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.
Facebook Flow is the first leadership summit by Workplace by Facebook, Facebook's enterprise collaboration offering. Held at the Hotel Nia near the Facebook campus in Menlo Park, California, on October 9, 2018, it spotlighted the growth ...
This IDC study provides a 2018–2022 forecast for the worldwide IP PBX market (pure IP and hybrid IP) by lines/seats or licenses shipped and manufacturers' revenue.
"Recent IDC survey data indicates that, for many organizations, IP ...
This IDC study provides an updated market sizing for the worldwide contact center applications software market based on completed revenue modeling and a revised forecast for the market over a 10-year period, with a 5-year forecast (2018–2022).
"Customer ...
This IDC study examines the vendor revenue performance in the overall collaborative applications market for 2017. To facilitate more productivity among the workforce, enterprises are adopting collaborative applications. "ESNs and the rise ...
This IDC Market Note examines the ongoing strategic transformation of Nexign from a regional BSS leader to a global digital transformation partner. The report discusses the changes the company has gone through to become a digital transformation ...
This IDC Market Perspective examines the newly signed United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) and analyses the implications for Canada's ICT sector. The trade pact has specific chapters on digital trade, telecommunications, and intellectual ...
"The role of voice and messaging in the enterprise is changing rapidly. Traditional voice and messaging functions that were focused on linear P2P communications are no longer valid for today's increasingly digital enterprises. Rather, they ...
BT Global Services (GS) held a business briefing for investors and financial and industry analysts in London on September 19.
This IDC study is a translation of the Japanese document IDC #JPJ42926418, it presents market shares analyses based on the vendors' revenue performances in the Japan unified communications ...
5G officially arrives with the October 1, 2018, launch of Verizon's 5G Home service, a 5G residential fixed wireless access (FWA) service that allows consumers the first taste of what the technology can offer and provides the basis for real-world ...
This IDC Market Analysis Perspective presentation provides a view of the global unified communications and collaboration (UC&C) market. The presentation is designed to provide clients the opportunity to engage with IDC's communications ...
This IDC Presentation presents our high-level summary of the impact of a major International Financial Reporting Standard (IFRS) accounting rule change on IDC Canada's Canadian Communications Services Forecast, 2018–2022. This fall update ...
This IDC Market Analysis Perspective provides insight into the worldwide communications service provider operations and monetization market (aka OSS BSS). This document summarizes the key functional areas that presently define a communications ...
This IDC study examines the worldwide contact center applications market for 2015–2017. Revenue and market share of the leading vendors are provided for 2017.
"Customer experience is a key motivator for many digital transformation ...
This IDC Market Analysis Perspective provides forecast updates as well as a qualitative overview of the U.S. voice and unified communications services market. It examines the factors and enterprise requirements contributing to enterprise ...
This IDC Link summarizes IDC's opinion on information and strategy discussed at the CenturyLink 2018 Global Analyst Forum, held September 12 and 13, 2018. The discussions covered strategies and products across small and medium-sized businesses ...
This IDC Market Analysis Perspective provides a view of the global enterprise communications infrastructure market. This Market Analysis Perspective presentation is designed to provide clients the opportunity to engage with IDC's enterprise ...
This IDC study examines market shares of the top networking equipment vendors in Canada. It updates the previous study (see Canadian Networking Equipment Market Shares, 2016: Market Slows, Competition ...
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 four emerging vendors in video ...
This IDC Market Perspective highlights the rising demand from enterprises for cloud-based communication and collaboration tools, driven by the rising mobility of the workforce, new use cases, shifting attitudes toward voice and messaging, ...
This IDC Perspective examines the recent Microsoft announcement regarding the availability of public preview versions of Exchange Server 2019 and Skype for Business Server 2019, which enable customers to test and discuss the (noncommercial) ...
本調査レポートは、国内ユニファイドコミュニケーション／コラボレーション（UC&C）市場の2017年ベンダー売上額実績に基づく市場シェアの分析を提供している。IDCでは、国内UC&C市場を「IPテレフォニー市場」「コラボレーティブアプリケーション市場」「IPコンファレンスシステム市場」「IPコンタクトセンターシステム市場」の4つの大分類ソリューションセグメントに分類して、市場規模を分析し予測を行っている。2017年の国内UC&C市場では、ソフトウェア／クラウド販売を中心とするベンダーが好調であり、ソフトウェア／クラウドシフトが顕著になった。「国内ユニファイドコミュニケーション／コラボレーション市場に参入するITサプライヤーは、今後の成長のために、マルチクラウド型UC&C機能の提供、音声インターフェースと自然言語認識／応答の活用が必要である」と、IDC ...
This IDC Survey presents results from IDC's 2018 European Enterprise Communications Survey related to areas telcos need to address to transform and grow their own businesses into the future — a Telco 2025 view. It examines the challenges ...
This IDC Market Perspective covers the annual Orange Business Services' Analyst Days, which took place on July 10 and 11, 2018, in Paris. It provides our views on Orange Business Services' approach to network and SD-WAN, security, IoT, cloud, ...