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 Survey examines the adoption of unified communication and collaboration (UC&C) solutions in Canada. It covers the features that are being used/planned to be used by organizations as well as the impact of COVID-19 on these features. ...
This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation discusses the Canadian regionalization of the IDC FutureScape: Worldwide Services 2021 Predictions (IDC #US45374020, October 2020). ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight provides insight into the changing relationship between the business and software development programs. It's based on research into the current state of that relationship and customer projections for two years into ...
This IDC Survey focuses on intelligent document processing (IDP) within document workflows. The automation and optimization of document workflows leads to increased customer and employee satisfaction, increased productivity, and improved ...
This IDC Market Presentation focuses on the impact the COVID-19 pandemic has had on partner business metrics and investments, and how IP and profit are defining partner value now and post-vaccine. This content was presented at IDC's Software ...
This IDC Market Presentation focuses on the value of vendor attributes to partner businesses as they battle the COVID-19 crisis and the business resiliency of partners. This content was presented at IDC's Software Channel Leadership Council ...
This IDC Market presentation focuses on how COVID-19 is impacting partner businesses, specifically related to their stages to recovery and what that means to partner revenue. This content was presented at IDC's Software Channel Leadership ...
This IDC Survey document presents results from IDC's European Internet of Things (IoT) Decision Maker Survey, conducted in October 2020. The survey probed European organizations’ adoption of IoT solutions and plans for adoption in the context ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight analyzes the key priorities for European organizations with regards to human resources. The analysis is based on the European Software Survey conducted by IDC in November 2020 and breaks down the major challenges ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight analyzes the maturity of retailers' customer journey models to improve real-time contextual customer experience (CX) personalization. It explores how retailers' customer journey models have changed since 2017 onward ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight presents key use cases for video assets from IDC's November 2020 Digital Experience and Video Platforms Survey. The analysis also highlights how the COVID-19 pandemic shifted the use of video from ...
This IDC Market Presentation analyzes a selection of data from IDC's Global Retail Innovation Survey, 2020. The analysis focuses on key worldwide findings from the viewpoint of the main retail subsegments (food and grocery, ecommerce ...
This IDC Market Presentation summarizes the worldwide storage software and basic storage (public cloud IaaS) market performance during the third calendar quarter of 2020 (3Q20). It also provides select historical and forecast data, along ...
This IDC Market Presentation provides latest trends (January to December 2020) as well as summary insights to the various strategic alliances taking place in the world from late 2015 until December 2020. The impact of COVID-19 on partnerships, ...
This IDC Market Presentation discusses how business dynamics and the availability of cloud applications are resulting in companies reexamining the best alternative to create market disruption or enhance their portfolio. As a result, strategic ...
This IDC Market Presentation discusses the impact of the current business environment on greater focus and reliance on IP co-creation and enablement. In addition, the presentation evaluates how has the evolution of alliances impacted the ...
This IDC Survey highlights the results from United States-based midsize to large organizations using or planning to use accelerated app delivery and DevOps for developing and updating applications.
"While organizations have been aggressively ...
This IDC Market Presentation outlines how partner programs must change for the new digital economy. As customers look for solutions that meet their unique needs for an exact use case specific to their industry, partners have had to change ...
The IDC Market Presentation focuses on what should be an expected and reasonable ROI for an alliance. In addition, focus is placed on how can or should we reshape the business model to reflect the true value of alliances and recommendations ...
This IDC Survey presents key findings on some key sentiment by U.S. bank and credit union customers when it comes to their experiences, concerns, and engagement with their bank during their financial journey. The data is from IDC Financial ...
This IDC Market Presentation reviews the current state of distributor and aggregator marketplace platforms describing how capabilities have grown. This capability growth has increased the importance of these platforms to channel partners, ...
This IDC Market Glance provides a framework for vendors selling analytic solutions into the healthcare market. New in 2021 is the addition of the business intelligence and analytics vendors that have a presence in healthcare as well as other ...
This IDC Market Presentation provides the content presented at the December 2020 Infrastructure Channels and Ecosystem Leadership Council. The primary topic of the council was the increasing importance of the ecosystem and the growth of ...
This IDC Survey provides an overview of the results from a 2020 U.S. survey of enterprises involving their use of managed (outsourced) services for customer care business process outsourcing. The survey involved over 200 U.S. respondents ...
This IDC Survey provides an overview of the results from a 2020 U.S. survey of enterprises involving their use of managed (outsourced) services for finance and accounting (F&A) business process outsourcing. The survey involved U.S. respondents ...
This IDC Market Presentation looks at the synergy that can be achieved when distributed ledger technology (DLT) and Internet of Things (IoT) are combined. This presentation not only examines why the two technologies fit so well together, ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight examines Turkish organizations’ security investment plans and offers a perspective on such investments over the next two years. Survey respondents included security directors, security managers, CISOs, and CIOs ...
This IDC Survey presents data from the 14th of a series of surveys that will be run to track changing sentiment associated with COVID-19 impacts on technology adoption and future spending expectations through CY21. It includes a total of ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight analyzes the top challenges among European organizations related to order management. The analysis is based on the European Software Survey conducted by IDC in November 2020, and describes the major challenges ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight examines a portion of the IDC Energy Insights Utilities Consumer Survey, which surveyed 1,359 energy customers from around the world. The survey was carried out in July 2020 and covered the following ...
This IDC Survey presents results from the U.K. segment of IDC's European IoT Decision-Maker Survey. This survey assesses current and planned deployment of IoT projects, including benefits and challenges, impact of COVID-19 on IoT plans, ...
This IDC Market Presentation is an executive summary of IDC's 3Q20 Cloud Pulse, with a focus on cloud vendors, loyalty, and trade-offs.
Cloud Pulse provides an overview of cloud adoption and cloud trends among IT buyers. Cloud Pulse ...
This IDC Market Presentation compares the enterprise memory and storage hierarchy for 2009 and 2019 and gleans lessons we can learn about the reshaping of the hierarchy over the prior decade. This presentation was shared at the virtual DNA ...
This IDC Market Presentation includes results from IDC's European Edge Strategies research. It highlights the edge vendor landscape, focusing on Europe. The scope of the study is to depict the overall status of the edge vendor landscape ...
This IDC Market Presentation summarizes key events that took place in the European services market in 3Q20.
This IDC Survey Spotlight examines the business divisions that most require the introduction of new key performance indicators (KPIs) and metrics. "Processes that are not defined and documented cannot be measured. Organizational success ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight provides insight from the worldwide IT/OT Integration Survey. It examines manufacturers' different levels of priorities regarding their primary providers of IT/OT solutions. It also looks at some of ...
This IDC Presentation discusses the Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) (APEJ) regionalization of the 2021 Worldwide Cloud Predictions. Each prediction is presented based on timeline projection, cost/complexity assessment, and organizational ...
This IDC Market Glance provides a glimpse of the current makeup of the customer intelligence and analytics landscape, including the segments and structure of the market. Customer intelligence and analytics is a part of the overall customer ...
This IDC Survey document presents results from IDC's European IoT Decision-Maker Survey 2020 that pertain to the usage of analytics in IoT deployments. This document assesses current and planned usage of analytics in IoT, reasons for using ...
This IDC Market Presentation explores IDC Canada's ICT predictions for 2021 and was originally presented as a Web Conference on December 8, 2020. As business and IT leaders look ahead to 2021, IDC expects that technology will play an increasingly ...
This IDC Survey presents the results of a survey of global oil and gas leaders to assess current practices and future initiatives within environmental health and safety (EH&S).
This IDC Survey Spotlight examines the departments that have the most influence over collaboration platform purchases.
"Because work from home has become the new norm during the pandemic, organizations of all sizes are looking to ...
This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation discusses the root causes of data silos, what multicloud data management platforms can deliver, and recommended actions for IT practitioners. IDC's future of digital infrastructure predicts that, by 2023, ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight identifies the key suppliers of customer journey management software in Europe. It is based on data from IDC's EMEA European Software Survey (conducted October and November 2020). This EMEA ...
The IDC Market Presentation covers the primary SaaS vendors across human capital management, financial applications, customer relationship management, team collaborative applications, and conferencing applications in Canada.
It provides ...
This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation investigates the global trends shaping the mining industry while mapping them to IDC’s Worldwide Mining 2021 predictions as identified in IDC’s FutureScape: Worldwide Mining 2021 Predictions ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight presents the movement of network infrastructure spending outlooks as the COVID-19 pandemic developed throughout 2020. It contains data across five waves of IDC's 2020 COVID-19 Impact on IT Spending Survey. ...
The IDC Tech Buyer Presentation provides results from IDC's Contact Center Metrics Survey, which is conducted annually for five years. The 2020 survey focused on the current deployment models and future intentions for deployment ...
This IDC Market Analysis Perspective (MAP) provides big data and analytics (BDA) software technology vendors with an overview of the BDA market, offering the information required to support planning, market intelligence, competitive intelligence, ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight is part of a series of reports based on IDC's European Accelerated App Delivery Survey completed in September 2020. This series provides insight into end-user maturity, organizational approach, as well as ...
This IDC Survey focuses on adoption, spending, and vendor preferences across a broad range of communication services and technologies in Canadian enterprises and includes new questions on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. This document ...
This IDC Market Glance document provides a glance at the landscape of application development languages, development frameworks, and development tools and platforms.
The IDC Market Glance provides the highest-level view of the healthcare IT landscape for 4Q20. The major categories and vendors identified in the document include infrastructure, core transaction, clinical and financial risk management, ...
This IDC Market Glance provides a high-level view of the current makeup of the supply chain execution ecosystem, illustrates the vendor landscape, and depicts the segments and structure of the market. A supply chain's foundation and ability ...
This IDC Survey provides a high-level summary of key technology investment trends. It includes data from IDC's 2020 U.S. Enterprise Communications Services Survey.
This IDC Survey Spotlight provides insight from IDC's annual HR Executive Survey (survey conducted during April 2020). This IDC Survey Spotlight focuses on what will drive HR buyers to make systems changes in 2021.
This IDC Survey Spotlight focuses on actual 2020 organizational spend on collaboration platforms such as Slack and Microsoft Teams, and what 2021 spending is going to look like. Collaboration application growth has been significant in 2020, ...
This IDC Survey addresses tech buyer digital behaviors while balancing their preferences for personalized communication. The survey explores trust factors and the impact of trust and customer experience on the buyers' willingness to purchase ...
This IDC Survey presents results from IDC's September 2020 survey of 2,000 U.S. consumers on how the impact of COVID-19 has changed their behaviors. The survey had a special focus on the way technology has been used during the pandemic and ...
This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation highlights how the COVID-19 pandemic accelerated workplace collaboration applications adoption by five years. This research-based document provides insights and benefits in unlocking secure collaboration ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight highlights where digital transformation projects have influenced specific measurable benefits. The relative order of benefits influenced will help both IT buyers and IT suppliers understand the current state and ...
This IDC Market Analysis Perspective contains our view of the Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) (APEJ) software-as-a-service (SaaS) market, with insights into SaaS adoption and buyer needs, a competitive assessment of key players, and essential ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight looks at European businesses' strategies to achieve business resiliency. Today's volatile business environment, linked to ongoing digital transformation, has made resiliency a central characteristic of any organization ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight analyzes European organizations' attitudes toward existing customer experience key performance indicators (KPIs) and what new KPIs they are looking for. According to data from IDC's EMEA COVID-19 Impact Survey, ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight examines data collected from IDC's Print and Document Management MaturityScape Benchmark Survey, completed in October. The print and document management (PDM) study is designed to identify ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight examines the 2021 and 2022 priorities of European enterprises in the wake of their experiences dealing with the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. Data from IDC's Europe, the Middle East, and Africa COVID-19 Survey ...
This IDC Survey includes data from IDC's 2020 U.S. Enterprise Communications Survey.
IDC surveyed approximately 600 United States–based decision makers responsible for network/strategy and operations for their organization's ...
This IDC Market Presentation presents the results of IDC's 2Q20 market forecasts for security appliance hardware, security software, and security services. Security product forecast by deployment model include:
- Hardware
- Software
- SaaS
While ...
This IDC Survey Spotlights analyzes data from IDC's IT and Operational Technology (OT) Convergence Survey, 2020. It examines European utilities' expectations around OT data growth and the evolving practices around OT data storage ...
This IDC Survey examines the IDC Energy Insights Utilities Consumer Survey with specific regard to customer experience (convenience, value for money, and personalization), the customer journey, and customers' appetite for new energy ...
This IDC Market Presentation looks at the unified communications and collaboration (UC&C) market for Europe post-COVID-19 pandemic. It shows the steps organizations must take as they move toward the next normal and how UC&C is needed ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight focuses on IT-OT integration providers and preferred partners among utilities in Europe and North America. It is based on data from IDC's 2020 IT and Operational Technology (OT) Convergence Survey, carried ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight provides insight from results of IDC's Worldwide IT and OT Integration Survey. It highlights different levels of priority among manufacturers when it comes ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight provides analysis of the results of IDC's survey of 300 buyers of data as a service in November 2020 about important issues that influence the purchase of external data.
"IDC's survey data shows that more ...
This IDC Market Presentation presents an overview of IDC's new sustainability-focused research program, "Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) Business Services". It explains the program's point of view on sustainability and its coverage ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight highlights the changes required for contact center solutions going forward and how new key performance indicators (KPIs) and metrics on customer experience (CX) can help drive those changes. The findings are based ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight analyzes the degree to which European organizations are looking for new business KPIs and for which functions. It is based on data from wave 13 of the IDC EMEA COVID-19 Impact Survey, conducted on October ...
This IDC Market Presentation provides data from the primary research completed by the Infrastructure Systems, Platforms, and Technologies Group during the 3Q20 Storage Infrastructure Survey. In this presentation, we are grouping the ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight analyzes the degree to which European organizations are looking for new business key performance indicators (KPIs) and for which functions. It is based on data from wave 13 of the IDC EMEA COVID-19 Impact Survey, ...
This IDC Market Presentation assesses the importance of becoming data driven for European organizations. It analyzes the role of data in navigating through the COVID-19 crisis and thriving in the digital economy. It highlights the data-related ...
This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation explores the notion of Mining 4.0 and what it actually encompasses. The report investigates the five stages of mining maturity while utilising the results of IDC's 2020 Asia/Pacific Industry ...
This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation explores the current context of intelligent and robotic process automation (IPA/RPA) among European healthcare providers. It looks at the strategic imperative of automation in view of healthcare organizations ...
Asia/Pacific organizations were the first to endure the COVID-19 pandemic when it emerged in January 2020. Currently, they are among the first to rise in its wake. This research examines what recovery looks like.
"As they emerge from ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight analyzes the customer experience (CX) metrics reported by firms as being the most important for measuring progress from an organizational perspective. The scores for survey respondents are categorized based on firms' ...
This IDC Market Glance offers a high-level view of the emerging market of skill requirement planning and development in Europe. It highlights market segments supporting the skills life-cycle management process — from skills strategy, skills ...
This IDC Market Presentation analyzes a selection of data from IDC's Global Retail Innovation Survey, 2020. The analysis focuses on the worldwide key findings that, according to IDC, IT providers should consider when building their ...
This IDC Survey profiles organizations that are looking to increase data security spending in 2021 compared with 2020 due to business changes triggered by responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. Charts with "data security" imply respondents ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight provides insights on the impact of infrastructure spend during 2020 in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, looking at planned IT across various infrastructure categories. These insights were gathered as part of IDC's ...
This IDC Survey discusses the research on collaborative technologies including team collaboration applications, conferencing, enterprise communities, and collaborative workflow. COVID-19 has accelerated the need for collaborative applications ...
This IDC Survey analyzes the Industry 4.0/advance industrial technology adoption within Asia/Pacific. It provides data-based insights that will help both users and vendors better understand why an organization's industrial operational transformation ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight analyzes how expectations about the shape of business COVID-19 recovery in 2021 will influence spend on workspace-focused technologies. This IDC Survey Spotlight is based on data from IDC's COVID-19 Impact on ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight provides an assessment of end-user edge deployment by workloads, taking into consideration the criticality of edge infrastructure for organizations. Security, regardless of importance to operations, makes up the ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight analyzes how retailers are executing innovation pilots in the context of a broader business model innovation process. It explains why retailers must pay close attention to capitalizing at an optimal level the resource ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight analyzes how European organizations are planning to invest in automation from the perspective of business functions. It is based on data from wave 11 of IDC's EMEA COVID-19 Impact Survey (conducted ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight analyzes how the HR function's digital transformation will extend into 2021 and 2022. Respondents were asked what key metrics or KPIs they would like to see added to the HR function. Top responses are those fundamental ...
This IDC Survey presents results from IDC's September 2020 survey of 2,000 U.S. consumers on how the impact of COVID-19 has changed their behaviors. The survey had a special focus on the way technology has been used during the pandemic and ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight provides an overview on the top 3 technologies that retailers are currently implementing across different subindustries (food and grocery, fashion and apparel, consumer electronics, specialty retailers, etc.). The ...
This IDC Survey presents data from the 12th of a series of surveys that will be run to track changing sentiment associated with COVID-19 impacts on technology adoption and future spending expectations through CY21. It includes a total of ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight highlights the results from the following question posed to 1,500 respondents with 1,000+ employees across 6 countries, and several major industries, as part of IDC's 2020 Managed CloudView Survey: ...