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 Link considers the significance of the recent xz Utils backdoor vulnerability for the open source ecosystem and the software supply chain. The incident highlights the importance of governance for open source projects and, for end-user ...
This IDC Perspective details open source software (OSS) projects to watch in 2024. It highlights various projects in categories including application development, cloud application development, DevOps, DevSecOps, edge networking, GenAI application ...
This IDC Innovators study discusses the use of generative AI (GenAI) tools, specifically AI coding assistants, to enhance developer productivity. It highlights the benefits and challenges of adopting these tools, with a focus on security, ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight examines data from IDC's November 2023 PaaS Decision Maker and Business Value Survey concerning the extent to which organizations make use of open source technologies to develop software (for more details, ...
This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation provides details of 25 use cases that feature the intersection between generative AI technologies and software development. The software development use cases are categorized into the following 5 groups: ...
This IDC Vendor Profile highlights OutSystems' low-code development platform. The document details the company's history, product line, strategy, and road map. The document also includes an overview of the company's financials, key customers, ...
This IDC Link discusses the recent partnerships of three leading cloud AI platform providers — Microsoft, IBM, and Amazon — with Mistral AI, a start-up based in Paris, France, that offers open source large language models (LLMs). The document ...
This IDC Link examines Google's announcement of the Gemma family of lightweight language models. With Gemma, Google is balancing openness and safety while addressing market demand for models that offer greater transparency, flexibility, ...
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This IDC Survey Spotlight explores data from IDC's November 2023 PaaS Decision-Maker and Business Value Survey, identifying the primary areas of business value or ROI for incorporating generative AI (GenAI) ...
This IDC Market Perspective describes Microsoft’s annual Ignite conference, which was a launching pad (and a relaunching pad) for Microsoft’s many generative AI technologies. There was a blizzard of announcements covering virtually every ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight presents and analyzes results from IDC's Developer View Survey concerning the distribution of roles involved with building production-grade digital solutions using no-code/low-code development ...
This IDC Market Presentation analyzes data from IDC's Generative AI Awareness, Readiness, and Commitment Survey, conducted in August 2023, to identify opportunities, obstacles, and warning signs for the use of generative AI in the ...
This IDC study sets forth IDC's definition of the worldwide low-code, no-code, and generative AI developer technologies competitive market. The products, vendors, and revenue covered by this taxonomy represent a subset of IDC's functional ...
This IDC study provides a systematic assessment of technologies related to the generative AI software and systems market.
"Generative AI has unlocked exciting possibilities in the realm of content creation, product design, customer ...
This IDC Perspective summarizes the discussion shared by IDC’s Global CIO Advisory Board members on the impact of generative AI technology on the software development life cycle. Data and insights from IDC’s U.S. ...
This IDC Market Note provides an overview and discussion of Salesforce's announcement of Einstein Copilot Studio, a low-code development tool suite for creating and managing prompts, skills, and GenAI models, at the company's annual Dreamforce ...
This IDC study provides IDC's 2024 top 10 predictions for artificial intelligence and automation.
"ChatGPT's explosive global popularity has given us AI's first true inflection point in public adoption," says Ritu Jyoti, group vice ...
This IDC study provides IDC's top 10 predictions for developers and DevOps for 2024 and beyond.
"The new wave of generative AI (GenAI) is washing over the industry, with the impact on developers and DevOps professionals at the leading ...
This IDC Market Note provides an overview of IBM's recent watsonx announcements — including the watsonx AI and data platform and watsonx Code Assistant, along with a discussion of requirements for enterprise GenAI.
This IDC study presents a five-year forecast based on the assumptions represented in the Worldwide Black Book: Live Edition (November 2022). These forecasts account for events, market conditions, and other macroeconomic inputs through October ...
This IDC study provides worldwide market share data for the low-code, no-code, and intelligent developer technologies (LCNCIDT) market for the calendar year 2022, including segmentation by global region and deployment type. For more details ...
This IDC Market Perspective highlights a series of announcements made by Red Hat at Red Hat Summit 2023 that both build on existing initiatives and expand the company's footprint into new territory.
"Given the excitement surrounding ...
This IDC Perspective analyzes the results of a three-day online qualitative discussion board IDC conducted in December 2022 with eight senior IT managers and directors at U.S. companies who are responsible for using low-code and no-code ...