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 study represents a vendor assessment of the conversational artificial intelligence (AI) software market for front-office use cases through the IDC MarketScape model. This assessment discusses both quantitative and qualitative characteristics ...
This IDC Market Presentation examines the year-over-year changes in the overall datacenter infrastructure ecosystem during the fourth calendar quarter of 2023 — notably servers, storage, and networking equipment. It also provides competitive ...
This IDC Market Presentation examines the level of datacenter modernization investments, timing of the next on-premises storage investment cycle, and the impact of certain workloads on storage spending. Our findings reveal varying levels ...
This IDC Market Presentation explores Canadian organizations' deployment choices and approaches to consumption-based subscriptions for dedicated digital infrastructure as well as factors driving consideration or use of as-a-service infrastructure. ...
随着全球科技革命和产业变革的深入推进,工业企业正面临着前所未有的发展机遇与挑战。加快形成新质生产力,落实新型工业化,已成为推动工业企业转型升级、实现高质量发展的必由之路。新型工业化以信息化、智能化为核心特征,旨在通过技术创新和产业升级,构建高效、绿色、可持续的生产体系。新质生产力则代表着通过先进科技手段,不断提升生产效率、优化资源配置、创新产品和服务,以应对市场需求的快速变化。
本报告旨在探讨工业企业如何加快形成新质生产力,以落实新型工业化战略。报告围绕新型工业化与新质生产力的关系、制造企业数字化发展路线图、数字科技的深耕与新质生产力的发展,以及企业首席信息官(CIO)与技术供应商的行动建议等四个方面展开深入剖析。
IDC中国高级研究经理李鑫表示:"2024年政府工作报告明确提出将'新质生产力'作为本年度政府工作的首要任务,并特别强调数字科技在新质生产力发展中的核心地位。在这一背景下,企业首席信息官(CIO)须敏锐洞察政策对信息技术的深刻影响,进而采取切实有效的措施,推动企业实现转型升级和高质量发展。具体而言,企业在落实新型工业化、提升新质生产力的过程中,应全面考虑组织认知的更新、发展路线的绘制、投资回报的评估、技术合作的开展、生态系统的构建以及运营增长的实现,从而形成一套完整而系统的发展策略。"
...本IDC技术买家演示文稿分析了企业数据治理的主要工作及整体工作成熟度,针对数据治理与整合的具体工作进行分析,给出对应的细分成熟度模型及组织工作,分析企业提升数据治理与整合工作成熟度的五大落实点及应用案例,最后为企业CIO与技术供应商提供相关行动建议。据IDC预测,到2025年,65%的CIO将优先关注战略数据管理,并培育以数据为中心的组织文化,构筑数字竞争的差异化能力。数据治理与整合工作是企业数字业务支撑的基础,“AI无处不在的时代,CIO为企业做好数据准备”变得尤为重要。
IDC中国高级研究经理李鑫表示:“2024年,‘人工智能+’被写入政府工作报告,人工智能将作为新质生产力发展的强大引擎。此背景下,数字治理工作变得异常重要,无论企业是否决定做‘人工智能+’,数据治理与整合工作是数字工作开展的大前提,落实数据治理与整合工作将关乎企业的经营运营效率、合规发展、数据隐私、智能功效等重要环节。”
...IDC对数据要素进行了市场定义,共包括数据要素开发、数据要素应用、数据要素安全和数据要素服务四个方面,对当前主要市场活动和市场表现进行了分析说明,并针对目前的挑战建立Butterfly Model,搭建数据价值流通图,从数据、数据平台、数据旅程、企业/用户的角度来梳理数据流通路径,并分析数据要素各个环节的主要技术和应用,以及分析了生成式AI对数据要素的影响,提出Data Clean Room来加快企业数据共享,并在最后为厂商提供了行动建议。
"数据要素市场在2024年将会快速落地,会有越来越多的企业涌入数据基础设施、数据管理、数据资产、数据交易流通市场,这将极大推动数据的开放共享,但也需要注意到数据作为资产,其独有的特性和估值方式,希望报告中的模型能为市场提供参考。另外,数据的从属关系、开放形式将在今年有更大的挑战和多样的问题,企业要尽力建立标准的管理规范和标识体系,并充分利用Gen ...
This IDC Survey investigates how Asia/Pacific's (including Japan) (APJ) C-suites are approaching generative AI (GenAI) investments, what priorities, objectives, and challenges they have, and their perceptions on the GenAI vendor landscape. ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight delves into communications SPs' focus areas on their respective digital transformation journeys. IDC's 2023 Asia/Pacific Digital Service Provider Transformation Survey shows how communications ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight explores how organizations manage their cloud infrastructures, whether by using in-house resources or a third-party service provider. With regards to the latter, it goes further by looking at the type of cloud that ...
This IDC Market Note summarizes key discussion points from the February edition of the CISO Hub, IDC's monthly call with European CISOs. The call brings together security professionals from a wide range of industries and backgrounds. These ...
This IDC Market Note discusses Sage's recent announcement of its GenAI-powered digital assistant. U.K.-based software vendor Sage is set to launch Sage Copilot, a generative AI-powered digital assistant for small and midsize businesses. ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight examines why European large enterprises are engaging in their network automation journeys. Depending on their maturity, enterprises target network maintenance, observability, network security, provisioning, and ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight provides insight from IDC's Future of Operations Survey, 2023. This Survey Spotlight focuses on the investment attitudes of industrial companies regarding edge technologies.
This IDC Survey Spotlight analyzes data from IDC's EMEA Future of Work Employee Experience Survey conducted in February 2024. It highlights the status of hybrid working in Europe, with details ...
This IDC Vendor Profile offers an overview of Yokoy, a Switzerland-based provider of AI-infused spend management software for multinational enterprises.
This IDC Market Analysis Perspective provides an overview of the European network security market. It covers various trends and dynamics shaping the network security landscape and buyer behavior, including the increasing importance of cloud ...
This IDC Survey investigates EMEA organizations' current priorities regarding investments for tech solutions and their strategies for innovation based on results from IDC's 2023 EMEA Cross-Industry Acceleration Survey.
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This IDC Market Glance provides an overview of the current makeup of the European supply chain planning application landscape. It identifies participating vendors and depicts the segments and structure of the market.
This IDC Survey Spotlight highlights major issues employees encounter in their workspaces and highlights the importance of purposeful workspace design and investment in meeting room technology. It also extracts key data points from a question ...
This IDC Market Glance provides an overview of the UAE business and IT services vendor landscape, segmented by the 14 IDC services foundation markets in IDC's services taxonomy. This IDC Market Glance shows the top vendors by market share, ...
This IDC Perspective highlights the strategic initiative undertaken by Enerjisa Uretim, a prominent player in electricity production, trading, and powerplant management, to fortify its OT security in the face of mounting cyberthreats around ...
This IDC Survey analyzes the findings of IDC's Türkiye Security Survey, 2024, which polled 61 Türkiye-based users across a variety of sectors, including manufacturing, trade, finance, and resource industries, in January 2024. The ...