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 Perspective examines the growing importance of cloud-native databases in the data management software market. It includes an explanation of "cloud native" versus "born in the cloud," looks at the evolution of cloud-native ...
This IDC Perspective summarizes topics discussed at the eighth IDC European Utilities Executive Summit, hosted virtually by IDC Energy Insights, on October 19 and 20, 2020. The main theme of the summit was "The Race to the Future Utility ...
This IDC Market Perspective examines the role that 5G plays in accelerating and intensifying the transformation of mobile operators' networks. The advent of 5G brings tremendous promise, with the potential for advanced use cases and the ...
This IDC Market Perspective explores identity management in telcos and the challenges telcos face in harnessing digital identity to optimize their customer-facing operations. The document explores the business goals telcos can achieve through ...
This IDC Perspective summarizes key takeaways from Oracle Live: Cloud Applications, held September 29, and Oracle Virtual Analyst Summit: Oracle Cloud CX, held October 1. Both events focused on upcoming product releases, future product road ...
This IDC Perspective is a review and analysis of the Oracle Live: Oracle Cloud Applications event, with specific focus on Oracle Cloud SCM and its direction going forward.
In the post-COVID-19 era, priorities are shifting to include ...
"Hospitals are facing a number of challenges in terms of hiring and nurturing a talented and dedicated workforce. However, this is also an opportunity to improve care through staff reskilling and process modernization. Investments in HCM ...
This IDC Vendor Profile of Oracle is one of a series of six profiles looking at the strategies and investments of major Europe-focused enterprise application vendors in the European intelligent process automation market.
"The intelligent process automation market has been primarily shaped in the past five years by developments from independent specialist vendors from the RPA and AI communities, but enterprise application vendors also play vital influencing ...
This IDC Market Note provides highlights of the Oracle Cloud CX Virtual Summit, including highlights of the key announcements made along with customer successes featured during the conference.
"Oracle continues to invest in integration ...
This IDC Perspective details Oracle and its innovation in a new generation of cloud applications. A new generation of sophisticated users who expect more from the technology they rely on to get their jobs done exert greater influence over ...
This IDC Market Perspective analyzes how the main cloud providers are responding or have responded to the COVID-19 crisis. It details cloud providers' strategy, interprets internal survey results on the impact of COVID-19 in Europe, and ...
This IDC Perspective provides responses from 100 U.S. federal government respondents to the IDC's May 2020 Worldwide Industry CloudPath Survey. This is the second of two documents derived from this survey and includes ...
This IDC TechBrief discusses the value and benefits of using an in-memory database (IMDB) that supports persistent memory (PMEM). It indicates the benefits, risks, current adoption, and critical success factors associated with this technology ...
This IDC Perspective provides a current overview of the mobile app development platform landscape, including a discussion of key market trends and profiles of numerous companies that offer mobile app development software.
"As businesses ...
This IDC Market Perspective discusses dynamics of platform services from software-as-a-service (SaaS) vendors.
Variations in business demand bring the expectations of a high degree of flexibility and adaptability requirements from ...
This IDC Perspective discusses the drivers that will impact that deficient communications infrastructure on which the COVID-19 event rested upon. This pandemic event and concurrent regulation have finally driven payers to the realization, ...
This IDC Market Note provides a high-level overview of the Oracle OpenWorld Europe 2020 event, with implications for European manufacturers.
This IDC Vendor Profile provides analysis of Oracle's Internet of Things (IoT) strategy.
This IDC Perspective discusses the current COVID–19 crisis that has displaced or furloughed millions of workers. Many human capital management (HCM) companies are making some of their capabilities available on a complimentary basis to their ...
This IDC Market Perspective analyzes the multiplying effects of deploying IoT and AI in combination. We examine how the two technologies bring greater benefits to organizations deploying them together than if they were deployed separately.
"Greater ...
This IDC Market Perspective provides the biggest takeaways from the National Retail Federation Big Show 2020 (NRF 2020), according to IDC's Enterprise Applications and Digital Commerce team. The top takeaways from the event included sustainability, ...
This IDC Perspective shares key takeaways from the second annual Oracle Food and Beverage Connect 2020, which took place on March 2–4 at the InterContinental Miami. The gathering of 400+ restaurant operators and technology partners offered ...
This IDC Market Note provides a high-level overview and commentary on main takeaways on the Oracle Open World Europe event that took place on February 12 and 13, 2020, in London.
This IDC Perspective highlights some benefits and challenges associated with AML and KYC SaaS offerings. It also profiles three SaaS technology providers.
It is increasingly difficult for banks to maintain pace with evolving financial ...