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 PeerScape discusses the practices to improve operational efficiency.
"When you simplify what you've got, where you execute, what you do, and how you execute, you not only have achieved more operational efficiencies (better, ...
This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation provides a quick situational overview and actionable guidance for tech leaders on the best ways to assess and prioritize emerging technologies and their relative value to the business, now and in the future.
“Choosing ...
This IDC Future IT Blueprint provides a quick situational overview and actionable guidance for tech leaders to improve line-of-business (LOB) relationships.
When the C-suite, corporate and LOB executives, and the IT organization aren't ...
This IDC Perspective, written for CIOs and senior technology executives, introduces IDC's 2023 Enterprise Architecture Tool Buying Guide. Leading EA tools are compared with respect to their features, ability to integrate with other tools ...
This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation provides a quick situational overview and actionable guidance to address the challenge of using strategic architecture to lead the organization into the future.
Strategic architecture planning can ...
This IDC PlanScape discusses the future IT with the practices of security resource optimization.
"CIOs must lead their enterprises to exercise common sense and all due caution in regarding the potential risks to profitability, reputation, ...
这份IDC研究报告旨在帮助首席信息官评估他们当前具备的技能和能力的成熟度,同时帮助他们确定需要进一步提高的领域,以增加他们成功领导IT和推动企业发展的可能性。本研究还可以帮助IT负责人在开展复杂变革时能分清工作的轻重缓急。此IDC框架旨在帮助首席信息官和业务部门高管立即行动起开,实现他们及整个企业想要和期盼的未来。
“随着全球非常态愈演愈烈,首席信息官必须重新评估他们的领导力,以更好地为企业服务,”IDC CIO/CXO信息科技智库服务副总裁Serge Findling表示:“技术既关乎生存,也是成功的关键。”
...本IDC PlanScapeは、CIOがエマージングテクノロジーを効果的に検討、評価、選択し、企業の改善のために試験的に、そして最終的に適用するためのアプローチを提供する。
多くのCIOは、過去にCEOが雑誌で読んだり、マーケティング担当バイスプレジデントが展示会で見たりしたテクノロジーを取り扱うことになった経験があるはずである。IDC、IT Executive Programs(IEP)の非常勤リサーチアドバイザーであるCora Carmodyは、「このような方法でテクノロジーを選択しても、企業への導入がスムーズかつ成功することは滅多にない。CIOは、取り組むべきニーズに対する認識を共有し、リスクとリターンの可能性を協同して判断する動機づけとなるようなエマージングテクノロジーの管理戦略を持つべきである」と述べている。
なお、本調査レポートは、『IDC ...
This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation provides CIOs with tools to address technical debt (unfunded liabilities) and prevent it from becoming a barrier to meeting enterprise goals. The planning guide includes peer advice and clear steps for assessing ...
This IDC PlanScape frames the evolution of an enterprise from using agile to being agile using practices widely in use today, and it explains what a CIO needs to know prior to proposing enterprisewide adoption.
According ...
This IDC PlanScape offers an approach for CIOs to tailor to effectively review, rate, and select emerging technologies to pilot and ultimately apply for the betterment of the enterprise.
"Many CIOs have had to deal with 'management ...
This IDC Perspective defines technical debt and how it is created; multiple examples of enterprise impact are given, along with steps for building a get-well plan. This document is designed to provide foundation of information with which ...
This IDC study discusses LOB relationship management for future IT.
"Having a seat at the table has been the assumed aim of every CIO: to be taken as seriously as the business and as valid an owner of the enterprise vision. To be viewed ...
This IDC study is written in the spirit of helping CIOs assess the current maturity level of skills and abilities they bring to the table while also helping them identify areas in which they need to become more adept to improve the odds ...
This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation is part of IDC's Future Enterprise Planning Guide series. Each module delivers key overviews, targeted advice, and peer insights to guide users through key parts of the digital transformation (DX) process. ...
As the cost to deliver software required to support digital offerings grows, CIOs face pressure to defend investments in software development teams, something many struggle to do because they lack visibility into those teams performance. ...
This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation provides CIOs and their teams with concrete steps for building a meaningful CIO dashboard. In the era of rising digital-first business strategies, CIOs and their IT organizations are facing increasing demands ...
This IDC study discusses the strategic architecture subdimension for future IT.
"Following the practices of strategic architecture is the best way to communicate with the enterprise and meet the continually changing needs for digital ...
This IDC PlanScape provides guidance to future IT within the automation subdimension.
"The technologies that are collectively known as intelligent automation bring together both technologies that have been in a CIO's toolbox for a ...
This Tech Buyer Presentation discusses the need for key performance indicators (KPIs) to show and improve the digital infrastructure capability and capacity supporting the transition to a digital-first enterprise.
Future IT, the foundation ...
This Tech Buyer Presentation discusses the need for key performance indicators (KPIs) to show and improve capability and capacity in an enterprise's support for IT products and services.
Future IT, the foundation of IDC's Future Enterprise, ...
This Tech Buyer Presentation discusses the need for key performance indicators (KPIs) to show and improve progress toward a digitally intelligent enterprise.
Future IT, the foundation of IDC's Future Enterprise, depends on the implementation ...
This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation discusses the need for key performance indicators (KPIs) to show and improve the leadership and governance practices supporting a digital-first enterprise.
Future IT, the foundation of IDC's Future ...
This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation discusses the need for key performance indicators (KPIs) to show and improve the protection of enterprise resources and preserve the ability to legally and safely carry out the enterprise mission.
Future ...
This IDC study provides a recommended context and path for government CIOs and chief procurement officers (CPOs) to transform the process of delivering projects through a unity of focus, reaping the benefits of cost and schedule efficiency. ...