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 Survey Spotlight analyzes results from IDC's U.S. Enterprise Communications Survey, 2019 (October 2019). The respondents include a total of 800 CEOs, CIOs, CTOs, VPs of IT, line-of-business IT managers, applications ...
This IDC Survey provides a summary of the topline unified communications and collaboration (UCC) results of IDC's U.S. Enterprise Communications Survey 2019, an online survey of 800 United States–based businesses fielded in ...
This IDC Survey summarizes key technology investment trends based on IDC's U.S. Enterprise Communications Survey, 2019, an online survey of 800 United States–based businesses fielded in August 2019. It provides ...
This IDC Market Presentation discusses about 5G operational readiness. Portions of this presentation served as a backdrop for an industry-level panel session at the 2019 Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF) conference held in Los Angeles, California, ...
This IDC Survey provides insights into U.S. enterprise adoption of communications platform as a service (CPaaS). IDC surveyed about 800 United States–based decision makers responsible for network/strategy and operations about their organization's ...
This IDC Market Analysis Perspective presentation provides forecast updates as well as a qualitative overview of the U.S. voice and unified communications services market. It examines the factors and enterprise requirements contributing ...
This IDC Market Analysis Perspective presentation provides a view of the worldwide unified communications and collaboration (UC&C) market. The presentation is designed to provide clients the opportunity to engage with IDC's communications ...
This IDC Market Analysis Perspective (MAP) provides a view of the global enterprise communications infrastructure market. This MAP presentation is designed to provide clients the opportunity to engage with IDC's enterprise networking analysts ...
This IDC Survey provides key analysis and findings from the 2018 U.S. Enterprise Survey related to the uptake of SD-WAN services by SMBs.
This IDC Market Analysis Perspective (MAP) provides a view of the worldwide managed and cloud-hosted virtualized network services market. The MAP presentation is designed to provide clients the opportunity to engage with IDC's communications ...
This IDC Market Analysis Perspective reviews the market forces that are reshaping the IT leasing and financing industry, specifically the demand for "flexible consumption" models that offer flexibility, transparency, and simplicity. Currently, ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight examines the network services that Canadian companies have outsourced to determine if there are patterns of managed network services that service providers can follow to expand their services footprints in their ...
This IDC Survey compares which types of providers that current customers use today and those that future users prefer to use for various managed network services. The objective of this IDC Survey is to determine if future users of managed ...
本プレゼンテーションは、国内ユニファイドコミュニケーション（UC）／コラボレーション／CRM（Customer Relationship Management）アプリケーション／EA（Enterprise Applications）ソフトウェア市場に関連する2018年の市場動向、各市場セグメントの動向、および2019年～2023年の予測を提供する。IDCでは、国内UC／コラボレーション／CRMアプリケーション／EAソフトウェア市場の調査レポートを年間情報提供サービスとして提供している。このサービスでは、国内の企業向けアプリケーションに関連する市場を定義し、各市場の動向と市場規模を調査、分析して報告する。
...This IDC Survey includes data from IDC's November 2018 Future of Work Survey. It provides results and analysis from a survey of 400 respondents who are decision makers and/or influencers in their organization's work transformation ...
This IDC survey highlights preference, behavior, and other factors impacting the adoption of enterprise collaboration solutions investments in the Asia/Pacific region. The document contains data from IDC's Asia/Pacific Enterprise Collaboration ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight assesses the types of third-party providers European end-user organizations rely on to manage networking technologies/services. It leverages the results from IDC's 2019 Western Europe Enterprise Communications ...
This Market Analysis Perspective seeks to establish a relationship between the fast-changing business landscape and its impact on enterprise network and technology initiatives in India. In this report, we identify and assess Indian businesses' ...
This IDC Survey Presentation examines results from the European Enterprise Communications Survey, 2019, which finds that growth in voice will be driven by IP Centrex and SIP trunking. While IP Centrex is benefiting from improved security ...
This IDC Presentation summarizes key trends around video technology solutions based on IDC's 2019 European Enterprise Communications Survey. In particular, it focuses on the current and planned use of video equipment (endpoints/systems) ...
本調査レポートは、国内企業におけるアプリケーション／ユニファイドコミュニケーションシステム（UC）についての利用状況や将来計画に対するIDCのユーザー調査結果（2019年2月に実施）から抜粋し分析を加えたものである。本調査レポートで分析した主な項目は、以下の通りである。
- 国内企業ユーザーのアプリケーション投資動向
This IDC Market Glance provides a look at the current vendors participating in the expanding and rapidly evolving market of government network and telecommunication solutions, plus associated services. It includes participants in government ...
This IDC Market Glance provides an overview of the telecommunications ecosystem, including hardware and software vendors, standardization bodies, open systems players, infrastructure suppliers, and service providers.
This IDC Market Analysis Perspective provides an overview of the current state of the Europe enterprise communications and collaboration market. The market's main components include business voice services, fixed business data services, ...
IDCでは、企業の情報通信システム、アプリケーションソフトウェアの利用動向について調査を行っている。本調査レポートは、国内企業における音声通信／ユニファイドコミュニケーション／コラボレーションシステム／アプリケーションソフトウェアについての利用状況や将来計画などを、2019年2月に実施したユーザー調査の結果を基に分析を行ったものである。
- 国内企業ユーザーの音声通信システムの利用動向
- 音声通信システムの利用状況
- 音声通信システムの購入元
- 将来の導入／更新計画
- 国内企業ユーザーのコラボレーティブアプリケーションの利用動向
- コラボレーティブアプリケーションの利用状況
- ソーシャルネットワーキングサービス（SNS）と社内ソーシャルシステムの利用状況
- 会議システムの利用状況、将来の導入／更新計画
- 国内企業ユーザーのコンタクトセンターシステムの利用動向
- コンタクトセンターシステムの利用状況
- 利用している顧客通信チャネルと将来計画
- コンタクトセンターシステムの課題
- 国内企業ユーザーのアプリケーションソフトウェア利用動向
- CRM（Customer ...