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.
本IDC研究分析了中国生命科学数字化转型发展的现状和未来趋势,阐述了多类生命科学企业的数字化转型需求,并盘点了近年来的数字化发展动态,分析了市场的未来发展方向,由此对生命科学企业的数字化转型市场规模做出预测与分析。本报告可供生命科学技术厂商在开发产品和制定发展策略时参考,也可供生命科学企业在制定发展规划时参考,还可供投资机构在制定投资策略时参考。
"生命科学企业正面外部市场环境的阻力和内部竞争的压力,正寻求通过数字化手段满足合规、降本、增效、管理等多方面的需求,数字化的需求更为全面而深化,这也给市场带来了增长潜力。随着企业的信息化水平逐步提升,企业的数据将不断被资源化,进而驱动企业对数字化的需求进一步提升。当前,一众厂商正从单一领域相继切入市场,未来,为了占据更高的竞争优势,企业需要进一步丰富业务范畴,发展技术能力,构建厂商生态,从而满足生命科学逐步多元化、创新化、一体化的数字化转型需求。"——IDC ...
This IDC Link discusses the recent announcement by the Linux Foundation of an open standard initiative for interoperability at the edge of the industrial automation ecosystem.
Workday held its annual Innovation Summit for 2024 in California Tuesday, April 16 – Wednesday, April 17, 2024. The one and half day summit brought forward an esteemed group of industry analysts to gain an understanding of Workday’s trajectory ...
Organizations globally are experiencing seismic changes in where and how to work. While some organizations have insisted on a return to the office, many have accepted flexible work as the new work reality. IDC’s Future of Work research shows ...
This year’s Data Center World 2024 event was held in Washington, DC from April 15-18. It was a new location for the event after being held the previous two years in Austin, TX.
In last year’s IDC Link covering this same event, we had ...
本調査レポートは、コラボレーティブワークスペース市場の2023年の実績と2024年~2028年の市場予測を提供している。IDCでは、同市場を「コラボレーティブアプリケーション」「コンテンツワークフロー/管理アプリケーション」に分類して、市場規模を分析し予測を行っている。2023年の同市場は過去数年において国内企業で急速に浸透した会議/バーチャルイベントアプリケーション市場の成長が調整局面に入った。一方で、構成比が大きいコンテンツサービスアプリケーションの高成長が継続したほか、共同ワークスペースにおけるドキュメント作成を伴うコラボレーション/タスク管理ツール、従業員エンゲージメント向上のための双方向の情報発信機能や、デジタルアダプションツールなどデジタルワークスペース高度化に関する新たな機能需要が同市場の成長を促進した。
「国内コラボレーティブワークスペース市場が今後も成長するために、ITサプライヤーは、Generative ...
This IDC study represents a vendor assessment of the Microsoft implementation services ecosystem through the IDC MarketScape model. This assessment discusses both quantitative and qualitative characteristics that explain success in the Microsoft ...
This IDC Perspective highlights AI partner ecosystem and roles. Artificial intelligence (AI) will have a massive impact as companies invest heavily in technology and begin integrating AI models in their existing business processes. AI will ...
This IDC Market Note includes an executive briefing held in conjunction with the Google Public Sector Generative AI Live + Labs event at the Google office on Pier 57 in New York City on February 29. Karen Dahut, CEO of Google Public Sector, ...
This IDC Market Presentation examines shifts in thinking and priorities for Canadian organizations as they continue to search for the right balance between managing end-to-end applications and infrastructure performance and security internally ...
This IDC Survey covers Canadian CEO respondents of the Worldwide CEO Survey that was conducted in February 2024. Part 3 covers CEO plans around technology as well as their priorities and corporate dynamics. The document helps tech ...
This IDC Survey covers Canadian CEO respondents of the Worldwide CEO Survey that was conducted in February 2024. Part 2 covers CEO plans for AI, including Gen AI. The document helps tech vendors with understanding the changing priorities ...
中国政府已经把发展新质生产力作为未来政策的核心方向,推动产业链供应链优化升级是发展新质生产力的三大目标之一。得产业链与供应链者得天下,企业要在智能数字业务时代做好转型并实现可持续发展,打造强大健康的产业链就极为关键。此研究首先简要分析了产业链供应链的重要性,接着详细给出了产业链与供应链发展的6大趋势,最后针对行业用户给出了参考建议。
IDC中国副总裁兼首席分析师武连峰表示:"要赢在智能数字业务时代,打造数字化韧性,企业需要洞悉产业链供应链的六大趋势——全链条可视可管、全渠道数字获客、全方位智能渗透、全球化品牌重塑、全绿色持续发展、全金融深化嵌入。"
...This IDC Survey draws data from IDC's 2024 European Future of Work Employee Experience Survey, focusing on workers' real-life experience with flexible work models in Europe.
"Flexible work arrangements in Europe ...
本調査レポートは、国内の産業を、17区分の企業と、中央官庁、地方自治体、教育、消費者の4区分の非企業で計21の産業分野に分類し、それぞれの分野における第3のプラットフォーム支出額実績(2023年)と予測(2024年~2028年)を報告する。また、同市場を5つの従業員規模に分けて分析し、産業分野別および従業員規模別の第3のプラットフォーム支出額の予測データを提供する。本調査レポートで用いる市場予測では、ウクライナ、イスラエルにおける地域紛争、インフレや円安などの経済動向の影響を考慮している。
IDC ...
This IDC Survey report draws data from IDC's European Employee Experience Survey, focusing on workers' usage of and sentiment toward automation technologies in general, specifically regarding generative AI (GenAI). Comparison of data ...
本調査レポートは2024年3月に実施した情報セキュリティ対策の実態調査に基づき、国内の企業/組織615社の導入実態と今後の方向性について分析した結果をまとめたものである。
ITサプライヤーの戦略策定、開発計画、マーケティング活動に資する分析を提供するため、情報セキュリティ対策をすでに導入している企業だけでなく、導入を検討している企業を対象としている。調査内容は、セキュリティ被害状況、情報セキュリティ対策の導入状況や投資動向、情報セキュリティサービスの利用状況などについて調査/分析を行った。
本調査では、約4割の企業でセキュリティアラートが増加し、ランサムウェア感染による被害が継続的に発生しており、ランサムウェアを利用したサイバー攻撃が恒常的に行われていることが分かる。クラウド環境へのLift ...
This IDC Market Glance takes a straightforward look at the wellness industry in Europe, focusing on the physical, mental, and financial wellness of employees. It outlines key market players and offers insights into the market. This report ...