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 Market Glance provides an overview, definitions, and sample participants in the digital automotive and transportation strategies ecosystem. This presentation is an update of the prior published version from 1Q20.
This IDC Market Note examines T-Mobile's quarterly results discussed in the company's 3Q20 earnings announcement on November 5, 2020. In this document, IDC analyzes T-Mobile's operating metrics and the overall strategy in the context of ...
This IDC Market Glance provides a glance at the current makeup of the Arm processor ecosystem, illustrates the vendor landscape, and depicts the segments and structure of the market.
T-Mobile claims to be taking on the cable industry with a new suite of streaming TV services. But, in a market in which cord-cutting is eroding pay TV subscribers across cable and other traditional pay TV segments, pay TV is not the real ...
This IDC Market Perspective examines the potential for mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs) from traditional cable operators to disrupt the competitive dynamic for wireless service among consumer and business subscribers. Mobile virtual ...
This IDC Market Glance provides a glance at the current makeup of the smart building market, illustrating the vendor landscape and depicting the market segments. A smart building's historical foundation has been based on the automatic centralized ...
This IDC Market Analysis Perspective encapsulates IDC insights and data on technologies, industry dynamics, and trends influencing the U.S. wireless service provider market.
This IDC Market Note examines T-Mobile's quarterly results discussed in the company's 2Q20 earnings announcement on August 6, 2020. In this document, IDC analyzes T-Mobile's operating metrics and the overall strategy in the context of the ...
This IDC study presents an assessment of 12 communication service providers that provide managed SD-WAN on a global basis. The assessment is based on the communication SP's current capabilities and future plans for delivering SD-WAN managed ...
This IDC Market Analysis Perspective highlights IDC's data and insights on the technologies, go-to-market strategies, use cases, and key partnerships integral for achieving success and realizing a return on investment in the worldwide 5G ...
This IDC Market Perspective examines the state of the market for public safety communications and IDC's thinking about its future potential. This includes IDC's analysis into current LMR technology use, the opportunity for service providers, ...
T-Mobile became the first U.S. operator to launch a commercial nationwide standalone 5G (SA 5G), which allows 5G to exist in both the radio and core network layers. With broad 5G coverage and an end-to-end 5G network in place ahead of its ...
This IDC Market Perspective analyzes the U.S. market for kids' connected watches. By definition, these watches are designed for children typically from 4 to 10 years and are connected directly to a cellular network with their own phone number. ...
This IDC Perspective examines the ways in which the COVID-19 pandemic presents new challenges but also new opportunities to technology leaders in European companies. This is a crisis that IT leaders must not waste, but much needs to be done ...
This IDC Market Perspective examines U.S. regulators activity around freeing up mid-band spectrum for 5G and provides insight into 5G spectrum portfolios of the leading U.S. mobile network operators. The United States is preparing to auction ...
This IDC Market Glance provides a view of the enterprise network infrastructure market for third quarter of 2020.
It is a dynamic time in enterprise networking. As the world responds to a global health crisis and ensuing economic disruption, ...
This IDC Web Conference, which includes forecast numbers and edge computing trends, looks at how edge-based processing, with new 5G connectivity as its pipeline, will become a conduit for rapid government system growth. On today's government ...
This IDC Survey covers the results of IDC's 2020 U.S. Mobile Consumer Services Survey. This survey was completed in March 2020 and covers the perspectives of 2,024 respondents from a variety of demographic and socioeconomic backgrounds. ...
This IDC Market Note examines T-Mobile's quarterly results discussed in the company's 1Q20 earnings announcement on May 6, 2020. In this document, IDC analyzes T-Mobile's operating metrics and overall strategy in the context of the U.S. ...
This IDC study presents IDC's worldwide and U.S. IT consulting services market by major regions. A forecast and historical sizing are provided, beginning in 2017 and extending through 2024. The total worldwide market is assessed. A range ...
This IDC Market Presentation examines the impact of COVID-19 on the communications service provider (SP) market. COVID-19 has caused the world to reconsider how people associate and interact with family and conduct business. Under shelter-in-place ...
This IDC Market Glance provides a snapshot of the current data-driven policing landscape globally, including the definitions of the major segments of the market, the structure of the market, and the key vendors within each segment.
This IDC Market Glances examines the chemicals industry for 2Q20. The chemicals industry is a complex industry from a technology perspective. It is made up of large and high-capacity producers, as well as small specialty chemical manufacturers. ...
This IDC Market Glance provides an overview of the gaming and esports market landscape, lays out a taxonomic structure for the industry, and identifies the vendors participating in each segment.