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 ...
This IDC Market Analysis Perspective examines key mass-market telecommunications services trends. Ubiquitous connectivity and the prevailing digital culture are revolutionizing consumer life and presenting new challenges and opportunities ...
This IDC Market Analysis Perspective details key trends and aspects to consider about 5G adoption for B2B in Europe in 2024. It provides specific recommendations for technology suppliers in this space.
This IDC Perspective provides an overview of the markets covered in IDC's European 5G Monetization and Adoption Strategies research program, analyzes various aspects of 5G strategies (including but not limited to connections and use cases), ...
On February 6, 2024, Telefonica, Orange, and Vodafone, alongside Vonage (part of Ericsson), jointly announced the pre-commercial launch of OpenGW in Madrid (link). OpenGW aggregates operator network capabilities exposed for programmatic ...
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 Market Perspective summarizes key takeaways from VMware Explore Europe, held in Barcelona on November 7 and 8, 2023. VMware Explore Europe is one of the software company's largest global events, with 8,000 in attendance this year. ...
This IDC Market Presentation highlights how satellite communications for all can expand the connectivity reach with low Earth orbit (LEO) satellites. Low Earth orbit satellite connectivity has emerged to become more prominent for communications ...
This IDC Survey discusses results from IDC's European 5G and IoT Survey, conducted in August 2023, and focuses on key findings regarding enterprises' sentiments and plans regarding 4G and 5G mobile private networks (MPNs).
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This IDC Market Perspective addresses the B2C entertainment market in the European telecom sector, which is a huge business opportunity for telecom operators. This market has been evolving in the past few years, thanks to diverse digital ...
This IDC Market Forecast provides IDC's assessment of the current adoption of and spending on 5G IoT connections in Europe, along with a five-year forecast.
"Although we are now a few years into the 5G era, we have not yet seen its ...
Zegona's agreement to acquire Vodafone Spain for €5 billion, announced on October 31, 2023, marks a significant move in the European telecommunications industry, from which Vodafone will receive €4.1 billion in cash, with up to €0.9 billion ...
This IDC Market Presentation provides the main highlights of the 5G business at the service and monetization levels, including insights into the key players, evolution of infrastructure deployment and availability of devices, as well as ...
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 Market Presentation examines how European enterprises are progressively shifting away from BYOD (for smartphones) to other device ownership policies. Many are opting for corporate-liable (CL) policies, while others are looking for ...
This IDC Market Perspective summarizes highlights from Orange Business' Insights 2023 event that took place on July 12, 2023. It provides IDC's views on Orange Business' Evolution Platform and the company's efforts in connectivity, sustainability, ...
On Aug 2, 2023, Virgin Media O2 Business introduced the U.K.'s first portable commercial 5G standalone (SA) private network (PN) offering, an innovative product that brings the benefits of private 5G networks to the much wider business segment ...
This IDC Market Perspective addresses the key drivers for this opportunity and the role technology players such as Geotab and SwitchFleet can play as part of solutions deployed by CSPs. The advent of Internet-of-Things (IoT) technology has ...
This IDC Market Perspective highlights the evolution of smart home business across Europe, providing an overview of technology evolution, adoption, and the adopting personas. It also provides a total addressable market for CSPs in terms ...
This IDC Market Perspective identifies the key basic types of marketplaces for 5G monetization (data, models, applications, and vertical-specific marketplaces) and their key characteristics, also providing best practices, key recommendations, ...
This IDC Market Perspective analyzes the different kinds of strategic partnerships, including the challenges and benefits for each type. In parallel, a framework to analyze the different partnering opportunities is provided, addressing dimensions ...
This IDC Market Perspective discusses mission-critical network (MCN) systems, which are currently in a transition phase. MCNs are evolving from traditional land mobile radio systems such as TETRA to broadband systems such as 5G, leveraging ...
From June 12 to 15, Amdocs hosted its Amdocs Up Close: Executive Industry Analyst Summit 2023, where it hosted over 35 analysts from across firms and regions, including IDC EMEA. The summit presented high-level engagements with Amdocs executives, ...