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2010 IT Spend by Vertical Market

IT Spend in Millions of Dollars

Financial Services $515,927M

Public Sector $459,969M

Manufacturing $436,024M

Communications $206,386M

Retail $214,161M

Services $175,046M

Utilities $118,218MTransporation $101,711M

Healthcare $82,207M

$2,335,454M

Agriculture, Mining and Construction $25,805M

IT Spend by Vertical Market

Use a 100% stacked bar chart to break down IT spend by vertical market. With 10 verticals, some of the segments are very small.

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2010 IT Spend by Vertical Market

IT Spend in Millions of Dollars

Financial Services $515,927M

Public Sector $459,969M

Manufacturing $436,024M

Communications $206,386M

Retail $214,161M

Services $175,046M

Other Verticals $327,941M

$2,335,454M

IT Spend by Vertical Market--Summary

You can group the smaller segments into an “Other” series. This function is in “Format Series -> Other Series.”

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2010 IT Spend by Vertical Market

IT Spend in Millions of Dollars

Financial Services $515,927M

Public Sector $459,969M

Manufacturing $436,024M

Communications $206,386M

Retail $214,161M

Services $175,046M

Other Verticals $327,941M

$2,335,454M

Other Verticals

Utilities $118,218M

Transporation $101,711M

Healthcare $82,207M

Agriculture, Mining and Construction$25,805M

$327,941M

IT Spend by Vertical Market--Summary

If you need to see the details of the Other Series, use an second (exploding) bar.

Notes

• These three charts can be used as part of a presentation on IT Spend.The data come from Gartner: http://www.financialexecutives.org/eweb/upload/FEI/Gartner.pdf

• For more details see my blog post: http://www.mekkographics.com/show-it-spend-by-vertical-market-in-a-100-stacked-bar-chart/