About the Tech Channel Index
The Tech Channel Index creates a single uniform view into high tech channel health with timely and detailed measurement of sales and inventory performance for major and emerging markets across the globe. As of August 2008, Index metrics are derived by aggregating and normalizing over 5 million transactions collected from over 1500 distributors and retailers each week. Participating Index companies represent over $30 billion in annual channel sales in multiple high tech product categories. The basket of 35,000 products chosen for the Index have been tested and benchmarked against established economic standards and have been found to accurately represent spending on Enterprise IT, Consumer IT and Software categories. Products included in the index are tracked across all geographies and partner segments worldwide. This approach to construction yields an Index data set that is uniquely uniform from channel-to-channel and country-to-country www.techchannelindex.com.