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 Survey presents the worldwide monthly technology investment monitor for January 2024. Enterprises are fully engaged in the transition to AI everywhere. The development of investment plans and setting priorities, which started in ...
This IDC Survey provides key findings from IDC's 2024 Future Enterprise Resiliency and Spending (FERS) Survey, Wave 1, which focuses on issues related to GenAI adoption and its implications on IT ...
This IDC Survey summarizes findings related to generative AI (GenAI) infrastructure investment priorities based on input from 881 worldwide IT and business decision-makers who participated in IDC's January 2024 Future Enterprise Resiliency ...
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 IDC's Future of Digital Infrastructure framework, updated for 2024, that provides enterprise decision-makers with an updated view on how emerging innovations and disruptions across the digital infrastructure ...
This IDC Survey presents the worldwide monthly technology investment monitor for December 2023. IT leaders closed out 2023 in a challenging position. They became more concerned about potential economic disruptions in 2024, but they also ...
The IDC Web Conference on emerging technologies provides CTOs and enterprise architects with insights into emerging technologies from silicon to code and from inner space (quantum) to outer space that their organization needs to start preparing ...
This IDC Web Conference presents a discussion of IDC's 2024 predictions for the IT industry. In 2023, a new chapter of the digital business era started: AI everywhere. The dramatic increase in awareness of generative AI (GenAI) triggered ...
This IDC Survey presents a worldwide view of IT buyer 2024 spending expectations for digital infrastructure compute, storage, networking, and operational management resources deployed across the full range of dedicated, on premises, hosted ...
IBM's earnings release for 4Q23 reported revenue of $17.4 billion (+3% y/y @ cc; +4% y/y as reported) – the balance of this document will use constant currency growth unless otherwise noted. IBM generated free cash flow of $11.2 billion ...
This IDC Perspective summarizes IDC's Global CIO Advisory Board discussion on 2024 technology expectations and worldwide IT industry predictions. Tony Olvet, group vice president, and Teodora Siman, research manager, at IDC, began by sharing ...
This IDC Survey presents the worldwide monthly technology investment monitor for November 2023. IT leaders closed out 2023 in a challenging position. They became more concerned about potential economic disruptions in 2024, but they also ...
This IDC Survey presents the Worldwide Monthly Technology Investment Monitor for October 2023.
IT leaders continued to face an array of conflicting challenges in the second half of 2023 as they continued to anticipate potential economic ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight uncovers some of the top reasons why enterprises are adopting multicloud strategy as per IDC's Future Enterprise Resiliency and Spending Survey, Wave 10, November 2023. Each region ...
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 study compiles data from several other IDC cloud-related forecasts and trackers and uses definitions consistent with those other forecasts to provide a perspective on both the total portion of major IT sectors that are influenced ...
This IDC study provides IDC's 2024 top 10 predictions for critical emerging technologies that IT leaders will need to start preparing now to succeed as digital businesses in the next four years.
"In a year of great technology ferment, ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight explores where organizations are prioritizing to fully utilize the potential of public cloud infrastructure as a service (IaaS) in 2024. The landscape of public cloud infrastructure as a service is set for dynamic ...
本調査レポートは、2024年時点における今後5年間にIT産業で起こるであろう10項目のIDCによる予測(Prediction)を示すと共に、ITリーダーがどのように準備すべきかの指針を提供するものである。
「すべてのITプロバイダーは、金、頭脳、時間を投入して、AI(Artificial Intelligence:人工知能)をビジネスの中核に組み込むであろう。CIOや、デジタルに精通したCレベルの経営幹部にとって、この変化は新しく、革新的で、AIによって機能が強化された多くの製品/サービスの活用をもたらす一方で、IT部門が「次はAIである」とばかりに多くの製品やサービスを利用し、結果として制御不能なコスト増加やデータ管理の喪失といったリスクが増大する恐れもある」とIDC、Worldwide ...
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 Survey highlights the results of the worldwide monthly technology investment monitor for September 2023. IT leaders continue to face an array of conflicting challenges in the second half of 2023 as they continue to anticipate potential ...
本IDC报告是一篇IDC IT部门数字化转型(DX)场景分类,旨在帮助IT部门制定业务战略,获得业务上的成功。该分类分为八个战略要务,这些要务指明了全球的IT部门如何构建面向未来三到五年的数字战略。由于IT部门从来没有像现在这样如此看重企业的需求,所以,本报告还为IT部门提供了数字化转型旅程指南,确保每个项目和场景都与企业的长期目标一致。
IDC CIO/CXO信息科技智库服务研究总监Martha Rounds表示:"IT有潜力也有能力成为企业的能力倍增器,它通过利用和调整技术增强企业的创新能力、客户响应能力、供应和生产优化能力、在直接和互补市场中抢占市场份额的能力以及持续交付价值的能力,帮助企业实现业务和运营目标。本报告将帮助业务和IT领导层共同协调业务和IT战略,共育未来成功。"
...IBM's earnings release for 3Q23 reported revenue of $14.8 billion (+3.5% y/y @ cc, +4.6% y/y as reported) – the balance of this document will use constant currency growth unless otherwise noted. IBM generated free cash flow of $1.7 billion ...
This IDC Survey examines data about the impact of GenAI on digital infrastructure investment and operations plans collected by two August 2023 IDC surveys. Specifically, this document analyzes data from 1,187 participants in IDC's August ...
This IDC study provides IDC's top 10 predictions for cloud for 2024 and beyond.
"Cloud makes it possible to quickly deploy new technologies at scale while simultaneously reducing risk," said Dave McCarthy, research vice president, ...