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 PlanScape provides a road map for hospitality and travel companies to leverage digital transformation strategies to drive seamless, augmented experiences in the appropriate and desired settings, where physical contact with a human ...
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 Tech Buyer Presentation investigates the global trends shaping the mining industry while mapping them to IDC’s Worldwide Mining 2021 predictions as identified in IDC’s FutureScape: Worldwide Mining 2021 Predictions ...
The 2020 New Zealand CIO Summit provided insight into how the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the way businesses are leveraging their digital road maps to create opportunities for growth. Overarching themes of trust, empathy, organisational ...
This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation examines how healthcare organizations have reset digital transformation (DX) priorities even as programs accelerated as COVID-19 response created an urgent call to action for healthcare adaptability, scalability, ...
This IDC Perspective brings together IDC's horizontal Future of Customers and Consumers (FoCC) research and applies an Asia/Pacific retail lens. Retailers can take this framework to retail transformation use cases and apply this to their ...
This IDC study is the first of three IDC PlanScape documents that provide recommendations for CIOs as they enhance their organization's measurement maturity. The key performance indicators (KPIs) that the CIO shares should evolve as the ...
This IDC study presents the top 10 predictions and key drivers for the IT industry for the next five years. It highlights the midterm and long-term challenges that enterprise IT teams face as they navigate their ongoing response to the business ...
While the long-term impact of COVID-19 remains to be seen, some changes are obvious as they will merely accelerate existing trends. This means changes in distribution and servicing models, as physical high-touch relationships models will ...
This IDC study provides IDC's 2021 top 10 predictions for future of intelligence trends, encompassing topics of human and machine intelligent gathering, decision making, and knowledge management.
"Predictions in this IDC FutureScape ...
This IDC study presents the top 10 predictions for the future of industry ecosystems for the next five years.
"Industry organizations, whether in manufacturing, healthcare, government, retail, or finance, need to expand the capabilities ...
This IDC study explores how hospitality, dining, and travel organizations are responding to the drivers of business and offers guidance on actions to consider.
"The hospitality and travel industries have been thrust into a period of ...
This IDC study provides IDC's top 10 predictions for the 2021 CIO agenda. These predictions provide a strategic context that will enable CIOs to lead their organizations through a journey to recovery and in the next normal over the next ...
This Web Conference presents a discussion by IDC's Group Vice President, Worldwide Research, Rick Villars, on the key developments that will shape the technology industry over the next one to five years and impact the ability of every enterprise ...
This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation details how the impacts of COVID-19 are ubiquitous. In fact, the term unprecedented is warranted. It seems that everything is different. This presentation describes 12 critical drivers — important ...
This IDC Web Conference presents the findings of IDC Financial Insights' FinTech Rankings and winners.
There has been some debate as to whether or not banks are technology companies or can FinTechs become a bank? Across all financial ...
This Tech Buyer Presentation presents IDC's view on the state of artificial intelligence (AI) in the financial services industry in Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) (APEJ). The presentation briefly summarizes market forecasts, key market dynamics, ...
This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation provides as assessment of the lasting effects of COVID-19 on business and technology. By leveraging IDC's most recent five-year predictions, technology forecasts, and data from IDC's enterprise technology ...
This IDC Perspective provides a data-driven overview of the current trends in digital transformation investment. It is intended to assist CIOs, IT executives, and line-of-business technology professionals in identifying high-level digital ...
This IDC Perspective looks at the agility and resiliency aspects of IDC's Five Stages to Enterprise Recovery model for the COVID-19 crisis and its applicability to cities and municipalities. It helps technology buyers in city administration ...
This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation discusses dynamics within technology procurement organizations that was not anticipated. IDC survey data shows that businesses were not prepared for the COVID-19 crisis. Nevertheless, according to the survey ...
This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation provides perspective and analysis focused on four use cases included as part of IDC's Worldwide Smart Cities Spending Guide: Vehicle to everything (V2X) connectivity, advanced public transit, intelligent ...
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a data traffic surge in Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) countries. However, the spend on consumer and business fixed data services shows a high deviation. Hence, as consumers utilize more data ...
This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation highlights the importance of creating a holistic and progressive skills management program for the organization on the road to recovery following COVID-19. It provides a view of the most important skills ...
This IDC Perspective (video) provides IT leadership insights and challenges from IDC's IT Executive Programs clients and prospects for the period from July 6 to August 10, 2020. Many IT organizations have pivoted from reacting to the pandemic ...