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 Presentation provides Canadian AI use case adoption indications, based on AI-technologies being identified as key ROI sources for industry-specific digital initiatives. The industries covered in this document are government, ...
On December 3, Workday announced its third-quarter results for the current financial year. The total revenues were $938.1 million, which was a strong increase of 26.2% from the third quarter of the previous fiscal year. This is another quarter ...
For well over a decade, Industry analysts, futurists, investors and corporate leaders have been speculating what information technology will look like in 2020 and beyond. As we approach the end of 2019, clearly the center of computing gravity ...
This IDC Perspective reviews the unique cybersecurity challenges related to cloud computing and discusses tools and strategies to protect data and enterprise resources from malware, hackers, and other threats based on insights gained from ...
This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation discusses about what is edge, and what does edge mean for the retail industry.
As IoT arrives in the retail industry, edge computing takes on increasing important and relevance for retail. This presentation ...
This IDC Survey provides an overview of how global and North American service providers are approaching digital transformation.
Telecommunications service providers are on a long-term evolution to digital platform providers. The journey ...
This IDC study provides an assessment of the primary PIM application vendors for digital commerce use cases. The study also discusses what criteria are most important for companies to consider when selecting a system.
"Product information ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight highlights the adoption of emerging technologies among businesses in Egypt as part of their digital transformation initiatives. The document contains data from IDC's 2019 META CIO Survey. The survey question chosen ...
This IDC Perspective discusses the 2019 Workday Rising event in Milan on November 13 and 14, 2019. The event was the largest to date, hosting 3,000 attendees — including customers and partners — as the vendor positions itself to become the ...
This IDC Perspective, which is the 51st notable news report, is a regular quarterly review of notable news in the life sciences. It is intended to highlight signposts of both progress in ongoing industry trends and ongoing indications of ...
This IDC Market Perspective features managed hosting developments and evolution for 2019. Many cloud infrastructure providers such as IBM, Oracle, Rackspace, Internap, and CenturyLink are investing heavily on strengthening their bare metal ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight draws from IDC's 2019 Turkey CIO IT Survey conducted in April 2019 among respondents from multiple industries. This document looks at the key drivers of artificial intelligence (AI) systems spending in Turkey.
...This IDC Market Presentation explores IDC Canada's ICT predictions for 2020 and was originally presented as a web conference on December 4, 2019. The digital economy is already a reality for many industries, and forward-looking companies ...
This IDC Web Conference discusses the status of quantum computing research and business use cases in Europe.
Even though the first commercial applications of quantum computing will likely be available in a five- to 10-year time frame, ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight examines the need for investments in third-party solutions around ethics and AI along the AI life cycle. Data comes from IDC's Ethics and AI Client Survey, 2019.
This IDC Market Glance provides a glance at the current makeup of vendors offering monetization products and services that are logically between CRM/eCommerce and ERP/accounting applications.
This IDC Survey Spotlight examines the key factors considered when purchasing an IoT platform. The analysis is based on data from IDC's Global IoT Decision Maker Survey conducted in April and May 2019, consisting of 5,421 IT and line ...
This IDC Perspective outlines the benefits and challenges that enterprises face when implementing a smart assistant solution and the key factors to consider before deploying smart assistant devices in the workplace.
"Smart assistants ...
This IDC study highlights how the landscape of managed SPs competing in the managed cloud services market is evolving. For further details of the managed cloud services market definition, see IDC's Worldwide Managed ...
This IDC Market Perspective focuses on the important practices that have been adopted by organizations that have demonstrated their ability to accelerate software delivery.
"The notion of 'high velocity' software organizations refers ...
This IDC study provides worldwide market share data for cybersecurity analytics, intelligence, response, and orchestration for calendar year 2018.
"We are seeing cybersecurity vendors integrating analytics in every part of the IT and ...
This IDC Financial Insights study presents a 2019 vendor assessment of worldwide business process outsourcing (BPO) for anti–money laundering (AML) transaction monitoring and know-your-customer (KYC) service and technology providers in financial ...
This IDC Survey presentation includes data from IDC's Global Telco Survey, 2019.
IDC surveyed 100 telecommunications providers across global level, particularly the decision makers responsible for their company's digital transformation ...