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 provides a definitive overview of the generative AI (GenAI) pricing models to help IT and sourcing professionals budget for GenAI deployments across multiple types of use cases. The generative AI pricing landscape is ...
This IDC Perspective highlights the focus on customer success services at Oracle CloudWorld 2023.
"With most enterprises struggling to complete 100% of digital projects, CIOs and business managers are relying on technology providers ...
This IDC Perspective highlights expanded capabilities for existing customers in SAP Cloud Application Lifecycle Management, as well as access the SAP Business Transformation Center.
"With most enterprises struggling to complete all ...
This IDC study provides IDC's top 10 predictions for the future of digital infrastructure for 2024.
"The digital infrastructure ecosystem will be heavily impacted by GenAI in the coming years," explains Mary Johnston Turner, research ...
This IDC Market Analysis Perspective provides a detailed overview of the success, support, and deployment services landscape for technology providers. It considers the overall condition of the market in 2023, the key competitors, and evolving ...
On August 28th, Cisco announced the availability of its newly launched Cisco Lifecycle Services. The suite of services can enable enterprise customers to accelerate business, technology, and operational outcomes with measurable ...
This IDC Market Note focuses specifically on services announcements and the impacts that these announcements will have on Cisco and its partners and customers.
Cisco Live 2023 showcased multiple product and services announcements framed ...
This IDC Market Note shares observations from the Dell Technologies World (DTW) event, held in the week of May 22, 2023, in Las Vegas, Nevada, with a specific focus on the Dell Technologies Services portfolio. Dell Technologies made numerous ...
This IDC Market Note contextualizes several announcements and sessions held at SAP Sapphire in Orlando, Florida, May 2023.
"A prominent theme at this event was how AI-powered business processes must extend from the core of the enterprise ...
This IDC Market Glance provides an overview of the worldwide business and IT services vendor landscape segmented by the 14 IDC services foundation markets in our services taxonomy. This IDC Market Glance shows the top 15 vendors by share ...
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) announced on May 2, 2023, a change in the name of its services organization to meet expanding requirements across its diverse customer base. The HPE Pointnext organization will now be HPE Services, and the ...
These event proceedings were presented at the IDC Directions conferences in Boston and Santa Clara in March 2023. It highlights the evolution of customer success services and presents IDC's recommendations for delivering customer success. ...
Last week Lenovo introduced Premier Support Plus, an expanded support offering that builds on Lenovo Premier Support for organizations that are looking for robust preventive support capabilities paired with fast access to help when needed. ...
These event proceedings were presented at the IDC Directions conferences in Boston and Santa Clara in March 2023.
As more technology providers adopt customer success programs, many are struggling to define best practices for services ...
This IDC Perspective discusses the enterprises' need to keep downtime out of a mission-critical environment. Complex mission-critical applications and IT environments as a whole need to be supported differently than they have in the past.
"Mission-critical ...
本IDC研究报告将介绍对IT行业未来五年的十大预测及其关键驱动因素。报告重点介绍了企业的业务、技术和IT团队在定义、构建和治理致胜数字优先时代所需的技术时面临的中长期挑战。
IDC全球研究副总裁Rick Villars表示:"未来几年,领先的技术提供商必须发挥主导作用,帮助企业利用创新技术渡过当前的颠覆风暴。"
This IDC Survey Spotlight examines some of the key barriers for organizations as they work to improve the resiliency of their digital infrastructure. It offers suggestions for support providers looking to help IT organizations, with a focus ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight compares IT spending data from the March 2022 Future Enterprise Resiliency and Spending Survey, Wave 2, with the same results from the September 2022 Future Enterprise Resiliency and Spending Survey, ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight examines some of the key areas where enabling automation is a key criterion for selecting IT vendors and service providers. With IT asset service and support an important area of consideration, IDC believes support ...
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。
「今後数年間、主要なテクノロジープロバイダーは、企業が革新的なテクノロジーを使って現在の破壊的変化の嵐に対処できるように、主導的な役割を果たす必要がある」と、IDC ...
This IDC study provides IDC's top 10 predictions for the future of digital infrastructure for 2023.
"Digital infrastructure provides the underpinning for digital business agility and innovation," explains Mary Johnston Turner, research ...
This IDC study presents the top 10 predictions and key drivers for the IT industry for the next five years. It highlights the midterm and long-term challenges that enterprise business, technology, and IT teams face as they define, build, ...
This IDC Market Analysis Perspective provides detailed information on the success, support, and deployment services landscape for technology providers. It considers the overall condition of the market in 2022, the key competitors, and evolving ...
This IDC study provides IDC's 2022 top 10 predictions for the future of digital infrastructure.
"Digital infrastructure spans compute, storage, network, infrastructure software including virtualization and containers and the automation, ...