IDC's Japan Semiannual Collaborative Content Workspace Software Tracker® takes a closer look at four significant growth markets in the content, collaborative, and search and discovery applications software area. This service offers, on a semiannual basis, a comprehensive and in-depth analysis of the market size, vendor revenue, and buying behavior patterns of the content and collaborative applications software markets in Japan. It tracks the performance of leading vendors and provides detailed analysis of the key success factors contributing to their current market positioning.

Technology Coverage and Data Segmentation

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

Technologies and subtechnologies:

• Email applications
• Instant communications applications
• Team collaborative applications
• Conferencing applications
• Content management
• Enterprise portals
• Search and discovery

Segmentations:

• Company size: Large (1,000+), medium large (500–999), medium small (100–499), small (10–99), SOHO (1–9), government/education
• Vertical market: Finance, manufacturing, distribution, telecommunications/utilities, transportation/service, construction, government/education, others
• License (add-on): Maintenance, SaaS subscriptions, others
• OS (add-on): Mainframe , Unix, Windows, Linux, i5/OS, others

Geographic Scope

• Japan

Forecast Coverage

Forecasts for this tracker are updated semiannually and include four years of historical data, one year of semiannual forecasts, and an additional four years of annual market projections. Forecasts are available at the country level. Examples of the segmentations being forecast in this tracker include:

• Company size: Large (1,000+), medium large (500–999), medium small (100–499), small (10–99), SOHO (1–9), government/education
• Vertical market: Finance, manufacturing, distribution, telecommunications/utilities, transportation/service, construction, government/education, others

Delivery Schedule and Deliverables

This tracker is delivered on a semiannual basis with tools such as pivot tables. The delivery schedule for this tracker is:

• 1H12 Release: November 2012
• 2H12 Release: May 2013