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 Note summarizes key discussion points from the February edition of the CISO Hub, IDC's monthly call with European CISOs. The call brings together security professionals from a wide range of industries and backgrounds. These ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight examines the top security, compliance, and trust-related challenges facing European organizations. This is pertinent given the ongoing migration to cloud across many industries in Europe and their resulting need ...
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 Survey Spotlight examines how European organizations prioritize their multicloud networking use cases. This is pertinent given that many organizations (of all sizes) are using a multicloud environment and want to understand how ...
This IDC FutureScape presentation examines IDC's 2024 Worldwide Future of Trust predictions in the context of the European region. How will the predictions play out within Europe, and which geopolitical and macroeconomic factors will impact ...
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 Market Note summarizes key points from IDC's flagship 2023 security event, the European CISO Xchange. Around 100 security practitioners gathered at the Hard Rock Hotel in Marbella, Spain, for the event to engage and collaborate ...
This IDC Market Forecast analyzes the security analytics market in Europe for the 2022-2027 forecast period. All market data in this study is taken from IDC's European Semiannual Software Tracker.
"Security complexity will always scale ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight examines the top priorities of European technology buyers regarding software providers over the next 18 months, as these buyers go out to the market to develop their organization's generative AI (GenAI) capabilities. ...
This IDC Survey examines the results of IDC's EMEA CISO Survey. It analyzes how the role of the CISO is maturing and looks at what technology providers can do to meet growing expectations and deliver business value for security leaders.
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This IDC Survey Spotlight examines the sentiment of European CISOs regarding their intended security capability investments in 2024. The findings show that the top 2 areas of interest for CISOs are identity and access management as well ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight examines the sentiment of European CISOs regarding the use of AI/ML-augmented security solutions. The findings show that the top 2 areas of augmentation interest for CISOs are improved threat detection and response ...
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 ...
Cisco's acquisition of Splunk is a strategic move toward predictive cybersecurity, empowered by a combination of infrastructure security with strong data analytics. The acquisition will extend Cisco's large portfolio of cybersecurity products ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight examines how European organizations approach security in public cloud versus on-premises. This is pertinent given the growth of public cloud by European organizations, particularly during and after the pandemic. ...
This IDC Survey examines the results of IDC's EMEA CISO Survey. It analyzes how the role of the CISO is maturing and looks at what technology providers can do to meet growing expectations and deliver business value for security leaders
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This IDC Survey examines the European results of IDC's Worldwide C-Suite Survey and offers a view on the investment priorities and challenges of European technology executives, including the CIO. IDC research shows that European technology ...
This IDC Survey examines the European results of IDC's Worldwide C-Suite Survey and offers a view on the evolution of the European CIO. IDC research shows that the majority of European CIOs report to the CEO and want mature their ...
This IDC Perspective provides an overview of key points of discussion and insights from IDC's European CISO Hub events held in 1Q23.
"IDC research shows that cybersecurity is consistently among the top priorities for business leaders. ...
This IDC Market Presentation shows how tech vendors can benefit from engaging with European C-suite executives throughout their sales and procurement processes. C-suite executives are increasingly involved in technology investments, and ...
This IDC Web Conference, presented in April 27, 2023, discusses the key priorities and concerns of EMEA C-suites in terms of the digital business. There are glimmers of positive economic signs in EMEA that are softening previous pessimism, ...
This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation provides CIOs with tools to build or expand FinOps teams and processes to address cloud costs while getting the maximum ROI. Cloud technologies are the foundation of nearly all digital innovation and must ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight examines the top organizational cybersecurity priorities for EMEA chief information security officers (CISOs) in 2023. It shows that the top priorities (including zero trust, work from home/hybrid work, and identity ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight examines the spending outlook for EMEA chief information security officers (CISOs). It shows that while inflation and a growing cost base need to be watched closely (particularly in small to medium-sized organizations), ...
This IDC Market Note offers an overview of the key themes and takeaways from IDC's CISO Summit 2022. It provides insights into the challenges and opportunities facing CISOs, IT professionals, security teams, and security vendors as they ...