Segment Information

12 Months Ended

Mar. 29, 2013

Segment Information [Abstract]

Segment Information

Note 10.  Segment Information

As of March 29, 2013, our reportable segments were as follows:

•Consumer: Our Consumer segment focuses on delivering Internet security for PCs, tablets and mobile devices along with services such as online backup, online family protection and remote help to individual users and home offices. 

•Security and Compliance: Our Security and Compliance segment focuses on providing large, medium, and small-sized businesses with solutions for endpoint security and management, compliance, mail security, data loss prevention, encryption, managed security services, and authentication services. These solutions allow our customers to secure, provision, and remotely manage their laptops, PCs, mobile devices, and servers.

•Storage and Server Management: Our Storage and Server Management segment focuses on providing large, medium, and small-sized businesses with storage and server management, backup, archiving, eDiscovery, and data protection solutions across heterogeneous storage and server platforms, as well as solutions delivered through our cloud and appliance offerings.

•Services: Our Services segment provides customers with implementation services and solutions designed to assist them in maximizing the value of their Symantec software. Our offerings include consulting, business critical services, and education.

•Other: Our Other segment is comprised of sunset products and products nearing the end of their life cycle. It may include certain general and administrative expenses, amortization of intangible assets, impairment of goodwill, intangible assets, and other long-lived assets, stock-based compensation, restructuring and transition expenses, and certain indirect costs that are not charged to the operating segments described above, such as interest income and expense.

There were no intersegment sales for the periods presented. Our chief operating decision maker evaluates performance primarily based on net revenue. Except for goodwill, as disclosed in Note 4, the majority of our assets are not discretely identified by segment.

	Consumer	Security and Compliance	Storage and Server Management	Services	Other	Total Company
	($ in millions)
Fiscal 2013
Net revenue	$      2,109	$        2,053	$          2,479	$         265	$              -	$      6,906
Percentage of total net revenue	30%	30%	36%	4%	0%	100%
Operating income (loss)	1,006	608	960	43	(1,494)	1,123
Operating margin	48%	30%	39%	16%	*
Depreciation, amortization of intangibles, and amortization of debt issuance and discounts expense	37	63	31	3	564	698
Fiscal 2012
Net revenue	$      2,104	$        1,961	$          2,412	$         253	$              -	$      6,730
Percentage of total net revenue	31%	29%	36%	4%	0%	100%
Operating income (loss)	1,012	445	973	41	(1,392)	1,079
Operating margin	48%	23%	40%	16%	*
Depreciation, amortization of intangibles, and amortization of debt issuance and discounts expense	40	56	30	3	583	712
Fiscal 2011
Net revenue	$      1,953	$        1,636	$          2,310	$         291	$              -	$      6,190
Percentage of total net revenue	32%	26%	37%	5%	0%	100%
Operating income (loss)	899	262	1,060	7	(1,348)	880
Operating margin	46%	16%	46%	2%	*
Depreciation, amortization of intangibles, and amortization of debt issuance and discounts expense	39	42	33	4	625	743

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*   Percentage not meaningful.

Product revenue information

The following table represents revenue as a percentage of total revenue by significant product categories:

	Year Ended
	March 29, 2013	March 30, 2012	April 1, 2011
Core consumer security	27%	28%	28%
Backup	21%	20%	21%
Storage and availability management	8%	9%	10%
Endpoint security and management	8%	9%	10%
Others (1)	36%	34%	31%
Total product revenue	100%	100%	100%

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⁽¹⁾ No other product category was material to the respective totals.

Geographical Information

The following table represents net revenue amounts recognized for sales in the corresponding countries:

	Year Ended
	March 29, 2013	March 30, 2012	April 1, 2011
	(In millions)
United States	$              3,337	$              3,240	$              3,056
Foreign countries (1)	3,569	3,490	3,134
Total net revenue	$              6,906	$              6,730	$              6,190

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⁽¹⁾ No individual country represented more than 10% of the respective totals.

The table below lists our property and equipment, net of accumulated depreciation, by geographic area. With the exception of property and equipment, we do not identify or allocate our assets by geographic area:

	As of
	March 29, 2013	March 30, 2012	April 1, 2011
	(In millions)
United States	$                903	$                885	$                835
Foreign countries (1)	219	215	215
Total	$             1,122	$             1,100	$             1,050

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⁽¹⁾ No individual country represented more than 10% of the respective totals.

Significant customers

In fiscal 2013 and 2012, there were no significant customers that accounted for more than 10% of our total net revenue. In fiscal 2011, one distributor, Ingram Micro, accounted for 10% of our total net revenue. Our distributor arrangements with Ingram Micro consisted of several non-exclusive, independently negotiated agreements with its subsidiaries, each of which cover different countries or regions. Each of these agreements was separately negotiated and was independent of any other contract (such as a master distribution agreement), and these agreements were not based on the same form of contract.