IDC's European Quarterly Infrastructure Software Tracker provides extensive supply-side market information aimed at increasing the visibility and understanding of European market dynamics. The tracker is delivered in pivot table format giving specifically identified vendor performance by market and country as well as total market size estimates. The tracker provides concise and readily available access to critical competitive insight from both quantitative data and qualitative summaries each quarter, ensuring business planning is well supported.

This product covers the following markets and segments:

• Security software
• Storage software
• Systems and network management software
• Germany
• France
• Italy
• U.K.

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

• Market sizing specified for all three markets
• Market sizing for the four largest European countries
• Market sizing for Western Europe combined
• Top vendor market shares

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

1. How are the top vendors in this software market performing?
2. How are the three software markets developing across Europe and by country?
3. Which vendors are dominating where?
4. Which markets are expanding, and how fast?
5. What are the major trends in the three markets?
6. What are the key business issues facing the top vendors?

IDC's European Quarterly Infrastructure Software Tracker examines how key players are positioning themselves to compete in the security, storage, and systems and network management markets. The product is an essential tool for tracking competitors in the infrastructure software space in four European countries. The pivot table is updated quarterly, providing the latest information for current and future business planning activities. Built on the foundation of IDC's European network of experienced market analysts, this research uses both top-down and bottom-up methodologies to match close operational market knowledge against global and regional company financial modeling. Vendors tracked in this research include BMC, Check Point, CA, Compuware Corporation, EMC, HP, IBM, McAfee, and Symantec.

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

Quarterly data files are delivered 11 weeks after the end of each calendar quarter.

Purchase of the European Quarterly Infrastructure Software Tracker provides supporting inquiry time with relevant IDC market analysts.

Results are delivered in Excel pivot tables, making it easy to extract data quickly and accurately.

IDC's extensive data can be viewed by country, year, quarter, and vendor.

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.