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 forecast covers the database development and management tools software market for 2024–2028. It includes the forecast assumptions, analysis of factors impacting the market, and advice for technology suppliers.
"The ...
This IDC study presents the vendor revenue growth for the database administration and development tools software market for 2023 by various dimensions, including reflections on who shaped the year, and with technology supplier advice. It ...
This IDC Market Analysis Perspective reviews the worldwide database management systems software market in 2024, with insights regarding trends, competitive analysis, and advice for the technology supplier. It also reviews the market forecast ...
This IDC Market Note describes and compares the product positioning and claims of two vendors, Databricks and Snowflake, each of whom held their annual user conference in the spring of 2024. It details the key announcements and shows how ...
This IDC study presents the forecast for the database management systems software market over five years, from 2024 to 2028. It includes breakdowns by deployment type (public cloud versus on premises/other), submarket, and geographic region. ...
This IDC study contains the market shares by vendor revenue for the database management systems (DBMS) market and shares of each of its submarkets: data lake management systems, in-memory shared data managers, low-code DBMS, navigational ...
This IDC TechBrief describes the factors involved in leveraging retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) to get the most out of generative AI in the enterprise, including the various technology aspects and associated use cases, benefits, risks, ...
This IDC Market Note summarizes key capabilities of new AI-related features of Oracle Database 23c and considers how these features can revolutionize data access for their users. It discusses Oracle Autonomous Database Select AI and Oracle ...
This IDC Market Note examines Oracle's recent FY 3Q24 earnings and evaluates the company's progress around the key themes. Throughout 2024, IDC will monitor Oracle's quarterly earnings releases to evaluate the company's progress in several ...
This IDC Perspective explores the evolution of data systems into a form that requires no expertise on the part of users to explore thanks to generative AI. It details the work to be done on the user's end to make this a reality and offers ...
This IDC Market Note provides coverage and commentary on Oracle's FY 2Q24 earnings release. There is continued progress in several core areas that are central to Oracle's future success. IDC examines Oracle's recent FY 2Q24 earnings and ...
This IDC study presents a five-year forecast for the core IT spending for GenAI market for the 2023–2027 period.
"Despite IT headwinds in 2023, businesses accelerated their exploration of GenAI to boost business transformation in 2023. ...
This IDC Market Note summarizes key announcements in the DBMS world for the year 2023. It provides overall context and commentary and a range of individual announcements from key competitors in this space.
"Recent developments in the ...
This IDC study looks at the adoption of generative AI technology in the structured database industry and its impact on the market and users. It includes six vendor examples of this technology adoption and offers advice for both vendors and ...
This IDC Market Note summarizes a recent announcement made by Oracle Corporation regarding a new OCI service in support of PostgreSQL. It includes an explanation of the service and how the OCI features make the database more robust and performant ...
This IDC Survey examines how enterprises are preparing for a new chapter of the digital business era: AI everywhere. The dramatic increase in awareness of generative AI (GenAI) in early 2023 triggered the dawn of this new chapter. In the ...
This IDC study provides IDC's 2024 top 10 predictions for data and analytics technologies applied to data analysis and decision support, augmentation, and automation use cases.
"Although data and analytics technologies have existed ...
This IDC study provides IDC's 2024 top 10 predictions for enterprise intelligence trends, encompassing topics of decision intelligence; generative AI (GenAI); enterprise intelligence technologies; data skills; literacy and environmental, ...
This IDC Market Note highlights the progress Oracle has exhibited in several core areas that are central to Oracle's future success. IDC also examines Oracle's recent FY 1Q24 earnings and looks for indications of progress around these key ...
This IDC Survey provides key findings from IDC's Global GenAI Awareness, Readiness, and Commitment (ARC) Survey and is the first in a series of IDC documents based on the Global GenAI ARC Survey that will ...
本IDC PlanScape为业务和技术领导者介绍生成式人工智能(GenAI)技术的发展背景,以及制定AI战略以将业务转向未来AI无处不在时代所必须具备的一系列特征。本报告回答了什么是GenAI以及GenAI为什么是未来关键技术等问题,指出了对投资和使用GenAI具有基础性作用的关键活动,带读者了解如何安排GenAI场景的优先顺序才能获得成功,并指出了实现GenAI当前和未来三年价值涉及的利益相关者。
IDC思想领导力研究副总裁Phil Carter表示:“随着AI进入企业的各个业务和技术部门,行业的发展出现了根本性转变,IDC认为,每位CEO都需要制定AI战略,而生成式AI是起点。最好快点开始。我们希望这个框架能帮助每个企业发展自己的'业务影响之路。”
...This IDC Market Analysis Perspective (MAP) reviews the data and analysis coverage found in the Data Management Software program for database management systems (DBMSs) software, including the six submarkets (relational DBMS, navigational ...
This IDC Perspective discusses the role of generative AI (GenAI) in data management systems, both now and in the future. It considers the present and future direction of this technology, and how it is most likely to be used. It also reviews ...
This IDC Market Perspective provides IDC's take on HPE Ezmeral Software Unified Analytics and Data Fabric in the context of IDC's enterprise intelligence conceptual architecture and latest priorities and challenges faced by end users engaged ...
This IDC PlanScape provides business and technology leaders with a background on where generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) technologies are in their evolution and the set of characteristics needed to develop an AI strategy to transform ...