IDC's Worldwide Quarterly PC Tracker® fills the growing demand for detailed, timely, and accurate information on the global PC market. It provides insightful analysis, quarterly market share data, and a five-year quarterly forecast by country. The core of the product is a comprehensive electronic database detailing changes and trends in the highly competitive PC market. IDC's Worldwide Quarterly PC Tracker is built on the foundation of IDC's network of country-level quarterly PC tracking services, and its bottom-up methodology delivers an accurate view of the PC market from those closest to it.

Technology Coverage and Data Segmentation for Historical PC data

This tracker provides total market size and vendor share for the following technology areas and segmentations. Measurement for this tracker is in unit shipments value and average selling price.

Technologies and subtechnologies:

• Form factor: Desktop PC, portable PC
• Product category: Mini notebook PC, all-in-one PC, other desktop PC, notebook PC (13in.+), ultra portable PC (12in. and smaller), and convertible notebook PC
• Quarterly shipments and end-user spending from 1994 through a rolling five-year forecast
• Price bands, processor (CPU) data
• 800+ vendors and 300+ vendor brands

User segmentations and sales channel:

• Channels: Retailer; vendor direct — relationship; vendor direct — transactional; dealer/VAR/SI; vendor direct — Internet; telco; vendor direct — store; electronic retailer; and others
• Segments: Home, small office (1–9 employees), small business (10–99 employees), medium-sized business (100–499 employees), large business (500–999 employees), very large business (1,000+ employees), government, and education

Geographic Scope

• Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) available by 16 countries
• Canada
• Central/Eastern Europe available by 16 countries
• Japan
• Latin America available by 9 countries
• Middle East/Africa available by 26 countries
• United States
• Western Europe available by 16 countries

Forecast Coverage

Forecasts for this tracker are updated quarterly and include historical data back to 1994, up to two years of quarterly forecasts, and an additional three years of annual market projections. Forecasts are available at the worldwide, regional, and country levels outlined previously. Forecast details are made for unit shipment, value, and average selling price and also include:

• Form factor: Desktop PC, portable PC
• Product category: Desktop PC, large portable PC, small portable PC, and mini notebook PC
• Channels: Retailer; vendor direct — relationship; vendor direct — transactional; dealer/VAR/SI; vendor direct — Internet; telco; vendor direct — store; electronic retailer; and others
• Segments: Home, small office (1–9 employees), small business (10–99 employees), medium-sized business (100–499 employees), large business (500–999 employees), very large business (1,000+ employees), government, and education

Delivery Schedule and Deliverables

This tracker is delivered on a quarterly basis via Excel pivot tables and/or a Web-based query tool. The delivery schedule for this tracker is as follows:

• Week 3: Preliminary top 5 vendor data
• Week 4: Preliminary top 10 vendor data
• Week 5: One-hour-long telebriefing of preliminary market results
• Week 7: Historical database and analysis published
• Week 8: Historical data add-on products published (expanded price bands, segment by channel)
• Week 9: Forecast database and analysis published
• Week 10: Forecast data add-on products published (price band forecast, installed base [semiannual], segment by channel forecast, sub form factor forecast)