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 study presents forecasts of spending (customer expenditures) for the offshore-based horizontal BPO services market for 2019–2023 that includes HR, finance and accounting, procurement, and customer care by four importing regions ...
This IDC Market Note discusses Poly (formerly Polycom), which held its Poly Analyst Day 2019 on October 14 at its headquarters in San Jose, California. Poly's management team updated the analyst community regarding its corporate vision, ...
For the most part, companies need to evolve in order to survive. If they don't, they risk irrelevance and nowhere is this truer than in the technology marketplace. Evolution can be organic or inorganic, and increasingly, technology suppliers ...
This IDC study examines the performance of the PC microprocessor market overall and through its desktop PC processor and mobile PC processor segments.
"In 1Q19, on a unit basis, the PC processor market declined sequentially in line ...
This document reviews Cisco Partner Summit 2019, held November 4-6, 2019, in Las Vegas. The focus of this IDC Link will be on network life-cycle services and the interplay between Cisco and other providers of these services. (Please see ...
This IDC Market Perspective details clear signals of the disruptive impact Chromebooks will have on the endpoint security market. Choice in personal computing devices is expanding in parallel with the cloud era. With more compute and storage ...
This IDC study provides a brief overview of the worldwide AFA market performance through the end of 1H19.
"From a product functionality point of view, customers could hardly go wrong buying an all-flash array from any of the top 10 ...
This IDC Market Presentation, which was given on November 12, 2019, summarizes the hard disk drive (HDD) market results for CY 3Q19. Significant market dynamics, trends, and events are summarized and evaluated in this presentation. Numerous ...
This IDC Survey illustrates the key findings from a United States–based study conducted in January 2019. IDC surveyed 400 respondents in the United States regarding the current challenges, drivers, key trends, perceptions, capabilities, ...
This IDC Survey focuses on large enterprises and examines differences in cloud adoption between Western Europe and Central and Eastern Europe. Since the IT market is growing fast, this IDC Survey finds that many large organizations in Western ...
This IDC Perspective describes common concerns CIOs express as they contemplate making the move from traditional on-prem IT architectures to cloud computing models. The document shows that these concerns are generally offset by the benefits ...
This IDC Presentation compares current mobile-based strategies and priorities between enterprises in Australia/New Zealand (ANZ). It uses the results from the 2018 Asia/Pacific (Excluding Japan) (APEJ) Future of Work Survey ...
Wolters Kluwer ELM Solutions announced revolutionary spend management capabilities that leverage AI to provide data-driven insights. Wolters Kluwer is poised to further dominate the ELM space with this unique capability.
This IDC Survey analyzes IDC's latest primary research on enterprise plans for the Internet of Things (IoT) in Canada. In summer 2019, IDC surveyed 310 respondents asking enterprise IT decision makers about their IoT deployment plans through ...
This IDC Pivot Table provides worldwide industry solid state drive (SSD) quarterly unit shipments, revenue, and capacity shipped for the third calendar quarter of 2019, including supplier unit shipment and revenue market share by segment. ...
This IDC Pivot Table provides a summary of worldwide hard disk drive (HDD) component quarterly demand for 3Q19 and a four-quarter demand outlook. This Pivot Table provides insight into the demand for select HDD components by HDD form factor, ...
This IDC PeerScape discusses strategies from organizations that have undergone a shift to participate in industry clouds. Readers will learn how to overcome some challenges that are similar to traditional cloud adoption and other challenges ...
This IDC Market Perspective discusses the Ethernet access devices (EADs) market — a market poised for revival. As carriers consider Ethernet-based fronthaul options (eCPRI and RoE) across a progressively denser cell site footprint and as ...
Communication service providers (comm. SPs) across Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) (APEJ) are positioning themselves to provide not just network connectivity but to become the ICT providers for their enterprise customers. Over the last three ...
Thwarting data breaches through detection and response, while indispensable, is hindered by an endpoint environment that lacks a disciplined endpoint hardening process. IDC's perspective from attending the CrowdStrike Fal.Con UNITE user ...
Nozomi Networks, a specialist in operational technology (OT) and Internet of Things (IoT) security, has grown to become a leader in industrial cybersecurity, with more than 1,400 solution deployments worldwide at many of the biggest players ...
This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation provides an overview of the worldwide telecommunications service provider industry for the half-year period ending June 2019. It also showcases the recent trends in various areas such as revenue, revenue ...