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 focuses on the evolution of application development to deliver solutions leveraging the serverless compute architecture that dramatically reduces the overall cost of infrastructure while allowing developers to focus on business ...
This IDC Technology Segment study presents the top 80 IT services providers in Turkey. It includes their market shares, as based on their 2019 results. The top 10 providers are examined in detail, with their market sizes and share data broken ...
This IDC study analyzes and sizes the European supply-chain management applications market from 2017 to 2019 and provides the respective market shares for each vendor. It segments the SCM applications market by functional market (three functional ...
This IDC Market Share study analyzes and sizes the European (WE and CEE) HCM and payroll management applications market for 2017-2019 and market shares per vendor. The study segments the combined market by functional segment (two functional ...
This IDC Market Share summarizes dynamics in the European Big Data and Analytics software market for 2019. This It lists the largest vendors and highlights the trends and significant developments in the market in the year.
"The BDA ...
This IDC study examines the performance of CRM applications market over the 2017-2019 period and highlights the revenues and market shares of leading vendors in 2019. This study includes tables and charts detailing the market shares of vendors ...
本調査レポートは、国内アプリケーションプラットフォーム市場をデプロイメントセントリックアプリケーションプラットフォーム市場、モデル駆動型アプリケーションプラットフォーム市場、トランザクション処理モニター市場に分類し、2018年～2019年のベンダーシェアを提供している。また、アプリケーションPaaS市場とインテグレーションPaaS市場のベンダーシェアについても提供している。
IDC Japan ソフトウェア＆セキュリティのグループマネージャーである入谷 光浩は、「アプリケーションプラットフォーム市場は、アプリケーション実行環境のオンプレミスからPaaSへのシフト、クラウドネイティブアプリケーションの実行環境、コンテナ／Kubernetes対応、ローコード／ノーコード開発機能の実装など、大きな変革の時期を迎えている」と述べている。
...This IDC study presents a comprehensive view of the cloud services market in Poland. It includes market sizing for public and private cloud delivery models. It contains quantitative data from 2019 and market forecasts for 2020–2024, and ...
In this study, IDC analyzes the South Africa public cloud services market in 2019, and provides market forecasts for the 2020—2024 period.
"Given that the COVID-19 pandemic has prompted an increase in the use of public cloud services, ...
This IDC Market Share analyzes the Nordic enterprise applications market for 2017-2019 and provides the market shares of each vendor. It segments the ERM, CRM, SCM, production applications, and engineering applications market by functional ...
This study provides detailed qualitative and quantitative information, analyses, and forecasts that help answer the following key questions:
- What are the defining characteristics of the Turkey EAS market?
- What is the current ...
This IDC study provides the worldwide market shares for supply chain management applications. This market grew at a strong pace in 2019 as the market began to move to see traction pick up for public cloud deployments. Growth in the supply ...
This IDC study examines the worldwide customer service applications software market for 2017–2019. Revenue and market share of the leading vendors are provided for 2019.
"The results of customer service initiatives in 2020 and 2021 ...
This IDC Technology Segment study presents the top 95 IT services providers in Hungary, including their market shares as based on their performances in 2019. It examines in detail the performances of the top five IT services providers, including ...
This IDC Special Study features detailed qualitative and quantitative information, analyses, and forecasts intended to help organizations understand the driving forces behind the EAS market in Poland. Topics covered include:
- The ...
This IDC Market Share analyzes the Western Europe ERM applications market for 2017 to 2019 and provides the respective market shares for each vendor. It segments the ERM applications market by functional market (eight functional markets), ...
This IDC study contains a three-year history of revenue for the database development and management tools (DDMT) market for 2017–2019, with breakdowns by vendor, deployment model (public cloud versus noncloud), and geographic region. It ...
本調査レポートは、国内CRMアプリケーション市場の2019年のベンダー売上額実績に基づく市場シェアの分析を提供している。IDCでは、国内CRMアプリケーション市場を「広告アプリケーション」「コンタクトセンターアプリケーション」「カスタマーサービスアプリケーション」「デジタルコマースアプリケーション」「マーケティングキャンペーン管理アプリケーション」「セールス生産性／管理アプリケーション」の6つの機能市場セグメントに分類し、市場規模を分析し予測を行っている。2019年の同市場は、クラウドサービス提供ベンダーが売上額／シェアを大きく伸ばした。
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This IDC study presents a comprehensive view of the cloud services market in the Czech Republic. It includes market sizing for public and private cloud delivery models. It contains quantitative data from 2019 and market forecasts for 2020–2024, ...
This IDC study presents a view of worldwide artificial intelligence (AI) applications market revenue broken down by vendors, AI type (AI centric and AI noncentric), and technology group detail (AI customer relationship management [CRM] applications, ...
This IDC study describes the worldwide customer intelligence and analytics applications software market shares, including the global market size of $11.2 billion and vendor market shares based on 2019 revenue. A companion market forecast ...
This IDC study provides 2019 market share for the worldwide project and portfolio management market, which grew 4.2% to $3.88 billion in 2019 with current IDC numbers (compared with growth of 6.9% to $3.72 billion in 2018). We expect the ...
"Despite being dominated by large CRM platform vendors, the market has a huge scope for start-ups to grow, especially those that focus on innovative AI software applications. Organizations will invest in big data and analytics (BDA) tools ...
This IDC study reports on the two prior years as the market measurements have matured. It also provides a competitive analysis of the worldwide public cloud platform-as-a-service market and the associated submarkets in the calendar year ...
This IDC study provides an analysis of vendor performance in the customer relationship management applications software market for 2019 valued at $60.29 billion.
"Customer relationship management applications software as a whole is ...