IDC's Worldwide Semiannual System Management Software Tracker monitors vendors' business performance by delivering more frequent releases of global semiannual vendor shares. Unique to this tracker, IDC is delivering data for additional local vendors from many BRIC countries. Additionally, this tracker provides an understanding of which vendors are gaining or losing share across mature and emerging countries, which has become business critical for system management software vendors, supply chain partners, and the investment community. This tracker provides semiannual updates to vendor shares and forecasts across the system management software market.

Technology Coverage and Data Segmentation

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.

System management software markets:

• Event management
• Workload scheduling and automation
• Output management
• Performance management
• Change and configuration management
• Problem management

Geographic Scope

• Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan)
• Central and Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa
• Latin America
• Japan
• North America
• Western Europe
• 13 countries plus rest of regions: United States, Canada, Japan, China, India, Australia, Korea, Italy, France, Germany, United Kingdom, Russia, and Brazil

Forecast Coverage

Annual five-year market forecasts for this tracker are updated semiannually and include five-year annual market projections. Forecasts are available at worldwide, regional, and country levels. Examples of the segmentations being forecast in this tracker include:

• Markets
• Regions
• Countries

Delivery Schedule and Deliverables

This tracker is delivered on a semiannual basis via an Excel-based tool with an online Web query component. The delivery schedule for this tracker is as follows:

• Historical data: Week 18 after period closes
• Forecast data: Week 18 after period closes

Deliverables

• Half-year vendor shares by functional market by geography updated semiannually (history goes back to first half 2009)
• Annual five-year forecasts by functional market by geography updated semiannually