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.
VMware announced their financial results for the third quarter of fiscal year 2020. Revenue for the third quarter was $2.46 billion, an increase of 12% from the third quarter of fiscal 2019. License revenue for the third quarter was $974 ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight examines the shift of IoT analytics from descriptive to predictive to prescription. It also highlights some of the top challenges organizations are experiencing as they look to leverage analytics to interpret their ...
IDC's global Internet of Things (IoT) Research Practice surveyed 4,480 international organizations, including 170 in Russia, about their IoT investments or plans for investment. The June 2019 survey included organizations in the manufacturing, ...
This IDC Survey looks at the use of open source software, both community supported and commercially supported, in the context of the overall use of software use among U.S. businesses with over 249 employees.
"Open source software has ...
This IDC MaturityScape discusses the many variables that impact an organization's ability to succeed in at-risk contracting. The ability to meet contract deliverables for quality and cost is among those that have the highest impact on success. ...
This IDC Market Note provides a perspective on Cisco's annual Partner Summit, which occurred in Las Vegas, November 4–6. The event was themed around "own your edge," a reference to Cisco partners pushing the boundaries of their businesses ...
This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation was delivered during the keynote speech at the Austrian IDC Health Forum 2019 that took place in Vienna, Austria, on November 21, 2019.
This presentation looks at the role and the possible evolutions ...
This IDC Market Note provides a summary of Kyocera's recent briefing with IDC on its print security solutions and services offerings. This document looks closely at Kyocera's print security services strategy and provides a snapshot of how ...
This IDC Market Note provides a summary of Ricoh's recent briefing with IDC on its print security solutions and services offerings. This document looks closely at Ricoh's strategy and provides a snapshot of how the firm is positioning itself ...
Robotic process automation (RPA) and intelligent automation (IA) are dramatically transforming the way processes are executed, services are delivered, and operations are managed in both the IT and business realms. This study derived from ...
Syncsort's acquisition of Pitney Bowes Software Solutions Business strengthens its position in data management and adds capabilities in the customer communications and location intelligence software and data markets. The acquisition will ...
IDC Innovators are emerging vendors with revenue
This IDC Market Presentation discusses about 5G operational readiness. Portions of this presentation served as a backdrop for an industry-level panel session at the 2019 Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF) conference held in Los Angeles, California, ...
This Market Note provides our observations and analysis of the recent multiday IFS World Conference 2019 event in Boston, Massachusetts.
This IDC study provides a 2019–2023 forecast for the worldwide IP PBX market (pure IP and hybrid IP) by lines/seats or licenses shipped and manufacturers' revenue.
"IDC survey data indicates that, for many organizations, IP telephony ...
This IDC Perspective provides an analysis of the cloud marketplace as a digital procurement enablement platform and explores the AWS Marketplace, one of the most feature-rich and progressive cloud marketplaces in the industry.
"A confluence ...
This IDC Survey is part of a series of reports providing insight into end-user maturity, organizational approach, as well as attitudes and motivations regarding DevOps, cloud native, application modernization, automation, and open source. ...
This IDC Market Presentation was presented at the IDC Health Forum 2019 in Vienna. It outlines the role of cloud as an enabler for innovation in healthcare providers operations, and how it supports healthcare organizations in providing better ...
This IDC study presents the Romanian IT security market size and vendor shares in 2018, as well as key market trends.
"Romanian organizations' security strategies and investments increasingly prioritize a protect-detect-respond approach. ...
Robotic process automation (RPA) and intelligent automation (IA) are dramatically transforming the way processes are executed, services are delivered, and operations are managed in both the IT and business realms. However, not all RPA/IA ...
This IDC Market Forecast study analyzes and sizes the Western European SCM applications market for 2016–2018 and includes a forecast for 2019–2023. IDC segments the SCM applications market by functional segment (3 functional segments), deployment ...
This IDC Market Perspective summarizes IDC's key observations from the Microsoft Ignite event held the week of November 4, 2019, in Orlando.
"Microsoft is clearly picking up speed in converting its technology investments into consumable ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight uses data from IDC's European Digital Leader's Sentiment Survey 2019 to reveal customer excellence priority rankings among six European verticals (finance, government, manufacturing, oil and gas, retail, and utilities). ...
This IDC Market Note examines the announcements that were made at SpringOne Platform 2019 by Pivotal.
At SpringOne Platform 2019, Pivotal announced its partnership with Microsoft to deliver Azure Spring Cloud, elaborated on the Pivotal ...
This IDC Survey provides results and analysis from a survey of 700 technology and line-of-business decision makers in North America and the United Kingdom across small to large organizations. The respondents represent organizations that ...
This IDC Presentation was presented at the IDC DevOps Conference in September 2019 in London. It followed Jen Thomson's keynote: DevOps-Led Business Transformation.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is becoming increasingly vital to DevOps ...
This IDC Survey addresses tech buyer attitudes about how they expect their buying practices to change in the next three years. It examines tech buyers' perception of tech vendor's marketing function and their use of various digital communication ...
This IDC Market Note provides highlights from the NetApp Racebred Data Days 2019 event that took place on October 29 and 30, 2019, in Bologna, Italy. It provides IDC's views on the event, focusing on key announcements made by CEO George ...
Siemens is strengthening its Industrial Edge portfolio by adding the ability to deploy and manage container-based apps at the edge. This approach enables its manufacturing customers to analyze data locally in order to react more flexibly ...
This IDC Web Conference presents a discussion by IDC's Alan Webber on the impact that new technologies, like artificial intelligence and analytics, and growing volumes of customer data will have on the customer experience, and ultimately ...
This IDC Perspective looks at key developments and news regarding European digital hospitals in 3Q19. It highlights major ICT deals signed and major initiatives put in place. Hospital technology vendors and service providers should examine ...
This IDC Market Note presents IDC's take on some of the key updates shared at the analyst briefing session held at Citrix's Industry Analyst Summit at its corporate headquarters in Santa Clara, California last November 13 and 14, 2019. Specifically, ...
This IDC Perspective analyzes the position of European banks in the financial services industry and their relationships with consumers. It leverages data from an IDC consumer survey conducted in 2019 among 4,000 EU residents with active ...
This IDC Market Note offers an overview of HPE vision, its strategic alliance with SAP, and key milestones on how it is collaborating to help customers migrate to SAP S/4HANA as well as the company's major expansions throughout EMEA and ...
This IDC Market Forecast assesses the European enterprise video communications market for 2018-2023 and provides insight into the underlying forces impacting this market in the forecast period.
"IDC expects the enterprise video communications ...
This IDC Perspective provides our review and analysis of Inforum 2019, held in New Orleans, based on executive and customer presentations as well as discussions. A team of IDC analysts recently attended the event, which is Infor's annual ...
This IDC Market Share analyzes the Western Europe supply chain management applications market for 2016 to 2018 and provides the respective market shares for each vendor. It segments the SCM applications market by functional market (three ...
This IDC study provides worldwide market share data for server operating environment new license shipments, new subscriptions, and nonpaid deployments for calendar year 2018.
"IDC observed accelerated year-over-year growth from the ...
This IDC Perspective discusses the Google Cloud management and governance portfolio with the goal of providing enterprise IT buyers with a strategic framework for assessing how to best incorporate Google Cloud's management and governance ...
This IDC Market Analysis Perspective gives a high-level overview of key industry and technology trends, competitive landscape, and business priorities for the worldwide precision agriculture market.
"With the world's population growing ...
This IDC Market Perspective provides an overview of the current maturity level of IoT across European industries. It also analyzes the leading IoT use cases for European organizations, taking a deep dive on some of them across different ...
When most companies start with a free videoconferencing solution to establish themselves in the market, 8x8 (NYSE: EGHT) is going the other way. Already an established vendor in the global voice, video, collaboration, and contact center ...
This IDC Link provides a snapshot into Tableau's annual user conference that took place from November 12-14th, 2019 in Las Vegas. It highlights Tableau's main announcements and accomplishments in the past year and its future direction.
...The European data protection and replication (DR&P) software and services market segment will continue to grow steadily until 2023. The software portion of the market will grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 1.9% while cloud ...
This IDC Market Note discusses IDC's opinion on the announcements from LinkedIn Talent Connect 2019, held September 25-27, in Dallas, Texas.
This IDC Perspective discusses how online shopping and an explosion in grocery fulfillment options have put a microscope on grocery operators' ability to digitally transform to both defend their regional and national market positions and ...
This IDC Perspective provides an overview of the IoT-enabled asset performance management (APM) market and provides guidance on how to approach the buying decision in this emerging space.
"When a new technology solution emerges with ...
This IDC Market Note provides an overview of the 2019 Honeywell Users Group EMEA Conference, which took place on September 23 to 26, 2019, in The Hague. The event's key focus areas included industrial cybersecurity, connected operations, ...
This IDC Link looks at the VMworld 2019 Europe event, at which VMware revealed important enhancements to Workspace ONE, addressing employee experience and the Future of Work.
ServiceNow recently announced the soft launch of ServiceNow DevOps, an extension of the company’s NOW Platform designed to support software development and deployment change management and approval workflow automation across all stages of ...
This IDC Perspective provides an overview of the discussion IDC recently had with Ducati's CTO Konstantin Kostenarov regarding the company's purchase and deployment of NetApp HCI in support of the company's race day operations.
"Hyperconverged ...
This IDC Survey provides results and analysis from a survey of 700 technology and line-of-business decision makers in North America and the United Kingdom across small to large organizations. The respondents represent organizations that ...
This IDC study represents a vendor assessment of providers offering unified endpoint management (UEM) software through the IDC MarketScape model. The assessment reviews both quantitative and qualitative characteristics that define current ...
This IDC study represents a vendor assessment of providers offering enterprise mobility management (EMM) software through the IDC MarketScape model. The assessment reviews both quantitative and qualitative characteristics that define current ...
This IDC study represents a vendor assessment of providers offering enterprise mobile mobility management (EMM) software through the IDC MarketScape model, specifically in the context of small and medium-sized business (SMB) deployments. ...
This IDC study discusses worldwide cloud security market shares of software-defined compute workload security and firewall fabric for 2018.
"Trend Micro turned its 2009 acquisition of Third Brigade into a dominant position in software-defined ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight looks at the influence of sustainability pledges in the vendor and partner selection process. This IDC Survey Spotlight is based on data from IDC's 2019 IT Procurement and Consumption Model Survey.
AVEVA World Conference North America brought together its ecosystem of customers and partners to discuss ways to accelerate digital transformation (DX). At the core of this discussion was a commitment by AVEVA to develop cross-functional ...
This IDC Survey discusses the results of the 2019 New Zealand IT Services Ecosystem Survey. This report is the second of two reports delving deeply into the New Zealand IT Services ecosystem. Part 2 provides an in-depth analysis ...
This IDC Market Share discusses the AI software platform market in Western Europe.
"The AI software platforms market in Europe saw slight consolidation as larger hyperscale vendors expand their investments into the area and pull some ...
This IDC study presents forecasts of spending (customer expenditures) for the offshore-based horizontal BPO services market for 2019–2023 that includes HR, finance and accounting, procurement, and customer care by four importing regions ...
This IDC Market Note discusses Poly (formerly Polycom), which held its Poly Analyst Day 2019 on October 14 at its headquarters in San Jose, California. Poly's management team updated the analyst community regarding its corporate vision, ...
This IDC study contains vendor shares for the digital asset management software market for 2016–2018. It includes commentary on growth of the market and emerging trends and provides actionable advice for technology suppliers.
"The ...
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 shared ...
This IDC Survey provides a summary of analysis performed on the results from a survey fielded in May 2019 to 300 data integration and data intelligence software end users.
"Buyers are looking for automation and elasticity in solutions ...
For the most part, companies need to evolve in order to survive. If they don't, they risk irrelevance and nowhere is this truer than in the technology marketplace. Evolution can be organic or inorganic, and increasingly, technology suppliers ...
Episerver's acquisition of Idio, an AI-based B2B personalization vendor, significantly strengthens Episerver's value proposition for enterprise B2B brands and accelerates Episerver's delivery on its commitment to personalization as a key ...
This IDC PlanScape lays out a basic framework for insurance organizations to create a strategy toward efficient and comprehensive omni-experience engagement in insurance.
"Insurance organizations must build a robust omni-experience ...
This IDC Web Conference presents a discussion by Frank Della Rosa on some of the key developments that will impact the market for cloud services over the next three to five years and highlights some of the things buyers should consider when ...
This IDC PeerScape discusses asset performance management for oil and gas companies. It outlines a number of best practices in the APM space, ranked by technology and execution complexity.
"O&G players deal with asset-intensive ...
This IDC Market Note describes the key takeaways of IDC analysts who participated in SoftServe's recent industry analyst meeting held on October 10, 2019, in New York.
This IDC Market Perspective outlines the new agenda for the CEO running the digital enterprise. As the digital economy emerges on the horizon, a new agenda develops for the CEO who is effectively now running a digital enterprise. This agenda ...
Data marketplaces have been gaining traction over the past 18 months, and Amazon Web Services' (AWS') entry into this landscape will continue the momentum. This open type of marketplace with a suite of available services can be of great ...
This IDC Market Share is based on the 2018 version of IDC’s Semiannual Public Cloud Services Tracker and examines the Western European public cloud system and service management software market. This document also includes market vendor ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight looks at the top 10 worldwide use case adoption for AR/VR IT project-based services.
This IDC Survey Spotlight is based upon IDC's Worldwide IT Professional Services Survey carried out ...
This IDC study presents a view of worldwide AI-enabled search revenue broken down by vendor for the historical year 2018.
"As the amount of unstructured information produced by knowledge workers grows and the pressure on enterprises ...
This IDC Market Analysis Perspective provides detailed information on the Western European system and service management (SSM) software market for both public and on-premise cloud, and its segments: IT service management (ITSM), IT operations ...
This IDC Market Note discusses Microsoft's new Dynamics 365 Commerce product and provides analysis about what the announcement means for the digital commerce software market at large.
This report is part of the continuing coverage of provider selection in Digital Transformation Strategy and Consulting Services in the Asia/Pacific region. This IDC Perspective offers a look at how business objectives translate into expectations ...
This IDC Link explores Microsoft's recent announcement touting the results of its four-day workweek experiment in Japan as part of a growing trend of workforce transformation initiatives around work culture, workforce, and workspace.
The announcement of Salesforce Content Management System indicates Salesforce is starting to recognize the importance of content management in a modern CX platform. Salesforce plans to integrate its new content services across all its cloud ...
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 study contains vendor shares for the website software market for 2016–2018. It includes commentary on growth of the market and emerging trends and provides actionable advice for technology suppliers.
"The website software ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight examines the results from the IDC's 2019 Multicloud Survey, which collected responses from 664 European organizations for 332 multicloud and 332 non-multicloud users. In particular, it attempts to ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight examines the types of activities in intelligent application services that benefit most from automation. Data comes from IDC's 2019 European DevOps Survey.
This IDC Survey Spotlight explores the impact of the talent gap on manufacturer's ability to meet customer expectations with regard to field service execution and service issue resolution. Data comes from IDC's Worldwide Manufacturing ...
This report provides a detailed view of public cloud system and service management (SSM) software spending and vendor market shares in 2018, including public cloud services and on-premise/others. Figure 1 shows revenues and growth for individual ...
With over 1,000 attendees and three days of sessions, Apptio customers, prospects, and partners participated in Apptio's Technology Business Management (TBM) Conference in Las Vegas. Apptio, now owned by Vista Equity Partners, has 1,000 ...
The Microsoft Ignite conference brought over 26,000 developers, executives, and other IT professionals together to hear a significant array of announcements focused on productivity, knowledge, workflow, security, compliance, and management. ...
This IDC Market Analysis Perspective discusses the current state of the Big Data platforms and tools market in Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) (APEJ), including ongoing trends, emerging players, buyer perspectives, and a future outlook. The ...