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 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 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 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 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 Market Presentation offers an overview of the worldwide largest 15 cloud service provider infrastructure demand trend for third quarter of 2020.
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 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 represents a vendor assessment of Salesforce implementation services through the IDC MarketScape model. This assessment discusses both quantitative and qualitative characteristics that explain success in the Salesforce implementation ...
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 TechBrief provides a snapshot of the current status of continuous integration (CI)/continuous delivery and deployment (CD) platforms adoption in retail as well their benefits, critical success factors, risks, and investments. IDC ...
IDC Innovators are emerging vendors with revenue <$100 million that have demonstrated either a groundbreaking business model or an innovative new technology — or both. This IDC Innovators study profiles five emerging service mesh vendors: ...
This IDC Perspective extends the artificial intelligence (AI) automation framework by looking at business intelligence tasks and activities and analyzes them within the context of IDC's AI-based automation framework and looks at usage patterns ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight presents key findings on data storage and processing-related strategies among asset-intensive industries: manufacturing, oil and gas, utilities, and mining. It is based on data from IDC's EMEA IT and OT Convergence ...
This IDC study discusses the performance of the business consulting firms for 2019.
"In 2019, the consulting services market has shown yet another year of sequential growth, as clients are looking to business consulting firms to seek ...
This IDC TechBrief addresses how enterprises should embark on their edge computing strategy from the perspective of an application platform.
Network optimization has caught up with compute and storage innovation, enabling a variety ...
This IDC study provides historical data (2015–2019) and forecast data (2020–2024) for the worldwide service provider compute and storage infrastructure market. The forecast and historical data illustrate consumption of infrastructure hardware ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight provides insight from IDC's 2020 Worldwide IT-OT Integration Survey. It highlights the impact of IT-OT coordination (or lack thereof) within manufacturing ...
This IDC Technology Segment study assesses South Africa's 2019 IT services market and forecasts the market's expenditure through 2024. The study includes market size and distribution analyses by vertical market and IDC's 12 foundation market ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight examines the business divisions that most require the introduction of new key performance indicators (KPIs) and metrics. "Processes that are not defined and documented cannot be measured. Organizational success ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight provides insight from the worldwide IT/OT Integration Survey. It examines manufacturers' different levels of priorities regarding their primary providers of IT/OT solutions. It also looks at some of ...
This IDC Market Analysis Perspective provides detailed information on the European technology skills market. It addresses key skills trends and dynamics in the region, identifies the skills market players and interactions, and provides a ...
On December 17, 2020, Accenture reported its FY 1Q21 results, including $11.8 billion in quarterly revenue, a 4% YoY increase in U.S. dollar (USD) and 2% in local currency. The earnings call was led by Accenture's Chief Executive Officer ...
Splunk recently had its annual customer conference with a record 30,000 virtual attendees. There were several key product announcements at the event targeting DevOps, IT operations, and security teams. In addition, the company recently released ...
This IDC Market Presentation includes results from IDC's European Edge Strategies research. It highlights the edge vendor landscape, focusing on Europe. The scope of the study is to depict the overall status of the edge vendor landscape ...
This IDC Market Presentation summarizes key events that took place in the European services market in 3Q20.
This IDC Survey leverages data from IDC's 2020 Worldwide IT and Operational Technology (OT) Convergence Survey, specifically focusing on the EMEA market. It investigates IT-OT convergence ...
This IDC Perspective examines the evolving relationship between OEMs and industrial operators, the digital twin technologies and approaches that offer the opportunity to aid in mutual value creation, and strategic considerations for each ...
This IDC Perspective looks at the criteria that enterprises should consider when evaluating IT savings, and it provides guidance on the appropriate areas to consider when looking to make a change.
"Enterprise customers have made it ...
This IDC Market Presentation examines the year-over-year changes in the overall datacenter infrastructure ecosystem during the fourth calendar quarter of 2020 — notably servers, storage, and networking equipment. It also provides competitive ...
This IDC Technology Segment study presents the top 80 IT services providers in Turkey. It includes their market shares, as based on their 2019 results. The top 10 providers are examined in detail, with their market sizes and share data broken ...
This IDC Web Conference presents a discussion by IDC Retail Insights on the 2021 top 10 technology predictions and the drivers of change for the global retail industry over the next five years. As retailers continue to manage through pandemic-driven ...
This IDC study presents an update to the worldwide and U.S. IT education and training services forecast for the 2020–2024 period. The forecast includes an analysis of the regional drivers of IT education growth and delivery modalities and ...
This IDC study provides 2020–2024 market sizing and growth rates for the worldwide services market.
"The 1H20 forecast saw some slight revisions upward as vendor results for the first half of 2020 were not as bad as originally feared, ...
Engineering giant Jacobs has bought a majority stake in veteran United Kingdom–based management consultancy PA Consulting. The combination of PA's business consulting acumen and Jacobs' immense capabilities in engineering services potentially ...
This IDC Market Presentation provides worldwide and regional data for IDC's Security ServicesView 2020 publication that examines the contemporary state of security services. Sections include total, region, and company size.
Security ...
This IDC MarketScape assesses the capabilities and strategies of worldwide service providers (SPs) in supporting and collaborating with the retail industry in defining and executing co-innovation strategies. Therefore, we consider the shared ...
This IDC MarketScape assesses the capabilities and strategies of selected enterprise service providers in serving the specific needs of retail companies worldwide across industry segments (food and non-food retail). It assesses service providers ...
This IDC Presentation provides a detailed analysis of the market and competitive landscape in IT services in Vietnam from January to June 2020 (1H20). It covers the market size movements and growth trends in each of the macromarkets (i.e., ...
The IDC Market Glance provides the highest-level view of the healthcare IT landscape for 4Q20. The major categories and vendors identified in the document include infrastructure, core transaction, clinical and financial risk management, ...
This IDC Market Presentation highlights the results of IDC Canada's ITAP n5 2020 Survey. We asked 416 Canadian organizations of all sizes across all industries and regions about their levels of adoption ...
This IDC TechBrief discusses the value and benefits of using mobile application security testing tools and products. It indicates the benefits, risks, current adoption, and critical success factors associated with this technology combination.
"If ...
This IDC Survey uses data from IDC's annual Business Consulting Buyer Perception Survey, which was fielded in March and April 2020. The survey assesses end-user perception of business consulting firms as well as spending areas for ...
This IDC Market Presentation delivers quarterly insights into the requirements of cloud service providers — focusing on evolving business models, emerging product and service offerings, and providers' own investments in technology. The insights ...
This IDC MarketScape identifies the key criteria European education-sector stakeholders need to successfully select a vendor to deliver collaboration applications for all key processes, including pedagogical procedures.
"Stakeholders ...
This IDC study presents forecasts of spending (customer expenditures) for the offshore-based horizontal BPO services market for 2020–2024 that includes HR, finance and accounting, procurement, and customer care by four importing regions ...
This IDC Presentation provides a detailed analysis of the market and competitive landscape in IT services in Malaysia 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 PeerScape focuses on three CIOs who have responded to the demands of digital transformation by building a product-driven IT organization. In all three companies, a good alignment with business has been achieved where IT is positioned ...
VMware continues to offer customers options across product delivery models (i.e., on premises and SaaS) and flexible pricing models (subscription and perpetual). The company is meeting customers where their business and technology demands ...
This IDC Survey includes data from IDC's 2020 U.S. Enterprise Communications Survey.
IDC surveyed approximately 600 United States–based decision makers responsible for network/strategy and operations for their organization's ...
This IDC Market Presentation provides IDC's view of the India datacenter (DC) and colocation services market, with insights into adoption and buyer needs, a competitive assessment of key players, and essential guidance for technology suppliers. ...
This IDC Market Presentation offers an overview of IDC's Worldwide Business Consulting Services research program. It explains the program's coverage areas and provides some end-user insights from IDC's Worldwide Business Consulting Services ...
This IDC Market Presentation examines recent survey data that questioned Canadian medium-sized and large businesses on the brand perception, awareness, and usage of many of the largest IT services providers in Canada. The document primarily ...
This IDC Market Note presents the key takeaways from several IDC analysts who virtually attended Capgemini's Global Analyst and Advisor Summit 2020 held October 14 and 15. During the event, Capgemini shared with IDC how it is strategically ...
This IDC Market Note comprises financial news announced in late October and November 2020 among print vendors.
This IDC Market Note includes industrial and production printer news that occurred in November 2020.
This IDC Perspective details three IT skill development use cases and the usage of Coursera to solve these use cases. To unlock this value, organizations often turn to the L&D function to help properly skill the IT organization. And ...
This IDC study presents the results of IDC's Print and Document Management MaturityScape Benchmark Survey and should be viewed as a supplement to IDC MaturityScape: Print and Document Management 3.0 (IDC #US46265520, ...
This IDC Survey includes data from IDC's 2020 U.S. Enterprise Communications Survey.
IDC surveyed approximately 600 United States–based decision makers responsible for network/strategy and operations for their organization's ...
This IDC Survey includes data from IDC's 2020 U.S. Enterprise Communications Survey.
IDC surveyed approximately 600 United States–based decision makers responsible for network/strategy and operations for their organization's ...
This IDC Market Glance provides insights into India's telecommunications ecosystem. To ensure increased collaboration and tighter margin focus as operators battle regulatory complexities, communications SPs must rely on operations providing ...
This IDC PeerScape describes three best practices for deploying cloud business analytics: assemble the right expertise to help you plan and execute your deployment, spend time upfront on data intelligence to deliver trusted and actionable ...
This IDC Perspective summarizes topics discussed at the eighth IDC European Utilities Executive Summit, hosted virtually by IDC Energy Insights, on October 19 and 20, 2020. The main theme of the summit was "The Race to the Future Utility ...
This IDC Presentation provides a detailed analysis of the market and competitive landscape in IT services in India from January to June 2020 (1H20). It covers the market size movements and growth trends in each macro market (i.e., project-oriented ...
This IDC Market Presentation provides data for IDC's 4Q20 Service Provider Pulse publication that examines current and planned investments in sales and marketing resource, product/service positioning, and workloads and deployment strategies. ...
This IDC Market Perspective describes some of the key ways that CX services vendors can adopt to better serve their clients in 2021. Clients and vendors of CX services have had a dramatic 2020, with new business priorities and new ways of ...
This IDC Survey presentation examines trends in how European companies are approaching the cloud services market. Using survey data, it explores evolving customer expectations toward European managed cloud service providers. IDC's recommendations ...
This IDC Web Conference presents a discussion by the members of IDC's Global Print analyst team on key predictions emerging from the COVID-19 pandemic that will reshape the trajectory of this industry. Past perceptions of enterprise printing ...
This IDC Web Conference presents a discussion by IDC's Worldwide Services team on key predictions that will impact the services industry over the next five years. Senior line-of-business and IT leaders will learn how buyer requirements are ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight presents results from IDC's Global IT Skills Survey, February 2020. The survey spoke with more than 1,100 IT professionals and IT managers.
Across the globe, organizations are challenged to find staff ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight presents results from IDC's Impact of Training on SAP Solution Deployment Survey, February 2018. In a survey that covered more than 950 organizations that had deployed more than 4,600 modules, we found that ...
This IDC study represents a vendor assessment of the Oracle cloud implementation services ecosystem through the IDC MarketScape model. This assessment discusses both quantitative and qualitative characteristics that explain success in the ...
This IDC study presents the top 96 IT services providers in the UAE, including their market shares, based on their respective performances in 2019. Furthermore, it examines the performances of the top 10 IT services providers in the UAE. ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight focuses on IT-OT integration providers and preferred partners among utilities in Europe and North America. It is based on data from IDC's 2020 IT and Operational Technology (OT) Convergence Survey, carried ...
This IDC Presentation provides a detailed analysis of the New Zealand's IT services market and competitive landscape from January to June 2020 (1H20). It covers the market size movements and growth trends in each of the macromarkets (i.e., ...
This IDC Market Note discusses announcements and observations from Cisco Partner Summit 2020, held virtually for the first time this year on October 28 and 29. Cisco CX is in its third year of a multiyear journey, where, in 2019, the company ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight provides insight from results of IDC's Worldwide IT and OT Integration Survey. It highlights different levels of priority among manufacturers when it comes ...
This IDC Web Conference presents a discussion by IDC's Worldwide Education team on the key predictions that will impact CIOs and IT professionals in the worldwide education industry over the next one to five years. Senior IT leaders and ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight looks at IT infrastructure consulting spending across key infrastructure categories (enterprise architecture, datacenter transformation, IT service management, and security) and how spending is different for various ...
To help streamline the flow of work and minimize application switching, Asana (NYSE:ASAN) announced new and improved integrations including those for Atlassian Jira, Slack, Microsoft Teams, and Zoom. As productivity hinges more on smooth ...
This IDC Survey presentation looks at the adoption of cloud IT project-based services by region, by company size, by industry, and by buyer type. In addition, it provides insight into buyer spending on cloud implementation services.
These ...
This IDC Market Presentation presents an overview of IDC's new sustainability-focused research program, "Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) Business Services". It explains the program's point of view on sustainability and its coverage ...
This IDC Market Presentation delivers quarterly insights into the requirements of cloud service providers — focusing on evolving business models, emerging product and service offerings, and providers' own investments in technology. The insights ...
This IDC Survey analyzes data from IDC's IT and Operational Technology (OT) Convergence 2020 Survey. It examines IT-OT convergence trends in the European oil and gas (O&G) industry. It includes the survey results on O&G companies' ...
This IDC Web Conference presents a discussion by IDC's Kevin Prouty and Jon Lang on the convergence and digital integration of information technology (IT) with operational technology (OT) and the impact this will have on an organization's ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight looks at the digital orientation of IT project–based services buyers in terms of their ability to adopt digital technologies by region, by industry, and by buyer type.
These survey results are based on a sample ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight presents results from IDC's February 2018 Impact of Training on SAP Solution Deployment Survey. In a survey that covered more than 950 organizations that had deployed more than 4,600 modules, we found ...
This IDC Survey focuses on key buyer behavior data points to give vendors a quick look at artificial intelligence (AI) market indicators such as:
- AI spending trends
- AI–related initiatives or project cost
- AI deployment ...
This IDC Market Presentation summarizes key events that took place in the European managed cloud services market in 3Q20.
This IDC Market Perspective examines the similarities between work-from-home (WFH) corporate policies and bring your own device (BYOD) policies in a post-COVID-19 enterprise market. This document discusses how employee choice will influence ...
This IDC study represents a vendor assessment of the Oracle implementation services ecosystem through the IDC MarketScape model. This assessment discusses both quantitative and qualitative characteristics that explain success in the Oracle ...
This IDC Market Note highlights the key learnings selected by IDC analysts at Cognizant's virtual analyst event. Cognizant has a strong business in QA, which it continues to take forward with next-generation testing and robotic test automation. ...