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 Market Presentation provides a detailed analysis of the market and competitive landscape in cloud services in the People's Republic of China from January to June 2022 (1H22). This study covers key findings and revenue snapshots ...
This IDC Perspective mainly studies application platform as a service (aPaaS) dominated by Chinese enterprise resource planning (ERP) application vendors. It provides technology vendors with market views on aPaaS from the dimensions of market ...
This IDC PeerScape cites and introduces many common challenges facing enterprises in industries, such as large-scale traditional equipment manufacturing and iron and steel smelting, in the construction of informatization systems over the ...
该IDC Perspective市场观点报告主要围绕着以中国ERP应用厂商为主的应用平台化云服务。从市场的发展动态、当今企业的主要诉求以及应用平台化云服务的价值等维度,为技术厂商带来应用平台化云服务的市场观点。随着数字化经济的快速发展,企业的诉求也在不断地变革,特别是在数字化转型的过程中,IT的系统建设不再像以往一样以单点应用为入口,而更希望能够以平台的整体思想去构建。低代码、DevOps、微服务等新兴技术也同时加快了应用平台化云服务的快速发展,同时也在加速企业的创新的速度。因此,公有云厂商也在加速对平台的投资和推广。
IDC中国企业级研究部高级研究经理徐文婷认为:“中国市场上的应用平台化云服务核心是对于企业应用层提供一个能力的支撑,使得应用系统变更更加的灵活、柔性和可扩展。应用平台化云服务应该是能够适用于企业的业务场景,而不是一个单纯的工具,因此,产品功能的完备程度,以及对于场景的适配性,都成为决定应用平台化云服务的健硕性的标准。云计算、微服务和低代码等技术的快速发展,为企业应用开发带来了新的尝试,一体化应用平台化云服务的搭建,能够帮助企业避免‘板块化’和‘分割式’的应用建设和信息孤岛,能够为企业统一数据,管理API等,提高企业的灵活度和效率,助力企业完成业务创新和数字化的转型。”
...本报告主体内容包括四个部分,第一部分分析了中国公有云服务市场整体发展现状和趋势,包括2021年的市场规模和未来5年预测;第二部分按照基础设施即服务(IaaS)、平台即服务(PaaS)和应用即服务(SaaS)三个细分市场展开,分析了各市场的发展概况、市场构成和发展趋势;第三部分分析了IaaS、PaaS和SaaS市场的竞争格局,包括2021年Top10厂商的增速和份额等;第四部分分析了IaaS和PaaS市场的行业分布,并对互联网行业和非互联网行业的动态进行了解读,旨在为云服务商、IT技术服务商提供决策参考。
"在疫情、供应链短缺、宏观经济增长动力不足等诸多不稳定因素的影响下,中国公有云市场压力加剧,发展态势逐渐从高增长趋于较快稳定增长。过去三年,互联网行业对公有云服务市场的贡献度逐渐降低,但与此同时,非互联网政企行业的数字化转型持续深化,他们正在经历的是组织、流程和业务的重塑,是供应链、产业链和价值链的变革,这为公有云市场带来了新的发展机遇,也对云服务商及其生态提出了新的考验。公有云服务商在关注产品和技术的同时,还必须强化生态建设,打造丰富的行业化场景化解决方案,提升服务交付和后服务质量,赋能千行百业的数字化转型成功。"——IDC中国云和服务研究组助理研究总监刘丽辉表示。
...这份IDC PeerScape报告引用并介绍了来自于大型传统设备制造业、钢铁冶炼业等相关的企业,在信息化系统多年的建设中积累的诸多常见挑战,并且,从数字化平台等相关解决方案的实践案例入手,为行业用户提供了相关的指导建议,供读者借鉴与参考。
IDC企业级应用软件高级研究经理徐文婷表示:"在传统制造行业的数字化转型过程中,面对整体的信息化架构建设时,要从一个整体的平台体系去规划和构建,以便于帮助企业实现数据的打通,避免新的信息孤岛的形成。从技术提供方的角度,同时也要不断地加强统一平台的建设,形成从应用到平台全面的打通,能够快速帮助企业实现数据统一的规划和智能的分析,助力企业数字化转型的成功。"
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