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 offers an update on the latest market trends in Thailand's datacenter operations and colocation services, exploring a wide range of topics such as investment strategy, capacity planning, and considerations from ...
This IDC Survey provides insights into the major datacenter deployment trends that are impacting enterprises in Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) (APEJ). This presentation delves into the APEJ datacenter trends related to enterprise deployment, ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight showcases the continued shift toward high-performance compute environment that has caused a surge in demand for AI graphics processing units (GPUs) in infrastructure assets in the Asia/Pacific region. This spotlight ...
This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation looks at the potential impact of generative AI (GenAI) on facilities. Specifically, it looks at several specific, in-depth use cases for generative AI within six facilities subcategories: connected maintenance, ...
This IDC study contains IDC's future of connectedness predictions for 2024 through 2029. The outlook is presented through the lens of the 10 predictions that make up the framework for technology-related initiatives in the years ahead. This ...
This IDC Presentation is an accompanying piece to the main Future of Connectedness FutureScape 2023. It provides specific recommendations for two tech vendor personas: tech sales leaders and tech marketing leaders.
"As we witness a ...
This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation discusses the top 10 predictions and key drivers for the IT industry in the areas of sustainability and environmental, social, and governance (ESG) for the next five years in Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) ...
This IDC Market Presentation piece is an accompanying document to the IDC FutureScape: Worldwide Sustainability/ESG 2024 Predictions — Asia/Pacific (Excluding Japan) Implications report and ...
This IDC Market Analysis Perspective (MAP) provides IDC's view of the datacenter and colocation services market in India. This report provides a summary of the market, competitive analyses of key players, insights into adoption and buyer ...
This IDC Playbook for Tech Sales Leaders provides a comprehensive overview of the current market landscape, anticipates upcoming trends, and delivers valuable guidance tailored for datacenter operators in Asia/Pacific.
The document ...
This IDC study estimates and forecasts DC market growth in Asia/Pacific by looking at power capacity (megawatt), total area (millions of square feet), and number of racks. These three factors indicate how much DC supply is being demanded ...
This IDC Market Share offers a snapshot of the Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) (APEJ) converged systems market and vendor performance during 2Q23. This study paints the key market trends concerning the adoption and evolution of converged ...
This IDC Market Presentation investigates the datacenter operations and colocation services market trends for New Zealand by exploring the most important topics in the market that concern the shift to hybrid and multicloud, sustainable datacenters, ...
This IDC study utilizes the IDC MarketScape framework to examine, analyze, and evaluate the vendors operating in the Asia/Pacific datacenter services market. The research employs a combination of quantitative and qualitative methods to assess ...
This IDC study provides IDC's 2024 top 10 predictions for future of connectedness.
"The enterprise road map to becoming agile and connected will be one that requires a continued shift toward cloud connectivity, where ubiquitous access ...
This IDC Survey provides insight into the major datacenter deployment trends that are impacting enterprises in the Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) (APEJ) region. Insights from this report show the most significant challenges faced by datacenter ...
This IDC Market Analysis Perspective provides IDC’s view of the datacenter and colocation services market in South Korea. This report provides a summary of the market, competitive analysis of key players, insights into adoption and buyer ...
This IDC Market Presentation investigates the datacenter operations and colocation services market trends for Southeast Asia (which we refer to as the ASEAN region in this report), exploring topics such as multicloud, green datacenters, ...
This IDC study estimates and forecasts DC market growth in Asia/Pacific by looking at power capacity (megawatt), total area (millions of square feet), and number of racks. These three factors indicate how much DC supply is being demanded ...
본 보고서에서는 2023년 국내 데이터센터 코로케이션 서비스 시장 동향을 파악하고, 이를 기반으로 각 데이터센터 공급업체들의 주요 서비스 및 차별화 전략을 알아본다. 2023년 국내 데이터센터 코로케이션 서비스 시장은 데이터 수요 및 ChatGPT의 등장, 기업의 디지털 현대화의 일환으로 확대되고 있는 멀티/하이브리드 클라우드 환경, 그리고 기업의 지속가능성에 대한 목표를 달성할 수 있는 데이터센터에 대한 수요 등이 동인으로 ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight showcases the continued shift of cloud infrastructure assets from enterprise owned datacenters to colocation in Asia/Pacific. This spotlight extracts a key datapoint from a question asked in the IDC APEJ Datacenter ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight shows a contrast in optimization levels with respect to specialized compute workloads in datacenters located at core and at edge. While edge computing has gained traction in recent years, the majority of AI/machine ...
This IDC Survey uses data from IDC’s 2022 Asia/Pacific (Excluding Japan) (APEJ) Datacenter Operations Survey conducted in December of the same year. This survey involved 910 respondents across 13 countries in APEJ from the ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight aims to provide a further look into the priorities of datacenter operators in the Southeast Asia region. This document is in conjunction with the IDC Survey: 2023 Sustainability Trends and Insights for Datacenter ...
This IDC Market Presentation investigates how relevant Singapore and Hong Kong are in serving as datacenter hubs in Asia/Pacific, identifies the similarities and nuances when operating a datacenter in the two markets, and explore themes ...