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.
"Blockchain is a largely unknown territory for insurers. However, based on the initial use cases, there is no doubt about the technology's potential to support the delivery of secure and frictionless sales and service experience. It is therefore ...
Transport services are undergoing a digital revolution with increased monitoring through remote and embedded sensors together with the replacement of paper-based systems with cyber-physical systems.
These intelligent transport systems ...
This IDC Financial Insights Pivot Table provides an updated forecast for worldwide banking IT spending for 2016–2021. Overall, worldwide IT spending is growing at a CAGR of 5.1% over the 2016–2021 period, up from the projected growth of ...
This IDC Financial Insights Pivot Table provides an updated forecast for worldwide securities IT spending for 2016–2021. Overall, worldwide IT spending is growing at a compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of 4.5% over the 2016–2021period, ...
This IDC Financial Insights Pivot Table provides an updated forecast for worldwide insurance IT spending for 2016–2021. Overall, worldwide IT spending is growing at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 4.3% over the 2016–2021 period, ...
This IDC Pivot Table provides an updated forecast for worldwide financial services risk IT spending for 2016-2021. Overall, worldwide IT spend is growing, with a 6.3% compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) over the forecast period, down from ...
This IDC Perspective discusses the U.S. Consumer Banking Channel Preference Survey conducted among 2,501 U.S. residents who are 18 or older and have an active checking account. As 2018 unfolds, there has been an acceleration ...
Epicor's Insights 2018 conference enabled more than 3,000 customer attendees to engage with Epicor and fine-tune their digital transformation (DX) journey. The new alignment with Microsoft Azure, multitenant cloud enablement in distribution ...
This IDC Manufacturing Insights report uses the IDC MarketScape model to provide an assessment of a number of providers participating in the worldwide trade planning management market. The IDC MarketScape is an evaluation based on a comprehensive ...
This IDC Perspective focuses on Milton Keynes University Hospital (MKUH) NHS Foundation Trust in England, which embarked on a journey to detect and neutralize cybersecurity challenges and subsequently enhance its overall infrastructure. ...
This IDC Perspective provides an analysis of the discussions held at the IFS World Conference in Atlanta on May 1 to 3, 2018. "IFS delivers products that its customers love and makes them a pleasure to use. The company wants to achieve growth ...
This IDC Market Presentation provides insight into the Czech utility sector, with a focus on electricity and gas. An overview of statistical data pertinent to the country's electricity, gas, and water sector is complemented by a brief description ...
This IDC Market Note provides highlights from the Siemens Innovation Day 2018 held at Trident, Nariman Point, Mumbai on May 10, 2018.
"Siemens has been investing heavily in developing applications that could support a highly connected ...
This IDC Market Perspective provides an update on the convergence of enterprise asset management (EAM) and field service management (FSM) software. This document provides a view of both the potential of combining EAM and FSM in EAM applications ...
This IDC Perspective provides an overview of recent legislative and executive branch alignment and guidance to agencies to modernize IT systems while improving cybersecurity postures. The IT Modernization Report to the president and the ...
This IDC Perspective highlights the key takeaways from the Magento Imagine 2018 event, which was held April 23–25 at the Wynn hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada. The conference acts as the largest annual gathering of the Magento community of customers, ...
This IDC Pivot Table presents our best estimates and forecasts for the worldwide healthcare industry IT opportunity. This Pivot Table provides IT spending forecasts for the provider and payer markets by key subindustries. Within the provider ...
This IDC Perspective deals with the use of digital technology to drive patient engagement. Today's healthcare system does not meet the needs of consumers, it is inconvenient and lacks continuity and personalization. The need to augment traditional ...
This IDC Perspective examines experiential retail and its need for next-generation product intelligence. The digital transformation of retail to relevant and rewarding experience is driving new needs for bringing product information to bear ...
This IDC study identifies product management best practices and recommends how government IT organizations can transfer and apply these capabilities to innovative digital transformation (DX) service delivery teams. The new ITPM role and ...
The challenges around supply chain management in the recent times have been largely around product traceability and condition monitoring for ensuring the authenticity of the products being delivered. Organizations have been spending a substantial ...
This IDC TechBrief discusses the value of opting digital twin technology and moving beyond the traditional way of manual and discrete operational process for the oil & gas industry. A digital twin is an IT-powered platform in which oil ...
Plex Systems, a cloud ERP and MES manufacturing software provider, held its annual user conference, PowerPlex 2018, May 14–17 in Detroit, Michigan. The event drew more than 1,000 manufacturing and technology professionals focused on improving ...
Indonesia, with the fourth largest population in the world with 260 million people, is progressing the digital transformation of its financial services industry. Driven by the top-level banks in the country, the transformation promises great ...
This IDC Market Perspective discusses the ICT investments of energy companies and focuses on issues identified by CIOs of energy companies operating in the country. The Turkish energy sector is regarded as being among the most promising ...
This IDC Perspective discusses the Atos Global Analyst Conference held in Boston, Massachusetts.
"The Atos Global Analyst Conference highlighted more than just the latest technology capabilities and services for the analyst community; ...
This IDC Perspective focuses on the impact opioid addiction is having on citizens in the Commonwealth of Kentucky, including overdoses, deaths, blood-borne diseases, and neonatal abstinence syndrome. Opioid addiction impacts lives, families, ...
Huawei demonstrated a strong momentum in its first and truly global Safe City Summit, with tested solution and customer testimonials, transformational expertise, and thought leadership.
This IDC Market Perspective presents stakeholder opinions from a survey among participants of the Czech Republic's largest public sector ICT conference, Internet in Federal and Local Government (Internet ve statni sprave a samosprave, ISSS), ...
"AI-enabled clinical validation and decision support systems to identify care pathways, facilitate a massive volume of diagnoses, and bolster long-term disease management through patient-centric solutions, will become the key tenets to adding ...
This IDC TechBrief describes asset performance management (APM) and its impact on how operational companies manage their assets. The objective of an APM system is to collect data from operations, maintenance, vendors, markets, and other ...
This IDC PeerScape is intended for financial institutions that perhaps are on their first-generation mobile banking solution or, if there are any left, that are yet to implement a mobile banking offering. As the next generation of mobile ...
Tech Mahindra's (TechM) flagship event, # 2018, held at Hyderabad, India, on April 11 and 12, 2018 showcased its capabilities around technologies such as Internet of Things, cloud, and analytics. The entire event was framed around TechM's ...
This IDC Perspective discusses how the Uptake acquisition of APT gives Uptake a quick entry into the utility space as well as access to APT's utility-centric asset reliability libraries.
"The acquisition has the potential to upend ...
This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation provides a summary of the digital transformation initiatives within the Canadian government sectors. Comprehensive data on the importance, adoption, benefits, and challenges of digital technologies such as ...
This IDC Market Perspective analyzes worldwide smart customer operations in the energy sector. It outlines initiatives and developments on customer analytics, customer engagement, flexibility marketplaces, smart metering, emobility, and ...
Walmart Buys a Majority Stake in the Future of Commerce in India (with a Majority Stake in Flipkart)
In a country where Amazon is far from king, Walmart grabs a leadership position in Indian online commerce, with the 77% stake in Flipkart Group announced on May 9, 2018. While the $16 billion price tag may seem exorbitant, Walmart is poised ...
This IDC Perspective examines what midstream oil and gas companies are doing to digitally transform (DX) their business. Oil and gas pipeline operators are already investing in new technologies for better control, inspection, and maintenance ...
This IDC Perspective highlights the 2017 Health and Human Services Summit: Creating the Future of Outcomes and Impact, held September 22–24, 2017, at Harvard University. This summit focused on building an ecosystem of organizations that ...
This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation provides a summary of the digital transformation initiatives within the Canadian healthcare sector. Comprehensive data on the importance, adoption, benefits, and challenges of digital technologies such as ...
This IDC Market Perspective provides an overview of cloud adoption, as well as its status and barriers, within the healthcare sector in Europe. Its primary audience is healthcare organizations that are beginning to invest in cloud, have ...
This IDC Perspective provides analyst insights gathered from direct interviews with Amgen and TCS, combined with key industry trends associated with ongoing industry transformation. This document highlights Amgen's efforts to implement a ...
This is IDC Perspective is the third in IDC Financial Insights' series of reports on Open Banking. It highlights the readiness of each market in Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) (APEJ) for the adoption of Open Banking, covering the key factors ...