Contrasting to its maturity, the Latin America relational database management systems (RDBMS) market continues to drive the Latin America software market's overall grow. IDC's Latin America Semiannual RDBMS Tracker® analyzes market behavior in Latin America and each country as well as the opportunity for convergent solutions, such as business intelligence and data warehouse systems. This tracker features a complete analysis on statistics, trends, and forecast to measure market opportunities. It also remarks on different market points of view, such as software platform, type of license, main industry investors, and company size dynamics. End users, vendors, partners, and business associates will be able to measure the performance in a given period and also understand competition, major trends, and areas for improvement.

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 vendor revenue.

Technologies and subtechnologies:

• Relational database management systems

Segmentations:

• Channels: Direct inbound, direct outbound, distributor, Internet, other reseller, others, retail, systems integrator, and VAR
• Company size: Education, government, home, large business, medium-sized business, small business, and small office
• Vertical markets: Commerce, education, finance, government, home, manufacturing, oil/gas/mining, services, telecommunications, and utilities
• Company size segments: Enterprise, large, medium-sized, small, small office, education, and government
• Type of license: New licenses and upgrade or maintenance
• Operating platform: Windows, Linux, Unix, mainframe, and others
• Specific country highlights

Geographic Scope

• Latin America (Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, and the rest of Latin America twice a year; Chile, Colombia, Venezuela, and Peru [optional] once a year)

Forecast Coverage

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

• Functional market segmentation

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:

• Historical data: Week 16 after period closes
• Forecast data: Week 16 after period closes
• PowerPoint presentation
• Interactive briefing