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 Market Perspective provides a detailed analysis of the main areas addressed at Mobile World Congress 2024 at Barcelona. This annual event gathers the key players in the telecom sector, including operators, network equipment providers, ...
This IDC Market Presentation examines IDC's European communications outlook for 2024 and beyond, with IDC analysts selecting key topics for each telecom domain and providing expert perspectives regarding key dynamics and expectations in ...
On 16 January, Vodafone and Microsoft announced a strategic partnership to bring GenAI, digital services, and IoT to the cloud, leveraging Microsoft's traction in this space and in the enterprise domain. This partnership includes some relevant ...
This IDC Web Conference discusses IDC research on how the EMEA telco industry fared in 2023 and looks at forces that will shape the industry in 2024.
Key topics in this presentation include the effect of macroeconomic headwinds on ...
Juniper Networks' networking portfolio and AI capabilities provide significant value to HPE, as they enable HPE to unify operational aspects across its IT and network domains, with the outcome being cross-selling and upselling opportunities ...
During the week of November 27, AWS held its annual conference in Las Vegas, Nevada. The event served as a gathering for AWS partners and suppliers from various industries, including telecommunications. Throughout the conference, AWS executives ...
This IDC Perspective reviews Nokia's ongoing journey toward innovation and excellence in the telecommunications realm. It considers the focus of Nokia's 2023 rebrand and the development of several strategic initiatives, most notably involving ...
This IDC Market Note covers the DTW Ignite event, which returned to Copenhagen for a second year, with a larger number of exhibitors and attendees. Many of the conversations at the show were driven by considerations for emerging use cases ...
This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation delves into the forces fueling the demand for digital sovereignty in Europe.
As more organizations shift their IT to cloud, concerns over data privacy, security, and trust also continue to grow. This ...
"EMEA network operators are investing in their OSS/BSS estates to become 'match fit' as they progress their service strategies beyond pure connectivity. Their investments now and in the next few years are intended to reduce their dependence ...
This IDC Survey highlights EMEA telecommunication service providers' telecoms transformation strategies based on IDC's 2023 EMEA Telco Transformation Survey. Between May and July 2023, IDC conducted an online survey of 115 ...
Netcracker introduced its GenAI Telco Solution in September 2023 just ahead of TM Forum's Digital Transformation World. The solution aligns well with Netcracker's Digital OSS and BSS platform and is smartly focused on both customer-facing ...
This IDC study examines the digital transformation priorities for telecommunications industry and analyzes the key elements necessary to evolve network, IT, and customer-facing technologies and processes. IDC publishes research on digital ...
This IDC Market Note reviews the current expected use cases and impact of generative AI in the telecoms sector, reflecting on the past six months of industry discussions and considerations for using generative AI — and AI in general — in ...
This IDC Market Note reviews how the Amdocs and Microsoft partnership develops a new intelligent customer engagement platform that targets telco operators. The new customer engagement platform by Amdocs and Microsoft is an AI-powered platform ...
This IDC Market Perspective provides an overview of European telcos' digital transformation efforts to diversify revenue beyond core connectivity offerings. We outline key investment areas as well as organic and inorganic growth for the ...
This IDC Market Glance provides an overview of the European telecommunications ecosystem, including hardware and software vendors, standardization and open systems, infrastructure suppliers, network service providers, cloud communications ...
After months of discussions, Vodafone and Three UK have entered into binding agreements to combine their U.K. telecommunication businesses. Under the terms of the deal Vodafone will own a 51% share of the new company, with Three's parent ...
This IDC Market Analysis Perspective (MAP) analyzes trends impacting EMEA telecommunications service providers (CSPs) in 2023, which range from 5G rollouts, cloudification, OSS/BSS transformation, APIs, and automation. It includes an overview ...
This IDC Market Perspective covers key news and developments highlighted during Mobile World Congress 2023 in Barcelona. MWC23, back at its pre-COVID-19 "buzz," showed an industry going through several transformations. Shaping the discussions ...
This IDC Market Presentation examines IDC's European communications outlook for 2023 and beyond, with IDC analysts selecting key topics for each telecom domain and providing expert perspectives regarding key dynamics and expectations in ...
This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation summarizes key points from IDC's pre-Mobile World Congress (MWC) brunch event in Barcelona in February 2023. MWC is one of the biggest tech trade shows in the world and is an agenda-setting event for the ...
This IDC Web Conference Proceeding features the telecoms leads for the regions of Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Turkey, who will discuss key trends and threats in the wider EMEA region. Chris Barnard (VP, Infrastructure and Communications, ...
During the week of November 28, AWS held its annual developers' conference in Las Vegas, Nevada. The conference brought together AWS partners and suppliers across multiple industry verticals, including telecommunications. This year's conference ...
After two years of running the Ericsson OSS Summit virtually, the OSS Summit 2022 returned as a physical event. The summit offered varied insights and perspectives on the current and future generation of OSS from a strong line-up of industry ...