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.
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This IDC Presentation is a companion product to IDC flagship trackers, which are a leading industry benchmark for measuring and monitoring a market's size and forecast. This presentation provides an in-depth analysis of India’s enterprise ...
This Market Presentation is a companion product to IDC flagship trackers, which are a leading industry benchmark for measuring and monitoring a market's size and forecast. This presentation provides an in-depth analysis of the India enterprise ...
本研究详细介绍了中国数据资产入表解决方案市场的发展情况。其中包括,数据资产入表解决方案的构成,供给方与需求方现状,企业数据资产入表面临的挑战,数据资产入表以及解决方案的落地即将带来的市场影响。
IDC中国金融行业研究经理温泉表示:“由数据资产入表带动,数据要素服务商体系、数据的场景应用、数据基础设施的建设正在开启增长飞轮。数据资产入表解决方案在2024年将大量增加,相关服务提供商的跑马圈地也已经开始。数据资产入表解决方案不是一次性的项目,而是有可能为相关服务商带来更多的提供持续服务的机会。”
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本IDC市场看法为零售银行业GenAI应用场景提供指导,须结合IDC关于GenAI技术的其他研究一并阅读。本研究介绍了几个可能为企业带来大幅增长和效率提升的AI和GenAI场景,特别是与零售客户旅程不同环节相关的场景。
“GenAI将掀起零售银行业的下一轮颠覆。它不仅会将非结构化数据变成决策参考,还会利用合成数据引入多种新算法。它在图像、文本和语音等伪影生成方面具有颠覆性的能力,可让客户获得即时满足的体验。”IDC亚太区金融洞察研究总监Ashish Kakar表示。
...IDC中国高级分析师洪婉婷表示:"随着各企业在智能驾驶领域投资不断加码、搭载芯片算力不断扩充、软件版本快速迭代,中国智能驾驶市场的发展已然揭开崭新的篇章。当前市场格局中,各品牌车型在泊车辅助以及高速领航辅助驾驶功能上表现出较高的同质化水平,但部分行业领军企业已率先在全域领航辅助驾驶技术上取得了显著的优势地位。展望未来,中国智能驾驶市场的竞争将进一步白热化,企业能否在该领域确立竞争优势,将有赖于其在智能驾驶技术研发上的持久投入、对智驾数据资产的有效管理和高效利用,以及不断提升自身产品在安全性能与可靠性方面的卓越表现。"
在电动化、网联化、智能化、共享化的汽车产业变革浪潮中,中国智能市场发展进入了新阶段。我们可以不断看到试点区域的开放扩大、利好政策的落地、技术的突破、功能体验的提升、用户对智驾的热烈讨论。中国智驾市场可为日新月异。在此背景下,IDC详细梳理了中国智能驾驶市场发展的驱动因素、先进技术、主流功能、未来趋势,并对市场产品提供商提供可参考的建议。
为了更细致地反映市场现状,IDC聚焦中国市场主流厂商,并选取了6个典型车辆品牌进行重点研究,通过厂商问卷、访谈调研、实车测试流程,从用户关注的车型覆盖度、泊车能力、行车能力等方面进行评估,并结合厂商各自特点进行点评,为用户选择优秀可靠的智能驾驶系统及车辆提供帮助和建议。
...IDC’s 2024 Asia/Pacific CEO Sentiment Survey investigated sentiments about today’s digital-first landscape and how these perceptions are driving business priorities and technology investments. This document also examines the challenges ...
Over the weekend, an invitation to a hastily assembled Monday morning briefing call was sent to press and industry analysts. It was clear that the event would share big news. During this early morning meeting, we found out that Konica Minolta, ...
ISC WEST 2024 showed substantial growth over last year's event, with nearly 30,000 attendees. This year's event featured three main themes that demonstrate the increasing physical security dependence on software-enabled technology, especially ...
Lexmark has launched a new A3 portfolio called the 9-Series. The new series incorporates the company's unique approach of scaling up its established A4 technology to create a new internally developed A3 platform. By doing so, Lexmark brings ...
We share insights on AI and multicloud networking that we inferred from the CEO keynote, the industry analyst event, and our primary research at Google Cloud Next 2024, held in Las Vegas last week.
本調査レポートは、2024年2月に実施したユーザー調査を基に、国内企業のIT投資動向について、産業分野別、企業規模別および地域別に分析を行ったものである。2024年の経済状況の変化(円安の進行、価格上昇、金利引き上げ懸念、欧米経済の減速、2024年1月に発生した能登半島地震、ロシア・ウクライナ戦争、イスラエル・ハマス戦争といった地政学的な不確実性の高まりなど)の影響、IT支出状況、経営層からIT部門に出される課題、ユーザー企業のIT活用に関する課題に加えて、デジタルトランスフォーメーション(DX)の取り組みの状況とその目的、新規技術としてのパブリッククラウド、データアナリティクス、AI(Artificial ...
This IDC Survey is based on IDC's 2024 Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) ISV Survey and provides insights into go-to-market approaches and cloud marketplace strategies. The survey was fielded from ...
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