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 Survey collected enterprise insights during 4Q23 into trends in AIOps and observability adoption. The research reveals trends related to spend, observability data management, AI, and tools consolidation and interest in observability ...
This IDC Survey uses survey data collected in late 2023 to analyze the current state of site reliability engineering (SRE) in large enterprise technology organizations. The research provides a quantitative perspective across several key ...
This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation highlights generative AI (GenAI) use case examples for the IT operations discipline. It is focused on 4 key pillars that are end-user experience, service performance, FinOps, and service automation with 17 ...
This IDC Perspective discusses IDC's Future of Digital Infrastructure framework, updated for 2024, that provides enterprise decision-makers with an updated view on how emerging innovations and disruptions across the digital infrastructure ...
NWN Carousel, a Cloud Communications Services & Hybrid Work Solutions provider with over $900 million in revenues, 1,000 employees, and 5,000+ customers, recently announced a new financial partnership with American Securities LLC (“American ...
This IDC Market Note details announcements made at Dynatrace's annual customer conference, Perform 2024, and offers insight into the company's potential impact on the market.
This IDC study provides insight into the worldwide application performance monitoring (APM) software market for 2022, including total revenue, top vendor market share, and growth rates. The study also includes vendor revenue for 2021.
“APM ...
本IDC技术买家演示文稿介绍了13个不同业务职能的关键场景示例。根据IDC的定义,场景是以能交付可衡量成果的技术为基础的企业投资项目。生成式AI(GenAI)应用场景主要分为三类:与工作任务相关的生产力场景;面向特定部门或职能部门(营销、销售、采购等)的业务职能场景;以及面向特定行业的场景。每一类场景都有自己的内用和外用场景,且每个场景都有自己的潜在风险等级和业务影响,任何企业在开始自己的GenAI之旅前,都需要将这些风险和影响纳入自己的场景优先顺序框架中。
ServiceNow released its financial results for 4Q23 and year end. Some of the key outcomes included: ServiceNow exceeded guidance across all 4Q23 top-line growth and profitability metrics, raised 2024 subscription revenue and operating margin ...
The close of Broadcom's acquisition of VMware started a new era for the infrastructure software maker that started an infrastructure revolution that began two decades ago. Broadcom has made many encouraging statements about its planned investments ...
This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation describes examples of key business function use cases for 13 different business functions. IDC defines a use case as a business-funded initiative enabled by technology that delivers a measurable outcome. ...
This IDC Market Note discusses LogicMonitor's push for adoption expansion. LogicMonitor is squarely targeting its observability and AIOps offerings to the hybrid enterprise, combining its infrastructure and network monitoring heritage with ...
本IDC看法介绍了IDC在与企业首席级高管和基础设施与运营(I&O)负责人对话时总是会提到的几个与众不同的关键问题。尽管其中一些问题在2023年年初就已经是优先事项了,但由于商业和经济压力,另外几个课题的受关注度迅速上升。基础设施平台工程、自动化、云成本透明、多云、公有和私有云、大型机现代化等战略性课题,仍将是2024年及以后的重要投资领域。
本IDC报告是一篇IDC IT部门数字化转型(DX)场景分类,旨在帮助IT部门制定业务战略,获得业务上的成功。该分类分为八个战略要务,这些要务指明了全球的IT部门如何构建面向未来三到五年的数字战略。由于IT部门从来没有像现在这样如此看重企业的需求,所以,本报告还为IT部门提供了数字化转型旅程指南,确保每个项目和场景都与企业的长期目标一致。
IDC CIO/CXO信息科技智库服务研究总监Martha Rounds表示:"IT有潜力也有能力成为企业的能力倍增器,它通过利用和调整技术增强企业的创新能力、客户响应能力、供应和生产优化能力、在直接和互补市场中抢占市场份额的能力以及持续交付价值的能力,帮助企业实现业务和运营目标。本报告将帮助业务和IT领导层共同协调业务和IT战略,共育未来成功。"
...This IDC Market Glance describes the observability and AIOps market segments, including subsegments, and displays vendors that are active in each of the segments.
Flip AI has built its own domain-specific large language model (LLM) that connects via read-only access to observability data that enterprises collect from essentially any source, including all of their monitoring/observability tools. If ...
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 ...
At HashiConf 2023, HashiCorp unveiled many new and enhanced product capabilities across the company's portfolio. Features aimed at large, Global 2000 account scalability, adoption, and ease of use were a core focus, with notable investments ...
Cisco's largest acquisition to date offers SaaS (cloud), subscription, and on-premises revenue streams; a direct sales team; and a Global 2000 install base of security and observability solutions, with a strong focus on logs, metrics, traces, ...
This IDC Perspective presents several key issues that have separated themselves in IDC's conversations between C-suite executives and infrastructure and operations (I&O) leaders. Although some of these were priorities in early 2023, ...
This IDC study provides the market size and forecast for the ITOM software market for the years 2022 through 2027, including cuts by geographic region as well as deployment model. It also provides commentary on drivers and inhibitors to ...
ServiceNow's 2Q23 financial highlights included several critical data points that indicate positive progress across multiple fronts. Some of the key results are:
ServiceNow continues to develop and close business at a high rate, and ...
This IDC Perspective provides considerations for establishing a site reliability engineering (SRE) team and suggests key practices for maturing SRE teams and creating and understanding SLIs and SLOs.
"Site reliability engineering continues ...
This IDC Market Note analyzes the four major pillars of business value that IT operations executives can use to measure and report on the progress and success of their initiatives in business terms. CIOs, CTOs, and IT operations leadership ...
This IDC Market Note provides an overview on infrastructure and platform engineering teams and how IT executive teams utilize the practices to deliver improved developer (and customer) experiences, accelerate automation and standardization, ...