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
IDC Blinks
IDC Blink
Provides timely context and insight around important market trends and events in a short opinion piece with a 2-minute audio clip. IDC Blinks 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.
These event proceedings are bonus content related to the IDC Directions conferences in Boston and Santa Clara in March 2022.
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This IDC study targets service providers providing industrial interconnection platforms products and solutions, and specifically defines business revenue, product functions, group business proportions, and other directions. Since GE launched ...
On March 15, 2022, the Go team released Go 1.18, a watershed release of the Go programming language that delivers a multitude of enhancements and new functionality. The enhancements specific to Go 1.18 have the potential to accelerate adoption ...
This IDC study presents the forecast data for the worldwide PC market for 2022–2026.
"After two consecutive years of double-digit growth, the PC market is due for regression," states Linn Huang, IDC research vice president of Devices ...
This IDC study presents a five-year forecast for the worldwide multicloud networking market.
"As enterprises increasingly migrate new and existing workloads to public clouds, including a rising tide of cloud-native applications, multicloud ...
This IDC Survey focuses on the government industry cut of our future of industry ecosystems. In May, following the launch of IDC's Future of Industry Ecosystems practice in January 2021, we fielded a global survey to 1,250 executives (CEO, ...
This IDC Survey reveals key trends that relate to the use of services for IT/OT convergence efforts. IT/OT convergence is proving to be the major technical hurdle necessary to enable business transformation in operations. Organizations struggle ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight focuses on organizations in India that leverage volumes of data for their machine learning (ML) training. The spotlight also highlights the types of data that are being processed by organizations' artificial intelligence ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight presents a slide from IDC's 2022 Open Source Software Use and Support Survey, conducted in February 2022. This study considered the use of and perceptions around the state of open source software, ...
This IDC Perspective reviews the findings of IDC's 2021 Worldwide Industry CloudPath Survey, specifically for the insurance industry. Cloud services are an essential component of insurers' business strategy to drive innovation and ...
This IDC Perspective outlines IDC's research regarding the rising costs, growing limitations, and latest developments in the cyberinsurance industry. Since the inception of cyberinsurance in the early 2000s, organization saw this as a way ...
This IDC Market Presentation discusses the results for 4Q21 for networking and communications infrastructure processing semiconductors. FPGA and communication processor/ASSP revenue by vendor for network and communications functions processing ...
This IDC Market Glance provides a glance at the current makeup of the payer IT landscape, illustrates the vendor landscape, and depicts the segments and structure of the market.
This IDC Market Glance looks at the markets that are starting to complement and converge in new ways. Global dynamics have accelerated the use and adoption of collaboration, communities, and conferencing applications. This extends into virtual ...
This IDC Market Presentation provides an analysis of Canadian brand perceptions of managed security service providers (SPs). It is part of an annual series of brand perception documents that cover the various security markets in Canada. ...
This IDC Market Presentation offers an overview of the Worldwide ODM Direct infrastructure market trend for the fourth quarter of 2021.
On March 17, 2022, Accenture reported its FY 2Q22 results — $15.0 billion in total quarterly revenue, a 28% year-on-year increase in local currency, and a 24% year-on-year increase in U.S. dollars. The earnings announcement was led by Chair ...
This IDC Market Perspective discusses the role low earth orbit (LEO) satellites can play in disrupting the broadband space in the Asia/Pacific region. Significant connectivity gaps continue to be seen around the world, regardless of geography ...
This IDC Market Perspective is the second in a three-part series that examines how the emergence of cloud-based print technologies will help foster a new print services paradigm for the hybrid workforce. Specifically, this analysis looks ...
This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation outlines the top 10 asset management trends impacting organizations and discusses their impact to enterprise outcomes. Asset management is undergoing a series of improvements, enabled by the capabilities ...
This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation provides a framework for the why, what, and how for care anywhere. It also serves as a guide to the technology requirements for care anywhere initiatives.
"Care anywhere is being driven by industry, ...
This IDC study provides a detailed description of IDC's smart home and office devices taxonomy.
"IDC's smart home and office devices taxonomy provides a framework to categorize and relate technology and industry-specific aspects of ...
This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation provides CIOs and other senior leaders with timely global IDC survey data and research insights. The data in this presentation sheds a light on the top business priorities for organizations in 2022 and different ...
This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation focuses on the crucial tasks of leading and governing an evolving enterprise and ecosystem of digital infrastructure, products, services, and experiences. This planning guide provides CIOs with a framework ...