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 Analysis Perspective provides key themes and insight from our PC research over the course of 2024. While the year started off slow, markets are starting to recover in time for the next major refresh cycle as well as Windows ...
This IDC study presents updated forecast data for the worldwide PC market for 2Q24.
"Outside of China, the PC market is starting to show signs of life," states Linn Huang, research vice president of Devices and Displays, IDC. "We're ...
This IDC study presents the updated forecast data for the worldwide tablet market for the 2024–2028 period.
"After a very soft tablet market in 2023, we have the market getting back on track in 2024," states Linn Huang, research vice ...
This IDC study presents the worldwide PC market shares for 2Q24.
"Outside of China, the PC market is starting to show signs of life," says Linn Huang, research vice president, Devices and Displays at IDC. "Just in time for the coming ...
This IDC study provides an analysis of the worldwide tablet market for 2Q24.
"Despite the weak comparison, the tablet market rebounded nicely in the prior quarter aided by new product launches, inventory replenishment, and promotional ...
This IDC Market Note provides highlights and analysis of developments from the past week pertaining to this new breed of AI PCs. AI is already changing the way work gets done and content gets created. However, to date, it's mostly remained ...
This IDC study presents updated forecast data for the worldwide PC market for 1Q24.
"The PC market enters a critical juncture as the AI PC race kicks off in earnest," states Linn Huang, research vice president, Devices and Displays, ...
This IDC study presents the worldwide PC market shares for 1Q24.
"The skid is over," states Linn Huang, research vice president, Devices and Displays, IDC. "Were it not for China, we'd be more confident about the global PC market starting ...
This IDC study presents the updated forecast data for the worldwide tablet market for the 2024–2028 period.
"Tablet shipments ended a long streak of market contractions in the prior quarter," states Linn Huang, research vice president, ...
In terms of Android shipments, Samsung remains the top vendor by a large measure. Samsung leads Huawei by 1,977 basis points in shipment share of Android. That's more than Apple's 1,022 basis point lead over Samsung in the total tablet market. ...
This IDC Survey provides more detailed analysis on consumer buyer expectations and behaviors as it pertains to this new category. The AI PC era is upon us, and consumers are about as concerned as they are excited. Usage scenarios for new ...
This IDC study provides a comprehensive overview of and definitions for personal computing devices (PCDs). The definitions provided in this document represent the scope of IDC's PCD hardware research.
This taxonomy outlines market ...
This IDC Market Presentation examines the worldwide personal computer (PC) monitor market and was delivered in March 2024.
The worldwide monitor market returned its second-worst recorded contraction in 2023 at -8.6%. Economic headwinds ...
This IDC study presents the forecast data for the worldwide tablet market for the 2024–2028 period.
"There are a lot of exciting technologies on the horizon for tablet makers and buyers," says Linn Huang, research vice president of ...
This IDC study presents forecast data for the worldwide PC market for 2024–2028.
"So far, 2024 is shaping up to be another slow year," states Linn Huang, research vice president, Devices and Display at IDC. "The good news is projected ...
"Tablet demand was severely curtailed in 2023," says Linn Huang, research vice president, Devices and Displays, IDC. "The weak economy really suppressed consumer spending for tech. Commercial projects continued to stall out. Devices in general ...
This IDC study presents the worldwide PC market shares for 2023 and 4Q23.
"Poor macros eliminated the chance of a year of recovery for the PC market," states Linn Huang, research vice president of Devices and Displays at IDC. "Should ...
This IDC study presents forecast data for the worldwide artificial intelligence PC market for 2023–2027.
"As we enter a new year, the hype around generative AI has reached a fever pitch, and the PC industry is running fast to capitalize ...
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IDCのDevices and Consumer ResearchのグループバイスプレジデントであるTom Mainelliは、「企業内に導入されるコネクテッドデバイスの数と多様性は、加速し続けている。今日の従業員は、かつてないほど多くのテクノロジーを利用できるようになっており、IT部門は、次世代の傾向を把握し、常に時代の先端を行くことが重要である。本IDC ...
This IDC study presents the updated forecast data for the worldwide PC market for 2023–2027.
"At the outset of the year, most expected 2023 to be a rough year for PCs," states Linn Huang, research vice president, Devices and Displays, ...
This IDC study presents the updated forecast data for the worldwide tablet market for the 2023–2027 period.
"As with the rest of the year, we expect the remaining quarter to remain challenged," states Linn Huang, research vice president ...
This IDC study provides IDC's 2024 top 10 predictions for critical emerging technologies that IT leaders will need to start preparing now to succeed as digital businesses in the next four years.
"In a year of great technology ferment, ...
This IDC Survey provides results from IDC's 2023 U.S. Commercial PCD Survey. Results from the AI section of this survey have already been published in IDC's 2023 U.S. Commercial PCD Survey — AI PC Results ...
This IDC study provides an analysis of vendor performance in the tablet market for 3Q23.
"The tablet market continues to be hampered by weak consumer sentiment," states Linn Huang, research vice president, Devices and Displays, IDC. ...
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% ...