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 looks at the European Future of Work (FoW) markets in 2022 It also provides a forecast up to 2027 for:
- Hardware, software, and services spending on FoW
- Spending for the three FoW pillars (space, ...
This IDC Market Presentation highlights the data modalities, metrics, and business impact of four generative AI (GenAI) use cases that are designed to drive better employee experience. It also focuses on some best practices for vendors when ...
本IDC看法着重介绍了影响全球企业且在日益扩大的IT技能缺口,62%的IT领导者将收入增长失败归咎于这一问题。本研究强调,企业急需制定AI技能和角色规划,尤其是在生成式AI(GenAI)兴起的背景下。该研究还指出,业务部门负责人的观念发生了转变,预测自动化技术将更多地影响员工体验,对岗位裁撤的影响较小。本研究强调了技能重塑的重要性,58%的CEO表示,由于技能缺口,他们对企业实施AI计划的能力缺乏信心。
“自动化长期以来一直影响着人类活动,但不断发展的AI和GenAI应用场景却带了不同以往的影响,”IDC未来工作研究副总裁Amy ...
This IDC Market Perspective highlights three essential steps for successfully approaching the underserved European frontline worker market segment.
"European frontline digitization presents a $200 million opportunity gap for technology ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight analyzes enterprises' preferred metrics for measuring return on investment (ROI) on work transformation technology investments in Western Europe. It is based on data from IDC's Future Enterprise Resiliency and ...
This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation outlines some topics discussed at the sixth edition of the IDC European Future of Work Xchange, hosted in Malaga, Spain, on April 14 and 15, 2024. At the summit, IDC and several guest speakers discussed how ...
This IDC Market Presentation, shown during the 2024 IDC Future of Work Xchange in Malaga, discusses the gaps remaining en route to a more flexible work environment and the ways modern AI solutions can help create a more people-centric Future ...
This IDC Survey report draws data from IDC's European Employee Experience Survey, focusing on workers' usage of and sentiment toward automation technologies in general, specifically regarding generative AI (GenAI). Comparison of data ...
This IDC Survey draws data from IDC's 2024 European Future of Work Employee Experience Survey, focusing on workers' real-life experience with flexible work models in Europe.
"Flexible work arrangements in Europe ...
This IDC Perspective highlights how social sustainability at work is a vital aspect of ESG development that is often overlooked in favor of environmental and economic concerns. In Europe, social sustainability is heavily regulated at local ...
The IDC Perspective emphasizes the increasing IT skills gap affecting global organizations, with 62% of IT leaders attributing missed revenue growth to this issue. The study highlights the urgent need for businesses to plan for AI skills ...
This IDC Market Note discusses Avanade's Early Access Program for M365 Copilot and its impact on employees' experience and organizations' business objectives, including some surprising results outside of operational efficiencies.
The IDC Perspective discusses the adoption and impact of generative AI (GenAI) across different regions, including North America, Europe, Asia/Pacific, and Japan. It highlights the regional drivers, challenges, and opportunities in GenAI ...
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 MarketScape assesses IT service providers with a footprint in Europe that offer digital workplace services with a focus on a human-first experience. It is based on a comprehensive framework and a set of parameters that assess providers ...
This IDC Web Conference looks at the way European Future of Work is changing, impacted by automation and artificial intelligence. Changing expectations on where, how, and why we work; a continuing lack of relevant skills; and pressure to ...
This IDC study contains IDC analysts' future of work worldwide outlook for 2024 and the planning horizon for the next five years. The outlook is presented through the lens of the 10 predictions that make up, in IDC's view, the framework ...
This IDC Market Note discusses the often-underestimated connection between workplace automation and staff motivation. Organizations that make the most of automation limit the number of employees they let go and instead refocus their affected ...
This IDC Market Perspective examines the concept, structure, and functioning of autonomous teams. It shows how modern businesses can benefit from operating without middle management and identifies related opportunities for technology providers.
"Empowering ...
This IDC Market Presentation looks at the European Future of Work (FoW) markets in 2021. It also provides a forecast up to 2026 for:
- Hardware, software, and service spending on FoW
- Spending for the three FoW pillars (space, ...
This IDC Survey discusses European results from IDC's Global Future Enterprise Resiliency and Spending Survey conducted in June 2023, which aimed to assess the level of generative AI (GenAI) initiatives and investments ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight examines how European organizations are leveraging multiple approaches to remedy ongoing talent shortages and skills gaps.
Data in this presentation is based on IDC's April 2023 Worldwide Future of Work ...
This IDC Survey report draws data from the European section of IDC's Global 2023 Future of Work Survey, focusing on the connection between automation efforts and internal skills development as perceived by decision makers in 490 European ...
This IDC Market Perspective provides an overview of the topics addressed during IDC's 2023 European Future of Work XChange Summit, with the theme "Becoming a purpose-led organization — beyond branding." It also shares some results of a pre-event ...
This IDC Survey draws data from IDC's European Employee Experience Survey, conducted in March 2023. Interviews with over 3,000 office and frontline workers across 11 countries showcase user sentiment regarding the digital workplace.
Data ...