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Learn how to use our basic and advanced search functionality to find relevant research, and how to save your search results with custom alerts.
Accessing Planned Research
The planned research section lets you look ahead to upcoming research. Learn the various ways you can access planned research as well as how to filter and export your results.
How to Utilize the myIDC Dashboard
The myIDC Dashboard offers a consolidated view of your entire subscription. Learn about creating alerts and folders, following analysts, finding your upcoming research, and more.
Overview
The IDC Spending Guide Query Tool is a powerful, user friendly analytical platform that allows you to interact with your data. You will use a visual interface to uncover the trends in evolving technology markets.
Info
View Only tab for Black Book or Spending Guide data that provides key product data including: product release updates, product market overviews, Press Releases, Query Tool enhancements, Downloads, Subscription Details, Delivery Schedules, Taxonomy Documents, Exchange Rates, and more.
View
To assist you in displaying Black Book or Spending Guide data visually. It allows clients to use the View tab to create interactive charts, graphs and dashboards while filtering on dataset, data attributes, timeframe and measures.
Query
Clients leverage the Query tab as a way to create, save and share custom-built Black Book or Spending Guide queries. You may analyze datasets by applying filters, measures, multiple currencies, sorting, ranking and exporting tables (all specific to the dimensions in the clients contract).
Export
Utilize the export tab when clients need to create, save, share and export larger Black Book or Spending Guide data sets to download and open on your desktop use the Export tab. This allows you the ability to filter and select needed data attributes, measures and currencies.
Overview
The IDC Tracker Query Tool is a powerful, user friendly analytical platform that allows you to interact with your data. You will use a visual interface to uncover the trends in evolving technology markets.
Info
You will find product market overviews all in one place on the Info tab including Tracker Updates, Press Releases, Downloads, Subscription Details, Delivery Schedules, Taxonomy Documents, Exchange Rates, and more.
View
To assist you in displaying Tracker data visually you can use the View tab to create interactive charts, graphs and dashboards while filtering on dataset, data attributes, timeframe and measures.
Query
You can use the Query tab as a way to create, save and share custom-built Tracker queries. You may analyze datasets by applying filters, measures, multiple currencies, sorting, ranking and exporting tables.
Export
When you need to create, save, share and export larger Tracker data sets to download and open on your desktop use the Export tab. This allows you the ability to filter and select needed data attributes, measures and currencies.