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.
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Performance Food Group CEO George Holm announced the company's environmental, social, and governance (ESG) Impact Study in December 2020. The study highlighted how CEOs and the C-suite are incorporating ESG goals into day-to-day business ...
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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The ecosystem consisting of C3.ai, Shell, Baker Hughes, and Microsoft that makes up the Open AI Energy Initiative (OAI) brings together a powerful combination of partners that provide AI tools to not only today's energy industry but also ...
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The People's Bank of China (PBOC) and China Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission (CBIRC) introduced new regulations over the sale of online deposit products, signaling increased scrutiny over bank–fintech collaboration in China. The ...
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to take hold around the world, driving higher employee engagement is a key priority for CHROs, irrespective of geography or industry. In this spirit, the agreement between Workday and Peakon, for the latter's ...
SAP has reported its final quarter in 2020. Real progress is evident as revenue moves from on premises to cloud at an accelerated pace.
For simplicity's sake, all numbers quoted in this document are non-IFRS, and the percentage change ...
On February 3, Lenovo announced results from its FY 3Q21. Quarterly revenue was $17.5 billion, with year-over-year (YoY) growth of 22%. Pretax income (PTI) was $591 million, up 52% compared with the same quarter last year. Lenovo's PC and ...
Juniper Networks reported its financial results for 4Q20 on January 28, 2021. Juniper also posted its results for its fiscal year ending December 31, 2020.
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The $1.2 billion acquisition price for process mining vendor Signavio will be a cost-effective investment if SAP's newly announced Business Process Intelligence (BPI) business unit plays out the way SAP envisions. Process mining collects ...
Not limited to just hardware, the Samsung For Business team has successfully integrated features and applications for companies to use in industrial environments, with several customer use cases in Singapore across sectors such as transportation ...
On January 27, Apple announced its fiscal 1Q21 results with revenue hitting $111.4 billion, an increase of 21% in year-over-year (YoY) growth. It is a strong start to the company's new fiscal year, and it benefitted from strong growth across ...
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Despite the current instability in the market, on January 28, Qualtrics went public on the NASDAQ after being acquired and spending two years as an independent company under SAP. The IPO valuation at more than $15 billion validates the strategic ...
The dispute between Elasticsearch B.V. and Amazon Web Services, which dates back to 2019, saw another action taken by Elasticsearch on January 19, 2021, when the company announced it would transition its open source code licensing covering ...
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The virtual chapter of NRF's Big Show reinforces that successful brands put a hyperfocus on consumer demands for three big Cs: convenience, customization, and care. Driven by the effects of another big "C" – COVID-19 – the most resilient ...
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As the digital economy has emerged, data has become the lifeblood of business operations, helping people make better decisions, driving new insights, and creating new business models. Data governance is no longer just about security and ...
On January 27, SAP announced RISE with SAP, a business transformation–as-a-service program to help organizations move from their legacy SAP ERP instances to SAP S/4HANA deployed on their cloud platforms of choice (shared public, dedicated ...
Citrix Systems Inc. (NASDAQ:CTXS) announced on January 19, 2021, that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Wrike, a rapidly growing collaborative work management (CWM) vendor for $2.25 billion in cash. The goal is to combine ...
Last month, Planview announced its definitive intent to acquire Project and Portfolio Management (PPM), Professional Services Automation (PSA), and Collaborative Work Management (CWM) providers, Changepoint and Clarizen, epitomizing additional ...
Awareness — and utility — of location-enabled applications and analytics has increased tremendously over the past year, across new applications and added value for existing solutions. IDC's November 2020 Data Buyers Study shows that ...
Microsoft's performance in the second quarter of the company's fiscal 2021 roared back with surprisingly strong 16.7% year-over-year growth in current year revenue after a less impressive first quarter that showed 12.4% revenue growth. The ...
On January 14, 2021, IBM teamed up with GitLab to announce a unified DevOps automation platform, GitLab Ultimate for IBM Cloud Paks, which combines GitLab's single application for DevOps with IBM's DevOps solutions and IBM Cloud Paks product. ...
On January 26, 2021, Motorola Solutions launched its new MOTOTRBO Ion smart radio. Motorola Solutions is a hallmark industry-leading provider of public safety communications hardware (as well as software and services), and the MOTOTRBO Ion ...
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On January 26, 2021, Xerox announced its 4Q20 earnings. While the announcement revealed similar financial metric performances observed during the COVID-19 pandemic, it was encouraging to review information on future developments. This included ...
On January 27, 2021, three months after its acquisition of Optimizely and six months from incorporating Idio under the Episerver brand, Episerver announced it was rebranding the company to Optimizely. The rebranding is part of an effort ...
On January 12, 2020, HCL announced that it closed calendar year 2020 by surpassing $10.022 billion in revenue. The company achieved 3.6% revenue growth, compared with the prior year, and recorded EDITDA of 26.5% with net income of $1.781 ...
Veritas announced the release of NetBackup 9, an upgrade to its flagship enterprise backup and recovery software that can now be deployed across edge, core, and cloud environments as an HCI appliance managed under a standard interface. The ...
Last week, Singapore's government announced that it has invested an additional S$40 million in developing 5G applications for enterprises' digital transformation (DX), becoming the latest in a series of governments to move in this direction. ...
After several days of rumors in the business and technology press, Atos confirmed on January 7 that it has made a friendly offer to purchase DXC, which also confirmed the move on the same day. But neither confirmed the specifics of the offer, ...
Qualcomm announced its Snapdragon 888 5G Mobile Platform, Qualcomm's most powerful smartphone SoC to date and is the first 800 series with an integrated 5G baseband processor, on December 2, 2020. This IDC Link reviews the major advancements ...
Today, SAP announced two executive board–level position changes. Adaire Fox-Martin, a member of the executive board of SAP SE leading Customer Success, is leaving at the end of January. In addition, SAP noted the hiring of Julia White for ...
A strategic partnership between Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Verily, an Alphabet company, and Microsoft Corp. was established today. Terra is a secure, scalable, open source platform that was developed by Verily and the Broad Institute ...
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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 ...
On December 10, 2020, Oracle announced its fiscal 2Q21 earnings. Here are the top financial highlights for the quarter (all growth rates are presented in constant currency terms):
- Total revenue for the first quarter was $9.8 billion, ...
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AWS announced public previews of managed service offerings for the popular Prometheus CNCF project and Grafana open source observability project during the virtual AWS re:Invent conference. In conjunction with the previously announced AWS ...
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On December 9, 2020, HPE announced a new HPE GreenLake offering targeted at the high-performance computing (HPC) market. This is an important announcement for the leading vendor in the HPC infrastructure market to counter the migration to ...
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The lawsuit brought by the attorney generals of 48 states alleges monopolistic behavior on the part of Facebook and seeks a remedy as much as breaking out Instagram and WhatsApp from Facebook, but does not quite succeed to present a smoking ...
On December 1, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced several innovations, enabling the application of machine learning to video capture to improve operational processes. These promise to enable organizations to apply advanced analytics at ...
On December 1, 2020, Salesforce announced its FY 3Q21 earnings. Earnings this quarter were strong, with total revenue of $5.42 billion for the quarter, a 20% year-over-year (YoY) increase from FY 3Q20. This was the second time the company ...
A reform or repeal of Section 230, a liability waiver that was designed by congress to protect internet companies from litigation targeting potentially criminal content posted on their sites by users or other third parties, might affect ...
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 ...
Red Hat and the CentOS Project Governing Board disclosed in a December 8, 2020, blog entry that they intend to focus investments in the CentOS Project almost exclusively on CentOS Stream as upstream work to the larger Red Hat Enterprise ...
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During the recent virtual AWS re:Invent customer symposium, AWS emphasized the role that digital infrastructure and software-driven innovation plays in helping businesses to disrupt and reinvent themselves. Recognizing that many customers ...
Microsoft has been the foundation of industrial operations technology software for decades. AWS' recent release of AWS for Industrial, along with its ongoing aggressive ecosystem building in the industrial verticals, is giving rise to a ...
ServiceNow have been rapidly expanding its AI capabilities and footprint organically on the Now Platform and through previous acquisitions of Loom Systems, Passage AI, Attivio, and others. With the announced acquisition of Element AI, ServiceNow, ...
Underscoring the importance of enterprise collaboration, Slack (NYSE: WORK), who made channel-based messaging easy and popular has signed a definitive agreement to be acquired by Salesforce (NYSE: CRM), it was announced today. The deal, ...
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Entrust née Entrust Datacard is packaging its 25+ years of cryptographic security expertise into five defined services for helping organizations develop, review, and modernize crypto and PKI infrastructures. As encryption usage expands, ...
In a joint press event at Elisa's flagship store in Helsinki, Nokia and Qualcomm joined the mobile operator to live demo record breaking 5G speeds, on November 17, 2020. When launched commercially, Elisa will be able to offer top speeds ...
In mid-November, Adobe announced its intention to acquire work management and project and portfolio management (PPM) provider Workfront for $1.5 billion. The acquisition will augment its Adobe Experience Cloud and broadly adopted Adobe Creative ...
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 ...
On November 19, Workday announced its third-quarter results for the current financial year. Total revenues were $1.11 billion, which was a strong increase of 17.9% from the third quarter of the previous fiscal year. This robust double-digit ...
IBM's recent announcement of plans to acquire Chicago-based Instana adds important SaaS and on-premises observability coverage for cloud-native workloads to the company's growing Watson AIOps portfolio. Instana brings IBM agent-based visibility ...
Schneider Electric and Planon are extending their smart building IT/OT partnership. Over the past 18 months, the two vendors have piloted Planon Connect for Building Advisor, an integration between Planon Universe and Schneider Electric's ...
On November 5, IBM announced a broad range of partners for its recently launched IBM Cloud for Telecommunications. IBM's goal is to differentiate its unified architecture by facilitating an open platform with broad industry support to enable ...
Khoros, the platform built from the merger of Lithium communities and Spredfast social media management and marketing, announced an array of new and useful features in its autumn 2020 release. These are designed to help brands improve human ...
After two years of its debut, Google's Android Enterprise Recommended (AER) program will now formally include Samsung Galaxy smartphones and tablets. Samsung Galaxy devices have historically been positioned as the default enterprise-grade ...
WPP is merging two of its key agencies: the relatively young design and innovation agency, AKQA, and the venerable creative powerhouse, Grey. The combination should help WPP offer more joined-up services to its clients and compete better ...
On November 2, Lenovo announced results from its FY 2Q21 ending September 30, 2020. Quarterly revenue was $14.5 billion, with year-over-year (YoY) growth of 7%. Pretax income was $470 million, up 52% compared with the same quarter last year. ...
During the recent virtual Cisco Partner Summit, the company launched a broad effort to simplify and transform its datacenter and cloud management software portfolio with the introduction of its vision for creating agile platforms for IT ...
On November 10, HP Inc. unveiled the LaserJet M200, OfficeJet Pro 8025e/8035e, and OfficeJet Pro 9015e/9025e series. More significantly, HP Inc. debuted HP+ with these product introductions that bring new levels of a simple, seamless, and ...
Adobe presented its annual creativity conference, Adobe MAX 2020, entirely online in a virtual setting, with live sessions taking place over three days starting on October 20. Even under the unusual circumstances introduced by the COVID-19 ...
ServiceNow's third quarter of 2020 was another strong quarter, with key results including:
- Subscription revenue of $1,091 million, representing 31% year‑over‑year growth, 29% adjusted for constant currency
- 41 transactions ...
On October 29, 2020, Google's parent company Alphabet announced its financial results for 3Q20. In this earnings link, Alphabet and Google are used interchangeably when referring to the company. The earnings announcements saw a return to ...
On October 26, Medallia and Visier announced a collaboration to provide HR and people analytics managers with a comprehensive view of the employee, bringing together in a single platform both Visier's operational people data and Medallia's ...
BMC used the recent virtual BMC Exchange 2020 customer event to showcase how it continues to modernize its Service Management, IT Operations Management, Workload Automation, and Mainframe software portfolios for the digital era. Leading ...
On October 29, Apple announced its fiscal 4Q20 results, with revenue growing to $64.7 billion, representing 1% year-over-year (YoY) growth. For the full fiscal year, the company reached $274.5 billion. Apple pushed its new iPhone launches ...
In direct opposition to current broadband retailer sentiment, SKY announced in its FY20 results call it believes the New Zealand broadband market is overpriced, underserved, and underpowered. The company will introduce retail broadband services ...
Coupa has announced the acquisition of LLamasoft — a provider of AI-powered supply chain design and planning solutions. The acquisition further extends Coupa's existing direct and supply chain capabilities for procurement, treasury, and ...
Deltek Insight 2020 was a virtual event enabling organizations to attend without the worry of COVID-19. The Deltek team executed an excellent event chock-full of great information for attendees from personal and global workplace situational ...
The Citrix business model transition clearly accelerated in the third quarter; the company will finish with 85–90% of total bookings coming from subscription bookings in the fourth quarter. The company raised the midpoint of its revenue ...
Microsoft announced its fiscal year 1Q21 results on October 27, 2020. The company's results indicate that the momentum that the company maintained through the end of fiscal year 2020 was no anomaly. The company's quarterly total came in ...
Verizon is looking to establish a more prominent role as a managed service provider in the private 5G networks space, especially as more countries outside the United States appear poised to allocate spectrum directly for enterprise use. ...
Apple's first collaboration with a country on a national health initiative is a good case study for governments, health authorities, and healthcare providers to follow as they explore ways to improve the well-being of individuals. The LumiHealth ...
Edge computing has been identified as a growth area for a wide range of service providers, including content delivery networks (CDNs). By their very nature, CDNs represent the characteristics of edge computing by offering a distributed service, ...
Marvell's announced acquisition of Inphi will bring additional high-speed data interconnect portfolio and silicon photonics technology to complement Marvell's Ethernet silicon and network infrastructure processors.
The companies' ...
SAP is starting to show the typical signs of a technology vendor shifting from on-premises software sales to cloud software sales. Cloud revenues are doing well while software licenses and services are contracting. The transition bodes well ...