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 Perspective examines results from IDC's August 2024 Industry TechPath Survey and highlights some of the trends and areas throughout utility organizations that are seeing increased investment and adoption of cloud technologies ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight examines the initial GenAI use cases that worldwide utilities see as promising and that will provide a return on investment.
This IDC Pivot Table banner book includes data for IDC's Industry Tech Path 2024 program, which provides insights into the adoption, utilization, decisioning, value creation, and strategic planning surrounding three key technologies (generative ...
This IDC Pivot Table banner book includes data for IDC's Industry Tech Path 2024 program, which provides insights into the adoption, utilization, decisioning, value creation, and strategic planning surrounding three key technologies (generative ...
This IDC Pivot Table banner book includes data for IDC's Industry Tech Path 2024 program, which provides insights into the adoption, utilization, decisioning, value creation, and strategic planning surrounding three key technologies (generative ...
This IDC PeerScape examines some common challenges and best practices that utilities can leverage when initiating their DERMS strategy.
"DERMSs are now becoming a top priority for many utility executives as the power sector is seeing ...
"This IDC Market Note highlights some of the key takeaways coming out of Oracle's Energy and Water 2024 Customer Edge conference. This year's key takeaways from the conference were around the need for advancements in customer engagement, ...
This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation highlights generative AI (GenAI) use case examples for the utilities industry. It focuses on three key macroareas: asset management, customer experience, and engagement and field services. The use cases covered ...
This IDC study represents the vendor assessment of service providers in the area of distributed energy resource management systems (DERMS).
"The proliferation of distributed energy resources (DERs) globally has spurred investment and ...
This IDC Market Note highlights some of the key topics and themes coming out of the DISTRIBUTECH International 2024 conference.
"Key topics such as the energy transition, advanced and distributed energy resource management, EV charging ...
Hexagon's acquisition of Itus Digital highlights the growing relationship between asset life-cycle management (ALM) software suite vendors and digital twin technologies. It also demonstrates the increasing emphasis that these companies are ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight examines the top significant technologies and tools utilities will be investing in over the next three years to enhance their operations.
This IDC Survey uncovers the business models, strategy, IT investments, and leading use cases today and tomorrow for utilities working closely with their ecosystem partners to support the rapidly evolving energy industry. In May and June ...
本IDC研究报告介绍2024年可持续发展/ESG十大预测。
"全球各地的企业普遍感受到了应对不断变化的可持续发展要求和新的监管环境带来的压力。他们的应对节奏不同,可持续发展转型成熟度也各不相同,因此他们在战略制定、组织和文化变革、运营调整和技术使用等方面面临的挑战也各不相同。无论您处于发展进程的哪个阶段,IT都是实现转型和通过企业可持续发展实践创造价值的关键推动力,了解如何充分利用技术进入下一阶段非常重要。"IDC Sustainable Strategies ...
This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation is a primer on the adoption of generative AI (GenAI) and the leading GenAI use cases for six key industry segments: finance, energy, manufacturing, health and life sciences, government, and retail. Priorities, ...
本IDC报告详细介绍了包括数据和洞察共享、应用共享、运营和专业技能共享在内的主要方案,以及与未来行业生态系统相配套的场景。这种方案和场景分析是跨行业的横向分析。
"所有行业企业都在快速改进他们与行业生态系统合作伙伴的合作方式,为数据、应用和运营计划提供支持。定期更新合作伙伴名单已经不符合潮流了:行业生态系统是一个充满生机的、多样性的有机体,它是动态的,包含各种合作伙伴,这些合作伙伴会随着时间不断进化,以满足新的需求,应对新的中断,并加速创新和客户互动。这种新模式需要一系列独特的方案和场景来指导战略、协作和执行:本行业生态系统分类就是为此而生。"——IDC未来行业生态系统和产品创新战略研究副总裁Jeffrey ...
This IDC MarketScape evaluates vendors in the field service management (FSM) space for the utilities industry through a qualitative and quantitative assessment of their capabilities and strategies. It aims to aid utilities in deciding on ...
This IDC MarketScape evaluates vendors in the field service management (FSM) space for the oil and gas (O&G) industry through a qualitative and quantitative assessment of their capabilities and strategies. It aims to aid O&G organizations ...
This IDC FutureScape presents the top 10 predictions and key drivers for the oil and gas industry for the next five years. It highlights the midterm and long-term challenges that enterprise business, technology, and IT teams face as they ...
This IDC study presents the top 10 predictions for sustainability/ESG for 2024.
"Worldwide, organizations are feeling the pressure to respond to changing sustainability requirements and new regulatory environments. They are doing this ...
This IDC FutureScape provides the outlook of IDC Energy Insights' analyst team for the worldwide utility industry for 2024, as well as the planning horizon for the next five years.
"With their decades-long experience around electrification, ...
This IDC TechBrief discusses image-based vegetation management.
"Image-based vegetation management enables utilities to move to a proactive condition-based approach to vegetation management by leveraging technologies such as satellite, ...
This IDC study discusses how utilities are on a mission to digitally transform to create a value-based utility system. IDC publishes research on digital transformation and its influence on technology spending. This research includes both ...
This IDC study presents IDC's fifth iteration of the digital transformation use case taxonomy for facility management. It includes descriptions of the strategic priority, programs, and use cases for this horizontal function.
"With ...
This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation takes the utilities use case taxonomy for digital transformation and transposes it into a three-horizon road map. In each horizon, different uses cases are considered, introducing the logic of a transformation ...