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 (MAP) outlines the state of 5G adoption across Asia/Pacific in 2024. 5G will have the fastest ramp up of any cellular generation so far. Early deployments in South Korea and China in 2019 and in emerging ...
This Market Presentation discusses the rise in the usage and adoption of omni-channel messaging across verticals, highlighting the importance of communication platforms–as-a-service (CPaaS) solutions in delivering enhanced customer experiences ...
This Market Note discusses how the need for organizations to integrate sustainability initiatives into their networking strategies is becoming stronger. However, compliance, management, and reporting on sustainability KPIs are major hurdles ...
This IDC study examines the rise of digital sovereignty with an increase in focus on digital transformation (DX) and the use of cloud-based services. The need to secure data and workloads has gone beyond data sovereignty. Communications ...
This IDC study explores how communications SPs (CSPs) can ride along the low earth orbit (LEO) satellite wave. LEO satellites provide broadband connectivity even in hard-to-reach areas and supports use cases that require lower latencies ...
This IDC Market Note highlights some of the key themes of the Mobile World Congress (MWC), 2024 held in Barcelona through the lens of the Asia/Pacific region. The MWC offers a perspective on the immediate and future-looking transformations ...
This IDC study provides a worldwide forecast for telecommunications service provider capex covering the 2024–2028 period. The capex forecast is broken out between wireless and wireline networks with data for each one of the three main geographic ...
This IDC study provides a market forecast including historical SD-WAN infrastructure market data up to 2023 and forecast to 2028 across Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) (APEJ).
"The rapid adoption of cloud-based services and the need ...
This IDC study evaluates the readiness of communication service providers (CSPs) for their generative AI (GenAI) journey. It delves into key considerations they must consider before embarking on this journey. Furthermore, it offers a strategic ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight delves into communications SPs' focus areas on their respective digital transformation journeys. IDC's 2023 Asia/Pacific Digital Service Provider Transformation Survey shows how communications ...
In the face of escalating digital infrastructure complexity, enterprises must adopt advanced network management solutions and emphasize observability and automation to navigate multivendor challenges effectively to enhance resilience, flexibility, ...
In this IDC Market Forecast, we present IDC's historical up to 2023 and forecast to 2028 data for the managed software-defined WAN (SD-WAN) services market in Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) (APEJ). Managed SD-WAN SPs include local/regional ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight delves into organizations' preferred partners as they transition to unified communications-as-a-service (UCaaS) solutions. Compared with traditional on-premises voice solutions, cloud-based voice offers numerous ...
This IDC study contains IDC's future of connectedness predictions for 2024 through 2029. The outlook is presented through the lens of the 10 predictions that make up the framework for technology-related initiatives in the years ahead. This ...
This IDC Presentation is an accompanying piece to the main Future of Connectedness FutureScape 2023. It provides specific recommendations for two tech vendor personas: tech sales leaders and tech marketing leaders.
"As we witness a ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight examines the current enterprises' perception of 5G, as it applies to their businesses. With characteristics such as very high bandwidth and speeds, ultralow latency, and ability to connect a massive number of devices, ...
This IDC Market Perspective explores the intersection of 5G and Internet of Things (IoT) in the context of telco-driven edge services. It discusses how the convergence of these technologies presents opportunities for communications SPs to ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight highlights findings from IDC's 2023 Asia/Pacific Enterprise Connectivity and Telecom Services Survey. It examines the complexity that organizations face when monitoring network parameters ...
This IDC Perspective discusses the nomination details of the Best in Future of Connectedness winner from the IDC Future Enterprise Awards 2023 in the Asia/Pacific region. The document discusses CLP Power Hong Kong's transformational strategy ...
This IDC Market Perspective looks into what communication SPs (CSPs) are looking forward to after deploying 5G. 5G deployments are in full swing, with mature markets, such as South Korea, Japan, Australia, and Singapore, deploying 5G in ...
This IDC Market Presentation discusses the rising role of conversational commerce and omni-channel communication platforms in delivering a superior and contextualized customer experience (CX). Digital-native customers today are demanding ...
This IDC Market Perspective discusses the benefits and challenges for CSPs endeavouring to transform in a cloud-first telco, focusing on the opportunities cloud-native 5G presents as the catalyst for change.
"CSPs across Asia/Pacific ...
This IDC Market Presentation explores the evolving requirements of enterprise customers and their expectations from their communications SPs (CSPs). This document offers tech vendors and systems integrators (SIs) a peek at the impact of ...
This IDC MarketScape presents an assessment of eight communications SPs that provide managed multicloud networking services in Asia/Pacific. The assessment is based on their current capabilities, go-to-market (GTM) strategies, growth, innovation, ...
This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation explores the role of enterprise voice as a utility and discusses the changing nature of enterprise investments in voice solutions. This offers organizations a viewpoint around the criticality of voice to ...