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 business and technology leaders guidance regarding the most effective deployment of artificial intelligence (AI) in their cybersecurity programs. The guide offers enterprises actionable insight for ...
In a remarkable turn of events, start-up OpenAI's board ousted the company's CEO and Co-Founder Sam Altman, and kicked off a period of drama and uncertainty about how the company itself, and its generative pretrained transformer (GPT) technology ...
This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation provides tech leaders with guidance on key considerations for building value for the organization with generative artificial intelligence (GenAI). The guide outlines a path for getting started with GenAI ...
This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation provides tech leaders with a plan for managing and developing the skills of their tech workforce, ensuring the organization has or can develop the technology skills for the digital enterprise. Having a plan ...
This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation provides CIOs with strategy and techniques to evolve their leadership skills to better guide their organizations through and toward change. CIOs will gain a structured change leadership framework to help ...
This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation provides CIOs with tools to build or expand FinOps teams and processes to address cloud costs while getting the maximum ROI. Cloud technologies are the foundation of nearly all digital innovation and must ...
These event proceedings were presented at the IDC Directions conferences in Boston and Santa Clara in March 2023.
The next chapter of the digital journey will focus on using tech to scale the digital business as enterprises seek to ...
本IDC技术买家演示报告为首席信息官提供战略和建议,帮助他们通过行业生态系统创造更多价值并激发企业创新。本文将为首席信息官提供各种工具和方法,帮助他们将合作伙伴网络建设成为强大系统,增加产品和服务的种类和价值,扩大受众,培养强大的竞争优势,并实现持续创新。其中包括同行建议和一些明确步骤,帮助首席信息官评估合作伙伴现状,并探索将这些现状应用到行业生态系统以应对产品、供应链、数字体验和客户偏好变化带来的复杂性的战略。
“行业生态系统能提供的产品、服务和体验是单个企业依靠自己的力量很难甚至不可能实现的。”IDC未来行业生态系统和产品创新研究副总裁Jeffrey ...
本IDC技术买家演示报告为首席信息官提供战略和建议,帮助他们从企业基础架构中获得更多价值。技术负责人通过本报告可以详细了解如何规划更有战略性、更灵活的基础架构;如何将基础架构有效用于数字平台;如何更新流程,将重点放到业务和技术成果上。
基础架构的目标已从传统的为基础设施提供支持和成本与复杂性管理转向实现数字化转型计划。战略基础架构规划可对场景进行分类、确定优先级、排序和评估,助力企业完成重大战略性业务,创造更高的价值。技术平台必须满足当今的需求,同时具备足够的灵活性,以适应不断变化的情况且可持续扩展。首席信息官将学习到如何改造和重塑战略基础架构,使其具备更高的适应能力、灵活性、抗风险能力,以及如何为DevOps扩展到BizOps和BizDevOps做好准备。
"创建基础架构本身对企业没有价值。基础架构只有在用来影响决策时才能实现价值。"IDC助理研究顾问Mike ...
This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation provides CIOs with tools to address technical debt (unfunded liabilities) and prevent it from becoming a barrier to meeting enterprise goals. The planning guide includes peer advice and clear steps for assessing ...
本IDC技术买家演示报告是IDC未来企业规划指南系列的一部分。每个模块都提供了重点提要、有针对性的建议和同行洞察,以指导用户完成数字化转型过程的关键环节。
现在证明IT对业务的贡献,仅靠过去那种重在衡量基础设施和应用程序管理效率的指标已经不合时宜了。所以,领先的IT部门现在都开始跟踪符合公司愿景和使命的高层次目标和可量化成果。
本指南为首席信息官(CIO)提供了制定有效的未来IT衡量指标的方法以及衡量重大事项的工具。除了就如何选择最有效的关键绩效指标(KPI)为首席信息官提供建议外,本指南还介绍了一个框架,帮助首席信息官了解如何将目标和关键结果(OKR)与业务影响KPI挂钩,推动企业采用新技术和创新。
IT效率和效益测量为CIO增加或修改衡量指标以充分体现IT为业务增长以及数字化转型成果所做贡献提供了基础。
如果IT衡量指标不明确、不固定、不便理解且没有进行很好的宣传,那么在迈向数字化转型的过程中,人们对CIO的信任将越来越低。“如果没有衡量指标,客户就会往最坏处想——这是CIO必须要面对的事实,”IDC ...
This IDC Survey examines the 2023 cloud budget outlook. IDC's Global Technology Thought Leadership group conducts a monthly survey (IDC's Future Enterprise Resiliency and Spending Survey) to understand how IT and business ...
This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation provides CIOs with strategy and advice to gain more value and spark innovation in their organization through industry ecosystems. They will gain tools to evolve partner networks into powerful systems that ...
随着企业及其所在的生态系统(包括数字化基础设施、产品、服务和体验)的不断发展,领导和治理这样的企业和生态系统需要解决几个关键任务,这些关键任务即是本IDC技术买家演示的主要研究内容。本规划指南为首席信息官提供了成长为未来首席信息官的框架和具体步骤。要重塑首席信息官角色,首先要了解IT部门的未来。必须评估当前的领导模式,将之与适应性规划、IT能力、数字化韧性和敏捷危机管理等新需求做比较,找差距,并将后续措施沟通到位。
首席信息官不仅要负责和领导数字化战略,还要依靠自己的力量成长为业务主管。首席信息官最重要的职责仍然是技术领导人,但现在已扩大到领导企业创新和战略。首席信息官必须领导IT转型。
未来IT领导层需要高超的IT能力,专注于实现新旧两个世界的最佳平衡。这意味着IT领导层要持续校准数字化路线图,始终坚持建设未来数字能力,提升企业转型成熟度。IDC未来IT领导力模型为打造成熟的运营模式、扩大生态系统和在各种职责间无缝切换提供了可操作指南。
IDC数字化转型研究副总裁Serge ...
This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation provides CIOs with strategy and advice to gain more value from their enterprise architecture. Technology leaders will gain a deeper understanding of frameworks to plan more strategic and flexible architecture, ...
本IDC演示报告向首席信息官介绍数字化韧性框架以及全面提升整个企业韧性运营的具体步骤。最具韧性的企业将人才、基础设施、创新流程和可持续发展相结合,打造可随机应变的企业,从变化中找机会。
采用了一体化、全企业转型战略的企业在疫情期间展示出了强大的数字化韧性和业务韧性。
根据IDC的定义,数字化韧性是指企业利用数字化能力迅速适应业务中断的能力:不仅能恢复业务运营,还能适应市场环境的变化,在危机中加速成长。
IDC数字化韧性框架从6个组织维度评估了数字化韧性,这些维度对应于每个企业在应对冲击时面临的主要挑战。
数字化韧性规划指南重点介绍了建设具有“反弹式前进”能力的企业的关键着力点,包括可持续发展和供应链;将数字化基础设施投资重心放在成果上;在“大辞职”潮背景下管理人才;以及在多维度企业级技术战略和管理中担任领导角色。
“首席信息官应将这一过程视为一个在企业数字化转型(DX)大业中发挥领导作用的机会,将数字化加速和数字化韧性应用到业务战略的最前沿。”IDC数字化转型研究副总裁Serge ...
This IDC Market Presentation provides insights that IDC is sharing with executives at a number of enterprises, technology providers, and investment entities. Waves of interconnected economic, political, and social disruptions threaten to ...
本IDC报告是IDC未来企业规划指南系列的一部分。每个模块都提供了重点提要、有针对性的建议和同行洞察,以指导用户完成数字化转型过程的关键环节。
DevOps扩展和自动化实践对于保持竞争力至关重要。
在现代化的数字生态系统中,最终用户对数字化的期望要求企业使用DevOps开发实践更快地发布软件更新。大多数企业现在正在使用或计划采用DevOps。然而,其中许多工作仍处于试点阶段。DevOps扩展和自动化实践对于在经济复苏过程中保持竞争力至关重要。采用加速应用交付和DevOps的团队更有利于利用软件创新和敏捷改善企业的疫情应对措施。数字化韧性是未来企业的核心原则,未来企业是IDC对数字化转型的终极愿景。
本IDC规划指南为首席信息官详细介绍成功扩展敏捷DevOps方法的步骤。您将学到如何化解常见挑战的策略和同行建议。要成功扩展DevOps,需要开展企业文化转型,本报告将为您介绍文化转型相关的指标、工具和安全方法以及基本步骤,供您参考。
以文化变革为目标,专注于提供业务价值。
IDC认为,DevOps是数字创新供应链的重要组成部分,包括方法、流程和底层技术。扩展DevOps需要文化变革,有适当的基础和来自高层的支持。“高管的支持和领导层的认可对于建立团队互信、打破旧有的组织孤岛至关重要。”IDC ...
This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation discusses how the future of work is not just the purview of human resources (HR). The future of work is an enterprisewide imperative driven by senior executives and executive boards. It requires cross-functional ...
This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation is part of IDC's Future Enterprise Planning Guide series. Each module delivers key overviews, targeted advice, and peer insights to guide users through key parts of the digital transformation (DX) process. ...
This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation provides CIOs with a digital resiliency framework and concrete steps on the path to a more resilient operation, enterprisewide. The most resilient organizations put together talent, infrastructure, innovative ...
This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation focuses on the crucial tasks of leading and governing an evolving enterprise and ecosystem of digital infrastructure, products, services, and experiences. This planning guide provides CIOs with a framework ...
This IDC Planning Guide provides technology leaders with a framework and steps to ensure the successful pursuit of future IT. You'll get strategies, best practices, and benchmarks to address common challenges. There ...
本調査レポートは、今後5年間にIT産業で起こるであろう10項目の予測(Prediction)と主要な促進要因(ドライバー)をまとめたものである。デジタルファーストの世界で成功するために必要なテクノロジーを定義、構築、管理する中で、企業のIT部門が直面する中期的および長期的な課題を明らかにしている。
「デジタルは今や私たちの世界に恒久的かつダイナミックに定着しており、IT/通信業界自体も今後数年間で最も大きな変化を遂げると考えられる。CIOは、as-a-Serviceや成果中心のテクノロジーデリバリーモデルに対応した調達、開発、運用チームを構築しなければならず、ICTプロバイダーは、企業がデータを共有、利用、管理し、その価値を高めることへの支援が主な業務となる」と、IDC ...
This IDC Planning Guide provides technology leaders with concrete approaches for a zero trust security model. You'll get strategies and advice to find the right path forward. Priorities will depend on risk and current situation, often affected ...