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 study profiles European vendors Gaia Generation, Sopht, Greenpixie, Aguaro, and Posetiv Cloud, which have been selected IDC Innovators for providing GreenOps solutions that assist cloud vendors and/or cloud users. IDC Innovators are ...
This IDC Market Presentation aims to provide technology suppliers with an overview of the key business trends shaping European governments in 2024.
- Align product and service offerings to manufacturing organizations' business ...
This IDC Perspective discusses France's strategic approach to digital transformation, emphasizing the need for an "Invisible Bureaucracy" to enhance public services through technology and data utilization. It highlights France's strengths ...
This IDC Survey analyzes EMEA organizations' increasing investment into Tech4Food initiatives to combat food waste and address climate change, leveraging technologies such as IoT and data platforms for traceability and transparency. Key ...
This IDC Survey discusses government-related results from IDC's EMEA Cross-Industry Acceleration Survey, conducted by the IDC European Insights group in October and November 2023. For the survey, IDC interviewed representatives from ...
This IDC Survey discusses government-related results from IDC's EMEA Cross-Industry Acceleration Survey, conducted by the IDC European Insights group conducted in October and November 2023. For the survey, IDC interviewed representatives ...
This IDC MarketScape analyzed the solution offerings and go-to-market strategies of nine professional services firms that serve enterprises across the global railway and airline industries.
"Railways and airlines are embracing the ...
This IDC Survey discusses government-related results from IDC's EMEA Cross-Industry Acceleration Survey, conducted by the IDC European Insights group in October and November 2023. For the survey, IDC interviewed representatives of ...
This IDC Web Conference Proceeding highlights key trends that will guide the EMEA region's digital future and presents the top predictions for EMEA in 2024 and beyond.
The arrival of generative AI (GenAI) technologies has shifted the ...
This IDC Perspective analyzes how European governments are operationalizing sustainability, focusing on the fundamental step of how they are measuring and reporting their environmental impact. The report provides a deep dive on French and ...
This IDC Perspective describes how governments are investing across the data continuum to drive better people skills, greater transparency of data, improved cybersecurity, and more intelligent procurement. Over 50 government executives shared ...
This IDC Perspective provides an overview of a project led by the Port de Bordeaux in which a digital twin has been created of the Garonne River. IDC research highlights that there is an opportunity to use smart city thinking and emerging ...
This IDC Survey provides insights into the current approaches of European organizations on ESG and sustainability and analyzes their budget allowance and priorities when it comes to these topics. Based on results from IDC's Future Enterprise ...
This IDC Survey focuses on respondents from European countries (the U.K., France, Germany, the Nordics, and Italy).The goal of this research was to obtain insights into current approaches to environmental, social, and governance (ESG) and ...
"The EU Data Spaces vision is shaping strategic, technical architecture, and governance principles and practices for data sharing at scale in Europe and beyond. EU member states' data officers are playing a strategic role to turn European ...
This IDC Market Perspective summarizes key announcements during 3DS Industry Analyst Days 2023, held on May 31 and June 1, 2023, at the Dassault Systèmes headquarters in Paris. At the event, Dassault Systèmes executives presented the company's ...
This IDC Innovators study provides an overview of European SMEs providing carbon management software for government institutions. These software solutions are underpinned by data management platforms, aggregate data on direct or estimated ...
This IDC PeerScape analyzes how governments are aspiring to improve citizen experience and trust need to understand individual citizen needs, ensure accessible and inclusive digital services, and offer convenient, secure, interoperable services ...
This IDC Market Note covers insights from Dassault Systèmes' 2023 3DS Analyst Days Conference. This year's event focused on three main industries: manufacturing, life sciences and healthcare, and infrastructure and cities. This IDC Market ...
This IDC Market Perspective describes the European public sector in terms of workplace and culture transformation, drawing from data from a 2023 survey regarding the Future of Work. While hybrid work models continue to spread, government ...
This IDC Market Note describes the current situation in the European public sector in terms of workplace and culture transformation, drawing from data from a 2023 survey around the Future of Work. While hybrid work models continue to spread, ...
This IDC Perspective introduces the idea that governments must manage an exponential amount of data that are vital to their daily activities in fostering citizen-centric services. While sensitive data (particularly top-secret or military ...
This IDC Market Note provides an overview of one of Dassault Systèmes' digital twin offerings, a demo version based on 3DEXPERIENCE Cloud Platform with expertise from partner PTV Group (now Umovity). The demo is focused on the Paris Périphérique, ...
This IDC Market Note describes the situation for the labor market as of the beginning of 2023, following several tech companies' announcements of massive employee layoffs. It analyzes the opportunity it might represent for public sector ...