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 Market Forecast contains data regarding European CSP spending in 2018-2023. It segments opex data by major subcategory. It also discusses major trends that will affect CSP capex and opex.
" CSP spending in Europe will experience ...
This IDC study sizes and forecasts mobile in-game advertising and developers' share of that spending, broken down by region and by ad format.
"Mobile in-game advertising has proven to be a business model for game developers that is ...
This IDC study examines the adoption of 5G — as many more operators target 2020 as a launching point for 5G services — through the lens of traditional mobile subscribers and cellular IoT connections across the Americas, Asia/Pacific, and ...
This IDC study provides the forecast for the 5G network infrastructure market for 2019–2023.
"While Release 15 paved the way for initial commercial 5G launches, Release 16 (1H20) and beyond will be what unlocks 5G's full potential ...
This IDC study examines some of the key technologies that are expected to trend upward in 2020, and it looks at ways in which IT and business services firms can address these technologies with customers to advance usage. The document highlights ...
This IDC study examines the needs and preferences for mobility services for small, medium-sized, and large Canadian businesses. Service offerings under examination include mobile enterprise application platforms, mobile content management, ...
This IDC Market Forecast provides an update on the emerging landscape for 5G service launches across the Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) (APEJ) region, including projections for 5G in South Korea, Australia, China, India, and the full gamut ...
This report provides an analysis of the 2018 vendor share and vendor trends in the whole of the Japan network equipment market by product segment that includes Ethernet switches, routers, WLAN, and by user segment namely, enterprise and ...
This IDC study provides a forecast for the worldwide edge computing and storage infrastructure market for the 2019–2023 period.
"Edge computing has evolved significantly from the days of isolated IT at ROBO locations," said Kuba Stolarski, ...
This IDC study discusses our forecast for the worldwide smartwatch market for 2019–2023.
"The appeal of smartwatches will reach a broader audience in the years to come and resulting from that is a steady increase in shipments each ...
This IDC study discusses the worldwide workspace management software forecast for 2019–2023.
"Since the dawn of client computing, each application has created its own 'workspace,' with humans creating the connection between them. In ...
This IDC study presents the five-year forecast for smartwatches shipments in the United States.
"Smartwatches will continue to gain traction in the United States," says Ramon T. Llamas, research director for IDC's Wearables program. ...
This IDC study forecasts the CPaaS segment will grow from $3.3 billion in 2018 to $17.2 billion in 2023.
The CPaaS segment is entering a new stage of explosive growth led by industry leaders Twilio and Vonage (formerly Nexmo). "CPaaS ...
This IDC Market Forecast discusses the enterprise mobility management software market in Western Europe.
"Growth in the enterprise mobility management market in Europe will be increasingly driven by vendors' ability to support enterprises' ...
This IDC study examines the active consumer install base for connected mobility and connected home devices in Canada for 2019–2023 and addresses the current state of this market in Canada.
"As the Canadian consumer continues to be ...
This IDC study is the fifth iteration of the Canadian business TV services forecast and updates Canadian Business TV Services Forecast, 2018–2022 (IDC Canada #CA43232018, July 2018).
"Over-the-top video and planned 5G ...
This IDC study presents the five-year forecast for mobile phone shipments worldwide by device type. The worldwide mobile phone market will reach a total of 1,775.5 million unit shipments in 2019, down 5.9% from the 1,887.7 million units ...
This IDC study presents the updated five-year forecast for smartphone shipments worldwide by operating system. The worldwide smartphone market will reach a total of 1.37 billion units shipped in 2019, down 2.2% from the 1.40 billion units ...
This IDC study updates IDC Canada's annual forecast of the Canadian wireless communication services market.
"The advent of next-generation 5G wireless networks will further drive adoption and spending on wireless data at the end of ...
This IDC study presents the five-year forecast for the worldwide business use smartphone shipments by operating system and user type (consumer, individual liable, and corporate liable). It is part of IDC's continuing research with respect ...
This IDC study presents the five-year forecast for the U.S. business use smartphone market in terms of shipments, by operating system and user type (consumer, individual liable, and corporate liable). It is part of IDC's continuing research ...
This IDC study provides a forecast for the worldwide enterprise mobility management software market for 2018–2023.
"Enterprises are planning for a near future of converged mobile, PC, and in some cases, IoT device management convergence ...
This IDC Market Share report examines the Western European wireless printing (printer/MFP) market, split by technology (color laser, inkjet, and monochrome laser). 2018 vendor shares are provided for units shipped, with values for each of ...
本报告通过对公有云服务提供商、内容分发网络（CDN）专业服务提供商等的直接访谈，以及二手资料研究，分析了CDN服务市场的发展动态和竞争格局，对CDN服务市场的主要服务商进行了研究，并对该领域市场发展提出了一些建议，旨在为公有云服务提供商以及CDN服务商提供参考。
"中国CDN服务市场伴随着互联网时代的成长，把握住难得机遇，得到蓬勃发展。早期进场的传统专业CDN服务提供商积极创新技术，深耕行业场景，布局合作生态；后期强势介入的公有云服务厂商将CDN业务与其公有云业务结合，形成更大的服务优势；双方一起塑造了目前中国的CDN服务市场格局。2018年中国CDN服务市场在政策、资本和云计算产业等多重利好因素的驱动下实现了迅猛增长。在CDN服务市场的领先服务商中，公有云服务厂商占据多数名额，并达到了将近一半的市场份额。预计未来几年，传统专业CDN服务提供商和公有云服务厂商的竞争将会愈发白热化，双方需要把握住5G商用和边缘计算发展带来的业务增长机会，为企业提供真正有价值的增值服务，助力自身从竞争中胜出。"——IDC中国企业级研究部研究经理诸葛兰表示。
...This IDC study is designed as a companion piece for IDC's Worldwide Semiannual Connected Consumer Spending Guide and provides a detailed description of the taxonomy, definitions, and methodology supporting IDC's Connected Consumer research ...