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 presents the results of IDC's European IoT Decision-Maker Survey 2020, focusing on some key differences across European vertical markets. This survey assesses the current and planned deployment of IoT projects, including ...
This IDC Market Perspective features the branch of one, an emerging new architecture that has been precipitated by the impacts stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic.
"While enterprises may have rushed into decisions of how to rapidly ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
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 vendor share in the Japan 5G-ready (fifth-generation telecommunications standard) mobile phone market. "Although slightly affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, the 5G-ready mobile phone market is making a decent start. ...
This IDC Market Note examines T-Mobile's quarterly results discussed in the company's 4Q20 and full-year 2020 earnings announcement on February 4, 2021. In this document, IDC analyzes T-Mobile's operating metrics and overall strategy in ...
This IDC Market Presentation provides an overview of smartphones used for online education or home-based learning as schools were shut down in various countries across Asia/Pacific, with school closures lasting almost a year in many of these ...
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 Perspective addresses the challenge of inflexible work environments in organizations and their detriment to productivity, worker creativity, and ultimately business value. This study defines intelligent digital workspaces as a framework ...
This IDC TechScape discusses technologies that are essential to enable innovation through a retail commerce platform and to execute commerce everywhere business models efficiently and effectively. The study aims to help senior executives ...
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 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 study analyzes the U.S. mobile consumer and business services market outlook for the 2021–2025 period.
"2020 was an unusual year, to say the least, with the COVID-19 pandemic slowing growth in subscribers in 1H20, but the ...
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 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 discusses over-the-top (OTT) video in 2021. The transition from legacy pay TV to OTT video accelerated in 2020 amid the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2021, OTT's dominance will continue with the ongoing transformation ...
This IDC Web Conference looks at the accelerating consumer digital transformation caused by COVID-19. The past year has seen more change than ever in consumer behavior, with the COVID-19 pandemic accelerating changes that were already happening ...
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 Survey Spotlight looks at the impact of COVID-19 on 5G investment sentiment in Europe for 2021. European organizations are still understandably grappling with the pandemic. The havoc inflicted upon the continent's economies as a ...
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 Perspective investigates the status of next-generation satellite connectivity and how it will open new connectivity use cases for not only remote locations but also in suburbs, cities, and towns.
"The operational edge, ...
This IDC TechScape examines technologies that are essential for safely reopening and managing office spaces during the COVID-19 pandemic and have the potential to evolve in the coming years. It provides a visual representation of the process ...
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 ...
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 Market Note examines potential untapped opportunities that mobile operators may be able to leverage to build and grow their connected vehicle business. This includes promoting the capabilities of a nationwide retail footprint, doubling ...
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 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 Survey Spotlight analyzes 2021 spending plans for mobile applications across several vertical markets including retail or wholesale, government, manufacturing, and "other."
This IDC Survey Spotlight uses data from IDC's COVID-19 ...
AT&T launched several new important features for its FirstNet public safety subscribers, including a service that promises to extend coverage and is only available in the FirstNet Band 14 spectrum. The company also announced LMR interoperability ...
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 Web Conference looks at year-over-year changes, their staying power, and what to expect for 2021. It also reviews consumer spend and behavior in 4Q20 and the year-end holiday season. 2020 saw big changes in consumer behavior, with ...
This IDC study provides a five-year forecast for the worldwide smart home device market.
"The worldwide market for smart home devices and services remains resilient despite the COVID-19 pandemic," says Adam Wright, senior research ...
This IDC Market Note captures key industrial IoT announcements from the 2021 virtual Consumer Electronics Show (CES). Although the focus of the event remains on consumer technology, the lines continue to blur as more and more industrial ...
This Market Perspective identifies the factors that have driven enterprise demand for mobile private networks, and those that will further fuel demand during the next few years. It describes how the mobile industry is marketing solutions ...
On January 26, 2021, Motorola Solutions launched its new MOTOTRBO Ion smart radio. Motorola Solutions is a hallmark industry-leading provider of public safety communications hardware (as well as software and services), and the MOTOTRBO Ion ...
The focus of innovation in the areas of customer experience, autonomous operations, and faster decision making is increasingly dependent upon the ability to gather, cache, and process data at the edges of the enterprise. Technologies like ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight examines how worldwide and U.S. enterprises expect their spending on 5G to shift in 2021 following the challenges of 2020. With the availability of 5G services and device types continuing to grow, 5G becomes more ...
This IDC Presentation provides a graphic overview of the state of the mobile phone market, including smartphones and feature phones, in Asia/Pacific. Figures include units per product category, screen size segment, and top vendors according ...
Last week, Singapore's government announced that it has invested an additional S$40 million in developing 5G applications for enterprises' digital transformation (DX), becoming the latest in a series of governments to move in this direction. ...
This IDC Market Glance provides an overview of the vendors participating in the Internet of Things ecosystem.
This IDC Market Glance provides an overview of vendors participating in the edge infrastructure market. As demand for edge solutions accelerates, a wide variety of companies have developed technology and services across several categories ...
This study analyzes the network equipment spending (capex) and total capital expenditures (CAPEX) in the region in both fixed-line and mobile networks.
"The rapid rise of LTE handset penetration, combined with FTTP buildouts in developed ...
This IDC Market Glance provides an overview, definitions, and sample participants in the digital automotive and transportation strategies ecosystem. This presentation is an update of the prior published version from 1Q20.
This IDC Perspective discusses IDC's European Healthcare Executive Digital Forum, held on November 27, 2020, as a virtual event. It summarizes key takeaways from keynotes and breakout sessions during the event.
"Priming the future ...
This IDC study represents a vendor assessment of providers offering unified endpoint management (UEM) software for small and midsize businesses (SMBs) through the IDC MarketScape model. The assessment reviews both quantitative and qualitative ...
This IDC study represents a vendor assessment of providers offering unified endpoint management (UEM) software through the IDC MarketScape model. The assessment reviews both quantitative and qualitative characteristics that define current ...
This IDC study represents a vendor assessment of providers offering unified endpoint management (UEM) software for ruggedized/IoT deployment through the IDC MarketScape model. The assessment reviews both quantitative and qualitative characteristics ...
This IDC study represents a vendor assessment of providers offering unified endpoint management (UEM) software for Apple devices through the IDC MarketScape model. The assessment reviews both quantitative and qualitative characteristics ...
Wi-Fi 6 extends Wi-Fi service to congested, high-capacity scenarios such as airports, stadiums, factories, and shopping malls, and opens up the ability to make some of these networks self-funding or even profitable instead of being treated ...
Qualcomm announced its Snapdragon 888 5G Mobile Platform, Qualcomm's most powerful smartphone SoC to date and is the first 800 series with an integrated 5G baseband processor, on December 2, 2020. This IDC Link reviews the major advancements ...
This IDC Market Perspective examines the top 5 trends to expect in the U.S. mobile market for 2021 and beyond. 2020 was a year like no other, bringing unexpected changes and shifts in the U.S. mobile market. The coming year and beyond will ...
This IDC study breaks down the Japan system and service management software market by functional market segment and provides market forecasts from 2020 to 2024. It also provides market forecasts for the system and service management software ...
This IDC Survey document presents results from IDC's European Internet of Things (IoT) Decision Maker Survey, conducted in October 2020. The survey probed European organizations’ adoption of IoT solutions and plans for adoption in the context ...
This IDC Market Note summarizes key messages from KPN's annual Industry Analyst Day for its Business division on October 8 and corporate strategy update on November 24. It also provides IDC's perspective on both events.
This IDC Market Forecast analyzes the development of the business fixed data services market in Europe with an outlook to 2024. This market includes internet access, private IP, Ethernet, very-high bandwidth, cloud connectivity, and legacy ...
This IDC Market Presentation analyzes a selection of data from IDC's Global Retail Innovation Survey, 2020. The analysis focuses on key worldwide findings from the viewpoint of the main retail subsegments (food and grocery, ecommerce ...
This IDC study examines the current state of the digital infrastructure market and provides additional insights about the speed of adoption, technology potential for success, and level of market buzz so that IT and line-of-business decision ...
This IDC Presentation examines the results of IDC's Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker in Western Europe in 3Q20, focusing on the business segment. IDC follows more than 120 mobile device manufacturers in 16 countries, providing detailed shipment ...
This IDC study provides a visual representation of the process of technology adoption, dividing technologies into three major categories based on their impact on the organization and assessing technology relative to adoption levels within ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight provides an overview of the gaming behavior of users in Asia/Pacific (Excluding Japan) (APEJ) and a comparison between different countries in the region based on IDC's 2020 APEJ Consumer ...
This IDC TechBrief discusses the adoption and integration of digital technologies into mental health care plans. Digitally enabled mental health technologies can greatly support access to mental health care, enable care continuity, and improve ...
5G is gaining momentum across the Asia Pacific (excluding Japan), or APEJ, region. While South Korea was the first country in the world to launch 5G in April 2019, China, the U.S. and Australia followed suit very quickly. By June 2019, several ...
This IDC study presents the updated five-year forecast for smartphone shipments worldwide by operating system. The worldwide smartphone market will reach a total of 1.29 billion units shipped in 2020, down 6.4% from the 1.37 billion units ...
This IDC study presents the telecommunications services industry in Turkey in 2019 and forecasts expenditure on telecommunications services through 2024. It contains details about market size and distribution by technology category and vertical ...
This IDC Market Perspective examines a few key trends that will define 5G in the coming 12 months. 2020 was the year that 5G deployments began to reach critical mass in many countries, despite the COVID-19 pandemic. As we move to 2021, 5G ...
This IDC Market Perspective examines the features and advantages that 5G brings to AR for field service workers. In the search for turnkey use cases for 5G, augmented reality is frequently discussed as one of the top near-term opportunities ...
This IDC Market Note provides IDC's perspective on Nokia's Digital Operations Center solution for addressing the service provisioning, activation, and assurance functions relative to digital services enablement.
"One of the greatest ...
This IDC study sizes and forecasts mobile in-app and in-game advertising and the payout to developers/publishers from that spending, broken down by region and by ad format. Mobile advertising revenue is also broken out by major type, format, ...
This IDC study examines the worldwide private LT/5G market for 2020–2024. A companion document, IDC PlanScape: Implementing a Private LTE or 5G Network (IDC #US46554920, June ...
This IDC study presents the five-year forecast for mobile phone shipments worldwide by device type. The worldwide mobile phone market will reach a total of 1,609.6 million unit shipments in 2020, down 10.4% from the 1,795.4 million units ...
This IDC Pivot Table examines the performance of the mobile phone application processor, tablet application processor, and PC microprocessor markets.
Google's cloud-streamed gaming (CSG) service celebrated its first anniversary in November, and in the past week, it announced easier 30-minute free trials, iOS browser support, and four new games coming to its Pro subscription service in ...
This IDC Market Perspective provides an overview of the emerging enterprise network as a service (NaaS) market, including the evolution of this market and trends driving the market from both the enterprise and network vendor perspectives, ...
This IDC Perspective discusses the advantages of deploying an embedded subscriber identity module (eSIM) for use in the enterprise.
"The eSIM-equipped devices will help businesses manage their mobile accounts more efficiently and ...
This IDC study provides a five-year forecast of the worldwide used smartphone market and its expansion and growth by 2024. This study provides an updated market forecast, based upon changes that will impact resellers, OEMs, vendors, carriers, ...
This IDC Market Analysis Perspective is an overview of the investment climate and spending intentions of decision makers regarding 5G in Western Europe. It outlines 5G adoption and top use cases in Europe as well as the competitive landscape. ...
This IDC Pivot Table highlights the smart speaker connectivity and processor market shares for 2Q20. It includes:
- Smart speaker connectivity shipment share — shipments of connectivity for smart speakers by chipset vendor (1Q16–2Q20) ...
This IDC Pivot Table highlights the smart speaker connectivity and processor market shares for 3Q20. It includes:
- Smart speaker connectivity shipment share — shipments of connectivity for smart speakers by chipset vendor (1Q16–3Q20) ...
This IDC Pivot Tablet contains quarterly (2012 to last quarter) market size and share by vendor, the air interface generation of the mobile phone (highest generation supported), and by major semiconductor type. It contains shipments by vendor ...
This IDC study examines consumer connected mobility and connected home devices install base in Canada for 2020–2024.
"In a year plagued by unforeseen global incidences and restrictions to curb the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, certain ...
This IDC Survey presents results from the French segment of IDC's European IoT Decision-Maker Survey. This survey assesses current and planned deployment of IoT projects, including benefits and challenges, impact of COVID-19 on IoT plans, ...
This IDC Survey presents results from the U.K. segment of IDC's European IoT Decision-Maker Survey. This survey assesses current and planned deployment of IoT projects, including benefits and challenges, impact of COVID-19 on IoT plans, ...
This IDC study provides the five-year forecast update of the tablet market in 2019–2024. Detailed views of product type, segment, operating system (OS), region, screen size, and connectivity type are provided.
"The rapidly growing ...
This IDC Presentation provides an overview of how mobile gaming evolved with the rapid development of smartphones in Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan and China). This presentation will study the differences between the smartphones available ...
The IDC Market Analysis Perspective session delivers a concise current state view of 5G in the Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) (APEJ) region and insight into the impact of 5G on future trends. In this study, IDC explores the major drivers ...
"SD-WAN is driven by a combination of applications and data cloud migration, the COVID-19 pandemic's impact due to the work-from-home (WFH) scheme, the introduction of cloud-native architecture and technologies, the proliferation of fiber-optic ...