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.
On February 28, 2019, Dell Technologies and disclosed its FY 4Q19 and FY19 financial results. This was its first quarterly earnings call since reentering the public markets in late December. Dell Technologies maintains two primary business ...
IT services major Atos announced its 4Q18 and FY18 results on February 21. Atos delivered topline growth at constant exchange rates of 4.2%, pushing revenues to €12.3 billion, including 1.2% organic growth. Operating margins, however, declined ...
IDC attended Extreme Networks' customer and partner event, Extreme NOW, in London on February 19, 2019, where analysts received briefings on Extreme's long-term strategic outlook and recent revenue growth in EMEA from CEO Ed Meyercord and ...
Lenovo announced results from its fiscal 3Q19 ending December 31, with revenue reaching $14 billion, up 8.5% from the year-ago quarter and the company's highest quarterly revenue in four years. Pretax income was up 133% from the prior year ...
In its FY 2Q19, Cisco once again impressed investors with a solid financial performance, continuing the positive trend of relatively healthy year-over-year (YoY) revenue increases over the past couple of years. Overall revenue rose to $12.45 ...
This IDC Link discusses the announcement made at IBM's Think 2019 event held in San Francisco, February 11–14. This document specifically discusses strategic comments surrounding IBM Services — Global Business Services (GBS), Global Technology ...
IBM PartnerWorld, which took place in San Francisco on February 11 prior to the vendor's broader Think conference, provided the opportunity for partners to hear the latest program and strategy developments from key IBM partner executives ...
The , which took place in Las Vegas from February 4 through February 7, included numerous announcements spanning product lines, features, capabilities, acquisitions, and architecture updates. Product-centric announcements such as Maestro ...
On February 13th, NetApp announced financial results for its third fiscal quarter ending January 25, 2019. The company reported revenue of roughly $1.56 billion for the period, a 1.6% increase against the year-previous quarter and in the ...
Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise (ALE) held its annual analyst conference named Connex19 from February 3 to 5, where it outlined its achievements from the previous year and laid out the company's future road map. The company has a multifaceted ...
On February 12, 2019, Lenovo introduced a consumption-based IT model called TruScale, a subscription-based offering that allows customers to use and pay for datacenter hardware and services — on-premise or at a colocation facility — without ...
Amazon's acquisition of eero will do much to strengthen its competitive position in the smart home market by extending the company's reach to the very heart and soul of the smart home — the wireless internet. The move will fill a gap in ...
Commvault's new CEO, Sanjay Mirchandani, assumes leadership of a company that has both significant strengths and some serious challenges. To keep Commvault among the leaders of the data replication and protection (DR&P) market, we believe ...
By announcing a blend of IoT edge network appliances, developer tools, and deployment blueprints, infused with intent-based networking (IBN), Cisco has further shifted from a manual network installation and upkeep model to providing IoT ...
On Friday February 8, 2019, private investment group KKCG announced the purchase of majority stakes in information security firm AEC and software house Cleverlance Enterprise Solutions. If approved by the Czech government's anti-monopoly ...
On January 29, 2019, Juniper Networks reported financial results for the quarter (4Q18) and the year ending December 31, 2018. Juniper recorded quarterly revenue of $1.18 billion, down 5% y/y and flat compared with the preceding quarter. ...
Technology and ideas are often cyclical. Legaltech this year didn't offer much in the way of ediscovery innovation. Instead, older ideas of information governance–centric ediscovery approaches have been renewed and attacked with vigor.
...OpenText continues to stay true to its business model by gobbling up yet another software company. The Catalyst acquisition gives OpenText a couple of shiny new tools that it did not have before, namely technology-assisted review (TAR) and ...
Cisco's Singularity Networks Inc. acquisition further strengthens the company's Crosswork Network Automation portfolio especially in network operations and security automation use cases. Security use cases such as advanced threat detection ...
On January 29, Apple announced calendar year 4Q18 revenue of $84.3 billion, a decline of 5% from 4Q17. At $19.9 billion, profit was flat when compared with $20 billion from 4Q17. We call out segment highlights for the quarter as compared ...
At Cisco Live in Barcelona, Spain, Cisco announced new architectures and services that support data and applications wherever they reside or are deployed. These announcements extend the "data center anywhere" vision through a series of products ...
On January 29, 2019, Verizon released its 4Q18 and full-year 2018 earnings results. The company's full-year 2018 revenue was $130.9 billion, an increase of 3.8% over full-year 2017 revenue. The company's reported revenue for 4Q18 was $34.3 ...
The evolution of the enterprise IT environment and dynamic threat landscape are forcing enterprises in Asia/Pacific region to constantly enhance their security operations; not to mention the heightened compliance requirements and increased ...
At CES 2019, Huawei announced two new products for the U.S. consumer market: the MateBook 13, a midrange ultraslim notebook, and the MediaPad M5 lite tablet, an affordable family-friendly tablet. With the launch of these devices, Huawei ...
On January 15, 2019, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced it was acquiring TSO Logic, a small software company based in Vancouver, British Columbia. TSO Logic was founded in 2013 and focused on helping customers understand existing costs ...