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.
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 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 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 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 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 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 IDC Market Note includes 3D printing news that occurred in December 2020.
This IDC Market Note summarizes noteworthy developments in the European AI systems marketplace in 3Q20 as selected by IDC's European AI practice members.
"A number of sectors have been hard hit by the pandemic. AI vendors have lost ...
This IDC Vendor Profile examines Germany-headquartered Computomics, a start-up founded in 2012 that has developed AI software systems to support the activities of plant breeders. Computomics aims to bring the power of advanced machine learning ...
The IDC Market Perspective presents an overview of telecommunications service provider's capital expenditure worldwide and discusses in brief the regional factors influencing the overall telecommunications service provider industry capex.
"The ...
This IDC Market Perspective discusses the amount of operational data generated by commercial aircraft and analyzes the amount of data stored by key data recorders.
"Today's connectivity and storage technologies are very capable of ...
This IDC Market Perspective looks at the recently submitted STABLE Act, a bill introduced into the U. S. Congress. The bill represents an attempt by U.S. legislators to control growth of stablecoins — currency tokens with a value pegged ...
This IDC Market Perspective looks at the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the challenges associated with managing secure print in a hybrid work environment. This document discusses how organizations should approach print security for ...
This IDC Market Note provides insight from 3D printer manufacturers in how they see 3D printing helping manufacturers optimize their supply chains and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.
This IDC Market Note provides IDC's perspective on Nokia's Digital Operations Center solution for addressing the service provisioning, activation, and assurance functions relative to digital services enablement.
"One of the greatest ...
This IDC Vendor Profile examines Pixel Titan, a provider of software solutions that automate the discovery of data relationships, facilitating the monetization of that data to multiple parties. It describes the challenges organizations face ...
This IDC Market Note discusses PwC and Microsoft's recently announced partnership, which is the bedrock of PwC's Risk Command suite of products. PwC is leveraging Microsoft's AI capabilities and the scale provided by Azure to transform the ...
This IDC Market Note summarizes the key highlights from Splunk's virtual.conf20 event held in October. At this annual summit, the vendor showcased its engineering capabilities, business road map, and its own cloud and digital business model ...
This IDC Market Perspective video series episode investigates the critical roles cloud platforms are playing in enterprises' crisis response and recovery efforts. Watch as IDC President, Crawford Del Prete; Chief Research Officer, Meredith ...
This IDC Market Perspective video series episode explores the biggest takeaways and surprises from IDC FutureScape: Worldwide IT Industry 2021 Predictions (IDC #US46942020, ...
This IDC Market Perspective video series episode explores China's governmental and corporate response to the COVID-19 pandemic and China's progress along the five stages of enterprise recovery. Watch as IDC President, Crawford Del Prete; ...
This IDC Market Note covers the key lessons learned and future priorities that will drive CIOs agenda in 2021 and beyond. It summarizes key takeaways from the CIO Advisory Roundtable held in November 2020 and moderated by IDC, capturing ...
This IDC Vendor Profile explores the key features and scope of Corti, a Danish start-up that uses voice recognition and machine learning to improve medical triage. Corti is a voice-based digital assistant powered by cutting-edge artificial ...
This IDC Market Perspective discusses how a holistic approach to use of a digital infrastructure ecosystem accelerates digitally driven enterprises' use of innovative technologies. In the future of digital infrastructure, digitally driven ...
This IDC Market Perspective discusses the blockchain trilemma. DLT creators must manage a careful balancing act between decentralization, scalability, and security. This document looks at the advantages and disadvantages of maximizing each ...
This IDC Market Perspective discusses Intel's newly launched 11th Gen Core mobile processors with Iris Xe graphics (codenamed Tiger Lake) for thin and light devices, and highlights the new architecture and SoC design, the new AI capabilities, ...
This IDC Market Perspective analyzes DISH's prospects for becoming a 5G nationwide carrier that can compete with the established U.S. mobile operators. DISH Network became a nationwide mobile operator this year with the acquisition of Sprint's ...
This IDC Vendor Profile is part of a series of six profiles looking at the strategies and investments being made by major Europe-focused enterprise application vendors in the European IPA market. This report focuses on enterprise software ...
"Many communications SPs face the increasing pressure from network commoditization (also known as the dreaded ‘dumb pipe’ scenario), threatening their potential ROI from 5G. New use cases, such as autonomous driving and vertical industry ...
This IDC Market Note provides a European perspective on Cognizant's Analyst and Advisory Summit 2020, held virtually late September to early October. IDC European services analysts attended the event, which featured executives presenting ...
This IDC Market Note provides our perspective concerning how Wipro enables its customers to address the complex operations and monetization challenges that are becoming a key part of all 5G/MEC deployments.
"Operational readiness for ...
This IDC Market Note presents the key takeaways from IDC analysts who virtually attended Hyland's CommunityLIVE event held October 7–9, 2020. During the event, Hyland shared with IDC how it is executing on its transition to the cloud, launching ...
Asia is urbanizing faster than anywhere else in the world, and it is expected to have 21 out of 37 megacities worldwide in the next ten years. Although they are incorporating technology, infrastructure, and planning in city decisions, government ...
This IDC Market Note discusses the Canadian implications of Element AI agreeing to be acquired by ServiceNow.
ServiceNow's acquisition of Element AI combines process and workflow expertise with AI development skill sets in a way that ...
This IDC Market Note presents the key takeaways from several IDC analysts who virtually attended Capgemini's Global Analyst and Advisor Summit 2020 held October 14 and 15. During the event, Capgemini shared with IDC how it is strategically ...
On October 5, 2020, the Royal Malaysian Customs Department (RMCD) together with IBM Malaysia and A.P. Moller, announced that the RMCD will be adopting the TradeLens blockchain platform in Malaysia. In this IDC Market Note, we will discuss ...
This IDC Market Note comprises financial news announced in late October and November 2020 among print vendors.
This IDC Market Note includes industrial and production printer news that occurred in November 2020.
This IDC Market Perspective provides an overview and analysis of key IoT announcements made in 3Q20 and 4Q20.
"Despite a worldwide pandemic, there was no slowdown in the volume of IoT announcements over the past two quarters," says ...
This IDC Market Note includes 3D printing news that occurred in November 2020.
This IDC Market Perspective analyzes the potential of AI software products and services to deliver business value in contact centers in Europe. 2020 has seen a significant uptick in market activity around various use cases for AI technologies ...
The Internet of Things (IoT) service provider market and the ecosystem continue to be broad and complex, with new use cases explored as the pandemic unfolds. Communications service providers (CSPs) must identify strengths that are relevant ...
This IDC Market Perspective describes some of the key ways that CX services vendors can adopt to better serve their clients in 2021. Clients and vendors of CX services have had a dramatic 2020, with new business priorities and new ways of ...
This IDC Market Perspective examines four key AI use case areas that together are creating the AI-powered contact center. It details the value impact of the main applications that fit into each use case and identifies the AI technology tools ...
Cognizant Technologies held its Cognizant Analyst & Advisor Summit 2020, its first virtual global summit, from September 30, 2020 to October 8, 2020. As part of the summit, the CEO of Cognizant Technologies, Brian Humphries, and his ...
This IDC Market Note discusses announcements and observations from Cisco Partner Summit 2020, held virtually for the first time this year on October 28 and 29. Cisco CX is in its third year of a multiyear journey, where, in 2019, the company ...
This IDC Market Perspective examines the new AMD Zen 3 Ryzen 5000 Series Desktop Processors, launched by AMD on the October 8, 2020, outlining the architecture and analyzing its key strengths and use cases. Moreover, it discusses other factors ...
This IDC Market Perspective examines the similarities between work-from-home (WFH) corporate policies and bring your own device (BYOD) policies in a post-COVID-19 enterprise market. This document discusses how employee choice will influence ...
This IDC Market Note provides highlights of Amplitude's Amplify 2020 user conference, including highlights of the key announcements made along with customer successes featured during the conference.
"Amplitude shows that it is capitalizing ...
This IDC Market Note highlights the key learnings selected by IDC analysts at Cognizant's virtual analyst event. Cognizant has a strong business in QA, which it continues to take forward with next-generation testing and robotic test automation. ...