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
Flash
Provides rapid IDC insight and analysis about a significant industry event or conference, merger or acquisition, product announcement, or other fast-breaking news affecting the IT market.
Forecast Update
Provides a short, quick look at an updated forecast and the changed assumptions behind the update. It updates a market forecast published in the same calendar year, identifies changed and key forecast assumptions, and highlights actions for participants to consider in light of the changes.
IDC Insight
Provides coverage and analysis of an industry event, new product or service, or a company announcement or development.
Update
Provides brief overview coverage of what is happening in a market.
Vendor Profiles
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.
Daily Graphics
Daily Graphic
Illustrates IDC's keen analysis of major market trends in downloadable PowerPoints. Available as a free download the day it appears, an IDC Daily Graphic provides valuable material for speeches and strategic planning.
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
Insights-only Research
Best Practices
Correlates the use of specific practices and superior performance as indicated by an analysis of the benchmarking database. Highlights any significant differences between industries. Conclusions provide a set of process priorities for improving a business case and advice on how to overcome change management issues.
Business Strategy
Helps buyers to assess their business strategies and/or associated business processes, especially as they relate to the use of technology.
Methods and Practices
Provides a step-by-step description of a method or methods that can be applied. As appropriate, the report may compare the benefits and drawbacks of several methods.
Perspective
Presents an article written by an Insights analyst on a topic of special interest to a target audience. This information has generally already appeared in an industry publication and is repackaged for display on the Insights Web site.
Vendor Assessment
Helps buyers select the right IT supplier. The report helps buyers understand the various providers of a technology by providing analysis on market landscape, vendor profiles, vendor market share, and vendor assessments.
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.
Predictions
Top 10 Predictions
Provides bold, well-conceived market predictions grounded in solid methodologies, primary research, and analyst experience. Lays out a clear road map to understanding major market opportunities and trends.
Presentations
IDC Presentation
Provides the latest, select CIS forecast data, primary research survey findings, and critical IDC analyst opinion in a succinct, easy-to-digest PowerPoint format.
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.
Insights 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.
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
Competitive Analysis
Provides a detailed accounting and review of a vendor's programs, processes, products, service, satisfaction, and/or strategy in a target market. This knowledge helps clients reduce their risk of losing market share or enhance their position over the competition.
Customer Needs and Strategies
Focuses on the important decisions that business and IT professionals make every day.
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 Analysis
Provides an in-depth examination of the dynamics and future of a single market or a group of related markets. The Market Analysis is where we will typically present our forecasts and assumptions, using a key forecast assumptions table.
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 onetime study produced by a research group that is not published as a deliverable under a subscription service.
Survey
Provides a study and interpretation of the results of a demand- or supply-side survey.
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.
Vendor Needs and Strategies
Provides an in-depth analysis of a company, a small group of companies, a division of a company focused on a particular market, or a best practice that the company exemplifies.
This IDC study uses the IDC TechScape model to provide an assessment of both industry-specific and industry-agnostic technology adoptions supporting the payer market. It includes an evaluation model based on a comprehensive framework and ...
This IDC study is part 2, the integration phase, of a three-part series that focuses on the creation and definition of the new role of IT product management as an important component of the CIO's leading in 3D management initiatives, innovation, ...
This IDC Government Insights presentation provides the results from our annual Canadian citizen survey on government services. Over 1,000 Canadians were asked about their satisfaction and perception of the services they receive from federal, ...
This IDC Financial Insights Presentation provides an analysis of the digital and fintech strategies and initiatives of the major Canadian banks. This Presentation draws on IDC's review of bank public documents and presentations and the published ...
This IDC study presents a vendor assessment of security services in Canada through the IDC MarketScape model. Using the IDC MarketScape model, 11 security service providers with operations and customers in Canada were compared. This process ...
This IDC Energy Insights study evaluates services providers catering to the utilities industry across Europe, Middle East and Africa by leveraging the IDC MarketScape vendor assessment tool. It analyzes quantitative and qualitative characteristics ...
This IDC study highlights a few of the most common causes for unmotivated employees, along with potential solutions. It is intended to help CIOs and their management teams formulate strategies for improving IT performance by raising motivation ...
This IDC Perspective explores how traditional approaches to the CIO role in M&A are being turned on their heads by the emergence of enterprise digital transformation (DX) and the pressure it puts on business and IT leaders to be more ...
This IDC Perspective explores how the CIO role for merger and acquisition (M&A) is evolving because of the emergence of enterprise digital transformation (DX) and the pressure it puts on business and IT leaders to be more creative in ...
This IDC study introduces practices for encouraging and sustaining innovation within the IT organization by using more fluid, informal approaches to actively promote innovative mindsets and reward experimental approaches to solving business ...
This IDC Perspective discusses how to optimize IT's costs and benefits with advanced managerial accounting practices. IT management is now expected to become a professional business partner to its customers. This creates opportunities to ...
This IDC Health Insights Pivot Table presents our best estimates and forecasts for the Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan), or APEJ, healthcare industry IT opportunity for 2016—2020 (with 2014 as the base year). This study provides IT spending ...
本篇IDC FutureScape报告描述了全球医疗IT 2017年十大预测。报告为医疗机构的高管提供了在未来的36个月内医疗IT及其IT所支持的医疗业务的发展趋势，报告标识了这些预测发生作用的未来时间和受影响的业务领域的相对的复杂性和成本。每个预测包括IT对业务的影响和对于医疗机构的行动指南。
作为2017年医疗IT十大预测的中国启示，本报告不仅仅描述了全球医疗IT的十大预测，也描述了这些预测主题在中国医疗IT领域中未来发挥作用的时间和在中国市场的相对复杂性和成本，并对中国市场的情景与全球市场发展做了对比分析。
这些预测所依据的IT投资的主要驱动力既与全球市场有关也与中国市场有关，包括数字化转型、万物互联、逐渐增加的疾病负担、移动与传感器的融合、网络安全应对等。
在这些预测中，有两个领域的预测非常显著，一是新兴技术的融合应用，即物联网采集大数据、认知计算、人工智能等融合，将会提升IT系统的智能化。这一点在全球市场和中国市场都表现得非常显著；二是为了解决逐渐增加的费用负担，医疗支付领域面临变革。在中国市场上，商业医疗保险正在快速成长，与政府办的医疗保险逐渐实现平衡发展，以支持解决不断增加的医疗费用。
...This IDC Manufacturing Insights Pivot Table provides an overview of IT spending trends for the manufacturing sector in the Middle East and Africa for 2016–2020 (with 2015 as the base year).
This document is a downloadable pivot table ...
This IDC Perspective describes five strategic metrics that government CIOs and IT financial managers can exploit and use to leverage existing federal monitoring tools to better demonstrate to senior executives and oversight entities the ...
This IDC Manufacturing Insights Pivot Table provides an overview of IT spending trends for the manufacturing sector in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) for the 2016–2020 period (with 2015 as the base year).
This downloadable pivot ...
This IDC study provides LOB, development, and IT decision makers with a framework for broadening the way they evaluate and justify investments in DevOps and related infrastructure and management solutions that are needed to provide the bedrock ...
This IDC study provides healthcare executives with an understanding of the challenges, examples of how other healthcare organizations have tackled the challenges, and finally, guidance for organizations to address these challenges.
"Operationalizing ...
This IDC Energy Insights Presentation provides an overview of augmented and virtual reality (AR/VR) for utility line-of-business (LOB) and IT executives.
The IDC Presentation explores AR/VR and its various applications, drivers and ...
This IDC Web Conference presents IDC Energy Insights' Show and Tell webinar in which a guest from Alliander — Jeroen Scheer, CTO and leader for Digital Strategy and Architecture — shared his company's strategy to leverage blockchain.
Everyone ...
In 2017, IDC Government Insights expects Asia/Pacific (AP) government IT investments to be channeled into: streamlining redundant processes and optimizing IT resources through next-generation analytics (e.g., embedded analytics, big data, ...
This IDC Energy Insights Pivot Table provides a detailed methodology and taxonomy for IDC Energy Insights' Worldwide Oil and Gas Industry IT Spending Guide. A definition for the oil and gas (O&G) industry and line-of-business (LOB) and ...
This IDC Health Insights Pivot Table provides an overview of trends and forecasts for IT spending by healthcare providers in the Middle East and Africa between 2016 and 2020, with 2015 as the base year.
This downloadable pivot table ...