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
Vendor Profile
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.
IDC Perspective
The IDC Perspective is a flexible doc that seeks to help business and tech buyers assess their business and IT strategy and/or associated business processes, especially as it relates to the use of technology. The document can be used in areas such as:
- Strategy and planning
- Trends and observations
- IT spending and investment
- Vendor conferences and announcements
IDC TechBrief
The IDC TechBrief helps the technology or business executive get smart about a single technology in the context of the business by answering 6 business critical questions about the technology:
- What is the technology?
- When should I adopt it?
- What can it do for my business?
- What are the critical success factors?
- What are the risks?
- Who are the suppliers?
Market Note
The Market Note is a flexible doc that provides IDC analysis and point of view on an industry event, new product or service, or a company announcement or development or fast breaking news.
Market Perspective
The Market Perspective is a flexible doc that analyzes key changes and developments happening in the market. This flexible research type can be used to analyze areas such as:
- Competitive Environment
- Innovation & Market Opportunity
- New Business Models
- Partner & Channel Strategy
- Enterprise Strategies (targeted to supplier)
- Regulation
- Socioeconomics
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
IDC Blink
IDC Blink
Provides timely context and insight around important market trends and events in a short opinion piece with a 2-minute audio clip. IDC Blinks provide IDC's point of view on:
- Financial announcements
- Product announcements
- Mergers and acquisitions or divestitures
- Events
- Response to news
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.
Presentations
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.
Market 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.
Tech Buyer 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.
IDC Market Glance
Provides a look at the landscape of a tech market, including competitive positioning, adjacent segments, and potential partner opportunities.
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
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 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 one-time study produced by a research group that is not published as a deliverable under a subscription service.
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.
IDC Innovators
IDC Innovators is aimed at informing IT buyers about emerging vendors with an innovative new technology or ground-breaking business model. Vendors identified in the document as innovators are linked together within a specific market area and around solving or alleviating a common business problem. Vendors included have annual revenue under $100 million at the time of selection.
Technology Segment
The IDC Technology Segment offers CEMA clients a comprehensive view of a technology segment in one country or subregion and provides a market view and forecast and/or market share and vendor profiles, including performances and strategies. It is specifically intended to serve smaller country markets and subregions.
This IDC study presents a five-year forecast for the U.S. laser A3/A4 MFP market. Unit shipments, value of shipments, and average selling value (ASV) information is presented. Data for 2018–2023 is actual, whereas data for 2024–2028 is projected. ...
This IDC study provides a review of the 2023 U.S. laser A3/A4 multifunction peripheral (MFP) market and vendor shares. Shipments, value of shipments, and ASVs in this study match data reported in IDC's 1Q24 Worldwide Quarterly Hardcopy Peripherals ...
This IDC Market Perspective offers our first in a series of documents that will highlight "what's changed" in key hardware market segments since 2019. The specific period for this analysis is important and purposely obvious as it includes ...
This IDC Vendor Profile provides an overview of Mars, a remarketer of off-lease and repossessed office equipment. During IDC's recent tour of the metro New York City area to visit with major copy/print OEMs, we had the opportunity to visit ...
Epson has announced the WorkForce Enterprise AM-C400 and AM-C550 business inkjet MFPs. The significance of these two models is that these MFPs are 40ppm and 55ppm offerings beyond what was the company's 25ppm default speed threshold for ...
This IDC Survey is based on a February 2024 web-based survey conducted in the United States. The PowerPoint file offers analysis of select questions from IDC's Print Sustainability Survey, ...
This IDC Survey presentation is based on a February 2024 web-based survey conducted in the United States. This PowerPoint file offers analysis of select questions from IDC's Print Sustainability Survey ...
This IDC study quantifies the U.S. single-function printer and multifunction peripheral market opportunities in detail, analyzing issues, trends, and product advances in these markets. Unit shipments, value of shipments, and average selling ...
This IDC Market Perspective is our first in a series of documents that will highlight "what's changed" in key hardware market segments since 2019. The specific period for this analysis is important and purposely obvious as it includes the ...
Over the weekend, an invitation to a hastily assembled Monday morning briefing call was sent to press and industry analysts. It was clear that the event would share big news. During this early morning meeting, we found out that Konica Minolta, ...
Lexmark has launched a new A3 portfolio called the 9-Series. The new series incorporates the company's unique approach of scaling up its established A4 technology to create a new internally developed A3 platform. By doing so, Lexmark brings ...
This IDC study provides vendor market shares for the printer and MFP market for 2023.
"Print vendors faced a year of mixed blessings in 2023. The year began with pent-up demand as vendors were able to ship backlogged orders that had ...
This IDC Survey is based on a February 2024 web-based survey conducted in the United States. This PowerPoint file offers analysis of select questions from IDC's Print Sustainability Survey that examined ...
This IDC Survey is based on a February 2024 web-based survey conducted in the United States. This PowerPoint file offers analysis of select questions from IDC's Print Sustainability Survey that examined ...
This IDC Market Perspective looks at HP Inc.'s annual HP Amplify Partner Conference (APC) held March 5–7 in Las Vegas, Nevada. There was over 2,000 attendees with more than 1,500 of them representing HP Inc.'s channel partners from 95 countries. ...
This IDC Survey is based on a February 2024 web-based survey conducted in the United States. This PowerPoint file offers analysis of select questions from IDC's print sustainability survey that examined the motivations and challenges of ...
This IDC Survey is based on a February 2024 web-based survey conducted in the United States. The PowerPoint file offers analysis of select questions from IDC's print sustainability survey that examined the influence of sustainability on ...
This IDC study evaluates the various offerings provided to the office equipment channel by its OEM partners. This study takes survey responses from office equipment dealers to establish a framework that evaluates and measures the OEM offering ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight examines data from IDC’s Future Enterprise Resiliency and Spending Survey, Wave 10, collected in November 2023. The question raised in this analysis is, “Compared with your likely final ...
On January 25, 2024, Xerox announced its 4Q23 and year-end 2023 results. This announcement shows that the company still needs to take more dramatic action in its efforts to restructure its business. Earlier this month, the company started ...
Kofax is kicking off 2024 with a fresh new name and look, rebranding and now calling itself Tungsten Automation. Kofax has been an enterprise staple for capture, document workflows, and intelligent automation. The name change points to the ...
This IDC study quantifies the worldwide multifunction and single-function printer market opportunity in detail, analyzing issues, trends, and product advances in this market. Unit shipments, value of shipments, and average selling value ...
On November 21, 2023, HP Inc. announced its financial results for FY23 and 4Q23. For the year, HP Inc.'s revenue approached $54 billion, down 15%. Personal systems revenue fell 19% to $36 billion, while printing revenue contracted by 5% ...