DC's Worldwide Quarterly Workstation Forecast service greatly enhances clients' ability to respond quickly and effectively to today's dynamic workstation market. Clients are provided with a foundation of market and technology assumptions to understand the factors that drive marketplace expectations. Understanding the direction in which global markets and segments are growing and assessing the quarterly adoption curve for new products have become business-critical needs, not only for workstation vendors but also for supply chain partners and the Wall Street financial community. This service provides insight into customer trends by delivering geography-specific detail across all workstation segments, and it presents market data in an easy-to-use, interactive format that allows any submarket to be viewed in a customizable layout. IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Workstation Forecast service provides reliable, independent market research data as a base for quantitative market and trend analyses.

Technology Coverage and Data Segmentation

This forecast provides total market size and vendor share for the following technology areas and segmentations. Measurement for this tracker is in unit shipments and customer revenue.

Technologies and subtechnologies

• Form factor: Desktop, mobile

Segmentations

• Workstation applications: DCC, scientific, engineering, economic/financial, other commercial, and software engineering
• Operating systems: Linux, Unix, and Windows
• Price band
• Measurements: Customer revenue and unit shipments

Geographic Scope

• United States
• Canada
• Latin America available by 9 countries
• Western Europe available by 16 countries
• Central/Eastern Europe available by 16 countries
• Middle East/Africa available by 10 countries
• Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) available by 14 countries
• Japan

Delivery Schedule and Deliverables

This forecast is delivered on a quarterly basis with tools such as Excel pivot tables. Forecasts include three years of historical data, two years of quarterly forecasts, and an additional three years of annual market projections. Forecasts are available at the worldwide, regional, and country levels. The delivery schedule for this forecast is as follows:

• Quarterly data files: 8 weeks after the end of each calendar-year quarter
• With the purchase of IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Workstation Forecast service, clients to receive detailed insights and inquiry time for supporting questions regarding data usages

Other optional workstation deliverables:

• Quarterly country workstation forecast: 8 weeks after the end of each calendar-year quarter
• PowerPoint slide deck forecast analysis: 9 weeks after the end of each calendar-year quarter
• Forecast assumption report: 10 weeks after the end of each calendar-year quarter