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.
本IDC研究报告介绍了IDC对2024年CIO议程的十大预测。
IDC CIO/CXO信息科技智库服务咨询与研究集团副总裁Daniel Saroff表示,"这十大预测构成了一份战略性框架,帮助CIO在未来五年内领导其组织度过一个加速变革和颠覆的时期。同时也阐述了IDC对IT部门将要经历的10个重大转变的展望,助力IT高管制定战略规划。"
This IDC study provides IDC's top 10 predictions for CIOs to have on their agenda in 2024.
"These predictions provide a strategic context that will enable CIOs to lead their organizations through a period of accelerated change and ...
本IDC看法指出了促使利益相关者团结一致共建敏捷的关键因素,并为担任企业敏捷领导角色的首席信息官提供了可操作的重要建议。
后疫情时代下消费者信心、业务需求和地缘政治不确定性等迅速变化,要求企业快速反应,极度灵活,且各部门间像一个团队一样合作无间。我们已经进入数字优先经济时代。
要加强韧性虽然已是老生常谈,但它确实是我们应对新情况,保证企业正常运转的根本条件。另外一个条件是,IT部门需要帮助企业预测并充分利用瞬息万变的环境。所以,在企业层面实现敏捷性势在必行。
与软件开发敏捷一样,企业敏捷也将带来巨大优势。软件开发敏捷和企业敏捷即使成功实施也会在后期面临诸多挑战。
首席信息官必须掌控这种不断变化的环境,为部门级敏捷开发的使用提供支持,推动他们不断改进,并总结开发团队的经验教训,指导企业迈向企业敏捷。
要扩大敏捷采用范围,需要对IT领导层和IT部门进行再概念化。本文档列出了在实现企业敏捷过程中必须解决的关键问题,例如:
- 业务部门是否愿意参加这种转变?
- 从运营敏捷到战略敏捷需要哪些必备条件?
- 如何为利益相关者的需求划定优先级?
- 使用什么语言或共享术语表来讨论运营概念?
- 敏捷最适合用在哪些环节?IT部门必须在哪些环节用其他方法补充敏捷?
“现在是将所有这些方法归结为一个统一的敏捷全球团队的时候了。我们需要借鉴企业各个方面遗留下来的最佳实践,创建可在整个企业层面实施的敏捷方法。首席信息官必须发挥领导作用。”IDC ...
本IDC PeerScape报告将探讨两家企业的历程以及他们采用的最新最佳实践——这两家企业都对使用“AI助手”解决实际业务问题有迫切需求。其中一家企业已经依托现有技术,利用创新和独到的方法解决了这个问题,利用人工智能业务助手取得了非凡成绩。
IDC的CIO/CXO信息科技智库服务助理研究顾问Robert Multhaup表示:“企业的人工智能业务助手能捕捉到的业务知识总量将不断增长,持续增强企业的‘组织智慧’,打造企业在行业和市场中的‘数字智能优势’。”
...本IDC研究是有关未来IT能力的五个系列文档中的一个,探讨了构成生态系统管理的重要能力——IT产品和服务能力。本文列出了IT部门各层级(领导层、管理层和员工)生态系统管理关键技能构建的能力发展路线图,阐述了当前、近期和未来要做的各项任务。这一路线图可以帮助IT负责人在IT部门内部构建有效和富有韧性的生态系统管理技能。
“生态系统管理能营造良性循环。随着企业新客户的增多,企业也将从越来越多的数据中受益。这也为采用新的、更好的分析和人工智能技术提供了支持,进而提升接触点和流程,最终实现业务增长。利用生态系统管理,将获客与更强大的接触点联系起来。有计划地将生态系统打造成一个获客模型,利用其速度和创新优势。”—— ...
This IDC Perspective identifies the factors that are critical to aligning stakeholders around the concept of agility, with key, actionable takeaways for CIOs in an enterprise agility leadership role.
The post-pandemic era has been ...
This IDC study provides organizations across a wide range of industries with the top 10 predictions and underlying drivers that we expect to impact operations in 2022 and beyond. Technology leaders and their counterparts in operations ...
This IDC study provides 10 predictions for the worldwide intelligent ERP market.
"The digital-first world requires businesses to leverage their enterprise applications in a manner that enables their businesses to run smarter, be more ...
This IDC study provides manufacturers with the top 10 predictions and underlying drivers that we expect to impact manufacturers' IT investments in 2022 and beyond.
"Disruption remains a consistent theme brought up in conversations ...
本文介绍IDC Energy Insights分析师团队对2021年全球油气行业的展望,以及未来五年的规划。
IDC Energy Insights全球油气研究总监Andrew Meyers表示:"宏观环境对现代油气企业的技术选择产生了前所未有的影响,对此,企业不能坐视不理。"
This IDC PeerScape relates the story and emerging best practices of two organizations — both of which express the dire need for an "AI companion" to address real business problems. One of the teams discussed in this study has tackled this ...
This IDC Perspective, part of a five-report series on capabilities for future IT, explores the essential IT products and services capabilities that make up ecosystem management. This document lays out the capability development road map ...
This IDC study provides an assessment of prominent SaaS and cloud-enabled oil and gas EAM application vendors and discusses what criteria are most important for companies to consider when selecting a software solution.
"Oil and gas ...
This IDC study provides IDC's top 10 predictions for digital transformation for 2020.
"Direct digital transformation (DX) investment is growing at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 17.5% from 2020 to 2023 and is expected to approach ...