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 Spotlight focuses on actual 2020 organizational spend on collaboration platforms such as Slack and Microsoft Teams, and what 2021 spending is going to look like. Collaboration application growth has been significant in 2020, ...
This IDC Market Presentation was delivered as part of a public Zoom webinar on September 9, 2020. It covers the topic of supporting open source software that developers use today and the implications of not being part of the larger open ...
This IDC Survey presents key findings on some key sentiment by U.S. bank and credit union customers when it comes to their interaction using contact centers and chat tools before, during, and anticipate post-COVID-19. The data is from the ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight provides results and analyses from a survey of technology influencers from U.S. organizations with 100+ employees. The respondents were senior decision makers who have knowledge of and were responsible for their ...
Open source software (OSS) adoption among Indian organizations has come a long way ever since this was first introduced in the 1990s. However, there are still lingering concerns that have stalled the enterprisewide adoption of OSS in the ...
This IDC Market Glance discusses content infrastructure for 2Q20.
"Creating, producing, distributing, and streaming video and videolike content is a fast-growing and complex market segment that is expected to touch the lives of most ...
This IDC Survey focuses on organizers and attendees of in-person meetings and conferences of 250+ people that become virtual meetings because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The new "in person" meetings are virtual meetings. This research identifies ...
This IDC Market Glance outlines the collaborative innovation market for 2Q20. As innovation, R&D, and engineering is a team sport that requires a cross-discipline team (internal and external) working across multiple business processes, ...
The IDC Presentation examines the impact of COVID-19 on European unified communications and collaboration (EUCC). The presentation breaks down the impact in the near as well as medium and long term to reflect market dynamics in the post-pandemic ...
This IDC Survey discusses the impact of COVID-19 on collaboration spending. COVID-19 is accelerating the need for remote enterprise collaboration and conferencing solutions as many workers find themselves working from home for the first ...
This IDC Market Glance provides a glance at social media and messaging applications, currently the "go-to channel" for digital-first people. Now nearly ubiquitous in North America, social media technologies are fast becoming what the telephone ...
This IDC Survey document presents key findings on the 3rd Platform and innovation accelerator adoption trends of European educational organizations. The report, derived from IDC's European Tech and Industry Pulse Survey 2019–2020, ...
This IDC Market Presentation discusses the enterprise infrastructure and communications markets in Europe. It looks at businesses' needs around communications and collaboration, networks, and mobility, encompassing network services, equipment, ...
This IDC Market Presentation presents an overview of the repatriation patterns of enterprise workloads, from public cloud infrastructure to on-premises infrastructure. These characteristics were gathered as part of IDC's Public Cloud ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight highlights responses from companies participating in the 2019 IDC Collaboration Study: The Collaborative Workforce. Who actively collaborates at work? The traditional 80:20 rule suggests that only 20% of ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight highlights responses from companies participating in the 2019 IDC Collaboration Study: The Collaborative Workforce. Collaboration — the act of working together for a purpose makes sense, but are there real benefits ...
This IDC Survey looks at the use of open source software, both community supported and commercially supported, in the context of the overall use of software use among U.S. businesses with over 249 employees.
"Open source software has ...
This IDC Survey provides insights into U.S. enterprise adoption of communications platform as a service (CPaaS). IDC surveyed about 800 United States–based decision makers responsible for network/strategy and operations about their organization's ...
This IDC Market Analysis Perspective explores the market leaders in the collaboration functional markets: team collaborative applications, conferencing, enterprise social networks (or enterprise communities), and email. This document also ...
This IDC Market Analysis Perspective (MAP) presents the worldwide digital transformation professional services market. Some form of this presentation was delivered to clients throughout various dates in 2019. The presentation was designed ...
This IDC Market Analysis Perspective (MAP) considers the open source ecosystem market view, provides data on acceptance of open source software, and offers insight into where open source development and adoption will go in the future.
"Open ...
This IDC Survey looks at the technology investment priorities that utilities across Asia/Pacific have. In most countries in Asia characterised by government ownership, regulation, and integrated operators across the value chain, the level ...
本IDC Market Analysis Perspective（MAP）は、デジタルトランスフォーメーション（DX）に関連する国内の動向をまとめたものである。本プレゼンテーションでは、DXの現状分析、ITサプライヤーの取り組み比較、ユーザー企業の取り組み分析を提供している。また、DXの今後の予測とユーザー企業のCIOが考慮すべき事項を考察し、ITサプライヤーへの提言を示している。