Contrasting with its perceived maturity, the Latin America RDBMS market continues to thrive, growing at more than 15% annually. IDC's Latin America Semiannual RDBMS Tracker provides subscribers with complete market statistics, trends, and forecasts to uncover and exploit the continued opportunity in the relational database management system (RDBMS) market. Vendors will be able to measure their performance in a given period and also understand their competition, major trends, and areas for improvement.

This product covers the following segments of the Latin America RDBMS market:

• Market value and shares by country, license type, vertical industry, horizontal (company size) segment, and distribution channel
• Semiannual data, with historical information from 2006
• Five-year annual forecast
• Countries - Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, and the rest of Latin America twice a year. Chile, Colombia, Venezuela, and Peru (optional), once a year

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

• Market value, share, and forecast in U.S. dollars and local currency
• Vertical markets - manufacturing, finance, government, telco/media, commerce, healthcare, oil/mining, utilities, and education
• Company size segments - enterprise, large, medium sized, small, small office, education, and government
• Type of license - new licenses and upgrade or maintenance
• Specific country highlights

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

1. What is the opportunity in the RDBMS market in Latin America?
2. Which countries present the largest opportunities?
3. What are the most successful strategies used by RDBMS vendors in Latin America?
4. How does the software ecosystem affect RDBMS investment in Latin America?
5. What vertical and horizontal segments are driving growth of this market?

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IDC's Latin America Semiannual RDBMS Tracker examines how vendors are positioning themselves to compete in this market. This product reviews the strategies and future direction of several providers, including IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, Progress, and Sybase.

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

• Excel analysis tool
• PowerPoint Presentation
• Interactive briefing
• Schedule (Week #16): Historical & forecast and analysis published

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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.

Our steady growth over the past 10-plus years reflects our commitment to investing in our customers.