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 United Arab Emirates. 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 of all sorts will find rich pickings in the UAE. Finance companies, telcos, government agencies, and households - IT spending is growing in almost every industry and technology. Moreover, the market will start to mature as a significant percentage of spending shifts from hardware to IT services. The UAE IT market is one of the few in the region on which this shift will occur and supports the belief of many vendors that IT usage in the UAE is several years ahead of that in any other MENA country." - Vertical Markets Manager Robert Rosenthal, IDC Dubai