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 Survey Spotlight discusses the investment trend data that shows how services providers are working as digital chefs to blend hardware and software into digital business capabilities.
According to IDC's Worldwide Digital Transformation ...
As the Middle East, Turkey, and Africa region emerges from the economic fallout of COVID-19 and works its way to a smarter recovery, the shift to "cloud-based enterprises" will accelerate in 2021 and beyond. Addressing cloud model and management ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight presents customer experience (CX) in Egypt during the COVID-19 pandemic. The recent pandemic has highlighted the needs and deficiencies of many organizations. It has also revealed a high level of agility and a new ...
This IDC Market Forecast describes the size and growth of IT professionals' employment by role and region for 2019–2024. The document includes our forecast across 41 different job roles and an analysis of some of the key factors influencing ...
This IDC Presentation looks at the progress and priorities of Asia/Pacific oil and gas (O&G) companies within their industrial operational transformations, focusing on Industry 4.0 initiatives. It provides an analysis of the results ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight examines the impact of digital workspaces and VDI on endpoint security in Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) (APEJ).
The demand for virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) and digital workspace increased as physical ...
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, ...
This IDC Survey examines CIO priorities and views on digital transformation (DX) and associated challenges across the Middle East, Turkey, and Africa (META) region. One of its aims is to provide a greater understanding of the strategic and ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight focuses on a spectrum model that aligns workplace flexibility with workforce site strategy. As hybrid work models continue to evolve, organizations must focus on the intersection points of technology, processes, ...
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 explores IDC Canada's Canadian Tech Market Update for 2021 and was originally presented as a web conference on February 10, 2021. During the webinar, IDC's research experts, Tony Olvet, Nigel Wallis, and Meng ...
The Turkey CIO Perspectives on DX: January 2021 View survey was conducted in December 2020. The document addresses the results of IDC’s survey of CIOs across vertical markets in Turkey on the priorities and challenges of digital transformation ...
This IDC Market Presentation features digital resiliency, which refers to the ability of an organization to rapidly adapt to business disruptions by leveraging digital capabilities to not only restore business operations but also capitalize ...
With accelerated digital transformation initiatives, unprecedented growth in remote and distributed work models, and increased cloud adoption, the attack surface is expanding at an unprecedented pace. The simultaneous expansion of the threat ...
This IDC Market Presentation discusses examples and analyzes the use cases and opportunities for digital twins and digital thread in support of building and infrastructure operation. Building information modeling (BIM) is a vital set of ...
This IDC Market Presentation discusses the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on Australia and New Zealand (ANZ) security services and the implications of these effects as we head into 2021. This presentation draws on results from IDC's 2020 ...
This IDC Market Presentation covers Canadian organizations' responses regarding their top business and technology priorities as well as buying criteria for technology purchases. It will also cover responses from different functional departments.
It ...
한국 IDC 김경민 수석연구원은 "COVID-19으로 인한 기업 기술 투자 감소 추세속에서도 IoT는 기업들의 비즈니스 민첩성 확보에 핵심적인 기술로 부각되면서 그 역할이 확대되고 있고, 이러한 움직임은 AI 기반 데이터 분석이나 클라우드 등의 디지털 기술과 결합되면서 더욱 가속화되고 있다"고 말했다. 또한 김경민 수석은 "그러한 상황속에서 확장성과 다른 시스템과의 연동을 고려해 표준 기반의 다양한 기술을 효과적으로 연동할 ...
In 2018 IDC undertook a study of the perceived trustworthiness of the digital activities of a range of organizations operating within the digital realm.
This study was replicated at the end of 2020 and the results are presented in ...
该报告分析了2019年中国虚拟终端计算软件市场的规模，发展趋势和主要厂商的表现。
VCC软件市场包括集中式虚拟桌面、虚拟用户会话和其他形式的终端虚拟化产品。2019年中国虚拟终端软件市场的市场规模达到1.97亿美元，未来五年的复合增长率仍将保持在14.1%。由于新冠疫情的爆发，工作空间和方式转型成为企业数字化转型（DX）计划的一部分。更灵活和敏捷的工作方式在未来将成为常态，这将是VCC软件市场的驱动力。
IDC企业级系统和软件研究部高级研究经理李昭表示：“尽管新冠疫情的爆发对经济和企业的ICT支出产生负面影响，但它也加快了企业进行数字化转型的步伐，包括对工作空间的改造。新的远程工作和协作系统不是单一的工具，而是一个统一的平台或集成的解决方案，包括应用程序和桌面虚拟化、内容和协作应用、端点管理、安全和审计应用以及IT服务和资产管理。更灵活和敏捷的工作方式在未来将成为常态，这将是VCC软件市场的驱动力。”
...This IDC Survey Spotlight looks at which of the six vendor types that enterprises would prefer to engage with at different stages of a business improvement project. In detail:
- The seven stages for a business improvement project ...
This IDC study describes the size and growth of IT professionals by role and region for 2019–2024.The document includes our forecast across 41 different job roles and an analysis of some of the key factors influencing IT professional employment ...
The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated digital transformation across the Middle East, Turkey, and Africa (META). It has spurred unprecedented demand for contactless services, cloud solutions, and collaboration applications as governments ...
As the UAE and other GCC countries look to re-invent themselves for the post-COVID world in 2021 and beyond, they are recalibrating their national strategies for the next stage of development, re-initiating mega events like Expo 2020 and ...
This IDC study provides a comprehensive overview and definitions for job roles and job role groups used to label activities within information and communication technology (ICT). This taxonomy forms the basis for estimates of full-time equivalents ...
The Turkish economy and ICT market are rapidly changing, fueled by the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic and growing regional tensions. Because the current environment poses new challenges to the way business is conducted, technology is certain ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight examines how COVID-19 has impacted both an organization's actual IT spending in 2020 and planned spending for 2021.
As Shawn Fitzgerald, research director, Worldwide Digital Transformation (DX) Strategies ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight presents key findings from IDC's Impact on IT Spending Survey fielded in September 2020 and specifically looks at respondents in the hospitality and transportation (airlines) industries. Respondents comprise ...
This IDC Market Presentation highlights the challenges European manufacturers continue to face in 2021 in light of the COVID-19 crisis, as well as how digital transformation is seen as a way of strengthening resilience in a fast-changing ...
This IDC Market Presentation examines the value of utilizing an adaptive ecosystem evaluation model in today's business environment. The presentation provides a recommended framework as well as process flow.
This IDC Survey is a follow-on document to IDC's recent 2020 Worldwide SMB Market Profile Update (IDC #US46380221, December 2020) and provides a United States-focused comparative view of the shift of business priorities of small and ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight provides results and analysis from IDC's Future of Work survey related to changing work models (with focus on the hybrid work model) and organizations' initiatives across three dimensions of workspace, workforce, ...
This IDC Survey examines the spending intentions and attitudes of buyers of IT consulting and business consulting services worldwide. One of its aims is to provide greater understanding of the strategic priorities of these organizations, ...
This IDC Market Presentation explains why platform technologies in Europe now comprise a strategic matter for the C-suite and not just CIOs. It presents a framework for technology suppliers as they assess their ability to talk to C-suites ...
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 Market Analysis Perspective (MAP) summarizes the key challenges and perspectives of Asia/Pacific small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), specifically during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond. It also examines their priorities and ...
This IDC study extracts the market that drives workstyle transformation from the entire ICT market to explore and analyze the market size and trends. It estimates the market size and summarizes the market trends with reference to the questionnaires ...
This IDC Market presentation focuses on how COVID-19 is impacting partner businesses, specifically related to their stages to recovery and what that means to partner revenue. This content was presented at IDC's Software Channel Leadership ...
This IDC Survey features data from IDC's 2020 COVID-19 Impact on IT Spending Survey, a global survey conducted from August 21–31, 2020. This document provides results and analysis from 329 Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) (APEJ) senior ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight discusses the perception of the participation of security in digital transformation initiatives is incongruent with the perception of authority.
"When asked about true authority, requiring sign off, only 10% ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight presents key use cases for video assets from IDC's November 2020 Digital Experience and Video Platforms Survey. The analysis also highlights how the COVID-19 pandemic shifted the use of video from ...
This IDC Market Presentation analyzes a selection of data from IDC's Global Retail Innovation Survey, 2020. The analysis focuses on key worldwide findings from the viewpoint of the main retail subsegments (food and grocery, ecommerce ...
This IDC Market Presentation provides an overview of digital transformation (DX) developments in Europe in 3Q20. It covers news, significant deals, policy announcements, regulatory actions, and investments that could impact markets locally ...
This IDC Survey presents key findings on some key sentiment by U.S. bank and credit union customers when it comes to their experiences, concerns, and engagement with their bank during their financial journey. The data is from IDC Financial ...
本調査レポートは、国内の産業を、17区分の企業と、中央官庁、地方自治体、教育、消費者の4区分の非企業の計21の産業分野に分類し、それぞれの分野の第3のプラットフォーム支出額実績（2019年）と予測（2020年～2024年）を報告する。また、同市場を5つの従業員規模に分けて分析し、産業分野別および従業員規模別の第3のプラットフォーム支出額の予測データを提供する。本調査レポートで用いる市場予測では、2020年11月時点における新型コロナウイルス感染症（COVID-19）の影響および見通しを考慮している。IDC ...
This IDC Market Presentation outlines how partner programs must change for the new digital economy. As customers look for solutions that meet their unique needs for an exact use case specific to their industry, partners have had to change ...
This IDC Market Presentation reviews the current state of distributor and aggregator marketplace platforms describing how capabilities have grown. This capability growth has increased the importance of these platforms to channel partners, ...
This IDC Survey provides an overview of the results from a 2020 U.S. survey of enterprises involving their use of managed (outsourced) services for finance and accounting (F&A) business process outsourcing. The survey involved U.S. respondents ...
This IDC study presents a five-year forecast for the worldwide digital transformation spending market.
"COVID-19 has upended the global economy," said Eileen Smith, vice president, IDC's Customer Insights and Analysis Group. "While ...