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 reviews the challenges that organizations face as they transition to the new work experience and presents a framework for addressing those challenges. As organizations accelerate and expand digital transformation (DX) ...
Besides the uncertainty stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic, during 2021, the regional situation will have to deal with low interest rates, escalating U.S.–China trade friction, formation of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership ...
This IDC Market Perspective considers some of the key technology trends that occurred in retail in Europe during 2020 — the strong expansion of ecommerce, the rising importance of logistics, and the rise of contactless in brick-and-mortar ...
This IDC study provides an analysis of the global and Korea Smart Cities in the digital transformation (DX) age, which discusses the response and development of Korea's Smart Cities based on the trends of Smart Cities globally. In addition, ...
This IDC Perspective discusses about Canadian government testing recovery in 2021 in a move toward a digital government. For Canadian governments, crisis brought action, while recovery will be centered on the reimagination of government ...
This report details an IDC interview with Mrs. Gülsün Akhisaroglu, the global IT director of Hayat Holding. She shared her valuable experience with developing and deploying an AI-powered predictive quality solution in a paper-production ...
This IDC Perspective discusses IDC's European Healthcare Executive Digital Forum, held on November 27, 2020, as a virtual event. It summarizes key takeaways from keynotes and breakout sessions during the event.
"Priming the future ...
This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation discusses the Canadian regionalization of the IDC FutureScape: Worldwide Services 2021 Predictions (IDC #US45374020, October 2020). ...
This IDC Perspective discusses the concept of lifelong learning for individuals and businesses and its relevance in a fast-changing world of work. The ability of employees to become lifelong learners is crucial for future success. While ...
This IDC Perspective discusses how data is working in Canadian marketplace. Customers are up for grabs. Industries are quickly realizing the value of customer engagement as competitive differentiation. There is a big difference from aspiring ...
This IDC Perspective looks at how the Belgian government harnessed the expertise of integrator DXC and PDF technology company iText to completely overhaul its records management system.
"The public sector is grappling with antiquated ...
This IDC Market Note discusses QA's offerings and initiatives, focusing on its programs to reskill the wider workforce and expanding the tech talent pool through apprenticeships.
This IDC Market Note is part of our Women in Tech research series. It discusses AWS' initiatives around diversity and inclusion in Europe, focusing on its programs through the talent life cycle to attract and retain women in technical roles.
...This IDC Market Perspective profiles Equinix, which is the global datacenter and interconnection leader.
"Equinix is well positioned to remain a leader in the colocation and interconnection sector. It has a strong global footprint ...
This IDC Perspective summarizes key takeaways from IDC's European Manufacturing Executive Digital Forum 2020, which took place on November 24, 2020. It summarizes the highlights of our partner and CXO community presentations from the perspective ...
This IDC Market Perspective examines the influence of artificial intelligence on the achievement of sustainable and social goals as well as its related ethical and fairness challenges. The document highlights the use cases of AI in Europe ...
This IDC Perspective looks at the key trends and vendors in Europe driving workplace transformation and the Future of Work through UC&C tools. Collaboration that facilitates Future of Work best practices is no longer linked to the use ...
This IDC Perspective looks at data in action in the Canadian marketplace. The initial focus of this study was to assess the role that data plays in industry disruption. What we found is that Big Data and analytics, on its own, does not drive ...
For companies planning on digital patient engagement initiatives, it is important to closely examine the whole spectrum of use cases to spot the opportunities and the key benefits therein. This IDC PlanScape offers a comprehensive framework ...
This IDC TechBrief helps healthcare provider IT leaders and buyers come quickly up to speed on enterprise imaging. Medical images and imaging-related data can serve as a valuable source of clinical insight but will pose more challenges than ...
This IDC Perspective provides a view into how manufacturers have adapted to the challenges imposed by COVID-19, the investments still needed, and why the industry needs to embrace the future of work to succeed in the short term and long ...
The IDC Market Perspective presents an overview of telecommunications service provider's capital expenditure worldwide and discusses in brief the regional factors influencing the overall telecommunications service provider industry capex.
"The ...
This IDC Market Perspective looks at the recently submitted STABLE Act, a bill introduced into the U. S. Congress. The bill represents an attempt by U.S. legislators to control growth of stablecoins — currency tokens with a value pegged ...
This IDC PlanScape provides a road map for hospitality and travel companies to leverage digital transformation strategies to drive seamless, augmented experiences in the appropriate and desired settings, where physical contact with a human ...
This IDC Perspective summarizes several of the top considerations that merchants should have when evaluating digital commerce application providers, as there are many different ways to approach the digital commerce application evaluation ...
This IDC Perspective provides analyst insights on the growing importance of eCOAs, especially in the post-COVID-19 world. Despite the world being hit by a horrific pandemic, the pharma and biotech industry has risen to the occasion and leveraged ...
This IDC Market Perspective provides insight on enterprise application spending in 2021. Enterprise application vendors are sitting on a gold mine for 2021 if they have paid attention and moved to a modern, modular, and transformational ...
This IDC Perspective video series episode explores how students and their families are adjusting to the new normal of hybrid, remote, and increased virtual education options in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Watch as IDC President, Crawford ...
This IDC Perspective video series episode reviews the impact COVID-19 had on industry's focus on digital transformation and ongoing recovery efforts and areas of focus. Watch as IDC President, Crawford Del Prete; Chief Research Officer, ...
IDC research has found that modernizing enterprise applications, especially those that support core business processes, is a top priority for enterprises in Asia/Pacific. This IDC Perspective discusses the motivation behind enterprises to ...
This video is the first in IDC's "Candid Conversations on Moving from Crisis to Recovery" series, where IDC's executives and senior research leaders explore the ways technology supports business recovery and resiliency, especially in response ...
This IDC Market Perspective video series episode explores China's governmental and corporate response to the COVID-19 pandemic and China's progress along the five stages of enterprise recovery. Watch as IDC President, Crawford Del Prete; ...
This IDC Market Perspective video series episode explores the biggest takeaways and surprises from IDC FutureScape: Worldwide IT Industry 2021 Predictions (IDC #US46942020, ...
This IDC Market Perspective video series episode investigates the critical roles cloud platforms are playing in enterprises' crisis response and recovery efforts. Watch as IDC President, Crawford Del Prete; Chief Research Officer, Meredith ...
This IDC Market Perspective video series episode explores the challenges small and midsize businesses (SMBs) are facing in this economic downturn and what these businesses need to survive. Watch as IDC President, Crawford Del Prete; Chief ...
This IDC Market Perspective video series episode reviews the transformational technologies and policies supporting safer return-to-work initiatives. Watch as IDC President, Crawford Del Prete; Chief Research Officer, Meredith Whalen; and ...
This IDC Perspective video series episode explores how retailers can close their digital transformation gaps and capitalize on changing customer expectations as the major holiday shopping season approaches. Watch as IDC President, Crawford ...
This IDC Market Note covers the key lessons learned and future priorities that will drive CIOs agenda in 2021 and beyond. It summarizes key takeaways from the CIO Advisory Roundtable held in November 2020 and moderated by IDC, capturing ...
This IDC Perspective discusses how COVID-19 has driven investment in contract life-cycle management and the importance and benefits of implementing contract life-cycle management tools. This document also discusses the common implementation ...
This IDC Perspective outlines major workplace trends, provides representative software vendor offerings in response to COVID-19, and makes recommendations for organizations with respect to workplace management applications. Organizations ...
This IDC Perspective explores selecting digital focus areas, overcoming challenges to demonstrating digital business value, and introducing as well as using new digital metrics. IDC's COVID-19 Impact on IT Spending Survey, ...
This IDC Market Perspective discusses the blockchain trilemma. DLT creators must manage a careful balancing act between decentralization, scalability, and security. This document looks at the advantages and disadvantages of maximizing each ...
This IDC Market Perspective discusses how a holistic approach to use of a digital infrastructure ecosystem accelerates digitally driven enterprises' use of innovative technologies. In the future of digital infrastructure, digitally driven ...
This IDC Market Perspective outlines major workplace trends and recommendations for workplace management application vendors now, in the near term, and post-pandemic. Organizations are stepping back to look at their overall workplace strategies, ...
This IDC Perspective summarizes key takeaways from IDC's European Manufacturing Executive Digital Forum 2020, which took place on November 24, 2020. The key theme of the IDC European Manufacturing Executive Digital Forum 2020 was about the ...
This IDC study provides an assessment of 14 vendors participating in digital transformation of sales and marketing processes in the life science industry. Digital transformation is occurring at a rapid pace in life science companies, including ...
This IDC Perspective examines the evolving relationship between OEMs and industrial operators, the digital twin technologies and approaches that offer the opportunity to aid in mutual value creation, and strategic considerations for each ...
This IDC Perspective looks at the criteria that enterprises should consider when evaluating IT savings, and it provides guidance on the appropriate areas to consider when looking to make a change.
"Enterprise customers have made it ...
"Many communications SPs face the increasing pressure from network commoditization (also known as the dreaded ‘dumb pipe’ scenario), threatening their potential ROI from 5G. New use cases, such as autonomous driving and vertical industry ...
This IDC Market Note provides highlights from Dropbox's first virtual Industry Analyst day held on November 18, 2020. In addition to highlighting new capabilities in its core content sharing and collaboration solution, the company unveiled ...
This IDC MarketScape assesses the capabilities and strategies of worldwide service providers (SPs) in supporting and collaborating with the retail industry in defining and executing co-innovation strategies. Therefore, we consider the shared ...
This IDC Perspective focuses on Spanish gas distribution system operator Madrileña Red de Gas and the successful cloud transformation it carried out as part of a wider strategy to become more efficient and customer centric. It highlights ...
This IDC Market Note discusses Dropbox's announcements during its first Digital Industry Analyst Day, held on November 18, 2020.
"Dropbox's bold move to become Virtual First from June 2021 will certainly be watched by the industry ...
This IDC Perspective analyzes a recent digital transformation to illustrate key factors of success. Using Denmark-based Grundfos as a case study, both the technical and nontechnical aspects of the implementation are described.
"Grundfos ...
This IDC MarketScape identifies the key criteria European education-sector stakeholders need to successfully select a vendor to deliver collaboration applications for all key processes, including pedagogical procedures.
"Stakeholders ...
This IDC Market Note discusses the Canadian implications of Element AI agreeing to be acquired by ServiceNow.
ServiceNow's acquisition of Element AI combines process and workflow expertise with AI development skill sets in a way that ...
This IDC study examines the key strategies and capabilities that point-of-sale (POS) software vendors are offering in solutions for the quick-service restaurant (QSR) and fast-casual restaurant segments of the restaurant industry. The research ...
This IDC Perspective is the CIO's guide to the future of connectedness, which will be a source of exponential challenge as CIOs move from pandemic response to enabling a robust next normal that allows access to everything, everywhere, anytime, ...
This IDC Market Note presents the key takeaways from several IDC analysts who virtually attended Capgemini's Global Analyst and Advisor Summit 2020 held October 14 and 15. During the event, Capgemini shared with IDC how it is strategically ...
This IDC Market Note presents the key takeaways from several IDC analysts who virtually attended the Citrix Workspace Summit on October 23, 2020. During the event, Citrix shared insight with IDC into the Citrix Workspace platform functionality ...
This IDC Perspective discusses IDC's European Future of Work Summit, held on November 10, 2020, as a virtual event. It summarizes key takeaways from keynotes and breakout sessions during the event.
"The Future of Work is a paradigm ...
The 2020 New Zealand CIO Summit provided insight into how the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the way businesses are leveraging their digital road maps to create opportunities for growth. Overarching themes of trust, empathy, organisational ...
On October 5, 2020, the Royal Malaysian Customs Department (RMCD) together with IBM Malaysia and A.P. Moller, announced that the RMCD will be adopting the TradeLens blockchain platform in Malaysia. In this IDC Market Note, we will discuss ...
This IDC Perspective discusses how COVID-19 gave urgency to the need to identify individuals at the highest risk of a poor outcome if infected. Blue Shield of California, in collaboration with the data-science-as-a-service provider Cogitativo, ...
This IDC Perspective details three IT skill development use cases and the usage of Coursera to solve these use cases. To unlock this value, organizations often turn to the L&D function to help properly skill the IT organization. And ...
This IDC Market Perspective describes some of the key ways that CX services vendors can adopt to better serve their clients in 2021. Clients and vendors of CX services have had a dramatic 2020, with new business priorities and new ways of ...
This IDC Market Note discusses IBM's Talent and Transformation offering, provides a customer example, and gives IDC's point of view on talent transformation and IBM's offering.
Cognizant Technologies held its Cognizant Analyst & Advisor Summit 2020, its first virtual global summit, from September 30, 2020 to October 8, 2020. As part of the summit, the CEO of Cognizant Technologies, Brian Humphries, and his ...
This IDC Market Perspective explores the role enterprise applications play in the shift from business continuity and crises mode to business resiliency, growth and, eventually, the future digital enterprise. In IDC's latest Worldwide ...
This IDC Perspective outlines what device as a service (DaaS) means. It discusses two case studies that highlight the driving and inhibiting factors on whether now is the right time for wearables to be embraced under the DaaS model.
"The ...
This IDC Market Note highlights the recent acquisition of Clevest Solutions by IFS on November 2, 2020, which strengthens the IFS offering and domain expertise in key verticals such as utilities and energy.
This IDC PeerScape features the five Digital SMB masteries and examples of Asia/Pacific SMBs that applied these masteries in their organizations. "As the region's economies pave a slow and varied path to recovery, Asia/Pacific SMBs continuously ...
This IDC Perspective explores how IT organizations must pivot from investment road maps based on hardware and software portfolios to the establishment of three control planes to manage cloud services, business processes, and commerce. The ...
This IDC Market Note provides highlights of Amplitude's Amplify 2020 user conference, including highlights of the key announcements made along with customer successes featured during the conference.
"Amplitude shows that it is capitalizing ...
This IDC Market Note highlights the key learnings selected by IDC analysts at Cognizant's virtual analyst event. Cognizant has a strong business in QA, which it continues to take forward with next-generation testing and robotic test automation. ...
This IDC study represents a vendor assessment of the digital evidence management solutions for law enforcement market through the IDC MarketScape model.
"By leveraging a secure, open digital platform embedded in the digital investigation ...
This IDC Market Perspective examines the role that 5G plays in accelerating and intensifying the transformation of mobile operators' networks. The advent of 5G brings tremendous promise, with the potential for advanced use cases and the ...
The IDC study provides a visual representation of the process of technology adoption, dividing technologies into three major categories based on their impact on the organization and assessing technology relative adoption levels within their ...
In facing COVID-19, the drive by the respective governments in Asia/Pacific to embrace digital is obvious. This roundtable, conducted by AWS, could evolve with certain factors that are essential for seamless digital transformation for national ...
This IDC Perspective details three IT skill development use cases and the usage of Pluralsight to solve these use cases. To unlock value, organizations often turn to the L&D function to help properly skill the IT organization. And a ...
This IDC Market Perspective examines the development of the artificial intelligence (AI) market in Egypt. It focuses on the dynamics of the market as it continues to move through the early stages of growth. The document provides recommendations ...
This IDC Perspective highlights the business model shift occurring in manufacturing whereby service has become a key driver of customer value. A servitization model that delivers product as a service is transforming the customer, technician, ...
This IDC Market Note presents the key takeaways from several IDC analysts who virtually attended EY's Tech Summit on September 28–29. During the event, EY shared with IDC how it is executing on its NextWave consulting strategy while articulating ...
This IDC Market Perspective explores identity management in telcos and the challenges telcos face in harnessing digital identity to optimize their customer-facing operations. The document explores the business goals telcos can achieve through ...
This IDC Vendor Profile highlights Startek's (NYSE: SRT) customer experience and digital solutions. This document includes an overview of the company, financials, service offerings, key partnerships, value proposition/key differentiators, ...