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
Vendor Profile
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.
IDC Perspective
The IDC Perspective is a flexible doc that seeks to help business and tech buyers assess their business and IT strategy and/or associated business processes, especially as it relates to the use of technology. The document can be used in areas such as:
- Strategy and planning
- Trends and observations
- IT spending and investment
- Vendor conferences and announcements
IDC TechBrief
The IDC TechBrief helps the technology or business executive get smart about a single technology in the context of the business by answering 6 business critical questions about the technology:
- What is the technology?
- When should I adopt it?
- What can it do for my business?
- What are the critical success factors?
- What are the risks?
- Who are the suppliers?
Market Note
The Market Note is a flexible doc that provides IDC analysis and point of view on an industry event, new product or service, or a company announcement or development or fast breaking news.
Market Perspective
The Market Perspective is a flexible doc that analyzes key changes and developments happening in the market. This flexible research type can be used to analyze areas such as:
- Competitive Environment
- Innovation & Market Opportunity
- New Business Models
- Partner & Channel Strategy
- Enterprise Strategies (targeted to supplier)
- Regulation
- Socioeconomics
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
IDC Blink
IDC Blink
Provides timely context and insight around important market trends and events in a short opinion piece with a 2-minute audio clip. IDC Blinks provide IDC's point of view on:
- Financial announcements
- Product announcements
- Mergers and acquisitions or divestitures
- Events
- Response to news
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.
Presentations
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.
Market 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.
Tech Buyer 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.
IDC Market Glance
Provides a look at the landscape of a tech market, including competitive positioning, adjacent segments, and potential partner opportunities.
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
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 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 one-time study produced by a research group that is not published as a deliverable under a subscription service.
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.
IDC Innovators
IDC Innovators is aimed at informing IT buyers about emerging vendors with an innovative new technology or ground-breaking business model. Vendors identified in the document as innovators are linked together within a specific market area and around solving or alleviating a common business problem. Vendors included have annual revenue under $100 million at the time of selection.
Technology Segment
The IDC Technology Segment offers CEMA clients a comprehensive view of a technology segment in one country or subregion and provides a market view and forecast and/or market share and vendor profiles, including performances and strategies. It is specifically intended to serve smaller country markets and subregions.
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This IDC Market Perspective looks at HP Inc.'s annual HP Amplify Partner Conference (APC) held March 5–7 in Las Vegas, Nevada. There was over 2,000 attendees with more than 1,500 of them representing HP Inc.'s channel partners from 95 countries. ...
This IDC study analyzes the outsourced document services marketplace that is made up of in-house production print services, mailroom services, print sourcing and procurement services, and imaging and document archival services. This document ...
This IDC study provides the worldwide forecast for the document workflow automation and optimization market for 2024–2028.
"Document workflow automation and optimization is now a key part of an overall digital business strategy," says ...
This IDC Market Note looks at the announcements made by Xerox regarding a range of products, solutions, and services designed to boost productivity for hybrid working environments. Like many vendors, Xerox is looking to enable a more secure ...
This IDC study provides our updated 2023–2027 forecast for the managed print and document services and basic print services market. There are many factors fueling growth among SMB customers, not the least of which is the fact that the SMB ...
This IDC study evaluates the various offerings provided to the office equipment channel by its OEM partners. This study takes survey responses from office equipment dealers to establish a framework that evaluates and measures the OEM offering ...
The annual Executive Connection Summit (ECS), held January 14–17 in Scottsdale, Arizona, was a whirlwind of activity from beginning to end. With over 300 attendees, including more than 150 office equipment dealer representatives, ECS has ...
This IDC study assesses sustainability programs and services among the most prominent global hardcopy vendors and identifies their strengths and challenges. This assessment discusses both quantitative and qualitative characteristics that ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight examines data collected from IDC's 2023 U.S. Print and Cloud Security End-User Survey. The survey was designed to identify how factors such as hybrid work, cloud, and zero trust are influencing ...
This IDC Survey examines the results of specific data from IDC's 2023 U.S. Print and Cloud Security End-User Survey. IDC conducted a United States–based survey with companies to evaluate trends in print and cloud security. ...
This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation discusses the reimagined office. IDC's future of work's space pillar increasingly focuses on the intersection of digital spaces and physical places. How do we enable end users to flexibly collaborate and ...
This IDC Market Perspective highlights some of the announcements made at HP Imagine 2023. Under the theme of "live better, work happier, and dream bigger," HP Inc. hosted press and industry analysts for what was positioned as a celebration ...
On October 25, HP Inc. announced the launch of Amplify for All, an initiative to create a unified global partner program for the company's entire solutions and services portfolio including print and personal systems, Poly gear, Teradici, ...
This IDC study discusses worldwide imaging, printing, and document solutions top 10 predictions for 2024.
"The changes that have taken place in new work and office conditions have been substantial over the past three-plus years. In ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight examines data collected from IDC's 2023 U.S. Print and Cloud Security End-User Survey. The study was designed to identify how factors such as hybrid work, cloud, and zero trust are influencing ...
This IDC Survey examines the results of specific data from IDC's 2023 U.S. Print and Cloud Security End-User Survey. IDC conducted a United States–based survey with companies to evaluate trends in print and cloud security. ...
This IDC Market Note provides an update on the Microsoft Universal Print platform. Going on three years since its initial launch, Microsoft continues to add value and broaden the application for Universal Print through business model enhancements. ...
This IDC Market Analysis Perspective provides hardcopy vendors and their partners with a comprehensive overview of the next-gen document services market, offering the critical information required to support strategic planning and strategic ...
This IDC study provides our updated 2023–2027 forecast for the managed print and document services and basic print services market. There are many factors fueling growth among SMB customers, not the least of which is the fact that the SMB ...
This IDC study provides worldwide and U.S. market share data for the managed print and document services and basic print services markets for calendar years 2021 and 2022. This document updates Worldwide and U.S. Managed Print and Document ...
This IDC Market Note looks at Ricoh's recent launch of the RICOH CloudStream platform. Based on Y Soft's SAFEQ Cloud, RICOH CloudStream provides a cloud-native solution to help customers reduce or eliminate on-premises print infrastructure. ...
This IDC Survey examines data collected from IDC's 2022 Outsourced Document Services Benchmark Survey. The study was designed to identify current benchmarks for outsourced document services regarding adoption, implementation, ...