2004-2005 U.S. Medium Business Networking and Connectivity: Industry Report

2004-2005 U.S. Medium Business Networking and Connectivity

Product Type: Market Research Report
Published by: AMI-Partners, Inc.
Published: November 2004
Product Code: R149-321

Description

Report: Networking and Connectivity
Name of survey: U.S. Medium Business Survey
Date of survey: Spring 2004
Country: United States
Number of pages: 93

The following report is based on the findings of AMI-Partners' 2004-05 U.S. Medium Business Market Opportunity Assessment and provides results across all key areas of AMI's IT field research. AMI-Partners defines medium businesses (MBs) as companies that have 100 to 999 employees, are non-residential and non-government organizations, and are not a franchise of a larger corporation.

Products and services covered include established and emerging hardware, software, applications and business process solutions. Based on AMI's annual survey across the U.S., the study tracks a broad spectrum of issues pertaining to budgets, behaviors, decision influencers, channel preferences, outsourcing, service and support. Also covered are detailed firmographics and critically important technology attitudes and strategic planning priorities.

This study is one of a continuing series of reports drawn from AMI's proprietary surveys of small and medium businesses in North America, Latin America, Europe and the Asia-Pacific region. AMI's comprehensive data on IT, Internet, e-business and communications investment and usage are presented in a highly actionable, graphical format with go-to-market insights and analysis.

Table of Contents

U.S. MB Introduction

U.S. MB - Definitions by Type of Business

U.S. MB Management Summary

U.S. MB IT/Telecom Spending Overview

U.S. MB Firmographics Overview

U.S. MB Attitudes and Strategic Directions Overview

U.S. MB Networking Spending and Penetration

U.S. MB Networking - Servers

U.S. MB Networking - Software, Service/Support and Storage

U.S. MB Networking - Security

U.S. MB Networking - Wide Area Networks (WANs)

U.S. MB Spending, Penetration and Budgets

U.S. MB Key Technology Penetration

U.S. MB Market Overview: Expanded Technology Penetration

U.S. MB Current Usage of Select Software Applications

U.S. MB IT/Telecom Spending Comparisons

U.S. MB IT/Telecom Spending Areas

U.S. MB Average Annual IT Budget (Self-Reported) vs. Actual IT Spending Per PC MB

U.S. MB Methodologies

U.S. MB Survey Process

U.S. MB - SMBs Defined

U.S. MB Margin of Error

U.S. MB Sampling Pool by Type of Business

U.S. MB Weighting Factors by Employee Size

U.S. MB Demographics

U.S. MB Total Share of Enterprises by Employee Size and Industry

U.S. MB PC Penetration and Breakout of PC MB Market by Employee Size and Vertical Industry

U.S. MB: Demographics - Comparison Across Employee Size

U.S. MB: Revenues - Comparison Across Employee Size and Industries

U.S. MB Attitudes and Decision Making

U.S. MB Attitudes: Importance of Connectivity, Storage and Security Products and Services

U.S. MB Attitudes: Purchase Preferences

U.S. MB Purchase Decision Making: Level of Involvement for IT/Telecom-Related Purchases

U.S. MB Impact of Various Information Sources Used for Awareness and Information Gathering for IT-Related Products & Services

U.S. MB Software

U.S. MB Overview of Software Spending on Select Categories

U.S. MB Overview of Software Spending on Select Categories

U.S. MB Trends in Use of Network Operating Systems

U.S. MB Average Annual Networking Software Spending by Employee Size

U.S. MB Servers and Networking Hardware

U.S. MB Servers

U.S. MB LAN Penetration by Employee Size and Industry

U.S. MB Server Installed Base

U.S. MB Total Annual LAN Server Spending by Employee Size and Industry

U.S. MB Server Brands Overview

U.S. MB Networking Hardware

U.S. MB Total Annual Networking Spending

U.S. MB Average Networking-Related Spending per MB by Employee Size and Industry

U.S. MB Number of PCs Currently Connected and Plan to Connect to LANs

U.S. MB Wireless LAN Penetration by Employee Size and Industry

U.S. MB Voice Over IP (VoIP) Penetration by Employee Size and Industry

U.S. MB Computer Telephony Integration (CTI) Deployment by Employee Size and Industry

U.S. MB Networking Products/Brands Purchased in the Last 12 Months

U.S. MB Attitudes Comparison: Importance of Connectivity, Storage and Security Needs Cross-Examined by Penetration/Usage of Select Networking Products and Services

U.S. MB Storage

U.S. MB Overview of Storage Spending

U.S. MB Overview of Storage Spending

U.S. MB Storage Technologies

U.S. MB Storage Spending by Technology

U.S. MB Current Data Storage Overview

U.S. MB Security

U.S. MB Total Annual Security Spending

U.S. MB PC-Based Anti-Virus Penetration

U.S. MB PC-Based Anti-Spam Penetration

U.S. MB PC-Based Firewalls

U.S. MB Current and Planned Use of VPNs

U.S. MB Network-Based Firewall Deployment

U.S. MB Service and Support

U.S. MB Overview of Service and Support Spending

U.S. MB Overview of IT-Related Services Spending

U.S. MB IT-Related Services Usage

U.S. MB Average Annual Networking Service and Support Spending by Employee Size

U.S. MB Channels

U.S. MB Channels for Networking Products Purchased in the Last 12 Months

U.S. MB Channel Breakout for Networking Products by Employee Size

U.S. MB Telecommunications

U.S. MB Overview of Telecommunications Spending

U.S. MB Telecommunications Services Spending Breakout

U.S. MB Wide Area Networking (WAN) Deployment Overview

U.S. MB Data communications Lines Used for Branch Office/Remote Site Connectivity and Voice Calls

U.S. MB Average Annual Spending on Data communications Lines

U.S. MB Appendix

U.S. MB - Channel Partners Definitions

U.S. MB - Acronyms

U.S. MB - Glossary

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