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 Note discusses recent mergers and acquisitions in the healthcare technology sector and the likelihood that such activity will continue through 2021. This is driven both by the need for integrated solutions to better manage ...
This IDC study presents the vendor share of the Japan big data and analytics (BDA) software market based on its performance in 2019. IDC divides the BDA software market into three major submarkets, which are further divided into 16 functional ...
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 Perspective looks at data in action in the Canadian marketplace. The initial focus of this study was to assess the role that data plays in industry disruption. What we found is that Big Data and analytics, on its own, does not drive ...
The IDC Market Perspective presents an overview of telecommunications service provider's capital expenditure worldwide and discusses in brief the regional factors influencing the overall telecommunications service provider industry capex.
"The ...
This IDC Market Share discusses trends and vendor dynamics in the public cloud market in Western Europe.
"Public cloud is growing in double digits in Western Europe with the most important cloud providers delivering all types of public ...
This IDC Market Perspective video series episode explores China's governmental and corporate response to the COVID-19 pandemic and China's progress along the five stages of enterprise recovery. Watch as IDC President, Crawford Del Prete; ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight examines the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry, which continues to rapidly shift from siloed old technology to data-driven, digital, and model based. The building life cycle is complex and ...
"The European intelligent process automation software market will grow at a CAGR of 16.7% over the next five years, with growth particularly strong in labor-centric automation," said Neil Ward-Dutton, vice president, IDC European AI and ...
This IDC Market Presentation highlights the main trends and competition landscape for Western Europe purpose-built backup appliance (PBBA) market in 3Q20.
This IDC Market Analysis Perspective (MAP) provides big data and analytics (BDA) software technology vendors with an overview of the BDA market, offering the information required to support planning, market intelligence, competitive intelligence, ...
This IDC study provides a detailed description of the methodology and taxonomy for IDC's Worldwide 3rd Platform Spending Guide for government. It should be used as a companion piece for IDC's Worldwide 3rd Platform Spending Guide for government. ...
This IDC Survey provides a high-level summary of key technology investment trends. It includes data from IDC's 2020 U.S. Enterprise Communications Services Survey.
This IDC study provides a detailed description of the methodology and taxonomy for IDC's Worldwide 3rd Platform Spending Guide for healthcare. It should be used as a companion piece for IDC's Worldwide 3rd Platform Spending Guide for healthcare. ...
This IDC study provides a detailed description of the methodology and taxonomy for IDC's Worldwide 3rd Platform Spending Guide for utilities. It should be used as a companion piece for IDC's Worldwide 3rd Platform Spending Guide for utilities. ...
This IDC study provides a detailed description of the methodology and taxonomy for IDC's Worldwide 3rd Platform Spending Guide for manufacturing. It should be used as a companion piece for IDC's Worldwide 3rd Platform Spending Guide for ...
This IDC study provides a detailed description of the methodology and taxonomy for IDC's 2020 Worldwide 3rd Platform Spending Guide for oil and gas. It should be used as a companion piece for IDC's Worldwide 3rd Platform Spending Guide for ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight looks at European businesses' strategies to achieve business resiliency. Today's volatile business environment, linked to ongoing digital transformation, has made resiliency a central characteristic of any organization ...
This Market Note examines the decision of MemSQL to rebrand as SingleStore. It considers the market background of the company and product and the factors that have led to this move.
"In the volatile IT world of the 21st century, versatility ...
This IDC Web Conference presents a discussion by IDC's Chandana Gopal on the evolving landscape of data and analytics and the impact this will have as enterprises harness data for decision support and decision automation and as a source ...
The EPM applications forecast in this study concludes the following:
- The total European market accounts for 8.1% of the total enterprise resource management (ERM) spend in the region for 2019, and it is expected to reach $2 billion ...
This IDC PeerScape provides insight into the best practices related to the implementation and use of data catalog software within the context of data enablement in an organization. Users of data catalogs are a part of how IDC defines data-native ...
Banks and other financial institutions across the world have long identified data as being the key to unlock their hidden potential, which can lead to improvements in revenue, capabilities, and performance. However, a significant number ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight looks at the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on organizations' perceptions of shortcomings in their analytic and artificial intelligence/machine learning models. More than half of organizations think they have inadequacies ...
This IDC Market Share summarizes dynamics in the European Big Data and Analytics software market for 2019. This It lists the largest vendors and highlights the trends and significant developments in the market in the year.
"The BDA ...
This IDC study provides a detailed description of the methodology and taxonomy for IDC's Worldwide 3rd Platform Spending Guide for securities and investment services. It should be used as a companion piece for IDC's Worldwide 3rd Platform ...
This IDC study provides a detailed description of the methodology and taxonomy for IDC's Worldwide 3rd Platform Spending Guide for retail. It should be used as a companion piece for IDC's Worldwide 3rd Platform Spending Guide for retail. ...
This IDC Presentation analyzes the regulatory and governing structure of the utilities industry along with enabling technologies and digital opportunities for eight different countries within Asia including India, China, Malaysia, Indonesia, ...
This IDC study provides a detailed description of the methodology and taxonomy for IDC's Worldwide 3rd Platform Spending Guide for banking. It should be used as a companion piece for IDC's Worldwide 3rd Platform Spending Guide for Banking. ...
This IDC Market Presentation, presented in October 2020, elaborates on some of the ways that telecommunications service providers (telcos) are advancing the sustainability agenda in their strategies. It tackles the following questions:
- Why ...
This IDC study provides a detailed description of the methodology and taxonomy for IDC's Worldwide 3rd Platform Spending Guide for insurance. It should be used as a companion piece for IDC's Worldwide 3rd Platform Spending Guide for insurance. ...
This IDC Market Presentation provides supporting empirical and market data for IDC's assertion that integrated and native data management and protection capabilities are a must for container environments. This IDC Market Presentation makes ...
This IDC Survey examines upcoming investment areas, business expectations underpinning those investment areas, and other related challenges in the Australia software market.
This IDC Survey is the second of a series of reports on the Australia/New Zealand (A/NZ) results of IDC's Worldwide COVID-19 Impact Survey, Wave 9 and 10 in August 2020, involving organisations across 24 countries, including 101 respondents ...
This IDC study provides IDC's 2021 top 10 predictions for data and analytics technology trends.
"Predictions highlighted in this IDC FutureScape outline some of the key requirements for the future of data and analytics, which is a ...
This IDC study provides IDC's 2021 top 10 predictions for future of intelligence trends, encompassing topics of human and machine intelligent gathering, decision making, and knowledge management.
"Predictions in this IDC FutureScape ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight illustrates the impact of COVID-19 on Big Data and analytics spend intentions since the beginning of the pandemic in the European region.
"The uncertainty in economic outlook and customer behavior caused ...
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 Survey is the fifth in the series of IDC Health Insights reports examining European life sciences organizations' digital transformation (DX) strategies and priorities across the five key dimensions of DX: leadership and culture, ...
This IDC Market Analysis Perspective highlights the market sizing and forecasts as well as the competitive landscape and buyer perception for the year 2020.
"The effects from the COVID pandemic and the learnings from its impact on ...
This IDC study presents the forecast of the market for 2019–2024. The study includes a breakdown of the market by three geographic regions and by public cloud versus on-premises/other software deployment methods. It also includes a discussion ...
This IDC Vendor Profile discusses Artificial Solutions International AB, a Sweden-headquartered vendor that focuses on providing conversational artificial intelligence (AI) software solutions with its platform solution named Teneo.
This IDC Market Presentation examines the buying intentions and implementation concerns, challenges, and targets for 3rd Platform and innovation accelerator technologies and solutions (cloud, big data and analytics, IoT, and cognitive) as ...
This IDC Market Analysis Perspective provides an overview of the worldwide virtual client computing market. The client virtualization software was, pre-pandemic, experiencing strong growth as enterprises adopted "work from home" and "intelligent ...
The market forecasts used in this study take into consideration the impact and outlook of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic as of the end of March 2020. The AI systems market grew more than 50% YoY in 2019 because of active DX efforts ...
This IDC Presentation provides a detailed analysis of the India software market and the competitive landscape in the big data, analytics, and artificial intelligence (AI) software platform, customer relationship management (CRM) applications, ...