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 Spotlight presents key findings from IDC’s U.S. Healthcare Provider IT Survey, focusing on acute/inpatient, ambulatory/outpatient, and post-acute/long-term care settings and technology buyers.
“Healthcare providers ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight presents key findings from IDC’s U.S. Healthcare Provider IT Survey with a focus on acute/inpatient (e.g., hospitals, regional medical centers, medical centers), ambulatory/outpatient (e.g., outpatient centers, ...
This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation provides a road map over three time horizons to prioritize deployment of each of the digital transformation use cases found in IDC's Worldwide Digital Transformation Use Case Taxonomy, 2024: ...
This IDC Perspective provides a road map for healthcare organizations to navigate implementing ePA solutions leveraging FHIR standards. Healthcare providers can achieve seamless data exchange between ePA systems, EHRs, RCM, payer systems, ...
InterSystems Global Summit 2024 took place in National Harbor, Maryland, June 9–12. With sessions ranging from AI, FHIR, and interoperability regulations to data management, there was something for everyone as executives, subject matter ...
This IDC Survey provides insights into the anticipated health IT spending trends among hospitals and medical centers in the United States. The data highlights critical areas of increased investment and reveals significant opportunities for ...
This IDC Survey provides insights into the anticipated IT spending trends among outpatient centers, clinics, and physician groups/practices in the United States. The data highlights critical areas of increased investment and reveals significant ...
This IDC Survey provides insights into the anticipated health IT spending trends among long-term care hospitals, inpatient rehabilitation facilities, skilled nursing facilities, and home health agencies in the United States. The data highlights ...
This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation describes examples of generative AI (GenAI) use cases for healthcare. IDC defines a use case as a business-funded initiative enabled by technology that delivers a measurable outcome. For the healthcare industry, ...
AWS hosted two events in Boston, its Healthcare & Life Sciences Analyst Summit on May 1 and its Life Sciences Leaders Symposium on May 2. The Analyst Summit included a small group of AWS Healthcare and Life Sciences (HCLS) leaders and ...
The 2024 Oracle Health Summit and Health Industry Analyst Summit occurred from April 23 to 24 in Nashville, Tennessee. This IDC Link features key highlights shared by Oracle Health executives with customers, analysts, and the industry regarding ...
This IDC Perspective offers key takeaways and insights gleaned from the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) annual conference, which took place March 11–15, 2024, in Orlando, Florida. HIMSS 2024 showcased significant ...
This IDC Market Note examines Oracle's recent FY 3Q24 earnings and evaluates the company's progress around the key themes. Throughout 2024, IDC will monitor Oracle's quarterly earnings releases to evaluate the company's progress in several ...
The NVIDIA GTC 2024 event ran from March 17 to 21, 2024, and was held in San Jose, California. This link features key highlights of relevance to healthcare and life sciences shared by Jensen Huang, CEO and founder of NVIDIA, whose keynote ...
This IDC Perspective discusses the future of robotic-assisted telesurgery and its potential for improving healthcare delivery. It highlights its benefits, such as enhanced surgical accuracy, improved patient outcomes, and increased access ...
This IDC TechBrief explores the adoption of healthcare data platform solutions. It provides insights into the underlying technologies, investment drivers, and critical risk and success factors. In the evolving healthcare landscape, creating ...
This IDC Market Note provides coverage and commentary on Oracle's FY 2Q24 earnings release. There is continued progress in several core areas that are central to Oracle's future success. IDC examines Oracle's recent FY 2Q24 earnings and ...
This IDC study presents the top 10 predictions for the healthcare industry in Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) (APEJ) for the next five years. In the process of aligning with a “care anywhere” approach, healthcare organizations prioritize ...
This IDC MarketScape evaluates U.S. EHR solution vendors in terms of strategies and capabilities that support next-generation EHRs, which IDC describes as having "surpassed traditional systems of record by developing into comprehensive and ...
This IDC Market Glance provides a landscape view of the key technology markets for 2023. Vendors in each subcategory may evolve and change each year to create a representative collection.
"2023 ushered in digital advancements, including ...
This IDC study provides executives across the globe with actionable insights and analysis for future healthcare industry scenarios.
"The 2024 worldwide healthcare industry predictions show that the industry is at an inflection point, ...
This IDC Market Note highlights the progress Oracle has exhibited in several core areas that are central to Oracle's future success. IDC also examines Oracle's recent FY 1Q24 earnings and looks for indications of progress around these key ...
In a pivotal move, Oracle demonstrated how it has seamlessly combined generative AI (GenAI) and voice-driven capabilities into its acquired Cerner electronic health record system at The Oracle Health Conference (OHC), which took place on ...
This IDC Perspective serves as a guide to generative AI (GenAI) for healthcare providers and offers strategic insights into the technology, market-related trends, and actionable recommendations for technology buyers. GenAI is a transformative ...
This IDC Market Glance highlights the healthcare provider clinical IT solutions for 3Q23. "Healthcare providers gearing up for 2024 are bracing themselves for a multitude of intricate challenges that range from safeguarding against cyberthreats ...