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.
The IDC Perspective explores the transformative potential of AI in IT sourcing and procurement, highlighting its ability to enhance efficiency, productivity, and decision-making. With examples from McKinsey, Deloitte, and SAP Ariba, the ...
This IDC Perspective assesses the impact of AI on the business consulting profession and provides guidance for those who engage or contract with consultants. AI is changing how organizations work, particularly knowledge-intense enterprises. ...
This IDC Tech Buyer Survey Spotlight examines how AI investment requirements impact CIO influence and IT skills shortage. With a dramatic growth in generative AI (GenAI), CIOs have become a key influencer for corporate AI investments. However, ...
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 Tech Buyer Presentation provides a quick situational overview and actionable guidance to accelerate the sourcing, procurement, and contracting of IT products and services by employing agile concepts and processes.
Many IT ...
This IDC Tech Buyer Survey Spotlight highlights the results of IDC's 2023 CIO Sentiment Survey, which found that most CIOs are continuing to hire IT staff, despite difficult economic conditions. Over two-thirds of CIOs continue ...
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 Perspective discusses the need for CIOs to find and retain qualified IT professionals.
According to Dr. Ron Babin, adjunct research advisor, IT Executive Programs (IEP) at IDC, "One in 10 new jobs will require digital skills, ...
This IDC Perspective discusses the need for CIOs to find and retain qualified IT professionals. CIOs are facing increasing demand for IT staff required to deliver digital transformation projects. Declining numbers of college graduates will ...
This IDC Perspective provides IT sourcing and procurement guidance for CIOs who are under pressure to deliver value in challenging macroeconomic times.
According to Dr. Ron Babin, adjunct researcher, IDC, "Unpredictable economic times ...
This IDC Perspective discusses the importance of strategy in IT sourcing and procurement in a digital world. Sourcing and procurement of IT products and services have become a strategic requirement in the digital era. A collaborative working ...
This IDC Perspective provides an overview of key issues in developing third-party service contracts in light of a predicted rise in contract IT labor.
"Enterprises increasingly rely on external IT labor either to manage defined projects ...
这份IDC研究报告旨在帮助首席信息官评估他们当前具备的技能和能力的成熟度,同时帮助他们确定需要进一步提高的领域,以增加他们成功领导IT和推动企业发展的可能性。本研究还可以帮助IT负责人在开展复杂变革时能分清工作的轻重缓急。此IDC框架旨在帮助首席信息官和业务部门高管立即行动起开,实现他们及整个企业想要和期盼的未来。
“随着全球非常态愈演愈烈,首席信息官必须重新评估他们的领导力,以更好地为企业服务,”IDC CIO/CXO信息科技智库服务副总裁Serge Findling表示:“技术既关乎生存,也是成功的关键。”
...本IDC看法探讨了首席信息官如何做好准备,应对新要求,以及如何从IT的ESG影响的角度实施可持续发展。将人与自然的利益置于纯粹的商业利益之上是全球面临的一个重大课题,在这样的背景下,ESG迅速崛起,成为企业与政府的当务之急。所有企业都必须努力降低对环境的破坏,提高社会意识,在企业设定ESG目标和实现有影响力的成果的过程中,首席信息官可以为制定ESG战略和评估方法做出实质性贡献。首席信息官在实施ESG战略和计划方面拥有得天独厚的优势,能够借助第三方和生态系统的力量,跨企业各个部门实施ESG战略和计划;IT可通过技术清查减少对环境的影响,提高社会风险基准意识并实现相关成果,同时建设强大的可持续发展治理。
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This IDC Perspective explores how the CIO can prepare for new requirements and operationalize sustainability in terms of IT's environmental, social, and governance impact. As the world is challenged to place people and the planet ahead of ...
This IDC Perspective highlights how environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues are important for a variety of stakeholders, each with their own set of interests. Today's ESG requirements are an ongoing evolution of societal expectations ...
This IDC Perspective examines the perhaps nuanced practice of "anti" agile procurement that may be a challenge for CIOs and the resulting contracts that become inflexible during a period of rapid technological change. We offer advice on ...
This IDC study is written in the spirit of helping CIOs assess the current maturity level of skills and abilities they bring to the table while also helping them identify areas in which they need to become more adept to improve the odds ...
This IDC study provides guidance to CIOs and IT executives on how to manage the IT labor shortage and the associated risks. IT labor has always been in short supply, especially for new and emerging technologies. Now, after weathering a global ...
This IDC study provides guidance for future IT in agile IT sourcing and procurement.
"Flexibility, speed, and responsiveness in a digitally competitive world have become imperatives for the future IT organization. To support future ...
本プレゼンテーションでは、今後12~24か月の間にグローバルなビジネスエコシステムを変化させ、企業のIT戦略やビジネス戦略を形成する重要なドライバー(重要な外部要因)について説明している。IDCでは、2022年の外部要因として、世界各地で進行中の新型コロナウイルス感染症(COVID-19)の感染拡大の影響を受け、世界経済や社会情勢が引き続き混乱していることを指摘している。IDCでは、PESTEL + B(政治、経済、社会、技術、環境、法律、ビジネス)というパラダイムを用いて、毎年外部ドライバーの検討を行い、それらの力がもたらす範囲を特定している。2022年のドライバーでは、地政学的リスク、サイバーセキュリティの課題、デジタルファースト、接続性、ESG、労働力の変革、顧客エンゲージメントの変化などの破壊的な影響に触れている。
本プレゼンテーションは、『Critical ...
This IDC Perspective discusses the CIO's role in supporting Enterprise Agility. In the past several years, the enterprise beyond IT has recognized the benefits of Agile concepts. The value of Agile concepts has taken root in many enterprises ...
This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation describes the critical drivers — important external forces — that will alter the global business ecosystem and shape enterprise IT and business strategies for the next 12–24 months. IDC's 2022 external drivers ...
This IDC Perspective examines the importance of cybersecurity ethics, the CIO's role in ensuring that ethical decisions are made, and a framework for ethical cybersecurity decisions. Both CIOs and cybersecurity professionals must understand ...
This IDC Perspective recommends that senior government technology procurement executives adopt the principles of Agile procurement to speed the procurement process, respond to constituent requirements, and provide flexibility in a rapidly ...