Taiwan PC & PC Server Operating Systems Analysis


Client

Leading Software Vendor in Worldwide Markets

Project Type

Consulting Project

The Challenge

As an important market tracking and scanning system for years, this project helped our client understand the current 32-bits PC OS & NOS adoption rates in selected commercial segments. It tracked the OS shares, dominated OS, 16-bit to 32-bit OS conversion rates, Windows NT adoption rates, Internet server shares and the Intranet usage and adoptions. It also investigated the PC OS brand awareness, trial/actual user rates, OS upgrade opportunities, and customer buying behaviors.

The Solution

Through the large-scale end user survey, we collected 406 valid samples among selected commercial segments: Transportation, Banking, Security & Insurance, Government, Manufacturing, Wholesale & Retailer, Import & Export, Education & Research, and Services. All samples were carefully balanced between Extra Large, Large, and Small companies. The challenge of this study was composed of the 2-dimensional sampling, and analysis of the tremendous amount of the collected data.

The Result

We delivered the hardware environment, PC OS shares, Network Operating Systems, Data Base, Internet/Intranet, Email/Groupware, Awareness/Usage, etc. from the survey results. We analyzed the data, made the the year to year comparisons, offered the strategic analysis and our recommendations. Such detailed yearly analysis and report attributed part of our client's success in dominating the related software markets.

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