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 Perspective highlights the complexity and diversity of data privacy and regulatory frameworks in the Asia/Pacific (including Japan) (APJ) region, emphasizing the increasing stringency of laws to combat cyberthreats and data misuse. ...
This IDC Perspective explores a myriad of different use cases for managed extended detection and response (MXDR) services and provides insights to what technology buyers should be mindful of prior to adoption. MXDR represents a significant ...
This IDC Perspective provides a comprehensive overview of the global regulatory landscape for artificial intelligence (AI). It also discusses the struggle of governments to balance AI regulation with innovation, the rush to regulate AI, ...
This study examines the market shares of identity and access management vendors in 1H23. "Even as security investments continue to grow within APEJC, we observe that security budgets remain under pressure," says Christian Fam, Research Manager ...
This IDC forecast details the 2023–2027 market size and growth rate for the APEJC security services market.
"Despite global economic challenges, the demand for security services is rising in the shift to a digital-first business landscape. ...
This IDC FutureScape Market Presentation provides the IDC Asia/Pacific viewpoint of how these globally relevant predictions will impact local markets, providing tech marketers and tech sales leaders with advice on how to position themselves ...
This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation provides the Asia/Pacific viewpoint of the IDC FutureScape about how these globally relevant predictions will impact local markets, providing end users with advice on what to consider and how to build and ...
This IDC MarketScape examined 12 different vendors that offer cloud security services in the highly competitive and maturing Asia/Pacific market. The participating firms were meticulously evaluated using the IDC MarketScape model, which ...
This IDC Presentation offers insights into the challenges encountered by organizations in Asia/Pacific as they strive for cyber-resiliency. It also sheds light on the recommended adoption of a comprehensive approach by businesses in the ...
This IDC Perspective discusses the nomination details of the Best in Future of Trust winner from the IDC Future Enterprise Awards 2023 in Asia/Pacific with how generative AI (GenAI) can impact organizations moving forward.
"In an era ...
This IDC study presents IDC’s top 10 predictions for the future of trust in 2024 and beyond.
“Research shows that trust is a requirement for individuals and organizations to share their personal and organizational data. And high-quality ...
This IDC Playbook for Tech Marketing Leaders provides a concise view into the state of managed security services in Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan and China). It offers insights into critical developments within the managed security services ...
This IDC Perspective discusses the key capabilities of endpoint detection and response (EDR), extended detection and response (XDR), and managed detection and response (MDR) solutions. This document also goes into details about how Asia/Pacific ...
This IDC Market Presentation explores the professional security services trends across the Asia/Pacific (excluding China) for 2023. This presentation aims to help technology vendors better understand areas of opportunities in the market ...
This IDC Market Presentation explores the resilience of the Asia/Pacific (including Japan) (APJ) cybersecurity landscape and reveals CEO concerns, impact of price volatility on investments, and continued emphasis on security, risk, and compliance. ...
This IDC Market Presentation explores the managed security services trends across the Asia/Pacific (excluding China) region for 2023. This Presentation aims to help technology vendors better understand the areas of opportunities in the market ...
This IDC Market Analysis Perspective (MAP) provides an overview of the Asia/Pacific managed security services market. This MAP document highlights key market trends and drivers, competitive landscape, buyer concerns and priorities, and future ...
This IDC Market Analysis Perspective (MAP) provides an overview of the Asia/Pacific professional security services market. This MAP document highlights key market trends and drivers, competitive landscape, buyer concerns and priorities, ...
This IDC Market Presentation explores the perspectives of business and technology decision makers surrounding how Asia/Pacific businesses view the impact of cybersecurity on their digital trust journeys. It aims to highlight the importance ...
This IDC study explores how security technology buyers across Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) (APEJ) are addressing their digital trust concerns and challenges for 2023 and aims to help technology vendors better understand how macroeconomic ...
This IDC study presents an aggregated worldview of IDC's taxonomy for the security services market. It provides the definitions of security services across three major segments:
- Professional security services (including consulting, ...
This IDC forecast details the 2022–2026 market size and growth rate for the security services market of Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan and China) (APEJC).
"With impending uncertainty looming overhead surrounding economic conditions, ...
This IDC Survey explores the perspectives of business and IT decision makers in Asia/Pacific (including Japan and China) regarding the state of their security programs and technology priorities and challenges for 2023. This survey aims to ...
This IDC Perspective details the fundamental concepts behind defense in depth and how it has drastically evolved to cater to our current environment. The document also touches on the core components of zero trust and its common use cases ...
This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation provides the Asia/Pacific viewpoint of the IDC FutureScape about how these globally relevant predictions will impact local markets, providing end users with advice on what to consider and how to build and ...