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 reviews worldwide service provider router revenue for 2018.
"Carriers invested aggressively across the world in 2018 in building backbone capacity to support the growth in users and video content across the current generation ...
This IDC Market Glance provides an overview of the telecommunications ecosystem, including hardware and software vendors, standardization bodies, open systems players, infrastructure suppliers, and service providers.
This IDC study reviews 2018 vendor revenue and shipments in the wireless LAN infrastructure market (excluding WLAN NICs) and shows the market's changes from 2017. Year-over-year and quarter-over-quarter changes from 3Q18 are also shown. ...
平安城市建设是中国城镇化建设的“基础保障”，是国家层面重点宣传的核心工程，也是信息技术直接为政府带来“业务”价值的典型场景。其以金盾工程为核心，在物联网、视频技术、大数据技术和云技术的带动下，形成“终端智能化、应用灵活化、数据海量化、基础设施解耦化”的发展特征。
“在天网工程、智慧交通、应急保障等工程试点和场景建设的驱动下，中国平安城市市场保持高速发展状态。尤其在终端建设逐步完善的情况下，基于人工智能的前端设备升级、面向视频数据和传统数据的全量融合、面向基础设施的云化重构是未来3年建设的重点。”——IDC政府行业研究副总监闫海伦认为。
...This IDC Survey compares IDC's latest primary research on the issue of IoT-related leadership and selection criteria in Canada and around the world. In the fourth quarter of 2018, IDC surveyed 4,873 respondents across 26 countries worldwide ...
This IDC Market Perspective includes current fair market value, residual value, and specification charts for HPE's enterprise and midrange disk storage systems. It offers primary and secondary market analysis for the vendor and its products.
"Demand ...
국내 IT인프라 시장 리서치를 담당하고 있는 김민철 책임연구원은 "제3의 플랫폼 시대에 폭증하는 데이터를 처리하고 관리하기 위한 서버의 성능과 역할이 어느 때보다 중요해지고 있다"고 말했다. 또한 그는 "서버는 보다 쉽게 사용하고 운영할 수 있도록 사용자에게 편의성을 제공하면서 앞으로도 서버의 역할은 확대될 것이다."라고 언급하였다.
This IDC study discusses the worldwide Layer 2 and Layer 3 Ethernet switch market.
"The Ethernet switch market continues to advance across multiple segments and in both mature and emerging economies," says Rohit Mehra, vice president, ...
This IDC Presentation gives an overview of the Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) personal computing device (PCD) market qualitative analysis for 4Q18, including a historical analysis and forecast by region and country. This includes a summary ...
This IDC Market Analysis Perspective provides an overview of the current state of the Europe enterprise communications and collaboration market. The market's main components include business voice services, fixed business data services, ...
This IDC Market Glance provides technology buyers and mining management with a snapshot of suppliers mapped against operational function areas in mining. It can be used as a basis for exploring the companies that could be the best partners ...
This IDC Market Glance provides a high-level representative view of unified communications and collaboration (UC&C) vendors and service providers in each of the technology categories presented. UC&C solutions are designed to increase ...
This IDC Presentation provides a graphic overview of the state of the mobile phone market, including smartphones and feature phones, in Asia/Pacific. Figures include units per product category, screen size segment, and top vendors according ...
This IDC Market Presentation examines the results of IDC's Quarterly Mobile Devices Tracker in Western Europe in 4Q18, focusing on the business segment. In this tracker, IDC follows more than 120 mobile device manufacturers in 16 countries, ...
This IDC Market Note provides a summary of select ICT market developments that occurred across the Middle East and North Africa in February 2019 and assesses the potential impact that these developments could have on related markets.
"To ...
This IDC Presentation highlights the latest IDC EMEA Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker results for the Western European mobile phone market. In this tracker, IDC follows more than 110 phone makers in 16 countries, providing detailed shipment ...