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 provides a view of worldwide SD-WAN infrastructure market shares by vendor, covering both hardware revenue and software revenue.
"Enterprises are continuing to invest in SD-WAN technology, driven by myriad factors. Organizations ...
This IDC Market Glance provides a glance at the type of vendors and providers that make up the precision agriculture market.
Huawei focused on the 5G ecosystem at its 4th Middle East Innovation Day. The event in Dubai on October 7 was held in conjunction with GITEX Technology Week, 2019. This IDC Market Note explores some of the key announcements made ...
This IDC study provides an assessment of the capabilities and business strategies of 11 vendors in the worldwide enterprise WLAN market for 2019.
"The enterprise WLAN industry is at an exciting time: Connectivity has never been more ...
This IDC Perspective provides a current overview of the IoT connectivity management landscape, including a discussion of key market trends and profiles of 18 companies that offer connectivity management solutions.
"As IoT deployments ...
随着企业数字化转型的深入，领先的企业已经开始尝试利用DevOps的理念和模式，来帮助企业实现快速交付和变更系统，以便于快速响应企业对于市场的变化、用户的需求。相比于传统软件模式，公有云服务模式成为企业快速实践DevOps的优先选择。IDC研究了中国市场上的主流厂商，选取了7家典型的DevOps云厂商进行重点研究。本报告分别从现有能力和未来战略维度两个层面对厂商进行评估，为技术买家进行产品选型提供参考。
“企业互联网和移动业务的迅速发展，对企业自身系统的研发效率和迭代速度带来挑战，DevOps市场需求显现。但企业普遍对如何选择DevOps工具和如何开展DevOps实践没有清晰的认知，一站式的公有云DevOps服务成为中小企业和部分大型企业快速实践DevOps的优先选择。同时，云厂商也在不断吸引和转化自身云平台的用户使用其DevOps服务，对外也在不断加强宣传教育工作进行市场培育。预计，未来1–2年DevOps云的企业级用户和个人开发者数量将呈现高速增长态势。”——IDC中国软件市场分析师王楠表示。
...本IDC研究报告主要阐述2018年中国防火墙市场的规模、厂商份额、技术发展变化等内容。
"当前，由于全球国际形势的变化和中国政策法律法规的推动，新技术赋能已经成为未来网络安全产业发展的必然趋势。具体到防火墙市场，各安全厂商在AI防火墙层面的战略布局持续加深，通过提升防火墙的智能化水平来提高防火墙设备的综合能力，如：未知威胁检测、恶意文件检测、异常流量检测等方面能力的提升。智慧防火墙也将协同联动其他安全产品，提高用户的整体安全防御水平。"——IDC中国负责IT安全市场研究的市场分析师王一汀表示。
...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 ...
本次研究对象包含了在中国态势感知解决方案/平台市场具备一定技术水平和市场规模，并且在该领域有持续投入规划，具备不断完善产品和服务能力的主流厂商。厂商类型涵盖国内综合型安全厂商、云服务提供商及新兴态势感知解决方案/平台提供商等。IDC 针对入选的态势感知解决方案/平台安全厂商的能力和战略进行综合评估，评估标准包括收入规模、产品技术能力、行业和客户拓展、生态系统建设以及未来发展战略等方面。各维度根据市场情况进一步划分为若干细分项，并配以不同权重，从而形成IDC MarketScape ...
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 Glance provides a glance at the current makeup of the smart manufacturing market landscape for manufacturing industries.
This IDC Presentation was given as the keynote at a client's customer event in July 2019. It reviews the capabilities of mobile operators' current and future 5G services, focusing on 5G's potential to enable new applications in select industry ...
This IDC Market Analysis Perspective (MAP) covers the Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) (APEJ) security products market. The MAP is designed to provide clients with the opportunity to engage with IDC's security software and appliance analysts ...
This IDC Market Presentation discusses the main trends, competition landscape, and technical segmentation for the EMEA external storage market in 2Q19 and provides a five-year forecast.
This IDC Market Share presents an analysis of the 2019 EMEA enterprise network equipment market, including the Ethernet switch, router, and WLAN segments.
"The EMEA enterprise networking market continues to grow across all technologies. ...
This IDC Presentation provides a detailed analysis of the market and competitive landscape in China's cloud services from July to December 2018 (2H18). It covers the market size movements and growth trends in cloud-related project-oriented ...