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 examines how the generative AI data value chain underpins the efficacy of training and inference workstreams for generative AI technologies.
"Mastering the generative AI data value chain is central to enabling the ...
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 MarketScape on worldwide analytic stream processing software vendor assessment for 2024 discusses the increasing need for real-time analytic solutions in businesses and growth of the streaming analytics software market. This document ...
This IDC PeerScape discusses the importance of setting appropriate expectations for pilot projects, partnering with vendors for solution design and implementation, and ensuring clarity of requirements in line with vendor product capabilities. ...
This IDC Perspective discusses the importance of GenAI Engineering in enterprises, highlighting its potential to drive business growth and innovation. It provides an in-depth analysis of the current state of GenAI adoption, the challenges ...
This IDC Market Glance describes the technologies required to implement a data control plane architectural solution and the software vendors that supply relevant products.
"The data control plane provides data intelligence, governance, ...
This IDC PlanScape discusses the importance of data quality management. The dimensions of data quality may seem simple, but data quality issues are complex.
"Dirty data is often a symptom of deeper people, process, and technology ...
This IDC Market Glance offers a high-level view of the emerging generative AI (GenAI) technology and services landscape, with a focus on three categories of technologies: model build and orchestration, application development and deployment, ...
This IDC Market Glance offers a high-level view of the emerging generative AI (GenAI) applications landscape. It highlights key vendors of productivity applications, business applications, and industry-specific applications. IDC defines ...
This IDC study provides IDC's 2024 top 10 predictions for data and analytics technologies applied to data analysis and decision support, augmentation, and automation use cases.
"Although data and analytics technologies have existed ...
This IDC study provides IDC's 2024 top 10 predictions for enterprise intelligence trends, encompassing topics of decision intelligence; generative AI (GenAI); enterprise intelligence technologies; data skills; literacy and environmental, ...
This IDC Market Perspective looks at the current availability of artificial intelligence in the data intelligence and integration software market and explores opportunities for the use of generative AI in data intelligence and integration ...
This IDC Market Glance offers a high-level view of the emerging generative AI (GenAI) technology and services landscape. It highlights key technologies in infrastructure, foundation models, GenAI platforms, GenAI applications, and GenAI ...
This IDC Market Analysis Perspective provides insight into the current and future state of the worldwide data integration and intelligence software market. Analysis of current market shares, growth, and trends is viewed in the context of ...
This IDC Survey provides insight into the state of data streaming in modern times. Survey analysis includes what is important to practitioners focused on streaming, compared with database management and data engineering practitioners. The ...
This IDC Market Note provides a perspective on the recent announcements made at the Databricks Data+AI Summit held in San Francisco in June 2023.
"Technology-buying organizations are increasingly looking to the vendor community for ...
This IDC Market Note provides an overview of IBM's Think on Tour Toronto event held on June 21, 2023. The event provided Canadian participants with IBM's viewpoints on a variety of topics (intelligent automation, security, sustainability, ...
This IDC study defines, sizes, and forecasts the worldwide master data management (MDM) competitive software market.
"Master data management solutions can be difficult to implement and maintain, but growth of the market in recent years ...
This IDC Market Note provides a perspective on the recent close of the Talend acquisition by Qlik. It positions the close in the context of how IDC is seeing an enterprise intelligence architecture emerging, which brings data and data control ...
This IDC PlanScape clearly defines why data engineering is important, what data engineering is, how data engineering is implemented, and who is involved in the discipline of data engineering in modern data environments. It also addresses ...
This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation highlights IDC's enterprise intelligence conceptual architecture as a tool for considering all potentially valuable software to utilize and activate data and to evaluate road maps of technology vendors offering ...
This IDC study provides a breakdown of the 2022 worldwide data integration and intelligence software market by vendor revenue shares and delivers insight into the market condition.
"The data integration and intelligence software market ...
This IDC study provides the five-year forecast for the data integration and intelligence software market and delivers insight into drivers of market growth.
"We are at the dawn of a new era, one that is built on a new platform that ...
This IDC Survey provides insight into the state of data engineering in modern times. Survey analysis includes insights into what types of tools, coding languages, and technologies data engineers are using in modern data environments and ...
This IDC Perspective is the fifth year of a "top OSS projects" report, and the candidates to be covered continues to grow. Whereas in the first three years, we covered five OSS projects, in 2022, we expanded that to 10 projects and categories ...