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 Note analyzes HPE's acquisition of MapR's assets.
"MapR's IP, technology, and expertise will perfectly dovetail with solutions from BlueData, another recent addition to the HPE family," said Chris Kanthan, research ...
This IDC Perspective outlines how organizations can process personal data using functional separation to avoid falling out of compliance with privacy regulations. Big Data projects involve multiple phases, including data collection, data ...
This IDC Perspective looks at key developments and news in the European healthcare provider industry in 2Q19.
"The second quarter of 2019 has seen a rise in investments related to patient engagement, confirming a trend toward a comprehensive ...
This Market Note includes analyst opinion from the Qlik Asia Pacific Analyst Summit held on June 13, 2019 in Singapore.
This IDC Market Note provides a summary of select ICT market developments that occurred across the Middle East and North Africa in June 2019, and assesses the potential impact that these developments could have on related markets.
"The ...
This IDC Perspective looks at initiatives and major deals in the education sector in Europe in H1 2019. It briefly describes the notable policies of national governments, as well as initiatives and programs currently being deployed. It further ...
The acquisition of Orchestra Networks by TIBCO Software Inc. at the end of 2018 was not only a market change, but also indicates the trends in customer centricity and data management technology markets. This Market Note highlights key points ...
This Market Note presents a summary of the HCL Technologies (HCL) analyst and advisor forum held in June 2019 in Adelaide, South Australia. It includes global and Australia and New Zealand (ANZ) updates of HCL.
The document highlights ...
This IDC Market Note provides an overview of announcements at the June 2019 TIBCO NOW user conference. Even as TIBCO extends its collection of products into three pillars — Connect, Augment, and now Unify — it remains true to its heritage ...
This IDC Market Perspective provides an overview of the impacts of and relationships between edge computing and other key technology domains, with a focus on the European scenario.
"Edge computing has implications in many traditional ...
This IDC Perspective delves into the hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) architecture and its variations. There is an in-depth discussion on various features of the HCI systems that enterprises must seek and evaluate before purchasing the ...
This IDC Market Perspective analyzes Lexalytics, a company in the text analytics segment of the content analytics market, and reviews the five key success factors: market potential, products and services, customers, competitive edge, and ...
This IDC Perspective considers the dizzying range of options facing most users looking to build or implement new data applications addressing new workloads, modernize their existing workloads, or introduce new data-driven capabilities into ...
This IDC Market Perspective presents key DX-related developments and initiatives in the telecom industry in Sub-Saharan Africa. It describes approaches taken by operators as they have embarked on their DX journeys. It provides recommendations ...
This IDC Perspective examines how organizations need to find the right balance between intuition and data in a digital world. The biggest threat corporate management faces is the disruption that is changing the way business is done from ...
This IDC Market Note analyzes secondary storage and data protection vendor Cohesity's acquisition of Imanis Data, a backup and data management specialist for distributed databases, for an undisclosed sum. Imanis Data brings backup, recovery, ...
This IDC Perspective focuses on the current state of decision making and the pressures organizations are under to move toward more data-driven decision making, the key factor being digital disruption. With retrospect, you can get an understanding ...
This IDC Market Note looks at AWS Partner Summit Singapore 2019, held on April 9th, and AWS TechFest and Summit Singapore, held on April 10th and 11th. At the three-day exclusive event AWS executive leaders, subject matter experts, and customers ...
This IDC Market Perspective discusses key market developments in enterprise applications ecosystems. On March 4, 2019, IDC analysts across Europe contributed to an online brainstorming conference and explored large enterprise applications ...
This IDC Perspective outlines the role of analytics software and ecosystems in the success of Internet-of-Things (IoT) projects in asset maintenance across industries. Traditionally, asset maintenance has often been seen as no more than ...
According to IDC's latest IoT Spending Guide, a total of US$11.3 billion will be spent on public safety and emergency response systems in Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) by federal and local governments. While they provide a way for cities ...
This IDC Market Note discusses SwiftStack's multicloud AI/ML data management solution.
"Infrastructure challenges are the primary inhibitor for broader adoption of AI/ML workflows," said Amita Potnis, research director at IDC's Infrastructure ...
This IDC Energy Insights Perspective provides a quick one-stop-shopping overview of the EMEA oil and gas industry in the first quarter of 2019, covering M&As, agreements, reorganizations, and major business developments; upstream deals; ...
This IDC Market Perspective presents stakeholder opinions from a survey among participants of the Czech Republic's largest public sector ICT conference, The Internet in National and Local Government (Internet ve statni ...
This IDC Market Perspective provides a broad review and analysis of the announcements and messages at Next '019 that we believe will most significantly impact Google Cloud's efforts to increase growth and market share.
"At Next '19, ...