The core of this service is a comprehensive electronic database detailing changes and trends in the highly competitive PC market, covering vendors, brands, customer segments, distribution channels, processors, and PC product categories. Quarterly updates provide the latest information on the rapidly changing market for time-critical decision making. Built on the foundation of IDC's network of country-level quarterly PC tracking services, IDC's Middle East and Africa Quarterly PC Tracker's bottom-up methodology delivers an accurate view of the PC market from those closest to it.

This service covers the following markets and segments:

• Saudi Arabia, South Africa, United Arab Emirates, Turkey, Egypt, Rest of Middle East, and Rest of Africa
• Optional add-ons: Bahrain, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, and Qatar
• Desktops, notebooks, ultraportables, and x86 servers
• More than 65 vendors and 380 brands
• Processors by brand and speed
• User segments: home, education, government, small office, small business, medium business, large business, and very large business
• Distribution channels: direct inbound, direct outbound
• Vendor stores, Internet channel, retail channel, corporate dealers, value-added resellers, and third-party mail

Every quarter, this service will address key topics, such as:

• Vendor market share by country, form factor, user segment, and distribution channel
• Quarterly market sizing
• Competitive positioning
• Quarterly forecasts and five-year forecast
• Vendor performance analysis
• Key desktop, notebook, and x86 server trends
• Price trends

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

1. What are the major challenges/opportunities in the Middle East and Africa PC market?
2. What are the market performance strengths/weaknesses of your competitors?
3. How viable is the new low-cost PC market in the MEA region?
4. What are the opportunities in the emerging MEA markets?

IDC's Middle East and Africa Quarterly PC Tracker service examines how international, regional, and local PC vendors are positioning themselves to compete in the desktop, notebook, ultraportable, and x86 server markets. This service reviews strategies, market positioning, and future direction of the key suppliers in this market, including over 65 vendors and more than 380 brands.

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

Egypt, Israel, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Turkey, United Arab Emirates (UAE), Rest of Middle East, and Rest of Africa, and, on demand, OGCC countries (Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Bahrain).

Preliminary results delivered three weeks after the quarter end. Final results delivered six weeks after the quarter end. Quarterly forecast delivered eight weeks after the quarter end.

Through its Web-based interactive querying tool, IDC offers powerful data sorting and reporting capabilities, allowing clients to cross-tabulate and manipulate regional and country market data.

Results are presented to clients in a user-friendly Excel workbook format. Each worksheet has tools to help you locate and print the data you need.

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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.