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 Market Note discusses key takeaways from the 2018 Brooklyn 5G Summit, jointly organized by Nokia and NYU's Tandon School of Engineering. The Brooklyn 5G Summit has established itself as a leading 5G sounding board, with broad representation ...
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 ...
This IDC Market Note describes and explains the scenario of shutting down legacy networks (2G/3G), which we have adopted for the latest edition of our mobile market forecasts for Western Europe, as published in the EMEA Telecoms Services ...
This IDC Perspective identifies five crucial principles that IT executives must understand about the use of cybersecurity insurance to transfer portions of an organization's cybersecurity risk to an insurance carrier. Modern cybersecurity ...
In this study, we investigate the growth and drivers for internet of things (IoT) IP connections and installed units in four key Asia Pacific markets (Australia, New Zealand, People's Republic of China [PRC], and Singapore). Each market ...
In this report, we highlight some of the key challenges faced by enterprises in the digital era and the multi-channel world with a focus on customer experiences. We then also present use cases and examples of how leading organizations are ...
This IDC Market Perspective examines Oracle's April 2018 Modern Business Experience (MBX) event in London, hosting 2,500 attendees made up of partners, customers, and Oracle executives. During the event, delegates heard from Oracle CEO Mark ...
SAP announced its first-quarter earnings on Tuesday, April 25, 2018. Its growing cloud business is clearly helping SAP win deals, as is its marketing of an integrated cloud suite and SAP Leonardo to drive an innovation agenda for clients ...
This IDC Perspective offers advice and describes business impact software buyers should expect from their enterprise SaaS and cloud-enabled software. Key takeaways include SaaS and cloud-enabled software are a different experience and lifestyle ...
This IDC Perspective offers advice and describes best practices that end users should employ after implementing enterprise SaaS and cloud-enabled software. Key takeaways include the need for minor issue resolution during the first year or ...
This IDC Perspective is the second of a four-part series and presents the key research findings and strategic advice around the implementation of SaaS and cloud-based enterprise software. The key takeaway is that the time-honored software ...
This IDC Perspective offers advice and describes best practices that end users should employ selecting their enterprise SaaS and cloud-enabled software. Key takeaways include digital transformation (DX) is driving investment in SaaS and ...
This IDC Vendor Profile provides information on Datalynx to technology buyers, focusing on its Malaysia and Southeast Asia operations. This report provides a company and product overview of Datalynx Malaysia, including its associated technology ...
IDC Innovators are emerging vendors with revenue <$100 million that have demonstrated either a groundbreaking business model or an innovative new technology — or both. This IDC Innovators study profiles three notable vendors in the agile ...
This IDC study presents a vendor assessment of the 2017 telecommunications ICT services market using the IDC MarketScape model. This assessment covers 10 key telecom service providers (SPs) on a worldwide basis. The assessment is based on ...
IDC Innovators are emerging vendors with revenue <$100 million that have demonstrated either a groundbreaking business model or an innovative new technology — or both. This IDC Innovators study profiles three key emerging vendors in code ...
在发展数字经济的背景下，越来越多的企业走上了数字化转型之路。目前，数字经济发展的最大威胁是有效数字信任的持续缺失，因此大规模增强数字信任变成了企业转型的重要任务。IDC认为，区块链具有安全、可靠、不可篡改等特点，有望解决数字信任的问题，将影响IT产业乃至整个数字经济的发展。在中国，区块链成为2018年最大的IT市场热点，大量的创新企业专注于提供基于区块链的技术产品和解决方案服务。基于此，我们筛选出五家专注于企业级区块链平台的供应商，成为2018年中国区块链平台领域的IDC创新者。
"2018年是区块链技术发展关键的一年，企业将实现从概念验证到全面部署的巨大飞跃。作为新兴技术创新和整合的领导者之一，中国市场在预测期内的区块链支出将持续增长。中国企业将致力于拓展区块链技术应用领域，在提升现有运营效率的同时探索新的业务模式，更多的创新者将在未来涌现。"——IDC中国互联网行业分析师薛宇表示。
...This IDC Presentation addresses the growing recognition that IT needs a new way of structuring and addressing the connection between IT and the success of digital transformation (DX) initiatives. IDC's DX performance scorecard helps measure ...
This IDC study describes the IDC MaturityScape for digitally enabled thinking supply chain. It provides a framework for executive leadership, IT, and supply chain managers to identify the stages, critical measures, outcomes, and actions ...
This IDC Perspective provides feedback from Fortune 1000 organizations on the key lessons learned through deploying their mobile applications. Throughout 2017, IDC conducted in-depth telephone interviews with 20 different organizations across ...
This IDC study is part our continuing coverage of blockchain, distributed ledger technology (DLT), and smart contracts. Smart contracts are gaining momentum in multiple industries and across a wide variety of use cases as a way to improve ...
This IDC Perspective describes the results of a survey of security professionals on third-party risk management, a foundational element of digital trust.
According to Pete Lindstrom, vice president of Security Strategies, "Breaches ...
This IDC PeerScape is intended for retailers familiar with order management software that are seeking to optimize configurations. This document will share some best practices that retailers have identified to change the game for their business ...
This IDC study represents a vendor assessment of the 2018 worldwide cloud professional services market through the IDC MarketScape model. This research is a quantitative and qualitative assessment of the characteristics that explain a vendor's ...
This IDC PlanScape provides insights into the adoption of the GDPR for utilities to help them define a compliant information management strategy, addressing the indispensable legal obligations to be satisfied a couple of months before the ...