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

Event Flash
Provides rapid IDC insight and analysis about a significant industry event or conference, merger or acquisition, product announcement, or other fast-breaking news affecting the IT market.

Excerpt
Provides several pages of coverage and analysis of tailored IDC research that a customer has purchased through volume sales. Commissioned by GMS, it consists of either an Insight, a Study, or a section of a Study that is modified per customer requirements.

Executive Insights
A thought-leadership piece authored only by Frank Gens for IDC.

Featured Research
Provides an overview of an important report with information about the analyst(s), market coverage, and summaries.

Forecast Update
Provides a short, quick look at an updated forecast and the changed assumptions behind the update. It updates a market forecast published in the same calendar year; identifies changed and new key forecast assumptions; and highlights actions for participants to consider in light of the changes.

IDC Insight
Coverage and analysis of an industry event, new product or service, or a company announcement or development.

Product Flash
Provides rapid IDC insight and analysis about a significant industry event or conference, merger or acquisition, product announcement, or other fast-breaking news affecting the IT market.

Update
A brief overview coverage of what is happening in a market.

Vendor Profiles
Concise, hard-hitting profiles of emerging vendors. These profiles will highlight new players and technologies, and the potential paradigm shifts or disruptions these vendors represent.

Daily Graphic
Illustrates IDC's keen analysis of major market trends in downloadable PowerPoints. Available as a free download the day it appears, the IDC Daily Graphic provides valuable material for speeches and strategic planning.

Event Proceedings
Published slides, audio and other materials from IDC and Insight web conferences, briefings, forums or other events.

Briefing
Conference
IDC conferences deliver 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 these major events offer. Generally, all presentation slides are available online, and for most conferences, streaming audio of key discussions is available as well.

Industry Event
An Industry Event features IDC or Insight analysts but is not produced by IDC. Registration and material delivery is conducted by a third party.

Local Conference
IDC's local events, held throughout Europe and Asia Pacific, are extremely focused conferences that target technology and new market areas specific to the regional level.

Private Workshop
IDC's private workshops combine hands-on professional training for executives and managers. Each workshop is tailored to your organization-guaranteeing time-saving success and real-world expertise learning.

Public Workshop
IDC's public workshops are two-day professional training sessions that cover concepts as well as practical applications through exercises, group work and interactive feedback discussions. They are offered several times a year in different locations throughout the United States, Asia Pacific, and Europe.

Web Conferences
IDC's Web Conference series 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 Link
IDC Link is a short, timely opinion piece with embedded links to publicly available Web sites and/or IDC research. This quick, consolidated resource links to specific CIS topic areas, providing context for important market trends and events.

Best Practices
Correlates the use of specific practices and superior performance as indicated by an analysis of the benchmarking database. It highlights any significant differences between industries. Conclusions provide a set of process priorities for improving a business case and advice on how to overcome change management issues.

Briefs
Short (2-3 page) documents on a topic of interest.

Case Study
An informative synopsis that details an organization's experience throughout a major project, product development, or initiative. It allows the reader to benefit from another company's successes and challenges.

Methods and Practices
Provides a step-by-step description of a method or methods that can be applied. As appropriate, the report may compare the benefits and drawbacks of the several methods.

Perspective
An article written by an Insights analyst on a topic of special interest to a target audience. This has generally already appeared in an industry publication and is repackaged for display on the Insights Web site.

ETrends
Provides insight, analysis, and forecasts on major trends and events. Most are published biweekly under specific subscription services, while others are free to registered users.

FI Newsletters
Provides insight, analysis, and forecasts on major trends and events. Most are published biweekly under specific subscription services, while others are free to registered users.

IT Forecaster
Provides insight, analysis, and forecasts on major trends and events. Most are published biweekly under specific subscription services, while others are free to registered users.

XSP Advisor
Provides insight, analysis, and forecasts on major trends and events. Most are published biweekly under specific subscription services, while others are free to registered users.

Insights Pivot Table
An interactive spreadsheet tool for analyzing trends and activities in a specific Insights market segment.

Pivot Table
An interactive spreadsheet tool for analyzing trends and activities in a specific market segment. These tables are available only through an annual subscription service.

IDC Presentation
IDC Presentations, delivered in PowerPoint format, will provide the latest, select CIS forecast data, primary research survey findings, and critical IDC analyst opinion in a succinct, easy-to-digest format.

IDC Presentation: Forecast
Highlights the latest CIS forecast data in a summary fashion and complements, but does not replace, the Market Analysis forecast study research requirement. It provides an easy-to-use format to post on the Web presentations that were previously delivered at public forums (e.g., conference events, internal client meetings, and client presentations) and are not part of a consulting/custom engagement.

IDC Presentation: Survey
Provides a first look at primary research results. It increases the amount of primary research data, including vendor- and customer-focused research results, published into a CIS.

Insights 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.

Announces significant corporate news, such as key hirings or promotions, performance milestones, event highlights, or speaking engagements.

Fact Sheet
Describes a research product; usually it 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.

Competitive Analysis
A detailed accounting and review of a vendor's programs, processes, products, service, satisfaction, and/or strategy in a target market. This knowledge helps clients reduce their risk of losing market share or enhance their position over the competition.

Customer Needs and Strategies
Research focusing on the important decisions that business and IT professionals make every day.

Industry Developments and Models
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 Analysis
An in-depth examination of the dynamics and future of a single market or a group of related markets; the Market Analysis is where we will typically present our forecasts and assumptions, using a new Key Forecast Assumptions table.

Report
Reports are early versions of IDC Study documents. Older documents that are available through Insights subscriptions may exist in this format.

Special Study
A one-time report produced by a research group that is not published as a deliverable under a subscription service.

Survey
A report and interpretation of the results of a demand- or supply-side survey.

Technology Assessment
An analysis of the intricacies of an emerging or established technology, or the technologies contained within a specific product.

Vendor Needs and Strategies
An in-depth analysis of a company, a small group of companies, a division of a company focused on a particular market, or a best practice that the company exemplifies.

Top 10 Predictions
Bold, well-conceived market predictions grounded in solid methodologies, primary research, and analyst experience. Lays out a clear roadmap to understanding major market opportunities and trends.

Insights Prediction
A thought-leadership study that describes what the Insights company believes could or will take place in the next 12-18 months in a particular market or group of markets ("ubermarket"). The document provides a clear road map to major trends in the year ahead. It can put these in the context of longer-term megatrends that impact the market and technology industry overall. The annual predictions can be used as research themes that can be revisited throughout the year to give context to market events.