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 provides our 2024–2028 forecast for the worldwide IaaS networking market. It examines the worldwide infrastructure-as-a-service networking market from 2020 to 2028, indicating a strong upward trend in enterprise demand of ...
This IDC study presents the worldwide infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) networking market shares for 2023.
"In a rapidly evolving digital landscape, the IaaS networking market's 31.1% annual growth in 2023 underscores the critical ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight offers insights into the expected impact of AI-powered network management capabilities on the future network service integrity and networking staff productivity and value. These survey results are drawn from IDC's ...
本調査レポートでは、ネットワークオブザーバビリティ(可観測性)ソリューションが次世代のネットワーク管理をどのように実現し、ハイパーコネクテッドデジタルビジネスモデルに適切なタイミングで適合するかについて議論する。デジタルインフラストラクチャの状態とコンポーネントを継続的かつ包括的に測定および監視することで、一貫したサービスの提供、迅速な問題解決と脅威の軽減、新しいワークフローとワークロードの迅速な受け入れが可能になる。詳細なインテリジェンス、徹底した洞察および正確なアクションの指示を提供することで、オンプレミスシステムまたはクラウドベースのサービスを介して提供されるネットワークオブザーバビリティソリューションは、多くのIT運用タスク(サービス検証、問題解決、脅威の緩和など)だけでなく、より広範囲に渡る戦略的なITおよびビジネス管理の取り組み(ネットワーク最適化、アプリケーション配信、サイバーレジリエンシー、デジタルイノベーションなど)にもプラスの影響を与える。
「IDCの調査では、ネットワークオブザーバビリティソリューションを利用しているIT組織は約3分の1にすぎない。これは、ほとんどの組織が、基盤となるネットワークインフラストラクチャによって、またはそれを通じて提供される膨大なインテリジェンスと洞察を活用できていないことを意味する。ネットワークの動作状況とネットワークコンポーネントの動作状態が分からないと、IT組織は、問題の解決、脅威の軽減、接続されたリソースの管理、新しいデジタルビジネスに対する接続性の提供、交換、ワークロードへの適応を行う際に、何も分からない。これは、ITサービスレベル、IT部門の生産性、セキュリティ態勢、デジタルビジネス実行のスピードと精度を脅かすことになる」とIDC、Network ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight highlights the ranked attributes of datacenter networking solutions and suppliers for those organizations choosing to deploy GenAI infrastructure and workloads within their private datacenters. These survey results ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight offers insights into ranked attributes used to assess and select IaaS network services and cloud service providers that serve in support of AI/GenAI workloads. These survey results are drawn from IDC's AI in ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight highlights the most important criteria enterprise organizations use to evaluate system and service suppliers and establish strategic partnerships when looking to advance AI support and use across their network infrastructure. ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight identifies the greatest expected impact for generative AI (GenAI) across major IT operational functions. The results point to the acceleration of GenAI use cases and the rapid advancement of GenAI-powered solutions ...
This IDC Perspective highlights the transformative impact of AI, observability, and automation on digital infrastructure operations. It discusses how the shift toward intelligent, software-defined operations will drive modernization of ITOps ...
There is no doubt that Cisco serves as a bellwether when it comes to networking, security, and unified communications. All three were front and center at last year's Cisco Live US (CLUS), an event that strongly emphasized tactical advancements ...
This IDC Survey presents the results of multiple waves of IDC's 2023 global Future of Enterprise Resiliency and Spending (FERS) Survey. All contained results highlight pressing requirements, connectivity plans, and expected gains ...
本調査レポートでは、2024年に更新されたIDCの「Future of Digital Infrastructure」フレームワークについて説明する。このフレームワークは、デジタルインフラストラクチャ環境全体に渡る新たなイノベーションと破壊的変化が、今後数年間でどのように競争上の優位性を獲得するための重要な機会をもたらすかについて、企業の意思決定者に最新の見解を提供する。このフレームワークは、重要なコンピューティング、ストレージ、エッジ、ネットワーク、管理運用テクノロジーとパブリッククラウドインフラストラクチャサービスが、IT運用とデジタルビジネスのケイパビリティにもたらす破壊的な変化や変革の可能性を明らかにする。このフレームワークでは、予算、ポリシー、成果がビジネス全体で適切に調整されるようにするために、最新の運用モデル、調達戦略、ガバナンスプロセスが果たす重要な役割も強調している。
「先進的な企業は、新世代のコンピューティング、ストレージ、ネットワーク、エッジ、管理テクノロジー、パブリッククラウドサービスが利用可能になるにつれて、デジタルインフラストラクチャのイノベーションを積極的に予測し、活用する必要がある。IDCの最新のFuture ...
This IDC Market Note examines the movements of Google's IaaS networking services highlighted at the recently concluded Google Cloud Next 2024, held in Las Vegas. Further analysis of IDC learnings from this event are provided by IDC Links ...
This IDC study delves into the market, technology, applications, and major providers of IaaS service mesh solutions. The study includes demand-side research into service mesh use and approaches, along with profiles of five public cloud providers: ...
This IDC Perspective discusses tool sprawl, which happens when businesses accumulate software over time without keeping track of what is in use, how it is being used, who is using it, and whether it is still a good fit for the business. ...
This IDC Perspective discusses IDC's Future of Digital Infrastructure framework, updated for 2024, that provides enterprise decision-makers with an updated view on how emerging innovations and disruptions across the digital infrastructure ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight provides insights into the primary driving forces and anticipated top rewards for enterprises looking to heighten automation across their network infrastructure. The list covers a wide range of both tactical and ...
This IDC Survey presents the worldwide monthly technology investment monitor for November 2023. IT leaders closed out 2023 in a challenging position. They became more concerned about potential economic disruptions in 2024, but they also ...
This IDC study provides IDC's forecast for the enterprise network observability market for the 2023–2027 period.
"Network observability is driven by a host of industry leading technologies and practices. Cloud services, machine learning, ...
This IDC Market Note discusses Cisco's acquisition of Splunk that positions both companies, and their customers, for greater success in this hyper-connected, ever-threatened, and data-intensive digital era. Potential synergies and advancements ...
This IDC Survey presents select results from IDC's 2023 Future Enterprise Resiliency and Spending (FERS) Survey, Wave 10. Contained survey data indicates the current state and future movement of observability technologies, ...
This IDC Market Analysis Perspective (MAP) presents an overarching view into the enterprise network observability and automation market. It includes industry and competitive insights, buyer incentives and intentions, outlook into technology ...
This IDC study provides IDC's 2024 top 10 predictions for future of connectedness.
"The enterprise road map to becoming agile and connected will be one that requires a continued shift toward cloud connectivity, where ubiquitous access ...
This IDC study provides IDC's top 10 predictions for the future of digital infrastructure for 2024.
"The digital infrastructure ecosystem will be heavily impacted by GenAI in the coming years," explains Mary Johnston Turner, research ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight provides a ranked list of desired supplier capabilities and practices when enterprises are looking to heighten observability across their technology infrastructure. The list covers a wide range of requirements — ...