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.
For semiconductor companies, having IP in one's technology portfolio is only less important than having the design engineering talent to create and integrate that IP. Qualcomm's intent with this acquisition is to reacquire its CPU design ...
Today, SAP announced two executive board–level position changes. Adaire Fox-Martin, a member of the executive board of SAP SE leading Customer Success, is leaving at the end of January. In addition, SAP noted the hiring of Julia White for ...
On January 13, VMware announced that CEO Pat Gelsinger will leave the company to become the CEO of Intel, effective February 15. Current Intel CEO Bob Swan is stepping down after taking over the position, first as interim CEO for seven months ...
A strategic partnership between Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Verily, an Alphabet company, and Microsoft Corp. was established today. Terra is a secure, scalable, open source platform that was developed by Verily and the Broad Institute ...
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 features data from IDC's 2020 COVID-19 Impact on IT Spending Survey, a global survey conducted from August 21–31, 2020. This document provides results and analysis from 329 Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) (APEJ) senior ...
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.
...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 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 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 study provides the worldwide augmented and virtual reality hardware forecast for the 2021–-2025 period.
"The worldwide AR and VR market is poised for a return to growth," says Ramon T. Llamas, research director, IDC's Augmented ...
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 study presents the U.S. wearable computing device forecast for the 2021–2025 period.
"Vendors will target a broader swath of users with multiple devices available with different feature sets and prices," says Ramon T. Llamas, ...
Quest Software is a leading provider of system management and database tools and utilities, including the Toad product line for database development and tuning, the SharePlex product for database replication, and the monitoring tools Foglight ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight discusses the perception of the participation of security in digital transformation initiatives is incongruent with the perception of authority.
"When asked about true authority, requiring sign off, only 10% ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight presents key findings in the use of artificial intelligence (AI) tools on video assets from IDC's November 2020 Digital Experience and Video Platforms Survey. The analysis also highlights how the use ...
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 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 Presentation provides a detailed analysis of the market and competitive landscape in IT services in China from January to June 2020 (1H20). It covers market size movements and growth trends in each of the macromarkets (i.e., project-oriented ...
This IDC Market Share study examines the 10 largest managed services providers in 2019 and how their market shares evolved in the context of market developments and dynamics. The top 10 managed service providers accounted for 42.8% of the ...
This IDC study presents IDC's taxonomy of the cybersecurity software and appliance market. It provides definitions of security solutions in five functional markets, four product types, and three deployment types. This taxonomy forms the ...
This Vendor Profile looks at the development of Tanium, with a specific focus on its expanding presence in Europe, as well as the development of its solutions portfolio.
The news that NCR is adding to its ecommerce capabilities with the purchase of Freshop comes during a time when most businesses, from retailers to grocers to restaurants, remain hyperfocused on ecommerce strategies to counteract restrictions ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight analyzes results from IDC's Enterprise Networking: Emergence of The New Normal Survey conducted during the November-December 2020 time period. IDC surveyed 250 respondent organizations targeting enterprise ...
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 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 Note captures IDC's observations and discussions on the key ML/AI software–, tools–, and solutions–related announcements at AWS re:Invent 2020. It covers Amazon SageMaker Clarify, Amazon SageMaker Data Wrangler, Amazon SageMaker ...
This week Stratasys officially acquired Origin, the San Francisco–based 3D printing start-up for $100 million. The acquisition of Origin gets Stratasys further into the production segment with Origin's Programmable Photopolymerization, a ...
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 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 provides an overview of digital transformation (DX) developments in Europe in 3Q20. It covers news, significant deals, policy announcements, regulatory actions, and investments that could impact markets locally ...
This IDC Vendor Profile examines Quuppa, a provider of RTLS solutions. Quuppa's RTLS products, including locators, tags, positioning engines, and development kits, are designed to provide reliable, versatile, highly customizable, fully scalable, ...
This IDC Survey analyzes selected Nordic results from the IDC EMEA's Multicloud Survey, 2020.
"Most organizations use both multiple cloud services and cloud deployment models, but many still need to adopt actual multicloud services ...
This IDC Market Note includes industrial production printer news that occurred in December 2020.
This IDC Market Note includes 3D printing news that occurred in December 2020.
This IDC Market Note includes imaging, printing, and document solutions news for November and December 2020.
This IDC Market Forecast analyzes the European unified communications as a service market over the 2019–2024 forecast period.
"Cloud-based communication enables businesses to adapt their work environments to their distributed workforce, ...
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 Presentation shows the Europe, Middle East, and Africa Quarterly Security Appliance Tracker results for 3Q20. It examines market movements and dynamics within this fast-moving and expanding market.
This slide set presents:
- EMEA ...
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 Presentation provides a detailed analysis of the market and competitive landscape in IT services in Australia from January to June 2020 (1H20). It covers market size movements and growth trends in each of the macromarkets (i.e., ...
This IDC Market Share analyzes the evolution of the intelligent application services vendor market shares in Europe in 2020.
"Intelligent application services in Europe is now coming of age. DevOps is now a major investment focus for ...
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 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 Forecast presents a view of AI software platforms revenue from historical year 2019 and 2020-2024. IDC sees AI software platforms being used in a wide variety of industries and application types.
"The AI software platforms ...
This IDC Market Analysis Perspective (MAP) provides an overview of the Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) (APEJ) Internet of Things (IoT) market trends and vendor opportunities. It discusses market composition, growth trends, competitive landscape, ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight provides insights from IDC's Data Protection and Data Privacy Survey (conducted in December 2020). This IDC Survey Spotlight focuses on the metrics organizations reported around data subject ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight illustrates what success metrics organizations believe are most important in measuring third-party application delivery performance. The document contains data from IDC's 2020 U.S. Enterprise Deal Making Strategies ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight, based on the IDC European Tech and Industry Pulse Survey, 2019–2020, analyzes respondents that are adopting or planning to adopt one technology that also adopt or plan to adopt another technology. It shows ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight illustrates what traits third-party application providers must have to be considered best in class. The document contains data from IDC's 2020 U.S. Enterprise Deal-Making Strategies for Managed ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight examines the wave 15 data collected from December 3 to 15, 2020. As noted in recent survey results, IDC is now asking about 2021 spending trends.
In this latest data set, we observe an increasingly negative ...
This IDC Market Perspective explores European organizations' progress toward a transformed private-cloud-based IT infrastructure, examines companies' receptiveness to using the end-to-end cloud stacks of the leading public cloud vendors ...
This IDC Market Perspective provides a focus on value in network analytics. When examining network analytics solutions, it is easy to be drawn to leading-edge capabilities (e.g., packet telemetry, synthetic transactions, cloud visibility, ...
This IDC Market Presentation offers an overview of the worldwide largest 15 cloud service provider infrastructure demand trend for third quarter of 2020.
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 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 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 ...
This IDC Market Note summarizes noteworthy developments in the European AI systems marketplace in 3Q20 as selected by IDC's European AI practice members.
"A number of sectors have been hard hit by the pandemic. AI vendors have lost ...
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 Vendor Profile examines Germany-headquartered Computomics, a start-up founded in 2012 that has developed AI software systems to support the activities of plant breeders. Computomics aims to bring the power of advanced machine learning ...
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 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 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 Forecast analyzes IT spending between 2019 and 2024 in Europe and provides a market size and forecast as well as key trends supporting technology investments by industry. This IT spending forecast is segmented into IDC's ...
This IDC study presents a five-year forecast for the worldwide digital transformation spending market.
"COVID-19 has upended the global economy," said Eileen Smith, vice president, IDC's Customer Insights and Analysis Group. "While ...
This IDC Market Forecast assesses the European communications platform-as-a-service market for 2019 to 2024. It provides insight into the underlying forces impacting this market in the forecast period.
"CPaaS has moved far beyond basic ...
This IDC study presents a view of Canadian AI software and platforms market revenue from the historical year 2019 through the 2020–2024 forecast period.
"Strong growth of approximately 16% per year is forecast for the Canadian AI software ...
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 study provides a sizing of the employee experience software and services markets in 2019 and a 2020–2024 forecast.
"The bottom line is that the road to recovery can be significantly helped with a focus on employee experience. ...
This IDC study provides a 2020–2024 forecast for the worldwide project and portfolio management software market, which grew 4.5% to $3.9 billion in 2019 with current IDC numbers (compared with growth of 6.7% to $3.7 billion in 2018). We ...
This IDC study provides a 2020–2024 forecast update for the worldwide software change, configuration, and process management (SCCPM) market. We have slightly more than doubled our initial, overly conservative forecast for this market to ...
This IDC study provides an updated analysis of the 2020–2024 automated software quality (ASQ) market forecast. It discusses IDC's ASQ assessment for a market that showed single-digit growth of 4.9% to $2.9 billion in 2019 (compared with ...
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 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 ...
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 Pivot Table banner book provides data for IDC's 4Q20 Cloud Pulse publication for Asia/Pacific, which examines cloud adoption and cloud trends among IT buyers, with a focus on cloud economics, customer value, and staffing. IDC's ...
This IDC Pivot Table banner book provides data for IDC's 2Q20 Cloud Pulse publication for Asia/Pacific, which examines cloud adoption and cloud trends among IT buyers, with a focus on cloud vendors, loyalty, and trade-offs. Cloud Pulse looks ...
This IDC Pivot Table banner book provides data for IDC's 3Q20 Cloud Pulse publication for Asia/Pacific that examines cloud adoption and cloud trends among IT buyers, focusing on cloud vendors, loyalty, and tradeoffs. The IDC 3Q20 Cloud Pulse ...
This IDC Market Note provides insight from 3D printer manufacturers in how they see 3D printing helping manufacturers optimize their supply chains and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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 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 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 ...
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 study provides forecasts for spending and shipments in the Japan hyperconverged systems market from 2020 to 2024. It also provides spending forecasts by company size, industry segment, region, workload, and solution type (appliance/rack ...
The IDC Market Forecast examines the collaborative applications market. It outlines major market trends and provides recommendations for market players.
"Collaborative applications will play a crucial role in the future as enterprises ...
This IDC study presents a forecast of subscribers and transactional clients of paid OTT video services for annual strategic planning. The purpose of this study is to help marketers, product managers, and policy makers gain insight, validate ...
This IDC study provides an updated market sizing for the worldwide customer service applications software market based on completed revenue modeling and a revised forecast over a 10-year period and including consideration for the impact ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight looks at predicted spending patterns for healthcare and life science respondents for SaaS software and other technologies in 2021 as companies prepare for an anticipated emergence from the pandemic.
This IDC Market Perspective summarizes three major battlegrounds that have emerged in the increasingly competitive market among UCaaS providers with Direct Routing for Microsoft Teams solutions. IDC provides recommendations for each category ...
This IDC Market Perspective discusses the amount of operational data generated by commercial aircraft and analyzes the amount of data stored by key data recorders.
"Today's connectivity and storage technologies are very capable of ...
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 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 Market Perspective looks at the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the challenges associated with managing secure print in a hybrid work environment. This document discusses how organizations should approach print security for ...
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 study provides an analysis of the 2019 vendor share and vendor trends in the overall Japan network equipment market — by product segment, which includes Ethernet switches, routers, and enterprise wireless LAN equipment — and by ...