IDC's Latin America Semiannual Collaborative Applications Tracker® provides subscribers with unique information, enabling the assertive strategies to fully exploit the continued opportunity in the collaborative market. Complete market statistics, trends, and forecasts will help anticipate market movements and shifts. This product provides vendors, channels, and end users with historical data and a five-year forecast for the collaborative software market in Latin America. It provides insightful analysis by vendor, country, vertical and horizontal user segments, type of licenses (new, upgrade, and subscription), and distribution channel.

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

• Collaborative applications
• Integrated collaborative environments
• Messaging applications
• Team collaborative applications
• Conferencing applications
• Social platforms

Segmentations

• Channels: Direct outbound, direct inbound, VAR, systems integrator, distributor, retail, and others
• Company size: Large business (500+ employees), medium-sized business (100–499 employees), small business (10–99 employees), small office (1–9 employees), government, education, and home
• Vertical markets: Finance, telecommunications, government, manufacturing, services, commerce, oil/gas/mining, utilities, education, and home
• Type of license: New licenses, upgrade or maintenance, and subscription
• Operating platform: Windows, Linux, Unix, and others

Geographic Scope

• Latin America (Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, and the Rest of Latin America)

Forecast Coverage

Forecasts for this tracker are updated semiannually and include four years of historical data and five years of semiannual forecasts. Forecasts are available at regional and country levels.

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:

• Excel analysis tool: Week 16 after period closes
• Forecast data: Week 16 after period closes
• PowerPoint presentation
• Interactive briefing