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 PlanScape explores why unit-based costing is important, what it is, who the stakeholders are, and how an IT organization, in close partnership with the business, can exploit it to optimize IT performance.
"For the IT function ...
This IDC PeerScape delves into how three IT leaders are building an agile digital decision-making framework within the IT scope, by focusing on the following practices:
- Ensuring key decision-makers develop expertise in managing ...
This IDC PlanScape addresses how to build a digital business portfolio that will expose and highlight the value streams that are necessary to deliver business objectives.
"As IT ventures into the world of digital business, a new level ...
This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation provides a quick situational overview and actionable guidance for tech leaders on how to use frontline, field, and operations technology to address business problems and foster innovation.
Frontline, ...
This IDC PlanScape focuses on achieving product excellence in the digital business.
"The new competitive differentiating capability of an enterprise is how good you are at building and delivering digital products and services," says ...
This IDC PeerScape will describe how a digital leader measures customer experience value and how two other highly respected traditional businesses are adopting many of these customer-centric measurement best practices.
There are three ...
This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation of the Future IT Blueprint provides a quick situational overview and actionable guidance to better deliver continuous customer and organizational value by shifting from a functional to a product-oriented ...
This IDC PlanScape describes the process of leveraging deep automation for solving complex business problems.
Robert Multhaup, adjunct research analyst for IDC's IT Executive Programs (IEP), states, "AI needs to solve real business ...
This IDC PlanScape focuses on why, what, who, and how an enterprise can excel in assessing and expressing its digital value. Digital value is discussed in the context of the new concepts and best practices of the value stream management ...
This IDC Perspective delves into the digital business culture of Netflix as a fine example of a successful digital business with an extraordinary digital culture. Real-life examples are shared through the stories of Fonz Morris, lead product ...
This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation of the Future IT Blueprint provides a quick situational overview and actionable guidance to mature the organizational approach to innovation in an operationalized, ethical, and secure way, with data as the ...
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 ...
本IDC PeerScape将展示四家最早采用VSM的企业的IT领导者和创新者的经验和最佳实践,现在他们已经将VSM打造成为了业务改进计划的关键工具。这些最佳实践的主题分别是:
- 发现、定义并差异化具有最大业务价值的价值流
- 召开CXO团队碰头会,围绕端到端价值流产品/服务重调业务
- 构建IT产品和服务,持续交付与价值流相关的能力
"IT通过为客户提供数字产品和服务创造业务价值;这是他们的工作,即使没有人管也会这么做。价值流管理提供了一种管理框架,在该框架下,将转向一种以产品为导向的业务模式,目标只有一个:创造价值。"——IDC ...
This IDC PeerScape discusses the strategies and best practices of four CIOs and senior IT leaders who are preparing their organizations to confront the business vagaries of 2023.
"2023 will test how agile and resilient IT and the ...
This IDC Perspective provides insights into a new dimension of automation that is emerging: deep automation. With deep automation, you can automate almost anything that is highly "teachable," using language. That means AI can be applied ...
This IDC PeerScape will expose the experiences and best practices of four early adopter IT leaders and innovators that are exploiting VSM as a key tool in their business improvement programs with the following best practice themes:
- Discover, ...
本IDC PeerScape报告将探讨两家企业的历程以及他们采用的最新最佳实践——这两家企业都对使用“AI助手”解决实际业务问题有迫切需求。其中一家企业已经依托现有技术,利用创新和独到的方法解决了这个问题,利用人工智能业务助手取得了非凡成绩。
IDC的CIO/CXO信息科技智库服务助理研究顾问Robert Multhaup表示:“企业的人工智能业务助手能捕捉到的业务知识总量将不断增长,持续增强企业的‘组织智慧’,打造企业在行业和市场中的‘数字智能优势’。”
...本IDC PeerScape综合了经验丰富的首席信息官、首席技术官和其他从业者的已有经验和智慧,探讨他们为管理和优化云运营而形成的最佳实践。优化不单单包括优化云本身的技术托管功能(IaaS),还包括提升高效率软件开发平台(PaaS)创建能力,在其上利用具有竞争力的软件解决方案创造实实在在的业务价值。本文将从以下三个维度讨论最佳实践:
- 使用混合云管理解决方案优化云运营。
- 通过策略和标准实现工作负载敏捷性。
- 实施基于云的软件工厂,优化新品开发。
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This IDC PeerScape delves into the FinOps journey of four very different FinOps practitioners that wrestle with the cloud every day. From digital natives to traditional manufacturing companies to corporate giants with massive cloud operations, ...
本IDC PeerScape报告将探讨几位IT主管为平衡云创新和云控制而采取的有效治理措施。本报告将从首席信息官这一领导角色的高度评估这些云治理措施,供首席技术官和财务人员在组建团队时参考,并提供解决这一困局所需的治理实践。
IDC CIO/CXO信息科技智库服务助理研究顾问Bob Multhaup表示:"云财务和运营管理需要一个由专业人员组建的专门团队共同做出平衡和优化云效率与效益的决策。"
This IDC Tech Buyer presentation is designed to provide enterprises with a guide for FinOps adoption. Data and statistics are included to assist executives with justifying FinOps within an organization. FinOps is more than just a tool. It ...
This IDC PlanScape elucidates the four key steps that the CIO and management team can initiate to develop these pervasive intelligence strategies and capabilities as outlined below. There will be a cost impact, but taking these steps will ...
This IDC Perspective focuses on the value of investing in the management practice called FinOps, examining not just these issues surrounding cloud spend but also creating a FinOps governance culture that will optimize cloud value across ...
This IDC study discusses the modernization of IT financial management.
"Most organizations recognize the need to better control their cloud spend and the need to define a new financial governance model to support the demands of a digital ...
This IDC PeerScape describes the frontline, field, and operations technology practices for future IT.
"The leaders featured in this document have developed unique frontline cyberphysical systems, which create for them a clear digital ...