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 PeerScape describes four practices that financial institutions have leveraged today’s technologies to assist the underbanked.
“Overall there have been great strides in addressing the unbanked; however, there is still work ...
This IDC Tech Buyer Survey Spotlight illustrates the key factors consumers consider when they choose a new financial institution to assist them with their financial journey. This document contains data from IDC Financial Insights' 2024 North ...
This IDC study analyzes the functional capabilities and go-to-market strategies of 10 consumer lending customer experiences solution providers that serve the needs of the North America financial services industry customers, including banks, ...
This IDC study uses the IDC MarketScape model to provide an assessment of a select list of technology vendors that offer consumer lending decisioning platforms to financial institutions and fintechs that provide secured and unsecured loans ...
This IDC study uses the IDC MarketScape model to provide an assessment of a select list of technology vendors that offer small business lending customer experience solutions to financial institutions and fintechs that provide a variety of ...
This IDC study uses the IDC MarketScape model to provide an assessment of a select list of technology vendors that offer small business lending decisioning platforms to financial institutions and fintechs that provide a variety of business ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight discusses some of the results from IDC's most recent Worldwide Industry CloudPath Survey, conducted in April 2023. Cloud is becoming increasingly popular for many retail banking front-end ...
This IDC study provides IDC's top 10 predictions for worldwide banking for 2024 and beyond.
"Today's goal for banking worldwide is to overcome the immediate challenges in the markets while mapping out a longer-term strategy for growth ...
This IDC study explores 10 of the most urgent business and technology issues that customer experience (CX) executives across the C-suite must address to differentiate and prepare themselves to thrive in the age of intelligence-first customer ...
This IDC study discusses how the banking industry is accelerating its recovery from, and overcoming of, the disruptions in 2020 through the digital mission of "accelerated banking." The taxonomy defines six strategic priorities to accomplish ...
While it seems that news has been inundated with stories surrounding GenAI, there is good reason to understand the potential impact it will have on how banking customers engage with their financial institutions and more importantly how institutions ...
This IDC Perspective presents the findings of the 2023 IDC FinTech Rankings. The annual program serves the needs of financial institutions worldwide by presenting current and historical trends in performance by the partner companies that ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight discusses the results from the most recent IDC's North American Consumer Banking Channel Preferences Survey, done in January of 2023. There appears to be a lack of trust between customers and ...
If this was a boxing match, the featherweight-sized banks and credit unions would have no chance against the heavyweight-sized banks, primarily the few institutions that own 85% of depositors cash versus all the rest. Fortunately, banking ...
This IDC Survey presents key findings on the sentiment and trends of the U.S. and Canadian bank and credit union members and customers when it comes to their experiences, concerns, and engagement with their financial institution during their ...
This IDC Perspective discusses how embedded finance and banking as a service is modernizing the customer experience. There is much discussion about the term embedded finance, primarily in the context of other terms that have been ...
This IDC Survey presents key findings on the sentiment and trends of U.S. and Canadian bank and credit union small business customers when it comes to their experiences, concerns, and engagement with their financial institution during their ...
This IDC Survey presents key findings from two recent surveys conducted by IDC regarding consumers' acceptance of cloud for their banking needs and highlights the key reasons why bank executives are turning more to cloud technology. The ...
In a surprise announcement, FIS said it plans to spin off its Worldpay merchant services and payments business. This major decision will unwind a $43 billion megadeal in 2019 that created a financial technology giant. The breakup, to be ...
This IDC PlanScape provides a framework for how financial institutions can lay out a branch modernization strategy to improve both the customer and the employee experiences. It provides the key use cases, processes, and success factors of ...
A tipping point appears to have been reached recently with the public release of an AI tool from OpenAI called ChatGPT. GPT stands for generative pretrained transformer, which is a large language model (LLM) that propels AI to the next level ...
This IDC Web Conference presents a discussion by Jerry Silva, research vice president, IDC Financial Insights; and Marc DeCastro, director of IDC's Worldwide Consumer Banking Engagement Strategies, about four of the top 10 predictions for ...
This IDC Market Perspective discusses relevant news, announcements, and themes from Oracle's CloudWorld 2022 event held in Las Vegas on October 17–20, 2022.
Over the past several years, Oracle has shifted its entire business focus ...
This IDC study provides IDC's 2023 top 10 predictions for banking. Predicting the future of banking and the implications of technology strategies at financial institutions has become more and more difficult over the past three years. But ...