IDC's Japan Semiannual IT Services Tracker® includes around 20 major Japan vendors' IT services revenue on quarterly view, with the granularity of three services segments (project oriented, IT outsourcing, and support and training) and six verticals (finance, manufacturing, distribution, communication and media, government and utilities, and others). With this tracker data, IT services vendors will understand how the competitors are doing business and what portion of their business is growing, which results in those vendors understanding their positioning in the market.

Technology Coverage and Data Segmentation

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

Technologies and subtechnologies:

• IT services
• Project oriented
• IT outsourcing
• Support and training

Segmentations

• Vertical market: Financial, manufacturing, distribution, communication and media, government and utilities, and others
• Service segment: Project oriented, IT outsourcing, and support and training

Geographic Scope

• Japan

Forecast Coverage

Forecasts for this tracker are updated semiannually and include two years of historical data and an additional five years of annual market projections. Forecasts are available at the country levels. Examples of the segmentations being forecast in this tracker include:

• 12 service foundations: IT consulting, SI, IS outsourcing, application management, hardware deploy and support, software deploy and support, and so forth
• 18 verticals: Banking, insurance, securities and others, discrete manufacturing, process manufacturing, and so forth
• 12 service foundations x three verticals

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:

• 2Q12 and 3Q12 release: December 2012
• 4Q12 and 1Q13 release: June 2013