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 PlanScape discusses lean checklists to improve delivery and credibility.
"A common form of standardized work is the use of checklists. Checklists are simple and consistent, easy to follow, and easy to revise. They make the ...
This IDC PlanScape proposes and discusses ways in which organizations can define IT portfolios aligned with strategy and manage these portfolios in a more holistic way in response to changes in priorities or any other internal or external ...
This IDC PlanScape describes methods and formats that IT leaders can use to more easily gather and communicate the portfolio of technology projects, their status, and dependencies.
"One of the most effective ways to build credibility ...
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 Perspective discusses the guidelines to master technology modernization. In a time of artificial intelligence (AI) disruption, legacy modernization is no longer work that can be done opportunistically or in an ad hoc way. Rather, ...
This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation looks at the process of modernizing legacy technology. AI — especially generative AI — has raised the stakes for IT organizations. They must modernize their systems to successfully leverage AI and enable ...
The following provides brief descriptions of various IT governance models – centralized, decentralized, federated, or collaborative – that are the foundation for establishing IT organization goals, priorities, and processes. Also included ...
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 PlanScape details the importance of data architecture.
"The growing volumes of available data are a blessing and a curse: More data might provide improved insights, but it might also create more noise that requires filtering," ...
This IDC Perspective discusses the recent Digital Directors Network DOMINO '23 conference. As a result of expected changes in regulations for publicly traded companies and the increasing role of technology in the enterprise, there are increasing ...
This IDC Web Conference presents insights about cloud migration.
Since 2007, IDC has been exhaustively tracking IT's shift of workloads from on-premises hosting to the cloud. This year, in 2023, IDC predicts that fully 50% of all ...
This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation provides CIOs with strategy and techniques to evolve their leadership skills to better guide their organizations through and toward change. CIOs will gain a structured change leadership framework to help ...
This IDC PlanScape details how cybersecurity architecture impacts value and enables trust by design.
"Cybersecurity architecture balances the practices of identity, vulnerability, and threat management with the broader values of digital ...
This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation aids in decision making in the age of permacrisis.
We live in a time of uncertainty and volatility. In addition to the rapid pace of technology change, we now face an environment rich in disruption. ...
This IDC PlanScape discusses change leadership to influence the board of directors.
"There are specific actions and behaviors that IT leaders can take to build relationships of trust with the board of directors. In parallel, as IT ...
This IDC PlanScape is based on and is a supplement to A CIO Change Leadership Strategy Framework for the Digital Era: The CIO's Direct Reports (IDC #US50351223, ...
This IDC PlanScape describes specific things IT leaders can do to develop and increase their change leadership with LOB leaders.
"IT leaders who seize this opportunity will serve their organizations well. IT leaders who do not will ...
本IDC技术买家演示报告为首席信息官提供战略和建议,帮助他们从企业基础架构中获得更多价值。技术负责人通过本报告可以详细了解如何规划更有战略性、更灵活的基础架构;如何将基础架构有效用于数字平台;如何更新流程,将重点放到业务和技术成果上。
基础架构的目标已从传统的为基础设施提供支持和成本与复杂性管理转向实现数字化转型计划。战略基础架构规划可对场景进行分类、确定优先级、排序和评估,助力企业完成重大战略性业务,创造更高的价值。技术平台必须满足当今的需求,同时具备足够的灵活性,以适应不断变化的情况且可持续扩展。首席信息官将学习到如何改造和重塑战略基础架构,使其具备更高的适应能力、灵活性、抗风险能力,以及如何为DevOps扩展到BizOps和BizDevOps做好准备。
"创建基础架构本身对企业没有价值。基础架构只有在用来影响决策时才能实现价值。"IDC助理研究顾问Mike ...
This IDC study details the importance of application architecture to support innovation and agility.
"Application architecture is a critical element of strategic architecture and might be the best starting point as IT leaders and organizations ...
This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation provides CIOs with strategy and advice to gain more value from their enterprise architecture. Technology leaders will gain a deeper understanding of frameworks to plan more strategic and flexible architecture, ...
This IDC Perspective discusses lessons learned and practices that elevate agile cultures. Agile cultures are the foundation of high-performing teams and organizations that adapt quickly to changing conditions and adverse disruptions.
Leadership ...
This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation provides CIOs and other technology leaders with timely global IDC survey data and research insights. The data in this presentation sheds light on how global CIOs should view threat detection and management. ...