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.
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This IDC Survey Spotlight looks at which IT environments organizations in Europe spend most of their IT budgets on. It compares on-prem and cloud usage across different industry sectors. It also identifies the reasons organizations cite ...
This IDC Market Note examines the state of the dedicated cloud infrastructure-as-a-service (DCIaaS) market at the end of 2023 and beyond, with an emphasis on how these offerings fit into the demand for sovereign cloud computing platforms.
...This IDC Survey Spotlight looks at what public cloud infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) users around the world identify as their main challenges when it comes to digital sovereignty.
While the vast majority of organizations consider ...
This IDC Web Conference highlights the top 10 predictions and key topics for the European cloud industry in 2024 and beyond. It analyzes IT trends in the cloud, AI, cloud skills, CloudOps, sustainability, and digital sovereignty. It also ...
This IDC Market Perspective assesses sovereign cloud solutions offered by five major global cloud providers: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud, IBM Cloud, Microsoft Azure, and Oracle.
There is growing interest in sovereign cloud ...
This IDC Market Perspective discusses the impact of sovereign cloud on organizations in Europe. It highlights the increasing interest in digital sovereignty, driven by the need for data security and control, operational resilience, and business ...
This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation highlights the top 10 predictions and key drivers for the European cloud industry over the next five years. It analyzes the IT and business impact of each prediction in the market and provides guidance for ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight looks at which IT areas are most immune to budget cuts in the next 12 months, regardless of the economic environment.
The need to satisfy regulatory compliance has typically been the chief driver for most ...
This IDC Market Forecast provides the worldwide sovereign cloud market forecast for 2023 to 2027. It represents IDC's inaugural forecast for this market and uses 2022 as the baseline year.
While the need to comply with industry regulations ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight looks at whether data and cloud sovereignty requirements will make it much more difficult to take full advantage of generative AI (GenAI) solutions in the next several years.
The need to comply with industry ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight specifically looks at the impact that AI workloads are expected to have on sovereign cloud usage.
While there is nothing inherently peculiar about AI workloads that require them to be hosted in sovereign clouds, ...
This IDC study provides IDC's top 10 predictions for cloud for 2024 and beyond.
"Cloud makes it possible to quickly deploy new technologies at scale while simultaneously reducing risk," said Dave McCarthy, research vice president, ...
This IDC FutureScape presents the top 10 insurance industry predictions for 2024. Each prediction is shaped by a shared set of key drivers, serving as a planning tool for technology leaders and their line-of-business (LOB) counterparts in ...
This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation delves into the forces fueling the demand for digital sovereignty in Europe.
As more organizations shift their IT to cloud, concerns over data privacy, security, and trust also continue to grow. This ...
This IDC Market Perspective discusses some of the key points presented by AWS during its EMEA Analyst Forum held in London in June. The company said its customers are continuing to experience significant returns when moving to cloud, despite ...
Oracle is set to go live with its Sovereign Cloud for the EU, as announced last year. Its first regions are based in Germany and Spain and are available to customers seeking sovereign cloud services and infrastructure across EU member states.
...This IDC Perspective explores the essential skills needed to build digital sovereignty (DS) across industries: cybersecurity, data governance, and cloud. We will also discuss the role of education systems and IT training providers in advancing ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight looks at how important skills shortages are to organizations modernizing their enterprise applications as part of their digital transformation and cloud strategies.
While there are a number of obstacles that ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight asks organizations about their main reasons for their public cloud deployments not being successful enough and identifies the skill shortage as one of the top challenges.
While using cloud services and technologies ...
This IDC Market Perspective examines digital sovereignty initiatives in Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) (APEJ). The concept of digital sovereignty has slowly gained prominence worldwide in the last five years in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, ...
This IDC Taxonomy provides a description of IDC's digital sovereignty market. It serves as the foundation for classifying and sizing the worldwide digital sovereignty market. For 2023, the taxonomy includes 26 individual functional markets ...
This IDC Market Glance provides a brief view of vendors that offer solutions for digital sovereignty. It is based on several functional markets grouped under three headings: technical sovereignty, operational sovereignty, and data sovereignty. ...
This IDC Market Perspective discusses trends in cloud datacenter provision in Europe. Cloud usage continues to expand in Europe, with all organizations in IDC's 2022 European Multicloud Survey using such technologies ...
This IDC Survey monitors technology investment for March 2023. Economic uncertainties continue to make IT budget choices difficult for IT leaders in 2023. CIOs and their teams are delaying some technology investments to keep budgets under ...