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 PeerScape describes four best practices of how manufacturers from the automotive, aerospace, industrial machinery, and chemicals industries leverage data sharing and exchange with their ecosystem of partners, suppliers, and customers ...
This IDC Market Perspective discusses reported semiconductor shortages and inventory issues, the causes, how companies are currently addressing the issue, the outlook for different markets, and potential strategies to address the market.
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This IDC Perspective discusses the state-of-the-art Future of Intelligence in Latin America and the role played by artificial intelligence in defining organizations able to harness the power of their data-driven culture, employee data literacy, ...
This IDC Perspective analyzes how bp embarked on a subsurface knowledge mining project. bp intended to capitalize on the wealth of subsurface data it built over the years to boost the operational efficiency of its upstream business. The ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight discusses the investment trend data that shows how services providers are working as digital chefs to blend hardware and software into digital business capabilities.
According to IDC's Worldwide Digital Transformation ...
The COVID-19 crisis has resulted in enterprises reassessing their technology priorities as they react to constantly changing environmental conditions and try to chart a course of action to resilience and recovery. This IDC Spotlight analyzes ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight looks at end users' anticipated spending on business consulting services in 2021 across different regions and purchasing departments. Data comes from IDC's December 2020 Global Buyer Perception of Business and ...
This IDC Market Presentation provides a detailed analysis of the worldwide solid state drive (SSD) market and competitive landscape for CY 4Q20. Significant market dynamics, trends, and events are summarized and evaluated. In addition, SSD ...
As the Middle East, Turkey, and Africa region emerges from the economic fallout of COVID-19 and works its way to a smarter recovery, the shift to "cloud-based enterprises" will accelerate in 2021 and beyond. Addressing cloud model and management ...
This Market Note focuses on IDC's viewpoints on the path ahead for the healthcare organizations in India. As these organizations have firm plan to increase their IT spend in 2021, it is essential to channelize these investments, technologies ...
One of the leading inhibitors of Industry 4.0 progression is the heterogeneous legacy technology landscape in industrial operations and the challenge of aggregating and managing operational data. By partnering to enable a hybrid cloud architecture, ...
Chorus reported December HY21 operating revenues of NZ$473m, down 2.1% from NZ$483m in HY20. A key driver was migration of customers from legacy copper services to alternative networks, particularly in non-Chorus UFB areas. Continued headwinds ...
This IDC study provides the worldwide market forecast for document workflow automation and optimization from 2021 to 2025.
"Despite challenges due to COVID-19 over the past year, many businesses are entering a phase where they are ...
This IDC study provides a 2021–2025 forecast for the worldwide system and service management software market.
According to Tim Grieser, research vice president, Enterprise System Management Software at IDC, "The system and service ...
This IDC study represents a vendor assessment of service providers offering unified communications as a service (UCaaS) for enterprise using the IDC MarketScape model. The assessment reviews both quantitative and qualitative characteristics ...
This IDC Web Conference was presented in February 2020 as the last in a three-part series exploring the convergence of modern application development and modern business automation.
Culture permeates everything that an organization ...
This IDC study represents a vendor assessment of service providers offering unified communications as a service (UCaaS) for SMBs using the IDC MarketScape model. The assessment reviews both quantitative and qualitative characteristics that ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight shares the top artificial intelligence (AI) use cases currently being used by small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) within three European countries, namely the U.K., Germany, and France. It also highlights planned ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight discusses whether analytics should be embedded in business applications. As organizations strive to become more data driven, they have to ensure that all business users have access to contextual analytics within ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight presents select findings from IDC's IT Infrastructure for Storage Survey. The survey was conducted in October 2020 and includes responses from over 600 IT and line-of-business (LOB) personnel responsible ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight presents select findings from IDC's IT Infrastructure for Storage Survey. The survey was conducted in October 2020 and includes responses from over 600 IT and line-of-business (LOB) personnel responsible ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight presents customer experience (CX) in Egypt during the COVID-19 pandemic. The recent pandemic has highlighted the needs and deficiencies of many organizations. It has also revealed a high level of agility and a new ...
This IDC Presentation provides a detailed analysis of the market and competitive landscape in IT services in Singapore from January to June 2020 (1H20). It covers the market size movements and growth trends in each of the macro markets (i.e., ...
This IDC Market Presentation examines the latest IDC Quarterly Smart Home Device Tracker for the Western Europe smart home market. In this tracker, IDC follows more than 55 smart home makes in 16 countries, providing detailed shipment volumes, ...
This IDC Presentation provides a detailed analysis of the market and competitive landscape in Taiwan's cloud services from January to June 2020 (1H20). The report covers revenue snapshots for infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform ...
This IDC Survey presents results from the German segment of IDC's European Internet of Things (IoT) Decision-Maker Survey. This survey assesses current and planned deployments of IoT projects, including benefits and challenges, impact of ...
This IDC Market Note captures IDC's observations and point of view on IBM and Palantir's partnership offering Palantir for IBM Cloud Pak for Data, announced on February 8, 2021, and to release in 1Q21. It covers ...
This IDC Market Forecast describes the size and growth of IT professionals' employment by role and region for 2019–2024. The document includes our forecast across 41 different job roles and an analysis of some of the key factors influencing ...
This IDC Market Perspective provides an overview of the evolution of Ricoh's service lines, its rapid reaction to the business impact of COVID-19, and the development of a customer engagement model including the launch of print devices that ...
This IDC Perspective focuses on Italian utility Italgas' innovative usage of augmented reality (AR) in field service. Setting out on the innovation path it knew from its recent past, Italgas successfully implemented AR in its field operations. ...
This IDC Perspective captures several key announcements made at Amazon Web Services (AWS) re:Invent 2020 that are critical for the public sector, including remarks made by Andy Jassy, CEO of Amazon Web Services, and Sandy Carter, vice president ...
This IDC Perspective discusses key characteristics of the recent SolarWinds attack. While the investigation of the hack continues, this document highlights three most important implications of the hack on every organization’s cyber practices.
...IDC estimates that the current spend in Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) (APEJ) on Internet of Things (IoT)–driven manufacturing applications is around US$11.1 billion. Data will be crucial to ensure that organizations can recognize and realize ...
This IDC Perspective identifies 10 major trends that we believe will impact life science companies in 2021.
"The industry has responded rapidly to the COVID-19 pandemic by driving an exponential growth in digitally disruptive technologies ...
This IDC Perspective examines how the global market for political disinformation is growing rapidly while leaving chaos, mistrust, and revolutionary rumblings in its wake. The motive is money for some disinformation creators, while others ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight compares selection criteria for cloud professional services providers for Canadian organizations that experienced revenue or operating budget growth in 2020 over 2019 with those organizations that had flat or declining ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight illustrates the preferences of Canadian medium-sized and large businesses in terms of how they procure professional services for cloud services (SaaS, IaaS, PaaS, SISaaS). The document contains data from IDC Canada's ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight reveals the main reasons why enterprises found their cloud spending to exceed the original budget last year. This document is based on data from IDC's Cloud Pulse Survey conducted in 4Q20. IDC ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight examines the impact of digital workspaces and VDI on endpoint security in Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) (APEJ).
The demand for virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) and digital workspace increased as physical ...
This IDC Market Glance provides a graphical view of open source software projects associated with key system infrastructure software and application development and deployment software technologies. It includes representative open source ...
This IDC Market Presentation highlights select results from IDC's 2020 CloudShare ISV Survey for Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) (APEJ) and some key differences in strategies and attitudes between ISVs in the region and ...
This IDC Perspective (video) provides IT leadership insights and challenges from IDC's IT Executive Program (IEP) clients and prospects from January 4 to February 16, 2021. Many leaders believe that as the COVID-19 vaccine is rolled out, ...
This IDC Survey provides a view of the business and IT priorities of European small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), which have shifted drastically since the emergence of COVID-19. It also shows the business health and revenue impacts ...
This IDC Presentation looks at the progress and priorities of Asia/Pacific oil and gas (O&G) companies within their industrial operational transformations, focusing on Industry 4.0 initiatives. It provides an analysis of the results ...
This IDC Market Note looks at the latest edition to Konica Minolta's expanding industrial and production printer portfolio and how the new product will enable the vendor and its partners to profit from growing demand for short-run corrugated ...
This IDC Market Note summarizes the RISE with SAP announcement and provides analyst-related reactions.
The news that Lectra is acquiring its long-time competitor comes at a time when the industries it serves — namely those that involve sewn products, including apparel, furniture, and automotive seating — are struggling due to shutdowns, economic ...
"Internet of Things (IoT) in the Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) (APEJ) markets continues to grow steadily as government, municipalities, enterprises, and industries take advantage of extensive fiber and 4G LTE coverage and the anticipated ...
This IDC study provides a 2021–2025 forecast for the worldwide IT operations management software market.
According to Tim Grieser, research vice president, Enterprise System Management Software at IDC, "The worldwide IT operations ...
This IDC study presents IDC's first global forecast of CO2 emissions savings from cloud computing.
"IDC has been tracking the server market and quantifying compute power for nearly all of its 50+ years," says John Gantz, ...
This IDC study provides a 2021–2025 forecast for the worldwide IT automation and configuration management software market.
According to Tim Grieser, research vice president, Enterprise System Management Software, "The worldwide IT ...
This IDC study presents vendor share in the Japan 5G-ready (fifth-generation telecommunications standard) mobile phone market. "Although slightly affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, the 5G-ready mobile phone market is making a decent start. ...
This IDC Market Presentation, which was given on February 16, 2021, summarizes the hard disk drive (HDD) market results for CY 4Q20. Significant market dynamics, trends, and events are summarized and evaluated in this presentation. Numerous ...
This IDC Market Glance provides a segmentation of technology solutions and technology and services providers being deployed and adopted by organizations to drive enterprise intelligence.
HP Inc. has launched a new partner initiative called HP Amplify Impact. The program — one of the first of its kind — provides access to a broad range of resources aimed at helping channel partners establish long-term, measurable goals for ...
This IDC study presents a five-year forecast for the APEJ manufacturing IT applications industry as of September 2020. It reviews and analyzes market context, including both drivers and inhibitors of IT application growth. It also highlights ...
This IDC study analyzes vendor market shares and vendor trends in 2019 in the network virtualization and automation platform market, which is a major component of the Japan network virtualization and automation market. VMware and Cisco Systems ...
This IDC study provides an analysis of the Japan unified communications and collaboration workspace market share based on vendor revenue performance in 2019. IDC classifies the market into four major solution segments — the IP telephony ...
This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation takes the utilities use case taxonomy for digital transformation (DX) and transposes it into a three-horizon road map. In each horizon, different uses cases are considered, introducing the logic of a transformation ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight summarizes the top drivers of hybrid UC&C deployments across industries. This document contains data from IDC's 2020 U.S. Enterprise Communications Survey. This IDC Survey Spotlight reveals commonalities ...
Amazon Web Services (AWS) recently held AWS re:Invent 2020, a three-week virtual conference held from November 30 to December 18, 2020, in which it made a slew of announcements regarding its new product launches for 2021. Prior to that, ...
This IDC Market Note examines T-Mobile's quarterly results discussed in the company's 4Q20 and full-year 2020 earnings announcement on February 4, 2021. In this document, IDC analyzes T-Mobile's operating metrics and overall strategy in ...
Red Hat's acceleration of the move positioning CentOS Linux as an upstream community distribution that is a precursor for subsequent Red Hat Enterprise Linux releases, not surprisingly, has ruffled some feathers in the CentOS community. ...
Oracle announced new features in marketing, sales, and service applications within Oracle CX that extend the use of AI and automation and improve integration between CX products that will help enterprise customers improve personalization ...
This IDC study provides a comprehensive overview of and definitions for personal computing devices (PCDs). The definitions provided in this document represent the scope of IDC's PCD hardware research.
This taxonomy outlines market ...
This IDC study represents a vendor assessment of providers offering eDiscovery services through the IDC MarketScape model. The assessment reviews both quantitative and qualitative characteristics that define current market demands and expected ...
Charter Communications, through its subsidiary Spectrum Enterprise, announced that is now offering Managed Network Edge (MNE), a new service to manage single location and multilocation local area networks (LANs). This service is based on ...
This IDC study presents a vendor assessment of digital finance and accounting business process services (BPS) focusing on the use of digital levers to deliver these services and drive greater cost and process efficiencies, reduce total cost ...
This IDC Web Conference discusses digital business models and their impact on organizations. Around 45% of European CEOs believe new business models such as subscription services, data as a service, and freemium strategies will have a high ...
This IDC Market Perspective updates the definition of esports and focuses on revenue generated by businesses in the esports market. More specifically, it divides esports into two core segments, two adjacent segments, sizes the respective ...
This IDC Market Perspective provides IDC Health Insights' review of key IT deals, news, and digital initiatives in European life sciences and pharma in Q4 2020. In the unfolding COVID-19 scenario, it is critical for European life sciences ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight focuses on a spectrum model that aligns workplace flexibility with workforce site strategy. As hybrid work models continue to evolve, organizations must focus on the intersection points of technology, processes, ...
This IDC Market Presentation provides an overview of smartphones used for online education or home-based learning as schools were shut down in various countries across Asia/Pacific, with school closures lasting almost a year in many of these ...
This IDC Presentation gives an overview of the Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) (APEJ) personal computing device (PCD) market qualitative analysis for 3Q20, including a historical analysis and forecast by region and country. This includes ...
This IDC Survey examines CIO priorities and views on digital transformation (DX) and associated challenges across the Middle East, Turkey, and Africa (META) region. One of its aims is to provide a greater understanding of the strategic and ...
This IDC Market Note includes industrial and production print news that occurred in January 2021.
On February 4, 2021, Microsoft announced the launch of Microsoft Viva, an employee experience platform (EXP) that brings together a variety of tools and features for employee engagement (EX), learning, well-being, and knowledge discovery ...
During its earnings call on February 10, Equinix reported an 8% increase in revenue from 2019 to 2020 to almost $6 billion. Equinix's continued positive results reflect the critical and expanded role of datacenters and cloud resources for ...
As enterprises in Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) (APEJ) turned to new ways of working and serving customers remotely, application management (AM) SPs were quick to help enterprises remain resilient during the disruptions brought by the COVID-19 ...
This IDC Taxonomy provides a comprehensive overview of the definitions used for measuring telecom services markets across the globe. The top-level methodology used to research these markets is also outlined in the study. The taxonomy summaries ...
This IDC Vendor Profile focuses on Germany-headquartered company MEHRWERK GmbH, founded in 2008. In 2018, MEHRWERK introduced an innovative process mining software tool based on the Qlik platform to offer comprehensive process mining capabilities ...
This IDC Market Perspective provides an overview of the potential impact on the digital market of the Trade and Cooperation Agreement between the U.K. and Europe. The key elements of the deal and their effects on ICT spending are discussed, ...
This IDC Market Perspective provides a framework of three sustainability pillars for the IT industry: Technology Vendor Performance, Technology as an Enabler, and Technology for Good. Using this framework, this document quantifies over 200 ...