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 highlights how the systems integration (SI) services market in Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) (APEJ) is evolving as global and regional players utilize innovative strategies to maintain or grow their market share. The research ...
Publicis Groupe has completed the $3.95 billion purchase of technology and marketing data provider Epsilon, first announced in April 2019. The move will significantly strengthen Publicis in technology and data, more specifically in onboarding, ...
This IDC study presents a view of AI market revenue from the historical year 2018 through to the five forecast years of 2019–2023.
"The AI market continued to grow at a steady rate in 2018, and we expect this momentum to carry forward ...
"The number of technology touch points have increased considerably in the past few years, which provides an ideal construct for running data analytics to understand the most fundamental operations of an asset. And these insights have constantly ...
This IDC study provides a review of the top 10 application management services vendors.
"The top 10 AM service providers control the AM services markets," says Pete Marston, research director, Application Development, Testing, and ...
This IDC Perspective provides insight into the benefits of integrating the supply chain during ERP implementation. Every year, manufacturers upgrade their ERP systems; trading partners are often not considered during this project, which ...
This Market Note presents a summary of the HCL Technologies (HCL) analyst and advisor forum held in June 2019 in Adelaide, South Australia. It includes global and Australia and New Zealand (ANZ) updates of HCL.
The document highlights ...
This IDC Technology Segment study covers Saudi Arabia and provides HCP market unit, value ($M), and share (%) data for the 2013–2017 period. It also presents in-depth and up-to-date profiles of the top performing vendors, covering local ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight examines buyer interest around quantum computing expertise required from their managed cloud service providers. This presentation analyzes data from IDC's 2018 EMEA Managed CloudView Survey, ...
This IDC PlanScape provides the CIO and senior IT leaders with a cohesive planning process for successfully introducing and implementing an emerging technology function within their organizations. This ensures that emerging technologies ...
This IDC study provides a detailed description of IDC's worldwide company size methodology and taxonomy. It should be used as a companion piece for IDC's Worldwide Semiannual Small and Medium Business Spending Guide and all of IDC's worldwide ...
"The UAE HCP market rebounded in 2018 on the back of relatively high and stable oil prices, which supported economic growth and investment. Vendors that focused on technologies such as business inkjets were rewarded with strong growth in ...
This IDC Market Note includes news about imaging, printing, and document solutions vendors that occurred in June and early July 2019.
This IDC Market Forecast sizes the Western European MPDS and BPS markets for 2019 to 2023.
"The print services market still provides significant opportunities for hardcopy vendors, but the market is making turns that require market ...
IT服务市场包含项目类服务、管理类服务及支持类服务三大服务分类。本报告追踪了IT服务市场的宏观市场趋势、细分市场概况、技术驱动及主要行业用户特点，给出典型厂商的动态，并提出未来发展趋势预测。
“在项目类的咨询服务中，系统集成服务和自定义应用程序开发服务主要受到云、移动和大数据等新兴技术的推动；随着托管应用管理、托管基础设施服务和IT外包等云相关服务的普及，管理服务市场拉动了整体IT服务市场的增长。与此同时，支持类服务市场由于受到硬件和软件产品销售疲软的影响，整体表现欠佳。” ...
The study addresses the following questions:
- What are IDC's predictions for IT services spending in Hungary? What are the assumptions behind the forecasts?
- What are the concerns and preferences of Hungarian market end ...
This IDC Market Forecast provides our Western European services forecast and our expectations for the 2018-2023 development of14 foundation markets — 12 IT services foundations and 6 business services foundations with 5 BPO-related sub-foundation ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight focuses on the main business and technology drivers behind the adoption of managed cloud services by European organizations. This document analyzes data from IDC's 2018 EMEA Managed CloudView survey ...
This IDC Market Share study analyzes the 2018 revenues of the 10 largest IT services vendors and compares them with market trends. Furthermore, this study looks at the top 10 vendors' market shares in the total IT services market as well ...
This IDC study presents the IT services industry in Russia in 2018 and forecasts expenditure on IT services through 2023. The study contains market size and distribution by foundation market and vertical market and presents forecasts for ...
This IDC Market Presentation was delivered in May 2019 to organizations subscribed to IDC's European Services research programs. It introduces the newly formed IDC pan-European IT Services team, analyzes the impact of major events that occurred ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight analyzes four technologies and trends and what they mean to each role surveyed. AI — robotics process automation, candidate experience, data privacy, and analytics and Big Data are expected to be the most disruptive ...
本調査レポートでは、ネットワンシステムズのサブスクリプションサービス「NetOne “all in” Platform」の拡大の取り組みと、同社が2019年4月に設立した新会社であるネットワンネクストの取り組みについてまとめ、サブスクリプションサービスの国内エンタープライズインフラ市場への影響について考察する。「ITインフラのサブスクリプションサービスにおける再生品の活用は、より幅広いユーザー企業におけるITインフラの潜在需要を具体化させ、より深いサービス提供や的確な提案活動の礎となる」とIDC ...
This IDC Survey illustrates buyer interests and priorities for application modernization. The document contains data from IDC's Application Services Survey, which was completed in December 2018. IDC's Worldwide Application Lifecycle ...
This IDC Market Forecast study examines trends in the Western European document solutions software market and provides strategies for technology suppliers to leverage market opportunities.
"Despite the gradual fall in office printed ...