IDC's United States Quarterly PC Tracker satisfies the growing demand for detailed, timely, and accurate information on the U.S. PC market. This product provides insightful analysis, quarterly market share data, and rolling eight-quarter and five-year forecasts. The core of this product is a comprehensive electronic database detailing changes and trends in the highly competitive PC market. Quarterly updates provide the latest information on the rapidly changing market for time-critical decision making for PC and peripheral vendors as well as financial institutions.

• Form factors: Desktops, notebooks, ultraportables, and x86 servers
• Microprocessor with brand and speed splits
• Segments: Home, small office (1-9 employees), small business (10-99 employees), medium-sized business (100-499 employees), large business (500-999 employees), very large business (1,000+ employees), government, and education (Data is available for K-12 education, higher education, and federal and state/local government subsegments.)
• Channels: Direct inbound, direct outbound, Internet direct, dealer/VAR/systems integrator, retail, other

Throughout the year, this product will address the following topics:

• More than 30 mid- and top-tier vendors, as well as United States-based white box systems builders
• Quarterly shipments and end-user spending with historical information from 1994
• Rolling eight-quarter and five-year forecasts
• Brands
• 40 processor groups
• 17 price bands
• Installed base
• Revenue
• Average selling prices

Our research addresses the following issues that are critical to your success:

1. What are the quarterly shipments and revenue for the leading PC vendors in the United States?
2. Which vendors are gaining or losing market share?
3. What shifts are occurring in the sales channels and key customer segments for PCs in the United States?
4. How are leading brands performing in the segments in which they compete?
5. What are the relative growth rates of desktops, laptops, ultraportables, and x86 servers for each vendor?
6. What is the forecast for PCs for the next eight quarters and five years in the United States?

IDC's United States Quarterly PC Tracker provides a view of the key market trends and market performances for the leading U.S. PC companies in the areas of ultraportables, notebooks, desktops, and x86 servers. More than 30 vendors and 150 separate brand names are tracked. These vendors' results are divided into 4 form factors, 40 processor groups, 7 customer segments, and 6 sales channels. This information is layered to permit easy drilldown analysis of the relationships between each category.

Clients receive quarterly delivery and IDC support, including:

• Desktop PCs
• Notebooks and ultraportables
• x86 servers

• Week 3: Preliminary top 5 PC vendors
• Week 4: Preliminary top 10 PC vendors by form factor
• Week 5: Telebriefing
• Week 8: Database and historical analysis published
• Week 10: Forecast and analysis published

IDC's United States Quarterly PC Tracker includes training on the product and inquiry time for both support issues and data questions.

IDC's United States Quarterly PC Tracker is available on the Web (www.idctracker.org), on CD, or in Excel format via email. The data is accessed through a flexible, interactive interface. Queries can be made directly and stored for future use. Results of queries can be viewed directly or downloaded onto a file on your PC.

IDC offers modules that can be purchased as add-ons to IDC's United States Quarterly PC Tracker:

• U.S. Public Sector Module breaks the education sector into K-12 and higher education and the government sector into federal and state/local. The data is reported for vendors at the form factor, brand, and processor levels. This data is delivered in an Excel pivot table.
• U.S. Quarterly PC Segment-by-Channel Module analyzes how PC segments perform within channels and also channel performance within segments. The data is for vendor and brand and is available two weeks after the forecast is released. This data is delivered in an Excel pivot table.
• U.S. Quarterly PC and Monitor Attach Rates Module looks at the frequency with which a PC monitor ships alongside a PC. The data is reported by form factor and monitor size and segmented by consumer, SMB, enterprise, education, and government. The data answers requests from PC vendors and major CRT/LCD vendors to understand trends and market opportunities. This data is delivered in an Excel pivot table.
• U.S. Quarterly PC Matrix takes a deeper dive into the U.S. market. This add-on gets to the model level, looking at characteristics such as screen size, weight, memory, and hard drive. This data is delivered in an Excel pivot table.

As a privately held company, IDC believes that our customers are our primary constituency. A large percentage of every revenue dollar is reinvested back into our products, including more analysts, more geographic coverage, and extensive primary research.

Our steady growth over the past 10-plus years reflects our commitment to investing in our customers.