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 application and professional services vendor ratings by 23 application areas from IDC's 2024 SaaS Path Survey.
The survey polled 2,875 organizations across 5 continents and 11 countries ...
本IDC看法将详细探讨生成式AI(GenAI)定价模式,为IT和采购人员针对各类GenAI部署场景制定预算提供参考。由于各个技术堆栈间的相互依赖关系,生成式AI的定价格局非常复杂。此外,GenAI市场相对较新,意味着套餐方案和价格都在迅速变动,会引起一定程度的市场波动,难以制定规划或预算。率先推出AI技术的供应商采用了低折扣策略,表明定价模式还有待提升。建议企业对非关键场景采取谨慎的“观望”态度。随着市场的不断发展,企业应根据灵活性、透明度和可及性来评估提供商,综合考量各种定价结构。
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This IDC ProductScape provides technology buyers with a detailed list of essential capabilities for configure, price, quote (CPQ) applications that are focused on selling professional services through primarily B2B channels. It includes ...
This IDC ProductScape provides technology buyers with a detailed list of essential capabilities for configure, price, quote (CPQ) applications that are focused on selling recurring digital services through primarily B2B channels. It includes ...
This IDC ProductScape provides technology buyers with a detailed list of essential capabilities for configure, price, quote (CPQ) applications that are focused on selling transactional products through primarily B2B channels. It includes ...
This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation focuses on the drivers and trends in software monetization, incorporating survey data and analyst insights.
Overall, the success, performance, and flexibility of the technology-driven as-a-service model ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight leverages results from IDC's SaaSPath Survey over six years (2019–2024) to show trends in responses. SaaSPath is IDC's premiere SaaS application global benchmarking web survey, which was fielded in ...
This IDC Market Perspective provides clients of IDC's SaaS Path program with access to the SaaS Path 2024 Vendor Ratings Visualization and Analysis Portal. This portal is a perfect "playground" for you to explore all the applications and ...
This IDC Market Presentation provides an executive summary of the worldwide findings from IDC's 2024 SaaS Path program.
IDC's 2024 SaaS Path program polled 2,875 respondents across 5 continents and 12 countries to collect information ...
This IDC Innovators study highlights emerging vendors revolutionizing pricing optimization for recurring and usage-based revenue models, addressing the complex challenges of setting competitive, value-based prices in an increasingly subscription-oriented ...
This IDC Pivot Table banner book includes data for IDC's SaaS Path 2024 program, including the following 8 of the 23 functional application markets: accounts payable (AP); accounts receivable (AR); enterprise resource planning (ERP); finance; ...
This IDC Pivot Table banner book includes data for IDC's SaaS Path 2024 program, including the following 8 of the 23 functional application markets: CLM, EAM-ALM, facility management, M&A software, payroll, procurement, PSA, and SCM.
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This IDC Pivot Table banner book includes data for IDC's SaaS Path 2024 program, including the following 7 of the 23 functional application markets: core HR, employee experience, learning experience management (LXM), PLM/CAD, subscription ...
This IDC Pivot Table banner book includes data for IDC's SaaS Path 2024 program, which provides comprehensive data and guidance on the mind and journey of the SaaS buyer, including a deep dive into 23 functional application markets: accounts ...
This IDC Perspective provides a definitive overview of the generative AI (GenAI) pricing models to help IT and sourcing professionals budget for GenAI deployments across multiple types of use cases. The generative AI pricing landscape is ...
This IDC Market Glance on the pricing ecosystem shows vendors offering key pricing technology and services that can help an organization set and manage price.
This IDC Survey Spotlight leverages results from IDC's 2021, 2022, and 2023 Industry CloudPath Survey. IDC's Industry CloudPath Survey is IDC's premiere global benchmarking web survey on cloud, which ...
This IDC PlanScape examines ecosystem orchestration platforms and how they could benefit your organization.
"If your organization currently sells or plans to sell first- and third-party technology services (SaaS, on-premises software, ...
This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation provides a view into how AI technologies will enhance the "Art of the Possible" in monetization, by summarizing 145 vendor supplied AI use cases across the revenue life-cycle management process. In October ...
This IDC Perspective discovers the experience that U.K. healthcare provider, Spire Healthcare, had with transforming the way the company organizes, manages price, and sells its catalog of over 2,500 offerings across its 39 hospitals. Core ...
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This IDC Market Analysis Perspective encapsulates IDC's insights and data on the state of monetization, including business model trends and drivers, monetization technologies and vendors, future trends, and advice for monetization technology ...
This IDC Market Glance provides a list of ecosystem orchestration platforms (EOPs) by focused use case: telecom/communications, technology distributor, and vendor marketplaces. EOPs address the complexity of managing, orchestrating, and ...
This IDC study provides IDC's forecast for worldwide software business model revenue through 2027.
"The trend for software companies to adopt the subscription business model continues to grow quickly at an 18.2% 2022-2027 CAGR and ...
This IDC Market Perspective provides clients of IDC's SaaSPath program with access to the SaaSPath 2023 Vendor Ratings Visualization and Analysis Portal. This portal is a perfect "playground" for you to explore the relationship between buyers' ...