IDC's Worldwide Semiannual Business Analytics 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 business analytics software vendors, supply chain partners, vendors looking to acquire business analytics companies, and the investment community. This tracker provides semiannual updates to vendor shares and forecasts across the business analytics software market.

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 total software revenue, which includes license plus maintenance plus SaaS and other subscription revenue.

Business analytics competitive markets:

• Financial performance and strategy management applications
• Production planning analytics applications
• Spatial information analytics applications
• Services operations analytics applications
• Workforce analytics applications
• Content analysis tools
• Data warehouse generation
• Data warehouse management
• Advanced analytics software
• End-user query, reporting, and analysis
• CRM analytics applications
• Supply chain analytics applications

Geographic Scope

• Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan)
• Central and Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and Africa
• Latin America
• Japan
• North America
• Western Europe
• Thirteen countries plus rest of the regions: The United States, Canada, Brazil, Argentina, Mexico, Chile, Colombia, Peru, Venezuela, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, Czech Republic, Hungary, Israel, Poland, Romania, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, Australia, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Korea, Malaysia, New Zealand, the Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam, and Japan

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 20 after period closes
• Forecast data: Week 20 after period closes

Deliverables:

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