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.
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This IDC PlanScape discusses the importance of data governance in the context of generative AI (GenAI). It highlights the need for a disciplined approach to leverage GenAI in organizations, addressing concerns about data control, infrastructure ...
This IDC Market Note presents the numerous partnerships Oracle unveiled at CloudWorld 2024, Dubai, held on January 23, 2024. The study covers the hyperscaler's developments in hybrid cloud, multicloud, sovereignty, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure ...
Hybrid multicloud adoption continues to grow in the Middle East and Africa (MEA) region. Organizations are choosing between multiple public clouds and an array of hosted and standardized private cloud solutions, depending on factors such ...
A shortage of cloud skills is one of the top challenges facing CIOs in the Middle East and Africa (MEA) region. While product innovations in the region are occurring at a rapid pace, the upskilling of employees is not proceeding at the same ...
This IDC MarketScape presents a vendor assessment for the public cloud infrastructure as a service (IaaS) market in the Middle East and Africa (MEA) region based on the IDC MarketScape model. IDC identified over 35 IaaS providers in the ...
Industry cloud is gaining momentum across the Middle East and Africa (MEA), as it offers collaborative industry environments with fast time to value and built-in compliance for accelerated cloud adoption. This IDC Market Presentation provides ...
This IDC study presents the top 10 predictions and key drivers for intelligent ERP/enterprise applications over the next five years. It highlights the midterm and long-term challenges that enterprise business, technology, and IT teams face ...
The Middle East and Africa (MEA) region's public cloud market is undergoing a dynamic transformation that is reshaping the entire cloud ecosystem. This report offers an in-depth look at how CIOs' perceptions significantly influence their ...
This IDC Market Forecast analyzes the public cloud services market in South Africa over the 2023–2027 period. It covers key market developments and provides recommendations to technology suppliers.
"The adoption of public cloud services ...
Accelerated cloud adoption is not news anymore. In fact, cloud has become one of the most preferred deployment options for organizations in the Middle East, Türkiye, and Africa (META) looking to drive their digital transformation initiatives. ...
Google recently launched a cloud region in Doha in cooperation with the Qatari Ministry of Communications and Information Technology and Qatar Free Zone Authority. This cloud region will support Qatar's ongoing digital transformation initiatives ...
This IDC Market Perspective examines digital sovereignty initiatives in the Middle East, Türkiye, and Africa (META). Interest in this segment is growing in many META countries due to geopolitical uncertainty and threats, with new challenges ...
This IDC Market Note discusses relevant news, announcements, and themes from Oracle's CloudWorld 2023 event held in Abu Dhabi, UAE, on May 3, 2023.
"Public cloud adoption has increased in the Middle East. According to a recent IDC ...
This IDC Market Note provides IDC's key opinions and impressions of e& enterprise's Analyst Day held exclusively for IDC on March 20, 2023.
"For over a decade, we have witnessed the efforts of telecom operators around the globe ...
This IDC Survey document summarizes key cloud adoption trends across Sub-Saharan Africa (Kenya, Nigeria, and South Africa) in 2023. The study draws on IDC's Enterprise Public and Private Cloud Survey, 2023, conducted among ...
This IDC Market Note explores recent hyperscaler efforts to establish and expand cloud regions in the countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). The report covers investments and announcements by AWS, Google, Huawei, Microsoft, and ...
This IDC Survey presents key hybrid cloud and multicloud management trends among organizations in South Africa. The survey was conducted among IT decision makers in the country and concluded in January 2023. It covers areas such as cloud ...
This IDC Survey report covers the key hybrid and multicloud management trends in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region, leveraging the results of a survey conducted among key IT decision makers. It examines the maturity of cloud usage ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight analyzes industry cloud adoption in Sub-Saharan Africa and the growth prospects for adoption over the next two years. It provides a brief overview of industry-specific adoption trends, as well as insights on the ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight analyzes industry cloud developments in the Middle East and highlights cloud growth prospects for the coming two years. It provides a brief overview of industry-specific adoption trends and presents insights into ...