Asia/Pacific (Excluding Japan) Government Technology Usage and Adoption Trends, 2006

Government Insights Opinion

In This Report

Table: Country Table Abbreviations

Continuum Survey 2006 Methodology

Executive Summary

Situation Overview

Hardware ? PC and OS

PC OSs

Figure: Asia/Pacific (Excluding Japan) Government Sector Computers by OS, 2005

Table: Asia/Pacific (Excluding Japan) Government Sector Notebook and Desktop PC by Country, 2005

Table: Asia/Pacific (Excluding Japan) Government Sector Windows Users Version by Country, 2006

Table: Asia/Pacific (Excluding Japan) Government Sector Linux PC Users Version by Country, 2006

PCs (Desktop and Notebook Usage)

Figure: Asia/Pacific (Excluding Japan) Government Sector Notebook PCs by Country, 2005

Figure: Asia/Pacific (Excluding Japan) Government Sector Notebook Portion Change by Country, 2006

Figure: Asia/Pacific (Excluding Japan) Government Sector Notebook and Desktop Purchase Plans

Figure: Asia/Pacific (Excluding Japan) Government Sector Notebooks by Brand

Figure: Asia/Pacific (Excluding Japan) Government Sector Desktops by Brand

Table: Asia/Pacific (Excluding Japan) Government Sector Primary Reason for Notebook Brand Switch

Handheld Devices

Table: Asia/Pacific (Excluding Japan) Government Sector Mobility Device Deployment by Device(% of Respondents)

Hardware ? Servers and OSs

Server OSs

Figure: Asia/Pacific (Excluding Japan) Government Sector Server Software by OS, 2005

Table: Asia/Pacific (Excluding Japan) Government Sector Servers Software by Country, 2005

Figure: Asia/Pacific (Excluding Japan) Government Sector Server Software by OS

Table: Asia/Pacific (Excluding Japan) Government Sector Servers Software by Country

Figure: Asia/Pacific (Excluding Japan) Government Sector Top Decision Factors in Deploying OS on Servers by Country

Table: Asia/Pacific (Excluding Japan) Government Sector Linux Deployment by Country (% of Respondents)

Figure: Asia/Pacific (Excluding Japan) Government Sector Top Reasons for Not Deploying Linux

Table: Asia/Pacific (Excluding Japan) Government Sector Linux Server Users Version by Country

Figure: Asia/Pacific (Excluding Japan) Government Sector Linux Server Vendor Ranking by Reason

Applications

Figure: Asia/Pacific (Excluding Japan) Government Sector Server Application Deployment

Consolidation and Virtualization

Figure: Asia/Pacific (Excluding Japan) Government Sector Server Environment Consolidation by Country

Figure: Asia/Pacific (Excluding Japan) Government Sector Server Environment Consolidation Stages by Country

Figure: Asia/Pacific (Excluding Japan) Government Sector Internal Server Virtualization by Country

Figure: Asia/Pacific (Excluding Japan) Government Sector External Server Virtualization by Country

Figure: Asia/Pacific (Excluding Japan) Government Sector Virtualization Within a Box/Server by Country

Hardware ? Storage

Figure: Asia/Pacific (Excluding Japan) Government Sector Storage Space by Country, 2005 and 2006

Figure: Asia/Pacific (Excluding Japan) Government Sector SAN and NAS Usage

Table: Asia/Pacific (Excluding Japan) Government Sector Server and Storage Consolidation by Country (% of Respondents)

Table: Asia/Pacific (Excluding Japan) Government Sector Storage Issues Importance by Country

Figure: Asia/Pacific (Excluding Japan) Government Sector Three-Tier Storage Deployment

Communications

IP Telephony

Figure: Asia/Pacific (Excluding Japan) Government IP Telephony Deployment

Figure: Asia/Pacific (Excluding Japan) Government IP Telephony Deployment

Figure: Asia/Pacific (Excluding Japan) Government IP Telephony Applications Integration

Figure: Asia/Pacific (Excluding Japan) Government Sector Applications Development by Provider

Figure: Asia/Pacific (Excluding Japan) Government Sector IP Telephony and Applications Integration by Service Provider

Figure: Asia/Pacific (Excluding Japan) Government Sector IP Telephony Investments, 2005

Figure: Asia/Pacific (Excluding Japan) Government Sector IP Telephony Investments

Workforce Mobility

Figure: Asia/Pacific (Excluding Japan) Government Sector Workforce Mobility Deployment

IT Spending

Product Selection and Purchasing

Table: Asia/Pacific (Excluding Japan) Government Sector Top 3 IT Infrastructure Requirements by Country, 2007 (% of Respondents)

Table: Asia/Pacific (Excluding Japan) Government Sector IT Learning by Country (% of Respondents)

Table: Asia/Pacific (Excluding Japan) Government Sector IT Purchasing Decision Factors by Country (% of Respondents)

Table: Asia/Pacific (Excluding Japan) Government Sector Top IT Concerns by Country (% of Respondents)

IT Expenditure

Figure: Asia/Pacific (Excluding Japan) Government Sector IT Expenditure Changes, 2005

Table: Asia/Pacific (Excluding Japan) Government Sector IT Expenditure Objectives by Country, 2005

Figure: Asia/Pacific (Excluding Japan) Government Sector IT Expenditure by Type, 2005 (Mean %)

Table: Asia/Pacific (Excluding Japan) Government Sector IT Expenditure by Country, 2005

Figure: Asia/Pacific (Excluding Japan) Government Sector Hardware Expenditure by Type, 2005 (Mean %)

Figure: Asia/Pacific (Excluding Japan) Government Sector IT Expenditure Changes, 2006 and 2007

Figure: Asia/Pacific (Excluding Japan) Government Sector IT Expenditure by Type, 2007 (Mean %)

Table: Asia/Pacific (Excluding Japan) Government Sector IT Expenditure by Country, 2007 (%)

IT Suppliers

Figure: Asia/Pacific (Excluding Japan) Government Sector Hardware Provision by Supplier

Figure: Asia/Pacific (Excluding Japan) Government Sector Software Provision by Supplier

Figure: Asia/Pacific (Excluding Japan) Government Sector IT Services Provision by Supplier

Table: Asia/Pacific (Excluding Japan) Government Sector Percentage of Hardware Supplier by Country (% of Respondents)

Table: Asia/Pacific (Excluding Japan) Government Sector Percentage of Software Supplier by Country (% of Respondents)

Table: Asia/Pacific (Excluding Japan) Government Sector Percentage of IT Services Supplier by Country, 2006

Future Outlook

Table: Key Forecast Assumptions for the Asia/Pacific Government Sector IT Spending, 2006-2010

Essential Guidance

Learn More

Related Research

Asia/Pacific (Excluding Japan) Public Sector IT Spending 2006?2010 Forecast (IDC #AP633104N, May 2006)

Definitions

Industries

Solutions

Enterprise Resources Management Solutions

Customer Relationship Management Solutions

Supply Chain Management Solutions

Security Solutions

Storage Solutions

Business Intelligence Solutions

Radio Frequency Identification Solutions

Appendix: Survey Overview

Survey Schedule

Interview Delivery

End-User Research: A Caveat

Instrument

Fielding

Sample

Universe Population

Sampling Unit

Selection of Organizations and Respondents

Sample Geographies

Table: Asia/Pacific (Excluding Japan) Completed Surveys per Country

Data Information

Confidence Level

What the 95% Level Means

How Confidence Intervals Can Vary

Confidence Intervals for Each Country

Confidence Intervals for Each Vertical or for Company Size

Table: Confidence Intervals at a 95% Confidence Level

Weighting

Table: Asia/Pacific (Excluding Japan) Weighting Formula

Weightage for Ordered Multiple Response Questions

Background

Weighting Assumptions for Questions with "Top 3" Format

Calculation of Weighting

Table: IDC Asia/Pacific Weight Allocation for Ordered Multiple Response Survey Questions

Methods

Sampling Demographics

Figure: Sample Sizes per Country

Figure: Sample Sizes per Vertical Industry

Figure: Vertical Industry Groups by Country

Figure: Company Sizes by Country (Country-Level Employee Count)

Synopsis