IDC's Latin America Vertical Market Spending Patterns service is a semiannual report on current and projected investments in IT hardware, packaged software, and services in the region's top 6 markets - Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, and Venezuela - and a breakdown by eight vertical market segments. The data presented is consistent in order to facilitate cross-country and cross-regional comparisons. The information is presented by total spending in U.S. dollars, annual growth rates, and overall IT spending proportions for each of the technology areas of coverage.

This service covers the following segments of the IT market:

• Hardware: Networking equipment
• Hardware: PCs and peripherals
• Hardware: Servers and storage
• Services: Maintenance and outsourcing
• Services: Project spending
• Software: Application development/deployment
• Software: Applications
• Software: Infrastructure

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

• Commerce
• Communications
• Consumer
• Finance
• Manufacturing
• Oil/gas/utilities
• Public sector
• Services/other

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

1. Which vertical market's IT investment is growing faster per country?
2. How is the vertical market distribution per country?
3. How is the vertical market distribution per technology?
4. Which vertical market's IT investment is growing faster per technology?

Note: Data is for illustrative purposes only.

IDC's Latin America Vertical Market Spending Patterns service examines the distribution of the IT markets by vertical segments and how they evolve over time on a five-year forecast.

This service focuses on the following core research. In addition to the insight provided in this service, IDC may conduct additional research on specific topics, or emerging market segments, via research offerings that require additional IDC funding and client investment.

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• Schedule: May 2009, November 2009

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