92.17				34.87				57.71				66.50
Nasdaq Stock Market U.S. Companies (Market Index)			100.00				109.84				119.14				57.41				82.53				97.95
Nasdaq Retail Trade Stocks (Peer Index)			100.00				109.21				99.37				69.33				96.31				120.63

INSIGHT ENTERPRISES, INC.

Item 6.		Selected Financial Data

The following selected consolidated financial data should be read in conjunction with our Consolidated Financial Statements and the Notes thereto in Part II, Item 8 and “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” in Part II, Item 7 of this report. The selected consolidated financial data presented below under the captions “Consolidated Statements of Operations Data” and “Consolidated Balance Sheet Data” as of and for each of the years in the five-year period ended December 31, 2010 is derived from our audited consolidated financial statements. The consolidated financial statements as of December 31, 2010 and 2009, and for each of the years in the three-year period ended December 31, 2010, which have been audited by KPMG LLP, our independent registered public accounting firm, are included in Part II, Item 8 of this report.

		Years Ended December 31,
		2010				2009				2008				2007				2006
		(in thousands, except per share data)
Consolidated Statements of Operations Data (1)
Net sales		$	4,809,930			$	4,136,905			$	4,825,489			$	4,805,474			$	3,599,937
Costs of goods sold			4,163,833				3,568,291				4,161,906				4,146,848				3,133,751
Gross profit			646,097				568,614				663,583				658,626				466,186
Operating expenses:
Selling and administrative expenses			519,065				502,102				561,987				542,322				376,722
Goodwill impairment			—				—				397,247				—				—
Severance and restructuring expenses			2,956				13,608				8,595				2,595				729
Earnings (loss) from operations			124,076				52,904				(304,246	)			113,709				88,735
Non-operating (income) expense:
Interest income			(714	)			(424	)			(2,387	)			(2,078	)			(4,355	)
Interest expense			7,677				10,790				13,479				12,852				5,985
Net foreign currency exchange loss (gain)			522				(328	)			9,629				(3,887	)			(1,135	)
Other expense, net			1,417				1,123				1,107				1,531				901
Earnings (loss) from continuing operations before income taxes			115,174				41,743				(326,074	)			105,291				87,339
Income tax expense (benefit)			39,689				10,970				(86,347	)			40,686				30,882
Net earnings (loss) from continuing operations			75,485				30,773				(239,727	)			64,605				56,457
Earnings from discontinued operations, net of taxes (2)			—				2,801				—				4,151				13,084
Net earnings (loss)		$	75,485			$	33,574			$	(239,727	)		$	68,756			$	69,541

Net earnings (loss) per share — Basic:
Net earnings (loss) from continuing operations		$	1.63			$	0.67			$	(5.15	)		$	1.32			$	1.17
Net earnings from discontinued operations (2)			—				0.06				—				0.08				0.27
Net earnings (loss) per share		$	1.63			$	0.73			$	(5.15	)		$	1.40			$	1.44
Net earnings (loss) per share — Diluted:
Net earnings (loss) from continuing operations		$	1.61			$	0.67			$	(5.15	)		$	1.29			$	1.15
Net earnings from discontinued operations (2)			—				0.06				—				0.08				0.27
Net earnings (loss) per share		$	1.61			$	0.73			$	(5.15	)		$	1.37			$	1.42
Shares used in per share calculations:
Basic			46,218				45,838				46,573				49,055				48,373
Diluted			46,812				46,271				46,573				50,120				49,006

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		December 31,
		2010				2009				2008				2007				2006
		(in thousands)
Consolidated Balance Sheet Data
Working capital		$	352,182			$	297,485			$	318,867			$	418,474			$	383,483
Total assets			1,803,283				1,603,321				1,607,503				1,890,730				1,800,758
Short-term debt			997				875				—				15,000				30,000
Long-term debt			91,619				149,349				228,000				187,250				224,250
Stockholders’ equity			544,971				467,574				421,968				741,738				663,629
Cash dividends declared per common share			—				—				—				—				—

INSIGHT ENTERPRISES, INC.
MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION
AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS

Item 7.		Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations

The following discussion and analysis of our financial condition and results of our operations should be read in conjunction with the Consolidated Financial Statements and notes thereto included in Part II, Item 8 of this report. Our actual results could differ materially from those contained in forward-looking statements due to a number of factors, including those discussed in “Risk Factors” in Part I, Item 1A and elsewhere in this report.

Overview

We are a leading provider of information technology (“IT”) hardware, software and services to small, medium and large businesses and public sector clients in North America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia-Pacific. Currently, our offerings in North America and the United Kingdom include IT hardware, software and services. Our offerings in the remainder of our EMEA segment and in APAC currently only include software and select software-related services.

Our strategic vision is to be the trusted advisor to our clients, helping them enhance their business performance through innovative technology solutions. Our strategy is to grow profitable market share through the continued transformation of Insight into a complete IT solutions company, differentiating us in the marketplace and giving us a competitive advantage.

On a consolidated basis, for the year ended December 31, 2010, our net sales and resulting gross profit increased by 16% and 14%, respectively, while gross margin declined 30 basis points to 13.4%. Net sales for the year ended December 31, 2010 compared to the year ended December 31, 2009 increased 18% in North America, 14% in EMEA and 10% in APAC. Net sales in 2010 returned to pre-recessionary levels with a margin decline resulting from a change in mix of our business to a higher contribution from lower margin hardware and software sales and a lower contribution from higher margin sales of services. We reported net earnings from continuing operations of $75.5 million and diluted net earnings from continuing operations per share of $1.61 for the year ended December 31, 2010. In 2009, we reported net earnings from continuing operations of $30.8 million and diluted net earnings from continuing operations per share of $0.67 and net earnings from a discontinued operation of $2.8 million, net of tax, or $0.06 per share, as a result of the favorable settlement on July 7, 2009 of an arbitrated claim related to the sale of Direct Alliance, a former subsidiary that was sold on June 30, 2006. In 2008, we reported a net loss from continuing operations of $239.7 million and a diluted net loss from continuing operations per share of $5.15 for the year, primarily as a result of a $397.2 million goodwill impairment charge.

The results of operations for the year ended December 31, 2010 include the following items:

•

severance and restructuring expenses of $3.0 million, $1.9 million net of tax; and

•

a tax benefit of $1.6 million related to the recapitalization of one of our foreign subsidiaries.

The results of operations for the year ended December 31, 2009 include the effect of the following items:

•

severance and restructuring expenses of $13.6 million, $8.8 million net of tax;

•

professional fees and costs associated with the trade credits restatement remediation and related litigation of $8.3 million, $5.1 million net of tax, and interest expense related to our anticipated unclaimed property settlement under two state programs of $2.0 million, $1.2 million net of tax;

•

a non-cash charge related to the termination of an equity incentive compensation plan of $5.5 million, $3.5 million net of tax;

•

a tax benefit of $3.3 million related to a recapitalization of one of our foreign subsidiaries and the true-up of certain foreign tax assets;

	•		a $1.5 million tax benefit from the true-up of foreign tax credits after filing the Company’s 2008 U.S. federal tax return and the recognition of certain tax benefits from the settlement of audits; and
	•		a tax charge related to the remeasurement of certain deferred tax assets of $600,000.

INSIGHT ENTERPRISES, INC.
MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION
AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS (continued)

The results of operations for the year ended December 31, 2008 include the effect of the following items:

•

goodwill impairment charge of $397.2 million, $276.7 million net of tax;

•

foreign currency losses of $9.6 million, $6.6 million net of tax;

•

severance and restructuring expenses of $8.6 million, $5.7 million net of tax; and

•

foreign tax credit impairment of $8.7 million.

Net of tax amounts referenced above were computed using the effective tax rate for the taxing jurisdictions in the operating segment in which the related expense was recorded. The majority of the 2008 goodwill impairment charges in EMEA and APAC were non-deductible and therefore had no tax effect.

During 2010, we generated $98.2 million of cash flows from operations, which were net of cash outlays of $25.8 million in 2010 to settle trade credit liabilities as part of our compliance with state unclaimed property laws, and paid down our revolving credit facility by $57.0 million, ending the year with $123.8 million of cash and cash equivalents and $90.0 million of debt outstanding under our revolving credit facility.

On July 10, 2008, we acquired MINX Limited (“MINX”), a United Kingdom-based networking services company, for a cash purchase price of approximately $1.5 million and the assumption of approximately $3.9 million of existing debt. Founded in 2002, MINX is a network integrator with Cisco Gold Partner accreditation in the United Kingdom. We believe this acquisition has significantly enhanced our capabilities in the sale, implementation and management of network infrastructure services and solutions in our EMEA operating segment and complements our April 1, 2008 acquisition of Calence in our North America operating segment.

On April 1, 2008, we completed the acquisition of Calence, LLC (“Calence”), an independent technology solutions provider in the United States specializing in Cisco networking solutions, advanced communications and managed services, for a cash purchase price of $125.0 million plus a working capital adjustment of approximately $3.6 million. During the year ended December 31, 2010, 2009 and 2008, we recorded an additional $645,000, $15.8 million and $10.4 million, respectively, of purchase price consideration and the related accrued interest thereon as a result of Calence achieving certain performance targets during each year. Such amounts were recorded as additional goodwill. See discussion relating to goodwill in Note 3 to the Consolidated Financial Statements in Part II, Item 8 of this report. We also assumed Calence’s existing debt totaling approximately $7.3 million, of which $7.1 million was repaid by us at closing in 2008.

As we have previously disclosed, the Company’s largest software partner has informed resellers that it intends to change certain elements of its channel incentive programs effective in late 2011, and those changes could adversely affect the Company’s results of operations, primarily beginning in 2012. We currently expect the financial effect to be immaterial to our financial performance in 2011. Additional details of the new programs have recently been announced and as a result, we now expect the full year 2012 effect to be a reduction of gross profit of between $5 and $10 million.

Our discussion and analysis of financial condition and results of operations is intended to assist in the understanding of our consolidated financial statements, the changes in certain key items in those consolidated financial statements from year to year and the primary factors that contributed to those changes, as well as how certain critical accounting estimates affect our Consolidated Financial Statements.

Critical Accounting Estimates

General

Our consolidated financial statements have been prepared in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles (“GAAP”). For a summary of significant accounting policies, see Note 1 to the Consolidated Financial Statements in Part II, Item 8 of this report. The preparation of these consolidated financial statements requires us to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets, liabilities, net sales and expenses. We base our estimates on historical experience and on various other assumptions that we believe to be reasonable under the circumstances, the results of which form the basis for making judgments about the carrying values of assets and liabilities that are not readily apparent from other sources. Actual results, however, may differ from estimates we have made. Members of our senior management have discussed the critical accounting estimates and related disclosures with the Audit Committee of our Board of Directors.

INSIGHT ENTERPRISES, INC.
MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION
AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS (continued)

We consider the following to be our critical accounting estimates used in the preparation of our Consolidated Financial Statements:

Sales Recognition

Sales are recognized when title and risk of loss are passed to the client, there is persuasive evidence of an arrangement for sale, delivery has occurred and/or services have been rendered, the sales price is fixed or determinable and collectibility is reasonably assured. Our usual sales terms are F.O.B. shipping point or equivalent, at which time title and risk of loss have passed to the client. However, because we either (i) have a general practice of covering client losses while products are in transit despite title and risk of loss contractually transferring at the point of shipment or (ii) have specifically stated F.O.B. destination contractual terms with the client, delivery is not deemed to have occurred until the point in time when the product is received by the client.

We make provisions for estimated product returns that we expect to occur under our return policy based upon historical return rates. Our manufacturers warrant most of the products we market, and it is our policy to request that clients return their defective products directly to the manufacturer for warranty service. On selected products, and for selected client service reasons, we may accept returns directly from the client and then either credit the client or ship a replacement product. We generally offer a limited 15- to 30-day return policy for unopened products and certain opened products, which are consistent with manufacturers’ terms; however, for some products we may charge restocking fees. Products returned opened are processed and returned to the manufacturer or partner for repair, replacement or credit to us. We resell most unopened products returned to us. Products that cannot be returned to the manufacturer for warranty processing but are in working condition are sold to inventory liquidators, to end users as “previously sold” or “used” products, or through other channels to reduce our losses from returned products.

We record freight billed to our clients as net sales and the related freight costs as costs of goods sold. We report sales net of any sales-based taxes assessed by governmental authorities that are imposed on and concurrent with sales transactions.

Revenue is recognized from software sales when clients acquire the right to use or copy software under license, but in no case prior to the commencement of the term of the initial software license agreement, provided that all other revenue recognition criteria have been met (i.e., delivery, evidence of the arrangement exists, the fee is fixed or determinable and collectibility of the fee is probable).

From time to time, the sale of hardware and software products may also include the provision of services and the associated contracts contain multiple elements or non-standard terms and conditions. Sales of services currently represent a small percentage of our net sales, and a significant amount of services that are performed in conjunction with hardware and software sales are completed in our facilities prior to shipment of the product. In these circumstances, net sales for the hardware, software and services are recognized upon delivery. Net sales of services that are performed at client locations are often service-only contracts and are recorded as sales when the services are performed and completed. If the service is performed at a client location in conjunction with a hardware, software or other services sale, we recognize net sales for delivered items only when all of the following criteria are satisfied:

•

the delivered item(s) has value to the client on a stand-alone basis;

•

there is objective and reliable evidence of the fair value of the undelivered item(s); and

•

if the arrangement includes a general right of return relative to the delivered item, delivery or performance of the undelivered item(s) is considered probable and substantially in our control.

We sell certain third-party service contracts and software assurance or subscription products for which we are not the primary obligor. These sales do not meet the criteria for gross sales recognition and, thus, are recorded on a net sales recognition basis. As we enter into contracts with third-party service providers or vendors, we evaluate whether the subsequent sales of such services should be recorded as gross sales or net sales. We determine whether we act as a principal in the transaction and assume the risks and rewards of ownership or if we are simply acting as an agent or broker. Under gross sales recognition, the entire selling price is recorded in sales and our cost to the third-party service provider or vendor is recorded in costs of goods sold. Under net sales recognition, the cost to the third-party service provider or vendor is recorded as a reduction to sales, resulting in net sales equal to the gross profit on the transaction, and there are no costs of goods sold.

INSIGHT ENTERPRISES, INC.
MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION
AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS (continued)

Additionally, we sell certain professional services contracts on a fixed fee basis. Revenues for fixed fee professional services contracts are recognized based on the ratio of costs incurred to total estimated costs. Net sales for these service contracts are not a significant portion of our consolidated net sales.

Partner Funding

We receive payments and credits from partners, including consideration pursuant to volume sales incentive programs, volume purchase incentive programs and shared marketing expense programs. Partner funding received pursuant to volume sales incentive programs is recognized as it is earned as a reduction to costs of goods sold. Partner funding received pursuant to volume purchase incentive programs is allocated as a reduction to inventories based on the applicable incentives earned from each partner and is recorded in costs of goods sold as the inventory is sold. Changes in estimates of anticipated achievement levels under individual partner programs may affect our results of operations and our cash flows.

See Note 1 to the Consolidated Financial Statements in Part II, Item 8 of this report for further discussion of our accounting policies related to partner funding.

Stock-Based Compensation

We recognize stock-based compensation net of an estimated forfeiture rate and only recognize compensation expense for those shares expected to vest over the requisite service period of the award. Starting in 2006, we elected to primarily issue service-based and performance-based restricted stock units (“RSUs”). The number of RSUs ultimately awarded under performance-based RSUs varies based on whether we achieve certain financial results. We record compensation expense each period based on our estimate of the most probable number of RSUs that will be issued under the grants of performance-based RSUs. For any stock options awarded, modifications to previous awards or awards of RSUs that are tied to specified market conditions, we use option pricing models or lattice (binomial) models to determine fair value of the awards.

The estimated fair value of stock options is determined on the date of the grant using the Black-Scholes-Merton (“Black-Scholes”) option-pricing model. The Black-Scholes model requires us to apply highly subjective assumptions, including expected stock price volatility, expected life of the option and the risk-free interest rate. A change in one or more of the assumptions used in the option-pricing model may result in a material change to the estimated fair value of the stock-based compensation.

See Note 11 to the Consolidated Financial Statements in Part II, Item 8 of this report for further discussion of stock-based compensation.

Allowance for Doubtful Accounts

Our allowance for doubtful accounts is determined using estimated losses on accounts receivable based on evaluation of the aging of the receivables, historical write-offs and the current economic environment. Should our clients’ or vendors’ circumstances change or actual collections of client and vendor receivables differ from our estimates, adjustments to the provision for losses on accounts receivable and the related allowances for doubtful accounts would be recorded. See further information on our allowance for doubtful accounts in Note 17 to the Consolidated Financial Statements in Part II, Item 8 of this report.

Valuation of Long-Lived Assets Including Purchased Intangible Assets and Goodwill

We review property, plant and equipment and purchased intangible assets for impairment whenever events or changes in circumstances indicate the carrying value of an asset may not be recoverable. If such events or changes in circumstances indicate a possible impairment, our asset impairment review assesses the recoverability of the assets based on the estimated undiscounted future cash flows expected to result from the use of the asset plus net proceeds expected from disposition of the asset (if any) and compares that value to the carrying value. Such impairment test is based on the lowest level for which identifiable cash flows are largely independent of the cash flows of other groups of assets and liabilities. If the carrying value exceeds the future cash flows, an impairment loss is recognized for the difference between fair value and the carrying amount. This approach uses our estimates of future market growth, forecasted net sales and costs, expected periods the assets will be utilized and appropriate discount rates.

INSIGHT ENTERPRISES, INC.
MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION
AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS (continued)

We perform an annual review of our goodwill in the fourth quarter of every year, or more frequently if indicators of potential impairment exist, to determine if the carrying value of our recorded goodwill is impaired. We continually assess whether any indicators of impairment exist, which requires a significant amount of judgment. Events or circumstances that could trigger an impairment review include a significant adverse change in legal factors or in the business climate, unanticipated competition, significant changes in the manner of our use of the acquired assets or the strategy for our overall business, significant negative industry or economic trends, significant declines in our stock price for a sustained period or significant underperformance relative to expected historical or projected future cash flows or results of operations. Any adverse change in these factors, among others, could have a significant effect on the recoverability of goodwill and could have a material effect on our consolidated financial statements.

The goodwill impairment test is performed at the reporting unit level. A reporting unit is an operating segment or one level below an operating segment (referred to as a “component”). A component of an operating segment is a reporting unit if the component constitutes a business for which discrete financial information is available and management of the segment regularly reviews the operating results of that component. When two or more components of an operating segment have similar economic characteristics, the components may be aggregated and deemed a single reporting unit. An operating segment shall be deemed to be a reporting unit if all of its components are similar, if none of its components is a reporting unit, or if the segment comprises only a single component. Insight has three reporting units, which are equivalent to our operating segments.

The goodwill impairment test is a two step analysis. In testing for a potential impairment of goodwill, we first compare the estimated fair value of each reporting unit in which the goodwill resides to its book value, including goodwill. Management must apply judgment in determining the estimated fair value of our reporting units. Multiple valuation techniques can be used to assess the fair value of the reporting unit, including the market and income approaches. All of these techniques include the use of estimates and assumptions that are inherently uncertain. Changes in these estimates and assumptions could materially affect the determination of fair value or goodwill impairment, or both. These estimates and assumptions primarily include, but are not limited to, an appropriate control premium in excess of the market capitalization of the Company, future market growth, forecasted sales and costs and appropriate discount rates. Due to the inherent uncertainty involved in making these estimates, actual results could differ from those estimates. Management evaluates the merits of each significant assumption, both individually and in the aggregate, used to determine the fair value of the reporting units. If the estimated fair value exceeds book value, goodwill is considered not to be impaired and no additional steps are necessary. To ensure the reasonableness of the estimated fair values of our reporting units, we perform a reconciliation of our total market capitalization to the estimated fair value of all of our reporting units.

If the fair value of the reporting unit is less than its book value, then we are required to perform the second step of the impairment analysis by comparing the carrying amount of the goodwill with its implied fair value. In step two of the analysis, we utilize the fair value of the reporting unit computed in the first step to perform a hypothetical purchase price allocation to the fair value of the assets and liabilities of the reporting unit. The difference between the fair value of the reporting unit calculated in step one and the fair value of the underlying assets and liabilities of the reporting unit is the implied fair value of the reporting unit’s goodwill. Management must also apply judgment in determining the estimated fair value of these individual assets and liabilities and may include independent valuations of certain internally generated and unrecognized intangible assets, such as trademarks. Management also evaluates the merits of each significant assumption, both individually and in the aggregate, used to determine the fair values of these individual assets and liabilities. If the carrying amount of our goodwill exceeds the implied fair value of that goodwill, an impairment loss would be recognized in an amount equal to the excess.

See further information on the carrying value of goodwill and the impairment charges recorded in 2008 in Note 3 to the Consolidated Financial Statements in Part II, Item 8 of this report.

Severance and Restructuring Activities

We have taken, and may continue to take, severance and restructuring actions which require us to utilize significant estimates of costs relating to employee termination benefits and costs to terminate leases or remaining lease commitments on unused facilities, net of estimated subleases. Should the actual amounts differ from our estimates, adjustments to severance and restructuring expenses in subsequent periods would be necessary. A detailed description of our severance, restructuring and acquisition integration activities and remaining accruals for these activities at December 31, 2010 can be found in Note 9 to the Consolidated Financial Statements in Part II, Item 8 of this report.

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Income Taxes

Our effective tax rate includes the effect of certain undistributed foreign earnings for which no U.S. taxes have been provided because such earnings are planned to be reinvested indefinitely outside the U.S. Earnings remittance amounts are planned based on the projected cash flow needs as well as the working capital and long-term investment requirements of our foreign subsidiaries and our domestic operations. Material changes in our estimates of cash, working capital and long-term investment requirements could affect our effective tax rate.

We record a valuation allowance to reduce our deferred tax assets to the amount that is more likely than not to be realized. We consider past operating results, future market growth, forecasted earnings, historical and projected taxable income, the mix of earnings in the jurisdictions in which we operate, prudent and feasible tax planning strategies and statutory tax law changes in determining the need for a valuation allowance. If we were to determine that it is more likely than not that we would not be able to realize all or part of our net deferred tax assets in the future, an adjustment to the deferred tax assets would be charged to earnings in the period such determination is made. Likewise, if we later determine that it is more likely than not that all or part of the net deferred tax assets would be realized, then all or part of the previously provided valuation allowance would be reversed. Effective January 1, 2009, any change in a valuation allowance and uncertain tax positions established in purchase accounting will be a benefit to, or charge against, earnings. Additional information about the valuation allowance can be found in Note 10 to the Consolidated Financial Statements in Part II, Item 8 of this report.

Contingencies

From time to time, we are subject to potential claims and assessments from third parties. We are also subject to various governmental, client and vendor audits. We continually assess whether or not such claims have merit and warrant accrual if it is both probable that a liability has been incurred and the amount of the loss can be reasonably estimated. Where appropriate, we accrue estimates of anticipated liabilities in the consolidated financial statements. Such estimates are subject to change and may affect our results of operations and our cash flows. Additional information about contingencies can be found in Note 16 to the Consolidated Financial Statements in Part II, Item 8 of this report.

RESULTS OF OPERATIONS

The following table sets forth for the periods presented certain financial data as a percentage of net sales for the years ended December 31, 2010, 2009 and 2008:

		2010				2009				2008
Net sales			100.0	%			100.0	%			100.0	%
Costs of goods sold			86.6				86.3				86.2
Gross profit			13.4				13.7				13.8
Operating expenses:
Selling and administrative expenses			10.8				12.1				11.7
Goodwill impairment			—				—				8.2
Severance and restructuring expenses			<0.1				0.3				0.2
Earnings (loss) from operations			2.6				1.3				(6.3	)
Non-operating expense, net			0.2				0.3				0.5
Earnings (loss) from continuing operations before income taxes			2.4				1.0				(6.8	)
Income tax expense (benefit)			0.8				0.3				(1.8	)
Net earnings (loss) from continuing operations			1.6				0.7				(5.0	)
Earnings from a discontinued operation, net of taxes			—				0.1				—
Net earnings (loss)			1.6	%			0.8	%			(5.0	%)

Throughout this “Results of Operations” section of “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations,” we refer to changes in net sales, gross profit and selling and administrative expenses in EMEA and APAC excluding the effects of foreign currency movements. In computing these change amounts and percentages, we compare the current year amount as translated into U.S. dollars under the applicable accounting standards to the prior year amount in local currency translated into U.S. dollars utilizing the average translation rate for the current year.

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2010 Compared to 2009

Net Sales. Net sales for the year ended December 31, 2010 increased 16% to $4.8 billion compared to the year ended December 31, 2009. Our net sales by operating segment for the years ended December 31, 2010 and 2009 were as follows (dollars in thousands):

		2010				2009				% Change
North America		$	3,340,162			$	2,840,786				18	%
EMEA			1,310,549				1,151,749				14	%
APAC			159,219				144,370				10	%
Consolidated		$	4,809,930			$	4,136,905				16	%

Net sales in North America increased $499.4 million or 18% for the year ended December 31, 2010 compared to the year ended December 31, 2009. Net sales of hardware and software increased 26% and 9%, respectively, year over year, while net sales in the services category declined 11% year to year. The increase in hardware and software net sales is primarily due to higher volume with the year over year improvement in the demand environment for IT products compared to the depressed levels of IT spending experienced in North America in 2009. The decrease in sales of services year to year resulted primarily from a large services engagement in 2009 that did not recur in the current year.

Net sales in EMEA increased $158.8 million or 14%, in U.S. dollars, for the year ended December 31, 2010 compared to the year ended December 31, 2009. Excluding the effects of foreign currency movements, net sales were up 18% compared to the prior year. Net sales of hardware grew 10% year over year in U.S. dollars, 12% excluding the effects of foreign currency movements, due to higher demand across all client groups. Software net sales increased 15% year over year in U.S. dollars, 21% excluding the effects of foreign currency movements, due primarily to higher volume and new client engagements and new product offerings from our publishers, reflecting the year over year improvement in the global IT demand environment compared to the depressed levels of IT spending experienced in EMEA in 2009. Net sales from services increased 36% year over year in U.S. dollars, 40% excluding the effects of foreign currency movements, due primarily to new client engagements.

Our APAC segment recognized net sales of $159.2 million in U.S. dollars for the year ended December 31, 2010, an increase of $14.8 million or 10%, compared to the year ended December 31, 2009. Net sales were flat year to year excluding the effects of foreign currency movements.

Net sales by category for North America, EMEA and APAC were as follows for the years ended December 31, 2010 and 2009:

		North America								EMEA								APAC
		Years Ended December 31,								Years Ended December 31,								Years Ended December 31,
Sales Mix		2010				2009				2010				2009				2010				2009
Hardware			64	%			60	%			33	%			34	%			<1	%			1	%
Software			30	%			32	%			66	%			65	%			97	%			98	%
Services			6	%			8	%			1	%			1	%			3	%			1	%
			100	%			100	%			100	%			100	%			100	%			100	%

Currently, our offerings in North America and the United Kingdom include IT hardware, software and services. Our offerings in the remainder of our EMEA segment and in APAC are almost entirely software and select software-related services.

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AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS (continued)

Gross Profit. Gross profit increased 14% to $646.1 million for the year ended December 31, 2010 compared to the year ended December 31, 2009, with a 30 basis point decrease in gross margin. Our gross profit and gross profit as a percent of net sales by operating segment for the years ended December 31, 2010 and 2009 were as follows (dollars in thousands):

						% of Net								% of Net
		2010				Sales				2009				Sales
North America		$	442,068				13.2	%		$	389,717				13.7	%
EMEA			176,018				13.4	%			159,109				13.8	%
APAC			28,011				17.6	%			19,788				13.7	%
Consolidated		$	646,097				13.4	%		$	568,614				13.7	%

North America’s gross profit for the year ended December 31, 2010 increased 13% compared to the year ended December 31, 2009, but as a percentage of net sales, gross margin declined by 50 basis points year to year, due primarily to a 78 basis point decrease in margin from the sale of services associated with the large services engagement during 2009 that did not recur in the current year and a decrease in margin related to agency fees for enterprise software agreements of 32 basis points. These decreases in margin were offset by a 56 basis point increase in product margin, which includes vendor funding and freight, driven primarily by sales in our hardware category. Contributing to this increase in product margin was the extinguishment of $7.4 million of certain restatement-related trade credits during the year ended December 31, 2010 compared to $3.5 million in 2009, through negotiated settlement or other legal release of the recorded liabilities, which contributed 10 basis points to the increase in margin.

EMEA’s gross profit increased 11% in U.S. dollars for the year ended December 31, 2010 compared to the year ended December 31, 2009. Excluding the effects of foreign currency movements, gross profit was up 15% compared to the prior year. As a percentage of net sales, gross margin declined 40 basis points due primarily to decreases in agency fees for enterprise software agreement renewals of 44 basis points.

APAC’s gross profit increased 42% for the year ended December 31, 2010 compared to the year ended December 31, 2009. Excluding the effects of foreign currency movements, gross profit increased 28% compared to the prior year. As a percentage of net sales, gross margin increased by 390 basis points, due primarily to an increase of 213 basis points in product margin, which includes vendor funding, an increase in the margin contribution from agency fees for enterprise software agreements of 149 basis points and an increase in margin from sales of services of 26 basis points. These increases resulted primarily from changes in client and publisher mix.

Operating Expenses.

Selling and Administrative Expenses. Selling and administrative expenses increased $17.0 million or 3% in the year ended December 31, 2010 compared to the year ended December 31, 2009 primarily attributable to increases in variable compensation on increased sales. Selling and administrative expenses decreased 130 basis points as a percentage of net sales for the year ended December 31, 2010 compared to the year ended December 31, 2009 as we continued our expense management initiatives. Selling and administrative expenses as a percent of net sales by operating segment for the years ended December 31, 2010 and 2009 were as follows (dollars in thousands):

						% of Net								% of Net
		2010				Sales				2009				Sales
North America		$	348,842				10.4	%		$	346,306				12.2	%
EMEA			149,945				11.4	%			140,380				12.2	%
APAC			20,278				12.7	%			15,416				10.7	%
Consolidated		$	519,065				10.8	%		$	502,102				12.1	%

North America’s selling and administrative expenses increased 1%, or $2.5 million for the year ended December 31, 2010 compared to the year ended December 31, 2009, but as a percentage of net sales, selling and administrative expenses decreased 180 basis points to 10.4% of net sales for the year. Increases in variable costs of $11.2 million on higher sales in the year ended December 31, 2010 and increased bonus and non-cash stock-based compensation expense resulting from over-attainment against our operating plan were mostly offset by (i) a $5.5 million decline in legal and professional fees year to year, primarily related to professional fees and costs associated with the trade credits restatement as well as a decrease in our annual audit fee and (ii) a $4.1 million decrease resulting from the effect on the year to year comparison of the prior year non-cash stock-based compensation charges. These charges related to the North America portion of the termination of an equity-based incentive compensation plan relating to certain of our executive officers in February 2009 that did not recur in 2010. Further, selling and administrative expenses in the year ended December 31, 2010 were reduced by $2.9 million upon the collection of a single account receivable which we had specifically reserved as doubtful during the fourth quarter of 2009.

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EMEA’s selling and administrative expenses increased 7%, or $9.6 million in U.S. dollars, for the year ended December 31, 2010 compared to the year ended December 31, 2009. Excluding the effects of foreign currency movements, selling and administrative expenses increased 11% compared to the prior year. This year over year increase was primarily driven by higher variable compensation and sales incentives on increased net sales. As a percentage of net sales, selling and administrative expenses decreased 80 basis points due to relatively stable fixed personnel costs year to year while sales have increased in 2010. Selling and administrative expenses for the year ended December 31, 2009 included $1.4 million of non-cash stock-based compensation charges related to the EMEA portion of the termination of an equity-based incentive compensation plan in the first quarter of 2009 that did not recur in 2010 as discussed above.

APAC’s selling and administrative expenses increased 32% or $4.9 million in U.S. dollars, for the year ended December 31, 2010 compared to the year ended December 31, 2009. Excluding the effects of foreign currency movements, selling and administrative expenses increased 16% compared to the prior year. The year over year increases in selling and administrative expenses are primarily attributable to increases in fixed compensation with increases in head count year over year and increases in variable compensation on higher sales in the year ended December 31, 2010.

Severance and Restructuring Expenses. During the year ended December 31, 2010, North America and EMEA recorded severance expense of $2.0 million and $1.0 million, respectively. The North America charge was part of the roll-out of our new sales engagement model and plans to add new leadership in key areas, and the EMEA charge was associated with the severance for the elimination of certain positions based on a re-alignment of roles and responsibilities. In EMEA, $1.5 million in new severance costs was offset by $523,000 of adjustments to prior severance accruals due to current period changes in estimates. During the year ended December 31, 2009, North America, EMEA and APAC recorded severance expense of $10.3 million, $3.0 million and $302,000, respectively, related to the departure of Insight’s former President and Chief Executive Officer and ongoing restructuring efforts to reduce operating expenses. See Note 9 to the Consolidated Financial Statements in Part II, Item 8 of this report for further discussion of severance and restructuring activities.

Non-Operating (Income) Expense.

Interest Income. Interest income for the years ended December 31, 2010 and 2009 was generated through short-term investments. The increase in interest income year over year is primarily due to higher average cash and cash equivalent balances in 2010.

Interest Expense. Interest expense primarily relates to borrowings under our financing facilities and capital lease obligation and imputed interest under our inventory financing facility. In 2009, we also accrued $2.0 million for interest expense related to our anticipated unclaimed property settlement under two state programs in 2010. In 2010, we reduced interest expense by $553,000 for a change in estimate of accrued interest upon settlement with these two states. Imputed interest under our inventory financing facility was $2.1 million and $1.8 million for the years ended December 31, 2010 and 2009, respectively. After giving effect to these items, the remaining decrease in interest expense for the year ended December 31, 2010 compared to the year ended December 31, 2009 is due primarily to decreases in the weighted average borrowings outstanding as we have used excess cash to pay down debt.

Net Foreign Currency Exchange Gains/Losses. These gains/losses result from foreign currency transactions, including the period-end remeasurement of intercompany balances that are not considered long-term in nature. The change from a net foreign currency exchange gain in the prior year to a loss in the current year is due primarily to more volatility in the applicable exchange rates, particularly in our APAC segment.

Other Expense, Net. Other expense, net, consists primarily of bank fees associated with our cash management activities.

Income Tax Expense. Our effective tax rate from continuing operations for the year ended December 31, 2010 was 34.5% compared to 26.3% for the year ended December 31, 2009. The effective tax rates in both years were less than the federal statutory rate of 35.0% primarily due to the recapitalization of a foreign subsidiary during the fourth quarter of each year. Further, our 2009 effective tax rate was also reduced by the true-up of certain foreign deferred tax assets. See Note 10 to the Consolidated Financial Statements in Part II, Item 8 of this report for further discussion of income tax expense.

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Earnings from Discontinued Operations. During the year ended December 31, 2009, we recorded earnings from a discontinued operation of $4.5 million, $2.8 million net of tax, as a result of the favorable settlement on July 7, 2009 of an arbitrated claim related to the 2006 sale of a former subsidiary. The amount recognized was net of payments to holders of approximately 2.0 million exercised stock options of the former subsidiary and a broker success fee with respect to the settlement totaling $540,000. See Note 19 to the Consolidated Financial Statements in Part II, Item 8 of this report for further discussion.

2009 Compared to 2008

Net Sales. Net sales for the year ended December 31, 2009 decreased 14% to $4.1 billion compared to the year ended December 31, 2008. Our net sales by operating segment for the years ended December 31, 2009 and 2008 were as follows (dollars in thousands):

		2009				2008				% Change
North America		$	2,840,786			$	3,362,544				(16	%)
EMEA			1,151,749				1,309,365				(12	%)
APAC			144,370				153,580				(6	%)
Consolidated		$	4,136,905			$	4,825,489				(14	%)

Net sales in North America decreased $521.8 million or 16% for the year ended December 31, 2009 compared to the year ended December 31, 2008, reflecting the effects of the challenging economic climate during 2009. Hardware and software net sales in North America for the year ended December 31, 2009 decreased 21% and 13%, respectively, while net sales from services increased 26% year over year. The decline in software sales year over year primarily relates to program changes with our largest software partner. The increase in services net sales is primarily due to several large professional services engagements during the year ended December 31, 2009, particularly a large professional services engagement that spanned the last three quarters of 2009. During 2009, we continued to increase the mix of services as a percentage of our net sales, which increased from 6% of net sales to 8% of net sales year over year.

Net sales in EMEA decreased $157.6 million or 12% for the year ended December 31, 2009 compared to the year ended December 31, 2008. Excluding the effects of foreign currency movements, net sales in EMEA decreased only $24.7 million or 2% year over year. In U.S. dollars, the negative year over year comparison resulted from a 16% decline in hardware net sales and a 10% decline in software net sales, partially offset by an increase in services, which grew 16% year over year. These results reflect the challenging global IT demand environment as well as the previously announced changes in programs with our largest software partner. The year over year improvement in sales of services primarily resulted from the contribution of MINX, acquired in July 2008.

Our APAC segment recognized net sales of $144.4 million for the year ended December 31, 2009, a decrease of $9.2 million or 6%, compared to the year ended December 31, 2008, primarily as a result of the previously announced changes in programs with our largest software partner, offset by increased public sector spending in Australia. Excluding the effects of foreign currency movements, net sales in APAC decreased by $5.3 million or 4% year over year.

Net sales by category for North America, EMEA and APAC were as follows for the years ended December 31, 2009 and 2008:

		North America								EMEA								APAC
		Years Ended December 31,								Years Ended December 31,								Years Ended December 31,
Sales Mix		2009				2008				2009				2008				2009				2008
Hardware			60	%			63	%			34	%			35	%			1	%			—
Software			32	%			31	%			65	%			64	%			98	%			100	%
Services			8	%			6	%			1	%			1	%			1	%			—
			100	%			100	%			100	%			100	%			100	%			100	%

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AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS (continued)

Gross Profit. Gross profit decreased 14% to $568.6 million for the year ended December 31, 2009 compared to the year ended December 31, 2008, with a 10 basis point decrease in gross margin. Our gross profit and gross profit as a percent of net sales by operating segment for the years ended December 31, 2009 and 2008 were as follows (dollars in thousands):

						% of Net								% of Net
		2009				Sales				2008				Sales
North America		$	389,717				13.7	%		$	449,186				13.4	%
EMEA			159,109				13.8	%			190,673				14.6	%
APAC			19,788				13.7	%			23,724				15.4	%
Consolidated		$	568,614				13.7	%		$	663,583				13.8	%

North America’s gross profit declined by $59.5 million or 13% for the year ended December 31, 2009 compared to the year ended December 31, 2008, but as a percentage of net sales, gross margin increased 30 basis points year over year, primarily due to higher margins in the services category. Gross profit on services net sales contributed 87 basis points to the increase in margin year over year, reflecting the several large professional services engagements during the year ended December 31, 2009 discussed above, and gross profit generated by freight contributed 9 basis points to the increase in margin year over year. In addition, the extinguishment of $3.5 million of certain restatement-related trade credits during the year ended December 31, 2009, through negotiated settlement or other legal release of the recorded liabilities, contributed 12 basis points to the increase in margin. These increases were offset partially by decreases in agency fees for enterprise software agreement renewals of 34 basis points and market pricing pressures which have driven decreases in product margin, which includes partner funding, of 45 basis points.

EMEA’s gross profit decreased for the year ended December 31, 2009 by $31.6 million or 17% compared to the year ended December 31, 2008. Excluding the effects of foreign currency movements, gross profit was down $11.8 million or 7% compared to the prior year. As a percentage of net sales, gross profit decreased by 80 basis points from 2008 to 2009 due primarily to decreases in product margin, which includes partner funding, of 46 basis points, a decrease in supplier discounts of 17 basis points and a decrease in agency fees for enterprise software agreement renewals of 11 basis points. These results reflect a change in client mix, which during 2009 included more public sector sales at lower margins, and the effects of partner program changes.

APAC’s gross profit decreased for the year ended December 31, 2009 by $3.9 million or 17% compared to the year ended December 31, 2008. Excluding the effects of foreign currency movements, gross profit was down $2.9 million or 13% compared to the prior year. As a percentage of net sales, gross profit decreased 170 basis points from 2008 to 2009 due primarily to lower margin on public sector sales and a decrease in agency fees for enterprise software agreement renewals.

Operating Expenses.

Selling and Administrative Expenses. Selling and administrative expenses decreased $59.9 million or 11% in the year ended December 31, 2009 compared to the year ended December 31, 2008 due primarily to the benefits of aggressive expense management and cost reduction actions taken throughout 2009. Selling and administrative expenses increased 50 basis points as a percentage of net sales for the year ended December 31, 2009 compared to the year ended December 31, 2008. Selling and administrative expenses as a percent of net sales by operating segment for the years ended December 31, 2009 and 2008 were as follows (dollars in thousands):

						% of Net								% of Net
		2009				Sales				2008				Sales
North America		$	346,306				12.2	%		$	391,629				11.6	%
EMEA			140,380				12.2	%			152,617				11.7	%
APAC			15,416				10.7	%			17,741				11.6	%
Consolidated		$	502,102				12.1	%		$	561,987				11.6	%

North America’s selling and administrative expenses decreased $45.3 million or 12% for the year ended December 31, 2009 compared to the year ended December 31, 2008. The decrease in selling and administrative expenses is primarily attributable to the realization of the effects of cost reduction initiatives we implemented during 2009, and, to a lesser extent, the effect of lower variable costs. Salaries, sales incentives and benefits accounted for approximately $40.9 million of the decrease, with an additional $5.1 million decline in travel and entertainment and a $3.3 million decline in marketing expenses.

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Offsetting the effect of the cost reduction initiatives on North America’s selling and administrative expenses are the following:

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Approximately $12.4 million of selling and administrative expenses associated with Calence, are reflected in the three months ended March 31, 2009 with no comparable expenses in the three months ended March 31, 2008, as Calence was acquired on April 1, 2008;

•

Professional fees and costs for the year ended December 31, 2009 of $8.3 million associated with the trade credits restatement remediation and related litigation;

•

Non-cash stock-based compensation expense of $4.1 million associated with the termination of the long-term incentive award for our former Chief Executive Officer and the former President of our North America operating segment discussed in Note 11 to our Consolidated Financial Statements in Part II, Item 8 of this report; and

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An increase in bad debt expense of $3.0 million primarily associated with the specific identification of a single significant account for which we determined during the fourth quarter of 2009 that collection was doubtful. This amount was subsequently recovered in 2010.

EMEA’s selling and administrative expenses decreased $12.2 million or 8% for the year ended December 31, 2009 compared to the year ended December 31, 2008. Excluding the effects of foreign currency movements, selling and administrative expenses increased $4.1 million or 3% year over year. The increase in selling and administrative expenses is primarily attributable to salaries and wages and employee-related expenses, which increased due to increases in sales employee headcount, sales incentive programs and recruitment costs. Selling and administrative expenses in 2009 include a non-cash stock-based compensation expense of $1.4 million associated with the termination of the long-term incentive award for our former Chief Executive Officer and the President of our EMEA operating segment discussed in Note 11 to our Consolidated Financial Statements in Part II, Item 8 of this report.

APAC’s selling and administrative expenses decreased $2.3 million or 13% for the year ended December 31, 2009 compared to the year ended December 31, 2008. Excluding the effects of foreign currency movements, selling and administrative expenses decreased $1.2 million or 7% year over year.

Goodwill Impairment. During the year ended December 31, 2008, we recorded goodwill impairment charges of $397.2 million. See Note 3 to the Consolidated Financial Statements in Part II, Item 8 of this report for further discussion of goodwill.

Severance and Restructuring Expenses. During the year ended December 31, 2009, North America, EMEA and APAC recorded severance expense of $10.3 million, $3.0 million and $302,000, respectively, related to the departure of Insight’s former President and Chief Executive Officer and ongoing restructuring efforts to reduce operating expenses. An adjustment of $708,000 was recorded as a reduction of severance and restructuring expenses recorded during the year ended December 31, 2009 and the related lease accrual in EMEA due to a change in estimate of the costs of exiting the related leased facilities upon negotiation of the final settlement with the landlord. The leases expired in October 2009. During the year ended December 31, 2008, North America, EMEA and APAC recorded severance expense of $4.6 million, $3.9 million and $39,000, respectively, related to restructuring efforts. See Note 9 to the Consolidated Financial Statements in Part II, Item 8 of this report for further discussion of severance and restructuring activities.

Non-Operating (Income) Expense.

Interest Income. Interest income for the years ended December 31, 2009 and 2008 was generated through short-term investments. The decrease in interest income year over year is primarily due to decreases in interest rates.

Interest Expense. Interest expense primarily relates to borrowings under our financing facilities and capital lease obligation and imputed interest under our inventory financing facility. In 2009, we also accrued $2.0 million for interest expense related to our anticipated unclaimed property settlement under two state programs in 2010. Imputed interest was $1.8 million for the year ended December 31, 2009. The decrease in interest expense for the year ended December 31, 2009 compared to the year ended December 31, 2008 is due primarily to lower interest rates and decreases in the weighted average borrowings outstanding as we were successful in our cash management initiatives and used excess cash to pay down our debt balances.

INSIGHT ENTERPRISES, INC.
MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION
AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS (continued)

Net Foreign Currency Exchange Gains/Losses. These gains/losses result from foreign currency transactions, including the period-end remeasurement of intercompany balances that are not considered long-term in nature. The change from net foreign currency exchange losses in the prior year to a modest gain in the current year is due primarily to less volatility in the applicable exchange rates and the effects of our use of foreign exchange forward contracts in 2009 to hedge certain non-functional currency assets and liabilities against changes in exchange rate movements.

Other Expense, Net. Other expense, net, consists primarily of bank fees associated with our cash management activities.

Income Tax Expense. Our income tax expense from continuing operations for the year ended December 31, 2009 was $11.0 million compared to an income tax benefit from continuing operations of $86.3 million for the year ended December 31, 2008. The change from a benefit in 2008 to expense in 2009 was primarily the result of the impairment charge related to deductible goodwill during 2008. In addition, our 2009 effective tax rate of 26.3% was less than the federal statutory rate of 35.0% primarily due to the recapitalization of one of our foreign subsidiaries and the true-up of certain foreign tax assets. See Note 10 to the Consolidated Financial Statements in Part II, Item 8 of this report for further discussion of income tax expense.

Liquidity and Capital Resources

The following table sets forth for the periods presented certain consolidated cash flow information for the years ended December 31, 2010, 2009 and 2008 (dollars in thousands):

		2010				2009				2008
Net cash provided by operating activities		$	98,181			$	122,674			$	141,746
Net cash used in investing activities			(23,095	)			(36,420	)			(153,813	)
Net cash (used in) provided by financing activities			(17,894	)			(70,269	)			12,904
Foreign currency exchange effect on cash flow			(1,495	)			2,906				(8,380	)
Increase (decrease) in cash and cash equivalents			55,697				18,891				(7,543	)
Cash and cash equivalents at beginning of year			68,066				49,175				56,718
Cash and cash equivalents at end of year		$	123,763			$	68,066			$	49,175

Cash and Cash Flow

Our primary uses of cash during 2010 were to fund working capital requirements and capital expenditures and to pay down debt. Operating activities provided $98.2 million in cash, a 20% decrease from the year ended December 31, 2009. We made cash payments of $25.8 million during 2010 as part of our previously announced program of compliance with state unclaimed property laws. Our operating cash flows and net borrowings under our inventory financing facility, which is included in accounts payable, of $40.8 million enabled us to reduce our long-term debt under our revolving credit facilities by $57.0 million, while increasing cash and cash equivalent balances by $55.7 million since December 31, 2009. Capital expenditures were $18.0 million for the year, a 22% increase over 2009, due primarily to expenditures related to IT systems projects in EMEA and North America. Additionally, 2010 was burdened by a $1.5 million negative effect of foreign currency exchange rates on cash flow, while 2009 benefited from a $2.9 million positive effect of foreign currency exchange rates on cash flow.

During the year ended December 31, 2009, we recorded earnings from a discontinued operation of $4.5 million, $2.8 million net of tax, as a result of the favorable settlement on July 7, 2009 of an arbitrated claim related to the 2006 sale of Direct Alliance, a former subsidiary that was sold on June 30, 2006. Since this amount had been deferred as of the original sale date in 2006, the settlement in 2009 resulted in no cash flows to Insight related to the recognition of the non-cash gain.

Net cash provided by operating activities. Cash flows from operating activities for the year ended December 31, 2010 reflect our net earnings, adjusted for non-cash items such as depreciation, amortization, stock-based compensation expense, write-downs of inventories and deferred income taxes. Also contributing to the cash flows from operating activities were increases in accounts payable and deferred revenue. The increase in accounts payable reflects increased costs of goods sold associated with the increase in net sales in 2010 compared to the prior year. These increases in operating cash flows were partially offset by increases in accounts receivable, inventories and other current assets and decreases in accrued expenses and other liabilities. The increase in accounts receivable also reflects increased net sales in 2010 compared to the prior year. The increase in inventories in 2010 is primarily attributable to client specific inventory purchased in North America late in 2010 as a result of new client engagements and overall higher demand for hardware. The decrease in accrued expenses and other liabilities in 2010 was primarily due to payments made to settle certain state unclaimed property liabilities and to reduce income taxes payable.

INSIGHT ENTERPRISES, INC.
MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION
AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS (continued)

Cash flows from operating activities for the year ended December 31, 2009 reflect our net earnings, adjusted for depreciation, amortization, non-cash stock-based compensation expense, write-downs of inventories, the provision for losses on accounts receivable, the non-cash gain from the Direct Alliance arbitrated claim and deferred income taxes. Also contributing to the cash flows from operating activities in 2009 were increases in deferred revenue and decreases in accounts receivable. The decrease in accounts receivable in 2009 reflects the decrease in net sales compared to the prior year as well as our focus on cash management. These increases in operating cash flows in 2009 were partially offset by decreases in accounts payable in the normal course of business.

Cash flows from operating activities for the year ended December 31, 2008 resulted primarily from our net loss before the non-cash goodwill impairment charge, including the resulting increase in deferred tax assets associated with the goodwill impairment charge, and before depreciation and amortization. Also contributing to the cash flows from operating activities in 2008 were decreases in accounts receivable and other current assets, partially offset by decreases in accounts payable in the normal course of business.

Our consolidated cash flow operating metrics as of December 31, 2010, 2009 and 2008 are as follows:

		2010				2009				2008
Days sales outstanding in ending accounts receivable (“DSOs”) (a)			78				78				79
Days inventory outstanding (excluding inventories not available for sale) (b)			9				8				10
Days purchases outstanding in ending accounts payable (“DPOs”) (c)			(69	)			(63	)			(62	)
Cash conversion cycle (days) (d)			18				23				27

Our cash conversion cycle improved to 18 days in the fourth quarter ended December 31, 2010, decreasing five days from 23 days in the fourth quarter ended December 31, 2009. These results were primarily due to the expanded use of our inventory financing facility, which contributed to an increase in DPOs during the fourth quarter of 2010 of six days, partially offset by an increase in days inventory outstanding resulting from increased investment in inventory to support specific client engagements.

Our cash conversion cycle was 23 days in the fourth quarter ended December 31, 2009, decreasing four days from 27 days in the fourth quarter ended December 31, 2008. DSOs decreased slightly for the quarter ended December 31, 2009 compared to the quarter ended December 31, 2008. In North America, reductions in past due accounts receivable balances as a percent of total accounts receivable were offset by the effects of a higher percentage of accounts receivable subject to longer payment terms, resulting in fairly flat performance. These results were offset by a reduction in DSOs in our EMEA and APAC segments due primarily to the timing of sales and collections occurring earlier in the quarter compared to the prior year period. Days inventory outstanding decreased from 2008 to 2009 as we realized the benefits of our focus in 2009 on improving our purchasing efficiency. DPOs increased slightly during the fourth quarter of 2009 reflecting the expanded use of our inventory financing facility in the 2009 quarter compared to the same quarter in 2008.

INSIGHT ENTERPRISES, INC.
MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION
AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS (continued)

We expect that cash flow from operations will be used, at least partially, to fund working capital as we typically pay our partners on average terms that are shorter than the average terms granted to our clients in order to take advantage of supplier discounts. We intend to use cash generated in 2011 in excess of working capital needs to pay down our outstanding debt balances and support our capital expenditures for the year.

Net cash used in investing activities. Capital expenditures of $18.0 million, $14.7 million and $26.6 million for the years ended December 31, 2010, 2009 and 2008, respectively, primarily related to investments to upgrade our IT systems. Capital expenditures during 2009 primarily related to expenditures to upgrade our IT systems in EMEA. We expect total capital expenditures in 2011 to be between $20.0 million and $25.0 million, primarily for the integration of our IT systems in North America onto a single platform over the next two years, the IT systems upgrade in our EMEA operations and other facility and technology related maintenance and upgrade projects.

During the years ended December 31, 2010 and 2009, we made payments totaling $5.1 million and $21.7 million, respectively, to the former owners of Calence for additional purchase price consideration and the related accrued interest thereon as a result of Calence achieving certain performance targets during 2010, 2009 and 2008. During the year ended December 31, 2008, we made a payment of $900,000 to resolve certain post-closing contingencies related to the sale of a discontinued operation.

Net cash (used in) provided by financing activities. During the year ended December 31, 2010, we made net repayments on our debt facilities that reduced our outstanding debt balances under our revolving credit facility by $57.0 million and had net borrowings under our inventory financing facility, which is included in accounts payable, of $40.8 million. During the year ended December 31, 2009, we made net repayments on our debt facilities that reduced our outstanding debt balances under our revolving credit facility by $81.0 million. As of December 31, 2010, the only current portion of our long-term debt relates to our capital lease obligation for certain IT equipment. During the year ended December 31, 2009, we had net borrowings under our inventory financing facility of $13.4 million. During the year ended December 31, 2008, we increased our outstanding debt by $25.8 million and subsequent to the acquisition of Calence on April 1, 2008, had a net increase in our obligations under our new inventory financing facility of $48.9 million. These positive cash flows in 2008 were partially offset by the funding of $50.0 million of repurchases of our common stock and the repayment of $11.0 million of debt assumed in the acquisitions of Calence and MINX during 2008.

As of December 31, 2010, our long-term debt balance consisted of $90.0 million outstanding under our $300.0 million senior revolving credit facility and a $2.6 million capital lease obligation. Our objective is to pay our debt balances down while retaining adequate cash balances to meet overall business objectives.

On July 1, 2010, we entered into an amendment to our accounts receivable securitization financing facility (the “ABS facility”), which amends certain provisions of the ABS facility to improve availability in the Borrowing Base, as defined in the ABS facility, but did not change the $150,000,000 maximum borrowing capacity. Specifically, the amendment (i) excludes from the Borrowing Base receivables of a specified obligor that had a negative impact on availability under the facility, (ii) creates a basket to allow up to 10% of gross receivables with terms between 60 and 90 days to be eligible for borrowing, and (iii) increases to 35% from 25% the threshold above which the total amount of a particular obligor’s receivables are treated as ineligible if the percentage of such obligor’s receivables that are more than 60 days past due exceeds such threshold. In addition, the amendment extends the maturity date of the ABS facility to April 1, 2013, and decreases the variable interest rate by approximately 80 basis points for funds provided under the ABS facility, calculated as the specified Pooled Commercial Paper Rate, as defined in the ABS facility, plus a fixed 1.45% margin (the “CP Margin”). However, beginning on July 1, 2012 (the “Reset Date”), the CP Margin may increase (but in no event exceed 1.50%) based on percentage changes in high yield spreads comparing average index rates for the calendar month prior to the Reset Date against average index rates for the corresponding calendar month in the previous year. Finally, the amendment provides that, under certain circumstances, the Company may be required to obtain a public rating of the ABS facility from one or more credit rating agencies of at least “A” or its equivalent. Failure by the Company to obtain such rating would result in an Amortization Event under the ABS facility. While the ABS facility has a stated maximum amount, the actual availability under the facility is limited by the quantity and quality of the underlying accounts receivable. As of December 31, 2010, the full $150,000,000 was available.

INSIGHT ENTERPRISES, INC.
MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION
AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS (continued)

Our consolidated debt balance that can be outstanding at the end of any fiscal quarter under our senior revolving credit facility and our ABS facility is limited by certain financial covenants, particularly a maximum leverage ratio. The maximum leverage ratio is calculated as aggregate debt outstanding divided by the sum of the Company’s trailing twelve month net earnings plus (i) interest expense, less non-cash imputed interest on our inventory financing facility, (ii) income tax expense, (iii) depreciation and amortization and (iv) non-cash stock-based compensation (referred to herein as “adjusted earnings”). The maximum leverage ratio permitted under the agreements is 2.50 times effective October 1, 2010 through April 1, 2013. As a result of this limitation, of the $450,000,000 of aggregate maximum debt capacity available under our senior revolving credit facility and our ABS facility, the Company’s debt balance that could have been outstanding as of December 31, 2010 was limited to $414,138,000 based on 2.50 times the Company’s trailing twelve-month adjusted earnings. The maximum leverage, minimum fixed charge and asset coverage ratio financial covenant requirements under the ABS facility were not modified as part of the July 1, 2010 amendment to the ABS facility.

We anticipate that cash flows from operations, together with the funds available under our financing facilities will be adequate to support our presently anticipated cash and working capital requirements for operations over the next 12 months.

Cash and cash equivalents held by foreign subsidiaries are generally subject to U.S. income taxation upon repatriation to the U.S. For foreign entities not treated as branches for U.S. tax purposes, we do not provide for U.S. income taxes on the undistributed earnings of these subsidiaries as earnings are reinvested and, in the opinion of management, will continue to be reinvested indefinitely outside of the U.S. As of December 31, 2010, we had approximately $109.9 million in cash and cash equivalents in certain of our foreign subsidiaries where we consider undistributed earnings for these foreign subsidiaries to be permanently reinvested. We used our excess cash balances in the U.S. to pay down debt as of December 31, 2010. As of December 31, 2010, the majority of our foreign cash resides in the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and Australia. Certain of these cash balances could and will be remitted to the U.S. by paying down intercompany payables generated in the ordinary course of business. This repayment would not change our policy to indefinitely reinvest earnings of its foreign subsidiaries. The undistributed earnings of foreign subsidiaries that are deemed to be indefinitely invested outside of the U.S. were approximately $28.6 million at December 31, 2010, compared to $24.3 million at the end of 2009. We intend to use undistributed earnings for general business purposes in the foreign jurisdictions as well as to fund our EMEA IT systems, various facility upgrades and the expansion of our sales of hardware and services, in addition to software, to clients in EMEA countries.

On November 13, 2007, our Board of Directors authorized the repurchase of up to $50.0 million of our common stock through September 30, 2008. During the year ended December 31, 2008 (and prior to September 30, 2008), we purchased 3.5 million shares of our common stock on the open market at an average price of $14.31 per share, which represented the full amount authorized under the repurchase program. All shares repurchased were retired.

See Note 6 to the Consolidated Financial Statements in Part II, Item 8 of this report for a description of our financing facilities, including terms and covenants, amounts outstanding, amounts available and weighted average borrowings and interest rates during the year.

Off-Balance Sheet Arrangements

We have entered into off-balance sheet arrangements, which include guaranties and indemnifications. The guaranties and indemnifications are discussed in Note 16 to the Consolidated Financial Statements in Part II, Item 8 of this report. We believe that none of our off-balance sheet arrangements have, or are reasonably likely to have, a material current or future effect on our financial condition, sales or expenses, results of operations, liquidity, capital expenditures or capital resources.

INSIGHT ENTERPRISES, INC.
MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION
AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS (continued)

Contractual Obligations

At December 31, 2010, our contractual obligations for continuing operations were as follows (in thousands):

		Payments due by period
						Less than				1-3				3-5				More than 5
		Total				1 Year				Years				Years				Years
Long-term debt (a)		$	90,000			$	—			$	90,000			$	—			$	—
Capital lease obligations			2,684				1,039				1,645				—				—
Inventory financing facility (b)			135,112				135,112				—				—				—
Operating lease obligations			51,782				13,186				18,056				13,103				7,437
Severance and restructuring obligations (c)			2,854				2,854				—				—				—
Other contractual obligations (d)			22,692				6,297				9,757				3,638				3,000
Total		$	305,124			$	158,488			$	119,458			$	16,741			$	10,437

I.

Estimated interest payments of $1.9 million in each of the next two years and $473,000 in the first three months of 2013, based on the current debt balance of $90.0 million at December 31, 2010 under the senior revolving credit facility, multiplied by the weighted average interest rate for the year ended December 31, 2010 of 2.1% per annum.

II.

Amounts totaling $5.9 million over the next three years to the Valley of the Sun Bowl Foundation for sponsorship of the Insight Bowl and $5.7 million over the next five years for advertising and marketing events with the Arizona Cardinals at the University of Phoenix stadium. See further discussion in Note 16 to the Consolidated Financial Statements in Part II, Item 8 of this report.

III.

We estimate that we will owe $6.8 million in future years in connection with the obligations to perform asset-retirement activities that are conditional on a future event.

The table above excludes $6.0 million of unrecognized tax benefits as we are unable to reasonably estimate the ultimate amount or timing of settlement. See further discussion in Note 10 to the Consolidated Financial Statements in Part II, Item 8 of this report.

Although we set purchase targets with our partners tied to the amount of supplier reimbursements we receive, we have no material contractual purchase obligations.

Acquisitions

Our strategy may include the possible acquisition of or investments in other businesses to expand or complement our operations. The magnitude, timing and nature of any future acquisitions or investments will depend on a number of factors, including the availability of suitable candidates, the negotiation of acceptable terms, our financial capabilities and general economic and business conditions. Financing for future transactions would result in the utilization of cash, incurrence of additional debt, issuance of stock or some combination of the three.

Inflation

We have historically not been adversely affected by inflation, as technological advances and competition within the IT industry have generally caused the prices of the products we sell to decline and product life cycles tend to be short. This requires our growth in unit sales to exceed the decline in prices in order to increase our net sales. We believe that most price increases could be passed on to our clients, as prices charged by us are not set by long-term contracts; however, as a result of competitive pressure, there can be no assurance that the full effect of any such price increases could be passed on to our clients.

INSIGHT ENTERPRISES, INC.
MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION
AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS (continued)

Recently Issued Accounting Standards

See Note 1 to the Consolidated Financial Statements in Part II, Item 8 of this report for a description of recent accounting pronouncements, including our expected dates of adoption and the estimated effects on our results of operations and financial condition.

INSIGHT ENTERPRISES, INC.

Item 7A.		Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk

Interest Rate Risk

We have interest rate exposure arising from our financing facilities, which have variable interest rates. These variable interest rates are affected by changes in short-term interest rates. We currently do not hedge our interest rate exposure.

We do not believe that the effect of reasonably possible near-term changes in interest rates will be material to our financial position, results of operations and cash flows. Our financing facilities expose net earnings to changes in short-term interest rates since interest rates on the underlying obligations are variable. We had $90.0 million outstanding under our senior revolving credit facility and no amounts outstanding under our accounts receivable securitization financing facility at December 31, 2010. The interest rates attributable to the borrowings under out senior revolving credit facility and the accounts receivable securitization financing facility were 1.26% and 1.76%, respectively, per annum at December 31, 2010. The change in annual net earnings from continuing operations, pretax, resulting from a hypothetical 10% increase or decrease in the highest applicable interest rate would approximate $158,000.

Foreign Currency Exchange Risk

We use the U.S. dollar as our reporting currency. The functional currencies of our significant foreign subsidiaries are generally the local currencies. Accordingly, assets and liabilities of the subsidiaries are translated into U.S. dollars at the exchange rate in effect at the balance sheet dates. Income and expense items are translated at the average exchange rate for each month within the year. Translation adjustments are recorded directly in other comprehensive income as a separate component of stockholders’ equity. Net foreign currency transaction gains/losses, including transaction gains/losses on intercompany balances that are not of a long-term investment nature, are reported as a separate component of non-operating (income) expense, net in our consolidated statements of operations. We also maintain cash accounts denominated in currencies other than the functional currency which expose us to foreign exchange rate movements. Remeasurement of these cash balances results in gains/losses that are also reported as a separate component of non-operating (income) expense.

We monitor our foreign currency exposure and have begun to enter, selectively, into forward exchange contracts to mitigate risk associated with certain non-functional currency monetary assets and liabilities related to foreign denominated payables, receivables, and cash balances. Transaction gains and losses resulting from non-functional currency assets and liabilities are offset by forward contracts in non-operating (income) and expense, net. The Company does not have a significant concentration of credit risk with any single counterparty.

The Company generally enters into forward contracts with maturities of three months or less. The derivatives entered into during 2010 were not designated as hedges. The following derivative contracts were entered into during the year ended December 31, 2010, and remained open and outstanding at December 31, 2010. All U.S. dollar and foreign currency amounts (British Pounds and Canadian Dollars) are presented in thousands.

		Buy		Buy
Foreign Currency		GBP		CAD
Foreign Amount		6,424		10,000
Exchange Rate		1.5566		1.0029
USD Equivalent		$10,000		$9,971
Maturity Date		January 7, 2011		January 6, 2011

The Company does not enter into derivative contracts for speculative or trading purposes. The fair value of all forward contracts at December 31, 2010 was a net liability of $63,000.

INSIGHT ENTERPRISES, INC.
INDEX TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

Item 8.		Financial Statements and Supplementary Data

		Page
Reports of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm			42
Consolidated Balance Sheets — December 31, 2010 and 2009			44
Consolidated Statements of Operations — For each of the years in the three-year period ended December 31, 2010			45
Consolidated Statements of Stockholders’ Equity and Comprehensive Income (Loss) — For each of the years in the three-year period ended December 31, 2010			46
Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows — For each of the years in the three-year period ended December 31, 2010			47
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements			48

REPORT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED
PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM

The Board of Directors and Stockholders
Insight Enterprises, Inc.:

We have audited the accompanying consolidated balance sheets of Insight Enterprises, Inc. and subsidiaries (the Company) as of December 31, 2010 and 2009, and the related consolidated statements of operations, stockholders’ equity and comprehensive income (loss), and cash flows for each of the years in the three-year period ended December 31, 2010. These consolidated financial statements are the responsibility of the Company’s management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these consolidated financial statements based on our audits.

We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States). Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement. An audit includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. An audit also includes assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall financial statement presentation. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.

In our opinion, the consolidated financial statements referred to above present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of Insight Enterprises, Inc. and subsidiaries as of December 31, 2010 and 2009, and the results of their operations and their cash flows for each of the years in the three-year period ended December 31, 2010, in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles.

We also have audited, in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States), Insight Enterprises, Inc.’s internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2010, based on criteria established in Internal Control — Integrated Framework issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission, and our report dated February 23, 2011 expressed an unqualified opinion on the effectiveness of the Company’s internal control over financial reporting.

/s/ KPMG LLP

Phoenix, Arizona
February 23, 2011

REPORT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED
PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM

The Board of Directors and Stockholders
Insight Enterprises, Inc.:

We have audited Insight Enterprises, Inc.’s internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2010, based on criteria established in Internal Control — Integrated Framework issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (COSO). Insight Enterprises, Inc.’s management is responsible for maintaining effective internal control over financial reporting and for its assessment of the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting, included in the accompanying Item 9A (a), Management’s Report on Internal Control Over Financial Reporting. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the Company’s internal control over financial reporting based on our audit.

We conducted our audit in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States). Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether effective internal control over financial reporting was maintained in all material respects. Our audit included obtaining an understanding of internal control over financial reporting, assessing the risk that a material weakness exists, and testing and evaluating the design and operating effectiveness of internal control based on the assessed risk. Our audit also included performing such other procedures as we considered necessary in the circumstances. We believe that our audit provides a reasonable basis for our opinion.

A company’s internal control over financial reporting is a process designed to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles. A company’s internal control over financial reporting includes those policies and procedures that (1) pertain to the maintenance of records that, in reasonable detail, accurately and fairly reflect the transactions and dispositions of the assets of the company; (2) provide reasonable assurance that transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, and that receipts and expenditures of the company are being made only in accordance with authorizations of management and directors of the company; and (3) provide reasonable assurance regarding prevention or timely detection of unauthorized acquisition, use, or disposition of the company’s assets that could have a material effect on the financial statements.

Because of its inherent limitations, internal control over financial reporting may not prevent or detect misstatements. Also, projections of any evaluation of effectiveness to future periods are subject to the risk that controls may become inadequate because of changes in conditions, or that the degree of compliance with the policies or procedures may deteriorate.

In our opinion, Insight Enterprises, Inc. maintained, in all material respects, effective internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2010, based on criteria established in Internal Control — Integrated Framework issued by COSO.

We also have audited, in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States), the consolidated balance sheets of Insight Enterprises, Inc. and subsidiaries as of December 31, 2010 and 2009, and the related consolidated statements of operations, stockholders’ equity and comprehensive income (loss), and cash flows for each of the years in the three-year period ended December 31, 2010, and our report dated February 23, 2011 expressed an unqualified opinion on those consolidated financial statements.

/s/ KPMG LLP

Phoenix, Arizona
February 23, 2011

INSIGHT ENTERPRISES, INC.

		December 31,
		2010				2009
ASSETS
Current assets:
Cash and cash equivalents		$	123,763			$	68,066
Accounts receivable, net			1,135,951				998,770
Inventories			106,734				77,694
Inventories not available for sale			50,677				47,722
Deferred income taxes			23,283				35,750
Other current assets			49,289				32,318
Total current assets			1,489,697				1,260,320
Property and equipment, net			141,399				150,103
Goodwill			16,474				15,829
Intangible assets, net			69,081				82,483
Deferred income taxes			73,796				78,489
Other assets			12,836				16,097
		$	1,803,283			$	1,603,321
LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY
Current liabilities:
Accounts payable		$	881,688			$	695,549
Accrued expenses and other current liabilities			187,457				212,276
Current portion of long-term debt			997				875
Deferred revenue			67,373				54,135
Total current liabilities			1,137,515				962,835
Long-term debt			91,619				149,349
Deferred income taxes			5,011				3,054
Other liabilities			24,167				20,509
			1,258,312				1,135,747
Commitments and contingencies
Stockholders’ equity:
Preferred stock, $0.01 par value, 3,000 shares authorized; no shares issued			—				—
Common stock, $0.01 par value, 100,000 shares authorized; 46,325 and 45,956 shares issued and outstanding in 2010 and 2009, respectively			463				460
Additional paid-in capital			377,277				372,021
Retained earnings			149,349				73,864
Accumulated other comprehensive income — foreign currency translation adjustments			17,882				21,229
Total stockholders’ equity			544,971				467,574
		$	1,803,283			$	1,603,321

See accompanying notes to consolidated financial statements.

INSIGHT ENTERPRISES, INC.