IDC's Europe, Middle East and Africa Semiannual Storage Software Tracker® monitors vendors' business performance by delivering semiannual updates to vendor shares and forecasts across the storage software market. This tracker provides an understanding of which vendors are gaining or losing share across mature and emerging countries, which are business critical for storage vendors, supply chain partners, and the investment community.
This tracker provides total market size and vendor share for the following technology areas. Measurement for this tracker is total software revenue, which includes license plus maintenance plus SaaS and other subscription revenue.
Storage software markets
Data protection and recovery software
Storage replication software
Archiving software
File system software
Storage and device management software
Storage infrastructure software
Other storage software
Segmentations
Company size (semiannual delivery only, 4 employee size classes)
Central and Eastern Europe (Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Rest of CEE)
Middle East and Africa (Israel, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Turkey, UAE, Rest of MEA)
Western Europe (Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the U.K.)
Annual five-year market forecasts for this tracker are updated semiannually and include five-year annual market projections. Forecasts are available at regional and country levels. Examples of the segmentations being forecast in this tracker include:
This tracker is delivered on a semiannual basis via an Excel-based tool with an online Web query component. The tracker is also available, as an option, on a quarterly basis. The delivery schedule for this tracker is as follows:
Semiannual
November (first half of 2012 data)
May (second half of 2012 data)
Deliverables
Semiannual market size and vendor share by secondary and functional market by geography for total software revenue (including company size, vertical market, and type of license segmentation by secondary market)
Annual five-year forecasts by functional market by geography updated semiannually
Quarterly
Historical data: week 9 after period closes
Forecast data: week 20 after period closes
Deliverables
Quarterly market size and vendor share by secondary and functional market by geography (no additional segmentation)
Annual five-year forecasts by functional market by geography updated semiannually
IDC's tracker data is developed using a rigorous methodology that includes well-planned and well-coordinated local, regional, and worldwide data cross-checks combined with a proprietary advanced data consolidation and analysis data platform managed by IDC's Worldwide Tracker organization. Data sources used in the process of determining IDC's tracker numbers include, but are not limited to:
IDC trackers provide the accurate and timely market size, vendor share, and forecast information you need to identify market and product expansion opportunities, increase revenues, and win market share. IDC's tracker research is a critical input to the planning and monitoring cycles of the business process. Common uses of the tracker data include:
Planning Process
Regional, state or city-level planning — setting regional, country, state or city-level sales targets based on market opportunity
Product marketing — creating a product strategy and road map based on currently available product features and expected growth
Production planning — using customer demand data as an input in the creation of production schedules
Product portfolio planning — accessing accurate and detailed data as an input into the product development process
Monitoring Process
Performance measurement — comparing vendor performance on prior fiscal periods