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 Perspective highlights the key takeaways from the National Retail Federation (NRF) Big Show 2024 focused on the strategic importance of modernized digital infrastructure technologies in overcoming key challenges that retailers face ...
This IDC Tech Buyer Survey Spotlight discusses retailer plans to increase investment in modernized infrastructure technologies, including cloud, edge, and networking, to better support key priorities of becoming more data driven; delivering ...
This IDC Perspective highlights the key takeaways from the National Retail Federation (NRF) 2024: Retail's Big Show focused on the strategic importance of new point-of-sale (POS) and payment offerings in enhancing omni-channel customer experience ...
This IDC Perspective discusses the National Retail Federation's (NRF's) Big Show and Expo 2024, emphasizing the significant role of technology in digitizing and automating retail business to keep pace with consumers' omni-channel shopping ...
This IDC study provides a comprehensive view and assessment of various digital and physical security technologies adopted by retailers to secure their operations in an omni-channel retail world and better prepare for the threats of the future. ...
This IDC Market Presentation serves as our regional Industry Buyers Handbook, which helps technology vendors understand what drives buyers within the North American retail industry during their technology purchasing decisions. Vendors can ...
This IDC Perspective defines a framework for a modern technology "super platform" for the store that allows retailers to become more agile and able to innovate faster in their never-ending quest to improve business performance by better ...
This IDC Market Presentation highlights key findings and insights regarding a noticeable shift by retailers in their approach to digital infrastructure, including cloud, edge, and network connectivity, with new investments and rethinking ...
This IDC study presents 10 predictions relevant to the payments industry. Each prediction is shaped by a common set of key drivers and provides a planning tool for technology leaders and their line-of-business (LOB) counterparts to use in ...
This IDC study provides IDC's top 10 predictions for the retail industry in 2024.
Leslie Hand, group vice president, IDC Retail and Financial Insights, emphasized, "Retailers are not investing in small step changes to their portfolios ...
This IDC Market Presentation summarizes key findings gathered from IDC's 2023 Global Retail Survey on digital or technology-enabled initiatives across all retail business functions, products, and services. This survey polled 840 retailers ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight discusses increasing use of edge in retail and priority areas for new edge deployments. Edge usage in retail continues its rapid growth, a strong acknowledgement of the benefits of moving computing closer to the ...
This IDC Market Presentation highlights the key retail findings regarding expected benefits for cloud and priority vendor selection criteria from IDC's 2023 Worldwide Industry CloudPath Survey. This Market Presentation ...
This IDC Market Presentation highlights the key retail findings regarding cloud investment and adoption from IDC's 2023 Worldwide Industry CloudPath Survey. This IDC Market Presentation takes a deeper look at ...
This IDC study helps retail decision makers identify and navigate the areas of the retail ecosystem that are being digitally transformed as retailers adopt new processes and technologies to underpin organizational change. This annual study ...
This IDC Market Note covers the recent Aptos Engage 2023 and Revionics Insight 2023 customer and analyst event held in Las Vegas, Nevada, from May 16 to 19, 2023. Aptos continues to display leadership in omni-channel retail solutions, with ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight highlights recent survey results on the toughest challenges retailers face in being able to share data throughout the organization. Despite the top priority of offering customers engaging, personalized experiences, ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight highlights recent survey results on which areas of spending retailers are prioritizing this year, despite potential change in economic conditions. Retailers, at a rate exceeding the cross-industry average, cited ...
本IDC研究报告介绍了零售商在采用新流程、新技术支持企业变革过程中要对哪些关键领域进行数字化转型。本研究探讨了要实施的战略、方案和场景,重点介绍从当前流程转向数字化流程将获得哪些好处以及需要哪些技术。零售商正在加快数字化步伐,以提高运营效率,改进客户体验,应对新数字时代的挑战。韧性、无接触、自动化和可持续业务运营等新战略将推动所有打算保持竞争优势的零售商增加数字投资。
IDC Retail Insights副总裁LeslieHand表示:"零售商在利用暗藏数据流和AI创造多层次数字化体验,以及获取新收入/利润流价值方面,还有很长很长的路要走。对大多数零售商来说,实际的数字环境还不是元宇宙——离得还很远!如今,它已经是打造智能企业的基础——基础设施、连接、分析、软件和设备,为实现数字化孪生、可持续供应和订单履行运营、客户互动和员工敬业度协调以及无接触(或轻型)全渠道交易提供了条件。"
...This IDC study assesses the capabilities and strategies of global POS services providers with a range of services for omni-channel POS solutions. A key component of the evaluation is how IT buyers perceive the benefits of the POS services ...
This IDC Market Note covers key retail takeaways from the Comcast Business Analyst Conference held in March 2023. It includes a discussion of secure networking and its importance for today's retail environment.
本IDC看法概述了NRF 2023年全美零售业联盟展上透露出的关键趋势及展出的创新技术。本届展会于2023年1月15日至17日在美国纽约举行,吸引了全行业超过35,000名与会者,这一数字是去年全球疫情肆虐时期参会人数的两倍。技术创新主要集中在七个领域:客户体验、智能运营、端到端互联供应链、决策和运营效率AI、员工队伍优化、可持续发展以及基础设施现代化。零售商正在加速以数据为驱动的自动化建设,以提高客户体验和韧性。
This IDC MarketScape assesses the capabilities and strategies of enterprise POS software solution providers that have a significant presence in the large apparel/softlines retail segment. A key component of the evaluation is how IT buyers ...
This IDC Perspective highlights some of the top takeaways on the digital infrastructure areas that garnered great attention and interest from retailers at NRF 2023. NRF 2023 showcased a range of new solutions intended to reduce friction ...
Fujitsu's voluntary public takeover bid for the acquisition of GK Software is a major step in the overall company's Uvance strategy to accelerate the company's digital transformation offerings worldwide. GK Software brings to the proposed ...