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 defines and clarifies the roles of AI-enabled assistants, advisors, agents, and copilots, highlighting their distinct capabilities and business impacts. It emphasizes the importance of understanding these terms for effective ...
Organizations have struggled moving from legacy applications to modern SaaS and cloud-enabled systems. While the COVID-19 pandemic did much to change up the move to modern enterprise applications, the movement is still slow and continues ...
This IDC Market Perspective looks at the opportunity enterprise application technology providers have with embedded AI processes and the trajectory that can quickly be gained when the product road map is aligned to the buying organization's ...
This IDC Market Perspective looks at the technology trends from IDC's 2024 SaaSPath Survey and Office of the CFO Survey. The convergence of both sets of data showcase an example across finance of the gaps ...
This IDC Market Perspective provides a forward-looking view on the impact GenAI will have on enterprise software market revenue, as well as its effect on pricing, talent optimization, and corporate operating costs. These developments will ...
Workday is embracing AI, recognizing it has created a tectonic shift in the shaping and use of technology. Instead of focusing on the way AI will recreate the future of an organization, it has instead chosen to focus on fitting AI into the ...
Oracle Fusion Applications are embracing AI in full force, completely reshaping the enterprise application markets. The theme for Oracle attendees overall was Transform the Organization. From the data, to the platform, to the processes, ...
This IDC Market Analysis Perspective (MAP) encapsulates IDC's insights and data on the technologies, industry dynamics, and trends influencing the enterprise applications market. Some form of this MAP was delivered to clients throughout ...
This IDC Market Analysis Perspective (MAP) encapsulates IDC's insights and data on the technologies, industry dynamics, and trends influencing the enterprise resource management (ERM) applications market. Some form of this MAP was delivered ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight features results from IDC's July 2024 Future Enterprise Resiliency and Spending Survey, Wave 7 (n = 891); IDC's April 2024 SaaS Path Survey (n = 2,875); and IDC's August 2024 Office of the ...
This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation provides insights from several presentations that IDC delivered at CIO forums/roundtables as well as in meetings with tech industry leaders in the summer of 2024. They focused on the barriers to greater rollouts ...
This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation provides an overview of the results from IDC's SaaS CSAT Awards.This award program recognizes the leading software-as-a-service (SaaS) vendors in each application market, across 23 markets, that receive the ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight details the greatest challenges and benefits of the finance organization's ERP system. IDC's Office of the CFO Survey is out, and the use of ERP is outlined in the presentation. The finance ...
This IDC Market Presentation provides application vendor ratings by 13 application areas from IDC's 2024 CX Path Survey.
IDC's 2024 CX Path program polled 2,500 respondents across 5 continents and 12 countries ...
This IDC Market Presentation provides an executive summary of the worldwide findings from IDC's 2024 CX Path program.
IDC's 2024 CX Path program polled 2,500 respondents across 5 continents and 12 countries to collect information on ...
SAP recently announced its 2Q24 results. All results discussed in the document will be non-IFRS, unless otherwise specified. In addition, all SAP numbers noted are constant currency for changes year to year.
The 2Q24 financials show ...
This IDC Market Presentation provides application and professional services vendor ratings by 23 application areas from IDC's 2024 SaaS Path Survey.
The survey polled 2,875 organizations across 5 continents and 11 countries ...
This IDC Market Perspective highlights the announcements at SAP Sapphire held in Orlando, Florida, from June 3 to 5, 2024. The event was well attended, with 12,000+ onsite and another 15,000+ attending virtually. "SAP continues its quest ...
This IDC Market Perspective focuses on the enterprise journey as it reshapes itself to become more autonomous, building a digitally enhanced experience–orchestrated business. Enterprise AI has the power to reshape our organizations to not ...
This IDC Perspective outlines the legacy aspects holding organizations back while helping outline a pathway toward a great future in the digital world. The digital world requires organizations to pivot quickly, be more efficient, and be ...
This IDC Perspective looks at the additional value enterprise application ecosystem partners are bringing to organizations globally. The digital world requires a focus on automation. From SaaS and cloud to generative AI to additional configurable ...
This IDC study reviews the vendor market shares for the worldwide enterprise applications software market for 2023.
"SaaS and cloud-enabled applications continue their growth across the enterprise applications market. With new innovation ...
This IDC study brings forward the worldwide enterprise applications software forecast and provides a vision into 2028, including deployment models, trends, and significant market developments.
"Intelligence and experience-orchestrated ...
This IDC study reviews the vendor market shares for the worldwide enterprise resource management (ERM) software market for 2023.
"Worldwide organizations are embracing SaaS and cloud-enabled ERM applications. It is finally understood ...
This IDC study brings forward the worldwide enterprise resource management software forecast and provides a vision into 2028, including deployment models, trends, and significant market developments.
"The digital era brings new requirements ...