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 presents the results of IDC's Enterprise IT Infrastructure Survey. Completed in December 2020, the Enterprise IT Infrastructure Survey, 4Q20, examines end-users' planned 2021 IT spend for server, storage, ...
As the economy recovers in 2021 and beyond, organizations in the Middle East, Turkey, and Africa (META) region will consolidate their automation and intelligence gains from 2020 and build them into the core of their digital strategies. Insight-driven ...
This IDC Survey provides insights into the Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) (APEJ) results from IDC Insight’s Worldwide Sustainability, Health and Safety survey conducted in 2020 for utilities, oil and gas, and mining companies operating the ...
This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation examines the key trends in integrated physical solutions — video surveillance and card access to buildings. Integrated physical security refers to the combination of people, workflow, and technology deployed ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight highlights the organization's technology priorities for success of the business.
"During the COVID-19 crisis, organizations shifted cybersecurity priorities and budgets to business operations and crisis management. ...
With the global disruption of the supply chain because of the COVID-19 pandemic, organizations across Southeast Asia have undertaken several measures to develop a more resilient supply chain. Across sectors, the COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted ...
This report looks at the Australia and New Zealand (ANZ) results of IDC's 2020 Asia/Pacific Future of Work Employee Survey, focusing on technology and how it relates to the changing workspace and workforce.
This study also examines ...
This IDC Market Presentation examines the latest business sentiment among IT professionals in Europe regarding the role of sustainability and environmental, social, and governance (ESG) principles in day-to-day business operations and in ...
This IDC Presentation provides a historic and forecast view on fixed data services for consumer and enterprise Australia and New Zealand (ANZ) markets. These markets cover internet access, Ethernet, IP VPN, IP television (IPTV), very-high–broadband ...
This IDC Market Presentation provides a detailed analysis of the worldwide solid state drive (SSD) market and competitive landscape for CY 4Q20. Significant market dynamics, trends, and events are summarized and evaluated. In addition, SSD ...
This IDC Survey presents results from the German segment of IDC's European Internet of Things (IoT) Decision-Maker Survey. This survey assesses current and planned deployments of IoT projects, including benefits and challenges, impact of ...
This IDC Market Presentation, which was given on February 16, 2021, summarizes the hard disk drive (HDD) market results for CY 4Q20. Significant market dynamics, trends, and events are summarized and evaluated in this presentation. Numerous ...
This IDC Presentation gives an overview of the Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) (APEJ) personal computing device (PCD) market qualitative analysis for 3Q20, including a historical analysis and forecast by region and country. This includes ...
This IDC Survey examines CIO priorities and views on digital transformation (DX) and associated challenges across the Middle East, Turkey, and Africa (META) region. One of its aims is to provide a greater understanding of the strategic and ...
The Turkey CIO Perspectives on DX: January 2021 View survey was conducted in December 2020. The document addresses the results of IDC’s survey of CIOs across vertical markets in Turkey on the priorities and challenges of digital transformation ...
This IDC Market Presentation features digital resiliency, which refers to the ability of an organization to rapidly adapt to business disruptions by leveraging digital capabilities to not only restore business operations but also capitalize ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight looks at the importance of decarbonization to decision makers and to what extend it is becoming an integral part of their business strategies. Decarbonization has become a key sustainability topic for many organizations ...
This IDC Survey details results from IDC's 2020 U.S. Smart Home Survey, which was fielded in July. The survey asked respondents questions regarding consumer adoption of and attitudes toward a variety of ...
This IDC Market Presentation discusses the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on Australia and New Zealand (ANZ) security services and the implications of these effects as we head into 2021. This presentation draws on results from IDC's 2020 ...
This IDC Survey Snapshot highlights data gleaned from IDC's 2021 Professional Services for Enterprise Private Cellular/5G/Mobile Networks Study. IDC surveyed 500 enterprises globally to understand their readiness and ...
This IDC Market Presentation and the accompanying data file were presented to clients of IDC's Enabling Technologies: Artificial Intelligence Edge Processor Architectures and Enabling Technologies: Processors and Architectures research programs ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight looks at, by specific major countries, what technology customers are investing in for MEC compute and storage infrastructure, and whether that may tie into expected latency requirements for their MEC solutions. ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight presents the top enterprise IT and network challenges over the next three years. It contains data from IDC's 2020 Enterprise Communications Survey of 800 United States–based business and IT executives and ...
This IDC Presentation discusses the Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) (APEJ) regionalization of the 2021 Worldwide Future of Connectedness Predictions. Each prediction is presented based on timeline projection, cost/complexity assessment, and ...
This IDC FutureScape discusses the Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) (APEJ) regionalization of the 2021 Worldwide Future of Digital Infrastructure Predictions. Each prediction is presented based on timeline projection, cost/complexity assessment, ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight provides insights from the recent IT infrastructure survey on end-user assessment of how the COVID-19 pandemic influences spending on IT infrastructure projects in 2021. As organizations continue to adjust to the ...
This IDC Survey provides key analysis and findings from IDC's 2020 U.S. Enterprise Communications Services Survey related to the uptake of edge services by U.S. enterprises.
This IDC Survey provides key analysis and findings from IDC's 2020 U.S. Enterprise Communications Services Survey related to the uptake of content delivery network (CDN) services by U.S. enterprises.
This IDC Presentation discusses the Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) (APEJ) regionalization of IDC FutureScape: Worldwide Future of Customer and Consumer 2021 Predictions ( IDC #US46909620, October 2020). As the region ...
This IDC Presentation localizes the IDC Worldwide FutureScape 2021 statement to the Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) (APEJ) region, which has seen the rapid adoption of print technology to augment traditional/analog workflows. APEJ will change ...
This IDC Market Glance provides an overview of vendors participating in the edge infrastructure market. As demand for edge solutions accelerates, a wide variety of companies have developed technology and services across several categories ...
This IDC Market Glance provides an overview of the vendors participating in the Internet of Things ecosystem.
This IDC Market Glance provides an overview, definitions, and sample participants in the digital automotive and transportation strategies ecosystem. This presentation is an update of the prior published version from 1Q20.
This IDC Survey Spotlight offers insights into the cost of downtime customers experience when datacenter assets are offline. These assets include servers, storage, networking, security, and datacenter facilities as well as human error.
In ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight examines whether IT infrastructure investment intent has begun to improve after the initial decline in spending intent throughout 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. These findings are based on wave 15 of the IDC ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight looks at the impact of a business' COVID-19 recovery on their planned IoT technology spending for 2021.
This IDC Survey Spotlight comes from data as part of IDC's COVID-19 Impact on ...
This IDC Presentation highlights the main trends, competition landscape, and technical segmentation for the EMEA external storage market in 3Q20 as well as a five-year forecast.
This IDC Survey Spotlight looks at the progression and success of manufacturers as they assess their response to the short- and long-term impacts of COVID-19. In particular, respondents have indicated a mixed recovery, where manufacturers ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight features why North American organizations expect a significant or profound impact on business operations to link social responsibility and ethics investments.
"North American respondents indicate two key areas ...
This IDC Market Presentation provides a composite view of digital enterprise resiliency investment among organizations worldwide. Digital Resiliency refers to the ability of an organization to rapidly adapt to business disruptions by leveraging ...
This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation discusses the importance of creating a shared and enterprisewide digital transformation strategy and the relevance of measuring it step by step. The presentation is split in three sections. The first one ...
This IDC Market presentation focuses on how COVID-19 is impacting partner businesses, specifically related to their stages to recovery and what that means to partner revenue. This content was presented at IDC's Software Channel Leadership ...
This IDC Survey document presents results from IDC's European Internet of Things (IoT) Decision Maker Survey, conducted in October 2020. The survey probed European organizations’ adoption of IoT solutions and plans for adoption in the context ...
This IDC Survey highlights the results from United States-based midsize to large organizations using or planning to use accelerated app delivery and DevOps for developing and updating applications.
"While organizations have been aggressively ...
This IDC Market Presentation offers an overview of the worldwide largest 15 cloud service provider infrastructure demand trend for third quarter of 2020.
This IDC Survey Spotlight illustrates what success metrics organizations believe are most important in measuring third-party application delivery performance. The document contains data from IDC's 2020 U.S. Enterprise Deal Making Strategies ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight examines the wave 15 data collected from December 3 to 15, 2020. As noted in recent survey results, IDC is now asking about 2021 spending trends.
In this latest data set, we observe an increasingly negative ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight examines the keyboard and pen adoption in the Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) (APEJ) consumer tablet market. The result is based on IDC's 2020 Consumer Devices Survey, carried out in July to September 2020 ...
This IDC Survey provides a high-level summary of hosted VoIP/UCaaS solution adoption and buying criteria. It includes data from IDC's 2020 U.S. Enterprise Communications Services Survey.
This IDC Survey provides a high-level summary of unified communications and collaboration (UC&C) solution buying intentions and decision drivers. It includes data from IDC's 2020 U.S. Enterprise Communications Services Survey.
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