IT Watch: November 2003

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14 November 2003

Thomas Hoover Scott Evans Ann Buenzli

The outlook for planned fourth quarter spending remains soft as the Gartner Technology Demand Index (TDI) drops slightly to 85. Signs of strong growth in 2004 emerge as the projected TDI rebounds to 145.

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Table of Contents

Analysis

1.0

Overall IT Demand

1.1		Current Demand: Overall Current Demand Shows Slight Decline Moving Into Fourth Quarter
1.2		Projected Demand: Midsize and Large Companies Showing Strength in October
1.3		Top 25 Vendors Overall
1.4		Vendor Indices in the Server Market Show Dell Is in a Strong Position Relative to HP and Sun to Benefit From a Comeback in Server Acquisition
1.5		Contribution of Company Size to IT Spending

2.0

General Sector Trends

2.1		Current Demand: Three of Four Sectors Increase
2.2		Projected Demand: Software and Networking/Telecommunications Contribute to Overall Projected Growth

3.0

What to Watch

Appendix A.

Acronym Key

Appendix B.

Overall Sector and Product Index Scores

List of Figures

	Figure 1.	Unweighted Current Demand Index — Weekly Moving Average

	Figure 2.	Actual IT-Related Spending in 2003 Compared to Anticipated Spending

	Figure 3.	Overall Index

	Figure 4.	Top 25 Vendors by Vendor Demand Index

	Figure 5.	Vendor Index

	Figure 6.	2003 Spending by Company Size

	Figure 7.	Sectors — Current Index

	Figure 8.	Sectors — Projected Index

	Figure 9.	Overall and Sector Indices

	Figure 10.	Product Index — Hardware

	Figure 11.	Product Index — Software

	Figure 12.	Product Index — Networking and Telecommunications

	Figure 13.	Product Index — IT Services

Computing Hardware
IT Services
Communications Services
Business Applications
IT Spending
Communications Equipment
Software Infrastructure
Application Development

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