... manufacturers pull back on new fab construction and concentrate in ramping new capacity instead. Momentum from exceptionally strong fourth-quarter 2013 sales is carried forward into the first quarter, then is expected to bounce around a flat trend line through the remainder of 2014. In the longer-term profile ...
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... continuing to drive strong sales of white-box smartphones and tablets in 2014. Gartner expects the white-box smartphone market to grow 50 percent, while the white-box tablet market will experience growth of 15.6 percent (See Table 1).
Table 1. Worldwide White-Box Smarpthone and Tablet Sales to End-Users, 2012 ...
... legacy systems, implementing new applications, or providing alternative complementary functionality."
Buyers' preference for SaaS and strength in the sales subsegment kept Salesforce in the No. 1 position for the worldwide CRM market and raised the company to the No. 1 position in customer support. Pure-play ...
... example in the eurozone, the sales prices of mobile phones or PCs increased in local currency, as many of the components are priced in U.S. dollars. This resulted in buyers either delaying purchases or buying cheaper substitute products, resulting in lower semiconductor sales. Additionally, Gartner's semiconductor ...
... the necessary transition to embrace a bimodal work style, to deliver different product and services via new consumption models, to provide the basic sales model enhancements, and to focus on rapidly changing customer expectations across both Mode 1 and Mode 2 IT demands.
"The speed of digital business ...
... impact that these key digital business technologies will have on their industry.
"Asia/Pacific CEOs want to increase profit margins while maintaining sales growth, and they expect IT to play a strong role in this," said Partha Iyengar, vice president and Gartner Fellow. "The problem is that Asia/Pacific ...
... Forces (the convergence of social, mobility, cloud and information), some of the top 10 vendors will fare better in 2017 due to strength in mobile phone sales. Worldwide spending on devices (PCs, tablets, ultramobiles and mobile phones) is projected to grow 3.8 percent in 2017, to reach $654 billion. This ...
... allocated to both overall corporate and finance strategy, potentially negatively impacting their ability to play this role effectively.
Customers and Sales Leaders — Personally effective CFOs are customer-centric and spend more time with external customers than their peers. CFOs surveyed by Gartner reported ...
... vendors, including Samsung Electronics, the No. 1 vendor by revenue in 2018 and 2017.
“The memory market, which accounted for 26.7% of semiconductor sales in 2019, experienced a 31.5% decline in revenue in 2019,” said Andrew Norwood, research vice president at Gartner. “Within memory, DRAM revenue declined ...