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 Commvault's new products, strategies, and vision outlined at its Commvault GO 2019 event held in Denver this month and its implications on end users. 2019 has been a significant year for Commvault as it welcomed ...
This IDC Market Note reviews the strategies that Konica Minolta is putting in place to ensure long-term success for it and its channel partners going forward, as presented during its European Leadership Campus event in October 2019. It evaluates ...
This IDC Market Note includes news about imaging, printing, and document solutions vendors that occurred in October 2019.
This IDC Perspective looks at the launch of the IBM Sterling Supply Chain Suite.
"The launch of the IBM Sterling Supply Chain Suite brings a credible offering to the market with the legacy capabilities of the IBM Sterling brand and ...
This IDC Market Note reviews the AWS Summit Bahrain on September 15, 2019. The event, attended by more than 2,000 people, explored trends in cloud innovation and adoption across the Middle East, with a focus on the public sector. Success ...
This IDC Market Perspective points out the operational disruption that 5G will cause once the realm of backend infrastructure spending has matured in the high-tech service provider sector.
"To have an early-mover advantage, technology ...
This IDC Market Note provides a snapshot opinion on Google's market positioning in Europe in the context of IDC's European Accelerated Application Delivery Practice. The document builds on IDC's participation to Google's market and product ...
This IDC Market Note highlights the key learnings by the analysts and their take on the implications for Atos. Atos' North American Analyst and Advisor Conference showcased the company's well-developed technology and research and development ...
This document aims to deliver information related to the evolution of cybersecurity in the region, explore the main concerns the chief information security officer (CISO) and the CISO's team have, and the challenges that an organization ...
This IDC study analyzes vertical market indicators in Europe to understand the structure, size, and economic importance of industry sectors on the continent. The study focuses on the economic contribution of verticals to national and regional ...
This IDC Perspective provides a broad overview of recent developments in enterprise storage, identifying and explaining trends that will impact market evolution for the next several years. Even as growth in the overall enterprise storage ...
This market perspective aims to provide a summary of all the different components of SDN technologies and the specifics of SD-WAN solutions adoption in Latin America. This analysis includes the result of an SD-WAN survey in Latin America ...
This IDC Market Perspective discusses how governments in Europe can take advantage and maximize the benefits of AI and machine learning. AI is proliferating in government agencies and is deployed for mission-critical operations. It will ...
This IDC Market Note includes news and IDC's point of view on 3D printing, production, and industrial printer news that occurred in October 2019.
This IDC Market Perspective provides an overview of recent announcements from HP Inc., including the introduction of HP Workpath and HP Command Center. Leveraging an apps library and cloud-based ecosystem, HP Inc. has created a solutions ...
This IDC Perspective discusses FinovateFall 2019, with a focus on the companies whose solutions are geared toward retail banking products and services. FinovateFall is a great way to get a glimpse into solutions that are beyond the incubator ...
This IDC Market Note provides IDC analyst impressions of Cisco Canada's Analyst Day 2019 held in Toronto, Canada, on October 3, 2019. The main theme of the event was innovation, and the event was hosted at Cisco's Toronto Co-Innovation Centre. ...
This IDC Market Perspective links the supply of industry clouds to customer demand. Through the industries of financial services, utilities, manufacturing, government, and healthcare, the top 30 demanded IC needs are matched to 50 of the ...
This IDC Market Note provides a summary of announcements made by Hitachi Vantara at its Hitachi NEXT 2019 user event, held in October 2019 in Las Vegas. The company emphasized three major themes in its product and service introductions: ...
This IDC Market Note describes the key takeaways of two IDC analysts who were briefed on and reviewed Booz Allen's Modzy announcement on November 4, 2019.
This IDC Perspective reviews new technology developments in enterprise storage and discusses Hitachi's NVMe strategy, as well as highlights the evolution and capabilities of their new NVMe-based system. Hitachi NEXT 2019 represented the ...
Huawei focused on the 5G ecosystem at its 4th Middle East Innovation Day. The event in Dubai on October 7 was held in conjunction with GITEX Technology Week, 2019. This IDC Market Note explores some of the key announcements made ...
This IDC Market Note analyzes key topics presented by Red Hat during its EMEA Analyst Day 2019, held on September 26, 2019, at the Ned in London. During this meeting, Red Hat provided updates on the company's future strategies, vision, and ...
This IDC Market Perspective provides an overview of the commercial docking station market in Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) (APEJ). This includes the market size and bundling rate and attach rate with commercial notebooks. This document ...
This IDC Government Insights Perspective presents Smart City developments in Europe during July–September 2019. It covers major ICT contracts, projects, pilots, product announcements, and business activities. The document organizes European ...