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 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 Survey Spotlight offers insights into the cost of downtime customers experience when datacenter assets are offline. These assets include servers, storage, networking, security, and datacenter facilities as well as human error.
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This IDC study presents forecasts for the European security-as-a-service market over the 2019–2024 period. The report analyzes the key trends shaping each of the key cloud security submarkets delivered as a service.
"COVID-19 is accelerating ...
This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation is a reference guide to the role, usage, and representative vendors in the data marketplace market. Both data sellers and data buyers are very interested in the potential of data marketplaces to bring greater ...
This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation highlights the top 10 predictions and key drivers for the European cloud industry over the next five years. It analyzes the IT and business impact of each prediction in the market and provides guidance for ...
This IDC Perspective looks into key drivers of and current challenges around data exchange and sharing in manufacturing ecosystems. Sharing and exchanging data in an ecosystem can help manufacturers to improve customer experience, product ...
This IDC Web Conference is a market update on security services for 1Q21.
In this quarterly webinar, the IDC Security Services Team reviews the latest trends and developments in the worldwide security services market, discusses new ...
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 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 ...
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 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 Perspective predicts that the next 10 years will determine how demand for wellbeing products and services will change, and the degree to which individuals and organizations will be free and empowered to choose when, where, and how ...
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 ...
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 study presents IDC's taxonomy of the cybersecurity software and appliance market. It provides definitions of security solutions in five functional markets, four product types, and three deployment types. This taxonomy forms the ...
This Vendor Profile looks at the development of Tanium, with a specific focus on its expanding presence in Europe, as well as the development of its solutions portfolio.
This IDC Presentation shows the Europe, Middle East, and Africa Quarterly Security Appliance Tracker results for 3Q20. It examines market movements and dynamics within this fast-moving and expanding market.
This slide set presents:
- EMEA ...
This IDC Perspective covers the definition of the feature store, its value to businesses, and associated challenges. While early in the life cycle, this capability will support the growth and adoption of ML technology and enable companies ...
This IDC Market Note includes 3D printing news that occurred in December 2020.
This IDC Survey Spotlight provides insights from IDC's Data Protection and Data Privacy Survey (conducted in December 2020). This IDC Survey Spotlight focuses on the metrics organizations reported around data subject ...
This IDC Perspective highlights interesting news in the state and local government space with regard to data, analytics, AI, digital trust, regulations, security, and privacy.
"The growth of data and analytics work in state and local ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight examines Turkish organizations’ security investment plans and offers a perspective on such investments over the next two years. Survey respondents included security directors, security managers, CISOs, and CIOs ...
This IDC 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 ...
This IDC study provides a 2020–2024 forecast update for the worldwide software change, configuration, and process management (SCCPM) market. We have slightly more than doubled our initial, overly conservative forecast for this market to ...