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 study presents the vendor share of the Japan big data and analytics (BDA) software market based on its performance in 2019. IDC divides the BDA software market into three major submarkets, which are further divided into 16 functional ...
This IDC study examines the market share of container infrastructure software vendors in 2019 as well as the market forces that influenced their performances. Container infrastructure software is a competitive market within IDC's software ...
This IDC Market Share discusses trends and vendor dynamics in the public cloud market in Western Europe.
"Public cloud is growing in double digits in Western Europe with the most important cloud providers delivering all types of public ...
This IDC study focuses on the evolution of application development to deliver solutions leveraging the serverless compute architecture that dramatically reduces the overall cost of infrastructure while allowing developers to focus on business ...
This IDC study provides a view of worldwide ADC and ADCaaS market shares by vendor, including ADC revenue attributable to physical appliances, software/virtual appliances, and ADCaaS (IaaS load balancing).
"Application delivery infrastructure ...
This IDC study presents a comprehensive view of the cloud services market in Russia. It includes market sizing for public and private cloud delivery models. It further contains quantitative data from 2019 and market forecasts for 2020–2024 ...
This IDC study presents a comprehensive view of the cloud services market in Poland. It includes market sizing for public and private cloud delivery models. It contains quantitative data from 2019 and market forecasts for 2020–2024, and ...
This IDC study provides a brief overview of the worldwide storage software and basic storage (infrastructure as a service [IaaS]) market performance during the second calendar quarter of 2020 (2Q20).
"The worldwide storage software ...
In this study, IDC analyzes the South Africa public cloud services market in 2019, and provides market forecasts for the 2020—2024 period.
"Given that the COVID-19 pandemic has prompted an increase in the use of public cloud services, ...
"China's growing influence on the APEJ IaaS market is apparent with the accelerated growth of China IaaS providers. However, with public cloud regulations in China continuing to favor domestic companies, global companies are locked out of ...
This IDC study presents a comprehensive view of the cloud services market in Hungary. It includes market sizing for public and private cloud delivery models. It contains quantitative data from 2019 and market forecasts for 2020–2024, and ...
This IDC study presents a comprehensive view of the cloud services market in Romania. It includes market sizing for public and private cloud delivery models. It contains quantitative data from 2019 and market forecasts for 2020–2024, and ...
This IDC study presents a comprehensive view of the cloud services market in the Czech Republic. It includes market sizing for public and private cloud delivery models. It contains quantitative data from 2019 and market forecasts for 2020–2024, ...
This IDC study discusses the worldwide public cloud infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) market shares for 2019.
"The public cloud IaaS market experienced double-digit annual growth in 2019, driven by the ongoing customer adoption as ...
This IDC study reports on the two prior years as the market measurements have matured. It also provides a competitive analysis of the worldwide public cloud platform-as-a-service market and the associated submarkets in the calendar year ...
This IDC study presents a view of PaaS emerging trends revenue from the historical year 2017 to 2019 and offers breakdowns into submarket components of the larger PaaS emerging trends and strategies competitive market. This study includes ...
This IDC study is the fourth and final part of IDC's Special Study on Infrastructure Adoption Trends for SAP and SAP HANA 2019. This part contains a summary of the previous three documents, plus IDC recommendations for vendors ...
한국 IDC 박서영 책임연구원은 "국내 퍼블릭 클라우드 사업자들은 기업들의 클라우드 네이티브 아키텍처 활용을 돕는 엔드 투 엔드 서비스를 제공하고 기존 고객 기반 확대에 집중하면서 2019년 국내 클라우드 시장 확장을 이끌었다." 고 말했다. 또한, "이러한 현상은 다가오는 넥스트 노멀(Next Normal)시대에 기업들의 클라우드 활용 범위가 넓어지면서 시장 참여자들에게 시장 확대 기회로 작용할 것으로 보인다."라고 말했다.
...This IDC study examines the SaaS and cloud software market in 2019 and includes a list of the top 100 cloud software vendors by revenue.
"Execution has become strategy as each of the top providers race to deliver innovative capabilities ...
This IDC study is the third part of IDC's Special Study on Infrastructure Adoption Trends for SAP and SAP HANA 2019. This part contains end-user sentiments derived from in-depth interviews with four companies (midsize to very ...
This IDC study provides an analysis of the worldwide virtual client computing software market in calendar year 2019.
"2019 will be remembered as the year when the trends in the future of work, including working anywhere and managing ...
This IDC Market Share study analyzes the evolution of public cloud platform vendor market shares in Europe in 2019.
"Despite the evident signs that the market is concentrating around the top 3 vendors, the public cloud platform space ...
This IDC study presents the worldwide hybrid cloud workload security market shares for 2019.
"Hybrid cloud workload security solutions have evolved, providing more than malware detection, intrusion prevention, and vulnerability assessments. ...
This IDC study contains vendor shares for the video platforms software market for 2016–2018. It includes commentary on growth of the market and emerging trends and provides actionable advice for technology suppliers.
"The video platforms ...
This IDC study presents a comprehensive view of the cloud services market in CEE, including market sizing for public and private cloud delivery models. It contains quantitative data from 2018 and market forecasts for 2019–2023. It summarizes ...
한국IDC 김민철 책임연구원은 "최근 퍼블릭 클라우드 서비스에 대한 국내 사용자의 인식 향상 그리고 정부의 클라우드 활성화 정책에 따른 완화된 규제로 글로벌 클라우드 사업자의 글로벌 확장성과 함께 다양하고 진화된 클라우드 솔루션 제공 그리고 국내 클라우드 사업자의 국내 환경 친화적인 클라우드 솔루션 지원으로 보다 다양한 영역으로 클라우드 사업자의 진출이 확대되고 있다"고 말했다. 또한, "퍼블릭 클라우드 서비스의 안정성 ...
This IDC study examines the public cloud IaaS market in 2018 and includes a list of the top 10 IaaS vendors by revenue. It provides two views of the top 10 IaaS vendors in APEJ with and without the inclusion of the China IaaS market.
"The ...
This IDC study presents a comprehensive view of the cloud services market in Romania. It includes market sizing for public and private cloud delivery models, including quantitative data from 2018 and market forecasts for 2019–2023. It summarizes ...