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 provides key findings on the impact of the state of AI enablement in connectivity automation as well as broad trends in connectivity automation usage and capability preferences as reported by 619 respondents to IDC's AI-Enhanced ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight compares results concerning the adoption of generative AI (GenAI) into production from two different IT buyer profiles in North America (NA) and Western Europe (WE). One profile is technology decision-makers across ...
This IDC study looks at the 2023 makeup of the business-to-business middleware market, which includes both business-to-business integration software and managed file transfer software in aggregate. It reviews the combined market share of ...
This IDC study provides the five-year forecast for an aggregate business-to-business integration software market and delivers insight into drivers of market growth. This aggregate market is made up of the business-to-business middleware ...
This IDC Perspective discusses innovations in integration that are furthering the convergence of AI and automation within business processes, emphasizing the importance of investments in these areas despite potential budget cuts. It discusses ...
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 Survey presents the findings of IDC's February 2024 Future Enterprise Resiliency and Spending Survey, Wave 2, focusing specifically on the implications for AI and automation spending and adoption. This ...
This IDC Market Glance reviews the vendors that are part of the connectivity automation market, including integration software/services, one-off connectors and adapters, API life-cycle management, messaging middleware and event brokers, ...
This IDC Market Presentation is focused on the trends in the application development and testing market while providing insights on compute and storage infrastructure deployments for the development tools and applications workload, as well ...
This IDC TechBrief describes the factors involved in leveraging retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) to get the most out of generative AI in the enterprise, including the various technology aspects and associated use cases, benefits, risks, ...
This IDC PeerScape outlines three practices to increase the effectiveness of implementing event brokers when moving toward an event-driven architecture. They include:
- Leverage vendor expertise and available training as needed ...
This IDC study assesses the worldwide event brokering software market for 2024. It provides an in-depth analysis of the market, evaluating various vendors through the IDC MarketScape model. The document discusses both quantitative and qualitative ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight examines the level of value being delivered today by AI-enhanced applications including automation and integration tools. It also reviews the top benefits being received today and assesses how competently tech buyers ...
This IDC Perspective introduces the concept of an experience-orchestrated (X-O) business, which aims to deliver shared experience value powered by intelligence. It emphasizes the need for organizations to evolve from siloed digital transformations ...
This IDC Perspective discusses the different types of AI — predictive, interpretive, and generative — and their impact on data connectivity needs. It highlights the importance of understanding these categories to maximize value from AI investments ...
This IDC Survey examines selected key findings from IDC's Global GenAI Awareness, Readiness, and Commitment (ARC) Survey, focusing specifically on the data connectivity implications. This document looks at the current ...
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 ...
This IDC study provides IDC's 2024 top 10 predictions for artificial intelligence and automation.
"ChatGPT's explosive global popularity has given us AI's first true inflection point in public adoption," says Ritu Jyoti, group vice ...
This IDC study provides IDC's top 10 predictions for future of industry ecosystems.
"The move to more open, extended, pan-industry ecosystems is the next phase of digital transformation. Organizations continue to recognize that innovation ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight compares data from IDC's March and July 2023 Future Enterprise Resiliency and Spending Surveys, Waves 2 and 6, respectively, demonstrating ...
As part of the strategy, systems must be evaluated for their suitability toward EDA including processing capability, event emitting, and monitoring capabilities, as well as their ability to meet event standards. In addition, additional connectivity ...
This IDC Market Analysis Perspective pulls together data from three separate markets and looks at them holistically under the banner of connectivity automation. The three markets include integration and API management software, business-to-business ...
This IDC study details the market share and growth in 2022 for the event stream processing market, which includes the submarkets of messaging middleware, stream processing, IoT application platforms, functions software, and process mining ...
This IDC study provides a five-year forecast for the aggregate event stream processing software market and delivers insight into drivers of market growth for the 2023–2027 period. It also provides specific forecasts for the submarkets within ...
This IDC study looks at the 2022 makeup of the integration market, reviewing the combined product market share of the top vendors showing breakdowns of that market by submarket, region, and deployment type. It also explicitly shows top vendors ...