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IDC is the authoritative source on information about the Canadian market. The depth and breadth of our research and market insight is unmatched. IDC's analysts cover consulting, systems integration, network services, application development and maintenance, data centre and end user services.
IDC's CIS and consulting services are grouped into a number of categories, including:
Market Forecasts. IDC tracks market performance and provides estimates for the sizing and growth of over a dozen different IT service markets.
Trends. IDC provides deep analysis into current market conditions and the trends that will shape the future of the Canadian IT services industry. IDC leverages its vast base of survey data to provide its clients with analysis to enhance their value proposition to the market.
Segment Profiles. IDC's market scans are utilized by vendors and IT buyers in making fact based decisions. IDC profiles regions, business segments and verticals, market segments and competitors.
Products. IDC services offer various products that enable vendors to develop market strategies. IDC products include service contract database; The Wallet which provides individual company IT budget guidance; and the services and software trackers that provides revenue and market share data.
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Coverage:
- - Infrastructure Hardware
- - Investment Research Services
- » PC Tracker: Segment by Channel
- » SMB & Channel Strategies
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IDC's Channel research offers global insight and counsel of experienced analysts to help vendors and resellers design and implement effective channel strategies.
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Coverage:
- - Broadband
- - Digital Marketplace
- - Personal Computing
- - Multiscreen Experience
- - Connected Home
- - Application Development Ecosysytem
- » Consumer Internet, Video and Wireless Services
- » ConsumerScape 360°
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IDC examines consumer markets by devices, applications, networks, and services to provide complete solutions for succeeding in these expanding markets. IDC's consumer knowledge is far reaching with comprehensive research services that cover all major geographies, device platforms and technologies, and service or subscription offerings. Through interviews and surveys in distinct areas such as gaming, audio, video, home networking, automotive, and broadband, IDC provides insights on buyer requirements, as well as applications and services, technology awareness, branding, usage patterns, and buying intentions. For more than a decade, consumer market leaders have turned to IDC for advice on how to grow their business, increase revenues, launch new products, and win more market share.
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Coverage:
- - Cloud Computing
- - Datacenter
- - Security
- - Servers
- - Storage
- - Technical Computing
- - Virtualization
- - Infrastructure software
- » Cloud Services: Overview
- » Disk Storage Systems Tracker
- » Infrastructure and Cloud Solutions
- » Security Appliance Tracker
- » Server Tracker
- » x86 Server Tracker
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IDC examines infrastructure hardware markets to provide a holistic view of the technologies, solutions, and trends impacting the changing enterprise. IDC's Infrastructure Hardware team delivers in-depth, global market intelligence derived from rigorous primary research and extensive end-user surveys. From datacenter energy management to enterprise adoption of public cloud storage to technical server market dynamics, IDC provides you with the core research assets necessary for meeting your most important business growth objectives
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Canadian Products:
- » CIO Executive Service
- » ICT Executive Service
- » Technology Innovation Watch
IT Executive Programs
IDC's IT Executive Programs consists of a family of research programs intended to help today's time-constrained IT executives make more effective technology decisions. The goal of the program is to offer accurate and timely research that will assist IT executives in mitigating technology risks, maximizing the effectiveness of IT investments, identifying and capitalizing on new opportunities, and bringing forth solutions that are aligned with the organization's business objectives.
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IDC's IT Overview offerings provide customers with a broad understanding of IT spending patterns and market trends at the worldwide, regional and country levels. These data-intensive programs aggregate top-level intelligence to provide invaluable analysis regarding the impact of economic trends on both current and future IT spending in the hardware, software, IT services and telecommunications markets. Through rigorous IDC research methods, these programs ultimately help customers navigate the ever-changing landscape of the ICT market.
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Coverage:
- - BuyerPulse Services Deals
- - Business and IT Consulting
- - Cloud Services
- - HR and Talent Services
- - Outsourcing
- - Support and Training
- - Systems Integration
- » Cloud and Application Services
- » Cloud Services: Overview
- » IT Competitive Dynamics
- » Strategic Sourcing and Cloud Services
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IDC's global services research team - along with our robust forecasting methods and processes - provide an unbiased competitive analysis of service providers and supplies benchmarks for performance and strategic direction. IDC's services research assists IT and service providers with:
Deal tracking and competitive market sharesAn understanding of key criteria for success in application, business process and IT outsourcingA thorough understanding of who is winning contracts and whyAn understanding of the impact of emerging technologiesKnowledge about changing customer priorities and acceptance of new delivery models
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Coverage:
- - SMB end-user buying behavior
- - SMB competitive landscape
- - SMB needs - products and implementation
- - Existing and emerging SMB opportunities
- » Small & Medium Business and Channel Partner Strategies
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IDC's extensive small and medium-sized business (SMB) technology market research provides in-depth intelligence and analysis on this ever changing SMB market landscape. Grounded in comprehensive primary research and unmatched methodological rigor, IDC's SMB research can help technology vendors understand the adoption plans of SMBs, take advantage of emerging partnering opportunities, and create valuable messaging and positioning that will resonate most clearly with their SMB customers.
IDC's software research provides insights and comprehensive analysis of global trends that assist vendors in determining strategic direction, go-to-market strategies, and how to build share. Across the globe, IDC's software research organization is focused on assessing market opportunities and business models for applying technology to help answer questions such as:
How fast are cloud offerings such as platform-as-a-service penetrating software markets?What are the best opportunities for social applications?What is the impact on enterprise software as the workforce becomes more mobile?How are compound products that cross software markets threatening standalone offerings?
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Coverage:
- - Consumer Fixed and Mobile Services
- - Enterprise Communications Infrastructure
- - Service Provider Network Infrastructure
- » Enterprise Network Tracker
- » Telecom Market Drivers and Strategies
- » Telecom Overview
- » Wireless Overview
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IDC is the premier global provider of market intelligence, advisory services, and events for the Telecom and Networks sector. Its mission is to assist Telecommunications and Networking businesses, as well as the investment community, to make tactical and strategic decisions on technology and business planning. More than 150 IDC analysts provide global, regional, and local expertise on Telecom and Networks opportunities and trends in over 40 countries worldwide.
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Coverage:
- - Smart Fair Market Value
- - Smart Analysis
- - Smart Buy
- - Smart Index
IDC Advisory Tools form a growing set of solutions designed to ensure that your technology purchasing and deployment decisions are optimized. IDC has been the pioneer in developing these valuable tools and is the unmistakable leader in the industry for a rigorous, fact-based approach to facilitating IT decision making. Our mission is to turn your IT expenditures into sound investments.
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Coverage:
- - Benchmarking Metrics
- - Vertical Market IT Spending
- - Hardware
- - Services
- - Software
- - Telecom/Networks
- » eHealth Report Series
- » Financial Advisory Service
- » Government Technology Decision Support
- » Government Tracker
- » IT Opportunity: Government
- » IT Wallet
- » Small & Medium Business and Channel Partner Strategies
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IT Executive Programs
IDC's Vertical Markets research group leverages the expertise of both IDC's technology and industry analysts to offer qualitative and quantitative IT spending, vendor share and trend analysis across 18 industry and 7 company-size bands. The products quantify historical adoption, current IT budgets, project future spending and develop vendor share analysis and market entry guidance for 11 hardware, 80+ software, 14+ service and telecom/enterprise networks markets. Interlocked data enables interactive queries by region, technology, industry, company size, and by companies themselves.
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Coverage:
- - CMO Advisory Service
- - Emerging Vendor Program
- - Sales Advisory Service
IDC's Executive Advisory Group provides Marketing and Sales Executives with critical insights and research-based information to plan investments, prepare operations, mobilize resources and measure results.
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Coverage:
- - Competitive Pricing
- - Price Benchmarking
- - Technology Valuation Services
- - Real-Time Pricing
- - Historical Pricing
IDC's pricing evaluation services provide IT manufacturers with the intelligence and analysis necessary to create winning price and product positioning strategies. Clients access real-time list, street, and cost pricing and specifications.
IDC is uniquely positioned in providing:
Reliable pricing intelligence built from strong sourcing relationships with vendors, resellers, distributors, lessors and corporate IT buyers. An analyst team with the skills and data needed to build accurate product comparisons.Detailed pricing analysis tools.
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Coverage:
- - Digital Media
- - Converged Mobile Devices
- - Mobile Solutions
- - Personal Computing
- - Hard Copy Peripherals
- - Hardware Channels
- - Consumer and Business Buyer Behaviour
- - Accessing Cloud Services
- » Digital Media: Tablets and Content
- » Hardcopy Peripherals Tracker
- » Media Tablet and eReader Tracker
- » Mobile Device Tracker
- » Mobile Solutions
- » PC Monitor Tracker
- » PC Tracker
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IDC examines client hardware markets by device, technology, customer segmentation and routes to market. This research provides a comprehensive analysis of evolving and anticipated market trends. IDC also provides insights on buyer requirements and purchase intentions as well as applications, services, adoption and usage patterns. With this knowledge vendors have the tools to more effectively reach customers, support channel partners and achieve sales goals by accelerating inventory turnover rates and reducing product obsolescence. Vendors consistently rely on IDC research and opinion to target opportunities that will drive revenue and market share growth.
Defines the market opportunity in Canada by providing forecasts and segmentation along standard variables (industry, region, size, consumer). Also includes modeling done to address specific customer needs (non-standard segmentation).
Quantifies and monitors market performance, understand market dynamics and compare vendors to their competitors.
Expertise, assessment and recommendations on the adoption, deployment, management and support of technology within end-user organizations.
Spans across industries (manufacturing, retail, finance)
Customer Satisfaction and Customer Experience is focused on best practices and insights into enhancing the customer experience for IT providers' business and consumer customers.
Provides clients with insights into factors influencing buyer behaviour and how end users adopt and acquire ICT.
IDC third party customized content, services and programs to support your broad global media campaigns from targeted hot topic content for your Web site to IDC analyst participation in a wide variety of events including: lead generation, brand positioning, audience generation, market awareness, sales tools and education.
A pro-active approach to ensure the long-term viability and integrity of the business by optimizing resource needs, reducing environmental, energy or social impacts, and managing resources while not compromising profitability.
Provides insight, recommendations and research to ICT vendors on best strategies and practices in entering markets and capturing market share through partnerships and alliances.
Provides clients with insight around the current state of emerging markets, technologies and vendors.
Evaluating the total cost of ownership for the acquisition, use, support and eventual replacement of technologies, for both tangible and intangible benefits.
Pricing and benchmarking evaluates and provides peer comparison on current pricing and contract practices, strategies and trends from both a vendor and end user perspective.
Provides ICT vendors with a structured approach to specific up-to-date insight into competitors’ market coverage, performance, position, strategies, as well as end user perceptions.
