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 Presentation aims to provide technology vendors with an overview of the key business trends shaping the banking industry in Europe in 2024. The report offers industry knowledge that can help develop compelling narratives ...
This IDC Survey identifies the business priorities, underlying tactical initiatives, and challenges of retail banks across the Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) region. It also highlights the degree of technological maturity of retail ...
This IDC Survey examines the responses of European, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) retail banks to survey queries about business priorities and challenges, tactical initiatives, technological maturity, and business outcomes linked to environmental, ...
This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation examines the modernization of core banking solutions. Banks are prioritizing modernization due to market forces: the need for personalization, flexibility, and improved time to market; open banking; and to ...
This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation provides an overview of the key dimensions of organizational resiliency. Resiliency has become one of the most important risk dimensions to monitor in the wake of recent pandemics. Regulatory bodies across ...
This IDC Market Note highlights some of the major topics presented and discussed at the Infosys Finacle Conclave 2023 in Istanbul. The conference theme was Recomposing Banking — Leading the Digital Continuum. This topic stimulated conversations ...
This IDC Market Presentation is designed to provide technology vendors a better understanding of their buyer personas. It aims to answer the following questions:
- Who are the key personas I need to address with my offerings (products ...
This IDC Market Note emphasizes insights from IDC's Financial Services Xchange 20230 conference, underscoring the necessity for a robust exchange among industry peers in the Financial Services sector. Although the FSI industry grapples with ...
This IDC Perspective takes a closer look at the factors impacting the Western European financial services sector and the role of business process automation in helping financial services companies to combat negative market forces and meet ...
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 presents the top 10 predictions for digital lending for 2024 and beyond.
"Economic conditions in 2024 and into 2025, especially the interest rate scenario and bank liquidity, will heavily impact lending activity for ...
This IDC Market Presentation is designed to provide general and synthetic knowledge to support salespeople of technology vendors when they first approach a buyer. This Industry Conversation Handbook aims to ignite a meaningful customer engagement, ...
This IDC Industry Buyers Handbook aims to help technology vendors understand what drives buyers within the financial services industry in their technology purchasing decisions. Vendors can use this handbook to:
- Align their companies’ ...
This IDC Industry Buyers Handbook aims to help technology vendors understand what drives the technology purchase decisions of buyers within the financial services industry. Vendors can use this Handbook to align the company's proposition ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight provides a look at the priorities of financial institutions worldwide in terms of a number of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) topics.
"Financial services institutions prioritize cost savings related ...
This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation examines the maturity of banks globally in dealing with AI and explores the major challenges and gaps they are facing. It also provides some data on actual and forecast AI spending.
The presentation ...
"The collection function is an often-forgotten candidate for making better use of modern digital tools such as data and predictive and behavioral analytics. These digital tools will enable old-fashioned segmentation techniques to be revamped ...
This IDC Industry Analysis Perspective provides technology vendors' sales teams, marketers, and product and channel managers with foundational insight into the financial services industry in Europe in 2023. By understanding how the business ...
This IDC Perspective examines the need for lenders to adapt to a new environment with customer-centric models that are compliant and achieve high overdue-payment recovery rates.
"With regulations on collections evolving and impacting ...
This IDC Industry Market Forecast aims to provide technology vendor product managers and those responsible for market/competitive intelligence with an industry overview of IDC Spending Guide forecast data and insights into the regional financial ...
This IDC Market Presentation offers technology vendors an overview of the key business trends shaping the financial services industry in 2023 in Europe. The report provides a foundation of industry knowledge that vendors can use to:
- Develop ...
This IDC Market Presentation is designed to provide technology sellers' sales and marketers as well as product and channel managers with foundational insightinto the global financial services industry (FSI) landscape in 2023. By understanding ...
This IDC Financial Services Market Trends 2023 Worldwide report aims to provide technology vendors with an overview of the key business trends shaping the financial services industry in 2023. The report offers a foundation of industry knowledge ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight looks at European financial services consumers' level of anticipation that their financial services providers will be able to provide services in the metaverse. IDC's analysis examines risks and benefits for businesses ...
This IDC Perspective examines the failure of Silicon Valley Bank in the U.S. and its U.K. subsidiary, including the macroeconomic and regulatory causes. The rise in U.S. interest rates had a severe impact on the composition of the bank's ...