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 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.
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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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Market Presentation offers an overview of the worldwide largest 15 cloud service provider infrastructure demand trend for third quarter of 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.
...This IDC Market Presentation offers an overview of the worldwide ODM Direct infrastructure market trends for the third quarter of 2020.
This IDC Survey presents data from the 14th of a series of surveys that will be run to track changing sentiment associated with COVID-19 impacts on technology adoption and future spending expectations through CY21. It includes a total of ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight highlights the challenges that office workers experience in working remotely because of the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic, based on IDC's 2020 Generational Print Survey. The survey examines the behavioral ...
This IDC Market Presentation offers a third calendar quarter 2020 overview of the enterprise storage systems market and related trends.
This IDC Market Presentation offers a third calendar quarter (3Q20) overview of the server market and related trends.
This IDC Market Presentation provides a retrospective view of key announcements and developments for each month from January to December 2020.
This IDC Survey Spotlight provides insights into the major role of edge and IoT solutions in the recovery journey of organizations across Western Europe (WE) and Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). Detailed survey results for organizations ...
This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation explores solid state storage in the enterprise market and the trends affecting the market and factors influencing adoption that technology buyers should be aware of. This presentation was given at the virtual ...
This IDC Market Presentation includes results from IDC's European Edge Strategies research. It highlights the edge vendor landscape, focusing on Europe. The scope of the study is to depict the overall status of the edge vendor landscape ...
This IDC Market Presentation compares the enterprise memory and storage hierarchy for 2009 and 2019 and gleans lessons we can learn about the reshaping of the hierarchy over the prior decade. This presentation was shared at the virtual DNA ...
This IDC Market Analysis Perspective provides an overview of European edge market trends and vendor opportunities. It discusses market composition, growth trends, competitive landscape, impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, and market outlook. ...
This IDC Survey analyzes network infrastructure and software-defined network (SDN) trends in Europe and identifies opportunities for the next two years. It is based on IDC's 2020 European Enterprise Communications Survey.
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This IDC Survey takes a closer look at the Apple ecosystem, showing the breadth and depth of the Apple device ecosystem and how it drives ongoing demand for Apple products (and services) and consumer spend as a result of Apple's deep consumer ...
This IDC Market Presentation examines the year-over-year changes in the overall datacenter infrastructure ecosystem during the fourth calendar quarter of 2020 — notably servers, storage, and networking equipment. It also provides competitive ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight presents the movement of network infrastructure spending outlooks as the COVID-19 pandemic developed throughout 2020. It contains data across five waves of IDC's 2020 COVID-19 Impact on IT Spending Survey. ...
This IDC Market Presentation provides an overview of the European enterprise IT infrastructure market in 1H20 and related trends across servers, external enterprise storage systems, and enterprise networking (Ethernet switching and routers).
...This IDC Market Presentation highlights the main trends and competition landscape for Western Europe purpose-built backup appliance (PBBA) market in 3Q20.
This IDC Survey focuses on adoption, spending, and vendor preferences across a broad range of communication services and technologies in Canadian enterprises and includes new questions on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. This document ...
This IDC Survey provides a high-level summary of key technology investment trends. It includes data from IDC's 2020 U.S. Enterprise Communications Services Survey.
This IDC Market Presentation presents the results for 3Q20 for network infrastructure processing semiconductors. Communication processor, ASSP, and FPGA revenue for network function processing in 5G cellular infrastructure, virtualized system, ...
This IDC Market Presentation highlights the results of IDC Canada's ITAP n5 2020 Survey. We asked 416 Canadian organizations of all sizes across all industries and regions about their levels of adoption ...
This IDC Market Presentation provides updates on the private cloud infrastructure market, including market share for hardware (server and storage) vendors, market forecast for hardware and software infrastructure, assumptions on the future ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight focuses on actual 2020 organizational spend on collaboration platforms such as Slack and Microsoft Teams, and what 2021 spending is going to look like. Collaboration application growth has been significant in 2020, ...
This IDC Market Presentation provides the CY 3Q20 memory (DRAM and NAND) vendor share results and forecasts for both the short-term (3Q20–4Q21) and the long-term (2020–2025) worldwide memory market. The Presentation file includes:
- Memory ...
This IDC Market Presentation presents datacenter processing for 3Q20. This presentation was presented to clients of IDC's Enabling Technologies: Processors and Architectures research program after the market results from the third calendar ...
This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation highlights how the COVID-19 pandemic accelerated workplace collaboration applications adoption by five years. This research-based document provides insights and benefits in unlocking secure collaboration ...
This IDC Market Presentation looks at the performance of the EMEA enterprise infrastructure market for 1H20 against 1H19. It compares the performance of the top 10 vendors against overall market performance and looks at the performance of ...
This IDC Survey presents data from primary research completed by the Infrastructure Systems, Platforms and Technologies Group during IDC's 3Q20 Storage Infrastructure Survey. In this document, we are grouping responses to survey questions ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight examines data collected from IDC's Print and Document Management MaturityScape Benchmark Survey, completed in October. The print and document management (PDM) study is designed to identify ...
This IDC Market Presentation provides IDC's view of the India datacenter (DC) and colocation services market, with insights into adoption and buyer needs, a competitive assessment of key players, and essential guidance for technology suppliers. ...
This IDC Market Presentation highlights IDC's Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) Business Services research and provides guidance regarding how sustainability can help drive business value on the foundation of a purpose-driven strategy.
"Companies ...
This IDC Market Presentation provides an overview on the status of SD-WAN services in Canada. We answer some current questions about SD-WAN: What are its drivers? What is the current level of adoption? What impact will the COVID-19 pandemic ...
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 ...