Roadmap of 3-5 dimensions / maturity levels for technologies and targets for maintaining competitiveness or achieving industry superiority.

Value: Provides a framework for technology strategies and identifies elements to address while aligning them to business goals.

Objectively compares peer classes and classifies emerging technologies by their impact and peak adoption timeframe.

Value: Benchmarks help you compare where you are relative to peers, making it easier to build a consensus around technology priorities.

Aggregation of multiple research reports into a guide to help organizations delivery technology.

Value: Curates and connects research report to create a holistic approach to a solution.

Outlines of new technologies that define approaches, key players, benefits, risks, timelines, resources, and likely business outcomes.

Value: Helps you architect and prepare the case for technology initiatives that are aligned with business goals, scoped to succeed, and properly resourced.

A presentation discussing a technology or solution accompanied by supporting data.

Value: Easily digestible and reusable insights, observations, and data to provide organizations with a quick understanding of a subject and drive action.

Presents suppliers using innovative technologies, approaches, or business models.

Value: Speed vetting of suppliers by singling out the most innovative practices and vendors.

An unbiased consistent methodology to assess technology supplier offerings and strategy.

Value: Assessing vendors with a consistent transparent methodology speeds time to a short list and mitigates risks.

An IDC PeerScape identifies peer business practices to emulate or avoid.

Value: Allows you to focus on practices with the most impact on success, driving business value.

Compares stated features of products in a category.

Value: Reduces effort in assessing technology vendor fit to organizational requirements.

View of tech market landscapes that include competitive positioning, adjacent segments, and potential partner opportunities.

Helps technology suppliers assess market opportunities and identify where their organizations fit into the competitive landscape.

Market size, regional allocations, platform split, and summaries of vendor shares for the recently completed period.

Helps technology suppliers analyze competitors and promote market leadership.

Analysis of an emerging or established technology.

Insight into the potential impact of emerging or established technologies on products and markets.

In-depth analysis of a single company, a group of companies, or a company division focused on a particular market.

Provides tech suppliers with insight into other companies’ product or service offerings, go-to-market strategies, business performance, market positioning, and future opportunities and challenges.

IDC Links offer timely insight into important market trends and events in a short opinion piece.

IDC Blinks offer shorter written content, accompanied by a two-minute analyst audio opinion.

Helps tech suppliers adjust and refine business decisions based on IDC’s analysis of product and financial announcements, mergers and acquisitions, and other impactful events.

Analysis of an industry event, new product or service, company announcement, development or fast breaking news.

Helps tech suppliers anticipate and plan for the business and market impacts of industry developments.

Analysis of key market developments.

Provides tech suppliers with insight into key issues and topics, including:

• Competitive environments
• New business models
• Partner and channel strategy
• Innovation and market opportunity
• Enterprise strategies
• Regulation
• Socioeconomics