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 2024 update of IDC’s EMEA Digital Regulations and Policies Radar provides a comprehensive overview of the evolving regulatory landscape across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, focusing on key areas including ESG, data and AI, digital ...
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This IDC Market Note looks at the real-world benefits of AI technology for print market players.
This IDC Market Perspective provides an overview of Ricoh's performance reflected in its FY23 results for the 12 months ending March 31, 2024, highlighting Ricoh's European business. It also discusses the European impact of Ricoh's ongoing ...
This IDC Market Analysis Perspective (MAP) discusses developments in the print community in terms of operational transformation and pursuing opportunities in adjacent services. It summarizes primary trends; identifies print vendors' transformational ...
This IDC Vendor Profile provides an overview of InfoCert, a Tinexta Group company. It explores how it has developed further internationally since being positioned by IDC as a major market player in IDC MarketScape: Worldwide ...
This IDC Market Perspective reviews HP Inc.'s "Future Ready" strategy, including its activities to date, financial performance for FY23 and 1Q24, and go-to-market strategy via its Amplify partners, with a highlight on acquired European partner ...
This IDC Market Note focuses on the role of technology in overcoming some of the key challenges in the European education sector. It highlights the attractiveness of print services providers that can offer a broad range of solutions beyond ...
This IDC Market Note highlights the challenges of the European healthcare sector, its priorities, and the role of AI. It identifies the potential opportunity for print services providers, offering a broad hardware, software, and services ...
This IDC Market Note provides the latest update on Xerox's strategy and goals, with a renewed focus on strengthening ties with existing customers through continued print services and requirements for digital and IT services. IDC also examines ...
This IDC Market Perspective addresses the behaviors and priorities of companies within the European manufacturing industry. The goal is to help print service vendors assess whether their broader services portfolios are aligned — or could ...
This IDC Market Perspective examines the Xerox business, considering announcements so far in 2023. It analyzes the company's future direction and considerations in executing its global strategy in the European region.
"A consistent ...
This IDC Perspective takes a closer look at the factors impacting the Western European financial services sector and the role of business process automation in helping financial services companies to combat negative market forces and meet ...
This IDC Market Perspective provides insights into Sharp's European business development — as outlined during a European analyst event in September 2023 — related to Sharp's broad security portfolio, the development of the Sharp Services ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight highlights an extract from IDC's European Imaging, Printing, and Document Solutions (IPDS) Survey, conducted in May 2023, among 2,505 respondents from France, Germany, the U.K., Italy, Spain, ...
This IDC study discusses worldwide imaging, printing, and document solutions top 10 predictions for 2024.
"The changes that have taken place in new work and office conditions have been substantial over the past three-plus years. In ...
This IDC Market Perspectives provides a services market outlook, examining how the market has changed and the consequent impact on business and IT services specifically. This includes identifying the opportunities for print services providers ...
This IDC Market Perspective explores a changing European SMB landscape that presents opportunities for print vendors seeking to broaden their solutions and services to support SMBs' digital journeys. It highlights European SMB customers' ...
This IDC Survey highlights an extract from IDC's European Imaging, Printing, and Document Solutions (IPDS) Survey, conducted in May 2023 among 2,505 respondents from France, Germany, the U.K., Italy, Spain, the Nordics (Denmark, Finland, ...
This IDC Vendor Profile provides an overview of Konica Minolta and highlights its European video solutions services (VSS) business development, which takes video surveillance solutions beyond safety and security monitoring to provide value-added ...
This IDC Market Note discusses why print service providers that are extending into adjacent and new solutions and services should also offer business and IT consulting. It leverages results from IDC's 2023 European Imaging, Printing, ...
This IDC Market Note compares IDC's 2022 and 2023 European Imaging, Printing, and Document Solutions (IPDS) Survey results related to the increasing number of nonprint solutions and services that today's European customers ...
This IDC Survey highlights an extract from IDC's European Imaging, Printing, and Document Solutions (IPDS) Survey, conducted in May 2023 on 2,505 respondents from France, Germany, the U.K., Italy, Spain, the Nordics (Denmark, Finland, ...
This IDC Market Perspective covers the latest developments in the digital regulatory landscape in EMEA. It details the latest legislation updates and policy changes as well as their implications to end users and tech providers. This report ...