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 discusses network planning and design services as a key use case for AI/ML-based solutions in telecom network operations.
"For telecom operators, using AI/ML-based solutions to gain deep insight from a ...
This IDC Market Presentation is an executive summary of the results of IDC's 2019 IaaSView Survey, a global web survey of 1,500 IT decision makers, designed to gain insights into global public cloud IaaS adoption ...
This IDC Market Share provides European SD-WAN infrastructure market shares for 2018 and analyzes leading vendors' SD-WAN strategies. It provides revenue estimates for 2016 to 2018, highlighting the top 7 vendors.
"Continued demand ...
held its first major analyst event since its major reorganization of its various operating companies was announced on July 1, 2019. The quantity of high-level executives that took the time to come to the event highlights how important it ...
The positive vibe around Zoom and all its recent success was certainly present at the Zoomtopia 2019 event, not just about some of the new features/enhancements announced for its staple video collaboration offering, Zoom Meetings, but also ...
This IDC study provides a systematic assessment of technologies related to advanced authentication in 2019.
Advanced authentication capabilities are a tricky dribble. Ask for too much, and people go away; ask for too little, and people ...
This IDC Market Perspective provides an overview of Sharp's recent dealer conference, held October 1–4 at the Wynn Las Vegas. Sharp used the venue to highlight its transformation strategy and provide dealers with a glimpse at new technologies ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight highlights the critical factors impeding organizations in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region from improving their security programs. It contains data from IDC's Q2 2019 MEA CIO Survey report. IDC conducted ...
This IDC study presents an analysis for the worldwide content security market for the 2018–2023 period.
"The rapid adoption of cloud-based applications and the broad attack surface that these new environments open to attackers has ...
This IDC study investigates the enterprise legal management software market. It discusses overall market dynamics, analyzes the competitive landscape, and provides a quantitative assessment of the biggest vendors in the market.
"Many ...
This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation, Artificial Intelligence: Applications and Maturity in Public Safety, presents the five levels of artificial intelligence (AI)–based automation and sample use cases of new ...
This IDC Perspective discusses supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems that have operated relatively unchanged during the decades they have been used as a key tool to help manage and control operational processes in manufacturing, ...
This report provides an analysis of the 2018 vendor share and vendor trends in the whole of the Japan network equipment market by product segment that includes Ethernet switches, routers, WLAN, and by user segment namely, enterprise and ...
This IDC Market Note provides an overview of several recent developments in Y Soft's cloud-first strategy. On September 30, the firm unveiled plans to work with select partners and SMBs to beta test its YSoft SafeQEdge Core, a cloud-based ...
This IDC Market Note provides a summary of select ICT market developments that occurred across the Middle East and North Africa in August and September 2019 and assesses the potential impact that these developments could have on related ...
This study summarizes the competitive landscape of vendors in the Japan office and home printing market, the MPDS market, the production printing market, the large format printer market, and the 3D printer market in 2018, as well as analyzes ...
This IDC Market Perspective discusses HPE's equipment upcycling/recycling initiative to reduce ewaste through its Financial Services division, in view of its journey toward the Circular Economy. Technology suppliers should become more proactive ...
This IDC study provides a forecast for the worldwide edge computing and storage infrastructure market for the 2019–2023 period.
"Edge computing has evolved significantly from the days of isolated IT at ROBO locations," said Kuba Stolarski, ...
This IDC study considers the collective technologies in the application DevOps competitive market areas.
"As more and more organizations begin adopting DevOps practices, they need to stay aware of the ever-changing collection of technologies ...
Sophos briefed IDC on the launch of its new managed detection and response (MDR) service, which it has branded as Sophos Managed Threat Response (MTR). The vendor is entering a fast-growing field and has pulled out all the stops to make ...
This IDC Presentation includes comparative data from IDC's 2019 European Enterprise Mobility Survey and U.S. Enterprise Mobility Decision Maker Survey – Devices. These surveys provide insight into device-as-a-service ...
This IDC Perspective provides enterprise cloud management software buyers with an overview of strategies and management and governance portfolios of top three Russian public cloud vendors. In addition to providing basic access and visibility ...
This IDC Market Analysis Perspective (MAP) provides detailed information on the Western European tablet market. It addresses key trends and market dynamics in the region, shifts in the competitive landscape, and market forecasts. Advice ...
This IDC Market Note examines some of the digital label and packaging highlights of Labelexpo Europe 2019.