This IDC study provides a detailed overview of IT spending trends and forecasts for 17 vertical-market sectors (or industry sectors) and 10 product categories, including hardware, packaged software, and services in Saudi Arabia. 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.

"Saudi Arabia's IT market is the largest in the Middle East and will remain so through 2012. As the government tries to diversify the economy beyond oil and gas and create jobs for its youth population, IT vendors will find many opportunities within the finance, telecoms, government, and home vertical markets." - Vertical Markets Manager Robert Rosenthal, IDC Middle East and Africa