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 Spotlight explores how enterprise and line-of-business leaders are reacting to widening skill gaps and talent shortages.
The survey results are tabulated from IDC's 2024 Future of Work Survey. In this survey, ...
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 study is an update to the worldwide IT education and training services forecast for the 2024–2028 period. It includes analysis of the regional drivers of IT education growth and delivery modalities, highlighting a number of tech ...
In a move that validates the fledgling digital adoption platform (DAP) market writ large, SAP announced its intent to acquire leading DAP platform WalkMe for $1.5 billion in an all-cash deal. The pending acquisition will complement its purchases ...
This IDC Survey includes data from IDC's Future Enterprise Resiliency and Spending Survey, Wave 3, conducted in March 2024. In that global survey, 887 senior IT and line-of-business ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight explores how HR is actively supporting the digital transformation (DX) journey in organizations.
IDC's SaaS Path 2024 program provides comprehensive data and guidance on the mind and journey of the SaaS buyer, ...
These event proceedings were presented at the IDC Directions conferences in Boston and San Jose in March and April 2024.
More than half of enterprises are either already implementing generative AI (GenAI) for enterprise work or plan ...
As IT skills shortages continue to worsen and widen, enterprises must find innovative ways to assess skills in the enterprise. Skillsoft's new Interactive Skill Benchmarks purport to help them do just that.
本IDC技术买家演示文稿为技术领导者提供了一份技术员工技能管理和培养计划,确保企业拥有或能够开发面向数字企业的技术技能。制定一份能满足当前和未来需要的人员、角色和技能计划,对于留住现有员工、吸引新员工至关重要。本指南介绍了一条团队人才管理之路,它开始于技能评估和前瞻规划,包括培训、技能重塑和培养学习文化等。
优秀员工的招聘、保留和技能重塑从未像现在这样困难。多种外因导致全球一半以上的企业面临技能断层危机,影响到了企业的利润、收益、生产力和竞争力。随着全球技能短缺问题愈演愈烈,企业必须制定周密、全面的战略,让员工及时了解新兴技术。
IDC最新研究探讨了培训在项目成功中的作用,发现在混合多云、自动化、IT管理和数据分析项目中,额外的培训与成功和目标达成直接相关。这使得IT人才管理、培训和技能发展成为一项战略要务。
“对于具备某些技能、态度和特质的人,根本找不到合适的替代人选。首席信息官(CIO)必须发挥创造性,综合运用招聘新员工、指导培训现有员工、利用派遣员工和服务提供商/合作伙伴等方法,打造所需的能力矩阵,”IDC数字业务IT技能研究总监Gina ...
This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation presents a framework for enterprises hoping to stay ahead of a worsening global IT skills shortage. It includes data from IDC's 2024 IT Skills Survey as well as best practices for cultivating ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight explores how enterprise leaders view badges and online mini-credentials to reward employees for skills attainment.
The survey results are tabulated from IDC's 2024 North American IT Skills Survey. ...
本IDC研究报告介绍IDC 2024年IT行业未来10大预测,并就IT领导者应如何提前准备提供指导。
IDC全球研究副总裁Rick Villars表示:“每家IT提供商都将把AI融入到其业务的核心,投入财力、脑力和时间。对CIO和精通数字化的首席级高管们来说,这种转变有望带来数不胜数创新的AI增强型产品/服务,但也有可能让IT团队被无数宣称‘现在已搭载AI’的产品包围,加大无序追加投资和数据失控的风险。
This IDC Perspective discusses the impact of GenAI on organizations, job roles, and skills development. It highlights how GenAI can automate repetitive tasks, support decision-making, and facilitate AI integration and maintenance. The document ...
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 study evaluates worldwide digital adoption platform (DAP) vendors along a set of strategic and capabilities-based criteria to help tech buyers arrive on choosing a DAP provider that fits their organization. Faced by growing IT skills ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight explores the ramifications of continuing IT skills shortages among North American enterprise leaders. The results are compared against responses in a similar survey from 2022.
The survey results are tabulated ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight reveals that enterprises are leveraging digital adoption platforms (DAPs) primarily to accelerate onboarding, reskilling, and upskilling employees. This correlates with the results from IDC's 2023 Future of Work ...
This IDC Tech Buyer Survey Spotlight explores the sources of IT training resentment within North American organizations.
The survey results are tabulated from IDC's 2024 North American IT Skills Survey. In this survey, 811 IT ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight explores how and why North American organizations are relying on generative AI (GenAI) to improve IT training outcomes for employees.
The survey results are tabulated from IDC's 2024 North American IT Skills ...
The IDC Perspective discusses the adoption and impact of generative AI (GenAI) across different regions, including North America, Europe, Asia/Pacific, and Japan. It highlights the regional drivers, challenges, and opportunities in GenAI ...
This IDC Perspective summarizes the discussion shared by IDC's Global CIO Advisory Board members on the impact of generative AI (GenAI) technology on IT and digital skills. Data from numerous IDC surveys and insights were shared by Amy Loomis, ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight explores how and why North American organizations are relying on games, quests, labs, and other experiential learning to improve IT training.
The survey results are tabulated from IDC's 2024 North American ...
This IDC Market Glance offers a high-level view of the emerging generative AI (GenAI) applications landscape. It highlights key vendors of productivity applications, business applications, and industry-specific applications. IDC defines ...
本調査レポートは、2024年時点における今後5年間にIT産業で起こるであろう10項目のIDCによる予測(Prediction)を示すと共に、ITリーダーがどのように準備すべきかの指針を提供するものである。
「すべてのITプロバイダーは、金、頭脳、時間を投入して、AI(Artificial Intelligence:人工知能)をビジネスの中核に組み込むであろう。CIOや、デジタルに精通したCレベルの経営幹部にとって、この変化は新しく、革新的で、AIによって機能が強化された多くの製品/サービスの活用をもたらす一方で、IT部門が「次はAIである」とばかりに多くの製品やサービスを利用し、結果として制御不能なコスト増加やデータ管理の喪失といったリスクが増大する恐れもある」とIDC、Worldwide ...
This IDC study provides IDC's top 10 predictions for cloud for 2024 and beyond.
"Cloud makes it possible to quickly deploy new technologies at scale while simultaneously reducing risk," said Dave McCarthy, research vice president, ...