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 study looks at the impact that team collaboration applications will continue to have across the workforce, and with a company's partners and customers. Leading enterprises have moved from just text to richer multimodal collaboration ...
This IDC study examines the vendor revenue performance for the team collaboration applications market for 2023. This document also examines how the market is positioned for continued feature acceleration and growth. IDC estimates that in ...
This IDC study looks at the evolution and future advances in the collaborative applications market, specifically how we connect, meet, collaborate, work, and form community and the evolving metrics of delivering value through working together. ...
This IDC study examines the vendor revenue performance in the overall collaborative applications market for 2023.
The top 5 vendors in 2023 based on worldwide revenue are Microsoft (30.1%), Google (14.7%), Zoom (10.3%), Salesforce ...
本IDC看法着重介绍了影响全球企业且在日益扩大的IT技能缺口,62%的IT领导者将收入增长失败归咎于这一问题。本研究强调,企业急需制定AI技能和角色规划,尤其是在生成式AI(GenAI)兴起的背景下。该研究还指出,业务部门负责人的观念发生了转变,预测自动化技术将更多地影响员工体验,对岗位裁撤的影响较小。本研究强调了技能重塑的重要性,58%的CEO表示,由于技能缺口,他们对企业实施AI计划的能力缺乏信心。
“自动化长期以来一直影响着人类活动,但不断发展的AI和GenAI应用场景却带了不同以往的影响,”IDC未来工作研究副总裁Amy ...
This IDC Market Perspective highlights the growing importance of storytelling in enterprise collaboration and communities, emphasizing its role in enhancing communication, knowledge management, and AI context. It outlines the C-CAST framework ...
Cisco held their annual Cisco Live event, bringing over 20,000 people to Las Vegas from June 3 to June 6, 2024. The theme of "Go Beyond" was paired with the Cisco Live Press and Analyst Conference. Both focused on Cisco's evolving role in ...
This IDC Link recaps the Zoom (NASDAQ:ZM) Perspectives 2024 analyst day held in New York City on May 21 and 22, 2024. On pace to deliver over 3,000 new features this year, Zoom is expanding its feature set to improve its position as a communications, ...
This IDC Market Note analyzes the announcements at Atlassian Team '24. The Atlassian Team '24 conference, held from April 30 to May 2, 2024, in Las Vegas, Nevada, showcased Atlassian's continued evolution and expansion beyond the company's ...
This IDC Market Perspective analyzes the key announcements made from collaboration and contact-center-as-a-service (CCaaS) vendors and their impact on the market at the Enterprise Connect 2024 conference and expo, which was held in Kissimmee, ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight examines investment rise collaboration apps, as well as generative AI (GenAI). The need to more effectively collaborate and demonstrate productivity is reflected in the planned enterprise spending for the next 18 ...
Google Cloud Next 2024 was held in Las Vegas from April 9 to 11, 2024. Key themes included security, a focus on how Google Cloud and Google Workspace quickly generate time to value, and a focus on the multimodality abilities of Google Workspace ...
This IDC Perspective looks at the future of collaboration and the cultural accelerators that power artificial intelligence (AI)–assisted collaboration. Collaboration is the interpersonal actions that create value from interacting around ...
The IDC Perspective emphasizes the increasing IT skills gap affecting global organizations, with 62% of IT leaders attributing missed revenue growth to this issue. The study highlights the urgent need for businesses to plan for AI skills ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight looks at what the C-suite is asking IT executives regarding generative AI (GenAI). This document compares North America, Western Europe, and the Asia/Pacific regions and spotlights trends in the requests being received. ...
RingCentral held its industry analyst event from February 26 to 28, 2024, highlighting 25 years of providing connected business solutions to organizations to help optimize customer and employee experiences. As the company transitions to ...
This IDC Market Glance offers a high-level view of the emerging collaborative ecosystem and highlights core collaboration applications; conferencing, webinar, and virtual event applications; collaboration extenders, including messaging, ...
This IDC Market Perspective discusses the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) and an array of new technologies and practices on the future of collaboration, communities, conferencing, and virtual event applications. Highlighted is how ...
This IDC Market Perspective describes Microsoft’s annual Ignite conference, which was a launching pad (and a relaunching pad) for Microsoft’s many generative AI technologies. There was a blizzard of announcements covering virtually every ...
This IDC study discusses the worldwide enterprise communities applications market for the 2023–2027 forecast period. Communities are as old as people and evoke a sense of identity and belonging. The ease of finding digital communities has ...
"Work is becoming more engaging, communicative, collaborative, and measurable. The intelligent collaborative workspace will evolve to become a more intuitive visual workspace," according to Wayne Kurtzman, research vice president of Social, ...
This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation identifies changes to the conferencing and virtual event applications market, as well as the evolving use cases in the United States and Western Europe. Studied are the attitudes, adoption, use cases, benefits, ...
This IDC study evaluates worldwide virtual events applications platforms. Virtual events applications platforms were on the rise before the COVID-19 pandemic years. Since then, they have become an expected option for remote attendees and ...
本IDC报告是一篇IDC IT部门数字化转型(DX)场景分类,旨在帮助IT部门制定业务战略,获得业务上的成功。该分类分为八个战略要务,这些要务指明了全球的IT部门如何构建面向未来三到五年的数字战略。由于IT部门从来没有像现在这样如此看重企业的需求,所以,本报告还为IT部门提供了数字化转型旅程指南,确保每个项目和场景都与企业的长期目标一致。
IDC CIO/CXO信息科技智库服务研究总监Martha Rounds表示:"IT有潜力也有能力成为企业的能力倍增器,它通过利用和调整技术增强企业的创新能力、客户响应能力、供应和生产优化能力、在直接和互补市场中抢占市场份额的能力以及持续交付价值的能力,帮助企业实现业务和运营目标。本报告将帮助业务和IT领导层共同协调业务和IT战略,共育未来成功。"
...This IDC Market Perspective summarizes the key announcements from the Salesforce Dreamforce 2023 event and provides some analyst perspectives on the different announcements and innovations from Salesforce.
"Salesforce is a significant ...