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 TechBrief deals with the use of digital technology to drive patient engagement. Consumers cite that the biggest barriers to care (after cost) are lack of convenience, continuity, and personalization. Digital patient engagement can ...
This IDC Perspective deals with the use of digital technology to drive patient engagement. Today's healthcare system does not meet the needs of consumers, it is inconvenient and lacks continuity and personalization. The need to augment traditional ...
This IDC Market Perspective provides IDC Health Insights' review of key Q3 2019 IT deals, news, and digital initiatives in the European life sciences industry. In the evolving industry environment in Europe, it is critical for life sciences ...
This IDC report discusses the power of emerging technologies in enhancing the patient experience in the healthcare care delivery system. This report is built on a platform of innovation accelerators and anchors its approach on IDC Digital ...
This IDC Perspective discusses how cloud adoption in a healthcare organization is critical in executing a business strategy based on a reliable, scalable, and sustainable information management structure able to support patient-value-driven ...
This IDC Market Perspective looks at key developments and news regarding European digital hospitals in 2Q19.
"The second quarter of 2019 saw a rise in investments related to health data integration, clinical software and application, ...
This IDC Perspective looks at key developments and news in the European healthcare provider industry in 2Q19.
"The second quarter of 2019 has seen a rise in investments related to patient engagement, confirming a trend toward a comprehensive ...
This IDC Market Perspective discusses how advanced population health management meets patient needs across the continuum of acuity. Population health management has focused its efforts primarily on closing gaps in care, which results in ...
This IDC Market Note reviews the key member engagement takeaways from IDC Health Insights' analysts who attended the Payer/Health Plan Track of WHCC19, this year's iteration of the annual U.S. conference for the World Health Care Congress. ...
This IDC Perspective provides a blueprint for developing a plan for cultural transformation; we discuss specific tactics that have worked and why they have worked. The discussion includes guidance to CIOs on how to make these practices their ...
This IDC Perspective looks at key developments and main news on the Western Europe healthcare provider industry in 1Q19.
"The first quarter of 2019 saw a rise in investments related to health data integration, software and application ...
With the aim of patient centricity and enhancement of patient experience, healthcare organizations are already on the path of decentralizing the care-delivery process. Adopting a cloud platform is becoming the 'new norm' in this technologically-driven ...
This IDC Market Perspective examines how SMBs benefit from the emergence of industry clouds. When SMBs band together and collaborate, they create multiplied benefits, collectively strengthening each other through digital technologies. The ...
This IDC Perspective discusses how ZS helps design and run an analytics sourcing program for commercial operations.
Life science companies can simultaneously expand analytics projects and develop new initiatives by leveraging analytics ...
This IDC Perspective describes the status and drivers of change in the investments that IT consultants are making in their capabilities to serve payers. This document compares the results of surveys completed in 2015 and 2017 that represent ...
This IDC Perspective focuses on the potential applications of 5G in the healthcare sector. It is the fourth in a series of short reports looking at 5G in vertical applications.
"Applications of 5G in healthcare have a key role to ...
This IDC Market Perspective links the supply of industry clouds to customer demand. Through the industries of financial services, utilities, manufacturing, government, and healthcare, the top 30 demanded IC needs are matched to 50 of the ...
This IDC Perspective discusses SAP's leadership change and its impact on both SAP customers and the enterprise software market. Bill McDermott had a very successful tenure as CEO, but the timing is good for a change and the executives now ...
This IDC Market Note describes the key takeaways of four IDC analysts who participated in TCS Innovation Forum, May 6–7, 2019, in New York City, New York.
This IDC Market Note explains how Telkomsel refreshed its six-year-old business management and monetization systems with new architecture and market competitive functionality. Migrating its multimillion prepaid and postpaid customer bases ...
This IDC Market Perspective analyzes worldwide smart customer operations in the energy sector and outlines major M&As and major business developments; customer engagement, smart metering, digital transformation, and emobility developments; ...
This IDC Market Note shares insight on the three key themes that emerged for healthcare providers at the HIMSS19 Global Conference and Exhibition that took place February 11–15 in Orlando, Florida. The themes were "big tech," layering healthcare ...
This IDC Perspective presents the execution of the Sonoma County vision for integrated care for its citizens. Local, county, state, and federal agencies all recognize the value of putting the client before agency needs, but few have been ...
This IDC Perspective provides a current overview of the IoT connectivity management landscape, including a discussion of key market trends and profiles of 18 companies that offer connectivity management solutions.
"As IoT deployments ...
This IDC Market Note describes the key takeaways of eight IDC analysts who participated in PwC's most recent industry analyst meeting, held on September 12, 2019, at its new Gurgaon Experience Center.