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.
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This IDC Presentation provides a detailed analysis of the market and competitive landscape in Hong Kong’s cloud services from January to June 2020 (1H20). It covers revenue snapshots for infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a ...
This IDC Presentation provides a detailed analysis of the market and competitive landscape in cloud services in India from January to June 2020 (1H20). It covers revenue snapshots on infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service ...
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 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 ...
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This IDC Market Forecast assesses the European enterprise video communications market for 2019-2024 and provides insight into the dynamics impacting this market in the forecast period.
"The European enterprise videoconferencing market ...
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 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 Market Presentation focuses on the value of vendor attributes to partner businesses as they battle the COVID-19 crisis and the business resiliency of partners. This content was presented at IDC's Software Channel Leadership Council ...
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 Market Presentation discusses 6 of the 10 partner transformation tenets channel partners need to adopt to succeed in the digital economy and partners' associated maturity. It covers what IDC believes are the best practices that ...
This IDC Market Presentation presents findings from IDC Canada's most recent consumer surveys at the end of 2020, focusing on the augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) market in Canada. The showcased data presents the overall size ...
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 Perspective examines the top 5 trends to expect in the U.S. mobile market for 2021 and beyond. 2020 was a year like no other, bringing unexpected changes and shifts in the U.S. mobile market. The coming year and beyond will ...
This IDC study represents a vendor assessment of providers offering unified endpoint management (UEM) software for small and midsize businesses (SMBs) through the IDC MarketScape model. The assessment reviews both quantitative and qualitative ...
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 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 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 Perspective provides insights into Intel's quantum computing program. During an in-depth telephone interview, Intel strongly clarified and provided deeper context for its quantum computing strategy and its forward-looking quantum ...
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 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 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 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 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 Survey Spotlight provides insight into the changing relationship between the business and software development programs. It's based on research into the current state of that relationship and customer projections for two years into ...
This IDC Survey examines the adoption of unified communication and collaboration (UC&C) solutions in Canada. It covers the features that are being used/planned to be used by organizations as well as the impact of COVID-19 on these features. ...
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 study represents a vendor assessment of providers offering unified endpoint management (UEM) software for Apple devices through the IDC MarketScape model. The assessment reviews both quantitative and qualitative characteristics ...
This IDC study represents a vendor assessment of providers offering unified endpoint management (UEM) software through the IDC MarketScape model. The assessment reviews both quantitative and qualitative characteristics that define current ...
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In announcing its pending $500 million acquisition of Volterra, a start-up company providing a SaaS-delivered multicloud and edge networking platform, F5 Networks has indicated that it intends to compete aggressively in the market for hybrid ...
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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 Tech Buyer Presentation discusses the Canadian regionalization of the IDC FutureScape: Worldwide Services 2021 Predictions (IDC #US45374020, October 2020). ...
This IDC Vendor Profile analyzes Snow Software, a Swedish company delivering technology intelligence solutions that cover the cloud, software, hardware, and infrastructure to organizations across the world. This report examines the company ...
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 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 Presentation provides a detailed analysis of the market and competitive landscape in cloud services in Australia and New Zealand (ANZ) from January to June 2020 (1H20). It covers key events and trends in the overall cloud services ...
This IDC Market Perspective provides a preliminary unit shipment range for worldwide hard disk drive (HDD) units by HDD drive class and estimated supplier market share for 4Q20.
"Reasonably healthy levels of demand from cloud hyperscale ...
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 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 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 discusses how data is working in Canadian marketplace. Customers are up for grabs. Industries are quickly realizing the value of customer engagement as competitive differentiation. There is a big difference from aspiring ...