IDC's Middle East and Africa Quarterly Workstation Tracker service helps you assess and forecast the workstation market on a quarterly basis. The service tracks all traditional and personal workstation vendors, provides shipment data in units and revenue, and market share information each quarter. IDC's trackers help you keep your competitive edge by giving you the market intelligence you need to plan short- and long-term strategies.

This service covers the following markets and segments:

• Egypt, Israel, Rest of Africa, Rest of MEA, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Turkey, and United Arab Emirates
• Optional add-ons for Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, and Bahrain
• Workstations (personal and traditional)

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

• Country
• Vendor
• Form factor (desktop, mobile)
• Model and class (personal and traditional workstations)
• Processor type (RISC and IA-64)
• CPU capacity and type (e.g., Core 2 Duo, Xeon, PA 8000, Opteron)
• Price band ($0-$3,000, $3,000-$5,000, $5,000-$7,500, $7,500-$10,000, $10,000-$15,000, $15,000-$25,000, >$25,000)
• Optional: - Application (DCC, economic/financial, engineering, other commercial, scientific, software engineering) - Operating system (Windows, Linux, Unix) - Channel (direct, indirect, Internet) - Verticals

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

1. What is the size of the workstation market by segment in each country in the Middle East and Africa?
2. What is the five-year outlook for the workstation market in each of the countries in the Middle East and Africa by segment?
3. Which vendors are gaining market share?
4. Which technologies will impact the workstation market and how will technology changes alter the competitive landscape?

IDC's Middle East and Africa Quarterly Workstation Tracker service examines how personal and traditional workstation providers are positioning themselves to compete in the workstation market. This service tracks the activities and market share of branded workstation vendors including Dell, Fujitsu Siemens, HP, IBM, Lenovo, SGI, and Sun.

Throughout the year, this service offers insight and data on the workstation markets of the Middle East and Africa.

IDC's extensive data can be viewed by country, year, quarter, vendor, form factor, model, class, processor type, CPU, and price band. Data can be viewed by units or value.

IDC forecasts the workstation markets of the Middle East and Africa by country and area and by technology, with five-year forecasts that include quarter-by-quarter breakdowns for the next eight quarters. Optional: Workstations forecast by country and by form factor

IDC delivers up-to-date information from the workstation markets within 45 days after the end of each quarter.

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.

Subscribers may also request additional information not included with the standard package: Application (DCC, economic/financial, engineering, other commercial, scientific, software engineering), operating system (Windows, Linux, Unix), channel (direct, indirect, Internet), verticals.

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