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Market research deals with gathering and analyzing information to help make better decisions on business strategy, advertising, sales, product design…. With InfoTech Trends you'll find many kinds of business statistics used in market research analysis, to include, forecast sales, forecast shipments, market share, forecast revenues, installed base - all on the computer industry and information technology industry. Forecast sales and forecast shipments are probably the most commonly reported business statistics in our database. To see how market research firms predict trends look at our entries for forecast shipments and forecast sales. Market share is the percent share in sales one company controls in a particular market. Installed base shows the total number of units in use.

Four examples of market research statistics on the computer industry and information technology industry follow. Each entry is a table, the top describes the market being addressed, and the bottom references the source of the statistics. Find 1000s more entries in Free Data.

Forecast sales
Web

DAG+

Forecast sales at retail auction sites.






$-mil


2000



200


2003



2,100


AGR



119.0%



JOURNAL/SOURCE/TITLEDATEPAGE


COMPUTERWORLD/ 24-Jan-00
18



Yankee Group/




J.C. PENNEY TO ADD




ONLINE AUCTION SERVICE





Forecast Shipments
Computers



Forecast shipments of computers, U.S.















Units(mil)
$-bil

1997



30.9
-

2008



111.4
205.3


JOURNAL/SOURCE/TITLEDATEPAGE


APPLIANCE MANUFACTURER/ 01-Jan-00
55



ITI/




2000 INDUSTRY OUTLOOK -




6.4 ANNUAL GROWTH





Market share
Portable Computers



Forecast market share of palmtops, by operating system, U.S.






% Share





In 1998
In 1999
In 2003

PalmOS

73%
80%
54%

Windows CE

14%
13%
39%

Others

13%
7%
7%


JOURNAL/SOURCE/TITLEDATEPAGE


NETWORK WORLD/ 18-Oct-99
60



International Data Corp/




*WINDOWS CE: PROBLEM




CHILD OR LATE BLOOMER?





Installed base
Software



Installed base of groupware, by vendor.










Current:



Units(mil)


Lotus Domino



36


Microsoft Exchange



29


Novell GroupWise



17


Total



82



JOURNAL/SOURCE/TITLEDATEPAGE


INTER@CTIVE WEEK/ 08-Nov-99
28



International Data Corp/




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