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.
Ricoh held its national dealer meeting, ConvergX 2019, in Las Vegas from November 18th-21st. Rather than a product and sales showcase, the event focused on strategy, leadership and collaborating for customer value ...
This IDC Link provides a summary of the AWS re:Invent 2019 event and describes innovations to extend AWS reach to the edge. AWS re:Invent 2019 was notable with new announcements addressing demands for on prem AWS support, mobile edge compute, ...
This IDC study provides an assessment of the leading SaaS and cloud-enabled travel and expense software solutions and discusses the criteria that are most important for companies to consider when selecting a system.
"The user experience ...
This IDC study provides an assessment of the leading SaaS and cloud-enabled travel and expense software solutions and discusses the criteria that are most important for companies to consider when selecting a system.
"The user experience ...
This IDC study provides an assessment of the leading SaaS and cloud-enabled travel and expense software solutions and discusses the criteria that are most important for companies to consider when selecting a system.
"Enterprises need ...
Orange forecasts a 2%–3% yearly growth rate between 2021 and 2023, driven by growth in the Middle East and Africa, the enterprise and financial services segments, and strict efficiency discipline, in particular a €1 billion net savings program. ...
This IDC FutureScape Web Conference presents a discussion by IDC's Al Gillen on the key developments that will impact the world of developers and application development over the next one to five years. Senior IT leaders and line-of-business ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight analyzes European healthcare organizations' investments considering the recognized benefits of DX on their business. Bearing in mind the benefits achieved through DX and pushed by emerging value-based business models, ...
Verizon and Vodafone’s almost identical announcements of Carrier Multi-access edge cloud (MEC) offerings in alliance with AWS that combines their respective 5G wireless low-latency access with the distributed multi-cloud application management ...
This IDC Pivot Table provides the CY 3Q19 vendor share results and the forecasts for both the short term (3Q19–4Q20) and the long term (2019–2024) for the worldwide NAND flash memory market. The Pivot Table includes:
- Worldwide ...
This IDC study analyzes trends in the enterprise infrastructure solutions market in Sub-Saharan Africa. It examines the drivers and inhibitors of the enterprise server and storage markets and provides a forecast for the 2019–2023 period. ...
This IDC study contains vendor shares for the video platforms software market for 2016–2018. It includes commentary on growth of the market and emerging trends and provides actionable advice for technology suppliers.
"The video platforms ...
This IDC Survey analyzes end-user responses regarding the firms they engage for consulting and integration services on IT infrastructure, examining both IT vendors and systems integrators. IDC's Infrastructure Services Survey, ...
This IDC Market Presentation explores various dynamics of the Global DataSphere, IDC's calculation of how much data is created every year (2018-2023). It contains illustrations and insights on several segmentations of the Global DataSphere ...
This IDC study presents the worldwide hybrid cloud infrastructure services market forecast for 2019–2023. This market includes the professional services for infrastructure across public, private, and traditional deployments. The forecast ...
This IDC Market Note provides a summary of Canon's recent briefing with IDC on its print security solutions and services offerings. This document looks closely at Canon's print security services strategy and provides a snapshot of how the ...
This IDC Perspective highlights the lack of relevant skills to implement Big Data and AI projects and discusses how the lack of data literacy affects European companies. It also analyzes what technology vendors are offering to customers ...
This IDC Market Note provides a summary of Lexmark's recent briefing with IDC on its print security solutions and services offerings. This document looks closely at Lexmark's strategy and provides a snapshot of how the firm is positioning ...
This IDC Perspective investigates global Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite constellations to extend high-speed broadband internet and wireless to unserved areas.
"Renewed interest in Low Earth Orbit satellite constellations has resulted ...
This IDC Perspective examines IDC's third European CISO Summit, held in November 2019. It saw IDC's CISO community gather for an intensive two-day program, with three clear aims: to explore how security teams can demonstrate business value ...
This IDC PeerScape explores how five CIOs across the airport, retail, construction, commercial real estate, and healthcare industries are approaching and resolving the skills gap between supply and demand.
"The recurring story that ...
This IDC Market Perspective analyzes different automotive systems and estimates the data generated by each. Primary areas of discussion include infotainment and the digital cockpit and the sensor systems used by advanced driver assistance ...
This IDC Market Note reviews Konica Minolta's progress in its IT management solution — Workplace Hub — since it was first publicly announced in 2017. Looking forward to the new decade, we predict that a perfect storm of evolving working ...
This IDC presentation focuses on the disruptions of various key technologies, such as Internet of Things (IoT), blockchain, artificial intelligence (AI), and implementations of key digital transformation (DX) use cases by utilities across ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight shares findings from IDC's Cloud Archiving and Data Privacy Survey that was completed in November 2019. The survey explores archiving applications in on-premises and cloud environments as well as the privacy ...
This IDC study provides an analysis of vendor performance in the tablet market for 3Q19.
"With detachable shipments growing double digits in the third quarter on the heels of some promising product launches and a steadily growing customer ...
This IDC study presents the worldwide datacenter network consulting and integration services forecast for the 2019–2023 period.
"In an increasingly multicloud world, it is imperative that the datacenter infrastructure and, most importantly, ...
This IDC Market Presentation, which was given on October 29, 2019, provides insight into the Global StorageSphere, how it is calculated, how it is changing from 2014 to 2023, and the key implications for technology suppliers.
VMware announced their financial results for the third quarter of fiscal year 2020. Revenue for the third quarter was $2.46 billion, an increase of 12% from the third quarter of fiscal 2019. License revenue for the third quarter was $974 ...
This IDC Perspective discusses the difference between optimization and maximization; how optimization relates to the whole; how there are many "wholes" to consider; how recent significant advances in technology, particularly in artificial ...
IDC Innovators are emerging vendors with revenue <$100 million that have demonstrated either a groundbreaking business model or an innovative new technology — or both. This IDC Innovators study profiles the object-based start-up vendors ...
This IDC Pivot Table provides the CY 3Q19 DRAM vendor share results and forecasts for both the short term (3Q19–4Q20) and the long term (2019–2024) for the worldwide DRAM market. The Pivot Table includes:
- Worldwide DRAM revenue ...
This IDC Survey analyzes European public sector IT infrastructure transformation. European public sectors' need to digitally transform, while copying with tight budgets, is pushing government and education institutions to a tipping point ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight analyzes results from IDC's U.S. Enterprise Communications Survey, 2019 (October 2019). The respondents include a total of 800 CEOs, CIOs, CTOs, VPs of IT, line-of-business IT managers, applications ...
This IDC study presents an update to the Worldwide Hard Disk Drive Forecast, 2019–2023 (IDC #US45022919, May 2019). The worldwide HDD forecast update ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight examines the potential impacts that privacy laws have on data archiving, data creation, and the Global DataSphere. This study contains data from IDC's 2019 Cloud Archiving and Data Privacy Survey. ...
This IDC Pivot Table provides the CY 3Q19 DRAM and NAND vendor share results. The Pivot Table includes:
- Worldwide DRAM revenue share by vendor, 3Q19 and 2Q19
- Worldwide NAND revenue share by vendor, 3Q19 and 2Q19
- Worldwide ...
This IDC Survey presents key findings focused on provider investment plans and approaches to clinical mobility and clinician communication and collaboration from the 2019 Connected Health and Value-Based IT Investment Plans Survey.
Other ...
This IDC study presents the results of IDC's 2019 Artificial Intelligence MaturityScape Benchmark Survey and should be viewed as a supplement to IDC MaturityScape: Artificial Intelligence1.0 ...
This IDC Market Perspective summarizes the current state of container infrastructure software in the enterprise IT organization. This document includes data from IDC's 2019 Infrastructure Services Survey that includes customer adoption ...
This IDC Market Perspective provides insights into edge strategies for service providers and technology suppliers. Research indicates that IT spending in the near term is shifting from centralized infrastructure to distributed architectures ...
This IDC Market Note explains why VMware recently provided a technology preview of its Project Maestro teleco cloud orchestration platform.
"One of the greatest challenges communications SPs face today as they move toward a multicloud ...
This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation reports on findings from Part 2 of IDC's 8th annual CIO Sentiment Survey. This data-driven research provides IT leaders with quantitative content to help them facilitate and shape forward-thinking ...
This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation highlights this year's IDC's CIO Sentiment Survey. This presentation highlights critical challenges that CIOs are facing when developing and executing their digital strategies. This data-driven presentation ...
This IDC Survey provides a summary of the topline unified communications and collaboration (UCC) results of IDC's U.S. Enterprise Communications Survey 2019, an online survey of 800 United States–based businesses fielded in ...
This IDC Survey summarizes key technology investment trends based on IDC's U.S. Enterprise Communications Survey, 2019, an online survey of 800 United States–based businesses fielded in August 2019. It provides ...
This IDC Survey uncovers the adoption of and satisfaction with talent and labor market intelligence technologies utilized by talent acquisition organizations. It includes data taken from respondents' answers to questions from the 2019 ...
This IDC study provides the forecast for the 5G network infrastructure market for 2019–2023.
"While Release 15 paved the way for initial commercial 5G launches, Release 16 (1H20) and beyond will be what unlocks 5G's full potential ...
This IDC Market Perspective highlights key points in the escalation of tariff implementations between the U.S., China, and the EU, and how this impacts the European technological landscape. Moreover, this study identifies key trade war impacts ...
This IDC FutureScape Web Conference presents a discussion by IDC's Dan Vesset on the importance of capturing, preparing, and curating data for business analytics and the impact this will have as enterprises harness data for decision support, ...
This IDC Survey explores the status of the gap in the demand for IT skills in Canadian organizations and current supply of those skills in Canadian labor market. As a result of this gap, organizations turned to externally sourcing IT staff ...
Nokia is under pressure after cutting its profit outlook during its 3Q19 earnings call and pausing its dividend payout for the next six months. During its annual Global Analyst Forum, the vendor shared how it intends to move forward from ...
This IDC study provides historical data (2014–2018) and a forecast data (2019–2023) for the worldwide and U.S. enterprise storage systems markets. The forecast and historical data focuses on end-user consumption of external enterprise storage ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight examines the shift of IoT analytics from descriptive to predictive to prescription. It also highlights some of the top challenges organizations are experiencing as they look to leverage analytics to interpret their ...
This IDC study details the 2019–2023 market sizing and growth rates for the worldwide services market. This market is broken down into two major views. The first is the macromarket view, which segments the services market into three primary ...
IDC's global Internet of Things (IoT) Research Practice surveyed 4,480 international organizations, including 170 in Russia, about their IoT investments or plans for investment. The June 2019 survey included organizations in the manufacturing, ...
This IDC Market Note discusses the Akamai's Edge Summit EMEA 2019 analyst event that took place in London on October 22 and 23, 2019. It analyzes what Akamai presented during the event in terms of strategy, vision, and product plans, which ...
This IDC Survey looks at the use of open source software, both community supported and commercially supported, in the context of the overall use of software use among U.S. businesses with over 249 employees.
"Open source software has ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight examines the factors that cause technology buyers to move their digital commerce applications off of public cloud deployments to the private cloud or on-premises. The data shown in this study comes from IDC's 2019 ...
This IDC MaturityScape discusses the many variables that impact an organization's ability to succeed in at-risk contracting. The ability to meet contract deliverables for quality and cost is among those that have the highest impact on success. ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight examines how organizations are planning to monetize the data that is captured from their IoT deployments. The analysis is based on data from IDC's Global IoT Decision Maker Survey, conducted in April ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight provides insight into where the money is being spent within the advertising program budget and how it has changed over the past five years. Respondents to IDC's 2019 Tech Marketing Benchmark Survey showed ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight examines the top security concerns in IoT deployments. It also analyzes the approach to IoT within the context of the entire organizations. The analysis is based on data from IDC's Global IoT Decision Maker Survey, ...
In every industry, enterprises are grappling with their own set of cybersecurity challenges as they mature in the digital transformation journey. IDC's 2019 security services sourcing survey indicated that the digital transformation priorities ...
This IDC Market Note provides a perspective on Cisco's annual Partner Summit, which occurred in Las Vegas, November 4–6. The event was themed around "own your edge," a reference to Cisco partners pushing the boundaries of their businesses ...
This IDC Market Note summarizes Sharp's briefing and demonstration with IDC on the company's security solutions and services offering. It looks closely at Sharp's security developments for its Smart Workplace products, solutions, and services. ...
This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation was delivered during the keynote speech at the Austrian IDC Health Forum 2019 that took place in Vienna, Austria, on November 21, 2019.
This presentation looks at the role and the possible evolutions ...
This IDC Market Note provides a summary of Kyocera's recent briefing with IDC on its print security solutions and services offerings. This document looks closely at Kyocera's print security services strategy and provides a snapshot of how ...
This IDC Market Note provides a summary of Ricoh's recent briefing with IDC on its print security solutions and services offerings. This document looks closely at Ricoh's strategy and provides a snapshot of how the firm is positioning itself ...
Robotic process automation (RPA) and intelligent automation (IA) are dramatically transforming the way processes are executed, services are delivered, and operations are managed in both the IT and business realms. This study derived from ...
This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation discusses the Canadian regionalization of IDC FutureScape: Worldwide Health Industry 2020 Predictions (IDC #US44351519, October ...
This IDC Perspective reflects the interviews IDC had with government executives over the past quarter and the public sector achievements of 2019.
A new way of government continues to emerge in Canada. The shift toward speed, flexibility, ...
Syncsort's acquisition of Pitney Bowes Software Solutions Business strengthens its position in data management and adds capabilities in the customer communications and location intelligence software and data markets. The acquisition will ...
This IDC study quantifies the worldwide MFP market opportunities and analyzes issues, trends, and product advances in this market. It contains 2013–2018 data showing actual unit shipments, value of shipments (end-user spending), and ...
This IDC Market Note provides an overview of the recent pricing trends in the wireline telecommunications sector and the efforts of service providers to pivot away from competing solely on price to emphasis the transformative capabilities ...
This IDC Perspective addresses the key tactical challenge of developing an agile sourcing strategy. Spend for new and emerging technologies is quickly outpacing the spend for legacy technologies. In fact, the spend for legacy technologies ...
This IDC Market Perspective provides an overview and analysis of new 3D product launches at Formnext 2019. As well as providing information of key players, IDC provides a view of the emerging trends in this space.
"The 3D printing ...
This IDC study examines some of the key technologies that are expected to trend upward in 2020, and it looks at ways in which IT and business services firms can address these technologies with customers to advance usage. The document highlights ...
This IDC study provides a detailed description of IDC's Worldwide Technology Impact Guide methodology and taxonomy. It should be used as a companion piece for IDC's Technology Impact Guide. Technology suppliers may utilize IDC's use case ...
This IDC Market Note discusses the steps Dell Technologies is taking toward advancing sustainability progress beyond offsetting the footprint of its operations, and its announcement of new sustainability goals under its Progress Made Real ...
IDC Innovators are emerging vendors with revenue
This IDC FutureScape presents the top 10 predictions and key drivers for the European IT industry over the next five years. It tracks the biggest IT stories of our time — the digitalization of enterprises, edge buildout, tech-driven innovation, ...
This IDC Market Perspective examines the demographics behind key consumer groups that are likely to see a meaningful impact on their connectivity use experience and drive early 5G adoption in the U.S. market. Early 5G commercial launches ...
This IDC Market Perspective compares and analyzes the transactional-based print supplies subscription services offered by print vendors Brother, Canon, Epson, and HP Inc. as well as the major third-party online reseller Amazon. This document ...