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.
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"The market continues to mature with the formal arrival of new technology standards like WebAuth, CTAP, and FIDO2, helping ...
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This IDC Special Study provides clients with a demand-side view on IT infrastructure spending sentiments in 1Q19 as well as insights on technology buyer assessments of market trends that will shape the future of the IT infrastructure industry. ...
This IDC study examines the performance of the server microprocessor market through several market views. Unit shipments and revenue by vendors are included as well as unit shipments by processor architecture, channel to customer, socket ...
This IDC study examines the performance of the server microprocessor market through several market views. Unit shipments and revenue by vendors are included as well as unit shipments by processor architecture, channel to customer, socket ...
This IDC study examines the enterprise applications market for 2015-2017 and the continued development in 1H18. Revenues and market shares of the leading vendors in 2017 and 1H18 are examined and analyzed. This study includes tables and ...
This IDC study analyzes the enterprise mobile application development platform (MADP) market in 2017, ranking the top vendors by revenue and discussing market trends that helped shape the market landscape.
"The past few years of the ...
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"As ...
This IDC study provides a brief overview of the Asia/Pacific excluding Japan (APEJ) converged systems market and vendor performance during the first quarter of 2018. It discusses market trends and assesses surveys to understand how converged ...
This IDC study examines the CRM applications market for 2015-2017 and the revenue and market shares of the leading vendors in 2017. This study includes tables and charts mapping the market shares of Western European vendors for marketing, ...
This IDC study examines the customer service applications market for 2015–2017. Revenue and market share of the leading vendors are provided for 2017.
"More and more the discussion regarding customer service applications is embedded ...
This IDC study includes detailed qualitative and quantitative information, analyses, and forecasts intended to help organizations to understand the driving forces behind the EAS market in Poland. Among the topics covered in this country ...
This IDC Market Share study provides an analysis and sizing of the Western European HCM and payroll accounting applications market for 2015-2017 and market shares per vendor. The study segments the combined market by functional segment (two ...
This IDC study provides a brief overview of the worldwide converged systems market performance during the second calendar quarter of 2018.
"Datacenter infrastructure convergence remains an important investment driver for companies ...
This IDC study provides a detailed overview of the MENA market for integrated EAS suites. The EAS vendors tracked in this study include SAP, Oracle, Microsoft, Sage, Infor, Focus Softnet, Epicor, 3i Infotech, Applied Computer Services (HASIB), ...
This IDC Market Share study provides an analysis of the public cloud platform market in Western Europe in 2017.
"While there are all the signs that the public cloud platform space will be dominated by three cloud megaplatforms at the ...
This IDC study examines market shares of enterprise storage systems for the top 6 vendors in Canada, and it updates Canadian Enterprise Storage Systems Market Shares, 2016: Can Consolidation Cure Cloud's Continuous Constraints? ...
This IDC study does portfolio assessment of the worldwide data services for hybrid (DSH) cloud key players.
"Data services for hybrid cloud are integral to successful digital transformation in an ever-growing hybrid and multicloud ...
This IDC Technology Segment study presents the top 100 IT services providers in Turkey, as based on their 2017 performances. The study examines the top 10 providers in greater detail, including their market sizes and share data according ...
This IDC study highlights the shares of the largest vendors in the worldwide Big Data and analytics software market for the calendar year 2017. This document also highlights the trends and significant developments in the market.
"Big ...
This IDC study highlights the shares of the largest vendors in the worldwide performance management and analytics applications software market for the calendar year 2017.
"Following a year of low growth affected significantly by currency ...
This IDC study examines the worldwide database development and management tools (DDMT) market for 2017, including revenue shares by vendor, geographic region, and operating environment. It also offers analysis of the market and of the key ...
This IDC study provides a competitive analysis of the worldwide analytic data management and integration software market for the calendar year 2017.
"2017 again solidified the trend toward a more diverse data management environment ...
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