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.
本調査レポートは、2020年までの国内クライアント仮想化市場、関連企業およびユーザー企業、それぞれの動向分析を基に、2021年の市場に影響を与える10項目についてIDCがまとめたものである。IDC Japan PC、携帯端末＆クライアントソリューションのシニアマーケットアナリストである渋谷 寛は、「2021年は、「ネクストノーマル」へ向けたIT戦略が試される年になるであろう。クライアント仮想化事業者は、サステナビリティやレジリエンシーを考慮した最適なハイブリッドソリューションを提案することが求められている」と指摘している。
...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 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 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 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 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 ...
本調査レポートは、Society 5.0に求められる分野横断型のデータ流通サービスプラットフォームに求められる要件を議論したものである。Society 5.0では、さまざまなソースからのばらばらのデータを、デジタルツインなどによって統合し、アナリティクスやAI処理を行うことで、データによる社会経済課題の解決を実現する。そのベースとなる分野横断型のデータ流通サービスプラットフォームでは、スケーラビリティ、相互運用性の確保、トラストの確立などが重要な要件となる。「今後、デジタル保護主義によって、国／地域を越えたデータ流通が制約を受ける可能性がある。データ流通サービスプラットフォームを提供する事業者は、こうした事態に対応できるようデータローカリゼーションなどの各国／地域の規制などに対応可能なビジネススキームを持つべきである」とIDC ...
This IDC Market Note discusses key security and user privacy updates included in Android 11 from a general business use and enterprise deployment perspective. Android 11 was released on September 8, 2020, and Google remains committed to ...
This IDC Perspective summarizes key takeaways from IDC's European Manufacturing Executive Digital Forum 2020, which took place on November 24, 2020. The key theme of the IDC European Manufacturing Executive Digital Forum 2020 was about the ...
This IDC Market Perspective analyzes DISH's prospects for becoming a 5G nationwide carrier that can compete with the established U.S. mobile operators. DISH Network became a nationwide mobile operator this year with the acquisition of Sprint's ...
This IDC Perspective highlights technology investment priorities that over-the-top (OTT) video service providers ought to consider as new user experiences emerge. We believe that a key facet of OTT video service transformation includes an ...
This IDC Market Perspective discusses Intel's newly launched 11th Gen Core mobile processors with Iris Xe graphics (codenamed Tiger Lake) for thin and light devices, and highlights the new architecture and SoC design, the new AI capabilities, ...
"Many communications SPs face the increasing pressure from network commoditization (also known as the dreaded ‘dumb pipe’ scenario), threatening their potential ROI from 5G. New use cases, such as autonomous driving and vertical industry ...
This IDC Market Note provides our perspective concerning how Wipro enables its customers to address the complex operations and monetization challenges that are becoming a key part of all 5G/MEC deployments.
"Operational readiness for ...
This IDC Market Note presents the key takeaways from several IDC analysts who virtually attended the Citrix Workspace Summit on October 23, 2020. During the event, Citrix shared insight with IDC into the Citrix Workspace platform functionality ...
This IDC Market Note examines T-Mobile's quarterly results discussed in the company's 3Q20 earnings announcement on November 5, 2020. In this document, IDC analyzes T-Mobile's operating metrics and the overall strategy in the context of ...
This IDC Market Note discusses 3Q20 results and announcements by the three U.S. cable companies that offer wireless services, along with DISH Network, which owns the Boost Mobile MVNO service. It summarizes IDC's opinion on market changes ...
本調査レポートは、沖電気工業（OKI）が発表した、ネクストノーマルで加速するコンタクトセンターのデジタル化を実現するサービス「CTstage Cloud」の提供開始に関する調査について報告する。併せて、デジタル化の進行によってコンタクトセンターに求められる機能や役割の変化について考察する。「今後、IPコンタクトセンターシステム市場では、オペレーターの働き方改革やBCPへの対応などを背景にクラウド製品が市場全体の成長を牽引する。ユーザー企業は、コンタクトセンターシステムの導入／リプレイスの際の選択肢としてクラウド型コンタクトセンターサービスを検討すべきである」と、IDC ...
This IDC Market Perspective examines the similarities between work-from-home (WFH) corporate policies and bring your own device (BYOD) policies in a post-COVID-19 enterprise market. This document discusses how employee choice will influence ...
This IDC Market Perspective examines the role that 5G plays in accelerating and intensifying the transformation of mobile operators' networks. The advent of 5G brings tremendous promise, with the potential for advanced use cases and the ...
This IDC study describes the pursuit of lending excellence by Asia/Pacific banks and lending institutions through broadening and deepening their capabilities throughout various points of the lending life cycle. Lending excellence ensures ...
This IDC Perspective on the Wi-Fi 6 and 5G, a collaboration of IDC Retail Insights, IDC Enterprise Networks, and IDC IoT and Mobile Network Infrastructure, takes a look at the disruptive potential of these next-gen network technologies. ...
This IDC Market Note discusses Verizon's 3Q20 results as discussed in the company's earnings call on October 21, 2020.
"Given the prevailing economic uncertainty, Verizon had a decent third quarter," according to Courtney Munroe, research ...
This IDC eBook provides an exclusive look at IDC's new Future of Connectedness research. It recognizes connectivity as a strategic element in maintaining, sustaining, and growing business operations. As organizations digitally transform ...
This IDC Market Perspective identifies various digital strategies taken up by the top 10 carrier groups across geographies. These digital strategies redefine operators' innovation, efficiency, growth, and customer experience and enable them ...
This IDC Market Note presents details of 5G Americas' 2020 Analyst Forum held virtually on October 7 and 8. The event provided an update on North America's 5G status on the global stage. While 5G is the fastest-growing generation of wireless ...
This IDC TechBrief provides business leaders and IT with an executive snapshot of unified endpoint management software, its impact on process improvement and business continuity, and the value it brings to an enterprise through successful ...
This IDC Perspective provides an overview of the IDC European Industrial IoT Digital Summit 2020, which took place on September 24. The online event provided insights into and best practices around the industrial Internet of Things in the ...
This IDC Market Perspective examines potential 5G monetization opportunities for operators in GCC countries. It addresses new market developments and dynamics as well as emerging opportunities in individual countries.
"Telecom operators ...
This IDC Market Note examines the auction results and discusses the implications for the individual companies as well as the broader wireless landscape in the United States.
The FCC recently concluded its CBRS PAL auction (Auction ...
This IDC Market Note analyzes enterprise system software vendor Ivanti's plan to acquire MobileIron and Pulse Secure and the potential effects this will have on the unified endpoint management and VPN/network access markets. The acquisition ...
This IDC Market Perspective delves deeper into the makeup and characterization of the consumer DataSphere and StorageSphere and analyzes how consumers manage the data they actively create, where they store the data they create, and how they ...
This IDC Perspective discusses how COVID-19 is accelerating transformation of the global banking industry. Although the banking industry is better able to monitor and plan for loan losses arising from the market disruption that took place ...
This IDC Perspective examines the trends and business drivers associated with connected hotel guest rooms. The in-room experience is being redefined by enabling mobile and digital touch points and putting control back into the hands of customers ...
This IDC Market Note highlights some of the steps telecommunications companies have taken to connect people at risk of digital isolation during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns. It examines major initiatives implemented in Europe in Q2 2020.
...This IDC Perspective is the sixth in a series of short reports looking at 5G in vertical applications, focusing on the potential applications of 5G in the media & entertainment sector.
"Media & entertainment has emerged as ...
This IDC Market Note examines Reliance Jio's 4Q19 and 1Q20 financial results and discusses three different scenarios ― the base, the bull, and the bear case in terms of operational, technological, and financial angles. In this document, ...
This IDC TechBrief investigates the importance of site based LTE networks. Mining and agricultural organisations looking to utilise IoT enable equipment and devices must be privy to the risks and requirements for developing the infrastructure ...
This IDC Market Note discusses the results from IDC's European IT Security Survey around IoT security and the other technologies linked to the risks created by the expanded enterprise.
This IDC Market Perspective examines the vendor landscape for edge orchestration. Enterprises are asking telcos to deliver more than connectivity services. Currently, telcos primarily use IT infrastructure vendors and cloud providers to ...
This IDC Market Perspective summarizes highlights from the Orange Business Services Analyst Days that took place on July 8 and 9, 2020. It gives IDC's views on connectivity, unified communications, smart mobility, IT and system integration, ...
This IDC Market Note examines AT&T's quarterly results discussed in the company's 2Q20 earnings announcement on July 23, 2020. In this document, IDC analyzes AT&T's operating metrics and overall strategy in the context of the U.S. ...
This IDC Perspective discusses the Future of Connectedness as defined by a global team of IDC's telecommunications, networking, and services analysts. In this document we present a framework that discusses the concept of data in motion and ...
This IDC Market Note discusses the key issues of a recent U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals' decision and shares why the Court's opinion could be a seminal case on antitrust law for years to come. On August 11, 2020, the U.S. Ninth Circuit ...
This IDC Market Note examines T-Mobile's quarterly results discussed in the company's 2Q20 earnings announcement on August 6, 2020. In this document, IDC analyzes T-Mobile's operating metrics and the overall strategy in the context of the ...
This IDC Perspective looks at key developments and news in the European digital hospital industry in 2Q20.
"The second quarter of 2020 saw a rise in investments in digital technologies that support hospitals in the reorganization of ...
This IDC Perspective provides an overview and analysis of telecom and cable service provider network M&A deals disclosed in 1H20. The document is limited to M&A deals in which the acquirer would take operational control of the target ...
This IDC Market Perspective examines the state of the market for public safety communications and IDC's thinking about its future potential. This includes IDC's analysis into current LMR technology use, the opportunity for service providers, ...