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 Perspective provides insights into five key trends impacting the carrier networks infrastructure market in 2021 and beyond.
"Carrier networks are in a state of transition. The consumer and business demand on these networks ...
This IDC Special Study aims to understand enterprise readiness and attitudes toward deploying private cellular/5G/mobile networks and the partners they choose to design, build, run, and manage these networks.
"IDC believes services ...
This IDC Market Presentation examines the latest business sentiment among IT professionals in Europe regarding the role of sustainability and environmental, social, and governance (ESG) principles in day-to-day business operations and in ...
On February 16th, VMware launched Customer Connect, a rebranding and unification effort of My VMware and other VMware customer experience facing assets, tools, and platforms. The unification of these resources can help customers ...
With the COVID-19 pandemic, resiliency has become a business priority. But traditional approaches struggle to integrate business resiliency with new digital realities. IDC presents a digital resiliency framework to help CEOs, CIOs, and other ...
This IDC Presentation provides a historic and forecast view on fixed data services for consumer and enterprise Australia and New Zealand (ANZ) markets. These markets cover internet access, Ethernet, IP VPN, IP television (IPTV), very-high–broadband ...
Performance Food Group CEO George Holm announced the company's environmental, social, and governance (ESG) Impact Study in December 2020. The study highlighted how CEOs and the C-suite are incorporating ESG goals into day-to-day business ...
This IDC study provides details of IDC's worldwide multicloud data management and protection taxonomy. The data protection market is highly dynamic, driven by new application workload deployments and cloud capabilities. The majority of IT ...
This IDC study provides a detailed description of IDC's Worldwide Security Spending Guide methodology and taxonomy. It should be used as a companion piece for IDC's Worldwide Security Spending Guide data deliverable and all of IDC's worldwide ...
This IDC Market Perspective discusses reported semiconductor shortages and inventory issues, the causes, how companies are currently addressing the issue, the outlook for different markets, and potential strategies to address the market.
"IDC ...
Chorus reported December HY21 operating revenues of NZ$473m, down 2.1% from NZ$483m in HY20. A key driver was migration of customers from legacy copper services to alternative networks, particularly in non-Chorus UFB areas. Continued headwinds ...
This IDC study provides the worldwide market forecast for document workflow automation and optimization from 2021 to 2025.
"Despite challenges due to COVID-19 over the past year, many businesses are entering a phase where they are ...
This IDC Market Presentation provides a detailed analysis of the worldwide solid state drive (SSD) market and competitive landscape for CY 4Q20. Significant market dynamics, trends, and events are summarized and evaluated. In addition, SSD ...
This IDC Survey presents results from the German segment of IDC's European Internet of Things (IoT) Decision-Maker Survey. This survey assesses current and planned deployments of IoT projects, including benefits and challenges, impact of ...
This IDC study represents a vendor assessment of service providers offering unified communications as a service (UCaaS) for enterprise using the IDC MarketScape model. The assessment reviews both quantitative and qualitative characteristics ...
This IDC study represents a vendor assessment of service providers offering unified communications as a service (UCaaS) for SMBs using the IDC MarketScape model. The assessment reviews both quantitative and qualitative characteristics that ...
This IDC Market Note looks at the latest edition to Konica Minolta's expanding industrial and production printer portfolio and how the new product will enable the vendor and its partners to profit from growing demand for short-run corrugated ...
This IDC Market Perspective provides an overview of the evolution of Ricoh's service lines, its rapid reaction to the business impact of COVID-19, and the development of a customer engagement model including the launch of print devices that ...
IDC estimates that the current spend in Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) (APEJ) on Internet of Things (IoT)–driven manufacturing applications is around US$11.1 billion. Data will be crucial to ensure that organizations can recognize and realize ...
This IDC study presents IDC's first global forecast of CO2 emissions savings from cloud computing.
"IDC has been tracking the server market and quantifying compute power for nearly all of its 50+ years," says John Gantz, ...
HP Inc. has launched a new partner initiative called HP Amplify Impact. The program — one of the first of its kind — provides access to a broad range of resources aimed at helping channel partners establish long-term, measurable goals for ...
This IDC study analyzes vendor market shares and vendor trends in 2019 in the network virtualization and automation platform market, which is a major component of the Japan network virtualization and automation market. VMware and Cisco Systems ...
This IDC study provides an analysis of the Japan unified communications and collaboration workspace market share based on vendor revenue performance in 2019. IDC classifies the market into four major solution segments — the IP telephony ...
This IDC Market Presentation, which was given on February 16, 2021, summarizes the hard disk drive (HDD) market results for CY 4Q20. Significant market dynamics, trends, and events are summarized and evaluated in this presentation. Numerous ...
This IDC study provides a comprehensive overview of and definitions for personal computing devices (PCDs). The definitions provided in this document represent the scope of IDC's PCD hardware research.
This taxonomy outlines market ...
Charter Communications, through its subsidiary Spectrum Enterprise, announced that is now offering Managed Network Edge (MNE), a new service to manage single location and multilocation local area networks (LANs). This service is based on ...
This IDC Presentation gives an overview of the Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) (APEJ) personal computing device (PCD) market qualitative analysis for 3Q20, including a historical analysis and forecast by region and country. This includes ...
This IDC Survey examines CIO priorities and views on digital transformation (DX) and associated challenges across the Middle East, Turkey, and Africa (META) region. One of its aims is to provide a greater understanding of the strategic and ...
During its earnings call on February 10, Equinix reported an 8% increase in revenue from 2019 to 2020 to almost $6 billion. Equinix's continued positive results reflect the critical and expanded role of datacenters and cloud resources for ...
This IDC Taxonomy provides a comprehensive overview of the definitions used for measuring telecom services markets across the globe. The top-level methodology used to research these markets is also outlined in the study. The taxonomy summaries ...
This IDC Market Note includes industrial and production print news that occurred in January 2021.
This IDC Market Note discusses Infinidat's continued evolution along with an opinion on the company's future prospects under new leadership. In January 2021, enterprise storage vendor Infinidat announced Phil Bullinger as the new CEO. Infinidat ...
This IDC Market Perspective provides insight into five key trends that will impact the worldwide unified communications and collaboration (UC&C) market in 2021 and beyond.
"The importance of UC&C solutions, supported on robust ...
HP Inc.'s Power of Print meeting offered an update on its print business. The vision, based on modernizing print and accelerating to a contractual model, continues, but specifics of the strategy have been understandably altered due to COVID-19.
...This IDC Market Perspective provides a framework of three sustainability pillars for the IT industry: Technology Vendor Performance, Technology as an Enabler, and Technology for Good. Using this framework, this document quantifies over 200 ...
This IDC Market Note examines how purpose and corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives can improve the employee experience. While CSR typically represents a normatively driven, non-standardized approach to sustainability, programs ...
This IDC Pivot Table provides worldwide industry solid state drive (SSD) quarterly unit shipments, revenue, and capacity shipped for the fourth calendar quarter of 2020, including supplier unit shipment and revenue market share by segment. ...
This IDC study provides an overview of computing platforms market. In 2021, the taxonomy has been significantly overhauled to include non-rack and custom rack form factors (including accommodations for systems deployed in supercomputing). ...
The Turkey CIO Perspectives on DX: January 2021 View survey was conducted in December 2020. The document addresses the results of IDC’s survey of CIOs across vertical markets in Turkey on the priorities and challenges of digital transformation ...
This IDC Market Presentation features digital resiliency, which refers to the ability of an organization to rapidly adapt to business disruptions by leveraging digital capabilities to not only restore business operations but also capitalize ...
This IDC Market Forecast discusses the European fixed business voice services market for 2019 to 2024. It examines the transition from TDM to IP voice services and from on-premises voice platforms to hosted services. IDC data products, such ...
This IDC Market Perspective updates and expands analysis originally presented in Analyzing Intel's 2020 Industry Analyst Summit; Considering Patrick Gelsinger's Return as CEO in 2021 (IDC ...
This IDC Perspective provides insight into the steps necessary to transform asset life-cycle management processes and technologies. Asset life-cycle management is an enterprise effort with many dependencies — yet today it is executed in ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight looks at the importance of decarbonization to decision makers and to what extend it is becoming an integral part of their business strategies. Decarbonization has become a key sustainability topic for many organizations ...
This IDC Pivot Table examines the performance of the server microprocessor market through several market views. For the period 1Q16 through 4Q20, unit shipments and revenue by vendors are included as well as unit shipments by processor architecture, ...
This IDC Survey details results from IDC's 2020 U.S. Smart Home Survey, which was fielded in July. The survey asked respondents questions regarding consumer adoption of and attitudes toward a variety of ...
This IDC Market Presentation discusses the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on Australia and New Zealand (ANZ) security services and the implications of these effects as we head into 2021. This presentation draws on results from IDC's 2020 ...
This IDC Market Note looks closely at the new and improved large-format printers introduced by HP and examines how the enhanced features and benefits will enable PSPs to create business opportunities by tackling newly addressable print applications.
...This IDC Market Perspective examines the reasons behind the rapid consolidation taking place in the European market of specialist cloud-native application services providers by major vendors.
"Major services players are now turning ...
On February 8th, Renesas Electronics Corporation announced its intent to acquire Dialog Semiconductor PLC for approximately $5.9 billion to expand its mixed signal, power management, and connectivity solutions. This deal will ...
This IDC Market Perspective assesses the key strategies of cloud providers in the telecommunications sector. The first wave of the establishment of the telecom cloud is well underway. Over the past five years, most tier 1 operators have ...
This IDC Market Note provides an overview of the recently launched VMware Cloud Foundation v4.2. VMware announced VMware Cloud Foundation 4.2, featuring updates to help customers further improve the storage, networking, management, and security ...
This IDC study provides a comprehensive overview of and definitions for workstations. The definitions provided in this document represent the scope of IDC's workstation hardware research. This taxonomy outlines market segmentations and measurement ...
This IDC Pivot Table provides worldwide unit and petabyte shipments and revenue for the hard disk drive (HDD) industry for the fourth calendar quarter of 2020, including supplier unit shipment and revenue market share. Also provided are ...
This IDC Pivot Table provides a summary of worldwide hard disk drive (HDD) component quarterly demand for 4Q20 and a four-quarter demand outlook. This Pivot Table provides insight into the demand for select HDD components by HDD form factor, ...
This IDC study examines the performance of the PC microprocessor market.
The following data are provided quarterly starting from 1Q16.
- Market size in units
- Vendor shares in units
- Market size in revenue
- Vendor ...
This IDC Survey Snapshot highlights data gleaned from IDC's 2021 Professional Services for Enterprise Private Cellular/5G/Mobile Networks Study. IDC surveyed 500 enterprises globally to understand their readiness and ...
This IDC Market Forecast provides an overview of spending in enterprise networking in Europe, including the enterprise switching, routers, and WLAN markets until 2024. It addresses market drivers and inhibitors and provides essential guidance ...
This IDC Web Conference focuses on PC revival in the age of COVID-19.
A funny thing happened on the way to the world shutting down. Consumers everywhere were either reminded of or realized the central role a PC plays in learning, ...
This IDC Web Conference examines the smart home market. The smart home has finally achieved mainstream status in the United States — and has done so in a year marred by a pandemic that has radically altered the way we live, work, rest, and ...
This IDC study provides a taxonomical overview of the datacenter IT OEM and ODM supplier market, including definitions used in the Computing Platforms and Storage ODM Direct QView. This taxonomy has been significantly overhauled to increase ...
This IDC study provides a comprehensive overview and definitions for IDC's enterprise storage systems research, outlining market segmentations and measurement methodologies for the storage industry including classification by technology, ...
This IDC Market Note examines Microsoft's initial progress toward its goal of becoming carbon negative by 2030, a year after it was announced. By linking executive pay to the achievement of its "moonshot goals," the IT vendor hopes to encourage ...
This IDC study provides a brief overview of the worldwide enterprise storage systems market performance during the third calendar quarter of 2020 (CY 3Q20).
"The enterprise storage systems market remained on largely a stable growth ...
This IDC PlanScape is a follow-on to the IDC MaturityScape and IDC MaturityScape Benchmark documents for print and document management that outlined the stages and dimensions of print and document management maturity and assessed where organizations ...
This IDC study provides a comprehensive overview of and definitions for hardcopy peripherals. The definitions provided in this document represent the scope of IDC's HCP hardware research. This taxonomy outlines market segmentations and measurement ...
This IDC Perspective discusses IT-OT integration and its impact on O&G companies. European oil players that have already accomplished IT- OT integration have started to realize the business value the integrated business model brings ...
Juniper Networks reported its financial results for 4Q20 on January 28, 2021. Juniper also posted its results for its fiscal year ending December 31, 2020.
Juniper's quarterly net revenue was approximately $1.22 billion, up 1% y/y ...
On February 3, Lenovo announced results from its FY 3Q21. Quarterly revenue was $17.5 billion, with year-over-year (YoY) growth of 22%. Pretax income (PTI) was $591 million, up 52% compared with the same quarter last year. Lenovo's PC and ...
This IDC study provides a brief overview of the worldwide server market performance during the third quarter of 2020 (CY 3Q20).
"Global demand for enterprise servers was a bit muted during the third quarter of 2020, although we did ...
Global professional services firm Accenture and cloud-based software provider Salesforce have expanded their long-time alliance to help customers address sustainability in a strategic, data-driven way. The initiative aims to help organizations ...
This IDC Market Presentation and the accompanying data file were presented to clients of IDC's Enabling Technologies: Artificial Intelligence Edge Processor Architectures and Enabling Technologies: Processors and Architectures research programs ...
On January 27, Apple announced its fiscal 1Q21 results with revenue hitting $111.4 billion, an increase of 21% in year-over-year (YoY) growth. It is a strong start to the company's new fiscal year, and it benefitted from strong growth across ...
This IDC Perspective covers the emerging subject of digital resiliency, including its definition and highlighting three examples of enterprises that previously made the kinds of investments in digital innovation that allowed them to be resilient ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight looks at, by specific major countries, what technology customers are investing in for MEC compute and storage infrastructure, and whether that may tie into expected latency requirements for their MEC solutions. ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight presents the top enterprise IT and network challenges over the next three years. It contains data from IDC's 2020 Enterprise Communications Survey of 800 United States–based business and IT executives and ...
This IDC Market Note provides news impacting the European managed print and content services market and its market players in late 2020 and throughout January 2021.
HP Inc. introduced new 700 and 800 Series Latex printers with several key upgrades: higher productivity, heightened ability to operate remotely and, on some models, white ink printing for the first time on a roll-to-roll Latex printer.
...This IDC Market Note highlights the Xerox Everyday Toner and its potential impact on the print supplies market. Its Everyday range of compatible toner enables Xerox to compete with different types of players operating in the print consumables ...
This IDC Market Perspective provides a long-range strategic outlook of the markets and emerging technologies for the rise of the 5G cellular and the expected 6G network infrastructure. It highlights the upcoming 3GPP standards release under ...
This IDC Web Conference highlights the key findings of a survey of U.S. enterprises. With 2020 in the rearview mirror, enterprises are eagerly looking ahead to 2021. Networking changed dramatically during the COVID-19 pandemic, but what ...
This IDC Perspective highlights the winners of the second edition of IDC Europe and Central Asia Smart City Award invested in technology. These solutions could deliver value against tangible business and policy goals in the specific context ...
This IDC Market Note examines news that occurred in late 2020 and throughout January 2021 in the imaging and printing market.
This IDC Presentation discusses the Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) (APEJ) regionalization of the 2021 Worldwide Future of Connectedness Predictions. Each prediction is presented based on timeline projection, cost/complexity assessment, and ...
This IDC study provides a comprehensive overview of and definitions for gaming desktop, notebook and monitors. The definitions provided in this document represent the scope of IDC's Gaming Tracker hardware research.
This taxonomy outlines ...
IDC believes the future of digital infrastructure is cloud, everywhere. New applications built on cloud-native technology will be deployed in factories, warehouses, hospitals, and retail stores — edge locations where robust security and ...
This IDC FutureScape discusses the Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) (APEJ) regionalization of the 2021 Worldwide Future of Digital Infrastructure Predictions. Each prediction is presented based on timeline projection, cost/complexity assessment, ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight provides insights from the recent IT infrastructure survey on end-user assessment of how the COVID-19 pandemic influences spending on IT infrastructure projects in 2021. As organizations continue to adjust to the ...
This IDC Market Perspective examines the production and large format printing markets in 2021 and the impact of COVID-19 on these markets.
The large format and production printing markets have been profoundly impacted by the COVID-19 ...