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 Tech Buyer Presentation looks at the potential impact of generative AI (GenAI) on facilities. Specifically, it looks at several specific, in-depth use cases for generative AI within six facilities subcategories: connected maintenance, ...
This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation identifies and explores the top trends impacting the Internet of Things (IoT) ecosystems and devices. Industries have adopted advanced devices and connected networks to facilitate data-driven operations since ...
This IDC Market Note highlights announcements and innovations at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2024, held January 7–12.
The Consumer Electronics Show 2024 highlighted the integration of the Internet of Things (IoT) across various ...
本IDC研究报告介绍2024年可持续发展/ESG十大预测。
"全球各地的企业普遍感受到了应对不断变化的可持续发展要求和新的监管环境带来的压力。他们的应对节奏不同,可持续发展转型成熟度也各不相同,因此他们在战略制定、组织和文化变革、运营调整和技术使用等方面面临的挑战也各不相同。无论您处于发展进程的哪个阶段,IT都是实现转型和通过企业可持续发展实践创造价值的关键推动力,了解如何充分利用技术进入下一阶段非常重要。"IDC Sustainable Strategies ...
本調査レポートは、2024年以降にオペレーションに影響を及ぼすと予測されるトップ10の項目とその推進要因に関する分析を、幅広い産業分野の組織に提供するものである。
「あらゆる産業分野の企業が、長引くサプライチェーンの混乱、地政学的な制約、絶えず変化する労働力への対応を迫られている。このようなダイナミックな環境での競争によって、多くの組織がオペレーションの基本的な側面を見直すようになり、デジタルファースト戦略が成功に不可欠であることに気づいた。企業は、この不安定さに対抗するために、デジタル投資を加速させ、予期せぬ混乱に迅速に適応し、ビジネス環境が改善したときに成長するためのデータ主導のオペレーションの基盤を構築している」とIDC、Future ...
This IDC Market Note looks into the announcements made at Automation Fair 2023. The Automation Fair 2023, hosted by Rockwell Automation, highlighted the company's advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) and its impact on future design, ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight focuses on how extended reality tools (augmented, virtual, and mixed reality) can significantly benefit those working on the frontline of industrial operations that deal directly with assets and production processes. ...
This IDC Market Perspective examines the increasing integration of IT and OT environments, which is enhancing operational efficiency and enabling data-driven operations. However, this integration also exposes connected devices — whether ...
This IDC Market Note summarizes the key highlights of Honeywell Connect, which was held October 10-12, 2023. The event was organized by Honeywell and featured keynote speakers, breakout sessions for end users, and an industrial tour showcasing ...
This IDC study provides organizations across a wide range of industries with the top 10 predictions and underlying drivers that we expect to impact operations in 2024 and beyond.
"Companies across all industries have had to respond ...
This IDC study presents the top 10 predictions for sustainability/ESG for 2024.
"Worldwide, organizations are feeling the pressure to respond to changing sustainability requirements and new regulatory environments. They are doing this ...
This IDC study provides a forecast of the installed base of the number of IoT "things" that are connected, as well as the data generated each year created by these things. This document also categorizes the devices and the data across several ...
This IDC study provides key considerations for technology suppliers in this evolving and complex market as well as select drivers and inhibitors of growth throughout the forecast period. This forecast is created from IDC's Worldwide Internet ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight focuses on how industrial operations benefit and invest in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) for analysis and data-driven operations. AI tools such as ChatGPT and other AI tools have driven ...
This IDC Market Note highlights the latest automation and robotics advancements presented at the Automate event held May 22–25, 2023. Hosted by the Association for Advancing Automation (A3), the event showcased exhibits from four different ...
End users within the operational technology (OT) industrial space are investing in digital transformation to achieve higher levels of production efficiency. Over the past decade, these companies have integrated connected devices and networks ...
This IDC Market Note highlights the robotics innovations showcased at ATX West 2023, held February 7–9, 2023, in Anaheim, California. The event highlighted how robotics are becoming easier to integrate and deploy within manufacturing companies. ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight is based on IDC's August 2022 Worldwide Future of Operations Survey, which surveyed 1,372 organizations.
To successfully achieve remote operations, companies need to invest in cloud technology ...
This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation identifies and explores the top trends that are impacting OT systems in 2023. Today's operational technology (OT) is moving forward by leveraging data-driven operations, cloud networks, and automation. These ...
本調査レポートは、幅広い業界の組織に対して、2023年以降にオペレーションに影響を与えると予測される上位10の予測と基本的なドライバー(促進要因)に関する情報を提供する。テクノロジー分野のリーダーとオペレーション分野のカウンターパートは、本調査レポートを戦略的プランニングの指針として活用できる。
IDC Future of OperationsのリサーチバイスプレジデントであるLeif Eriksenは、「データ駆動型オペレーションは変革への取り組みの途上にあるが、自己満足に甘んじていてよいわけではない。オペレーションにおける変化のペースは加速し始め、さまざまな業界において重要な再編が起きると予測される。この機会を認識した組織は成功し、認識できなかった組織は生き残ることができないであろう」と述べている。
なお、本調査レポートは、『IDC ...
This IDC Perspective provides an overview of how connected worker platforms can augment today's workforce. Real-time data access from IoT networks can help workers be more efficient, improving production and reducing downtime.
"The ...
This IDC Market Note provides insight into Schneider Electric's (SE's) Innovation Summit 2022, Las Vegas, Nevada, October 11–13, 2022. The event showcased the company's sustainability mission across all industries, manufacturing sectors, ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight focuses on the rising role of robotics within industrial organizations. Across several industries, the use of robots for automation has increased to enhance productivity and combat labor shortages. Historically, ...
This IDC study provides organizations across a wide range of industries with the top 10 predictions and underlying drivers that we expect to impact operations in 2023 and beyond. Technology leaders and their counterparts in operations can ...
This IDC Market Note highlights the emerging trends, news, and announcements from the 2022 International Manufacturing Technology Show (IMTS) held in Chicago, Illinois, as part of IDC's role in evaluating the new software and hardware impacting ...