IDC Research Types
Analyst
Analyst Profile
Provides complete background information on an IDC analyst. Each profile provides a biography, a notable quotation, a frequently asked question relevant to the particular analyst's focus, and a list of research authored by that analyst.
Team Profile
Lists the analyst members of a topical team. Outlines general areas of coverage and any specialties.
Briefs
Flash
Provides rapid IDC insight and analysis about a significant industry event or conference, merger or acquisition, product announcement, or other fast-breaking news affecting the IT market.
Forecast Update
Provides a short, quick look at an updated forecast and the changed assumptions behind the update. It updates a market forecast published in the same calendar year, identifies changed and key forecast assumptions, and highlights actions for participants to consider in light of the changes.
IDC Insight
Provides coverage and analysis of an industry event, new product or service, or a company announcement or development.
Update
Provides brief overview coverage of what is happening in a market.
Vendor Profiles
Provides a concise, hard-hitting profile of an emerging vendor. A profile will highlight new players and technologies and the potential paradigm shifts or disruptions a vendor represents.
Daily Graphics
Daily Graphic
Illustrates IDC's keen analysis of major market trends in downloadable PowerPoints. Available as a free download the day it appears, an IDC Daily Graphic provides valuable material for speeches and strategic planning.
Event Proceedings
Event Proceeding
Provides published slides, audio, and other materials from IDC and Insights Web conferences, briefings, forums, or other events.
Events
Conference
Delivers dependable, relevant, and high-impact data and insight to help organizations make sound business and technology decisions. eBusiness executives, IT professionals, IT suppliers, and services suppliers benefit from the strategic insight and networking opportunities IDC conferences offer. Generally, all presentation slides are available online, and for most conferences, streaming audio of key discussions is available as well.
Web Conference
Focuses on significant trends and paradigm shifts. Each Web conference will provide attendees with leading-edge market information that will enable them to make smart business decisions. For those unable to attend in person or those wishing to review the content presented, these synchronized multimedia presentations are available online.
IDC DecisionScapes
IDC FutureScape
Serves as a framework for IT/tech professionals' IT strategy and planning for the next one to three years. It lists IDC's top 10 worldwide technology trends for the coming one to three years in a given research area and includes related drivers, projected IT/business strategy impact, and guidance.
IDC MarketScape
Helps IT/tech professionals develop a short list of suitable suppliers when selecting a vendor. Provides an unbiased assessment of tech suppliers in terms of offerings, strategy, capabilities, and other important factors in a given technology area.
IDC MaturityScape
Describes five stages of "maturity" or capability for a particular technology area, helps IT/tech professionals understand where their organizations fit within those stages, and provides guidance on key components for planning successful improvements to a tech initiative.
IDC MaturityScape Benchmark
Helps IT/tech professionals to benchmark their maturity against peers, develop a business case for a tech initiative, and build consensus about where critical IT investments should be made. Presents quantitative research results that show the market distribution for a given tech initiative across the five stages of maturity presented in the related IDC MaturityScape. Shows the results and components of particularly successful initiatives.
IDC PeerScape
Gives IT/tech professionals insight into best practices (and practices to avoid) by providing specific use case examples implemented by peers. Identifies practices that have the most impact on the success of a tech or business initiative, and provides actionable guidance for each practice.
IDC PlanScape
Helps IT/tech professionals to justify and plan a business and/or technology investment or opportunity by exploring why, what, who, and how (these are also the main section headings). Presents key players, critical success factors, risks, and actions to consider for a designated technology and/or business management area.
IDC TechScape
Helps IT/tech professionals with developing IT strategic plans and evaluating emerging technologies in terms of their risk to the business. Shows the adoption curve and risk levels over time for a specific emerging technology. Sorts technologies into three "adoption model" categories (transformational, incremental, opportunistic) to help tech leaders determine the potential impact for their organization.
IDC Links
IDC Link
Provides timely context and insight around important market trends and events in a short opinion piece. IDC Links provide IDC's point of view on:
- Financial announcements
- Product announcements
- Mergers and acquisitions or divestitures
- Events
- Response to news
Insights-only Research
Best Practices
Correlates the use of specific practices and superior performance as indicated by an analysis of the benchmarking database. Highlights any significant differences between industries. Conclusions provide a set of process priorities for improving a business case and advice on how to overcome change management issues.
Business Strategy
Helps buyers to assess their business strategies and/or associated business processes, especially as they relate to the use of technology.
Methods and Practices
Provides a step-by-step description of a method or methods that can be applied. As appropriate, the report may compare the benefits and drawbacks of several methods.
Perspective
Presents an article written by an Insights analyst on a topic of special interest to a target audience. This information has generally already appeared in an industry publication and is repackaged for display on the Insights Web site.
Vendor Assessment
Helps buyers select the right IT supplier. The report helps buyers understand the various providers of a technology by providing analysis on market landscape, vendor profiles, vendor market share, and vendor assessments.
Pivot Tables
Pivot Table
Presents an interactive spreadsheet tool for analyzing trends and activities in a specific market segment. These tables are available only through an annual subscription service.
Predictions
Top 10 Predictions
Provides bold, well-conceived market predictions grounded in solid methodologies, primary research, and analyst experience. Lays out a clear road map to understanding major market opportunities and trends.
Presentations
IDC Presentation
Provides the latest, select CIS forecast data, primary research survey findings, and critical IDC analyst opinion in a succinct, easy-to-digest PowerPoint format.
IDC Survey
Presents a hypothesis about what is happening in the market backed by the results of a demand-side or supply-side survey. The focus is on interpreting and analyzing the survey results and providing a strong point of view along with actionable advice.
IDC Survey Spotlight
Answers a timely question and provides a strong opinion backed by IDC survey data. This is a quick nugget of information that is presented in two concise PowerPoint slides.
Insights Presentation
Provides an easy-to-use format to post on the Web presentations that were previously delivered at public forums (such as conferences and events) or for internal client meetings and client presentations. It may not come as part of a consulting/custom engagement.
Market Analysis Perspective
Delivers a concise current state view of a market and insight into the impact of future trends. Business executives, product managers, and MI/AR professionals can use this information when looking to understand buyers' perspectives and market impacts.
Press Releases
Press Release
Announces significant corporate news, such as key hirings or promotions, performance milestones, event highlights, or speaking engagements.
Product Information
Fact Sheet
Describes a research product. Usually details the major areas of coverage and deliverables, and outlines key questions and competitive market conditions that the research will address. Includes links to all published research for a research product.
Studies
Competitive Analysis
Provides a detailed accounting and review of a vendor's programs, processes, products, service, satisfaction, and/or strategy in a target market. This knowledge helps clients reduce their risk of losing market share or enhance their position over the competition.
Customer Needs and Strategies
Focuses on the important decisions that business and IT professionals make every day.
Industry Developments and Models
Provides a detailed assessment of a specific target market's expansion pattern. This analysis helps clients develop and deploy the right mix of value-add products, programs, or services to support their sales and/or partnering efforts.
Market Analysis
Provides an in-depth examination of the dynamics and future of a single market or a group of related markets. The Market Analysis is where we will typically present our forecasts and assumptions, using a key forecast assumptions table.
Market Forecast
Provides the future of a single market or a group of related markets. It presents a new or updated market forecast, including key drivers and assumptions used in the forecast.
Market Share
Provides data on market size, regional allocations, and platform splits as well as a summary of vendor shares for the most recently completed period (year, quarter).
Special Study
Provides a onetime study produced by a research group that is not published as a deliverable under a subscription service.
Survey
Provides a study and interpretation of the results of a demand- or supply-side survey.
Taxonomy
Highlights and emphasizes how IDC tracks the market while also making it easier for customers to find and identify IDC Taxonomy documents.
Technology Assessment
Provides an analysis of the intricacies of an emerging or established technology or the technologies contained within a specific product.
Vendor Needs and Strategies
Provides an in-depth analysis of a company, a small group of companies, a division of a company focused on a particular market, or a best practice that the company exemplifies.
This IDC Market Perspective provides a detailed description of IDC's semiannual public cloud services tracker taxonomy and methodology. It defines what we include as public cloud services, the types of public cloud services revenue we count, ...
Indonesia and Vietnam are two dynamic economies that are experiencing IoT spending growth of 16% and 13%, respectively. IoT is being positioned as part of the digital transformation of all major industries including retail, healthcare, financial ...
This IDC perspective provides an overview of LTTS' capabilities in the engineering services domain that can help organizations to embark on a DX journey. The report also covers LTTS' key services, along with IDC's point of view on the regional ...
This IDC Market Note describes the key takeaways of eight IDC analysts who participated in PwC's most recent industry analyst meeting, held on September 12, 2019, at its new Gurgaon Experience Center.
This IDC Market Note analyzes the market situation of CGI in the Nordics and provides recommendations for technology buyers considering using CGI services and for IT providers considering partnering or collaborating with CGI.
This IDC Perspective provides feedback from Fortune 2000 organizations on the key lessons learned through transforming their application delivery models to DevOps. Throughout 2018, IDC conducted nearly three dozen in-depth telephone interviews ...
"5G is gathering momentum across the Asia/Pacific region. IDC projects that the Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) (APEJ) region will grow from just over 2.5 million in 2019 to have nearly 700 million 5G subscribers by 2023. China will be the ...
HKT has demonstrated that it is possible to curtail fixed line voice churn by introducing multimedia Rich Communications Services in such a way that it does not substitute fixed wireless, while also growing the overall ARPUs. "HKT has also ...
This IDC Market Perspective analyzes the role utilities will play to support the development and deployment of electric vehicles (EVs). In particular, IDC focuses on outlining what are some of the key opportunities and challenges that utilities ...
This IDC Market Note discusses the 2019 IFA event held in Berlin. It outlines and analyzes the biggest product announcements and launches from manufacturers of personal computing and mobile devices, as well as smart-connected technologies.
...This IDC Market Perspective discusses IDC's mid-September 2019 visit to PwC's experience center in Gurgaon, near the Indian capital of New Delhi. This visit included talking to PwC clients and to executives of the firm, such as senior partners ...
This Market Note captures the key highlights from Cognizant Advisory summit held in Singapore on August 29 and 30, 2019. It also includes analyst opinion and customer references that strengthen Cognizant's position as a leading player in ...
This IDC Market Perspective looks at the introduction of User Enrollment, a new capability introduced in Apple iOS 13.1 for separating personal and business data on employee-owned iPhones, iPads, and Macs. Also discussed are other iOS 13 ...
Malaysia and the Philippines are two dynamic economies that are experiencing IoT spending growth of 12.8% and 12.5%, respectively. IoT is being positioned as part of the digital transformation of all major industries including retail, healthcare, ...
This IDC Market Perspective provides an overview on how application management is transforming. Throughout 2019, IDC performed several studies analyzing the application management services market. This document represents an aggregation ...
This IDC Perspective examines how enterprise mobile device enrollment programs can help organizations deploy corporate-liable devices across their organization. This document provides insight into why these programs are of benefit to large ...
This IDC Market Note discusses key announcements and points of interest from Comcast's inaugural Xfinity Consumer Analyst Event held in Philadelphia in September 2019.
This IDC Market Note provides IDC's key takeaways spanning Ericsson's Networks, Digital Services, and Emerging Business units.
"Ericsson is firmly entrenched as a leading technology enabler in the early 5G era, largely driven by its ...
This IDC Market Note examines Sprint's quarterly wireless business results discussed in the company's FY 1Q19 earnings results on August 2, 2019. In this Market Note, IDC analyzes Sprint's wireless financial and operating metrics and overall ...
This IDC Perspective focuses on the potential applications of 5G in the healthcare sector. It is the fourth in a series of short reports looking at 5G in vertical applications.
"Applications of 5G in healthcare have a key role to ...
This IDC Market Perspective examines the recently announced acquisition of Carbon Black by VMware.
Enterprise spending on numerous forms of cybersecurity technologies and operations continues to increase year over year, but security ...
This IDC Perspective presents the findings of the 2019 IDC Financial Insights FinTech Rankings. The annual IDC Financial Insights FinTech Rankings program serves the needs of financial institutions worldwide by presenting current and historical ...
Manufacturing is working toward its vision of Industry 4.0. At the same time, the next generation of cellular technology, 5G New Radio (NR), is poised to play an important and strategic role in realizing Industry 4.0. Factory automation, ...
This IDC Perspective provides guidance for managing IT's internal user services and help desk staff in multiple locations in geographically diverse companies. This may include help desk technicians stationed at various physical locations ...
This IDC Perspective outlines the challenges organizations face in managing edge infrastructure and the key factors to consider before deploying edge IT.
"Developing a sound edge strategy requires planning for the ongoing and longer-term ...