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 Market Note discusses the Infobip Industry Analyst Summit 2024 that took place in Vodnjan, Croatia, on July 8-10, 2024. It analyzes what Infobip presented during the analyst event regarding the company's vision and mission to become ...
Verizon Communications has announced its intention to acquire Frontier Communications in an all-cash transaction valued at $20 billion. The acquisition of Frontier will increase Verizon's fiber footprint and position the company to offer ...
This IDC Market Note provides an overview of Twilio's current portfolio and outlook for 2024 and beyond.
"The Twilio Exec Connect and Analyst Summit of 2024 was a great opportunity for Twilio to showcase its new leadership and strategic ...
Verizon announced its 2Q23 financial results on July 22, 2024. Verizon reported 3.5% YoY total revenue growth during the quarter, attributed to strong wireless revenue, increase in broadband subscribers, pricing initiatives taken during ...
This IDC study provides IDC's forecast and spending for the worldwide managed cloud services (MCS) market across eight major regions for the 2024–2028 forecast period. IDC views managed cloud services as an extraction view of IDC's technology ...
This IDC PlanScape provides an overview of the key drivers for choosing a managed hosting provider and the benefits to consider as part of that process.
"Having a strong online presence has become a crucial factor for any business. ...
While the outage of international roaming services stemming from Syniverse and the peering partner that impacted travelers at the end of June was short lived, it comes in a year amid a year that has seen a number of different cellular network ...
Over the past two months, a slew of announcements from colocation and cloud infrastructure companies point to the acceleration of deployments to serve AI workloads in colocation facilities. Several major infrastructure vendors have partnered ...
This IDC PlanScape provides an overview of benefits, emerging trends, usage of AI, and its impact on colocation datacenters.
“Emerging trends such as GenAI and edge computing are reshaping the colocation landscape. While AI applications ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight looks at enterprise spending on AI infrastructure. In detail:
- Spending on AI infrastructure to support generative AI workloads has replaced security as the most important IT budget allocation priority. ...
This IDC study analyses the worldwide interconnection services market. In addition to presenting key trends, the study forecasts interconnection services revenue through 2028.
"Demand for evolving network architecture that interconnects ...
This IDC study discusses worldwide telecom and network API forecast for the 2024–2028 period.
"While the telecom industry has a mixed history of API monetization, its latest focus on novel network APIs is being championed by all leading ...
This IDC Vendor Profile offers an overview of one of the leading global providers of datacenter and interconnections services. Equinix is the largest datacenter provider in the world by revenue with a broad portfolio of facilities, digital ...
Spectrum Enterprise's top executives highlighted the company's financial successes, network expansion initiatives, client-centric approach, and future solutions for the modern enterprise at its industry analyst event in New York from May ...
This IDC study presents the forecast of worldwide revenue for the CPaaS market for 2024–2028.
"The CPaaS market is significantly growing with vendors offering more API-based offerings integrated with generative AI (GenAI) to improve ...
This IDC Market Note highlights major announcements and product demonstrations by Tanla at Mobile World Congress 2024, specific to customer safety through next-generation antispam solutions, supported by cutting-edge technologies such as ...
This IDC Perspective highlights AI partner ecosystem and roles. Artificial intelligence (AI) will have a massive impact as companies invest heavily in technology and begin integrating AI models in their existing business processes. AI will ...
This IDC study provides a worldwide forecast for telecommunications service provider capex covering the 2024–2028 period. The capex forecast is broken out between wireless and wireline networks with data for each one of the three main geographic ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight highlights the key benefits of using external services to implement AI initiatives:
- Enterprises cited that the top 3 most important benefits of using external services for AI as "faster development," ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight highlights how enterprises are collaborating/partnering with generative AI (GenAI) technology providers to drive innovation and growth. Generative AI is one of the most promising fields that can drive innovation ...
本IDC研究报告介绍IDC 2024年IT行业未来10大预测,并就IT领导者应如何提前准备提供指导。
IDC全球研究副总裁Rick Villars表示:“每家IT提供商都将把AI融入到其业务的核心,投入财力、脑力和时间。对CIO和精通数字化的首席级高管们来说,这种转变有望带来数不胜数创新的AI增强型产品/服务,但也有可能让IT团队被无数宣称‘现在已搭载AI’的产品包围,加大无序追加投资和数据失控的风险。
This IDC Link explores key drivers for the third-party datacenter services industry. There is a robust demand for highly efficient colocation facilities that offer AI-ready capabilities and global cloud access and networking. New construction ...
Driven by the continued growth in data networking, hyperscalers' voracious demand for colocation facilities, and by the advent of AI computing, the top 3 global datacenter providers all experienced significant higher growth that was above ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight answers the following question: What are the top issues that impact WAN and datacenter operations and strategy? In detail:
- Approximately 44% of respondents to a recent IDC survey indicated that cloud ...
This IDC Perspective outlines IDC's point of view on how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming the services industry. The document draws upon analyst insights across multiple services markets, as well as buyer survey research around ...