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 Tech Buyer Presentation is a reference guide to the role, usage, and representative vendors in the data marketplace market. Both data sellers and data buyers are very interested in the potential of data marketplaces to bring greater ...
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 Tech Supplier Presentation highlights the cloud adoption plans and budgets of small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), their hybrid cloud/multicloud adoption pattern, their workload shifts on cloud, and the way they have planned ...
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 ...
The Indonesia banking industry continues to progress digital transformation by adopting 3rd Platform technologies as well as cognitive, Internet of Things (IoT), and digital core banking. This IDC research identifies the top 5 technology ...
This IDC Perspective looks into key drivers of and current challenges around data exchange and sharing in manufacturing ecosystems. Sharing and exchanging data in an ecosystem can help manufacturers to improve customer experience, product ...
This report details an IDC interview with Mrs. Gülsün Akhisaroglu, the global IT director of Hayat Holding. She shared her valuable experience with developing and deploying an AI-powered predictive quality solution in a paper-production ...
This IDC Market Note discusses recent mergers and acquisitions in the healthcare technology sector and the likelihood that such activity will continue through 2021. This is driven both by the need for integrated solutions to better manage ...
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 ...
Wi-Fi 6 extends Wi-Fi service to congested, high-capacity scenarios such as airports, stadiums, factories, and shopping malls, and opens up the ability to make some of these networks self-funding or even profitable instead of being treated ...
This IDC Perspective provides insights into D-Wave's quantum annealing offerings. During an in-depth telephone interview, D-Wave provided deeper context for its quantum annealing strategy and its forward-looking quantum road map. D-Wave's ...
This IDC Perspective discusses IDC's European Healthcare Executive Digital Forum, held on November 27, 2020, as a virtual event. It summarizes key takeaways from keynotes and breakout sessions during the event.
"Priming the future ...
This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation discusses the Canadian regionalization of the IDC FutureScape: Worldwide Services 2021 Predictions (IDC #US45374020, October 2020). ...
This IDC study represents a vendor assessment of providers offering unified endpoint management (UEM) software for ruggedized/IoT deployment through the IDC MarketScape model. The assessment reviews both quantitative and qualitative characteristics ...
This IDC Survey focuses on intelligent document processing (IDP) within document workflows. The automation and optimization of document workflows leads to increased customer and employee satisfaction, increased productivity, and improved ...
This IDC Perspective discusses the concept of lifelong learning for individuals and businesses and its relevance in a fast-changing world of work. The ability of employees to become lifelong learners is crucial for future success. While ...
This IDC Market Analysis Perspective (MAP) summarizes the key challenges and perspectives of Asia/Pacific small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), specifically during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond. It also examines their priorities and ...
This IDC Market Presentation focuses on the impact the COVID-19 pandemic has had on partner business metrics and investments, and how IP and profit are defining partner value now and post-vaccine. This content was presented at IDC's Software ...
This IDC Perspective discusses the power of AI/ML-powered marketing solutions for transforming customer experiences and supporting superior business outcomes. This document spotlights how Adobe Sensei incorporates into Adobe Experience Cloud, ...
This IDC Perspective provides insights into Rigetti's quantum computing program and offerings. During an in-depth telephone interview, Rigetti provided deeper context for its quantum computing strategy and its forward-looking quantum road ...
This IDC Web Conference is a market update on security services for 1Q21.
In this quarterly webinar, the IDC Security Services Team reviews the latest trends and developments in the worldwide security services market, discusses new ...
This IDC Perspective provides insights into IBM's quantum computing program and offerings. During an in-depth telephone interview, IBM strongly clarified and provided deeper context for its quantum computing strategy and its forward-looking ...
This IDC Perspective provides insights into IonQ's quantum computing program. IonQ's quantum computing strategy and forward-looking quantum road map focuses on developing error-free quantum technology that can be used to achieve quantum ...
This IDC study extracts the market that drives workstyle transformation from the entire ICT market to explore and analyze the market size and trends. It estimates the market size and summarizes the market trends with reference to the questionnaires ...
This IDC Perspective predicts that the next 10 years will determine how demand for wellbeing products and services will change, and the degree to which individuals and organizations will be free and empowered to choose when, where, and how ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight shares the top artificial intelligence (AI) use cases currently being used by both small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). It also highlights the planned AI use cases going into 2021, with insights by country, ...
A strategic partnership between Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Verily, an Alphabet company, and Microsoft Corp. was established today. Terra is a secure, scalable, open source platform that was developed by Verily and the Broad Institute ...
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 Presentation provides a detailed analysis of the market and competitive landscape in IT services in China from January to June 2020 (1H20). It covers market size movements and growth trends in each of the macromarkets (i.e., project-oriented ...
This IDC Market Perspective profiles Equinix, which is the global datacenter and interconnection leader.
"Equinix is well positioned to remain a leader in the colocation and interconnection sector. It has a strong global footprint ...
This IDC Market Share study examines the 10 largest managed services providers in 2019 and how their market shares evolved in the context of market developments and dynamics. The top 10 managed service providers accounted for 42.8% of the ...
This IDC Web Conference presents a discussion by IDC's Mutaz Shegewi on the key predictions that will impact CIOs and IT professionals in the worldwide healthcare industry over the next one to five years. Senior IT leaders and line-of-business ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight presents key findings in the use of artificial intelligence (AI) tools on video assets from IDC's November 2020 Digital Experience and Video Platforms Survey. The analysis also highlights how the use ...
This IDC Market Presentation analyzes a selection of data from IDC's Global Retail Innovation Survey, 2020. The analysis focuses on key worldwide findings from the viewpoint of the main retail subsegments (food and grocery, ecommerce ...
This IDC Market Note captures IDC's observations and discussions on the key ML/AI software–, tools–, and solutions–related announcements at AWS re:Invent 2020. It covers Amazon SageMaker Clarify, Amazon SageMaker Data Wrangler, Amazon SageMaker ...
This IDC Perspective summarizes key takeaways from IDC's European Manufacturing Executive Digital Forum 2020, which took place on November 24, 2020. It summarizes the highlights of our partner and CXO community presentations from the perspective ...
This IDC Vendor Profile examines Quuppa, a provider of RTLS solutions. Quuppa's RTLS products, including locators, tags, positioning engines, and development kits, are designed to provide reliable, versatile, highly customizable, fully scalable, ...
This week Stratasys officially acquired Origin, the San Francisco–based 3D printing start-up for $100 million. The acquisition of Origin gets Stratasys further into the production segment with Origin's Programmable Photopolymerization, a ...
This IDC Market Perspective examines the influence of artificial intelligence on the achievement of sustainable and social goals as well as its related ethical and fairness challenges. The document highlights the use cases of AI in Europe ...
This IDC Presentation provides a detailed analysis of the market and competitive landscape in IT services in Australia from January to June 2020 (1H20). It covers market size movements and growth trends in each of the macromarkets (i.e., ...
This IDC Market Note includes 3D printing news that occurred in December 2020.
This IDC Survey analyzes selected Nordic results from the IDC EMEA's Multicloud Survey, 2020.
"Most organizations use both multiple cloud services and cloud deployment models, but many still need to adopt actual multicloud services ...
This IDC Market Share analyzes the evolution of the intelligent application services vendor market shares in Europe in 2020.
"Intelligent application services in Europe is now coming of age. DevOps is now a major investment focus for ...
This IDC Perspective covers the definition of the feature store, its value to businesses, and associated challenges. While early in the life cycle, this capability will support the growth and adoption of ML technology and enable companies ...
This IDC study examines the current state of the digital infrastructure market and provides additional insights about the speed of adoption, technology potential for success, and level of market buzz so that IT and line-of-business decision ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight illustrates what traits third-party application providers must have to be considered best in class. The document contains data from IDC's 2020 U.S. Enterprise Deal-Making Strategies for Managed ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight, based on the IDC European Tech and Industry Pulse Survey, 2019–2020, analyzes respondents that are adopting or planning to adopt one technology that also adopt or plan to adopt another technology. It shows ...
This IDC Perspective looks at data in action in the Canadian marketplace. The initial focus of this study was to assess the role that data plays in industry disruption. What we found is that Big Data and analytics, on its own, does not drive ...
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 Market Analysis Perspective (MAP) provides an overview of the Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) (APEJ) Internet of Things (IoT) market trends and vendor opportunities. It discusses market composition, growth trends, competitive landscape, ...