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 study defines and provides a framework for analyzing the installed base of storage capacity, the amount of the installed base of storage capacity that is utilized, and the portion of the installed base that is available for storing ...
This IDC Special Study aims to understand enterprise readiness and attitudes toward deploying private cellular/5G/mobile networks and the partners they choose to design, build, run, and manage these networks.
"IDC believes services ...
This IDC study reports the actual IT spending in 2018 and 2019, and the IT spending forecasts from 2020 to 2014 by industry segment, company size, and annual turnover in the Japan IT market. The research analyzes IT spending by dividing ...
This IDC study provides a detailed description of IDC's Worldwide Security Spending Guide methodology and taxonomy. It should be used as a companion piece for IDC's Worldwide Security Spending Guide data deliverable and all of IDC's worldwide ...
This IDC study provides details of IDC's worldwide multicloud data management and protection taxonomy. The data protection market is highly dynamic, driven by new application workload deployments and cloud capabilities. The majority of IT ...
This IDC study provides IDC's future enterprise use cases for the future of customer and consumer as it seeks to support business strategy and success. This taxonomy is organized to mime strategic priorities that serve to define how line-of-business ...
This IDC study provides the worldwide market forecast for document workflow automation and optimization from 2021 to 2025.
"Despite challenges due to COVID-19 over the past year, many businesses are entering a phase where they are ...
This IDC study provides a 2021–2025 forecast for the worldwide system and service management software market.
According to Tim Grieser, research vice president, Enterprise System Management Software at IDC, "The system and service ...
This IDC Market Forecast describes the size and growth of IT professionals' employment by role and region for 2019–2024. The document includes our forecast across 41 different job roles and an analysis of some of the key factors influencing ...
This IDC study presents IDC's first global forecast of CO2 emissions savings from cloud computing.
"IDC has been tracking the server market and quantifying compute power for nearly all of its 50+ years," says John Gantz, ...
"Internet of Things (IoT) in the Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) (APEJ) markets continues to grow steadily as government, municipalities, enterprises, and industries take advantage of extensive fiber and 4G LTE coverage and the anticipated ...
This IDC study provides a 2021–2025 forecast for the worldwide IT operations management software market.
According to Tim Grieser, research vice president, Enterprise System Management Software at IDC, "The worldwide IT operations ...
This IDC study provides a 2021–2025 forecast for the worldwide IT automation and configuration management software market.
According to Tim Grieser, research vice president, Enterprise System Management Software, "The worldwide IT ...
This IDC study presents vendor share in the Japan 5G-ready (fifth-generation telecommunications standard) mobile phone market. "Although slightly affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, the 5G-ready mobile phone market is making a decent start. ...
This IDC study presents a five-year forecast for the APEJ manufacturing IT applications industry as of September 2020. It reviews and analyzes market context, including both drivers and inhibitors of IT application growth. It also highlights ...
This IDC study analyzes vendor market shares and vendor trends in 2019 in the network virtualization and automation platform market, which is a major component of the Japan network virtualization and automation market. VMware and Cisco Systems ...
This IDC study provides an analysis of the Japan unified communications and collaboration workspace market share based on vendor revenue performance in 2019. IDC classifies the market into four major solution segments — the IP telephony ...
This IDC study provides a comprehensive overview of and definitions for personal computing devices (PCDs). The definitions provided in this document represent the scope of IDC's PCD hardware research.
This taxonomy outlines market ...
As enterprises in Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) (APEJ) turned to new ways of working and serving customers remotely, application management (AM) SPs were quick to help enterprises remain resilient during the disruptions brought by the COVID-19 ...
This IDC Taxonomy provides a comprehensive overview of the definitions used for measuring telecom services markets across the globe. The top-level methodology used to research these markets is also outlined in the study. The taxonomy summaries ...
This IDC study provides an update to IDC's worldwide IoT market outlook, according to IDC's December 2020 Worldwide Internet of Things Spending Guide. It also updates Worldwide Internet of Things Forecast, 2020–2024 ...
This IDC study provides an overview of computing platforms market. In 2021, the taxonomy has been significantly overhauled to include non-rack and custom rack form factors (including accommodations for systems deployed in supercomputing). ...
This IDC Market Forecast discusses the European fixed business voice services market for 2019 to 2024. It examines the transition from TDM to IP voice services and from on-premises voice platforms to hosted services. IDC data products, such ...
This IDC study presents the Japan AI software platform market share based on the 2019 revenue performance. "Enterprise users are entering a new phase of continuous development and operation of AI applications utilizing AI software platforms. ...
This IDC Market Share discusses trends and vendor dynamics in the system and service management software market in Western Europe.
"Despite the COVID-19 pandemic's unprecedent impact on the economy, the SSM market remained resilient ...
This IDC study analyzes the Internet of Things (IoT) spending and forecasts growth from 2020 to 2024 in the IoT market from the perspective of the four technology groups — hardware (HW), connectivity, software (SW), and services; and 11 ...
This IDC study analyzes the U.S. mobile consumer and business services market outlook for the 2021–2025 period.
"2020 was an unusual year, to say the least, with the COVID-19 pandemic slowing growth in subscribers in 1H20, but the ...
This IDC study presents the top 61 IT services providers in South Africa, including their market shares, based on their respective performances in 2019. Furthermore, it examines the performances of the top five IT services providers in South ...
This IDC study provides an updated taxonomy for worldwide intelligent CloudOps software to modernize and replace the worldwide cloud system and service management software taxonomy published in 2019. This is a competitive market based on ...
This IDC study provides market forecasts for the Japan private cloud market, taking into account the impact of and outlook for the COVID-19 pandemic as of the end of August 2020, based on the information collected by the end of August 2020.
The ...
This IDC study provides a comprehensive overview of and definitions for workstations. The definitions provided in this document represent the scope of IDC's workstation hardware research. This taxonomy outlines market segmentations and measurement ...
This IDC Market Forecast provides an overview of spending in enterprise networking in Europe, including the enterprise switching, routers, and WLAN markets until 2024. It addresses market drivers and inhibitors and provides essential guidance ...
This IDC study provides a brief overview of the worldwide enterprise storage systems market performance during the third calendar quarter of 2020 (CY 3Q20).
"The enterprise storage systems market remained on largely a stable growth ...
This IDC study provides a comprehensive overview and definitions for IDC's enterprise storage systems research, outlining market segmentations and measurement methodologies for the storage industry including classification by technology, ...
This IDC study provides a taxonomical overview of the datacenter IT OEM and ODM supplier market, including definitions used in the Computing Platforms and Storage ODM Direct QView. This taxonomy has been significantly overhauled to increase ...
This IDC study describes the size and growth of IT professionals by role and region for 2019–2024.The document includes our forecast across 41 different job roles and an analysis of some of the key factors influencing IT professional employment ...
This IDC study provides a brief overview of the worldwide server market performance during the third quarter of 2020 (CY 3Q20).
"Global demand for enterprise servers was a bit muted during the third quarter of 2020, although we did ...
This IDC study provides a detailed description of IDC's worldwide vertical industry and company size methodology and taxonomy. It should be used as a companion piece for IDC's Worldwide ICT Spending Guide by Industry and Company Size and ...
This IDC study provides a comprehensive overview of and definitions for hardcopy peripherals. The definitions provided in this document represent the scope of IDC's HCP hardware research. This taxonomy outlines market segmentations and measurement ...
This IDC study presents an outlook for the server DRAM DIMM market for the 2021–2025 period. The DRAM industry dynamics and the server workload changes are aggregated, analyzed, and applied to this long-term DIMM forecast in terms of units ...
This IDC study provides a comprehensive overview and definitions for job roles and job role groups used to label activities within information and communication technology (ICT). This taxonomy forms the basis for estimates of full-time equivalents ...
This IDC study provides a detailed description of IDC's worldwide company size methodology and taxonomy. This document should be used as a companion piece for IDC's Worldwide Small and Medium Business Spending Guide and all of IDC's worldwide ...
This IDC study provides a five-year forecast for the U.S. smart home monitoring and security device market for the 2021–2025 period.
"In the smart home monitoring and security market, the managed services segment is a long play incurring ...
This IDC study provides a comprehensive overview of and definitions for gaming desktop, notebook and monitors. The definitions provided in this document represent the scope of IDC's Gaming Tracker hardware research.
This taxonomy outlines ...
This IDC study provides a five-year forecast for the worldwide smart home device market.
"The worldwide market for smart home devices and services remains resilient despite the COVID-19 pandemic," says Adam Wright, senior research ...
This IDC study quantifies the U.S. business inkjet market in detail, analyzing issues, trends, and product advances. It contains IDC's review and forecast of the U.S. business inkjet market for 2014–2024. Unit shipments, value of shipments, ...
This study presents vendor shares in 2019 after classifying the Japan IT security products market into external threat analysis and protection products market consisting of consumer and enterprise endpoint security market, messaging security ...
This IDC study presents the first iteration of our Worldwide Edge Spending Guide taxonomy for 2020, which provides a framework to categorize and relate technology elements within the dynamic edge market. This document provides definitions ...
This IDC study reports on the market size and trends in the worldwide large format roll and flatbed cutter market.
"The large format cutter market is in a state of transition," said Tim Greene, research director, Hardcopy Solutions ...
This IDC study provides a comprehensive overview of the components, use cases, and companies involved in the digital automotive and transportation strategies market as covered by IDC. The taxonomy also introduces a segment and subsegment ...