Abstract

This IDC study provides a detailed overview of IT spending trends and forecasts for 17 vertical markets (or sectors) and 10 product categories, including hardware, packaged software, and services in the Czech Republic. The study features overviews of key industry developments, industry challenges, and vertical-specific IT drivers and trends and includes tables detailing IT spending by vertical market for each product for the 2008–2012 period. Analysis is based on continuous research, the monitoring of users' IT spending and emerging purchasing patterns, and supply- and demand-side research. "IT vendors in the Czech Republic already consider vertical orientation to be an obligation, as customers are demanding vertical expertise from their vendors. To pinpoint the best opportunities, vendors need to research market segments at the most specific levels in order to identify new sources of revenue or to be able to deliver new IT systems and solutions to their existing client bases." –Senior Research Analyst Pavel Roland, IDC CEMA