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 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 Market Perspective discusses the case study of Coca-Cola European Partners as an example of how "safe return to office" technologies can support large organizations in resuming onsite operations.
"The protracted health crisis ...
This IDC Market Perspective features the branch of one, an emerging new architecture that has been precipitated by the impacts stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic.
"While enterprises may have rushed into decisions of how to rapidly ...
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, ...
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 Perspective discusses key characteristics of the recent SolarWinds attack. While the investigation of the hack continues, this document highlights three most important implications of the hack on every organization’s cyber practices.
...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 (video) provides IT leadership insights and challenges from IDC's IT Executive Program (IEP) clients and prospects from January 4 to February 16, 2021. Many leaders believe that as the COVID-19 vaccine is rolled out, ...
This IDC Market Perspective provides an overview of the evolution of Ricoh's service lines, its rapid reaction to the business impact of COVID-19, and the development of a customer engagement model including the launch of print devices that ...
This IDC Market Note summarizes the RISE with SAP announcement and provides analyst-related reactions.
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 ...
This IDC Market Note includes industrial and production print news that occurred in January 2021.
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 focuses on the approach to asset assessment and asset digitization that companies can develop with the support of the right services company. Having domain-experienced and reliable technology partners is critical for ...
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 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 ...
This IDC Market Perspective provides an overview of the potential impact on the digital market of the Trade and Cooperation Agreement between the U.K. and Europe. The key elements of the deal and their effects on ICT spending are discussed, ...
This IDC Market Perspective provides a framework of three sustainability pillars for the IT industry: Technology Vendor Performance, Technology as an Enabler, and Technology for Good. Using this framework, this document quantifies over 200 ...
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 Perspective looks at the continuing impact on, and implications for, the supply chain as a consequence of global disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
"2020 was a challenging year for global supply chains, and we learned ...
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 ...
本調査レポートでは、国内DevOpsソリューション市場の動向を分析している。「DevOpsを実践している、あるいはDevOpsの実践を検討している企業では、CI/CDなどの技術的なことよりも、人材や文化に関することがDevOpsの大きな障壁となっている。したがって、ITサプライヤーは、DevOpsの技術的な支援だけではなく、DevOpsの教育やトレーニング、文化や意識の改革などに関する支援にも注力すべきである」と、IDC Japan ソフトウェア＆セキュリティのグループマネージャーである入谷 ...
This IDC Perspective provides an overview of the architecture and ecosystem of Internet of Things (IoT) platforms in use in the mining industry. This study also identifies key horizontal IoT platform providers and a host of use cases that ...
This IDC Perspective (video) provides IT leadership insights and challenges from IDC's IT Executive Program (IEP) clients and prospects for the period from December 5 to December 21, 2020. As the economic changes brought about by the COVID-19 ...
This IDC Market Perspective assesses the key strategies of cloud providers in the telecommunications sector. The first wave of the establishment of the telecom cloud is well underway. Over the past five years, most tier 1 operators have ...
This IDC Market Perspective provides insight into buyer expectations of the value in using multicloud management capabilities as part of managed cloud services as well as a framework of required investments that managed SPs need to make ...
This IDC Market Perspective examines the reasons behind the rapid consolidation taking place in the European market of specialist cloud-native application services providers by major vendors.
"Major services players are now turning ...
This IDC Market Note reviews partner-focused announcements and updates presented during AWS re:Invent 2020. AWS launched several new SaaS programs, new competencies, and new features in AWS Marketplace, especially the ability to list and ...
This IDC Market Note examines Swiss Post Solutions' (SPS') continuing ability to leverage a robust outsourced services line and highlights its recent acquisition of Kodak's Document Management Business that expands its Asia/Pacific presence.
...This IDC Market Note provides an overview of the recently launched VMware Cloud Foundation v4.2. VMware announced VMware Cloud Foundation 4.2, featuring updates to help customers further improve the storage, networking, management, and security ...
Pacific Basin's transformation journey is motivated by its aspiration to become a more agile, intelligent, and automated enterprise. These goals are driven by the company's need to grow faster, distance itself from competition, and build ...
This IDC Perspective discusses IT-OT integration and its impact on O&G companies. European oil players that have already accomplished IT- OT integration have started to realize the business value the integrated business model brings ...
This IDC Perspective looks at the future of customers and consumers from the view of one of the four business outcomes of the model — applied intelligence. Applied intelligence is enabled by customer data, AI and analytics for contextual ...
This IDC Perspective discusses the steps for moving employees back to the office, which is and will be complex organizational change initiative, not simply a senior management directive to return to the physical workplace. Because the COVID-19 ...
This IDC Market Perspective provides a detailed definition of managed edge services, scope its key parameters, and underline its market development, key players, and emerging use cases. This document forms the basis for further qualitative ...
This IDC Perspective discusses the IT-OT integration and its impact on enterprises. European industrial players that have already accomplished IT-OT integration have started to realize the business value the integrated business model brings ...
This IDC Market Perspective discusses the need for both enterprises and managed SPs to create a means by which both stakeholders can effectively and efficiently manage all IT and cloud resources in supporting all stakeholders, business process, ...
This IDC Market Note highlights the introduction of Google Cloud Sentiment Analysis for COVID-19 vaccination strategies by Google Cloud Platform. At its Public Sector Summit in December 2020, Google Cloud Platform highlighted its ongoing ...
This IDC Market Note provides news impacting the European managed print and content services market and its market players in late 2020 and throughout January 2021.
This IDC Market Perspective examines the November 2020 launch of Salesforce.com's Revenue Cloud in the context of the company's longer-term portfolio strategy and the CRM market more generally. It includes concrete guidance on how software ...
This IDC Market Perspective provides a long-range strategic outlook of the markets and emerging technologies for the rise of the 5G cellular and the expected 6G network infrastructure. It highlights the upcoming 3GPP standards release under ...
This IDC Perspective provides an overview of issues identified in a comparative assessment between the Australian, Canadian, Chilean, and South African mining, equipment, technology, and services (METS) sectors.
“All four regions analysed ...
This IDC Perspective explores the applications-related complexities that enterprises face in their cloud adoption journey. Digital transformation and modernization of IT are strategic business objectives that are underpinned by a multicloud ...
This IDC Market Perspective discusses the European court ruling invalidating the EU-US Privacy Shield — known as the Schrems2 decision — and its impact on organizations' international data transfer practices under the GDPR. It explores the ...
This IDC Market Perspective examines the production and large format printing markets in 2021 and the impact of COVID-19 on these markets.
The large format and production printing markets have been profoundly impacted by the COVID-19 ...
This IDC Perspective discusses customer-360 data platforms that focus payers on the data architecture, data management, workflow of ingestion, mapping, cleansing, codifying, and verifying data and the activation of the data for applications, ...
This IDC Perspective discusses the benefits of partnerships that can be greatly expanded by creating ecosystems that combine new business models, digital technologies, information, and stakeholder organizations and individuals in new ways ...
This IDC Perspective, written for government CIOs and senior IT leaders, discusses IT partner networks. Instead of the traditional approach of stitching together separate and often siloed digital projects to fulfill a digital response and/or ...
This IDC Market Note highlights some of the focus areas and themes that will be important to the maturation of the IoT ecosystem in 2021. As organizations prepare their IoT strategies for 2021, their worldview is considerably different than ...