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 Web Conference looks at the norms and trends in cybersecurity.
There's plenty of talk about the cybersecurity best practices businesses should embrace, but how many actually embrace them? What are the major gaps in enterprise ...
本IDC研究报告介绍了IDC对2024年CIO议程的十大预测。
IDC CIO/CXO信息科技智库服务咨询与研究集团副总裁Daniel Saroff表示,"这十大预测构成了一份战略性框架,帮助CIO在未来五年内领导其组织度过一个加速变革和颠覆的时期。同时也阐述了IDC对IT部门将要经历的10个重大转变的展望,助力IT高管制定战略规划。"
This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation examines the different pricing models leveraged for managed business process service engagements including requirements and considerations for each pricing model and the adoption of different models for finance ...
This IDC Web Conference presents a discussion of IDC's 2024 predictions for the worldwide CIO Agenda. This webinar is designed to provide CIOs and digital business leaders with a comprehensive understanding of the critical shifts, strategic ...
This IDC PlanScape looks at the most common types of GenAI-generated fraud that organizations are facing, how each is created, and steps for successfully identifying and reacting to them.
“Digital fraud is nothing new. But generative ...
This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation provides tech leaders with guidance on key considerations for building value for the organization with generative artificial intelligence (GenAI). The guide outlines a path for getting started with GenAI ...
This IDC study provides IDC's top 10 predictions for CIOs to have on their agenda in 2024.
"These predictions provide a strategic context that will enable CIOs to lead their organizations through a period of accelerated change and ...
This IDC Perspective provides an assessment of the current state of generative AI (GenAI) technology in the cybersecurity market. Aware of the buzz surrounding generative AI, cybersecurity vendors have raced over the past year to integrate ...
This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation provides IDC's Future IT Blueprint. This blueprint provides a quick situational overview and actionable guidance for using generative AI (GenAI) to improve your organization's productivity, efficiency, and ...
This IDC Perspective discusses IDC's Cybersecurity Capabilities Assessment Framework 1.0 and assesses cybersecurity readiness across seven domains. The increased complexity of modern IT estates, combined with the expansion of practices like ...
This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation lays out the considerations for cloud disaster recovery (DR) planning, provides process fundamentals, identifies the key stakeholders (including a RACI matrix), explains how to build DR cloud hosting, discusses ...
This IDC Perspective focuses on four major categories of risk that immediately impact companies, governmental entities, or NGOs and that companies can address: personally identifiable information (PII) and organizational proprietary information, ...
这份IDC研究报告旨在帮助首席信息官评估他们当前具备的技能和能力的成熟度,同时帮助他们确定需要进一步提高的领域,以增加他们成功领导IT和推动企业发展的可能性。本研究还可以帮助IT负责人在开展复杂变革时能分清工作的轻重缓急。此IDC框架旨在帮助首席信息官和业务部门高管立即行动起开,实现他们及整个企业想要和期盼的未来。
“随着全球非常态愈演愈烈,首席信息官必须重新评估他们的领导力,以更好地为企业服务,”IDC CIO/CXO信息科技智库服务副总裁Serge Findling表示:“技术既关乎生存,也是成功的关键。”
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This IDC Perspective discusses the role and value of IT benchmarking in a digital-first economy with a financial management focus. Today, IT leaders are challenged to develop the skills to manage both technological and organizational change. ...
This IDC study is written in the spirit of helping CIOs assess the current maturity level of skills and abilities they bring to the table while also helping them identify areas in which they need to become more adept to improve the odds ...
This IDC Perspective provides an initial situation assessment and general guidance for CIOs and senior IT leaders regarding the Russia-Ukraine war. Russia's invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, and the ensuing escalation of events, ...