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 study provides a five-year forecast for the threat intelligence market for the 2024–2028 period.
"Threat intelligence is an indispensable element of the cybersecurity arsenal," says Monika Soltysik, senior research analyst, ...
This IDC Market Note focuses on how Cisco intends to bridge the chasm between authentication and access eliminating what it characterizes as "blind trust" created by the amalgamation of too many point solutions. Cisco Identity Intelligence ...
This IDC Perspective discusses the implications of security tool sprawl, which happens over time and creates a host of unanticipated security issues. It can make it harder to identify and mitigate security risks, increase alert fatigue, ...
This IDC study presents forecast data for the worldwide cloud-native XDR market for 2024–2028.
"XDR vendors must balance the high-wire act of correlating multiple points of telemetry while providing effortless end-user investigation ...
This IDC study presents a forecast for the worldwide SOAR and firewall automation market for the 2023–2028 forecast period.
"Naturally, you cannot help but wonder what GenAI means for SOAR vendors and for firewall automation vendors," ...
This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation provides a use case taxonomy for cybersecurity and trust.
IDC's Cybersecurity and Trust team understands that generative AI (GenAI) will be a disruptive force in various cybersecurity technologies. ...
This IDC Perspective explains why network detection and response (NDR) platforms are an important addition to businesses that operate their own security operations. IDC believes that organizations of any size would receive excellent value ...
This IDC Survey looks at results from IDC's North American Tools/Vendors Consolidation Survey. In November and December 2023, IDC conducted a tools/vendor consolidation survey to gather insights regarding end users' current vendors ...
This IDC study presents a forecast for the worldwide network detection and response market for 2024–2028.
"NDR is like the cool kid in high school that is well thought of and can hang with any clique," observes Chris Kissel, research ...
This IDC study presents IDC's taxonomy for security products. It provides definitions and a comprehensive detailed framework of security solutions in eight technology category markets. This taxonomy forms the foundation for IDC's market ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight highlights the results of IDC surveys conducted, in November and December 2023, to gather insights regarding the current vendors and tools environment of end users. A total of 508 North American respondents participated, ...
This IDC Market Glance offers a visual snapshot of the cloud-native XDR and artificial intelligence (AI) security analytics market. It defines key segments, outlines the competitive landscape, and provides an illustrative list of participating ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight features data from IDC's Tools and Vendors Consolidation Survey. The insights represent the number of security tools and vendor contracts within an organization by employee size. This online survey ...
This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation discusses emerging security technologies. Security is an "organic" discipline, constantly evolving to improve the efficiency and efficacy of existing approaches and adapting to respond to the creative new ...
This IDC Market Perspective explores the three intricacies of threat intelligence: strategic, operational, and tactical. It differentiates between these aspects of intelligence and highlights their unique capabilities and applications. By ...
This IDC study provides the market share data for the threat detection and investigation response (TDIR) market in 2022.
"In 2022 and moving into 2023, we could see all cybersecurity companies moving from point products and toward ...
This IDC Perspective explores the landscape of open source and license-free security tools. The distinct characteristics and use cases of these tools are examined, along with guidelines for navigating this space. The document also includes ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight features data from IDC's Endpoint Security Survey. As extended detection and response (XDR) is the evolution of EDR with additional telemetry gathered to enhance threat detection and response capabilities, ...
This IDC study provides market share data for the global security orchestration automation and response (SOAR) and firewall automation markets in 2022.
"In 2022, it felt like there was an exponential leap in what security automation ...
This IDC study provides market share data for the network detection and response market in 2022.
"They say that rhythm and blues is two chords and the truth, and the ability to look for detections that seem to be concrete evidence ...
On September 21, 2023, Cisco announced its intent to acquire Splunk. When it closes, Cisco's largest acquisition will deliver SaaS (cloud), subscription, and on-premises product revenue streams. A direct sales team with experience calling ...
This IDC Market Analysis Perspective (MAP) delivers an overview of the threat intelligence software market. It is designed to provide an overview of IDC's definition, use cases and capabilities, competitive landscape, buyer trends and insights, ...
This IDC study presents a summation of all worldwide cloud-native XDR 2022 documents as well as market trends known into June 2023.
"Major cybersecurity companies have made significant investments in XDR, and in the last year, automation ...
Generative AI (GenAI), deeper Mandiant product integrations, and cloud infrastructure security enhancements were leading security themes at Google Next 2023. Cybersecurity collaboration with an open ecosystem was stressed to ensure the confidentiality, ...
This IDC Market Analysis Perspective (MAP) provides a perspective on the business environment and best practices of vendors in network detection and response (NDR), security full packet capture, threat intelligence providers (TIP/TISS), ...