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 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 study represents a vendor assessment of Salesforce implementation services through the IDC MarketScape model. This assessment discusses both quantitative and qualitative characteristics that explain success in the Salesforce implementation ...
For companies planning on digital patient engagement initiatives, it is important to closely examine the whole spectrum of use cases to spot the opportunities and the key benefits therein. This IDC PlanScape offers a comprehensive framework ...
This IDC study provides a visual representation of the process of technology adoption, dividing technologies into three major categories based on their impact on the organization and assessing technology relative to adoption levels within ...
This IDC PlanScape provides a road map for hospitality and travel companies to leverage digital transformation strategies to drive seamless, augmented experiences in the appropriate and desired settings, where physical contact with a human ...
This IDC study provides a systematic assessment of technologies related to unified communications and collaboration in 2020. The IDC TechScape is an evaluation based on a comprehensive framework and a set of parameters that assess the factors ...
This IDC MarketScape assess the capabilities and strategies of APM software vendors utilised in the mining industry to optimise the operation of assets across the entire mining value chain. The software does this by recording and analysing ...
This IDC MarketScape assesses the capabilities and strategies of leading asset performance management (APM) vendors. It aims to aid utilities in deciding on their current or future APM implementations and assists vendors in deepening their ...
This IDC study assesses the capabilities and strategies of prominent asset performance management (APM) vendors. It aims to aid manufacturers in deciding on their current or future APM implementations, as well as to assist vendors in deepening ...
This IDC MarketScape evaluates APM providers by qualitatively and quantitatively assessing their capabilities and strategies regarding their offerings across all value chain segments of the oil and gas (O&G) industry. With the worldwide ...
This IDC PlanScape provides a path for supply chain executives, CIOs, and other business leaders to better understand the growing challenges of today's supply chain for real-time, accurate inventory visibility and decision making and how ...
This IDC study provides an assessment of the SaaS and cloud-enabled AP automation applications for midmarket and discusses the criteria that are important for companies to consider when selecting a system.
"The ground underneath the ...
This IDC study provides an assessment of the SaaS and cloud-enabled accounts receivable automation applications for enterprise and discusses the criteria that are important for companies to consider when selecting a system.
"Businesses ...
This IDC study provides an assessment of the SaaS and cloud-enabled accounts receivable automation applications for midmarket and discusses the criteria that are important for companies to consider when selecting a system.
"Businesses ...
This IDC study provides an assessment of the SaaS and cloud-enabled accounts payable automation applications for enterprise and discusses the criteria that are important for companies to consider when selecting a system.
"Organizations ...
This IDC Presentation discusses the Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) (APEJ) regionalization of the 2021 Worldwide Cloud Predictions. Each prediction is presented based on timeline projection, cost/complexity assessment, and organizational ...
This IDC study provides an assessment of the principal retail merchandise operations management solutions and discusses what criteria are most important for companies to consider when selecting a vendor.
"Modern merchandise operations ...
This IDC study provides an assessment of 14 vendors participating in digital transformation of sales and marketing processes in the life science industry. Digital transformation is occurring at a rapid pace in life science companies, including ...
This IDC study provides an assessment of the primary headless digital commerce application vendors. The study also discusses what criteria are most important for companies to consider when selecting a system.
"The proliferation of ...
This IDC PlanScape describes the need for modernization of critical workloads based on market conditions that are compelling a response, or in anticipation of a predicted event that will prevent a disruption or leverage a coming benefit ...
This IDC MarketScape assesses the capabilities and strategies of selected enterprise service providers in serving the specific needs of retail companies worldwide across industry segments (food and non-food retail). It assesses service providers ...
This IDC MarketScape assesses the capabilities and strategies of worldwide service providers (SPs) in supporting and collaborating with the retail industry in defining and executing co-innovation strategies. Therefore, we consider the shared ...
This IDC MarketScape examines 20 different vendors offering professional security services in the highly competitive GCC market. The organizations considered in this study were thoroughly evaluated using the IDC MarketScape model, which ...
This IDC MarketScape identifies the key criteria European education-sector stakeholders need to successfully select a vendor to deliver collaboration applications for all key processes, including pedagogical procedures.
"Stakeholders ...
This IDC study presents a vendor assessment of customer-360 data platforms for payers in the U.S. market for 2020–2021 using the IDC MarketScape model.
"Master data management in payers is evolving with the introduction of many flavors ...
This IDC PeerScape provides several examples of financial institutions of various sizes that have embarked on an enterprise fraud management initiative. The examples cover a spectrum of coordinated initiatives from highly focused and purpose ...
This IDC study examines the key strategies and capabilities that point-of-sale (POS) software vendors are offering in solutions for the quick-service restaurant (QSR) and fast-casual restaurant segments of the restaurant industry. The research ...
This IDC PeerScape focuses on three CIOs who have responded to the demands of digital transformation by building a product-driven IT organization. In all three companies, a good alignment with business has been achieved where IT is positioned ...
This IDC PeerScape explores best practices to resolving some of the top systemic challenges when establishing a scalable data strategy.
"Data from operations has really taken the spotlight as more companies look to apply AI and analytics ...
This IDC study presents the results of IDC's Print and Document Management MaturityScape Benchmark Survey and should be viewed as a supplement to IDC MaturityScape: Print and Document Management 3.0 (IDC #US46265520, ...
This IDC study provides an assessment of prominent integrated workplace management system (IWMS) vendors and discusses what criteria are most important for companies to consider when selecting an IWMS software solution.
"Organizations ...
This IDC PeerScape describes three best practices for deploying cloud business analytics: assemble the right expertise to help you plan and execute your deployment, spend time upfront on data intelligence to deliver trusted and actionable ...
This IDC PeerScape highlights several examples of banks with specific risk or compliance challenges and the actions each took to overcome it.
"Financial institutions cannot adequately transform themselves without appropriate digital ...
This IDC PlanScape discusses a new approach to IT infrastructure cost management, which has become an urgent imperative for enterprises seeking to thrive and adapt in a post-COVID-19 global environment. A few Global 2000 IT organizations ...
This IDC study represents a vendor assessment of the Oracle cloud implementation services ecosystem through the IDC MarketScape model. This assessment discusses both quantitative and qualitative characteristics that explain success in the ...
"While a lot of financial institutions are implementing ecosystem and context strategies, they tend to neglect influence strategies because of their short-term business focus. However, as competition is fierce even among other industries, ...
This IDC PeerScape examines three best practices for the leveraging of IT to support sustainability policies and goals related to gender equity and diversity in the workplace. It provides concrete examples that should help CIOs identify ...
This IDC study evaluates the population health analytics vendor market. The market remains stable as clients demand and vendors deliver the functionality to ingest the growing number of new data types and sources such as SDoH. Other advancements ...
This IDC PeerScape features the five Digital SMB masteries and examples of Asia/Pacific SMBs that applied these masteries in their organizations. "As the region's economies pave a slow and varied path to recovery, Asia/Pacific SMBs continuously ...
This IDC study represents a vendor assessment of the Oracle implementation services ecosystem through the IDC MarketScape model. This assessment discusses both quantitative and qualitative characteristics that explain success in the Oracle ...
This IDC study represents a vendor assessment of the digital evidence management solutions for law enforcement market through the IDC MarketScape model.
"By leveraging a secure, open digital platform embedded in the digital investigation ...
The IDC study provides a visual representation of the process of technology adoption, dividing technologies into three major categories based on their impact on the organization and assessing technology relative adoption levels within their ...
This IDC study uses the IDC MarketScape model to review, analyze, and assess vendors in the Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) (APEJ) datacenter services market. The research employed quantitative and qualitative methods to evaluate the strategies ...
This IDC PeerScape provides insight into the best practices related to the implementation and use of data catalog software within the context of data enablement in an organization. Users of data catalogs are a part of how IDC defines data-native ...
This IDC MarketScape discusses how European cities and communities — particularly those with more than 500,000 residents — that want to embrace technology innovation should consider engaging with the professional services suppliers analyzed ...
This IDC study provides a path for supply chain executives, CIOs, and other leaders across the business to identify resiliency challenges and opportunities in the supply chain, take action to address them, and develop the ability to anticipate ...
This IDC MarketScape assesses the capabilities and strategies of several key enterprise software providers in serving the specific needs of retail companies worldwide across industry segments (food and nonfood retail). Vendors are evaluated ...
This IDC study provides an assessment of prominent SaaS and cloud-enabled asset-intensive EAM application vendors and discusses what criteria are most important for companies to consider when selecting a software solution.
"Asset-intensive ...
"As becoming a data-driven enterprise becomes the goal of all financial institutions, the data management role has significantly increased. With new emerging technologies, such as big data, artificial intelligence (AI), and Internet of Things ...
This IDC study uses the IDC MarketScape model to provide an assessment of the services providers supporting service life-cycle management processes. This study specifically analyzed these offerings from a manufacturing industry vertical ...