IDC sees immense opportunities for database and integration management tools across the Asia/Pacific region. The heightened awareness within the SMB segment to deploy database software has accelerated vendors' efforts to win mindshare and expand their customer base. For the advance users, the need for database integration and management tools to meet intelligent mining and analytics requirements is fast gaining rank in CXOs' IT investment agenda. IDC's Asia/Pacific Semiannual Database Management Tracker provides timely insight into current market trends and future opportunities. It also highlights the critical success factors of leading vendors and recommends both strategic and tactical actions that will enable the players to compete more successfully.

This product covers the following segments of the Database Management market:

• Relational, and non-relational DBMS
• Database integration, access, and management tools

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

• Key market drivers
• Market trends by industry and company size
• Vendor market share
• Vendor performance highlights
• New market opportunities

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

1. How large is the market opportunity?
2. What are the major drivers influencing the market growth?
3. How are your competitors faring in the market, and what are their critical success factors?
4. Which vertical industries and customer segments are spending the most in database tools and management software?
5. Which database functional areas are expected to be in demand within the next 12 months?

IDC's Asia/Pacific Semiannual Database Management Tracker identifies the software market opportunities in major Asia/Pacific countries. In addition to sizing the markets, it offers regular updates on vendors' market shares, as well as fromulates leading vendors' winning strategies and market strategies. Vendors covered include:

4D Inc., Altibase, Apple Computer Inc., BEA Systems, BMC Software Inc., Business Objects, CA, Compuware Corp., Embarcadero, Fujitsu Ltd., HP, IBM, Informatica, Information Builders Inc., InterSystems Corp., Ipedo, JADE, Microsoft Corp., NCR Teradata, Objectivity, Oracle Corp., Progress Software Corp., Quest Software, Raining Data, SAS Institute, Software AG, Sybase Inc., Symantec Corp., TIBCO Inc., Versant, and others.

Throughout the year, this product will offer insight into the latest historical and forecast trends.

• Country trends
• Industry trends
• Customer size trends
• Vendor revenue share
• Forecast outlook

• Vendor share and forecast pivot tables in Excel
• Market summary slides in PowerPoint

• Every April-May and October-November

• Country level: Interviews with major global and local vendors, and channel players
• Regional level: Interviews with key global vendors
• Worldwide level: Vendor revenue reconciliation and trends review
• Others: Cross-referencing with other relevant product groups

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 years reflects our commitment to investing in our customers.