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 discusses qualitative and quantitative trends and insights regarding the worldwide market for generative AI server and storage infrastructure, including deployment scenarios, training versus inferencing, and ...
This IDC Market Note discusses some highlights from the NVIDIA GTC 2024 event held March 18-21. From calling out the NVIDIA-powered generative AI datacenters as AI factories and new revenue generators of the future, the event's plethora ...
Intel's newly introduced Gaudi 3 AI accelerator, which has promising performance and advancements over its predecessor, is likely to be a competitive offering in the AI chip market. As the generative AI (GenAI) needs of enterprises are on ...
This IDC Perspective explores how the computational and data management demands of emerging GenAI and other next-generation emerging workloads are being served by a new generation of fit-for-purpose processors, accelerators, storage platforms, ...
This IDC Survey summarizes findings related to generative AI (GenAI) infrastructure investment priorities based on input from 881 worldwide IT and business decision-makers who participated in IDC's January 2024 Future Enterprise Resiliency ...
This IDC Perspective discusses IDC's Future of Digital Infrastructure framework, updated for 2024, that provides enterprise decision-makers with an updated view on how emerging innovations and disruptions across the digital infrastructure ...
This IDC Market Note highlights some of the announcements and demonstrations by participants at SC23. The SC23 witnessed several research topics presentations and demonstrations ranging from datacenter cooling solutions, enhanced security ...
This IDC Market Presentation provides insights into the current accelerated server for high-performance computing (HPC) market trends. IDC has built new models for the accelerated server market based on vendor input, financial community ...
NetApp in collaboration with AWS announced scale-out FSx for ONTAP file systems. This will enhance the company's capabilities to offer better scalable storage as the demand for better compute and storage performance continues to be driven ...
AWS announced the new Amazon S3 Express One Zone high performance storage class that is designed for data-intensive applications. With HPC going mainstream, it is imperative to note that organizations are in continuous need of leveraging ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight discusses the adoption of HPC impacting the digital infrastructure strategy of enterprises and the need for a shared computing approach in the performance-intensive computing market. This IDC Survey Spotlight also ...
This IDC study provides IDC's top 10 predictions for cloud for 2024 and beyond.
"Cloud makes it possible to quickly deploy new technologies at scale while simultaneously reducing risk," said Dave McCarthy, research vice president, ...
This IDC study provides the 2024 top 10 predictions for the worldwide performance-intensive computing (PIC) market.
“IDC is anticipating a variety of disruptive technologies to break through in the performance-intensive computing market ...
"Today's quantum computing systems may only be suitable for small-scale experimentation, but advances continue to be made like a drumbeat over time," said Heather West, Ph.D., research manager, Quantum Computing. "Organizations should not ...
This IDC Market Note highlights some of the announcements made during the HPE Discover 2023 held June 20–23, 2023, in Las Vegas. As the aforementioned announcements and partnerships are clearly aligned to tap the significantly large untapped ...
This IDC Perspective discusses the events at HPE Discover 2023.
"HPE's transformation has been consistent, deliberate, and on point. The expansion of the HPE GreenLake portfolio and a consistent increase in assets under management, ...
This IDC Market Presentation provides insights on the GPU-as-a-service market, segments based on the vendors and their offerings in the GPU cloud space, a list of vendors operating in the market along with a brief vendor description, and ...
HPE launched the HPE GreenLake for large language models (LLMs), which is enabled by a cloud-based supercomputing service that addresses the supercomputing accessibility challenge for enterprises. Being the industry's first supercomputing ...
This IDC Market Presentation provides some insights into generative AI in the performance-intensive computing-as-a-service market. The presentation also includes the offerings of a few public cloud service providers for the generative AI ...
This IDC Market Note highlights some of the announcements and talks at NVIDIA GTC 2023, specific to performance-intensive computing (PIC) delivered as cloud services. At GTC 2023, NVIDIA announced a plethora of new offerings that are highly ...
This IDC study provides our 2023–2027 forecast for the performance-intensive computing as a service (PICaaS) market.
"IDC is projecting significant growth in the performance-intensive computing as a service market, which measures the ...
Intel released a road map for Xeon processors and officially calls them "Emerald Rapids processor," the fifth-generation Intel Xeon Scalable. With almost all the major global cloud service providers adopting the fourth-generation Xeon and ...
This IDC Market Presentation provides an overview of high-performance computing (HPC) stacks at various public cloud service providers. Included are compute, networking, and storage segments as offered by the following major public cloud ...
This IDC Market Note provides an overview of IBM's Discovery Accelerator quantum hubs and Accelerated Discovery platform. With the launch of IBM's four Discovery Accelerator quantum computing hubs and the introduction of the IBM Accelerated ...
On February 7, IBM announced availability of Vela, the company's first AI-optimized, cloud-native supercomputer to address the exponentially accelerating needs for compute capacity for training deep learning (DL) AI models. As a virtualized ...