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 Perspective provides insights into Rigetti's quantum computing program and offerings. During an in-depth telephone interview, Rigetti provided deeper context for its quantum computing strategy and its forward-looking quantum road ...
This IDC Perspective provides insights into Intel's quantum computing program. During an in-depth telephone interview, Intel strongly clarified and provided deeper context for its quantum computing strategy and its forward-looking quantum ...
This IDC Perspective provides insights into D-Wave's quantum annealing offerings. During an in-depth telephone interview, D-Wave provided deeper context for its quantum annealing strategy and its forward-looking quantum road map. D-Wave's ...
In announcing its pending $500-millilon acquisition of Volterra, a startup company providing a SaaS-delivered multicloud and edge networking platform, F5 Networks has indicated that it intends to compete aggressively in the market for hybrid ...
On January 19, 2021, Fujitsu, a leading document imaging scanner provider, launched two new models, ScanSnap iX1400 and iX1600, both part of its flagship ScanSnap product line. Fujitsu is addressing customer challenges with transforming ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight features why North American organizations expect a significant or profound impact on business operations to link social responsibility and ethics investments.
"North American respondents indicate two key areas ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight looks at the progression and success of manufacturers as they assess their response to the short- and long-term impacts of COVID-19. In particular, respondents have indicated a mixed recovery, where manufacturers ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight looks at the impact of a business' COVID-19 recovery on their planned IoT technology spending for 2021.
This IDC Survey Spotlight comes from data as part of IDC's COVID-19 Impact on ...
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 Presentation highlights the main trends, competition landscape, and technical segmentation for the EMEA external storage market in 3Q20 as well as a five-year forecast.
This IDC Perspective provides insights into IBM's quantum computing program and offerings. During an in-depth telephone interview, IBM strongly clarified and provided deeper context for its quantum computing strategy and its forward-looking ...
This IDC Perspective provides insights into IonQ's quantum computing program. IonQ's quantum computing strategy and forward-looking quantum road map focuses on developing error-free quantum technology that can be used to achieve quantum ...
This IDC Market Perspective provides a preliminary unit shipment range for worldwide hard disk drive (HDD) units by HDD drive class and estimated supplier market share for 4Q20.
"Reasonably healthy levels of demand from cloud hyperscale ...
This IDC Market Presentation provides a composite view of digital enterprise resiliency investment among organizations worldwide. Digital Resiliency refers to the ability of an organization to rapidly adapt to business disruptions by leveraging ...
This IDC Market presentation focuses on how COVID-19 is impacting partner businesses, specifically related to their stages to recovery and what that means to partner revenue. This content was presented at IDC's Software Channel Leadership ...
This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation discusses the importance of creating a shared and enterprisewide digital transformation strategy and the relevance of measuring it step by step. The presentation is split in three sections. The first one ...
For semiconductor companies, having IP in one's technology portfolio is only less important than having the design engineering talent to create and integrate that IP. Qualcomm's intent with this acquisition is to reacquire its CPU design ...
This IDC Perspective looks at how the Belgian government harnessed the expertise of integrator DXC and PDF technology company iText to completely overhaul its records management system.
"The public sector is grappling with antiquated ...
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 ...
On January 13, 2021, Intel surprised the semiconductor and financial industries by announcing a transition at the top of the company as Pat Gelsinger returns to Intel as the new CEO, effective February 15, 2021.
This IDC Perspective looks at IT organizations' need to rethink the capabilities of enterprise SDS. Software-defined storage (SDS) is one of the fastest-growing segments of the enterprise storage systems market, attracting greenfield customers ...
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 week Stratasys officially acquired Origin, the San Francisco–based 3D printing start-up for $100 million. The acquisition of Origin gets Stratasys further into the production segment with Origin's Programmable Photopolymerization, a ...
This IDC Market Perspective examines the influence of artificial intelligence on the achievement of sustainable and social goals as well as its related ethical and fairness challenges. The document highlights the use cases of AI in Europe ...
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 Market Note includes industrial production printer news that occurred in December 2020.
This IDC Market Note includes 3D printing news that occurred in December 2020.
This IDC Market Note includes imaging, printing, and document solutions news for November and December 2020.
This IDC Market Forecast analyzes the European unified communications as a service market over the 2019–2024 forecast period.
"Cloud-based communication enables businesses to adapt their work environments to their distributed workforce, ...
This IDC Survey highlights the results from United States-based midsize to large organizations using or planning to use accelerated app delivery and DevOps for developing and updating applications.
"While organizations have been aggressively ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight illustrates what success metrics organizations believe are most important in measuring third-party application delivery performance. The document contains data from IDC's 2020 U.S. Enterprise Deal Making Strategies ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight examines the wave 15 data collected from December 3 to 15, 2020. As noted in recent survey results, IDC is now asking about 2021 spending trends.
In this latest data set, we observe an increasingly negative ...
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 Vendor Profile examines Germany-headquartered Computomics, a start-up founded in 2012 that has developed AI software systems to support the activities of plant breeders. Computomics aims to bring the power of advanced machine learning ...
This IDC Perspective discusses the critical role of the IT organization in achieving sustainability goals and includes data from an April 2020 study to show what organizations are doing, who drives strategy, and what barriers exist in the ...
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 Market Forecast analyzes IT spending between 2019 and 2024 in Europe and provides a market size and forecast as well as key trends supporting technology investments by industry. This IT spending forecast is segmented into IDC's ...
This IDC Market Forecast assesses the European communications platform-as-a-service market for 2019 to 2024. It provides insight into the underlying forces impacting this market in the forecast period.
"CPaaS has moved far beyond basic ...
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 discusses the amount of operational data generated by commercial aircraft and analyzes the amount of data stored by key data recorders.
"Today's connectivity and storage technologies are very capable of ...
This IDC Market Perspective looks at the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the challenges associated with managing secure print in a hybrid work environment. This document discusses how organizations should approach print security for ...
This IDC Market Note provides insight from 3D printer manufacturers in how they see 3D printing helping manufacturers optimize their supply chains and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.
This IDC Pivot Table examines the performance of the mobile phone application processor, tablet application processor, and PC microprocessor markets.
This IDC study provides forecasts for spending and shipments in the Japan hyperconverged systems market from 2020 to 2024. It also provides spending forecasts by company size, industry segment, region, workload, and solution type (appliance/rack ...
This IDC study provides an analysis of the 2019 vendor share and vendor trends in the overall Japan network equipment market — by product segment, which includes Ethernet switches, routers, and enterprise wireless LAN equipment — and by ...
This study presents revenue share and system unit shipment share by system vendor, and solution revenue share by hyperconverged software vendor in the Japan hyperconverged systems market.
"The Japan hyperconverged systems market continued ...
This IDC study provides an update on some of the most prominent use cases being adopted in the precision agriculture space. IDC has created a use case taxonomy for the digital transformation of multiple industry segments. The taxonomy follows ...
This IDC study quantifies the U.S. and worldwide production color market in detail, analyzing issues, trends, and changes in device usage. It contains IDC's review and forecast of the worldwide production color market for 2020–2024. Hardware ...
This IDC Perspective examines how government agencies approach security as part of their ongoing edge computing efforts.
When computing moves to the edge, traditional security concerns still apply, but new concerns emerge related to ...
This IDC Survey provides a high-level summary of hosted VoIP/UCaaS solution adoption and buying criteria. It includes data from IDC's 2020 U.S. Enterprise Communications Services Survey.
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 Survey provides a high-level summary of unified communications and collaboration (UC&C) solution buying intentions and decision drivers. It includes data from IDC's 2020 U.S. Enterprise Communications Services Survey.
...IDC Innovators are emerging vendors with revenue <$100 million that have demonstrated either a groundbreaking business model or an innovative new technology — or both. This IDC Innovators study profiles five emerging service mesh vendors: ...
This IDC study provides historical data (2016–2019) and a forecast data (2020–2024) for the worldwide and U.S. enterprise storage systems markets. The forecast represents annual view of the quarterly forecast released in December 2020 in ...
This IDC Market Presentation offers an overview of the worldwide ODM Direct infrastructure market trends for the third quarter of 2020.
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 highlights the challenges that office workers experience in working remotely because of the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic, based on IDC's 2020 Generational Print Survey. The survey examines the behavioral ...
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 analyzes the key trends affecting the ADC market. It provides a worldwide revenue forecast for the ADC market, segmented by the following geographic regions: North America, EMEA, Asia/Pacific (including Japan), and Latin America. ...
This IDC study provides guidance and revised forecasts for IT leasing, financing, and flexible consumption providers as they navigate the COVID-19 crisis.
"IDC anticipates that IT leasing and financing forecasts will return to a level ...
This IDC Market Presentation offers a third calendar quarter 2020 overview of the enterprise storage systems market and related trends.
This IDC Market Presentation offers a third calendar quarter (3Q20) overview of the server market and related trends.
IDC research has found that modernizing enterprise applications, especially those that support core business processes, is a top priority for enterprises in Asia/Pacific. This IDC Perspective discusses the motivation behind enterprises to ...
This IDC Perspective is a guide to the concept and application of adaptive planning in pursuit of IT organizational resilience. Adaptive planning has been developed and applied by ecologists and urban planners who focus on ecosystem and ...
This IDC study provides historical data (2015–2019) and forecast data (2020–2024) for the worldwide service provider compute and storage infrastructure market. The forecast and historical data illustrate consumption of infrastructure hardware ...
This IDC Market Perspective video series episode identifies the five stages of enterprise recovery in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Watch as IDC President, Crawford Del Prete; Chief Research Officer, Meredith Whalen; and Chief Analyst ...
This IDC Market Presentation provides a retrospective view of key announcements and developments for each month from January to December 2020.
This IDC study presents our taxonomy for the enterprise network infrastructure market as covered in the quarterly Worldwide Network Infrastructure QView and the Worldwide UC&C QView. It provides the definitions of Ethernet switch, router, ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight provides insights into the major role of edge and IoT solutions in the recovery journey of organizations across Western Europe (WE) and Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). Detailed survey results for organizations ...
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 study covers worldwide printer market opportunities and analyzes issues, trends, and product advances. It contains 2014–2019 data showing actual unit shipments, value of shipments (end-user spending), and average selling value (ASV). ...
The IDC Market Note covers the launch of Konica Minolta's AccurioPress C4080 family of color toner presses, targeting the midproduction class segment.
This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation explores solid state storage in the enterprise market and the trends affecting the market and factors influencing adoption that technology buyers should be aware of. This presentation was given at the virtual ...
Over the past several years, AWS has steadily moved away from its stance that any and every workload is suited to run in a hyperscale cloud datacenter. This is driven by a realization that customers have situations where high-bandwidth and ...
This IDC Market Forecast update discusses the Western Europe business inkjet market, segmented by product category, format, and country, as well as predicts its performance from 2020 to 2024.
"Growth in the shipment of business inkjets ...
This IDC study provides an overview of the market size and forecast for global spend on server infrastructure to power enterprise workloads. Infrastructure vendors that build server platforms, cloud service providers that offer infrastructure ...
This IDC Market Perspective analyzes the emerging approaches to accelerating datacenter compute around key workloads such as AI, security, media encoding, and cryptocurrency mining as well as long-established elements such as data compression ...
This IDC Market Note covers the key lessons learned and future priorities that will drive CIOs agenda in 2021 and beyond. It summarizes key takeaways from the CIO Advisory Roundtable held in November 2020 and moderated by IDC, capturing ...
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 compares the enterprise memory and storage hierarchy for 2009 and 2019 and gleans lessons we can learn about the reshaping of the hierarchy over the prior decade. This presentation was shared at the virtual DNA ...
This IDC Perspective explores selecting digital focus areas, overcoming challenges to demonstrating digital business value, and introducing as well as using new digital metrics. IDC's COVID-19 Impact on IT Spending Survey, ...
Cisco held the WebexOne event, its collaboration event, on December 8 and 9, 2020. Cisco's goal for Webex is to create a platform that provides 10x better experiences than in-person interactions. The event was held virtually, with Cisco ...
On November 12, 2020, the DNA Data Storage Alliance officially announced its formation, and the alliance held its first virtual summit on December 9 and 11, 2020. While many challenges remain to bring the cost of DNA storage down and to ...
"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 ...
This IDC study provides an overview of the market size and forecast for global spend on external enterprise storage systems to power various enterprise workloads. Infrastructure vendors that build storage platforms, cloud service providers ...
This IDC Market Forecast update quantifies the Western European MFP market in detail, analyzing details, issues, trends, and product advances. This report contains IDC's review and forecast of the Western European MFP market 2020-2024.
...This IDC Market Perspective discusses how a holistic approach to use of a digital infrastructure ecosystem accelerates digitally driven enterprises' use of innovative technologies. In the future of digital infrastructure, digitally driven ...
This IDC Perspective examines the value of Direct Routing to a business' unified communications and collaboration (UC&C) goals, helping IT buyers incorporate Direct Routing for Teams into their buying decision. Direct Routing for Teams ...
On December 2, 2020, RingCentral Inc. and Vodafone Business announced that they formed a strategic partnership to jointly create a co-branded unified communications-as-a-service (UCaaS) solution. Vodafone Business will sell the solution ...
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 study provides historical data (2015–2019) and forecast data (2020–2024) for the worldwide server market. The forecast and historical data illustrates IT buyer consumption of server hardware segmented by product, CPU type, server ...