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 five significant announcements made in early 2021, four of which are specific to the database technology markets and one is more general. These announcements point to maturation and consolidation of IT (in ...
This IDC Market Perspective provides insights into five key trends impacting the carrier networks infrastructure market in 2021 and beyond.
"Carrier networks are in a state of transition. The consumer and business demand on these networks ...
This IDC Market Glance provides a glance at the landscape of vendors playing in various segments of the IoT application development and deployment market. It includes vendors that offer IoT-specific software suites, as well as vendors that ...
With the COVID-19 pandemic, resiliency has become a business priority. But traditional approaches struggle to integrate business resiliency with new digital realities. IDC presents a digital resiliency framework to help CEOs, CIOs, and other ...
This IDC Perspective identifies six crucial questions that IT executives should ask vendors claiming to offer cybersecurity solutions that incorporate machine learning technology. These questions are intended to identify the data and algorithms ...
This IDC Survey presents the results of IDC's European IoT Decision-Maker Survey 2020, focusing on some key differences across European vertical markets. This survey assesses the current and planned deployment of IoT projects, including ...
This IDC Market Glance provides a snapshot of the current data-driven policing landscape globally, including the definitions of the major segments of the market, the structure of the market, and the vendors within each segment.
This IDC study provides IDC's future enterprise use cases for the future of customer and consumer as it seeks to support business strategy and success. This taxonomy is organized to mime strategic priorities that serve to define how line-of-business ...
This IDC PeerScape describes four best practices of how manufacturers from the automotive, aerospace, industrial machinery, and chemicals industries leverage data sharing and exchange with their ecosystem of partners, suppliers, and customers ...
This IDC Perspective discusses the state-of-the-art Future of Intelligence in Latin America and the role played by artificial intelligence in defining organizations able to harness the power of their data-driven culture, employee data literacy, ...
One of the leading inhibitors of Industry 4.0 progression is the heterogeneous legacy technology landscape in industrial operations and the challenge of aggregating and managing operational data. By partnering to enable a hybrid cloud architecture, ...
The COVID-19 crisis has resulted in enterprises reassessing their technology priorities as they react to constantly changing environmental conditions and try to chart a course of action to resilience and recovery. This IDC Spotlight analyzes ...
This Market Note focuses on IDC's viewpoints on the path ahead for the healthcare organizations in India. As these organizations have firm plan to increase their IT spend in 2021, it is essential to channelize these investments, technologies ...
This IDC Survey presents results from the German segment of IDC's European Internet of Things (IoT) Decision-Maker Survey. This survey assesses current and planned deployments of IoT projects, including benefits and challenges, impact of ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight shares the top artificial intelligence (AI) use cases currently being used by small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) within three European countries, namely the U.K., Germany, and France. It also highlights planned ...
This IDC Market Note captures IDC's observations and point of view on IBM and Palantir's partnership offering Palantir for IBM Cloud Pak for Data, announced on February 8, 2021, and to release in 1Q21. It covers ...
This IDC Market Presentation examines the latest IDC Quarterly Smart Home Device Tracker for the Western Europe smart home market. In this tracker, IDC follows more than 55 smart home makes in 16 countries, providing detailed shipment volumes, ...
This IDC Perspective captures several key announcements made at Amazon Web Services (AWS) re:Invent 2020 that are critical for the public sector, including remarks made by Andy Jassy, CEO of Amazon Web Services, and Sandy Carter, vice president ...
IDC estimates that the current spend in Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) (APEJ) on Internet of Things (IoT)–driven manufacturing applications is around US$11.1 billion. Data will be crucial to ensure that organizations can recognize and realize ...
This IDC Perspective identifies 10 major trends that we believe will impact life science companies in 2021.
"The industry has responded rapidly to the COVID-19 pandemic by driving an exponential growth in digitally disruptive technologies ...
This IDC Perspective examines how the global market for political disinformation is growing rapidly while leaving chaos, mistrust, and revolutionary rumblings in its wake. The motive is money for some disinformation creators, while others ...
This IDC study presents IDC's first global forecast of CO2 emissions savings from cloud computing.
"IDC has been tracking the server market and quantifying compute power for nearly all of its 50+ years," says John Gantz, ...
"Internet of Things (IoT) in the Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) (APEJ) markets continues to grow steadily as government, municipalities, enterprises, and industries take advantage of extensive fiber and 4G LTE coverage and the anticipated ...
This IDC Market Glance provides a segmentation of technology solutions and technology and services providers being deployed and adopted by organizations to drive enterprise intelligence.
This IDC study analyzes vendor market shares and vendor trends in 2019 in the network virtualization and automation platform market, which is a major component of the Japan network virtualization and automation market. VMware and Cisco Systems ...
Oracle announced new features in marketing, sales, and service applications within Oracle CX that extend the use of AI and automation and improve integration between CX products that will help enterprise customers improve personalization ...
This IDC study represents a vendor assessment of providers offering eDiscovery services through the IDC MarketScape model. The assessment reviews both quantitative and qualitative characteristics that define current market demands and expected ...
This IDC Web Conference discusses digital business models and their impact on organizations. Around 45% of European CEOs believe new business models such as subscription services, data as a service, and freemium strategies will have a high ...
This IDC study presents a vendor assessment of digital finance and accounting business process services (BPS) focusing on the use of digital levers to deliver these services and drive greater cost and process efficiencies, reduce total cost ...
This IDC Market Perspective provides IDC Health Insights' review of key IT deals, news, and digital initiatives in European life sciences and pharma in Q4 2020. In the unfolding COVID-19 scenario, it is critical for European life sciences ...
On February 4, 2021, Microsoft announced the launch of Microsoft Viva, an employee experience platform (EXP) that brings together a variety of tools and features for employee engagement (EX), learning, well-being, and knowledge discovery ...
This IDC Taxonomy provides a comprehensive overview of the definitions used for measuring telecom services markets across the globe. The top-level methodology used to research these markets is also outlined in the study. The taxonomy summaries ...
This IDC Vendor Profile focuses on Germany-headquartered company MEHRWERK GmbH, founded in 2008. In 2018, MEHRWERK introduced an innovative process mining software tool based on the Qlik platform to offer comprehensive process mining capabilities ...
This IDC Perspective addresses the challenge of inflexible work environments in organizations and their detriment to productivity, worker creativity, and ultimately business value. This study defines intelligent digital workspaces as a framework ...
This IDC TechScape discusses technologies that are essential to enable innovation through a retail commerce platform and to execute commerce everywhere business models efficiently and effectively. The study aims to help senior executives ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight illustrates hurdles in organizations' artificial intelligence (AI) adoption plans. The document contains the India data from IDC’s 2020 AI Strategy Buyer View Survey. The report provides a view on the multiple ...
This IDC study provides an update to IDC's worldwide IoT market outlook, according to IDC's December 2020 Worldwide Internet of Things Spending Guide. It also updates Worldwide Internet of Things Forecast, 2020–2024 ...
This IDC Market Note examines how purpose and corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives can improve the employee experience. While CSR typically represents a normatively driven, non-standardized approach to sustainability, programs ...
This IDC Market Perspective provides insight into five key trends that will impact the worldwide unified communications and collaboration (UC&C) market in 2021 and beyond.
"The importance of UC&C solutions, supported on robust ...
More than 1,000 senior executives from influential technology vendors, telecommunication operators, and IT service providers in Saudi Arabia participated in the IDC Directions virtual event held in early 2021. This event provided participants ...
This IDC Market Presentation provides an overview of the European grocery subvertical in 2021 and examines how grocery retailers in Europe are transforming their operations to respond to the opportunities emerging from the post-pandemic ...
This IDC Web Conference discusses the key trends IDC's Worldwide Channels and Alliances team is seeing in software and infrastructure channels, as well as in strategic alliances as we move toward recovery. The team also reviews its 2020 ...
This IDC Web Conference unveils five critical pillars that must be considered if business growth in Sub-Saharan Africa is to be achieved in 2021. Relevance, affordability, accessibility, security, and trustworthiness are strategic imperatives ...
This IDC study on artificial intelligence maturity is intended to offer a systematic and rigorous approach for organizations to assess their competency and maturity. To help financial institutions evaluate current artificial intelligence ...
This IDC Perspective provides insight into the steps necessary to transform asset life-cycle management processes and technologies. Asset life-cycle management is an enterprise effort with many dependencies — yet today it is executed in ...
This IDC Market Perspective updates and expands analysis originally presented in Analyzing Intel's 2020 Industry Analyst Summit; Considering Patrick Gelsinger's Return as CEO in 2021 (IDC ...