IDC Research Types
Analyst
Analyst Profile
Provides complete background information on an IDC analyst. Each profile provides a biography, a notable quotation, a frequently asked question relevant to the particular analyst's focus, and a list of research authored by that analyst.
Team Profile
Lists the analyst members of a topical team. Outlines general areas of coverage and any specialties.
Briefs
Flash
Provides rapid IDC insight and analysis about a significant industry event or conference, merger or acquisition, product announcement, or other fast-breaking news affecting the IT market.
Forecast Update
Provides a short, quick look at an updated forecast and the changed assumptions behind the update. It updates a market forecast published in the same calendar year, identifies changed and key forecast assumptions, and highlights actions for participants to consider in light of the changes.
IDC Insight
Provides coverage and analysis of an industry event, new product or service, or a company announcement or development.
Update
Provides brief overview coverage of what is happening in a market.
Vendor Profiles
Provides a concise, hard-hitting profile of an emerging vendor. A profile will highlight new players and technologies and the potential paradigm shifts or disruptions a vendor represents.
Daily Graphics
Daily Graphic
Illustrates IDC's keen analysis of major market trends in downloadable PowerPoints. Available as a free download the day it appears, an IDC Daily Graphic provides valuable material for speeches and strategic planning.
Event Proceedings
Event Proceeding
Provides published slides, audio, and other materials from IDC and Insights Web conferences, briefings, forums, or other events.
Events
Conference
Delivers dependable, relevant, and high-impact data and insight to help organizations make sound business and technology decisions. eBusiness executives, IT professionals, IT suppliers, and services suppliers benefit from the strategic insight and networking opportunities IDC conferences offer. Generally, all presentation slides are available online, and for most conferences, streaming audio of key discussions is available as well.
Web Conference
Focuses on significant trends and paradigm shifts. Each Web conference will provide attendees with leading-edge market information that will enable them to make smart business decisions. For those unable to attend in person or those wishing to review the content presented, these synchronized multimedia presentations are available online.
IDC DecisionScapes
IDC FutureScape
Serves as a framework for IT/tech professionals' IT strategy and planning for the next one to three years. It lists IDC's top 10 worldwide technology trends for the coming one to three years in a given research area and includes related drivers, projected IT/business strategy impact, and guidance.
IDC MarketScape
Helps IT/tech professionals develop a short list of suitable suppliers when selecting a vendor. Provides an unbiased assessment of tech suppliers in terms of offerings, strategy, capabilities, and other important factors in a given technology area.
IDC MaturityScape
Describes five stages of "maturity" or capability for a particular technology area, helps IT/tech professionals understand where their organizations fit within those stages, and provides guidance on key components for planning successful improvements to a tech initiative.
IDC MaturityScape Benchmark
Helps IT/tech professionals to benchmark their maturity against peers, develop a business case for a tech initiative, and build consensus about where critical IT investments should be made. Presents quantitative research results that show the market distribution for a given tech initiative across the five stages of maturity presented in the related IDC MaturityScape. Shows the results and components of particularly successful initiatives.
IDC PeerScape
Gives IT/tech professionals insight into best practices (and practices to avoid) by providing specific use case examples implemented by peers. Identifies practices that have the most impact on the success of a tech or business initiative, and provides actionable guidance for each practice.
IDC PlanScape
Helps IT/tech professionals to justify and plan a business and/or technology investment or opportunity by exploring why, what, who, and how (these are also the main section headings). Presents key players, critical success factors, risks, and actions to consider for a designated technology and/or business management area.
IDC TechScape
Helps IT/tech professionals with developing IT strategic plans and evaluating emerging technologies in terms of their risk to the business. Shows the adoption curve and risk levels over time for a specific emerging technology. Sorts technologies into three "adoption model" categories (transformational, incremental, opportunistic) to help tech leaders determine the potential impact for their organization.
IDC Links
IDC Link
Provides timely context and insight around important market trends and events in a short opinion piece. IDC Links provide IDC's point of view on:
- Financial announcements
- Product announcements
- Mergers and acquisitions or divestitures
- Events
- Response to news
Insights-only Research
Best Practices
Correlates the use of specific practices and superior performance as indicated by an analysis of the benchmarking database. Highlights any significant differences between industries. Conclusions provide a set of process priorities for improving a business case and advice on how to overcome change management issues.
Business Strategy
Helps buyers to assess their business strategies and/or associated business processes, especially as they relate to the use of technology.
Methods and Practices
Provides a step-by-step description of a method or methods that can be applied. As appropriate, the report may compare the benefits and drawbacks of several methods.
Perspective
Presents an article written by an Insights analyst on a topic of special interest to a target audience. This information has generally already appeared in an industry publication and is repackaged for display on the Insights Web site.
Vendor Assessment
Helps buyers select the right IT supplier. The report helps buyers understand the various providers of a technology by providing analysis on market landscape, vendor profiles, vendor market share, and vendor assessments.
Pivot Tables
Pivot Table
Presents an interactive spreadsheet tool for analyzing trends and activities in a specific market segment. These tables are available only through an annual subscription service.
Predictions
Top 10 Predictions
Provides bold, well-conceived market predictions grounded in solid methodologies, primary research, and analyst experience. Lays out a clear road map to understanding major market opportunities and trends.
Presentations
IDC Presentation
Provides the latest, select CIS forecast data, primary research survey findings, and critical IDC analyst opinion in a succinct, easy-to-digest PowerPoint format.
IDC Survey
Presents a hypothesis about what is happening in the market backed by the results of a demand-side or supply-side survey. The focus is on interpreting and analyzing the survey results and providing a strong point of view along with actionable advice.
IDC Survey Spotlight
Answers a timely question and provides a strong opinion backed by IDC survey data. This is a quick nugget of information that is presented in two concise PowerPoint slides.
Insights Presentation
Provides an easy-to-use format to post on the Web presentations that were previously delivered at public forums (such as conferences and events) or for internal client meetings and client presentations. It may not come as part of a consulting/custom engagement.
Market Analysis Perspective
Delivers a concise current state view of a market and insight into the impact of future trends. Business executives, product managers, and MI/AR professionals can use this information when looking to understand buyers' perspectives and market impacts.
Press Releases
Press Release
Announces significant corporate news, such as key hirings or promotions, performance milestones, event highlights, or speaking engagements.
Product Information
Fact Sheet
Describes a research product. Usually details the major areas of coverage and deliverables, and outlines key questions and competitive market conditions that the research will address. Includes links to all published research for a research product.
Studies
Competitive Analysis
Provides a detailed accounting and review of a vendor's programs, processes, products, service, satisfaction, and/or strategy in a target market. This knowledge helps clients reduce their risk of losing market share or enhance their position over the competition.
Customer Needs and Strategies
Focuses on the important decisions that business and IT professionals make every day.
Industry Developments and Models
Provides a detailed assessment of a specific target market's expansion pattern. This analysis helps clients develop and deploy the right mix of value-add products, programs, or services to support their sales and/or partnering efforts.
Market Analysis
Provides an in-depth examination of the dynamics and future of a single market or a group of related markets. The Market Analysis is where we will typically present our forecasts and assumptions, using a key forecast assumptions table.
Market Forecast
Provides the future of a single market or a group of related markets. It presents a new or updated market forecast, including key drivers and assumptions used in the forecast.
Market Share
Provides data on market size, regional allocations, and platform splits as well as a summary of vendor shares for the most recently completed period (year, quarter).
Special Study
Provides a onetime study produced by a research group that is not published as a deliverable under a subscription service.
Survey
Provides a study and interpretation of the results of a demand- or supply-side survey.
Taxonomy
Highlights and emphasizes how IDC tracks the market while also making it easier for customers to find and identify IDC Taxonomy documents.
Technology Assessment
Provides an analysis of the intricacies of an emerging or established technology or the technologies contained within a specific product.
Vendor Needs and Strategies
Provides an in-depth analysis of a company, a small group of companies, a division of a company focused on a particular market, or a best practice that the company exemplifies.
This IDC Survey examines the spending intentions and behaviors of buyers of analytics, artificial intelligence (AI), and robotic process automation (RPA) services, with a specific focus on the impact of AI and intelligent automation on workforce ...
This IDC Survey provides an overview of the U.S. results from IDC's 2020 Worldwide Managed CloudView Study of enterprises involving their use of managed cloud services. The U.S. portion of this study involved 400 respondents ...
This IDC Survey presents the results of IDC's Enterprise IT Infrastructure Survey. Completed in December 2020, the Enterprise IT Infrastructure Survey, 4Q20, examines end-users' planned 2021 IT spend for server, storage, ...
The IDC study provides a visual representation of the process of technology adoption, dividing technologies into three major categories based on their impact on the organization and assessing technology relative adoption levels within their ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight analyzes the impact of COVID-19 on Canadian enterprise IoT budgets for 2020 and 2021. It indicates which segments raised and lowered their IoT spending, with a particular focus on industries.
This IDC Survey Spotlight discusses results from IDC's 2020 Industry Cloud Council Survey, which polled 115 business leaders across various industries including manufacturing, healthcare, government, energy, financial services, life ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight features the adoption of intelligent document processing (IDP) solutions within document workflows. The automation and optimization of document workflows leads to increased customer and employee satisfaction, increased ...
The combination of Okta and Auth0 looks to be a win-win combination of philosophies and technologies, and Okta expects the action to be accretive from an EPS standpoint. A debate ensues about the $6.5B stock offer coming only eight months ...
Konica Minolta and Ricoh both made notable announcements during the past week that have ramifications for the companies approach to the "next normal" in print. This IDC Link examines the impact of these moves.
Xero’s acquisition of Planday aligns to its strategy of supporting small and medium businesses (SMBs) through simplified business technology. The integration opportunities between workforce management, payroll and finance allows for business ...
This IDC study provides a review of the 2020 U.S. multifunction peripherals (MFPs) and vendor shares.
"From office closures to supply chain and import issues brought on by the COVD-19 pandemic, 2020 was a very arduous and unpredictable ...
This IDC study provides an analysis of the U.S. traditional multichannel pay TV services market shares for 2020.
"The total market size of U.S. multichannel pay TV across cable, satellite, and telco TV services for residential and ...
This IDC Presentation provides a detailed analysis of the cloud services market and competitive landscape in Southeast Asia countries, covering Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam, from January to June ...
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 ...
This IDC Pivot Table provides the CY 4Q20 and CY20 vendor share results and the forecasts for both the short term (4Q20–4Q21) and the long term (2021–2025) for the worldwide NAND flash memory market. The Pivot Table includes:
- Worldwide ...
This IDC study defines and provides a framework for analyzing the worldwide creation, capture, and replication of data.
"The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted a lot of things in 2020 and even permanently changed the way business is being ...
This IDC Presentation looks at the priorities and requirements for successful implementations of the Internet of Things (IoT) for oil and gas in the Asia/Pacific region. There is acceptance among oil and gas companies in the Asia/Pacific ...
This IDC eBook provides a look at IDC European Predictions for 2021 and beyond, highlighting the critical role of technology in supporting organizations to emerge from crisis, build resilience, and move forward in a sustainable fashion. ...
This IDC Perspective describes the drivers behind ERP modernizations and the factors that need to be considered when evaluating an ERP modernization project's business case. It also presents five ERP modernization scenario archetypes, identified ...
This IDC Perspective provides a step-by-step guide for CIOs who seek to develop and enhance their effectiveness with executives and the board of directors on issues of digital transformation. It provides time- and experience-tested strategies ...
This IDC PlanScape discusses integrated physical security solutions for cities. Integrated physical security solutions provide cities with better, more immediate situational awareness when responding to security incidents. Integrated card ...
This IDC study discusses creating professional development programs for cybersecurity.
"The world of cybersecurity is becoming increasingly siloed," says Mike Chapple, adjunct analyst, IDC's IT Executive Programs (IEP). "Leaders should ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight illustrates a level of adoption for DataOps and a distribution of methods being used in DataOps practices according to the results of IDC's December 2020 DataOps Survey. Adoption levels are high, but ...
Today's customers have high expectations for frictionless, immersive, and empathetic shopping and browsing experiences in the channel of their choice. To be competitive, brands must personalize interactions in fractions of a second at scale. ...
As a result of the collaboration, data insights, and business continuity pressures from the pandemic, the market witnesses an accelerated focus on digital transformation across commercial businesses and public sector organizations. While ...
Social voice is an emerging evolution in social media experiences, as seen in the growth of applications such as Clubhouse, Twitter Spaces, and others. This will be both challenging and rewarding for organizations that look at this through ...
On February 25, the O-RAN Alliance held a virtual event during Mobile World Congress Shanghai. The alliance presented its main achievements and its road map, with the new Dawn release — expected in June–July 2021 with security, intelligence ...
The risk of growing digital gaps can have a serious impact on the speed of recovery in different parts of the world and society experience, according to the World Economic Forum's (WEF) recent 2021 Global Risk Perception Survey. Another ...
This IDC Market Note examines the interplay between purpose; environmental, social, and governance (ESG); and corporate social responsibility (CSR) in the context of corporate value creation and the development of a purpose-driven, sustainable ...
This IDC Market Note includes 3D printing news that occurred in February 2021.
This IDC Market Note presents the most impactful points of IDC's conversation with Miruna Senciuc, CEO of BNP Paribas Personal Finance Bucharest Branch. The conversation covered several pivotal topics, such as how COVID-19 impacted people, ...
HCL Technologies' achievement of the coveted US$10 billion a year revenue tag marks its entry into a rather select club of global IT services vendors and should open new opportunities for the vendor as it gears to compete for bigger and ...
This IDC Market Note focuses on print vendors' financial results for the period ending December 31, 2020, and their strategic plans for business recovery, transformation, and future growth.
This IDC Perspective reports on the outcomes of January's IDC global CIO Research Advisory Board virtual roundtable. Ten CIOs from multinational organizations across multiple industries and regions shared key insights from the unprecedented ...
This IDC Perspective presents what is required to fully embrace price transparency throughout the payer enterprise. CMS mandates for payers and providers have emerged in response to "surprise billing" and a political response to consumer ...
This IDC study examines the importance of building regulatory compliance in the cloud. In today's environment, it is not only possible but often preferable to run regulated workloads in a public cloud environment, and IT leaders around the ...
This IDC Survey provides insights into the Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) (APEJ) results from IDC Insight’s Worldwide Sustainability, Health and Safety survey conducted in 2020 for utilities, oil and gas, and mining companies operating the ...
This IDC TechScape examines the technologies that are essential for safely reopening and managing government office spaces during the COVID-19 pandemic, recognizing that many have the potential to evolve in the years to come. It provides ...
Operations-intensive organizations are undergoing digital transformation. This is not only affecting technology and processes,but is also having a particularly strong impact on organizations' structures and roles, as well as the responsibilities ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight focuses on CEOs' plans around industry ecosystems and their importance.
A consistent theme over the past year in our research, first with our COVID-19 Impact on IT Spending Survey, ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight highlights the top 3 IT investment and strategy topics in the hospitality and tourism industry.
"Nearly 57% of respondents indicated that they meet with the board of directors (BODs) either monthly or quarterly. ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight provides insight into how the increased migration of workloads to public clouds during the COVID-19 pandemic has reset strategic priorities for enterprise networking. The document contains data from IDC's Enterprise ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight highlights the organization's technology priorities for success of the business.
"During the COVID-19 crisis, organizations shifted cybersecurity priorities and budgets to business operations and crisis management. ...
In 2020, CenturyLink rebranded itself as Lumen Technologies with a mission to deliver a "platform for amazing things." With approximately 450,000 global route miles of fiber and connections to 2,200 public and private datacenters, Lumen ...
The launch of IBM Cloud Satellite allows customers to extend the IBM Cloud-as-a-service consumption model across on-premises, third-party public cloud, and edge platforms. This allows customers to apply consistent compute, storage, and workload ...
Salesforce recently released its Loyalty Management solution built natively on the Salesforce platform and available as a standalone product that does not require any of its other cloud solutions. Loyalty has been a strategic issue for many ...
The latest financial figures released by Workday on February 25, 2021, showed the company's total revenues for the year were $4.32 billion — up 19% year over year. Subscription revenues showed robust growth of 22.4%, reaching $3.79 billion ...
This IDC study discusses the drivers and dynamics that had an impact on the global enterprise legal management software market in 2020 and provides insight into future trends that may influence market demand over the 2021–2025 period.
"To ...
As the economy recovers in 2021 and beyond, organizations in the Middle East, Turkey, and Africa (META) region will consolidate their automation and intelligence gains from 2020 and build them into the core of their digital strategies. Insight-driven ...
This IDC Market Presentation analyzes national recovery and resilience plans that leverage Next Generation EU and how resources will be allocated across the different investment areas to understand the impact of these plans on ICT spending ...
This IDC Market Note includes news that occurred within the imaging and printing market in February 2021.
This IDC Market Note discusses 4Q20 and FY20 results and updates from 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 Market Note examines facial recognition, explores the potential uses for such technology, and reviews potential solutions to guard against nefarious use. Facial recognition has gotten a bad rap in public policy and regulatory circles, ...
This IDC Market Note examines AT&T's quarterly results discussed in the company's 4Q20 earnings announcement on January 27, 2021. In this document, IDC analyzes AT&T's operating metrics and overall strategy in the context of the ...
This IDC study provides a detailed description of IDC's Worldwide Big Data and Analytics Spending Guide methodology and taxonomy. It should be used as a companion piece for IDC's Worldwide Big Data and Analytics Spending Guide and all of ...
This IDC study presents IDC's taxonomy of the social, environmental responsibility and ethics (SERE) initiatives that organizations across the world are committing to and delivering upon. It provides definitions of 4 functional categories ...
This IDC study lays the groundwork for performance-intensive computing (PIC) as a composite market. It combines infrastructure approaches across three major and fast-growing use case categories: modeling and simulation (M&S), artificial ...
This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation examines the key trends in integrated physical solutions — video surveillance and card access to buildings. Integrated physical security refers to the combination of people, workflow, and technology deployed ...
This IDC Survey presents results from the customer experience (CX) section of IDC's European Software Survey, completed in November 2020 (n = 763). It focuses on cutting-edge CX technologies and the degree to which enterprises are using ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight provides insights from IDC's 2020 Artificial Intelligence (AI) Maturity Survey conducted from October to November 2020. It looks specifically at which AI use cases are higher on the agenda ...
The failure rate of commercial and industrial Internet of Things (IoT) deployments is quite high. Such initiatives are inherently bespoke and are mired in data integration challenges, which results in complexity, cost overruns, and poor ...
On February 24, 2021, NetApp reported financial results for the third quarter of fiscal year (FY) 2021, which ended on January 31, 2021.
This IDC Market Perspective explores the Internet of Things (IoT) market in New Zealand from the connectivity providers' perspective. The report provides a competitive landscape for IoT connectivity providers and serves as a guiding document ...
This report looks at the Australia and New Zealand (ANZ) results of IDC's 2020 Asia/Pacific Future of Work Employee Survey, focusing on technology and how it relates to the changing workspace and workforce.
This study also examines ...
This IDC Market Glance provides a view of the current makeup of the Intelligent CloudOps software landscape. It illustrates the participating vendors and depicts market segments and structure. This document aligns with the recently published ...
With the global disruption of the supply chain because of the COVID-19 pandemic, organizations across Southeast Asia have undertaken several measures to develop a more resilient supply chain. Across sectors, the COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted ...
This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation provides an analysis of the IT-related contracts signed by the Canadian government in 2020. The summary outlines all contracts of C$10,000+ in value, covering the areas of hardware, software, IT services, ...
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 Perspective analyzes how the transformation enabled by events in 2020 made data-driven factories the central element of manufacturers' business strategies. It also provides insight into how companies are tackling these issues.
"Manufacturers ...
This IDC Perspective looks at the journey of the South Eastern Health and Social Care Trust in Northern Ireland as it modernizes its workplace. From addressing the mobility needs of its frontline clinicians to enabling remote working in ...
This IDC Survey focuses on digital experience technologies and user preferences to deliver multichannel customer experiences. Buyer interest in headless content management systems to support dynamic web and mobile apps is on the rise. IDC's ...
This IDC Web Conference highlights IDC's Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) Business Services research and provides guidance regarding how sustainability can help drive business value on the foundation of a purpose-driven strategy. ...
In 2018, IDC undertook a study of the perceived trustworthiness of the digital activities of a range of organizations operating within the digital realm.
This study was replicated at the end of 2020, and the results for Southeast Asia ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight examines automation will remain the new normal.
Reconfirmed in the latest IDC survey of enterprise decision makers, the pandemic has had an enduring impact on work practices and technologies. The pandemic ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight offers insights into what some companies are doing to reduce downtime within their datacenters. 53% of companies have seen a reduction in downtime within their environments over the past two years.
In April ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight discusses how the COVID-19 pandemic is shaping technology investment plans and accelerating the interest in consumption models for IT investment.
In February, IDC conducted a worldwide survey to understand ...
Due to a record number of PC processors shipped in 4Q20 and validation of sustained end demand for PC processors by PC OEMs in 1Q21 and extending through the 1H21, IDC will raise its forecast for PC processor shipments in 2021 from 9.6% ...
Dell Technologies recently completed fiscal 2021 and saw a steady improvement throughout the year in the demand environment as consumers, commercial businesses, and public sector organizations all turned to technology to help bridge the ...
On March 1, 2021, Broadcom Software delivered its new Symantec Web Protection Suite offering. The strength of the suite approach is that it provides flexibility and choice to organizations. Security can be applied by an on-premises appliance, ...
On February 25, 2021, HP Inc. announced revenue growth of 7% to $15.6 billion for calendar year 4Q20 (HP Inc.'s fiscal 1Q21). Both Printing and Personal Systems groups delivered 7% revenue growth for the quarter, with remote work and learning ...
The intent to merge announced by Arcserve and StorageCraft represents an interesting combination of Arcserve's backup and recovery software, Arcserve's partnership with Sophos for data security, and StorageCraft's converged scale-out storage ...
This Market Perspective outlines five of the key trends IDC believes will drive the enterprise networking market in 2021 and beyond.
"2021 will be a dynamic year in the enterprise networking market," says Brandon Butler, senior research ...
The Malaysia government, via its Economic Planning Unit (EPU), recently launched its digital economy blueprint. MyDIGITAL is a comprehensive 104-page document that lays the road map to achieve the country's grand vision to become a regional ...
This Market Note presents IDC's view on the Climate Neutral Data Centre Pact signed in Europe in January 2021 by member organizations of Cloud Infrastructure Services Providers in Europe (CISPE).
This IDC Market Note discusses Verizon's 4Q20 and full-year 2020 results.
"Verizon emerged from a challenging 2020, in good shape, with a solid financial performance, and is poised to benefit from an economic rebound in the latter ...
This IDC study defines and provides a framework for analyzing the installed base of storage capacity, the amount of the installed base of storage capacity that is utilized, and the portion of the installed base that is available for storing ...
This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation summarizes over two dozen local government initiatives. The experiences of these IT teams from the East Coast to the West Coast provide five key takeaways for Canadian cities and technology vendors. These ...
On February 16, 2021, VMware launched Customer Connect, a rebranding and unification effort of My VMware and other VMware customer experience-facing assets, tools, and platforms. The unification of these resources can help customers easily ...