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 Perspective is an overview of design thinking, a design process that is widely and successfully used outside of IT. It is intended for government CIOs who are looking for tools to help improve chances for success with the ...
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。”
...This IDC Perspective is an introduction to the use of business-enabling APIs to create new program, services, and compliance opportunities; grow constituent audiences; and rapidly scale program services development capabilities. It is designed ...
This IDC Perspective is the CIO's guide to the future of government ecosystems. It is designed to help government CIOs lead with an eye to the digital disruptions that are occurring on an accelerating basis. This document discusses approaches ...
This IDC Perspective is the government CIO's guide to the future of connectedness, which will be a source of exponential challenge as CIOs move from pandemic response to enabling a robust next normal that allows access to everything, everywhere, ...
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 PeerScape provides insights into four U.S. federal agencies that are generating real program and business value with AI; some technologists within these agencies are sharing the lessons learned and inviting open collaboration with ...
This IDC Perspective emphasizes how integral services use cases are critical to the swift and timely achievement of "agile IT," a foundation for future government agency effectiveness. Integral services provide the technology foundation ...
This IDC Perspective provides a step-by-step guide for government CIOs and digital transformation leaders who want to deliver value as part of a business transition through post-pandemic normalization and its latent program and budget impacts. ...
This IDC study provides a recommended context and path for government CIOs and chief procurement officers (CPOs) to transform the process of delivering projects through a unity of focus, reaping the benefits of cost and schedule efficiency. ...
This IDC study provides a blueprint for establishing and maintaining a continuous learning environment in a government IT organization. It provides guidance that will enable IT organizations to cultivate a learning culture that positions ...
This IDC Perspective is part 2 of a guide for the future of work in government. It presents a readiness assessment to help determine whether agency IT organizations have the capabilities to support future of work initiatives. The changing ...
This IDC Perspective is a guide to the "future of work" in government. It is designed to help government CIOs understand what is changing in the nature of government work and workforces, what roles they can and should play in evolving work ...
This IDC Perspective provides government CIOs with a framework to select the right metrics as an accelerator for innovation projects and initiatives. Defining metrics for IT innovation initiatives can be challenging; they are often complex ...
This IDC Perspective, written for government CIOs and senior IT leaders, discusses IT partner networks. Instead of the traditional approach of stitching together separate and often siloed digital projects to fulfill a digital response and/or ...
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 ...
This IDC Perspective addresses outdated savings strategies that are disconnected with agency program and business needs; these strategies are starting to backfire across most vertical industries including government. Progressive innovation ...
This IDC Perspective provides government IT executives with a framework for applying various strategic workforce planning techniques that will help their respective organizations proactively identify and successfully address critical strategic ...
This IDC Perspective discusses the context for critical sourcing actions needed by government IT organizations to adapt to the pandemic-induced changes. In a short period of time, the COVID-19 pandemic has upended the global economy and ...
This IDC Perspective identifies the opportunity for government CIOs to develop new IT strategies aimed at supporting and enabling digital transformation in the post-COVID-19 environment and discusses in detail the elements of effective IT ...
This IDC Perspective provides rationale and strategies to governments for developing a plan for IT culture transformation and discusses tactics that have worked across all industries. It includes guidance to government CIOs on how to make ...
This IDC Perspective discusses changing public sector IT operating models and provides a step-by-step approach to leading government IT transformation (ITX). The document highlights the conditions for building an effective IT transformation ...
This IDC Perspective explores ways to measure the work of external digital transformation (DX) providers that offer digital products, services, and integration to government. These providers will be critical to digital transformation success, ...
This IDC Perspective discusses the vital importance of working with program line-of-business executives on government IT organizational transformation. It discusses considerations and obstacles specific to program executives and lays out ...
This IDC Perspective examines the soft skills required for digital transformation (DX) in public sector organizations. The successful implementation of digital transformation projects hinges on more than just the underlying technologies. ...