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.
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"Time is a precious and finite resource in the battle against cyberthreats," according to Michael ...
This IDC study presents the top 106 IT services providers in the UAE, including their market shares, based on their respective performances in 2018. Furthermore, it examines the performances of the top 5 IT services providers in the UAE. ...
本报告是IDC FutureScape全球医疗健康行业2020年预测的中国启示，报告提供了2020-2025年间医疗健康行业技术发展路线图，包含10项健康行业发展前沿的预测并融合了针对中国市场的观点看法。每项预测都包括该预测内容成为市场“主流”的时间和复杂性评估，以及该预测对于IT方面的影响，并为技术买家提供了采用和部署这些技术的建议，可供中国医疗健康行业的各领域，如医疗、医保和医药等领域的医疗健康服务机构在制定发展战略和数字化转型策略中参考。
This IDC study provides a detailed description of the methodology and taxonomy for IDC's Worldwide 3rd Platform Spending Guide for securities and investment services. It should be used as a companion piece for IDC's Worldwide 3rd Platform ...
This IDC study represents a vendor assessment of the current market for worldwide IoT applications platforms for Smart Cities. This research is a quantitative and qualitative assessment of the vendors based on a comprehensive set of parameters ...
This IDC Presentation includes data from IDC's 2019 Asia/Pacific (Excluding Japan) Enterprise Business and IT Services End-User Survey. A total of 80 organizations based in Indonesia were covered, serving as the research sample for ...
This IDC study provides a detailed description of the methodology and taxonomy for IDC's Worldwide 3rd Platform Spending Guide for retail. It should be used as a companion piece for IDC's Worldwide 3rd Platform Spending Guide for retail. ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight analyzes results from IDC's October 2019 U.S. Enterprise Communications Survey. The respondents include a total of 800 CEOs, CIOs, CTOs, VPs of IT, line-of-business IT managers, applications ...
This IDC Perspective addresses the role of friction in building business opportunity; how retailers, such as Stitch Fix and Kohl's, are using friction to their advantage; and how it is important to rethink the role of friction across the ...
This IDC Market Presentation discusses how channel partners business model changes are impacting their relationships with their vendors, shifting the balance of power toward the partner. To meet the needs of customers in the digital economy, ...
This IDC Perspective evaluates the ongoing shift amongst software-as-a-service (SaaS) providers toward customer success methodologies in both intent and strategy. Customer success focuses on helping customers achieve specific outcomes that ...
This IDC Survey analyzes 33 interviews with airlines (16 respondents), railways (four respondents), urban transit (11 respondents), and water transport (two respondents) to investigate the maturity, road maps, and investments of European ...
This IDC Market Presentation highlights the latest IDC Quarterly Wearable Device Tracker results for the Western Europe wearables market. In this tracker, IDC follows more than 80 wearables makers in 16 countries, providing detailed shipment ...
本IDC 陈述报告描述了中国制造行业IT 2020年十大预测。报告为制造企业的高管提供了在未来的60 个月内制造业IT 及其IT 所支持的业务发展趋势，报告标识了这些预测发生作用的未来时间和受影响的业务领域，以及相对的复杂性和成本。每个预测包括IT 对业务的影响和对于制造企业的行动指南。
2019年，对于中国制造业而言是非同寻常的一年。面临的外部形势依旧严峻，包括中美经贸摩擦在内的外部不确定性依旧存在，给中国制造业带来严峻的外部挑战；另外，成本压力、环保压力使得传统制造业盈利空间进一步缩小。“高质量”发展是2019中国制造业的主旋律。人工智能、大数据、5G等信息技术快速发展，并在制造业不同场景得以广泛应用；以工业互联网为代表的新业态和新模式给制造业带来了新的发展动能，带来了更多的商业机会。
“展望未来，中国制造业将持续快速发展，创新模式将不断涌现。数据驱动对运营弹性的需求，将使得智能工厂战略的重点由技术实施转移到流程变更管理；弹性供应链能降低劳动力成本、提高生产率；数字孪生技术将建立物理世界的映射，实现运营成本的节约；智能机器人流程化将实现重复工作的自动化，化，缓解人才短缺问题；受可持续性发展需求驱动，制造商将利用区块链提供可靠来源，提高审计效率，这些都是未来制造商投资的重点领域。”——IDC中国制造业高级研究经理张兰英表示。
...This IDC Market Note analyzes Appian's acquisition of the Spanish firm behind Jidoka RPA in January 2020.
This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation highlights IDC's top 10 developer- and DevOps-related predictions for the next five years in Europe.
"The need to successfully navigate software-led customer demand and highly elastic competitive market ...
This IDC Market Note presents eight significant trends that IDC has identified as critical aspects of the AI technology market in Europe in 2020.
This IDC Survey analyzes 33 interviews with airlines (16 respondents), railways (4 respondents), urban transit (11 respondents), and water transport (2 respondents) to investigate the digital transformation maturity, road map, and investments ...
2019년 상반기 국내 PC 출하량은 242만대로 전년 대비 2.5% 감소에도 불구하고 중고가 제품 비중의 확대로 매출은 5.0% 성장하였다. 컨수머 시장은 132만대를 출하하여 전년 대비 8.0% 감소하였으며, 대학생층은 윈도우, 마이크로소프트 오피스 뿐만 아니라 안드로이드, 구글닥스 등 다양한 운영체제와 애플리케이션을 사용함에 따라 프리미엄 디태처블 태블릿과 노트북의 경쟁이 가열되고 있다. 커머셜 시장은 윈도우 7 서비스 ...
This IDC Survey analyzes 33 interviews with airlines (16 respondents), railways (4 respondents), urban transit (11 respondents), and water transport (2 respondents) to investigate purchasing patterns in terms of priorities driving IT investment, ...