IDC's European Quarterly Workstation Tracker is designed to help vendors assess the workstation market on a quarterly basis. The service tracks all personal workstation vendors, and provides shipment data in units and revenue and market share information each quarter. The service is concluded with a five- to eight quarter running forecast for EMEA (35 countries) for unit shipments and revenue. This quarterly sizing of the workstation market provides specialist vendors with a unique opportunity to track and position their personal workstation products - whether desktop workstations, mobile workstations, or blade.

This service covers the following markets and segments:

• Geographical coverage: Western Europe by country (Germany, the U.K., France, Italy, Sweden, Spain, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Switzerland, Austria, Belgium, the Netherlands, Ireland, Portugal, Greece)
• Desktop, mobile and blade workstations
• Market sizing, vendor shares, and forecasts for EMEA and by country (35 countries)
• Workstations by technology, form factor, CPU type, and capacity
• Installed base by country

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

• Workstation shipments in units, value, and vendor revenue
• Vendor market share by form factor, processor type, CPU type and capacity, and price band
• Detailed vendor shipments by model and competitive positioning
• Five- to eight-quarter rolling forecasts and five-year forecasts by workstation class, in dollars and euros
• Installed base by country
• Workstation trends and prognosis

This service addresses the following issues that are critical to your success:

1. What are the shipment trends in the workstation market?
2. Which countries are offering the greatest opportunity for workstation growth?
3. Which vendors are gaining market share?

IDC's European Quarterly Workstation Tracker examines how personal workstation providers are positioning themselves to compete in the workstation market. This service reviews strategies, market positioning, and future direction of several providers in the workstation market, including Dell, Fujitsu Siemens, HP, IBM, and Sun.

Throughout the year, this product will offer insight into the latest trends impacting the market.

This service provides detailed information and analysis on the leading workstation providers and identifies key industry trends.

Detailed market and vendor data is provided in an Excel pivot table, along with ready-to-use summary Excel tables, vendor, model, CPU, price band, and country.

Quarterly and long-range forecasts and installed base data are provided in an Excel pivot table.

Full market and vendor analysis is provided six weeks after the end of the quarter.

Quarterly and long-range forecasts are delivered eight weeks after the quarter ends.

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.