IDC Research Content Overview

An Overview of the IDC Research content set within AlphaSense

• What is IDC Research?
• Types of IDC Research
• How to Access IDC Research

What is IDC Research?

International Data Corporation (IDC) is the premier global provider of market intelligence, advisory services, and events for the information technology, telecommunications, and consumer technology markets.

IDC has very bespoke market research for specific companies, services, and products within tech as well as general themes and market trajectory for the technology industry as a whole.

Types of IDC Research Reports

IDC MarketScape

• Used as a vendor assessment tool, MarketScape provides in-depth quantitative and qualitative technology market assessments of ICT vendors for a wide range of technology markets. This comprehensive assessment of market competitors, delivered in a full-length research report, and summarized in an easy-to-read graphical depiction, provides you with the critical information necessary to make your most important technology decisions.

Market Analysis Perspective (MAP)

• These reports provide deep overviews of specific technology markets. They include an industry and market overview, competitive landscape insight, buyer needs and perspectives, a future view of the core markets, and essential guidance for technology suppliers.

TechBriefs

• These snapshots are designed to help IT leaders and buyers quickly get up to speed on new products and technologies in the market.  

Top 10 Predictions

• IDC's Top 10 Predictions are meant to help enterprise leaders with strategic planning within a 5-year business planning cycle. These predictions can be about various topics - such as connectedness, IT/OT convergence, worldwide services - and are posted on the IDC Blog.

IDC Insights

• IDC Insights helps business, IT leaders, and suppliers make technology decisions by providing timely and insightful research and consulting services from experienced analysts. IDC Insights research covers Energy, Financial, Government, Health, Manufacturing, and Retail.

Case Studies

• IDC Case Studies document real-life examples of technology and business use-cases for products and services.

Presentations

• Decks from IDC presentations at conferences and events. 

How to Access IDC Research

• Open the Sources menu.
• Go to Company Docs.
• Select Presentations & Other.
• Type in IDC to the Search Bar OR
• Select News, Blogs, White Papers, Case Studies and scroll and select IDC