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 provides a brief overview of the worldwide enterprise storage systems market performance during the third calendar quarter of 2020 (CY 3Q20).
"The enterprise storage systems market remained on largely a stable growth ...
This IDC study provides a brief overview of the worldwide server market performance during the third quarter of 2020 (CY 3Q20).
"Global demand for enterprise servers was a bit muted during the third quarter of 2020, although we did ...
This IDC study presents market share data for the worldwide traditional PC market for 3Q20.
"Demand for PCs remained unprecedented during 3Q20, work/learn/entertain from home continued to push PC shipments into near-record-breaking ...
This IDC study provides an analysis of vendor performance in the tablet market for 3Q20.
"As the tablet market moved into the third quarter of a year impacted by a growing pandemic, tablet shipments reached unprecedented levels. While ...
This IDC Market Share analyzes European enterprise network equipment market in the first half of 2020, including the Ethernet switch, router, and WLAN market segments.
"In light of COVID-19 and resulting aggressive government measures, ...
This IDC study features data on revenue attributable to worldwide datacenter Ethernet switching by speed (bandwidth) for the calendar year 2017 as well as for the ensuing calendar quarters of 2018, 2019, and the first two quarters of 2020. ...
This IDC study provides a brief overview of the worldwide enterprise storage systems (ESS) market performance during CY 2Q20.
"The enterprise storage systems market came in with a few surprises during 2Q20, all things considered," ...
This IDC study provides a brief overview of the worldwide server market performance during the second quarter of 2020.
"Global demand for enterprise servers was strong during the second quarter of 2020," said Paul Maguranis, senior ...
This IDC study provides an analysis of vendor performance in the tablet market for 2Q20.
"Amid supply chain issues subsiding and demand for most computing devices reaching unprecedented levels because of increased lockdowns, the global ...
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 ...
This IDC study examines the market share of software-defined compute software vendors in 2019 as well as the market forces that influenced their performances.
"Server virtualization continues to be the standard model of compute, while ...
This IDC study provides historical market share data (2018-2019) for the worldwide compute infrastructure market for workloads. This historical data illustrates top server vendor shares overall and by workload category. IDC reported these ...
This IDC study provides a brief overview of the worldwide enterprise storage systems market performance during CY 1Q20.
"The enterprise storage systems market faced headwinds in 1Q20 with the spread of the global pandemic, particularly ...
This IDC study provides historical market share data (2018–2019) for the worldwide scale-out NAS and pure-play object storage provider in the enterprise storage systems market. The historical data illustrates top server vendor shares overall. ...
In the United States, notebook declines had been anticipated due to large inventory pull in in the back half of 2020 to prepare for tariffs. However, with the outbreak of COVID-19, supply constraints led to deeper declines than expected, ...
This IDC study provides an analysis of vendor performance in the tablet market for 1Q20.
"Supply issues coupled with shaky consumer and business confidence amid the pandemic outbreak had a substantial negative impact on an already ...
This IDC study provides historical market share data (2018–2019) for the worldwide service provider compute and storage infrastructure market. The historical data illustrates top server vendor shares overall. IDC reported these vendor shares ...
This IDC study presents the worldwide 2019 Ethernet switch market shares.
"Trends driving the Ethernet switch market vary based on the segment of the market: Operators of large hyperscale datacenters continue to adopt higher Ethernet ...
This IDC study reviews 2019 vendor revenue and shipments in the wireless LAN infrastructure market (excluding WLAN NICs) and shows the market's changes from 2018. Year-over-year and quarter-over-quarter changes from 4Q19 are also shown. ...
This IDC study reviews the worldwide service provider router market for 2019.
"The overall carrier IP routing market underwent a sharp 13.2% YoY decline in 4Q19 caused mainly by customers pausing ahead of two new product cycles from ...
This IDC study presents the forecast of worldwide revenue from AI servers.
"The market for AI servers is expected to regain its fast growth trajectory once the COVID-19 impact has been absorbed," said Peter Rutten, research director ...
This IDC study provides a brief overview of the Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) (APEJ) converged systems market and vendor performance during 3Q19. It discusses market trends and assesses surveys to understand how converged systems adoption ...
This IDC study provides an overview of the worldwide enterprise storage systems market performance for the full year 2019.
"Continued performance of the enterprise storage systems market was a difficult act to follow in 2019 after ...
This IDC study provides a brief overview of the worldwide server market performance during the fourth quarter of 2019.
"While the server market recaptured growth during the fourth quarter, it was a bit of a mixed bag as robust hyperscaler ...
This IDC study provides a brief overview of the worldwide enterprise storage systems market performance during CY 4Q19.
"Holistically, the enterprise storage systems market fared well in 4Q19, growing 5.1% year over year (y/y). This ...