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 Perspective explores sustainable software engineering (SSE) and how organizations can elevate and implement SSE practices. SSE is emerging as a crucial discipline, emphasizing energy efficiency and environmental sustainability in ...
This IDC Market Perspective discusses the app-centric engineering framework, which integrates DevOps, CloudOps, and DataOps to orchestrate application success. Applications are the lifeblood of digital organizations. At the same time, IT ...
This IDC Market Presentation explores the key challenges and opportunities that lie ahead for the French (and European) services markets and provides actionable insights and recommendations for services providers to succeed in the new era ...
This IDC Market Perspective discusses the main topics and trends that emerged at the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2024. The conference, which took place in Paris on March 19-22, reflected the dynamism of the European cloud-native open-source ...
This IDC Perspective highlights AI partner ecosystem and roles. Artificial intelligence (AI) will have a massive impact as companies invest heavily in technology and begin integrating AI models in their existing business processes. AI will ...
This IDC Perspective discusses AI transformation of services and related engagement models and employee impact. The proliferation of AI has surged through multiple aspects of business operations. From IT operations and management to line-of-business ...
This IDC Market Presentation provides the European cloud-native and modern app development 1Q24 market update. The aim of the research is to provide an understanding of current market dynamics including end-user sentiment and attitudes, ...
This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation provides details of 25 use cases that feature the intersection between generative AI technologies and software development. The software development use cases are categorized into the following 5 groups: ...
This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation provides key findings from IDC's European Accelerated App Delivery Survey and European CloudOps and Data Grovernance Survey, which track end-user investment sentiment ...
This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation highlights IDC's top 10 developer- and DevOps-related predictions for the next five years in Europe. It discusses the regional implications of IDC's worldwide developer and DevOps 2024 predictions, highlighting ...
This IDC Market Presentation provides key findings from several European surveys that track end-user investment sentiment and spending on cloud innovation and services. The aim of the research is to provide a first look at GenAI adoption ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight provides insight into the state of DevOps platform usage across Europe. A DevOps platform is defined as a single solution from one vendor that provides multiple integrated DevOps tools. This IDC Survey Spotlight ...
This IDC Market Perspective discusses key takeaways from IDC's UKI and German DevOps events. On September 25 to 27, 2023, in St. Albans, U.K., and on October 12 in Munich, Germany, IDC hosted its eighth DevOps Summit to hear from industry ...
This IDC Web Conference Proceeding discusses how organizations can connect for business success and build responsibly through collaboration. It was presented during the 2023 IDC UK DevOps Summit in St. Albans, U.K.
On September 25 ...
This IDC Market Presentation was delivered as an IDC Webinar on October 24, 2023. It analyzes the requirements of IT services providers in the context of changing market needs in a cloud-centric world, resulting from the evolution of digital ...
This IDC study provides IDC's top 10 predictions for developers and DevOps for 2024 and beyond.
"The new wave of generative AI (GenAI) is washing over the industry, with the impact on developers and DevOps professionals at the leading ...
This IDC Market Perspective examines Fujitsu's ActivateNow 2023 customer technology summit in Tokyo in July 2023. As part of this event, IDC met with the senior leadership team including CEO Takahito Tokita, Chief Strategy Officer Tim White, ...
This IDC Market Perspective discusses IDC's observations on Red Hat's moves in the modern development and application delivery market through a European lens, including capabilities, positioning, and product market introductions over the ...
This IDC Market Perspective discusses the key takeaways from the European DevOps Enterprise Summit held on May 15 and 16, 2023, in Amsterdam. The two-day event explored the evolution of DevOps strategies, including current challenges and ...
This IDC Market Note provides IDC's key analysis and takeaways IBM Consulting's two-day Analyst Summit in London in June 2023, where we heard from execs, partners, and most importantly, clients on IBM Consulting's differentiators and key ...
This IDC Market Perspective highlights a series of announcements made by Red Hat at Red Hat Summit 2023 that both build on existing initiatives and expand the company's footprint into new territory.
"Given the excitement surrounding ...
This IDC Market Perspective discusses the concept of shift-left sustainability/software engineering and development that is sustainable by design. It explores why this topic is gaining importance to support future digital business strategies ...
This IDC Market Presentation discusses worldwide sentiment and takes a deeper dive to understand how European sentiment differs in relation to the following:
- Level of difficulty in establishing strategy, vision, and culture for ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight provides insight into how digital innovation investments across Europe are being impacted by current market conditions. It provides a view of the impact on European organizations as well as a heat map in terms of ...
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