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 FutureScape introduces IDC Financial Insights' 2017 view of the top 10 predictions for financial services as they apply to the Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) (APEJ) region.
This IDC PeerScape aims to help CIOs and PLM and production leaders understand the issues that their CEE manufacturing peers have faced while implementing 3D printing solutions, and to formulate effective strategies to augment their operations ...
This IDC FutureScape presents IDC's retail top 10 predictions in terms of their likely impact across the enterprise and the time it will take for the predictions to reach mainstream. Key themes include the need for digital transformation, ...
This IDC Web Conference presents a discussion by IDC's IT Executive Research team on the key predictions that will impact CIOs and IT professionals over the next one to three years. Senior IT leaders and line-of-business executives will ...
This IDC Perspective presents six IT organizational priorities and behaviors that a survey of more than 2,500 enterprise IT organizations found correlate with organizational success. Success was measured across a range of business and IT ...
This IDC presentation examines the European implications of our Worldwide Payments 2017 Predictions published in November 2016. The European predictions can vary in impact and timeframe from the worldwide predictions and provide a regional ...
This IDC Presentation discusses IDC's top 10 predictions for the utility sector in Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) (APEJ) in 2017. This presentation provides an analysis of the impact of those predictions on the future of the utility industry ...
This IDC PlanScape serves as a guide that helps retailers that have already set up their omni-channel strategies and want to grow ecommerce relevance in the omni-channel ecosystem answer the following questions:
- Why do we need ...
This IDC study uses the IDC MarketScape model to provide an assessment of service providers participating in the digital strategy consulting and agency services market with specific offers and capabilities in digital customer experience ...
This IDC study uses the IDC MarketScape model to provide an assessment of service providers participating in the digital strategy consulting and agency services market with specific offers and capabilities in digital product innovation. ...
This IDC study uses the IDC MarketScape model to provide an assessment of service providers participating in the digital strategy consulting and agency services market with specific offers and capabilities in digital operations. This IDC ...
This IDC Government Insights Update describes the Western European government sector environment from July to September 2016. The report provides insights into a broad range of the major ICT contracts signed and government initiatives launched ...
This IDC Perspective discusses how to take advantage of PaaS solutions to migrate workloads to cloud infrastructure. All organizations are undergoing some digital transformation initiatives. IDC suggests that all DX initiatives require a ...
This IDC Perspective illustrates the patterns that have emerged, the justification for using each pattern, and the implications of use that may derive additional requirements. It provides guidance to the IoT analytics architect on making ...
This IDC Perspective provides a data-driven overview of the current high-level IT spending trends. It is targeted at CIOs, IT executives, and line-of-business technology professionals. It also provides guidance on making informed budgeting ...
This IDC Web Conference presents IDC Energy Insights' Show and Tell webinar, in which a guest from EDP Distribuição — Nuño Medeiros, ICS & Smart Grids Security Officer — shared his company's strategy for tackling cybersecurity.
The ...
This IDC research paper presents the first international benchmark report that combines data on government ICT spending with publicly available egovernment international benchmarks. Furthermore, a model is used to make ICT spending comparable ...
This IDC PeerScape introduces practices that will enhance the success of evolutionary and/or revolutionary transitions in business model reinventions. This study is intended to help IT and line of business (LOB) executives identify the pitfalls ...
This IDC PeerScape study analyzes several healthcare innovation labs across Europe. Four success stories have been selected to represent the best practices. The assessment is based on secondary research, looking at real-life examples of ...
This IDC Manufacturing Insights Pivot Table presents our best estimates and forecasts for the worldwide manufacturing information technology (IT) opportunity. This Pivot Table provides IT spending forecasts for the following subindustries: ...
This IDC study is a vendor assessment of the document workflow services market using the IDC MarketScape model. This assessment discusses both quantitative and qualitative characteristics that explain success in this growing market.
Document ...
IDC Innovators are emerging vendors with revenue under $100 million that have demonstrated either a groundbreaking business model or an innovative new technology or both: OptiCool, Romonet, and Vigilent.
This IDC Health Insights Pivot Table provides an overview of trends and forecasts for IT spending by healthcare providers in Central and Eastern Europe between 2016 and 2020, with 2015 as the base year.
This downloadable pivot table ...