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 Survey presentation focuses on the evolution of AI adoption trends in insurance. The study examines the responses of 223 insurance providers across all regions, involving insurers from the U.S., Canada, the U.K., Germany, France, ...
This IDC Survey presentation focuses on the evolution of AI adoption trends in insurance. The study examines the responses of 223 insurance providers across all the regions involving banks from the U.S., Canada, the U.K., Germany, France, ...
This IDC Survey illustrates the evolution of the business priorities for life and annuity (L&A) insurers for 2024 based on primary research conducted by IDC Financial Insights across regions in 4Q23. The survey encompassed 111 L&A ...
This IDC Survey presentation illustrates the evolution of the business priorities for property and casualty (P&C) insurers in 2024 based on primary research conducted by IDC Financial Insights across regions in 4Q23. The survey encompassed ...
This IDC Perspective examines the challenges the insurance industry faces in incorporating generative AI (GenAI) as it navigates between potential benefits and regulatory hurdles. Despite some insurers cautiously adopting GenAI, ongoing ...
This IDC Perspective proposes a framework that provides pathways, supported by practical use cases, to help insurers understand the long-term opportunities presented by generative AI (GenAI). Adapting to the evolving risk landscape requires ...
This IDC PlanScape serves as a guide for technology buyers in the insurance industry, highlighting crucial considerations for leveraging value through generative artificial intelligence. The emergence of GenAI signals a transformative era ...
本IDC分类讨论了客户和合作伙伴的期望变化、技术创新、监管需求以及社会政治和经济动荡如何推动保险行业"以价值为中心的场景化保险"这一数字化使命的出现。它定义了完成这一数字化使命的四个战略要务,即全方位体验互动、以使用和价值为导向的产品、无摩擦保险和认知能力培养。它还定义了支撑每个战略要务的各种方案或举措。每个方案下都包含一组场景,这些场景是为实现方案目标而分别资助的项目。
IDC Financial Insights研究经理Davide Palanza表示:"市场动荡、消费者期望变化和技术进步带来了一场影响深远的变革,在这样的变革中,保险行业必须优先考虑数字化韧性,以反脆弱性为目标。通过采用基于情景的数字战略和敏捷的适应能力,保险行业可以大胆转向新的未知领域,适应未来不断变化的环境,从而最大限度地发挥自身潜力,取得巨大成功。"
...This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation provides a framework for implementing digital twins in diverse industries, covering key technologies, pathways to proficiency, and how digital twins can drive new capabilities across the different industries. ...
本IDC PlanScape为保险机构制定高效、全面的全方位体验互动战略提供了一个基本框架。
"保险机构必须制定稳健的全方位体验互动战略和系统化的场景导向型路线图,以帮助建立长期的忠诚关系。这样的战略将客户置于不断发展的网联化保险生态系统的核心。其目标是利用与各类利益相关者的合作,包括传统和非传统利益相关者,超越过去的产品/服务/互动观点,实现以价值为中心的体验。"——IDC Financial Insights研究经理Davide Palanza表示。
...This IDC Market Presentation is designed to provide technology vendors a better understanding of their buyer personas. It aims to answer the following questions:
- Who are the key personas they need to address with their offerings ...
This IDC Market Note emphasizes insights from IDC's Financial Services Xchange 20230 conference, underscoring the necessity for a robust exchange among industry peers in the Financial Services sector. Although the FSI industry grapples with ...
This IDC Market Glance offers a high-level view of the emerging generative AI (GenAI) applications landscape. It highlights key vendors of productivity applications, business applications, and industry-specific applications. IDC defines ...
This IDC study provides IDC's top 10 predictions for blockchain, crypto, NFT, and Web3.
"Decentralized technologies, such as blockchain, distributed ledger technology, NFTs, cryptocurrency, and Web3, will continue to have a major impact ...
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 MarketScape delves into intelligent workbench applications tailored to the commercial P&C line insurance sector. This comprehensive research involves quantitative and qualitative analysis of nine leading vendors, exploring the ...
This IDC Taxonomy discusses how the insurance industry's digital mission of contextual and value-centric insurance is driven by the change in customers' and partners' expectations, technology innovations, regulatory demands, and sociopolitical ...
The IDC Survey Spotlight examines key insights from two surveys conducted by IDC: the Financial Insight Survey, February 2022) and IDC EMEA's Future of Work B2B Survey (March 2022). This summary delves into the gig economy's ...
This IDC PlanScape presents insurance organizations with a practical framework to achieve resilient enterprisewide operations. It provides comprehensive guidelines, phases, themes, and activities for business and technology leaders to enhance ...
This IDC Market Note presents key highlights from Duck Creek Technologies' annual conference, Formation 2023. The event brought together industry leaders, experts, and innovators to discuss the latest trends in insurance technology and explore ...
The IDC Survey aims to assess the importance of insurance components and global changes in purchasing behavior. It investigates consumer attitudes toward insurance products across the world, spanning across all lines of business. The survey ...
The IDC Survey aims to assess the importance of insurance components and global changes in purchasing behavior. It investigates consumer attitudes toward insurance products across the world, spanning across all lines of business. The survey ...
This IDC Survey aims to assess the importance of specific insurance components and global changes in consumers' purchasing behavior on insurance. This is achieved by investigating consumer attitudes toward insurance products across the world, ...
The IDC Survey aims to assess the importance of specific insurance components and global changes in consumers' purchasing behavior on insurance. This is achieved by investigating consumer attitudes toward insurance products across the world, ...
This IDC Perspective summarizes key topics and highlights from Insurtech Insights Europe 2023, which took place in London on March 1 and 2, 2023. The conference primarily discussed the role of partnerships between insurance incumbents and ...