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 Survey analyzes European organizations' perceptions of and the importance they place on the digital-first philosophy and capabilities of services providers, through the lens of country and company size. Results are based on IDC's ...
This IDC Survey presentation provides key insights from IDC’s 2023 European IT Services Survey, conducted in August and September 2023. Some 700 organizations across 14 European countries were polled.
The goals of the ...
This IDC Survey explores the pricing models used by European organizations in their engagements with services providers. The report analyzes the historical and intended future use of pricing models by country, company size, and industry. ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight captures insights from IDC's European IT Services Survey, conducted in September 2023. It provides insights into the delivery models used for IT services in Europe.
This IDC Survey Spotlight captures insights from IDC's European IT Services Survey, conducted in September 2023. The analysis provides insights into the delivery models used for consulting and business processing outsourcing services ...
This IDC Market Presentation provides key findings from several European surveys that track end-user investment sentiment and spending on cloud innovation and services. The aim of the research is to provide a first look at GenAI adoption ...
This IDC Market Perspective explores the evolving relationship between professional services providers and cloud service providers as the market accelerates its transition to digital business. It looks at how organizations engage professional ...
This IDC Market Note provides our analysis and takeaways from the TCS Europe Analyst Summit in the company's Pace Port innovation center in Amsterdam, where we heard from TCS execs and clients on how TCS drives innovation in the ever-changing ...
This IDC Market Presentation provides a summary of key events that took place in the European services market in the third quarter of 2023.
This IDC Market Presentation was delivered as an IDC Webinar on October 24, 2023. It analyzes the requirements of IT services providers in the context of changing market needs in a cloud-centric world, resulting from the evolution of digital ...
This IDC Survey explores the economic outlook and 2023 budget expectations and compares European and worldwide survey results. Results are based on IDC's Future Enterprise Resilience and Spending Survey, conducted in July 2023.
...This IDC Market Note discusses Sopra Steria's 1H23 financial results as announced on July 27. In 1H23, the company's worldwide revenue grew 11.6% (8.1% organic growth) on a year-over-year basis to $2.84 billion ($3.1 billion equivalent).
...This IDC Market Share study examines how the market shares of the largest IT services providers in Europe evolved in 2022. It further analyzes market developments and dynamics during the year.
"The European IT services market achieved ...
This IDC Market Presentation summarizes key events in the European services market in the second quarter of 2023.
This IDC Market Note discusses highlights and IDC analyst takeaways from the Cognizant Analyst and Advisor Global Growth Markets Summit, held in person in London on June 14, 2023. The company discussed a variety of subjects during the event, ...
This IDC Market Perspectives provides a services market outlook, examining how the market has changed and the consequent impact on business and IT services specifically. This includes identifying the opportunities for print services providers ...
This IDC Market Note provides IDC's key analysis and takeaways IBM Consulting's two-day Analyst Summit in London in June 2023, where we heard from execs, partners, and most importantly, clients on IBM Consulting's differentiators and key ...
This IDC Survey explores end-user organizations' economic outlook and 2023 budget expectations, comparing European and worldwide survey results. Data is based on IDC's Future Enterprise Resilience and Spending Survey, conducted in ...
This IDC Market Note provides event highlights and analysts' takeaways from PwC's EMEA Analyst Day, held in London on May 18, 2023. The company detailed its market priorities, highlighted its future bets, and provided insight into investments ...
This IDC Market Presentation provides a summary of key events that took place in the European services market in the first quarter of 2023.
This IDC Survey Spotlight captures insights from IDC's 2022 European Partner Survey, conducted in July 2022. The analysis provides insights into the roles systems integrators and strategy consulting firms are hiring in Europe.
This IDC Market Presentation analyzes the services market in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and Western Europe (WE) in 2022 and forecasts expenditure on services through 2025. It is based on IDC's Semiannual Services Tracker, which was ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight focuses on the way partners across Europe perceive edge technology and its ability to drive future revenue.
It looks at all partners and breaks down this question into some of the types of partners addressed ...
This IDC Market Forecast discusses the services market in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and Western Europe (WE) in 2022 and forecasts expenditure through 2027. It is based on IDC's Semiannual Services Tracker, which was updated in April ...
This IDC Market Presentation analyzes pricing models offered by services providers for use in client engagements and determines how pricing models offered are affected by European market factors such as economic headwinds. This report includes ...