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 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 PlanScape is a follow-on to the IDC MaturityScape and IDC MaturityScape Benchmark documents for print and document management that outlined the stages and dimensions of print and document management maturity and assessed where organizations ...
This IDC Perspective reviews the challenges that organizations face as they transition to the new work experience and presents a framework for addressing those challenges. As organizations accelerate and expand digital transformation (DX) ...
On January 26, 2021, Xerox announced its 4Q20 earnings. While the announcement revealed similar financial metric performances observed during the COVID-19 pandemic, it was encouraging to review information on future developments. This included ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 Perspective looks at the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the challenges associated with managing secure print in a hybrid work environment. This document discusses how organizations should approach print security for ...
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 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 Survey Spotlight examines the Wave 14 data collected from November 9 to November 23, 2020. As noted in recent survey results, IDC is now asking about 2021 spending trends.
In this latest data set, we observe a reversal of ...
On November 24, 2020, HP Inc. announced its fiscal fourth-quarter and full annum results. The former totaled $15.3 billion (-1.0% YoY) in revenue resulting in a sum of $56.6 billion (-3.6%) for the latter. However, the middling financial ...
This IDC Web Conference presents a discussion by the members of IDC's Global Print analyst team on key predictions emerging from the COVID-19 pandemic that will reshape the trajectory of this industry. Past perceptions of enterprise printing ...
On November 10, 2020, Epson America announced its new network document scanner, the DS-730N, targeting paper-intensive markets including government, service bureaus, and enterprise. Epson also launched a refresh of three of its desktop scanners, ...
This IDC Market Note provides an overview of Kodak Alaris' recent announcements on expanding the company's document capture portfolio. These announcements include updates to its INfuse platform, expanded remote service and device management ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight examines printer spending trends from the wave 13 data collected during October 15 to 30, 2020. As noted in the previous survey results, IDC is now asking about 2021 spending trends.
In this latest data set, ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight examines data collected from IDC's Print and Document Management (PDM) MaturityScape Benchmark Survey completed in October. The PDM study is designed to identify the stages, critical ...
This IDC study contains IDC analysts' future of work worldwide outlook for 2021.
"The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated organizations' transition to an agile work environment that provides workers with secure access to corporate resources ...
This IDC study discusses the top 10 predictions for worldwide imaging, printing, and document solutions and 3D printing for 2021.
"COVID-19 has interrupted the conventional flow for printing and imaging technologies," says Keith Kmetz, ...
On October 27th, 2020, Xerox announced its Q3 2020 financial results. Last quarter (April-June), the company's financial results revealed the depth of the full COVID-19 impact when business, education and social services shutdowns ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight examines the Wave 12 data collected from September 26 to October 6, 2020. However, in this 12th data set, we ask a revised question, so this IDC Survey Spotlight does not compare these results with the past 11 data ...
This IDC Market Perspective explores the impact of COVID-19 on the traditional office environment, leading to an increase in work-from-home scenarios and, in turn, an acceleration in automation.
"The shift to work from home due to ...
On October 14, HP introduced a new category of MFP solutions specifically designed for the healthcare industry. Codeveloped with healthcare providers and partners, the HP Healthcare Edition addresses critical healthcare areas of need including ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight examines the Wave 11 data collected from August 26 to September 6 and compares it with the past 10 data sets, starting in March.
In this 11th data set, the U.S. printer spending offers little hope for 2020. ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight examines the Wave 11 data collected from August 26 to September 6 and compares it with the past 10 data sets, starting in March.
In this 11th data set, the worldwide printer spending trends very negatively. ...
This IDC Market Analysis Perspective provides hardcopy vendors and ISVs and their partners with a comprehensive overview of the document solutions market, offering the critical information required to support strategic planning and strategic ...
On September 2, 2020, Ripcord announced a new joint venture with Fuji Xerox Co. Ltd. to bring its robotics, intelligent document processing, and content management technologies and services to Japan and the APAC region. The venture accelerates ...
On August 27, 2020, HP Inc. announced its FY 3Q20 revenue fell 2% to $14.3 billion. The prior quarter saw a mix of big gains and steep drops for the company driven by new pandemic realities. With businesses shuttered the world over and many ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight examines the Wave 10 data collected from August 5 to 17 and compares it with the past nine data sets, starting in March. This data only offers a small level of improvement over the poor showing in late July.
In ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight examines the Wave 10 data collected from August 5 to August 17, 2020, and compares it with the past nine data sets, starting in March.
In this 10th data set, the worldwide printer spending trends in a very ...
This IDC study assesses the transformative activities of the major office printing vendors on a worldwide basis. Organizations using this IDC MarketScape for worldwide print transformation can identify vendors with strong offerings and well-integrated ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight examines the Wave 9 data collected from July 20 through July 31, 2020, and compares it with the past eight data sets, starting in March. This data shows very similar results from the Wave 2 data collected from April ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight examines the Wave 9 data collected from July 20 to July 31, 2020, and compares it with the past eight data sets, starting in March. This data shows a mix of responses that nearly match earlier data sets when the ...
This IDC Market Analysis Perspective provides hardcopy vendors and ISVs and their partners with a comprehensive overview of the document imaging scanner market, offering the critical information required to support strategic planning and ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight examines the Wave 8 data collected from July 7 to July 20 and compares it with the past seven data sets, starting in March. This data shows a mix of responses that nearly match the first data set collected in March.
In ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight examines the Wave 8 data collected from July 7 to July 20, 2020, and compares it with the past seven data sets, starting in March. This data shows very similar results from the Wave 6 data collected from June 4 ...
On July 28, 2020, Xerox announced its 2Q20 financial results. Last quarter, the unusual and notable decline in certain financial metrics offered a glimpse into the potential pandemic impact. In this announcement, the depth of the full COVID-19 ...
Y Soft announced a new product line within its cloud portfolio called YSoft OMNI Series, which is essentially a hardware and software solution designed to take the place of a traditional print server. Y Soft's announcement came on the same ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight examines the Wave 7 data collected from June 22 through July 6, 2020, and compares it with the past six data sets, starting in March. This data clearly shows a prevailing neutral attitude about the U.S. printer ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight examines the Wave 7 data collected from June 22 through July 6, 2020, and compares it with the past six data sets, starting in March. This data shows a return to expected spending habits on print first observed ...
This IDC study quantifies the worldwide document imaging scanner opportunity in detail and analyzes market trends and drivers. It includes both distributed and production segments and the subsegments that make up each segment (for segment ...
Microsoft announced the public preview of its cloud-based print platform and service called Universal Print. Universal Print runs in the Microsoft Azure cloud and is designed to provide users with a convenient and affordable cloud-based ...
This IDC Market Perspective explores the factors impacting and fueling organizations' digital transformation initiatives including changes due to COVID-19 and the growing adoption of workflow and mobile technology.
"Business agility ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight examines the Wave 6 data collected from June 4 to 15, 2020, and compares it with the past five data sets, starting in March. This data clearly shows the reign of uncertainty in March, a progressively negative attitude ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight examines the Wave 6 data collected from June 4 to 15, 2020, and compares it with the past five data sets, starting in March. This data clearly shows a timing difference between the worldwide and the U.S. data sets. ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight examines the Wave 5 data collected at the end of May and compares it with the past four data sets, starting in March. This data clearly shows a timing difference between the worldwide and U.S. data sets. The worldwide ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight examines the Wave 5 data collected at the end of May and compares it with the past four data sets, starting in March. This data clearly shows the reign of uncertainty in March, a progressively negative attitude ...
This IDC study provides the worldwide and U.S. market share data for the device management and print management markets for the calendar year 2019.
"Despite the maturity of this market, document solutions are still needed as organizations ...
This IDC study addresses overall market shifts and provides strategies for technology suppliers to leverage the worldwide opportunity for document solutions software.
"The office printing market is mature, and declines in unit shipments ...