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 study provides an analysis of vendor performance in the tablet market for 3Q19.
"With detachable shipments growing double digits in the third quarter on the heels of some promising product launches and a steadily growing customer ...
本研究报告主要针对2018年数字政府大数据市场的市场规模、厂商竞争态势、技术发展趋势以及场景化的最佳实践等维度进行体系化的研究。
"数字政府建设尚未形成规模化、可复制的大数据平台服务与应用场景创新，尤其是在数字政府1.0时代，以Hadoop技术栈为主建设的大数据管理平台覆盖了国家级与多数省级市场，其主要功能在于提供分布式的数据存储。数字政府2.0时代，政府大数据基础平台建设逐渐融合Hadoop、GreenPlum、Spark等多元大数据技术，开始以业务导向为主，促成场景驱动技术选型。同时，基础平台在原本技术门槛高的基础上又融合了日益复杂的技术生态，使得基础平台市场趋近集约化。随着省级大数据基础平台部署基本覆盖，面向数据本身的管理与治理市场还处于大规模的人力投入阶段，相对较离散，正是技术颠覆的最佳发力点。"IDC政府行业与智慧城市研究组研究经理詹墨磊表示。
...This IDC study provides a brief overview of the worldwide AFA market performance through the end of 1H19.
"From a product functionality point of view, customers could hardly go wrong buying an all-flash array from any of the top 10 ...
This IDC study reviews the worldwide service provider router market for 2Q19.
"While the continuing slump in North American service provider spending further negatively impacted the overall service provider routing market in 2Q19, ...
This IDC study provides a view of worldwide SD-WAN infrastructure market shares by vendor, covering both hardware revenue and software revenue.
"Enterprises are continuing to invest in SD-WAN technology, driven by myriad factors. Organizations ...
本IDC研究报告主要阐述2018年中国防火墙市场的规模、厂商份额、技术发展变化等内容。
"当前，由于全球国际形势的变化和中国政策法律法规的推动，新技术赋能已经成为未来网络安全产业发展的必然趋势。具体到防火墙市场，各安全厂商在AI防火墙层面的战略布局持续加深，通过提升防火墙的智能化水平来提高防火墙设备的综合能力，如：未知威胁检测、恶意文件检测、异常流量检测等方面能力的提升。智慧防火墙也将协同联动其他安全产品，提高用户的整体安全防御水平。"——IDC中国负责IT安全市场研究的市场分析师王一汀表示。
...This IDC Market Share provides European SD-WAN infrastructure market shares for 2018 and analyzes leading vendors' SD-WAN strategies. It provides revenue estimates for 2016 to 2018, highlighting the top 7 vendors.
"Continued demand ...
This IDC Market Share presents an analysis of the 2019 EMEA enterprise network equipment market, including the Ethernet switch, router, and WLAN segments.
"The EMEA enterprise networking market continues to grow across all technologies. ...
This IDC study provides a brief overview of the worldwide enterprise storage systems market performance during CY 2Q19.
"Performance in the second quarter of 2019 followed many of the trends observed earlier in the year," said Greg ...
This IDC study provides an analysis of vendor performance in the tablet market for 2Q19.
"The worldwide tablet market continued to decline as we saw slate shipments fall 11.2% to 26.3 million units in the second quarter of 2019. However, ...
This IDC Special Study presents IDC's Enterprise Infrastructure Market Pulse, which is designed to provide clients with a demand-side view of IT infrastructure spending sentiments in the early stages of each calendar quarter as well as insights ...
This IDC study reviews the worldwide service provider router market for 1Q19.
"While the continuing slump in North American service provider spending further negatively impacted the overall service provider routing market in 1Q19, ...
This IDC study provides a brief overview of the worldwide server market performance during the first quarter of 2019.
"Demand from both enterprise buyers and hyperscale companies purchasing through ODMs was less voracious than in previous ...
This IDC study provides an analysis of vendor performance in the tablet market for 1Q19.
"Of the top 5 tablet manufacturers in the first quarter of 2019, three were able to maintain growth in an otherwise declining market. While the ...
This IDC Special Study presents IDC's Enterprise Infrastructure Market Pulse: Vendor View, which is designed to provide clients with a demand-side view on IT infrastructure spending sentiments in the early stages of each calendar quarter. ...
This IDC study examines the market share of software-defined compute (SDC) software vendors in 2018 as well as the market forces that influenced their performances.
"The SDC market is seeing that VMware, the primary contributor of ...
This IDC study covers both hardware revenue and software revenue and provides a view of worldwide SD-WAN infrastructure market shares by vendor.
"SD-WAN remains one of the hottest growth areas in the networking industry, driven by ...