IDC's Japan Semiannual Enterprise Applications Tracker® covers the ERM, CRM, and SCM markets, with vendor share and forecasts for each market by segment. It tracks the performance of leading vendors in the enterprise applications space and analyzes in detail the key drivers 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:

• CRM application: Contact center, customer service, marketing, sales
• ERM application: Enterprise asset management, financial accounting applications, financial performance and strategy management applications, human capital management, order management, payroll, procurement, project and portfolio management
• SCM application: Inventory management, logistics, production planning

Segmentations:

• Company size: Large (1,000+ employees), medium large (500–999 employees), medium small (100–499 employees), small (10–99 employees), SOHO (1–9 employees), 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+ employees), medium large (500–999 employees), medium small (100–499 employees), small (10–99 employees), SOHO (1–9 employees), 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 as follows:

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