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Sells tech market research, forecasts and vendor data, with IDC Quanta putting that intelligence inside work tools.

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IDC: data, price, alternatives
At a glancechecked Oct 29, 2026

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Use

For
Tech vendors planning go-to-market, CIOs evaluating vendors, and investors tracking market trends
Activity
Actively maintainedsite updated 4 days ago
Company
IDC Research, Inc. · since 1964 · ~4,000 peopleterms of service · per Wikidata
Used for
  • plan go-to-market strategy against competitors
  • evaluate technology vendors before making purchases
  • track market trends using analyst forecasts
Worth knowingcomputed from what we read · each with its source
  • On the web since 1964, older than 100% of its shelfINITE Atlas
  • Has an MCP server (1 in the registry)public registry →
The companyeach fact with its source · read Oct 30, 2026
  • Founded1964per Wikidata
  • People~4,000per Wikidata
  • HeadquartersUnited Statesper Wikidata
  • Industrymedia industryper Wikidata
Your datawhat they publish, each line with its page · read Oct 30, 2026

These are IDC's own statements, read from its pages. We did not audit them. A line that is missing was not found on the pages we read; it does not mean the practice is absent.

How a program reaches itfound, not claimed · read Oct 30, 2026
  • MCP serverhttps://mcp.idc.com/mcpnot in the official registry: answered when asked
  • Stateanswers, requires sign-inchecked 2026-10-30
  • Address to connectmcp.idc.com/mcp

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Each line is something a program found when it went looking: the registry entry, the server's own answer, a spec that parses. A missing line means we did not find it, not that it does not exist.

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Questions this page answers
  • What is IDC?

    Sells tech market research, forecasts and vendor data, with IDC Quanta putting that intelligence inside work tools. It is listed in the Atlas under Analytics and made by IDC Research, Inc.

  • Who is IDC for?

    Tech vendors planning go-to-market, CIOs evaluating vendors, and investors tracking market trends

  • Is IDC still maintained?

    Actively maintained: site updated 4 days ago.

  • Who owns IDC?

    IDC is run by IDC Research, Inc., per its terms of service (2026-10-30).

  • Is IDC safe?

    We do not audit vendors. What IDC publishes, read 2026-10-30: SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, GDPR, CCPA stated on its trust center.

  • What are alternatives to IDC?

    In Analytics, by use: Dovetail AI, Clootrack, VergeSense, AirROI, Predixsport.

How we read a tool

No votes, no reviews, no vendor claims. Every week a crawler reads each tool's own site and a few public registries, and the words on the card are bands over what it read.

  • Use: visits to the site (estimated), installs from npm and PyPI, presence in Chrome's usage report.
  • Activity: the newest release on GitHub, npm or PyPI; the newest dated page on the site; open roles on a public jobs board.
  • Price: the vendor's own pricing page, read with the date. A figure is printed only when it is on that page.
  • The line and the use cases are written by us from the homepage, one tool at a time, and refused when they repeat the vendor's marketing.

How AI assistants read each site — the reading vendors ask us about — is on each tool's own visibility page.

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