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 Tech Buyer Presentation discusses the Canadian regionalization of the IDC FutureScape: Worldwide Services 2021 Predictions (IDC #US45374020, October 2020). ...
This IDC Market Presentation focuses on the impact the COVID-19 pandemic has had on partner business metrics and investments, and how IP and profit are defining partner value now and post-vaccine. This content was presented at IDC's Software ...
This IDC Presentation provides a detailed analysis of the market and competitive landscape in cloud services in Australia and New Zealand (ANZ) from January to June 2020 (1H20). It covers key events and trends in the overall cloud services ...
This IDC Survey analyzes selected Nordic results from the IDC EMEA's Multicloud Survey, 2020.
"Most organizations use both multiple cloud services and cloud deployment models, but many still need to adopt actual multicloud services ...
This IDC Market Presentation discusses how business dynamics and the availability of cloud applications are resulting in companies reexamining the best alternative to create market disruption or enhance their portfolio. As a result, strategic ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight illustrates what traits third-party application providers must have to be considered best in class. The document contains data from IDC's 2020 U.S. Enterprise Deal-Making Strategies for Managed ...
This IDC Market Presentation offers an overview of the worldwide largest 15 cloud service provider infrastructure demand trend for third quarter of 2020.
This IDC Market Presentation provides the content presented at the December 2020 Infrastructure Channels and Ecosystem Leadership Council. The primary topic of the council was the increasing importance of the ecosystem and the growth of ...
This IDC Survey provides an overview of the results from a 2020 U.S. survey of enterprises involving their use of managed (outsourced) services for finance and accounting (F&A) business process outsourcing. The survey involved U.S. respondents ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight examines Turkish organizations’ security investment plans and offers a perspective on such investments over the next two years. Survey respondents included security directors, security managers, CISOs, and CIOs ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight looks at predicted spending patterns for healthcare and life science respondents for SaaS software and other technologies in 2021 as companies prepare for an anticipated emergence from the pandemic.
This IDC Survey Spotlight examines merchants' preferences between best-in-breed digital commerce applications and comprehensive digital commerce platforms/suites. Respondents break down between IT and LOB workers as well as B2B, B2C, and ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight reveals insights on how COVID-19 will impact next year's enterprise spending on various cloud and noncloud models. This document is based on data from IDC's Cloud Pulse Survey conducted in 4Q20. ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight examines the impact of digital workspaces and VDI on endpoint security. Evidence is mounting that organizations are recalibrating end-user computing as work-from-home and hybrid arrangements rose during the pandemic ...
This IDC Survey presents data from the 14th of a series of surveys that will be run to track changing sentiment associated with COVID-19 impacts on technology adoption and future spending expectations through CY21. It includes a total of ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight focuses on executive sentiments about their IT spending in the cloud among European asset-intensive industries — manufacturing, utilities, and oil and gas. It is based on data from wave 12 (September 25–October ...
This IDC Market Glance provides a list of current vendors offering monetization products and services, which are logically between CRM/ecommerce and ERP/accounting applications.
This IDC Market Presentation is an executive summary of IDC's 3Q20 Cloud Pulse, with a focus on cloud vendors, loyalty, and trade-offs.
Cloud Pulse provides an overview of cloud adoption and cloud trends among IT buyers. Cloud Pulse ...
This IDC Market Presentation includes results from IDC's European Edge Strategies research. It highlights the edge vendor landscape, focusing on Europe. The scope of the study is to depict the overall status of the edge vendor landscape ...
This IDC Market Presentation summarizes key events that took place in the European services market in 3Q20.
This IDC Survey Spotlight provides insight from the worldwide IT/OT Integration Survey. It examines manufacturers' different levels of priorities regarding their primary providers of IT/OT solutions. It also looks at some of ...
This IDC Presentation discusses the Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) (APEJ) regionalization of the 2021 Worldwide Cloud Predictions. Each prediction is presented based on timeline projection, cost/complexity assessment, and organizational ...
This IDC Market Analysis Perspective provides an overview of European edge market trends and vendor opportunities. It discusses market composition, growth trends, competitive landscape, impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, and market outlook. ...
This IDC Survey analyzes network infrastructure and software-defined network (SDN) trends in Europe and identifies opportunities for the next two years. It is based on IDC's 2020 European Enterprise Communications Survey.
IDC's ...
This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation discusses the root causes of data silos, what multicloud data management platforms can deliver, and recommended actions for IT practitioners. IDC's future of digital infrastructure predicts that, by 2023, ...
The IDC Market Presentation covers the primary SaaS vendors across human capital management, financial applications, customer relationship management, team collaborative applications, and conferencing applications in Canada.
It provides ...
This IDC Market Presentation is an executive summary of IDC's 4Q20 Cloud Pulse, with a focus on cloud economics, customer value, and staffing.
Cloud Pulse provides an overview of cloud adoption and cloud trends among IT buyers. Cloud ...
This IDC Market Presentation provides a summary of results in the form of charts and figures for each survey question in IDC's 2020 Managed CloudView Survey, a global web survey of 1,500 LOB and IT decision ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight presents key healthcare provider–related findings from IDC's Industry CloudPath 2020 Survey — a worldwide study, covering 24 different industries across 13 countries on their move ...
This IDC Market Presentation highlights the results of IDC Canada's ITAP n5 2020 Survey. We asked 416 Canadian organizations of all sizes across all industries and regions about their levels of adoption ...
This IDC Survey focuses on adoption, spending, and vendor preferences across a broad range of communication services and technologies in Canadian enterprises and includes new questions on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. This document ...
The IDC Market Glance provides the highest-level view of the healthcare IT landscape for 4Q20. The major categories and vendors identified in the document include infrastructure, core transaction, clinical and financial risk management, ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight presents key findings focused on payer and provider adoption of various cloud deployment models and options from IDC's Worldwide Industry CloudPath 2020 Survey.
"While healthcare organizations ...
This IDC Market Presentation presents the results for 3Q20 for network infrastructure processing semiconductors. Communication processor, ASSP, and FPGA revenue for network function processing in 5G cellular infrastructure, virtualized system, ...
This IDC Market Presentation provides updates on the private cloud infrastructure market, including market share for hardware (server and storage) vendors, market forecast for hardware and software infrastructure, assumptions on the future ...
This IDC Survey provides a high-level summary of key technology investment trends. It includes data from IDC's 2020 U.S. Enterprise Communications Services Survey.
This IDC Market Presentation delivers quarterly insights into the requirements of cloud service providers — focusing on evolving business models, emerging product and service offerings, and providers' own investments in technology. The insights ...
This IDC Market Analysis Perspective contains our view of the Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) (APEJ) software-as-a-service (SaaS) market, with insights into SaaS adoption and buyer needs, a competitive assessment of key players, and essential ...
This IDC Survey profiles organizations that are looking to increase secure remote access spending in 2021 compared with 2020 due to business changes triggered by responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. Charts with "secure remote access" imply ...
This IDC Market Presentation provides an overview on the status of SD-WAN services in Canada. We answer some current questions about SD-WAN: What are its drivers? What is the current level of adoption? What impact will the COVID-19 pandemic ...
This IDC Survey presents data from primary research completed by the Infrastructure Systems, Platforms and Technologies Group during IDC's 3Q20 Storage Infrastructure Survey. In this document, we are grouping responses to survey questions ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight examines the approach that organizations are taking to update strategies for cloud internet defense in 2020. IDC has been conducting annual surveys to gauge how organizations' IT security strategies are evolving ...
This IDC Spotlight discusses the point of view of European organizations toward using quantum computing services in managed cloud services deals. It also enumerates the top providers that they would consider. The results are based on the ...
This IDC Market Glance provides insights into India's telecommunications ecosystem. To ensure increased collaboration and tighter margin focus as operators battle regulatory complexities, communications SPs must rely on operations providing ...
This IDC Survey includes data from IDC's 2020 U.S. Enterprise Communications Survey.
IDC surveyed approximately 600 United States–based decision makers responsible for network/strategy and operations for their organization's ...
This IDC Survey includes data from IDC's 2020 U.S. Enterprise Communications Survey.
IDC surveyed approximately 600 United States–based decision makers responsible for network/strategy and operations for their organization's ...
This IDC Survey includes data from IDC's 2020 U.S. Enterprise Communications Survey.
IDC surveyed approximately 600 United States–based decision makers responsible for network/strategy and operations for their organization's ...
This IDC Market Presentation presents the results of IDC's 2Q20 market forecasts for security appliance hardware, security software, and security services. Security product forecast by deployment model include:
- Hardware
- Software
- SaaS
While ...
This IDC Market Presentation showcases the summary findings of IDC's 4Q20 Cloud Pulse via slide deck. Sections include total, region, cloud adoption, and company size.
IDC's 4Q20 Cloud Pulse examines cloud adoption and ...
This IDC Market Presentation provides data for IDC's 4Q20 Service Provider Pulse publication that examines current and planned investments in sales and marketing resource, product/service positioning, and workloads and deployment strategies. ...
This IDC Market Presentation summarizes the survey findings of IDC's 1Q20 Cloud Pulse Survey and examines multicloud adoption trends in India. This document discusses India organizations' current and future cloud investments ...
This IDC Survey presentation examines trends in how European companies are approaching the cloud services market. Using survey data, it explores evolving customer expectations toward European managed cloud service providers. IDC's recommendations ...
This IDC Survey Spotlights analyzes data from IDC's IT and Operational Technology (OT) Convergence Survey, 2020. It examines European utilities' expectations around OT data growth and the evolving practices around OT data storage ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight focuses on IT-OT integration providers and preferred partners among utilities in Europe and North America. It is based on data from IDC's 2020 IT and Operational Technology (OT) Convergence Survey, carried ...
This IDC Survey presentation looks at the adoption of cloud IT project-based services by region, by company size, by industry, and by buyer type. In addition, it provides insight into buyer spending on cloud implementation services.
These ...
This IDC Market Presentation delivers quarterly insights into the requirements of cloud service providers — focusing on evolving business models, emerging product and service offerings, and providers' own investments in technology. The insights ...
This IDC Survey provides key analysis and findings from IDC's 2020 U.S. Enterprise Communications Survey related to the uptake of SD-WAN services by U.S. enterprises.
This IDC Market Presentation summarizes key events that took place in the European managed cloud services market in 3Q20.
This IDC Market Presentation focuses on small and medium-sized business (SMB) cloud customers and is based on data from IDC's 1Q20 and 2Q20 Cloud Pulse Surveys. This executive summary focuses on cloud-related ...
This IDC Market Presentation assesses the importance of becoming data driven for European organizations. It analyzes the role of data in navigating through the COVID-19 crisis and thriving in the digital economy. It highlights the data-related ...
This IDC Survey provides key analysis and findings from IDC's 2020 U.S. Enterprise Communications Survey related to the uptake of SD-WAN services by U.S. SMB enterprises, covering the large SMB (500–999) and medium-sized SMB (100–499) segments.
...This IDC Survey Spotlight examines how enterprise customers perceive and compare private clouds to public clouds in critical areas. This document is based on data from IDC's Cloud Pulse Survey conducted in 4Q20. IDC ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight examines the services cloud service providers are offering to secure cloud transformations. There are a number of professional security services offerings that cloud providers can choose to offer their clients in ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight analyzes how global services providers are faring in their quest to lead in the provision of cloud-native application delivery to their customers. This IDC Survey Spotlight is based on data from IDC's Accelerated ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight provides insights on the impact of infrastructure spend during 2020 in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, looking at planned IT across various infrastructure categories. These insights were gathered as part of IDC's ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight provides insights as to how the cloud strategies have shifted due to the on-going COVID-19 pandemic.
The data in this document is based on IDC Canada's Business and IT Advisory Panel Survey, ...
This IDC Presentation analyzes the regulatory and governing structure of the utilities industry along with enabling technologies and digital opportunities for eight different countries within Asia including India, China, Malaysia, Indonesia, ...
This IDC Survey provides insights into the Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) (APEJ) datacenter operations. This study focuses on investment areas and priorities for both enterprise and SP datacenters. Fielded in July 2020, this study includes ...
This IDC Survey provides an overview of the results from a 2020 U.S. survey of enterprises involving their use of managed (outsourced) services across IT (applications and infrastructure) and business process outsourcing (BPO). The survey ...
This IDC Market Presentation showcases the summary findings of IDC's 3Q20 Cloud Pulse via slide deck. The sections include total, region, and cloud adoption.
IDC's 3Q20 Cloud Pulse examines cloud adoption and cloud trends ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight highlights the results from the following question posed to 1,500 respondents with 1,000+ employees across 6 countries, and several major industries, as part of IDC's 2020 Managed CloudView Survey: ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight highlights the results from the following question posed to 1,500 respondents with 1,000+ employees across 6 countries, and several major industries, as part of IDC's 2020 Managed CloudView Survey: ...
This IDC Presentation provides a detailed analysis of the market and competitive landscape in cloud services in Southeast Asia from July to December 2019 (2H19). The report covers key events and trends in the overall cloud services market, ...
This IDC Presentation provides a detailed analysis of the cloud services market and its competitive landscape in Hong Kong from July to December 2019 (2H19). It covers key events and trends in the overall cloud services market with a focus ...
This IDC Survey presents data from the 12th of a series of surveys that will be run to track changing sentiment associated with COVID-19 impacts on technology adoption and future spending expectations through CY21. It includes a total of ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight highlights the results from the following question posed to 1,500 respondents with 1,000+ employees across 6 countries, and several major industries, as part of IDC's 2020 Managed CloudView Survey: ...
This IDC Market Presentation provides an overview analysis of outsourcing (managed services) deals signed from 2H15 to 1H20. The document also includes analysis of outsourcing deals coming up for renewal in the next two to three years. Specifically, ...
This IDC Market Presentation, presented in October 2020, elaborates on some of the ways that telecommunications service providers (telcos) are advancing the sustainability agenda in their strategies. It tackles the following questions:
- Why ...
This IDC Market Presentation presents IDC's Digital Resiliency Investment Index for October 2020. Digital resiliency refers to the ability of an organization to rapidly adapt to business disruptions by leveraging digital capabilities to ...
This IDC Market Analysis Perspective provides detailed information on the Western European system and service management (SSM) software market for public and on-premises cloud as well as its segments: IT service management (ITSM), IT operations ...
This IDC Market Presentation uncovers the detail-rich application/workload data found in IDC's 2020 Industry CloudPath Survey. There is significant depth to the 200+ applications included in the survey, and this presentation ...
This IDC Market Presentation provides data for IDC's 3Q20 Service Provider Pulse publication that examines current and planned future vendor usage for deploying application/managed/infrastructure and professional cloud services. The data ...
This IDC Market Presentation of industry cloud platforms provides a current view of the industry cloud platform market, industry cloud models, and guidance for technology suppliers as they navigate the market. Business and IT executives, ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight analyzes results from IDC's 2020 U.S. Enterprise Communications Survey, an online survey of 600 United States-based businesses. The document highlights and discusses the drivers for SD-WAN migration ...
This IDC Market Analysis Perspective presents the worldwide cloud workload security market in terms of what has happened over the past year and what IDC predicts will happen in the next five years. The document includes a 2020 view on the ...
This IDC Market Presentation provides supporting empirical and market data for IDC's assertion that integrated and native data management and protection capabilities are a must for container environments. This IDC Market Presentation makes ...
This IDC Survey is the second of a series of reports on the Australia/New Zealand (A/NZ) results of IDC's Worldwide COVID-19 Impact Survey, Wave 9 and 10 in August 2020, involving organisations across 24 countries, including 101 respondents ...
This IDC Survey is part of a series of reports based on IDC's European Accelerated App Delivery Survey completed in September 2020, across more than 400 European organizations. This series provides insight into end users' maturity, ...