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 Market Note discusses the implications of the recent announcements by major cloud providers like Google, AWS, and Microsoft regarding the waiving of data egress charges for customers permanently moving their data to another cloud ...
Comcast Business continues its strategic efforts to move up market and become a key player of secure connectivity and communications solutions that will drive scale, automation, and business outcomes as an agile, trusted strategic partner ...
This IDC Market Note highlights Esker's transition into a SaaS provider, focusing on AR and AP automation by showcasing its 2023 annual results and the introduction of Synergy AI to enhance accounts receivables solutions. It discusses Esker's ...
This IDC Market Note highlights some of the innovations in the production printing market that HP Inc. will be introducing publicly for the first time at the upcoming drupa event. The range of new solutions includes products and capabilities ...
This IDC study presents IDC's 2024–2027 forecast for 3D printers.
"The 3D printing market is changing very fast, with new market entries constantly adding new technologies that deliver value to end users in new ways," said Tim Greene, ...
本調査レポートは、デジタルファーストの時代を生き抜くために必要な企業のFuture Enterprise化の状況に関して、IDCが世界18か国/地域で行ったユーザー調査「Future Enterprise Resiliency & Spending 24 Survey wave 2」の結果の一部を、国内と世界の比較を中心にまとめたものである。
本調査レポートでは、AI(Artificial Intelligence:人工知能)を支えるクラウドプラットフォームやインフラの状況を、国内および世界の企業における意識の違いの比較を含めて分析している。
...This IDC Market Perspective provides an overview of key operational and financial aspects of two aspirational direct-to-device (D2D) players AST SpaceMobile and Lynk Global. It identifies aspects of the market open to them and details their ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight uses the same data from Business Consulting Services Vendor Survey Spotlight — 2023 Buyer Patterns a Tale of Haves and Have-Nots (IDC #US51498524, January ...
D-Wave's launch of Fast Anneal is as significant as recent announcements regarding logical qubit and error mitigation research made by gate-based quantum hardware vendors. To reduce the impact of environmental noise, Fast Anneal applies ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight examines how operations-intensive companies — such as those in manufacturing, oil and gas, and utilities — perceive their sustainability strategies in comparison to their peers. The respondents included companies ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight explores data from IDC's Future Entreprise Resiliency and Spending Survey published in March 2024, focusing on organizations in Western Europe and Central Europe. It examines the ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight examines results from IDC's latest SSE/SASE Buyer Adoption Survey. The survey dives deep into buyer perspectives on security priorities, experiences, and expectations. While SSE/SASE consolidates and ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight examines results from IDC's latest SSE/SASE Buyer Adoption Survey. The survey dives deep into buyer perspectives on security priorities, experiences, and expectations. Existing networking and security ...
This study profiles European vendors Gaia Generation, Sopht, Greenpixie, Aguaro, and Posetiv Cloud, which have been selected IDC Innovators for providing GreenOps solutions that assist cloud vendors and/or cloud users. IDC Innovators are ...
This IDC Innovators report offers insights for line-of-business professionals, innovation managers, and IT teams to make informed decisions about partnering with technology solution vendors for their product and customer experience initiatives. ...
Generative artificial intelligence (AI) is a transformative tool for sustainability, enabling organizations to address complex environmental, social, and governance (ESG) challenges. It optimizes resource efficiency, predicts and mitigates ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight reveals that enterprises of all sizes are willing to pay a premium for compelling AI features, with IT operations software having the highest price premium support for almost all business sizes. IDC's 2024 Future ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight looks at the types of vendors that organizations view as their most important strategic GenAI technology partner, through the lens of those organizations' long-term expectations for the size of their external services ...
This IDC Market Presentation showcases how AI and generative AI (GenAI) is transforming the digital engineering and operational technology services market and how engineering service providers should capitalize on this. This presentation ...
This IDC Market Note provides insights into Infor Innovation Summit 2024, focusing on Infor's corporate strategy, product road maps, and competitive positioning from a European perspective.
"Infor is nearing the tipping point of becoming ...
Ivanti presented the 2024 Ivanti Solutions Summit on April 9-11, 2024 in Grapevine, Texas. The company offered a vision of "Everywhere work" and presented additions to its products and solutions designed to enable automated, device-centric ...
Lenovo made a series of product and services announcements during NVIDIA's GTC conference and more broadly on April 24th, 2024, around its commitment to empower customer AI Journey IT solution needs. With Lenovo’s most recent announcement ...
This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation provides a view into IDC Retail Insights' store "super platform" concept, a modernized technology platform for the omni-channel store that allows retailers to become more agile and able to innovate faster ...
On Monday, Meta Platforms announced important changes to its mixed reality (MR) strategy, including a more "open" approach to its OS and related development tools, and that ASUS and Lenovo are making MR headsets that will use Meta's rebranded ...