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.
This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation provides a decision tree framework that lays out path for evaluating the cost, timing, and skills factors across the full spectrum of consume/construct options. It provides deeper insights into the additional ...
This IDC Vendor Profile highlights Box's platform approach and GenAI strategy. IDC had the opportunity to interview Box CTO Ben Kus to discuss Box's innovation model and how Box's GenAI strategy helps the company achieve its innovation goals. ...
This IDC Survey is based on the full international set of respondents of IDC's Worldwide CEO Survey, conducted in January and February 2024. This year's theme is "leadership in the age of AI everywhere." ...
This IDC Perspective summarizes IDC's Global CIO Advisory Board discussion on sustainability strategies, particularly in the age of AI everywhere. Speakers included chief sustainability officer, human rights officer, and head of Digital ...
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 Survey is based on the full international set of respondents of IDC's Worldwide CEO Survey, conducted in January and February 2024. This year's theme is "Leadership in the age of AI everywhere." ...
The IDC Perspective emphasizes the increasing IT skills gap affecting global organizations, with 62% of IT leaders attributing missed revenue growth to this issue. The study highlights the urgent need for businesses to plan for AI skills ...
This IDC Web Conference presents a discussion of IDC's 2024 predictions for digital business strategies. Join this IDC webinar to hear from IDC's Worldwide Digital Business team on the key predictions that will impact CIOs and IT professionals ...
This IDC Market Presentation showcases the findings from the CIO Quick Poll that ran in January 2024 and highlights key insights from the IDC analyst team in association with the survey findings. This poll includes 319 CIO respondents ...
本IDC技术买家演示文稿根据对1,975名高级IT和业务领导者的调查数据,提供了IDC数字业务记分卡分析。IDC数字业务记分卡用于评估业务成果提升程度与数字业务模式、数据、运营流程和组织等能力水平之间的相关性,进而评估整体状态,然后根据这些能力和数字业务整体情况找出领先企业相比其他企业的优势所在。
数字业务时代已经到来,现在企业不仅要转变技术和流程,还要以这种转变为基础,构建数字业务模式,提高效率和收入。数字业务领先企业已经在利用能够实现自动化、效率、可持续发展和数字创收渠道的平台。本报告可作为一个讨论框架,推动技术和业务利益相关者就数字业务战略和投资重点开展战略性协作对话。
IDC全球数字业务战略研究总监Craig ...
This IDC Perspective summarizes IDC's Global CIO Advisory Board discussion on 2024 technology expectations and worldwide IT industry predictions. Tony Olvet, group vice president, and Teodora Siman, research manager, at IDC, began by sharing ...
This IDC Market Presentation is the first in a three-part series providing IDC's initial coverage of the generative AI (GenAI) use case landscape. The objective of this document is to help provide a basic definition of a use case based on ...
This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation provides IDC's Digital Business Scorecard analysis, based on survey data from 1,975 senior IT and business leaders. The Digital Business Scorecard evaluates the correlation between the levels of business ...
This IDC Survey is based on the full international set of respondents of IDC's Worldwide C-Suite Tech Survey, conducted in August 2023. Respondents included 895 organizations with 300 respondents from North America, 295 respondents ...
This IDC Survey is based on the full international set of respondents of IDC’s Worldwide C-Suite Tech Survey, conducted in August and September 2023. Respondents included 895 organizations, with 300 respondents from North America, ...
This IDC Web Conference discusses the C-Suite Tech Agenda.
Join us for IDC's C-Suite Tech Agenda webinar as we uncover the latest insights from our in-field Worldwide C-Suite Tech Survey, conducted in September 2023. ...
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 ...
This IDC study provides 2024 top 10 predictions for digital business strategies. These predictions provide guidance for organizations to mature as digital businesses in the next five years. They also lay out IDC’s vision for the 10 most ...
This IDC Market Presentation showcases the findings from the CIO Quick Poll that ran in September 2023 and highlights key insights from the IDC analyst team in association with the survey findings. This poll includes 97 CIO respondents from ...
This IDC Survey is based on the full international set of respondents of IDC's Worldwide C-Suite Tech Survey, conducted in August and September 2023. Respondents included 895 organizations with 300 respondents from North America, ...
This IDC Market Presentation describes the critical drivers — important external forces — that will shape the global business ecosystem and influence enterprise IT and business strategies for the next 12 to 24 months. The 2024 drivers were ...
This IDC Perspective summarizes the discussion shared by IDC's Global CIO Advisory Board members on the CIO-CFO relationship. Data and insights from IDC's CEO Study and IDC's C-Suite Survey was shared by Tony Olvet, ...
This IDC Perspective summarizes the discussion shared by IDC's CIO Advisory Board members in February 2023 on digital business strategies. During the discussion, Craig Powers from IDC presented data and expert insight to the CIOs based on ...
本IDC调查分析以2023年2月开展的全球首席执行官(CEO)调查的所有国际受访者为基础。受访者包括来自北美、亚太和西欧的395家员工人数>100人的组织。本文重点介绍重点支出和技术优先事项,并从地区、行业和企业规模等角度对受访者的观点进行比较。本调研结果分析旨在帮助技术厂商了解如何根据CEO的优先事项变化做出调整,同时也可以作为同行案例供企业CEO参考研究之用。
本IDC调查分析以2023年2月开展的全球首席执行官(CEO)调查的所有国际受访者为基础。受访者包括来自北美、亚太和西欧的395家员工人数>100人的组织。本文重点介绍战略技术合作伙伴和厂商价值特征,并从地区和行业角度对受访者的观点进行比较。本调研结果分析旨在帮助技术厂商了解如何根据CEO的优先事项变化做出调整,同时也可以作为同行案例供企业CEO参考研究之用。