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 Survey provides an overview of how global and North American service providers are approaching digital transformation.
Telecommunications service providers are on a long-term evolution to digital platform providers. The journey ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight examines telcos' different fundamental views regarding digital transformation (DX) by company size, Europe vs. worldwide, and internal DX leadership.
This IDC Market Note provides a progress report on automation and process digitalization in East Africa. It examines market dynamics and the impact these technologies are having on the journey to a digital economy. Automation and process ...
This IDC Market Presentation explores IDC Canada's ICT predictions for 2020 and was originally presented as a web conference on December 4, 2019. The digital economy is already a reality for many industries, and forward-looking companies ...
This IDC Perspective provides an overview of the state of front-end interfaces for operations workers and guidance for operations and IT executives on how to evaluate augmented reality as an emerging technology and strategic priority.
"For ...
This IDC Survey analyzes end-user responses regarding their needs, perceptions, and intent to engage for infrastructure consulting and integration services. IDC's Infrastructure Services Survey, 2019, examines the role IT infrastructure ...
This IDC Survey presentation includes data from IDC's Global Telco Survey, 2019.
IDC surveyed 100 telecommunications providers across global level, particularly the decision makers responsible for their company's digital transformation ...
This IDC Market Perspective examines the need to manage skills and staff that have become outdated or obsolete to the extent that individuals need a change of career — a reskilling. Career change and reskilling have been practiced by a few ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight analyzes European healthcare organizations' investments considering the recognized benefits of DX on their business. Bearing in mind the benefits achieved through DX and pushed by emerging value-based business models, ...
This IDC Market Presentation explores various dynamics of the Global DataSphere, IDC's calculation of how much data is created every year (2018-2023). It contains illustrations and insights on several segmentations of the Global DataSphere ...
This IDC Perspective examines IDC's third European CISO Summit, held in November 2019. It saw IDC's CISO community gather for an intensive two-day program, with three clear aims: to explore how security teams can demonstrate business value ...
This IDC presentation focuses on the disruptions of various key technologies, such as Internet of Things (IoT), blockchain, artificial intelligence (AI), and implementations of key digital transformation (DX) use cases by utilities across ...
This IDC Survey analyzes European public sector IT infrastructure transformation. European public sectors' need to digitally transform, while copying with tight budgets, is pushing government and education institutions to a tipping point ...
This IDC Survey presents key findings focused on provider investment plans and approaches to clinical mobility and clinician communication and collaboration from the 2019 Connected Health and Value-Based IT Investment Plans Survey.
Other ...
This IDC Perspective discusses the difference between optimization and maximization; how optimization relates to the whole; how there are many "wholes" to consider; how recent significant advances in technology, particularly in artificial ...
This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation highlights this year's IDC's CIO Sentiment Survey. This presentation highlights critical challenges that CIOs are facing when developing and executing their digital strategies. This data-driven presentation ...
This IDC Market Perspective highlights key points in the escalation of tariff implementations between the U.S., China, and the EU, and how this impacts the European technological landscape. Moreover, this study identifies key trade war impacts ...
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 ...
Nokia is under pressure after cutting its profit outlook during its 3Q19 earnings call and pausing its dividend payout for the next six months. During its annual Global Analyst Forum, the vendor shared how it intends to move forward from ...
In every industry, enterprises are grappling with their own set of cybersecurity challenges as they mature in the digital transformation journey. IDC's 2019 security services sourcing survey indicated that the digital transformation priorities ...
This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation discusses the Canadian regionalization of IDC FutureScape: Worldwide Health Industry 2020 Predictions (IDC #US44351519, October ...
This IDC Perspective reflects the interviews IDC had with government executives over the past quarter and the public sector achievements of 2019.
A new way of government continues to emerge in Canada. The shift toward speed, flexibility, ...
This IDC Perspective addresses the key tactical challenge of developing an agile sourcing strategy. Spend for new and emerging technologies is quickly outpacing the spend for legacy technologies. In fact, the spend for legacy technologies ...
This IDC study examines some of the key technologies that are expected to trend upward in 2020, and it looks at ways in which IT and business services firms can address these technologies with customers to advance usage. The document highlights ...
This IDC study provides a detailed description of IDC's Worldwide Technology Impact Guide methodology and taxonomy. It should be used as a companion piece for IDC's Technology Impact Guide. Technology suppliers may utilize IDC's use case ...
This IDC FutureScape presents the top 10 predictions and key drivers for the European IT industry over the next five years. It tracks the biggest IT stories of our time — the digitalization of enterprises, edge buildout, tech-driven innovation, ...
This IDC PeerScape examines alternatives to conventional approaches to funding IT innovation, presenting best practices from CIOs who have found ways to fund innovation when money is tight. This study helps CIOs consider and select approaches ...
This IDC Market Note discusses IDC's opinion on Siemens' value proposition moving toward creating end-to-end visibility on the shop floor, and the implications and opportunities for operational staff and maintenance management.
This IDC study presents the results of IDC's 2019 United States Digital Transformation MaturityScape Benchmark Survey (n = 500) and should be viewed as a supplement to IDC MaturityScape: The Future ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight uses data from IDC's European Digital Leader's Sentiment Survey 2019 to reveal customer excellence priority rankings among six European verticals (finance, government, manufacturing, oil and gas, retail, and utilities). ...
This IDC Perspective, written for CIOs and senior technology executives, lays out a plan for leading the IT transformation that is essential for the digital transformation of a business. This document also provides an approach that reinforces ...
Digital transformation (DX) has mostly been an enterprise-centric theme for the past years, and many of these large organizations have made good progress. Although enterprises understand the urge for DX, most small and medium-sized businesses ...
This IDC Perspective offers a framework for systematic IT innovation in the enterprise. CIOs need to invest time and resources to create tools, starting with an innovation model framework that defines key parameters in innovation efforts, ...
This IDC Perspective highlights the transformative solutions for U.S. federal and global public sector customers presented at the 2019 Unisys Global Analyst and Advisor Conference on November 11–12. Unisys' vision, enhancing people's lives ...
This IDC presentation provides the status of the Internet of Things (IoT) market across utilities sector within the Asia/Pacific (AP) region. The study highlights the major growth drivers, factors that are influencing strategic decisions, ...
This IDC Perspective looks at key developments and news regarding European digital hospitals in 3Q19. It highlights major ICT deals signed and major initiatives put in place. Hospital technology vendors and service providers should examine ...
This IDC Market Note presents IDC's take on some of the key updates shared at the analyst briefing session held at Citrix's Industry Analyst Summit at its corporate headquarters in Santa Clara, California last November 13 and 14, 2019. Specifically, ...
This IDC Perspective analyzes the position of European banks in the financial services industry and their relationships with consumers. It leverages data from an IDC consumer survey conducted in 2019 among 4,000 EU residents with active ...
This IDC Market Analysis Perspective gives a high-level overview of key industry and technology trends, competitive landscape, and business priorities for the worldwide precision agriculture market.
"With the world's population growing ...
This IDC Market Perspective provides an overview of the current maturity level of IoT across European industries. It also analyzes the leading IoT use cases for European organizations, taking a deep dive on some of them across different ...
iCIMS, a market leader in global recruitment, brought together clients, partners, and analysts at its iNFLUENCE conference held November 18-20. Founder Colin Day and his leadership team detailed iCIMS' talent acquisition (TA) best-of-breed ...
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 Perspective discusses how online shopping and an explosion in grocery fulfillment options have put a microscope on grocery operators' ability to digitally transform to both defend their regional and national market positions and ...
This IDC Perspective provides an overview of the IoT-enabled asset performance management (APM) market and provides guidance on how to approach the buying decision in this emerging space.
"When a new technology solution emerges with ...
This IDC Link looks at the VMworld 2019 Europe event, at which VMware revealed important enhancements to Workspace ONE, addressing employee experience and the Future of Work.
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 Market Forecast projects future spending on strategic priorities related to DX in Europe. It provides an overview of the market context, an in-depth examination of key drivers and inhibitors, and essential guidance for developing ...
Enterprise business requirements are getting increasingly complex in today’s digital era. Customers, both internal and external, expect their requirements to be addressed quickly while maintaining a high level of user experience. This adoption ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight illustrates the investment intentions for Canadian businesses for funding digital transformation (DX) projects and initiatives. The document contains data from IDC's Digital Transformation Executive Sentiment ...
This IDC Market Forecast analyzes IT investments between 2019 and 2023 in Europe — which includes Western Europe (WE) and Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) — and provides a market size and forecast for IT spending by vertical market.
"Technology ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight examines what percentage of Canadian-based companies are currently finding it difficult to source new digital skills and where are they looking to fill their skill gaps. Data comes from IDC's Canada Future of ...
This IDC Market Perspective presents an overview of the state of broadband technology across Africa and examines the available broadband services across the continent. The study looks at the drivers of and challenges to broadband adoption ...
This IDC Survey analyzes the selected results from IDC's Connected Health and Value-Based IT Investment Plans Survey, February 2019. The survey included 100 healthcare payers and 100 healthcare providers that shared ...
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 IDC Market Perspective outlines the new agenda for the CEO running the digital enterprise. As the digital economy emerges on the horizon, a new agenda develops for the CEO who is effectively now running a digital enterprise. This agenda ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight analyzes the top drivers and obstacles that energy executives are encountering in launching artificial intelligence (AI) use cases. This report highlights that AI technology offers multiple appealing benefits, especially ...
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 Perspective describes common concerns CIOs express as they contemplate making the move from traditional on-prem IT architectures to cloud computing models. The document shows that these concerns are generally offset by the benefits ...
This IDC Presentation compares current mobile-based strategies and priorities between enterprises in Australia/New Zealand (ANZ). It uses the results from the 2018 Asia/Pacific (Excluding Japan) (APEJ) Future of Work Survey ...
This IDC Perspective provides insights and examples of how NiSource, a large Midwest natural gas and electric utility, is approaching DX.
"Digital transformation efforts have become a high priority for many utilities. Electric, gas, ...
This IDC Link explores Microsoft's recent announcement touting the results of its four-day workweek experiment in Japan as part of a growing trend of workforce transformation initiatives around work culture, workforce, and workspace.
This IDC Perspective discusses unified engineering on an energy megaproject in a suppressed commodity price environment. Asset owners no longer have margin for error on project costs, and this technology should address several costly errors ...
This IDC study is a translation of the Japanese document (IDC #JPJ44583219) and analyzes vendors' shares in the robotic process automation (RPA) software market in 2018. The RPA software ...
This IDC Web Conference presents a discussion by IDC's Richard Villars, Jennifer Cooke, and Susan Middleton on the key developments that will shape the global datacenter market and impact the way companies distribute their cloud and on-premise ...
This report contains the findings from IDC’s annual CIO Summit Survey 2019. The respondents of the survey were CIOs of different-sized organizations from various industries across the Middle East and Africa (MEA) region. The report focuses ...
This IDC Market Note analyzes Commvault's new products, strategies, and vision outlined at its Commvault GO 2019 event held in Denver this month and its implications on end users. 2019 has been a significant year for Commvault as it welcomed ...
This IDC Market Note reviews the AWS Summit Bahrain on September 15, 2019. The event, attended by more than 2,000 people, explored trends in cloud innovation and adoption across the Middle East, with a focus on the public sector. Success ...
This IDC Survey looks at the key Internet of Things (IoT) adoption trends identified in IDC's latest Middle East, Turkey, and Africa (META) CIO Survey. The survey, conducted in early 2019, captured key business challenges and technology ...
This IDC Web Conference presents a discussion by IDC's Gerry Murray on several key issues facing chief marketing officers (CMOs) that will impact the operational and technology decisions that CMOs will need to make over the next one to five ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight looks at key Internet of Things (IoT) adoption trends identified in IDC's latest Middle East, Turkey, and Africa (META) CIO Survey. The survey, conducted in early 2019, captured the key business challenges and technology ...
This IDC Survey describes the spending intentions of IT and line-of-business buyers that are using external service providers to assist with digital transformation. Respondents were given the definition of digital transformation as the possibility ...
This IDC Market Note highlights the key learnings by the analysts and their take on the implications for Atos. Atos' North American Analyst and Advisor Conference showcased the company's well-developed technology and research and development ...
This document aims to deliver information related to the evolution of cybersecurity in the region, explore the main concerns the chief information security officer (CISO) and the CISO's team have, and the challenges that an organization ...
This IDC Web Conference presents a discussion by IDC's Senior Vice President and Chief Analyst Frank Gens on the key developments that will shape the technology industry over the next one to five years and impact the ability of every enterprise ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight cites data from our 2019 Small and Medium-Sized Business Survey and identifies how IT resourcing, including in-house IT staffing and service provider use, varies in small businesses (<100 ...
This IDC Market Perspective provides an overview of recent announcements from HP Inc., including the introduction of HP Workpath and HP Command Center. Leveraging an apps library and cloud-based ecosystem, HP Inc. has created a solutions ...
This IDC Market Note provides IDC analyst impressions of Cisco Canada's Analyst Day 2019 held in Toronto, Canada, on October 3, 2019. The main theme of the event was innovation, and the event was hosted at Cisco's Toronto Co-Innovation Centre. ...
This IDC Market Presentation looks at the impact of digital transformation on the wide area network. It analyzes the need for change as organizations embrace 3rd Platform and Innovation Accelerator technologies. It details key technological ...
This IDC Survey helps IT suppliers to better position themselves as strategic partners for European enterprises pursuing digital transformation. Using survey data from 400 enterprises in major European markets, it compares the shift in top-level ...
This IDC Market Glance provides a glance at the type of vendors and providers that make up the precision agriculture market.
This IDC Market Note analyzes key topics presented by Red Hat during its EMEA Analyst Day 2019, held on September 26, 2019, at the Ned in London. During this meeting, Red Hat provided updates on the company's future strategies, vision, and ...
This IDC Government Insights Perspective presents Smart City developments in Europe during July–September 2019. It covers major ICT contracts, projects, pilots, product announcements, and business activities. The document organizes European ...
Siemens held its annual analyst and media conference at the New York Marriott at the Brooklyn Bridge on September 4–6, 2019. Based on the theme "Xcelerate Your Digital Future," Siemens presented its strategies around Mendix, MindSphere, ...
In IDC's annual FutureScape predictions (see IDC FutureScape: Worldwide IT Industry 2020 Predictions, IDC #US45599219, October 2019), we predicted that there will ...
This IDC study provides the top 10 predictions and underlying drivers that we expect to impact SMBs in 2020 and beyond.
"Effective senior executives, business unit heads, and IT managers in small and midsize businesses worldwide will ...
This IDC study focuses on intelligent enterprise applications and ERP and its use within enterprises worldwide.
"Competitive differentiation requires digital transformation initiatives and modernized and innovative technology. Intelligent ...
This IDC study discusses the health industry top 10 predictions for 2020.
"The 2020 worldwide health industry predictions highlight the evolution of healthcare and life science organizations in the race to becoming future enterprises," ...
This IDC study explores how hospitality, dining, and travel organizations are responding to the drivers of business and offers guidance on actions to consider. Hospitality organizations, in the new digital era, are responding to a wide range ...
This IDC study contains the outlook of IDC Energy Insights' analyst team for the worldwide mining industry for 2020–2025. The outlook is presented through the lens of the 10 predictions that make up, in IDC Energy Insights' view, the framework ...
This IDC study provides the outlook of IDC Energy Insights' analyst team for the worldwide oil and gas industry for 2020, as well as the planning horizon for the next five years.
"Even in a depressed market, oil and gas companies are ...
This IDC FutureScape presents the top 10 predictions for the corporate banking industry. Each prediction is shaped by a common set of key drivers that provides a planning tool for technology leaders and their line-of-business counterparts ...