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 Perspective provides an overview of the IoT-enabled asset performance management (APM) market and provides guidance on how to approach the buying decision in this emerging space.
"When a new technology solution emerges with ...
This IDC Market Glance provides a glance at the type of vendors and providers that make up the precision agriculture market.
This IDC Market Glance provides a glance at the current makeup of the smart manufacturing market landscape for manufacturing industries.
This IDC Presentation was given as the keynote at a client's customer event in July 2019. It reviews the capabilities of mobile operators' current and future 5G services, focusing on 5G's potential to enable new applications in select industry ...
This IDC Presentation provides an overview of Industry 4.0 policy, progress, and resultant technology adoption across 11 countries in the Asia/Pacific region (excluding Japan), or APEJ. Industry 4.0 policy creation intends to motivate industrial ...
This IDC Market Glance identifies the vendors providing datacenter-related facility, IT infrastructure, and services to the Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) (APEJ) enterprise market. Vendors are classified according to technology segmentation. ...
This IDC Market Analysis Perspective provides a view of the worldwide enterprise asset management applications market. It is designed to summarize key trends driving the industry and provide clients with an opportunity to engage with IDC ...
This IDC Survey report provides data-based insights that will help both users and vendors to better understand the current situation and future trends related to the deployment of industrial robots in Southeast Asia discrete manufacturing.
This ...
This IDC Market Glance provides a glance at the landscape of IoT application providers, including some of the IoT application development and integration services providers. IoT applications are segmented by functionality.
This IDC Market Glance provides an overview of the broad spectrum of technology and services providers that make datacenters more resilient and sustainable.
This IDC Market Glance provides an overview of the current internet of things (IoT) landscape in Canada, describes the structure and segments of the market, and illustrates the vendors participating in each segment.
This IDC Market Presentation provides a glance at the current structure of the manufacturing business ecosystems landscape for manufacturing industries.
This IDC Market Glance provides a look at the current participants in the highly competitive market of government datacenters and the systems integrators that help spec, develop, and manage government solutions.
It also looks at communities ...
This IDC Presentation focuses on retail robotics providers in Europe that IDC believes are successful examples of companies working with retailers from different segments (i.e., fashion and apparel, food and grocery, ecommerce and online ...
This IDC Market Glance provides technology buyers and mining management with a snapshot of suppliers mapped against operational function areas in mining. It can be used as a basis for exploring the companies that could be the best partners ...
This IDC study provides an assessment of the prominent SaaS and cloud-enabled asset-intensive EAM application solutions and discusses what criteria are most important for companies to consider when selecting a system.
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This IDC Link presents IDC's opinion on the recently announced global partnership between ABB and Dassault Systèmes. Combining the strength of ABB's Ability™ digital solutions and Dassault Systèmes' 3DEXPERIENCE platform, the partnership ...
This IDC Market Glance provides a glance at the current makeup of the IT/OT convergence market landscape for manufacturing industries.
This IDC Market Glance provides an overview of the vendors participating in the oil and gas upstream production operational technology market.
This IDC Market Glance provides a snapshot of the current intelligent urban transportation landscape globally, including the definitions of the major segments of the market, the structure of the market, and the vendors participating in each ...
This IDC Presentation analyzes the results of the IDC IT/OT integration survey for mining undertaken in May 2018. It provides an analysis of the approaches, priorities, barriers, and challenges that mining companies face as they tackle IT/OT ...
This IDC MarketScape evaluates vendors in the mobile field force management by performing a qualitative and quantitative assessment of their capabilities and strategy. It aims to aid utilities in deciding on their current or future MFFM ...
This IDC Market Glance provides an overview of the vendors participating in the grid-as-a-service (GaaS) ecosystem.
This IDC Market Glance offers a top-down view of the public cloud infrastructure-as-a-service market and the vertical stack of technology providers and vendors used by the cloud service providers in this market. Public cloud IaaS providers ...
This IDC Market Glance takes a look at the current makeup of the overall artificial intelligence market landscape in 1Q19, illustrates the vendors participating in the market, and depicts the segments and structure of the market.