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 Presentation analyzes customization trends in retail, ecommerce, and industries. On the demand side, consumers are looking for products that are tailored to their preference while on the supply side, businesses are catering to consumer ...
This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation provides an overview of worldwide telecommunication service provider industry for the full year ending December 2018. It also showcases the recent trends in various areas such as revenues, revenues by products, ...
To stay firmly in the digital race, organizations must accelerate the creation of digital business and operational models. Cloud has proven to be the great enabler of this accelerated development. But it is much more than simply procuring ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight analyzes utility industry data from an international survey conducted by the IDC's Future of Work (FoW) Practice in November 2018. Specifically, it highlights how utilities are leveraging advanced technologies, ...
This IDC Market Presentation provides an analysis of spending for select Canadian Crown Corporations. IDC provides detailed budgetary data on specific Enterprise and Consolidated Crown Corporations, as well as their spending on information ...
This IDC Market Presentation provides an analysis of spending in the Canadian federal government. IDC provides detailed budgetary data on specific departments as well as their spending on information technology and management consulting ...
This IDC Presentation was originally given at the IDC Middle East, Turkey, and Africa Directions 2019 event in Dubai, UAE, held on January 23, 2019. It highlights the key trends and dynamics shaping the mobile phone, PC, tablet, and smart ...
This IDC report provides a high-level view of the smartphone gaming market in Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) (APEJ). It gives an overview of why smartphone gaming in the region is becoming more popular now and discusses what the key drivers ...
本調査レポートは、IDCが2019年2月に実施した国内企業のIT投資動向に関するユーザー調査を基に、産業分野別およびSMB（Small and Medium sized Business：中堅中小企業）を含む企業規模別に調査／分析を行った結果から抜粋し分析を加えたものである。本調査レポートで分析した主な項目は、以下の通りである。
- ユーザー企業の規模別のIT投資計画（過去3年間の調査結果推移）
- IT投資増加の要因分析
- IT人材不足の理由
This IDC Survey analyzes the selected results from IDC's Connected Health and Value-Based IT Investment Plans Survey, February 2019. The survey included 100 healthcare payers and 100 healthcare providers that identified ...
This IDC Spotlight discusses the factors driving the consumption of managed security services in managed cloud services engagements. The results are based on the IDC's 2018 Western Europe Managed CloudView Survey, collecting ...
This IDC Presentation discusses 1Q19 key developments across Europe, with a focus on GDP, Economic Sentiment Indicator (ESI), and major developments that are affecting the economy and IT spending, such as Brexit in the U.K. or slow recovery ...
This IDC Market Presentation highlights results from the latest IDC Quarterly Wearable Devices Tracker for the Western European wearables market. In this tracker, IDC follows more than 80 wearables makers in 16 countries, providing detailed ...
This IDC Market Presentation provides IDC's forecast assumptions for the Canadian ICT markets in 2019 and beyond. This information complements published IDC forecast documents for Canada and IDC's global assumptions published in IDC's ...
This IDC Survey analyzes a portion of the IDC Energy Insights Annual Survey for the European utilities sector. The survey was carried out between July and October 2018, and targeted managers with IT responsibilities. The survey analyzes ...
This IDC Survey summarizes findings from annualized online surveys of PC/Mac and home console gamers in the United States for 2015–2018, as it relates to new gaming peripheral and accessory purchases.
In terms of PCs, buyer demand ...
本調査レポートは、2019年2月に実施したユーザー調査を基に、国内企業のIT投資動向について、産業分野別および企業規模別に分析を行ったものである。IT支出状況、第3のプラットフォームの活用状況とその目的に加えて、ITが解決し得る経営課題や、経営層からIT部門に出される課題、企業のデジタルトランスフォーメーションの推進に重要な役割を果たす新規技術としてのIoT（Internet of Things）、AI（Artificial Intelligence：人工知能）システム、RPA（Robotic ...
As digital transformation (DX) and its associated digital technologies become the norm in Australia and New Zealand (ANZ), organisations are turning their attention to workplace transformation to future-proof their organisations for the ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight looks at U.S. enterprise deployment plans for enterprise mobility management (EMM) software in IoT and nontraditional endpoint deployment use cases. Survey data shows U.S. enterprises are already using EMM to manage ...
This IDC Presentation focuses on retail robotics providers in Europe that IDC believes are successful examples of companies working with retailers from different segments (i.e., fashion and apparel, food and grocery, ecommerce and online ...
This IDC Presentation highlights data from a recent IDC survey about tech's (un)conscious bias problem. Unconscious attributions based on age, race, and gender permeate throughout our daily life and can have an invisible — but very real ...
This IDC Market Presentation provides IDC's forecast assumptions for the worldwide ICT markets in 4Q18 forecasts and historical market values and exchange rate information for 2009–2017 in the attached PowerPoint file. This information complements ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight focuses on the percentage of operational assets connected to a network. This points to more industrial organizations focusing on data-driven asset management and the benefits of moving toward predictive decision ...
This IDC Survey presents key findings from the U.S. Healthcare Provider Technology and Services Survey. The goal of the survey was to understand, identify, and track current and future adoption patterns, ...
This IDC Market Analysis Perspective (MAP) on Security Software delivers a concise current state view of a market and insight into the impact of future trends in India. Business executives, product managers, and machine interface (MI)/augmented ...