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.
Verizon and Vodafone’s almost identical announcements of Carrier Multi-access edge cloud (MEC) offerings in alliance with AWS that combines their respective 5G wireless low-latency access with the distributed multi-cloud application management ...
This IDC Survey analyzes end-user responses regarding the firms they engage for consulting and integration services on IT infrastructure, examining both IT vendors and systems integrators. IDC's Infrastructure Services Survey, ...
This IDC Market Note provides a summary of Canon's recent briefing with IDC on its print security solutions and services offerings. This document looks closely at Canon's print security services strategy and provides a snapshot of how the ...
This IDC Perspective highlights the lack of relevant skills to implement Big Data and AI projects and discusses how the lack of data literacy affects European companies. It also analyzes what technology vendors are offering to customers ...
This IDC Market Note provides a summary of Lexmark's recent briefing with IDC on its print security solutions and services offerings. This document looks closely at Lexmark's strategy and provides a snapshot of how the firm is positioning ...
This IDC Market Note reviews Konica Minolta's progress in its IT management solution — Workplace Hub — since it was first publicly announced in 2017. Looking forward to the new decade, we predict that a perfect storm of evolving working ...
This IDC study presents the worldwide datacenter network consulting and integration services forecast for the 2019–2023 period.
"In an increasingly multicloud world, it is imperative that the datacenter infrastructure and, most importantly, ...
This IDC Market Perspective summarizes the current state of container infrastructure software in the enterprise IT organization. This document includes data from IDC's 2019 Infrastructure Services Survey that includes customer adoption ...
This IDC Survey summarizes key technology investment trends based on IDC's U.S. Enterprise Communications Survey, 2019, an online survey of 800 United States–based businesses fielded in August 2019. It provides ...
This IDC Survey uncovers the adoption of and satisfaction with talent and labor market intelligence technologies utilized by talent acquisition organizations. It includes data taken from respondents' answers to questions from the 2019 ...
This IDC Survey explores the status of the gap in the demand for IT skills in Canadian organizations and current supply of those skills in Canadian labor market. As a result of this gap, organizations turned to externally sourcing IT staff ...
This IDC study details the 2019–2023 market sizing and growth rates for the worldwide services market. This market is broken down into two major views. The first is the macromarket view, which segments the services market into three primary ...
This IDC Presentation provides a detailed analysis of the market and competitive landscape in IT services in China from January to June 2019 (1H19). It covers the market size movements and growth trends in each of the macromarkets (i.e., ...
This IDC study presents the Romanian IT security market size and vendor shares in 2018, as well as key market trends.
"Romanian organizations' security strategies and investments increasingly prioritize a protect-detect-respond approach. ...
This IDC Presentation provides a detailed analysis of Vietnam's IT services market and competitive landscape from January to June 2019 (1H19). It covers the market size movements and growth trends in each of the macromarkets (i.e., project-oriented ...
This IDC Web Conference presents a discussion by IDC's Kevin Prouty on the convergence and digital integration of information technology (IT) with operational technology (OT) and the impact this will have on an organization's effectiveness, ...
This IDC Survey addresses tech buyer attitudes about how they expect their buying practices to change in the next three years. It examines tech buyers' perception of tech vendor's marketing function and their use of various digital communication ...
This IDC PeerScape describes how IT and OT management at leading organizations have together developed their IT/OT convergence architecture, technology, and data to support their Industry 4.0 and IoT business goals with the following best ...
Siemens is strengthening its Industrial Edge portfolio by adding the ability to deploy and manage container-based apps at the edge. This approach enables its manufacturing customers to analyze data locally in order to react more flexibly ...
This IDC Presentation provides a detailed analysis of the market and competitive landscape in IT services in Australia from January to June 2019 (1H19). It covers the market size movements and growth trends in each of the macromarkets (i.e., ...
This IDC Presentation provides a detailed analysis of the market and competitive landscape in IT services in Malaysia from January to June 2019 (1H19). It covers the market size movements and growth trends in each of the macromarkets (i.e., ...
This IDC study presents an update to the worldwide and U.S. IT education and training services forecast for 2019–2023. The forecast includes an analysis of the regional drivers of IT education growth and delivery modalities and illustrates ...
This IDC Market Presentation showcases the summary findings of IDC's 2Q19 Cloud Pulse via slide deck. Sections include total, region, company size, cloud type, and cloud adoption.
IDC's Cloud Pulse provides an overview of cloud adoption ...
This IDC Survey discusses the results of IDC's 2019 New Zealand IT Services Ecosystem Survey. This report is the first of two reports providing a deep dive into the New Zealand IT Services ecosystem. Part 1 provides an in-depth ...
This IDC Presentation provides a detailed analysis of the market and competitive landscape in IT services in India from January to June 2019 (1H19). It covers the market size movements and growth trends in each of the primary markets (i.e., ...
This IDC Presentation provides a detailed analysis of the market and competitive landscape in IT services in New Zealand from January to June 2019 (1H19). It covers the market size movements and growth trends in each of the macromarkets ...
This IDC Market Note provides a summary of announcements made by Digital Realty at its MarketplaceLIVE 2019 event, held November 7, 2019, in New York City. The company introduced PlatformDIGITAL, a consistent cross-geography datacenter platform ...
This IDC Market Note discusses IDC's opinion on the announcements from LinkedIn Talent Connect 2019, held September 25-27, in Dallas, Texas.
This IDC Market Perspective provides an overview of how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming the application development services market. This document synthesizes IDC MarketScape research and AI services and application services ...
This IDC study examines the needs and preferences for mobility services for small, medium-sized, and large Canadian businesses. Service offerings under examination include mobile enterprise application platforms, mobile content management, ...
This IDC Market Note provides an overview of the 2019 Honeywell Users Group EMEA Conference, which took place on September 23 to 26, 2019, in The Hague. The event's key focus areas included industrial cybersecurity, connected operations, ...
This IDC Market Analysis Perspective provides an overview of the state of IT services in Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) (APEJ) for the year 2019, including market definition, the vendor landscape, buyer perspectives, and preferences for ...
This IDC Vendor Profile analyzes the success of Computacenter, a U.K.-headquartered IT infrastructure services provider that combines technology sourcing and services. Having established its European core business, first as a reseller and ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight shows the results that offer insights into one key area of this new procurement trend and reveals the metrics of the as-a-service models that matter. In September, IDC conducted a survey of 300 United States–based ...
This IDC study represents a vendor assessment of providers offering enterprise mobility management (EMM) software through the IDC MarketScape model. The assessment reviews both quantitative and qualitative characteristics that define current ...
This IDC Market Note describes the key takeaways of IDC analysts, regarding Hitachi Vantara and its services business, who participated in Hitachi's NEXT 2019 conference, October 8–10, in Las Vegas.
This IDC Market Forecast provides our Nordic services market forecast for the 2019–2023 in the total Nordic IT services as well as in Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden. IDC forecasts the Nordic market for IT services will grow from $24.4 ...
This IDC Perspective offers CMOs and their management teams and C-suite colleagues a window into the results of IDC's 2019 Tech Marketing Benchmark Survey. A 56-page extended study with details on this survey (now in its 17th year) ...
This IDC Survey discusses the results of the 2019 New Zealand IT Services Ecosystem Survey. This report is the second of two reports delving deeply into the New Zealand IT Services ecosystem. Part 2 provides an in-depth analysis ...
This IDC study presents forecasts of spending (customer expenditures) for the offshore-based horizontal BPO services market for 2019–2023 that includes HR, finance and accounting, procurement, and customer care by four importing regions ...
This document reviews Cisco Partner Summit 2019, held November 4-6, 2019, in Las Vegas. The focus of this IDC Link will be on network life-cycle services and the interplay between Cisco and other providers of these services. (Please see ...
This IDC study contains IDC's estimates for key business consulting services vendors' revenue for 2018. Because the key vendors have increasingly focused attention on the changing requirements of each client segment, especially the demand ...
This IDC Market Note describes the key takeaways of IDC analysts who participated in SoftServe's recent industry analyst meeting held on October 10, 2019, in New York.
This document explores the cloud adoption trends in Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) (APEJ) small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). Key findings from IDC's 1Q19 Cloud Pulse Survey and APEJ Future SMB Survey are highlighted to provide a view ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight looks at the top 10 worldwide use case adoption for AR/VR IT project-based services.
This IDC Survey Spotlight is based upon IDC's Worldwide IT Professional Services Survey carried out ...
This IDC PeerScape discusses strategies from organizations that have undergone a shift to participate in industry clouds. Readers will learn how to overcome some challenges that are similar to traditional cloud adoption and other challenges ...
This report is part of the continuing coverage of provider selection in Digital Transformation Strategy and Consulting Services in the Asia/Pacific region. This IDC Perspective offers a look at how business objectives translate into expectations ...