From emerging outsourcing services models to more traditional project-oriented services engagements, the Latin America region continues to offer IT services vendors significant market opportunities. IDC's Latin America Semiannual IT Services Tracker provides vendors with complete market statistics, trends, and forecasts covering 12 services markets. This product reflects IDC's continuing investment in aiding clients with strategic and tactical planning, product management and development, and marketing and promotional activities.

This product covers the following segments of the Latin America IT services market:

• Semiannual historical data from 2005 to 2006
• Five-year forecasts for the entire Latin America IT services market divided into 12 IT services foundation markets
• Countries: Argentina, Chile, Brazil, Mexico, and the rest of Latin America provided on a semiannual basis; Chile, Colombia, Peru, and Venezuela provided annually
• Major IT services engagement types (analyzed in 12 IT services foundation markets): IT consulting, systems integration, custom application development, outsourcing, support and deploy, and education and training
• Market sizing by foundation market, vertical market, and horizontal market (company size)

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

• IT services foundation markets: IT consulting, network consulting and integration, hardware deploy and support, software deploy and support, IT education and training, custom application development, systems integration, application management, hosting infrastructure services, IS outsourcing, network and desktop outsourcing, and hosted application management
• Quarterly vendor revenue with and without subcontracting
• Sales by company-size segment: Small office (1-9 employees), small business (10-99 employees), medium-sized business (100-249 employees), large business (250-499 employees), corporate business (500+ employees), government, and education
• Ten vertical industries: Finance, telecommunications, oil/gas/mining/agriculture, manufacturing, commerce, utilities, services, government, education, home
• Market size, share, and forecast in U.S. dollars and local currency

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

1. Where is the overall Latin America IT services market heading, and what are some specific industry trends?
2. Who are the top IT services providers in Latin America?
3. Which outsourcing subsegment is growing fastest?
4. What are the most attractive IT consulting and systems integration opportunities today and in the future?
5. Which IT services providers are best positioned to increase their IT services market share?

Note: Sample data is for illustrative purposes only.

IDC's Latin America Semiannual IT Services Tracker presents semiannual rankings and market share of the major international vendors in the region, plus local vendors such as GMD, Hildebrando, Intesa, Itautec, Quintec, and Stefanini. International vendors include Accenture, BearingPoint, Capgemini, Dell, Deloitte Consulting, DMR, EDS, HP, IBM, Neoris, Oracle, SAP, Siemens, Sun, and Unisys, among others.

Subscribers to this product receive semiannual delivery and IDC support, including:

• Excel analysis tool
• Interactive briefing
• Schedule (Week #40): Historical plus forecast and forecast analysis published

Note: Sample data is for illustrative purposes only

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.