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.
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This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation discusses the reimagined office. IDC's future of work's space pillar increasingly focuses on the intersection of digital spaces and physical places. How do we enable end users to flexibly collaborate and ...
This IDC Presentation focuses on the "Space" pillar of IDC's Future of Work — a holistic, integrated approach that features three interrelated and interconnected pillars: Culture, Augmentation, and Space. The document examines how the workspace ...
This IDC study contains IDC analysts' future of work worldwide outlook for 2024 and the planning horizon for the next five years. The outlook is presented through the lens of the 10 predictions that make up, in IDC's view, the framework ...
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 Note explores the outcomes of Y Soft's autonomous organization model that was applied in its R&D department in 2020 to tackle productivity constraints. Following a successful two-year testing phase, Y Soft announced it ...
This IDC Market Note describes select results from IDC's Imaging, Printing and Document Solutions Survey 2023, conducted in May 2023, with a focus on smart office solution procurement in European organizations. Smart office solutions ...
This IDC Vendor Profile provides an overview of one of Ricoh's production sites in Europe — Ricoh Industrie France — where it focuses on two main activities: the manufacture of thermal media and the circular economy. The company's focus ...
This IDC Perspective reflects on how the COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the ongoing convergence between consumer and enterprise ICT hardware use. The sudden and widespread shift to remote work models led to an emphasis on devices that could ...
This IDC Market Note describes select results of IDC's Imaging, Printing, and Document Solutions Survey, 2023, with a focus on recent and planned purchases of smart office solutions among European ...
Following an industry analyst day, this IDC Vendor Profile gives an update on Canon, focusing on its European operations.
This IDC Presentation examines the concept, structure, and functioning of autonomous organizations. It shows how modern businesses can benefit from operating without middle management and identifies the limits of this autonomous model. The ...
This IDC Market Note looks at the concept of smart office furniture, with a focus on Artome's M10 product and how it fulfills the current market requirements for flexible office spaces. It provides details on the product in the light of ...
This IDC Market Note analyzes extracts of results from IDC's Future of Work Employee Experience Survey conducted in March 2023. The COVID-19 pandemic created the empowered employee that could almost ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight examines the frequency of working from home in European organizations across industries. The study is based on data from IDC's Future of Work Employee Experience Survey, which polled 3,500+ organizations ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight examines the connection between offering flexible working to employees and an organization's Net Promoter Score. The Net Promoter Score has become a popular metric for gauging employee or customer loyalty and satisfaction. ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight examines the recent changes organizations in Europe have made to their offices, presenting results by company size and vertical market. It gauges whether organizations are actively transforming their offices and ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight examines employee preferences about office layouts and describes the key functions of the future office. It uses data from IDC's Future of Work Employee Experience Survey, 2023, ...
This IDC Vendor Profile offers an overview of Brother Industries U.K.s Global Recycling Technology Centre. IDC assessed the strategy of the center and how it fits within the context of recycling and remanufacturing in the hardcopy industry.
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This IDC eBook provides a look at IDC's predictions for 2023 and beyond, based on IDC's European FutureScape 2023 webcast, to help leaders target their technology investments and succeed in pivoting to digital business during storms of disruptions.
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This IDC Market Perspective discusses the case study of ServiceNow as an example of hybrid work implementation in a global enterprise.
"It's always interesting when a company uses its own technology internally. This case study shows ...
This IDC Market Perspective discusses the workplace case study of VMware in the Czech Republic. An early hybrid work adopter, the company recently decided to give up its local office and switch to several shared spaces across Prague. But ...
This IDC study contains IDC analysts' future of work worldwide outlook for 2022, as well as the planning horizon for the next five years. The outlook is presented through the lens of the 10 predictions that make up, in IDC's view, the framework ...
This IDC study examines the technologies that are essential for safely reopening and managing office spaces during and after the COVID-19 pandemic, recognizing that many have the potential to evolve in the years to come. It provides a visual ...