Western Europe Consumer Packaged Goods, Infrastructure Adoption and Investment: An IDC Survey : Market Research Report

Western Europe Consumer Packaged Goods, Infrastructure Adoption and Investment: An IDC Survey

Published by: IDC

Published: Jun. 17, 2004 - 26 Pages

Table of Contents

IDC Opinion

In This Study

Methodology

Conceptual Framework

Sample Design

Sampling Unit: IDC's Economic Entity

Sample Quotas

Table: Vertical Market Quotas

Table: Company Size Quotas

Sample Frame and Sampling Method

Table: Number of Completes by Country

Respondents

Interviews

Questionnaires

Interview Schedule

Confidence Intervals

Weighting

Analysis of the Data

Definitions

Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG)

Disk Storage Definitions

Survey Respondents' Profile

Table: Western Europe CPG, Survey Respondents' Profile by Functional Area (% of Companies)

Table: Western Europe CPG, Survey Respondents' Profile by Job Title (% of Companies)

Table: Western Europe CPG, Completed Sample by Location of Organization (% of Respondents)

Situation Overview

Server Adoption Trends in Western Europe CPG

Most Business-Critical Computing Environment

Figure: Western European CPG, Top Business-Critical Computer Environments in Use (Average Score)

Server System Use

Table: Western European CPG, Server Adoption Status (% of Respondents)

Primary Server Platform for Business Applications

Table: Western European CPG, Main Platform for Applications (% of Respondents)

Disk Storage Adoption Trends in Western Europe CPG

Figure: Western European CPG Adoption Status of Disk Storage Technologies (% of Respondents)

Table: Western European CPG Adoption Status of Disk Storage Technologies (% of Respondents)

Primary Disk Storage Technology by Computing Environment

Figure: Western European CPG, Primary Disk Storage Computing Environments (% of Respondents)

Future Outlook

Primary Disk Storage Technology for Business Applications

Short-Term Disk Storage Capacity Trends

Planned Change in Disk Storage Capacity

Offsite Versus Onsite Disk Storage

Table: Western European CPG, Used Disk Storage Technology by Functional Area (% of Respondents)

Table: Western European CPG Planned Change in Disk Storage Capacity (% of Respondents)

Table: Western European CPG, Percentage of Disk Storage Capacity Offsite (Outsourced) Versus Onsite (% of Capacity)

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Synopsis

Abstract

In November/December 2003 IDC's European Vertical Market Expertise center carried out a survey on key IT priorities and plans in the top 5 Western European countries (France, Germany, Italy, the U.K., and Spain).

The aim of the survey is to understand CPG manufacturers' IT spending directions, solution priorities, investment plans, adoption of new technologies and mobility, infrastructure enhancement (servers, Web services, storage), the role of IT within the organization, and customer satisfaction. 62 companies were interviewed across European countries. Interviews were addressed only to companies with more than 20 employees. Results cannot therefore be generalized to the whole European market.

This study presents results for total Western Europe for:

Server adoption status Disk storage adoption status and investment plans

In particular, the Situation Overview section analyzes:

Top business computer environments Server adoption status Main server platform for selected applications Disk storage adoption status

The Future Outlook section provides indications on evolving dynamics in companies' server and disk storage investment patterns with a focus on:

Disk storage technology and capacity by functional area Percentage of outsourced disk storage capacity Planned changes in disk storage capacity

Results are given for total Western Europe for CPG manufacturing respondents.

"CPG manufacturing organizations are moving towards real-time 24 x 7 collaborative environments, and are consequently seeking cost-effective data storage solutions to automatically manage and proactively maintain data integrity and recoverability in order to support business-critical information. Data storage is becoming ever more important, particularly with more stringent EU regulations in connection with product track and tracing/GM labelling/financial reporting, as the demands to adopt RFID and the industries move towards attaining global data synchronization. Server and storage vendors are advised to build the right mix of partnerships with ISVs able to meet the current priorities of this industry to be able to capitalize from the opportunities that are available. Without the right level of partnerships, success will be questionable," said Jennifer Thomson, program manager for IDC European Vertical Markets.

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