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 Market Perspective addresses the integration of generative AI (GenAI) in cybersecurity analytics and highlights the transformative potential and challenges it brings. It discusses the concerns of trust, data handling, and the need ...
本IDC PeerScape介绍保护AI模型和应用的最佳实践。
IDC安全与信任研究总监Michelle Abraham表示:“网络安全厂商通过保护API、监控模型输入输出以及主动搜寻弱点来保护其AI应用和模型。借助现有安全技术以及专为GenAI设计的新技术,他们准备了考虑周密的保护措施。”
This IDC study presents the worldwide device vulnerability management market shares for 2023.
"The device vulnerability management market is characterized by a focus on broader exposure management, with a number of acquisitions to ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight examines the responses to questions about the time it takes to switch from one SIEM to another, as well as the professional services costs to doing so. The data comes from IDC's Worldwide Views on SIEM Survey ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight highlights the results of April 2024 GenAI Survey. Clearly, GenAI has created a seminal moment in technology markets. The promise is great, but we are all learning the specific use cases in which GenAI will ...
This IDC study demonstrates the continued appeal of vulnerability management and the growing demand for exposure management solutions, which include advanced features like attack path visualization and generative AI assistants for vulnerability ...
The Splunk .conf24 event showcased a pivotal moment for the company following Cisco's acquisition, highlighting a commitment to innovation and customer value. The integration of Splunk with Cisco's resources aims to expand the company's ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight evaluates the responses to questions about reasons for replacing their SIEM or adding an additional SIEM, alongside the rationale for staying with the current vendor and not adding another. The data comes from IDC's ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight highlights the results of IDC's February 2024 Worldwide CEO Survey. Although IDC typically references a company's CISO in research, the reality is that smaller organizations just do not have a CISO. To answer ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight highlights the results of IDC's February 2024 Worldwide CEO Survey. The threat landscape has gotten progressively worse since the Target Breach in 2013. Now, cyber-risk is a business risk. Boards of directors ...
This IDC Market Perspective provides highlights and takeaways from 2024 RSA Conference (RSAC), which took place in San Francisco, May 6–9, 2024, embracing the theme, The Art of Possible. In reality, an artificial intelligence (AI) play seemed ...
本調査レポートでは、サイバーセキュリティ市場におけるGenerative AI(生成系AI:以下、GenAI)テクノロジーの現状を評価する。サイバーセキュリティベンダーは、GenAIを巡る話題を認識し、過去1年間、さまざまな方法でGenAIを活用する機能を自社のソフトウェアに統合するために競争を続けてきた。サイバーセキュリティソリューションのバイヤーにとっての疑問は、「GenAIは実際にサイバーセキュリティツールの有効性、使いやすさ、価値をどの程度まで高めるのか」ということである。GenAIベースの機能を含むサイバーセキュリティツールを評価する際、バイヤーは、そのような機能が脅威アクターよりも一歩先を行く能力を大幅に強化するものであるのか、それとも脅威の検出、分析、修復に関して大きな効果をもたらさない単なる付属機能にすぎないのかを判断する必要がある。
「本調査レポートでは、過去1年間にGenAIテクノロジーに基づく機能や製品を導入した約20社のサイバーセキュリティベンダーの分析を基に、これらの機能強化がセキュリティチーム、IT組織、およびそれらがサポートするビジネスにもたらす価値を評価している」とIDC、Security ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight analyzes the responses to questions about the frequency of formal reviews and proof of concepts/trials among organizations that use a SIEM, as well as the choice they made regarding their current SIEM after their ...
In the past week, there were two announcements around SIEM consolidation, which are indicative of a fundamental restructuring of the market. The on-premises approach to SIEM is in clear decline as organizations instead opt for more cloud-native ...
These event proceedings were presented at the IDC Directions conferences in Boston and San Jose in March and April 2024.
Using AI is not new to cybersecurity vendors since many incorporate AI today to find anomalies in behavior and ...
In addition to all the AI announcements at RSA around using AI to help the work of the security operations center (SOC), cybersecurity vendors announced new products and services designed to secure AI applications.
This IDC Market Note discusses the Google Cloud Next '24 conference where significant advancements in AI and cybersecurity were unveiled, showcasing a shift from qualitative AI commentary to tangible outcomes. It highlighted Google's integration ...
This IDC Market Glance looks at the vendors in the segments of the market that are rolling up to holistic exposure management platforms. These include vulnerability management, security posture management, API security, attack surface management, ...
This IDC Survey investigates organizations' initiatives and the challenges they are addressing within the security information and event management (SIEM) market, as well as SIEM data ingestion, spending expectations and notable trends.
This ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight highlights the budget areas that are being impacted the most by the disruptive force of generative AI (GenAI). The document examines responses from IDC's Future Enterprise Resiliency and Spending Survey, Wave ...
This IDC PeerScape discusses practices to improve trust in AI and GenAI usage.
"Trustworthy AI development and use consider not only the accuracy rate and potential use cases for AI technologies but also the downstream effects of ...
This IDC Survey highlights the features that are most important to users in their security information and event management (SIEM) platform. The data comes from IDC's January 2024 Worldwide Views on SIEM Survey, which was answered ...
This IDC Survey highlights the challenges users face in using the full capability of their security information event management (SIEM) platform. The data comes from IDC's January 2024 Worldwide Views on SIEM Survey, which was answered by ...
This IDC PeerScape discusses the best practices to protect data in GenAI deployments.
In January 2024, we interviewed multiple cybersecurity software vendors to learn their methods for protecting AI within their organizations. We thought ...
This IDC PeerScape describes the best practices for securing AI models and applications.
"Cybersecurity vendors are securing their AI applications and models by protecting APIs, monitoring model inputs and outputs, and proactively ...