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 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 ...
On January 13, 2021, Intel surprised the semiconductor and financial industries by announcing a transition at the top of the company as Pat Gelsinger returns to Intel as the new CEO, effective February 15, 2021.
This IDC Market Forecast analyzes the development of the business fixed data services market in Europe with an outlook to 2024. This market includes internet access, private IP, Ethernet, very-high bandwidth, cloud connectivity, and legacy ...
This IDC Market Note summarizes key messages from KPN's annual Industry Analyst Day for its Business division on October 8 and corporate strategy update on November 24. It also provides IDC's perspective on both events.
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 Presentation examines the results of IDC's Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker in Western Europe in 3Q20, focusing on the business segment. IDC follows more than 120 mobile device manufacturers in 16 countries, providing detailed shipment ...
This IDC study presents the telecommunications services industry in Turkey in 2019 and forecasts expenditure on telecommunications services through 2024. It contains details about market size and distribution by technology category and vertical ...
This IDC study presents the updated five-year forecast for smartphone shipments worldwide by operating system. The worldwide smartphone market will reach a total of 1.29 billion units shipped in 2020, down 6.4% from the 1.37 billion units ...
This IDC Market Perspective examines the features and advantages that 5G brings to AR for field service workers. In the search for turnkey use cases for 5G, augmented reality is frequently discussed as one of the top near-term opportunities ...
This IDC Market Note provides IDC's perspective on Nokia's Digital Operations Center solution for addressing the service provisioning, activation, and assurance functions relative to digital services enablement.
"One of the greatest ...
This IDC Market Perspective examines a few key trends that will define 5G in the coming 12 months. 2020 was the year that 5G deployments began to reach critical mass in many countries, despite the COVID-19 pandemic. As we move to 2021, 5G ...
This IDC study sizes and forecasts mobile in-app and in-game advertising and the payout to developers/publishers from that spending, broken down by region and by ad format. Mobile advertising revenue is also broken out by major type, format, ...
This IDC study presents the five-year forecast for mobile phone shipments worldwide by device type. The worldwide mobile phone market will reach a total of 1,609.6 million unit shipments in 2020, down 10.4% from the 1,795.4 million units ...
This IDC Pivot Table examines the performance of the mobile phone application processor, tablet application processor, and PC microprocessor markets.
This IDC study examines the worldwide private LT/5G market for 2020–2024. A companion document, IDC PlanScape: Implementing a Private LTE or 5G Network (IDC #US46554920, June ...
Google's cloud-streamed gaming (CSG) service celebrated its first anniversary in November, and in the past week, it announced easier 30-minute free trials, iOS browser support, and four new games coming to its Pro subscription service in ...
This IDC Market Perspective provides an overview of the emerging enterprise network as a service (NaaS) market, including the evolution of this market and trends driving the market from both the enterprise and network vendor perspectives, ...
This IDC study provides a five-year forecast of the worldwide used smartphone market and its expansion and growth by 2024. This study provides an updated market forecast, based upon changes that will impact resellers, OEMs, vendors, carriers, ...
This IDC Market Analysis Perspective is an overview of the investment climate and spending intentions of decision makers regarding 5G in Western Europe. It outlines 5G adoption and top use cases in Europe as well as the competitive landscape. ...
This IDC Pivot Table highlights the smart speaker connectivity and processor market shares for 2Q20. It includes:
- Smart speaker connectivity shipment share — shipments of connectivity for smart speakers by chipset vendor (1Q16–2Q20) ...
This IDC Pivot Table highlights the smart speaker connectivity and processor market shares for 3Q20. It includes:
- Smart speaker connectivity shipment share — shipments of connectivity for smart speakers by chipset vendor (1Q16–3Q20) ...
This IDC Pivot Tablet contains quarterly (2012 to last quarter) market size and share by vendor, the air interface generation of the mobile phone (highest generation supported), and by major semiconductor type. It contains shipments by vendor ...
This IDC study examines consumer connected mobility and connected home devices install base in Canada for 2020–2024.
"In a year plagued by unforeseen global incidences and restrictions to curb the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, certain ...
This IDC Survey presents results from the French 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 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 study provides the five-year forecast update of the tablet market in 2019–2024. Detailed views of product type, segment, operating system (OS), region, screen size, and connectivity type are provided.
"The rapidly growing ...
This IDC Presentation provides an overview of how mobile gaming evolved with the rapid development of smartphones in Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan and China). This presentation will study the differences between the smartphones available ...
"SD-WAN is driven by a combination of applications and data cloud migration, the COVID-19 pandemic's impact due to the work-from-home (WFH) scheme, the introduction of cloud-native architecture and technologies, the proliferation of fiber-optic ...
The IDC Market Analysis Perspective session delivers a concise current state view of 5G in the Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) (APEJ) region and insight into the impact of 5G on future trends. In this study, IDC explores the major drivers ...
This IDC Market Note discusses key security and user privacy updates included in Android 11 from a general business use and enterprise deployment perspective. Android 11 was released on September 8, 2020, and Google remains committed to ...
This IDC Market Perspective analyzes DISH's prospects for becoming a 5G nationwide carrier that can compete with the established U.S. mobile operators. DISH Network became a nationwide mobile operator this year with the acquisition of Sprint's ...
This IDC Market Perspective discusses Intel's newly launched 11th Gen Core mobile processors with Iris Xe graphics (codenamed Tiger Lake) for thin and light devices, and highlights the new architecture and SoC design, the new AI capabilities, ...
This IDC Survey takes a closer look at the Apple ecosystem, showing the breadth and depth of the Apple device ecosystem and how it drives ongoing demand for Apple products (and services) and consumer spend as a result of Apple's deep consumer ...
"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 study provides a detailed description of the methodology and taxonomy for IDC's Worldwide 3rd Platform Spending Guide for government. It should be used as a companion piece for IDC's Worldwide 3rd Platform Spending Guide for government. ...
This IDC Presentation provides a comprehensive overview of the New Zealand (NZ) telecommunications market. It features an analysis of the fixed and mobile markets in NZ as well as profiles of the key players. In this year's presentation, ...
This IDC Market Forecast, the first of its kind by IDC in Europe, forecasts the total IoT spending for the 16 countries that comprise Western Europe and outlines trends and drivers of IoT-related adoption, including 5G cellular, which is ...
This IDC Survey includes data from IDC's 2020 U.S. Enterprise Mobility Decision Maker Survey, 2020 U.S. SMB Telecom Emerging Services Survey, and the October COVID-19 Impact on IT Spending Survey. The presentation ...
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 provides an overview of the vendors participating in the enterprise mobility market.
This IDC study provides a detailed description of the methodology and taxonomy for IDC's Worldwide 3rd Platform Spending Guide for healthcare. It should be used as a companion piece for IDC's Worldwide 3rd Platform Spending Guide for healthcare. ...
India's telecom market has undergone significant changes in the last year, especially in the mobile market segment. In 2020, telecommunications connectivity spend has been resilient, especially as many workers were furloughed and migrated ...
This IDC Market Note provides our perspective concerning how Wipro enables its customers to address the complex operations and monetization challenges that are becoming a key part of all 5G/MEC deployments.
"Operational readiness for ...
This IDC study provides a detailed description of the methodology and taxonomy for IDC's Worldwide 3rd Platform Spending Guide for manufacturing. It should be used as a companion piece for IDC's Worldwide 3rd Platform Spending Guide for ...
This IDC study provides a detailed description of the methodology and taxonomy for IDC's 2020 Worldwide 3rd Platform Spending Guide for oil and gas. It should be used as a companion piece for IDC's Worldwide 3rd Platform Spending Guide for ...
This IDC study provides a detailed description of the methodology and taxonomy for IDC's Worldwide 3rd Platform Spending Guide for utilities. It should be used as a companion piece for IDC's Worldwide 3rd Platform Spending Guide for utilities. ...
This IDC study provides an analysis of the U.S. traditional multichannel pay TV services market shares for 3Q20.
"The total market size for U.S. multichannel pay TV across cable, satellite, and telco TV services for residential and ...
This IDC Survey profiles organizations that are looking to increase secure remote access spending in 2021 compared with 2020 due to business changes triggered by responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. Charts with "secure remote access" imply ...
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 Market Note examines T-Mobile's quarterly results discussed in the company's 3Q20 earnings announcement on November 5, 2020. In this document, IDC analyzes T-Mobile's operating metrics and the overall strategy in the context of ...
This IDC Market Note discusses 3Q20 results and announcements by the three U.S. cable companies that offer wireless services, along with DISH Network, which owns the Boost Mobile MVNO service. It summarizes IDC's opinion on market changes ...
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 highlights the latest IDC EMEA Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker results for the Western European mobile phone market. In this tracker, IDC follows more than 110 phone makers in 16 countries, providing detailed ...
In a joint press event at Elisa's flagship store in Helsinki, Nokia and Qualcomm joined the mobile operator to live demo record breaking 5G speeds, on November 17, 2020. When launched commercially, Elisa will be able to offer top speeds ...
This IDC Presentation provides an analysis of the business growth drivers and restraints of the key Chinese smartphone vendors in Southeast Asia and determines their growth prospects in the short term. This presentation will help the smartphone ...
On November 5, IBM announced a broad range of partners for its recently launched IBM Cloud for Telecommunications. IBM's goal is to differentiate its unified architecture by facilitating an open platform with broad industry support to enable ...
This IDC Market Perspective examines the similarities between work-from-home (WFH) corporate policies and bring your own device (BYOD) policies in a post-COVID-19 enterprise market. This document discusses how employee choice will influence ...
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 Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) (APEJ) mobile connections and spending market has witnessed a significant traction in number of connections from 2016 to 2019. Mobile connections in APEJ reached 5.1 billion and recorded a spending of US$236 ...
After two years of its debut, Google's Android Enterprise Recommended (AER) program will now formally include Samsung Galaxy smartphones and tablets. Samsung Galaxy devices have historically been positioned as the default enterprise-grade ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight reveals businesses' plans for migrating TDM to VoIP and corporate-liable mobile phones and characterizes the expected impact on growth. This document contains data from IDC's 2020 U.S. Enterprise Communications ...
This IDC study provides a detailed description of the methodology and taxonomy for IDC's Worldwide 3rd Platform Spending Guide for retail. It should be used as a companion piece for IDC's Worldwide 3rd Platform Spending Guide for retail. ...
This IDC study provides a detailed description of the methodology and taxonomy for IDC's Worldwide 3rd Platform Spending Guide for securities and investment services. It should be used as a companion piece for IDC's Worldwide 3rd Platform ...
This IDC study analyzes the outlook for the postpaid and prepaid wireless segments of the U.S. mobile services market for the 2020–2024 period.
"The COVID-19 pandemic has put an unexpected focus on the prepaid market during 2020," ...
This IDC Market Note discusses Verizon's 3Q20 results as discussed in the company's earnings call on October 21, 2020.
"Given the prevailing economic uncertainty, Verizon had a decent third quarter," according to Courtney Munroe, research ...
On November 10, HP Inc. unveiled the LaserJet M200, OfficeJet Pro 8025e/8035e, and OfficeJet Pro 9015e/9025e series. More significantly, HP Inc. debuted HP+ with these product introductions that bring new levels of a simple, seamless, and ...
This IDC Survey looks at the Australia and New Zealand (ANZ) mobility results from IDC's 2020 Asia/Pacific Future of Work Employee Survey.
Key areas examined in the study include:
- The COVID-19 crisis' effects ...
This IDC study provides a detailed description of the methodology and taxonomy for IDC's Worldwide 3rd Platform Spending Guide for banking. It should be used as a companion piece for IDC's Worldwide 3rd Platform Spending Guide for Banking. ...
This IDC Survey highlights the results from IDC's 2020 Enterprise Mobility Decision Maker Survey about enterprise mobility management services (EMMS) adoption and priorities.
"Continuing remote work requirements are driving ...
This IDC Survey provides a summary of results from IDC's SMB Telecom Emerging Services Survey, an online survey of United States–based small and medium-sized businesses fielded in August 2020. This portion of the survey explores ...
This IDC Survey brings a consumer demand-side perspective to what happened in the U.S. consumer smartphone segment in 2Q20.
The survey was conducted from April through June 2020 (during the COVID-19 pandemic) among 1,006 consumers ...
This IDC Survey provides a summary of the results from IDC's SMB Telecom Emerging Services Survey, an online survey of United States–based small and medium-sized businesses fielded in August 2020. This portion of the survey ...
This IDC Market Presentation, presented in October 2020, elaborates on some of the ways that telecommunications service providers (telcos) are advancing the sustainability agenda in their strategies. It tackles the following questions:
- Why ...
This IDC Market Perspective identifies various digital strategies taken up by the top 10 carrier groups across geographies. These digital strategies redefine operators' innovation, efficiency, growth, and customer experience and enable them ...
This IDC Market Presentation provides highlights of the findings and recommendations from our 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 ...
This IDC Market Note presents details of 5G Americas' 2020 Analyst Forum held virtually on October 7 and 8. The event provided an update on North America's 5G status on the global stage. While 5G is the fastest-growing generation of wireless ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight provides insight from IDC's HR Executive Survey conducted during April 2020, compared with the survey conducted during April 2019. This IDC Survey Spotlight focuses on HR buyers' assessment of the importance ...
This IDC study presents a five-year forecast for the U.S. managed network services market.
"The COVID-19 pandemic has brought the importance and demand for managed network services to the foreground. Enterprises are overwhelmed with ...
On October 29, Apple announced its fiscal 4Q20 results, with revenue growing to $64.7 billion, representing 1% year-over-year (YoY) growth. For the full fiscal year, the company reached $274.5 billion. Apple pushed its new iPhone launches ...
This IDC study provides a detailed description of the methodology and taxonomy for IDC's Worldwide 3rd Platform Spending Guide for insurance. It should be used as a companion piece for IDC's Worldwide 3rd Platform Spending Guide for insurance. ...
This IDC Survey examines enterprise spending intentions and adoption of unified endpoint management (UEM) software and other workspace management technologies in Europe. Enterprises in the region are coming to grips with the realities of ...
This research presents the 2019 performance of the professional services market for the 3rd Platform and the market forecast from 2020 to 2024 by four major technology areas (for cloud, business analytics [BA], enterprise mobility, and social ...
This IDC study presents forecasts for the number of connections and revenue or spending in the Japan key telecommunications services markets from 2019 to 2024: enterprise WAN, mobile telecommunications, enterprise wireless IoT telecommunications, ...
"As the Asia/Pacific region starts to turn its attention to 5G/5G-ready network construction, the region’s leading operators have already begun the processes of migrating and/or upgrading their IP and optical fronthaul and midhaul network ...
This study analyzes the network equipment spending and total CAPEX, including the region's nonequipment structures and facilities in both fixed-line and mobile networks.
"At the end of June 2020, with over 110 million connections, ...
Marvell's announced acquisition of Inphi will bring additional high-speed data interconnect portfolio and silicon photonics technology to complement Marvell's Ethernet silicon and network infrastructure processors.
The companies' ...
Verizon is looking to establish a more prominent role as a managed service provider in the private 5G networks space, especially as more countries outside the United States appear poised to allocate spectrum directly for enterprise use. ...
This IDC study discusses our forecast for the worldwide smartwatch market for 2020–2024.
"The worldwide smartwatch market will rebound from a slow start in 2020, enough to pull within close proximity to 2019 levels," says Ramon T. ...
AMD's announced acquisition of Xilinx will provide AMD with discrete FPGA accelerators and processor-based FPGAs and Intelligent NICs that complement its CPUs and GPUs and enable AMD to compete with a more complete product portfolio against ...
T-Mobile claims to be taking on the cable industry with a new suite of streaming TV services. But, in a market in which cord-cutting is eroding pay TV subscribers across cable and other traditional pay TV segments, pay TV is not the real ...
In segmenting the Japan mobile device industry into its constituent markets, IDC analysts followed a methodology using demand-side and supply-side analyses of key trends and events over a given period. This methodology is predicated on the ...
Qualcomm laid out its vision for 5G and its evolving strategy that continues to leverage a leadership position in modem and compute power. The summit included product and partnership announcements, including its reentry into the infrastructure ...
This IDC Survey presents a subset of results from IDC's 2020 European Enterprise Mobility & Devices Survey. It aims to understand enterprises' key strategic mobile device initiatives, from investment priorities to ...
This IDC study presents the forecast for the worldwide networked video entertainment device market for the 2020–2024 period.
"Networked video entertainment devices remain popular as competition forces prices down and services are expanding ...
This IDC Market Presentation summarizes significant capex trends that will affect the top 10 telcos in Europe in the short and medium term. They plan to reduce capex 1.4% year over year until 2024. Their capex intensity will decrease as ...
This IDC Market Forecast discusses the Western Europe UEM software market.
"The UEM market in Western Europe is a dichotomy in a couple of fundamental ways," said Kevin Restivo, research manager, Enterprise Mobility. "Increasingly, ...
On October 13, at the Apple "Hi, Speed" event (the second installment of Apple's fall 2020 product launches), Apple finally made its much-awaited smartphone announcements, bringing refresh design aesthetics and new product innovations while ...
Apple's iPhone 12 smartphone line provides a solid evolutionary offering as Apple transitions to the 5G opportunity and the leading edge of semiconductor manufacturing reaches the 5nm technology node, following well-established technology ...
Vendor-neutral open hardware platforms and virtualized cellular baseband processing are setting the direction of next-generation 5G infrastructure systems. These new technologies enable mobile network operators (MNOs) and private cellular ...