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 Market Note outlines key developments for NetApp in the Asia/Pacific (APAC) region during 2020 in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Over this period, NetApp has expanded its offerings by developing new solutions, strengthening ...
This IDC Market Perspective looks at how security service providers have to be able to provide the mix of MDR, managed, and professional security services that their clients and prospects need in order to plan for, protect against, and respond ...
本調査レポートでは、多様な形態のデバイス／センサーの発展が期待されるIoTデバイス／センサーセキュリティ市場を調査し、関連する製品／サービスを提供する企業の特徴的なビジネスモデルや戦略について分析した。
IDC Japan ソフトウェア＆セキュリティのリサーチマネージャーである赤間 健一は「IoT デバイス／センサーの多様化は、デバイスとデータ保護の重要性を高め、テクノロジーの進化とセキュリティ市場の拡大に寄与する。ITベンダーによるIoT/OTセキュリティベンダーの買収によるプラットフォーマー化と、セキュリティ専業ベンダーによる連携ソリューションの二極化が進み、IT/OTコンバージェンスが加速する」と述べている。
...Conversational artificial intelligence vendor Uniphore announced its acquisition of Emotion Research Lab, a developer of artificial intelligence–based video analysis software that uses machine learning to identify emotion and attention in ...
On January 26th, 2021, Xerox announced its Q4 2020 earnings. While the announcement revealed similar financial metric performances observed during the pandemic, it was encouraging to review information on future developments. ...
On January 12, 2020, HCL announced that it closed calendar year 2020 by surpassing $10.022 billion in revenue. The company achieved 3.6% revenue growth, compared with the prior year, and recorded EDITDA of 26.5% with net income of $1.781 ...
Veritas announced the release of NetBackup 9, an upgrade to its flagship enterprise backup and recovery software that can now be deployed across edge, core, and cloud environments as an HCI appliance managed under a standard interface. The ...
This IDC Market Note discusses the announcement of the definitive agreement published on December 1, 2020, for Slack (NYSE: WORK) to be acquired by Salesforce (NYSE: CRM).
With a definitive agreement signed for Slack to be acquired ...
This IDC Market Glance provides an overview of the vendors participating in the Internet of Things ecosystem.
This IDC Presentation provides a detailed analysis of the market and competitive landscape in IT services in Taiwan from January to June 2020 (1H20). It covers the market size movements and growth trends in each of the macromarkets (i.e., ...
This IDC Market Glance provides an overview of vendors participating in the edge infrastructure market. As demand for edge solutions accelerates, a wide variety of companies have developed technology and services across several categories ...
On January 21, Intel reported fourth quarter and full year results for 2020 that exceeded guidance and expectations shared during the prior earnings call. In addition to the earning details, Intel's chairman of the board Omar Ishrak and ...
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.
In ...
This IDC Market Perspective highlights key insights shared at the December 10, 2020, Strategic Alliances Virtual Leadership Discussion. The discussion continued to focus on critical topics that would assist senior alliance leaders in creating ...
On January 19, 2021, Epson America launched a new brand focused on receipt and invoice digitization and management with the introduction of the RapidReceipt RR-600W, RR-70W, and RR-60 devices. Epson is the first document imaging vendor to ...
After several days of rumors in the business and technology press, Atos confirmed on January 7 that it has made a friendly offer to purchase DXC, which also confirmed the move on the same day. But neither confirmed the specifics of the offer, ...
Intel held its 2020 Industry Analyst Summit from December 8 to 10, 2020. The Summit brought coherence to a strategy encompassing a broad array of technologies and product plans and put the strategy into the context of economics, politics, ...
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 Tech Supplier Presentation highlights the cloud adoption plans and budgets of small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), their hybrid cloud/multicloud adoption pattern, their workload shifts on cloud, and the way they have planned ...
Teledyne (NYSE: TDY) will acquire FLIR Systems (NASDAQ: FLIR) for $8 billion, combining a major supplier of digital imaging products and a major provider of infrared sensor technology. The result is likely to be a more robust company, positioned ...
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 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 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 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 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 ...
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 ...
On January 19, 2021, Fujitsu, a leading document imaging scanner provider, launched two new models, ScanSnap iX1400 and iX1600, both part of its flagship ScanSnap product line. Fujitsu is addressing customer challenges with transforming ...
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 ...
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 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 Survey Spotlight shares the top artificial intelligence (AI) use cases currently being used by both small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). It also highlights the planned AI use cases going into 2021, with insights by country, ...
Unit4 managed to improve against its KPIs despite the COVID-19 pandemic. In its last quarterly report, the company announced that cloud subscriptions were up by 16% year to date, while its revenue retention increased in Q3 to 103.4%. The ...
This IDC study presents the vendor share of the Japan big data and analytics (BDA) software market based on its performance in 2019. IDC divides the BDA software market into three major submarkets, which are further divided into 16 functional ...
This IDC study breaks down the Japan system and service management software market by functional market segment and provides market forecasts from 2020 to 2024. It also provides market forecasts for the system and service management software ...
This IDC study extracts the market that drives workstyle transformation from the entire ICT market to explore and analyze the market size and trends. It estimates the market size and summarizes the market trends with reference to the questionnaires ...
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 ...
Today, SAP announced two executive board–level position changes. Adaire Fox-Martin, a member of the executive board of SAP SE leading Customer Success, is leaving at the end of January. In addition, SAP noted the hiring of Julia White for ...
A strategic partnership between Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Verily, an Alphabet company, and Microsoft Corp. was established today. Terra is a secure, scalable, open source platform that was developed by Verily and the Broad Institute ...
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 Spotlight analyzes the key priorities for European organizations with regards to human resources. The analysis is based on the European Software Survey conducted by IDC in November 2020 and breaks down the major challenges ...
This IDC Market Note discusses QA's offerings and initiatives, focusing on its programs to reskill the wider workforce and expanding the tech talent pool through apprenticeships.
This IDC Market Note is part of our Women in Tech research series. It discusses AWS' initiatives around diversity and inclusion in Europe, focusing on its programs through the talent life cycle to attract and retain women in technical roles.
...This IDC Survey Spotlight presents key findings in the use of artificial intelligence (AI) tools on video assets from IDC's November 2020 Digital Experience and Video Platforms Survey. The analysis also highlights how the use ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight analyzes the maturity of retailers' customer journey models to improve real-time contextual customer experience (CX) personalization. It explores how retailers' customer journey models have changed since 2017 onward ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight presents key use cases for video assets from IDC's November 2020 Digital Experience and Video Platforms Survey. The analysis also highlights how the COVID-19 pandemic shifted the use of video from ...
This IDC Market Share study examines the 10 largest managed services providers in 2019 and how their market shares evolved in the context of market developments and dynamics. The top 10 managed service providers accounted for 42.8% of the ...