SFTP Research Documents
IDC subscribers can access their subscription research content in an easily downloaded format through SFTP.
The SFTP download service is also known as the IDC Intranet Delivery Service.
The service has special terms and conditions of use.
To find out more about the service and how you may set it up for your own account, please contact your sales representative. If you are not currently a subscriber of IDC Continuous Intelligence Services, please use this form to reach out to IDC Sales.
Connection Information
Once you have agreed to the terms of the IDC Intranet Service and reached out to the support team or your Customer Service Representative to set up an SFTP Account for you on our SFTP server you will be provided with the credentials needed to login to your service.
Connection information:
- Server: intranet.idc.com
- Port: 9922
Content
The following forms of IDC content are currently packaged for the Intranet Delivery Service. You must use the MyIDC site to access other forms of IDC content.
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Schedule
IDC research is packaged on a regular schedule so you have access to the most up to date research on your intranet as well. The content is archived into appropriately named files:
Day.zip
Generated Tuesday through Saturday, available for download after 12pm EST.
Research published to /idc.com M-F at 5pm EST is collected into IDC Intranet Delivery archives every night beginning at 2am EST the morning after it is published. So Monday research is available in the day.zip file on Tuesday, Tuesday`s research is available on Wednesday, etc. The day.zip file is not generated on Sunday or Monday.
wk.zip
Generated Tuesday through Saturday. The weekly contents, generated on a rolling 7-day collection, available for download after 12pm EST.
Research published into the day.zip file is rolled into the wk.zip file every day, as the day.zip file is replaced. So Monday research is available in the wk.zip file on Tuesday, Monday AND Tuesdays research is available on Wednesday, etc. IDC recommends downloading the wk.zip file every week (between Saturday starting at 12pm through Monday evening) to ensure all content is collected.
mth.zip
Generated Tuesday through Saturday. A rolling 30-day archive, which collects all research published during the previous 30 days into one file, available for download after 12pm EST.
Initial Download or a Complete Sync
IDC provides an easy way to load all the files currently available to you through your service by exporting your full subscription on a weekly basis.
Every Sunday, a comprehensive archive called all.zip is generated. Depending on your subscription the size of the zip file can be up tens of gigabytes. Should this file be too big you can opt in for multiple quarterly files being generated instead. The quarterly files follow a simple naming convention YYYYQx.zip, such as 2025Q4.zip). All research dating back 18 months for each service you subscribe to, is collected, beginning at 2am EST. Files are available for download by 12pm EST every Monday. You must download this comprehensive archive at the beginning of your service to ensure you have all back content for your subscriptions.
Important Note: Due to the file size, you may choose either the quarterly zip files, or the all.zip file, but not both.
Republished Content
IDC reserves the right to republish documents at will. Republished documents will be included in your feeds along with any new documents.
Every year, IDC updates a number of their subscription program names. On January 1, any active (i.e. within 18 months of their pub date) documents that are published under the updated subscriptions will be republished to reflect the new names. Content within the documents will not change. The republished documents will appear in all feeds beginning the first week in January.
If you have any questions about this process or require assistance, please contact IDC Support (Support & Resources).