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 Perspective provides an overview of the IoT-enabled asset performance management (APM) market and provides guidance on how to approach the buying decision in this emerging space.
"When a new technology solution emerges with ...
This IDC study uses the IDC MarketScape model to provide an assessment of vendors participating in field service management specific to service life-cycle management. This study specifically analyzed these offerings from a manufacturing ...
Seismic has acquired Percolate for an undisclosed sum. The acquisition provides San Diego–based Seismic with stronger marketing software assets that Percolate describes as "the leading content marketing platform for the enterprise." Combining ...
This IDC Manufacturing Insights report uses the IDC MarketScape model to provide an assessment of a number of providers participating in the worldwide supply chain market. The IDC MarketScape is an evaluation based on a comprehensive framework ...
This IDC study discusses the worldwide security and trust top 10 predictions for 2020.
"Transformation in security and trust will affect every business in every industry; no one will be spared," said Michael Suby, research vice president, ...
This IDC Perspective looks at Oracle OpenWorld 2019 event.
"OpenWorld 2019 brought practitioners, customers, and theoreticians (and novices) together for a robust and thought-provoking technology discussion. Oracle has some interesting ...
This IDC Perspective summarizes key takeaways from Oracle OpenWorld 2019 for technology buyers, including discussion around new product releases, future product road maps, and Oracle's overall strategy.
"Oracle OpenWorld 2019 delivered ...
This IDC Market Glance provides a glance at the current makeup of the smart manufacturing market landscape for manufacturing industries.
This IDC Market Analysis Perspective (MAP) provides detailed information on the software and hardware support and deployment services landscape. It considers the overall condition of the market in 2019, the key competitors, and evolving ...
This IDC Manufacturing Insights report uses the IDC MarketScape model to provide an assessment of a number of providers participating in the worldwide supply chain demand planning market. The IDC MarketScape is an evaluation based on a comprehensive ...
This IDC Market Analysis Perspective (MAP) provides an analysis of trends impacting the worldwide digital business models and monetization market (including subscription billing, price optimization, and usage intelligence). Review of the ...
Genesys has announced record sales and 70% year-over-year annual revenue growth for its Genesys Cloud contact center solutions. At the Genesys G-Summit in Amsterdam on September 10–12, Genesys Cloud played a central role in executive presentations. ...
This IDC Market Analysis Perspective (MAP) summarizes IDC insights and data on technologies, industry dynamics, and trends influencing the digital commerce software market. This MAP presentation was designed to give clients the opportunity ...
This IDC TechBrief provides IT and service executives with an executive snapshot of warranty and service contract management applications and its impact on how manufacturers can execute of service while delivering enhanced customer experiences.
"Warranty ...
This IDC study provides an assessment of the principal SaaS and cloud-enabled enterprise content applications and presents the criteria most important for companies to consider when selecting a system. This assessment discusses both quantitative ...
This IDC Market Analysis Perspective reviews the market forces that are reshaping the IT leasing and financing industry, specifically the demand for "flexible consumption" models that offer flexibility, transparency, and simplicity. Currently, ...
This IDC Market Glance provides an overview of the current makeup of the digital commerce software market landscape, illustrates the participating vendors, and depicts the segments and structure of the market.
This IDC study presents a vendor assessment of U.S. emerging providers offering managed security services (MSS) through the IDC MarketScape model. The assessment reviews both quantitative and qualitative characteristics that define current ...
This IDC Perspective provides a perspective on how enterprises can take advantage of key capabilities of the second-generation EPYC architecture available for on-premises deployments via server platforms or in the public cloud as infrastructure-as-a-service ...
This IDC TechBrief provides IT and business executives with an executive snapshot of intelligent virtual assistants specifically in the delivery of customer service and support in manufacturing.
According to Aly Pinder Jr., program ...
This IDC Special Study presents IDC's Enterprise Infrastructure Market Pulse: Vendor View, which is designed to provide clients with a demand-side view on IT infrastructure spending sentiments in the early stages of each calendar quarter. ...
This IDC Perspective considers the dizzying range of options facing most users looking to build or implement new data applications addressing new workloads, modernize their existing workloads, or introduce new data-driven capabilities into ...
This IDC study provides the worldwide market shares for supply chain management applications. This market grew at a strong pace in 2018 as the market begins to move to see traction pick up for public cloud deployments. Growth in the supply ...
This IDC study provides updated estimates for the worldwide market for digital commerce applications. This market continues to grow at a swift pace, with much higher demand from customers in cloud applications than on-premises applications.
"Organizations ...
This IDC TechBrief presents the implications of adopting the blockchain technology in retail. The document provides a snapshot of the current status of blockchain adoption in retail as well as its benefits, critical success factors, risks, ...
This IDC study uses the IDC MarketScape model to provide an assessment of vendors participating in the industrial IoT platform market. This study specifically analyzed these offerings from a manufacturing industry perspective.
"IoT ...
This IDC study provides the worldwide market shares for order management applications. The market grew at a strong pace in 2018. Growth in the order management market was driven by the need for omni-channel "buy anywhere, fulfill anywhere" ...
This IDC Market Glance provides an overview of the current service provider landscape in Canada, describes the structure and segments of the market, and identifies providers participating in each segment.
This IDC study provides an assessment of the leading SaaS and cloud-enabled manufacturing ERP software solutions and discusses what criteria are most important for manufacturers to consider when selecting a system.
"No matter the type ...
This was the first time where the two demonstrated cloud-robot integration that allows the control from the cloud to be directly extended to the robot's actions. The on-site integrated systems also demonstrated the collection and ...
This IDC Market Presentation provides a glance at the current structure of the manufacturing business ecosystems landscape for manufacturing industries.
This IDC Market Perspective discusses key market developments in enterprise applications ecosystems. On March 4, 2019, IDC analysts across Europe contributed to an online brainstorming conference and explored large enterprise applications ...
This IDC Perspective outlines the role of analytics software and ecosystems in the success of Internet-of-Things (IoT) projects in asset maintenance across industries. Traditionally, asset maintenance has often been seen as no more than ...
This IDC Perspective provides our view of the Oracle Modern Business Experience (MBX) event in Las Vegas, Nevada, from a manufacturing and supply chain perspective. Oracle continues to migrate its applications to be cloud-first offerings ...
This IDC study uses the IDC MarketScape model to provide an assessment of vendors participating in the retail price optimization application market.
"Price is a cornerstone of successful retailing, a lynchpin for curated merchandise ...
This IDC study seeks to inform buyers how talent acquisition suites are evolving beyond ATS — how solutions that are part of HCM and talent management suites differ from solutions using a best-of-breed approach. In a world where the pace ...
This IDC study seeks to inform buyers how talent acquisition suites are evolving beyond ATS and how solutions that are part of HCM and talent management suites differ from best-of-breed solutions. In a world where the pace of innovation ...
This IDC study seeks to inform buyers how talent acquisition suites are evolving beyond ATS, how solutions that are part of HCM and talent management suites differ from best-of-breed solutions. In a world where the pace of innovation is ...
This IDC Market Glance provides a look at the current vendors participating in the expanding and rapidly evolving market of government network and telecommunication solutions, plus associated services. It includes participants in government ...
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 provides an assessment of the leading SaaS and cloud-enabled operational ERP software solutions and discusses what criteria are most important for companies to consider when selecting a system.
"It is imperative in today's ...
This IDC Market Glance provides IDC Financial Insights' view of connected banking in Canada, illustrating the vendors participating within the structure of banking segments including cloud, IT services, enterprise, data providers, omni-channel, ...
This IDC Market Perspective provides the biggest takeaways, according to IDC's software team, from the National Retail Federation Big Show 2019 (NRF 2019) and the broader implications about the digital commerce market. It discusses the role ...
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 study provides an assessment of the prominent SaaS and cloud-enabled asset-intensive EAM application solutions and discusses what criteria are most important for companies to consider when selecting a system.
"More and more ...
This IDC Perspective describes the benefits of moving throughout the stages of cloud strategy in a quick and efficient manner. The purpose is to stress the importance of a longer-term vision when planning a cloud migration. The content describes ...
This IDC Market Glance provides a glance at the current makeup of vendors offering monetization products and services, which are logically between CRM/ecommerce and ERP/accounting applications.
This IDC MarketScape assesses seven IT software providers offering end-to-end solutions to corporate banks, spanning channels, their core processing needs, and functional capabilities from treasury to lending in a convenient package. The ...
This IDC study provides a systematic assessment of IoT technology use cases and adoption momentum within life science R&D. This IDC TechScape is an evaluation model based on a comprehensive framework and a set of parameters that assess ...
This IDC Financial Insights study is an assessment of North American vendors that provide a retail digital banking customer experience solution that minimally provides online and mobile banking channels, whether they are on a single or separate ...