horizontal market

Legal services and accounting services also have horizontal markets.

A horizontal market is a set of diverse business and government entities grouped according to a common need for selected goods and services.

Mr. Clark said today's trading resembled the period from 1966 to 1982, when a dreary, horizontal market left investors frustrated and poorer.

Traditionally, illegal per se anti-trust acts describe horizontal market arrangements among competitors.

The company takes advantage of single-language or horizontal markets, using a cable television model to monetize multiple publishers content simultaneously.

Horizontal market participants often attempt to meet enough of the different needs of vertical markets to gain a presence in the vertical market.

Computer security may be regarded as a horizontal market because a broad range of industries and government sectors purchase services and software to protect their computers.

Conduct considered per se unlawful includes horizontal price-fixing, and horizontal market division.

A horizontal market meets a given need of a wide variety of industries, rather than a specific one: for example, word processing software or machine-to-machine technologies.

According to businessdictionary.com, Horizontal Marketing System is a merger of firms on the same level in order to pursue marketing opportunities.

But antitrust authorities basically take a snapshot of a horizontal market for a given product and then look at whether a merger would explicitly reduce competition in that market.

A horizontal marketing system is a distribution channel arrangement whereby two or more organizations at the same level join together for marketing purposes to capitalize on a new opportunity.

On occasion a horizontal market can be highly specialized at the same time, for instance consider the market for converting mainframe databases developed with the tools of a particular company.

"We don't see pencentric computing as being a ubiquitous horizontal market at this time," said Bruce Claflin, the general manager for the I.B.M. Personal Computer Company.

While horizontal market software can be useful to a wide array of industries (such as word processors or spreadsheet programs), vertical market software is developed for and customized to a specific industry's needs.

MPSL developed numerous products for BOS, generally targeting the horizontal markets, leaving the vertical markets (i.e. niche) to independent software vendors ISV.

Services are grouped into a number of vertical market segments serving, for instance, insurance, travel and education, and the horizontal market of interest here - Business Information Services,(BIS), for which Mr Rosenbaum is Product Marketing Manager.

THIS week more than 200,000 members of the computer world have descended on Las Vegas for the 18th annual Comdex fall trade show, where daily keynote speeches by industry luminaries discuss scintillating issues like "open standards-based computing with a horizontal market model."

The Digital TV Group, the UK Industry association for Digital TV, first discussed the topic in 2007 and subsequently brought the industry together to write a technical specification for Text to Speech in the horizontal market in 2009.

It is distinguished from a horizontal market, in which vendors offer a broad range of goods and services to a large group of customers with wide range of needs, such as businesses as a whole, men, women, households, or, in the broadest horizontal market, everyone.

Widespread use of open standards (such as MPEG-2, DAB, DVB, etc.) ensures interoperability between products from different vendors, as well as facilitating the exchange of programme material between EBU Members and promoting "horizontal markets" for the benefit of all consumers.

A horizontal indirect spend GPO succeeds in reducing procurement costs by aggregating the demand for non-strategic, or indirect cost supplies and services used by a broad horizontal market spectrum of member client organizations by consolidating purchasing power and establishing contracts to achieve preferred pricing, terms, and service standards.