Abstract
This IDC study presents the worldwide and U.S. IT education services forecast
for 2008 through 2012. The forecast includes an analysis of the regional
drivers of IT education growth, delivery modalities and illustrates several
high-growth computer-related professions that will influence training growth
for the period. The study also includes a breakout of the U.S. market by IDC' s
primary and secondary software markets and illustrates several of the market
dynamics in the primary markets that are making those markets attractive as
training domains.
"IT education remains a challenging and opportunistic business. Vendors that
can focus on the business value of the supported technology will be
appropriately responding to buyer skepticism about the business value of
training and will be better positioned to support ongoing relationships," said
Cushing Anderson, vice president for IT Education and Training Services
research at IDC.