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 Perspective discusses dedicated access versus shared fiber versus fixed wireless. Today's enterprises face the continued challenge of aligning network capacity to the growing data demands of the organization. With more than 30% ...
The public sector is a lucrative piece of the enterprise connectivity market space, with top U.S. incumbent carriers competing for broad-reaching access to multiyear, multivendor contracts. The U.S. Department of the Navy recently announced ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight examines the top technology challenges that enterprises face in supporting the distributed workforce, showing that 28% of enterprises see internet connectivity issues as a top issue for 2024. This percentage increases ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight examines the top technology investment areas over the next 18 months designed to improve operational agility and employee productivity. While one-third of the enterprises currently rank GenAI assistants as the top ...
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 Perspective provides an overview of the importance of connectivity in powering an effective experience-orchestrated (X-O) business. It emphasizes the need for organizations to evolve from siloed digital transformations to holistic ...
This IDC Market Presentation takes a look at the 1Q24 macroeconomic indicators that impact enterprise IT and connectivity spending. Data shows that recessionary concerns in North America have diminished, with only 28% of enterprises expecting ...
Comcast Business continues its strategic efforts to move upmarket and become a key player of secure connectivity and communications solutions that will drive scale, automation, and business outcomes as an agile, trusted strategic partner ...
RingCentral held its industry analyst event from February 26 to 28, 2024, highlighting 25 years of providing connected business solutions to organizations to help optimize customer and employee experiences. As the company transitions to ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight examines how C-level executives have aligned their thinking and expectations around the impact of GenAI and how it impacts connectivity investments. While digital maturity changes perception of GenAI benefits for ...
This IDC Market Presentation analyzes the current positioning of technology suppliers that provide network hardware, software, services, and solutions to the enterprise and what future steps those suppliers must take in order to bolster ...
AT&T and the federal government are ensuring first responders stay at the forefront of technology with a 10 year, $8 billion federal investment initiative in FirstNet. This investment, which comes from an existing long-term contract ...
This IDC Perspective provides a checklist of the top connectivity areas for enterprises to evaluate and prioritize for 2024.
"Enterprise spending on IT and connectivity remains robust for 2024, according to recent IDC enterprise surveys, ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight reveals that enterprises remain committed to consistent spending in the areas of security, automation, and collaboration, regardless of budgetary changes in 2024. IDC's recurring Future Enterprise Resiliency ...
This IDC Perspective takes a look at how the connectivity and implementation of IoT solutions is accelerating business outcomes for the retail industry and accelerating investment in faster, more resilient connectivity solutions and services.
“Today’s ...
The IDC Survey Spotlight provides data from IDC's Future Enterprise Resiliency and Spending Survey, Wave 8, fielded in August/September of 2023, with 888 IT decision-making respondents from enterprises in and across North American, ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight provides insight into global enterprises expectation for adopting satellite services as part of their enterprise connectivity footprint. With less than 10% of enterprises using satellite services today, the growth ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight highlights data from IDC's annual Future of Connectedness Survey, June 2023, n = 770. The data presents spending plans related to industrial IoT infrastructure and sensors, with a focus on ruggedized appliances.
...This IDC Perspective analyzes data from IDC's June 2023 Future of Connectedness Survey and Wave 8 of IDC's recurring Future Enterprise Resiliency and Spending Survey, looking at top operational metrics enterprises use to assess ...
This IDC Survey highlights the results of the worldwide monthly technology investment monitor for September 2023. IT leaders continue to face an array of conflicting challenges in the second half of 2023 as they continue to anticipate potential ...
On November 2, Lumen announced the completion of the sale of its EMEA network assets to London, United Kingdom–based Colt Technology Services for $1.8 billion. This transaction is part of a multifaceted approach to reduce and restructure ...
This IDC Market Presentation provides a quarterly overview of current enterprise business sentiments and economic sentiments, takes a deeper dive into connectivity preferences by region, and looks at the impact of generative AI on connectivity ...
This IDC study provides IDC's 2024 top 10 predictions for future of connectedness.
"The enterprise road map to becoming agile and connected will be one that requires a continued shift toward cloud connectivity, where ubiquitous access ...
Fujitsu held its Executive Analyst Day on October 6 in Sunnyvale, CA, showcasing the organization's goal to "make the world more sustainable by building trust in society through innovation." Company executives highlighted their commitment ...
This IDC PlanScape provides business and technology leaders with a background on the role of managed connectivity services as part of the enterprise road map to becoming agile and connected. It looks at some of the business characteristics ...