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 Survey features maturity segmentations based on IT buyers' AI adoption levels and sustainable transformation efforts. Segmenting responses by maturity levels helps IT product and services vendors develop strategies that resonate ...
This IDC Vendor Profile provides a detailed overview of AWS' sustainability strategy and operationalization practices in the context of IDC's ESG/Sustainability Framework.
It examines the following areas:
- The vendor's energy ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight identifies key considerations of C-suite executives in the context of investing in AI-enabled solutions that can help their organizations on their sustainable transformation journeys. The document provides a split ...
This IDC Survey presents findings from IDC's 2024 AI and Sustainability Survey (n = 1,390). The survey was fielded in February and March 2024 with the intention of identifying market trends around the adoption and use of AI for sustainability ...
This IDC Survey presents findings from IDC's 2024 AI and Sustainability Survey (n = 1,390). The survey was fielded in February and March 2024 with the intention of identifying market trends around the adoption and use of AI for sustainability ...
These event proceedings were presented at the IDC Directions conferences in Boston and San Jose in March and April 2024.
Artificial intelligence (AI) has a tremendous potential to accelerate organizations' sustainable transformation ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight examines the results of an IDC survey conducted in 1Q24 to explore the motivations and criteria for buying used IT equipment. IDC surveyed 1,300+ IT decision-makers in the United States, Australia, Canada, France, ...
This IDC Market Presentation looks at how artificial intelligence (AI) has a tremendous potential to accelerate organizations' sustainable transformation journeys and create business value by helping them automate their ESG data collection ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight examines to what extend IT and service vendors' "AI for Good" initiatives impact buyers' perception and procurement decisions. Data comes from IDC's 2024 AI and Sustainability Survey.
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This IDC Survey presents findings from IDC's 2024 AI and Sustainability Survey (n = 1,390). The survey was fielded in February and March 2024 with the intention of identifying market trends around the adoption and use ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight uncovers the top ESG issues that organizations are concerned about when deploying or using AI/GenAI. Sustainable AI is a top priority for enterprises worldwide, with 68% of organizations currently planning to increase ...
This IDC Perspective summarizes IDC's Global CIO Advisory Board discussion on sustainability strategies, particularly in the age of AI everywhere. Speakers included chief sustainability officer, human rights officer, and head of Digital ...
This IDC Web Conference delves into the intricate web of partnerships and alliances that drive environmental sustainability and social governance objectives across industries. Our expert IDC analysts will guide you through the latest research, ...
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 Taxonomy provides a comprehensive mapping of the most important sustainability domains, as perceived by the demand side, and defines individual ICT solutions as they relate to various sustainability domains.
The study offers ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight highlights IT market trends around water management as part of organizations' sustainability efforts. Data comes from IDC's 2023 Sustainability Maturity and Readiness Survey.
This IDC Market Perspective discusses about KPMG that held an analyst event at its Lakehouse learning facility in Orlando, Florida, on September 27–28, 2023, presenting business topics and updates, an innovation showcase, and Lakehouse tours ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight looks at the importance of AI and other innovative technologies (IT and OT) in the context of their potential for enabling sustainable transformation. It also identifies the most relevant sustainability-focused ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight summarizes key market trends around sustainable IT infrastructure and operations and provides a dashboard with insights from IDC's 2023 Sustainable IT Infrastructure and Operations Survey.
This IDC Survey (source: IDC's Circular Economy Strategies Survey, February 2023; n = 1,900) assesses IT buyer maturity, pain points, and business priorities around circularity and provides insights into spending intentions ...
This IDC Market Presentation was featured at the Sustainability/ESG Research Solutions Showcase at the 2023 IDC Global Research Advisory Council (GRAC) summit in Berkeley, California (October 2023). It provides an overview of IDC's sustainability/ESG ...
This IDC study presents IDC’s top 10 predictions for the future of trust in 2024 and beyond.
“Research shows that trust is a requirement for individuals and organizations to share their personal and organizational data. And high-quality ...
This IDC FutureScape presents the top 10 insurance industry predictions for 2024. Each prediction is shaped by a shared set of key drivers, serving as a planning tool for technology leaders and their line-of-business (LOB) counterparts in ...
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 Market Note discusses highlights and IDC analyst takeaways from the Cognizant Analyst and Advisor Global Growth Markets Summit, held in person in London on June 14, 2023. The company discussed a variety of subjects during the event, ...