This IDC study provides a detailed overview of the top 10 themes that IDC expects will affect Sub-Saharan African software markets in 2013. IDC believes these trends will have the greatest commercial impact on the overall software market in the region. IDC's predictions draw on our latest research and analysis of Sub-Saharan Africa, as well as on key industry events, user trends, vendor strategies, and economic measures."Sub-Saharan Africa will open up in 2013, riding on an improved economic environment due to higher commodity prices and FDI. The stability of the business environment has increased substantially with all the telecommunications fiber-optic investments that have taken place across the region. Governments in Sub-Saharan Africa will be driven to provide more services to their citizens; software vendors, especially those with global footprints, will have to work within the cost boundaries in this region to ensure the effective deployment and use of their solutions. While ...