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 ProductScape provides technology buyers with a detailed list of essential capabilities for configure, price, quote (CPQ) applications that are focused on selling professional services through primarily B2B channels. It includes ...
This IDC ProductScape provides technology buyers with a detailed list of essential capabilities for configure, price, quote (CPQ) applications that are focused on selling recurring digital services through primarily B2B channels. It includes ...
This IDC ProductScape provides technology buyers with a detailed list of essential capabilities for configure, price, quote (CPQ) applications that are focused on selling transactional products through primarily B2B channels. It includes ...
This IDC Perspective explores the strategic and financial ramifications of adopting composable commerce technology, focusing on the decision between "rip and replace" or "embrace and extend" strategies. It delves into the complexities of ...
This IDC study offers a focused evaluation of headless digital commerce applications tailored for midmarket growth, specifically targeting businesses with annual revenue from $100 million upward, without an upper limit. It underscores the ...
Oracle and Shopify have announced a strategic partnership aimed at improving data management and delivering enhanced commerce experiences for business-to-consumer (B2C) and direct-to-consumer (DTC) companies. This collaboration integrates ...
The B2B environment is undergoing a rapid convergence of technology, enterprise, and software, disrupting traditional roles of partners, vendors, and customers. The connected, complex processes of revenue life-cycle management (RLM) may ...
This IDC study provides an assessment of the principal digital commerce platforms capable of headless deployments with suitability for enterprises with an annual GMV of $500+ million. This document also discusses what criteria are most important ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight shows that a narrow majority of commerce professionals are interested in re-platforming their commerce stack to pursue alternatives. This IDC Survey Spotlight is a slice taken directly from the digital commerce ...
This IDC Tech Buyer presentation tracks five major trends in digital commerce and reframes them as the impetus for the adoption of both AI and composable commerce technologies in B2B and B2C enterprise commerce. This is not designed to be ...
This IDC Market Note provides an event summary with product announcements. It also includes a "two-minute summary" of what headless commerce is all about. In April 2024, commercetools hosted its inaugural Elevate Summit in Miami, marking ...
These IDC Pivot Table banner books provide data for IDC's CX Path 2024 program, including 6 of the 13 application categories: advertising, marketing, sales, digital commerce, configure/price/quote (CPQ), and product information management/product ...
These IDC Pivot Table banner books provide data for IDC's CX Path 2024 program, including 7 of the 13 application categories: contact center and customer service, voice of the customer (VOC), customer experience (CX) orchestration, customer ...
This IDC Pivot Table banner book provides the complete data set for IDC's CX Path 2024 program, including the 13 application categories: advertising, marketing, sales, digital commerce, CPQ, PIM/PXM, contact center and customer service, ...
This IDC Market Glance provides an overview of the digital commerce market updated for 2024.
There is no such thing as a one-size-fits-all commerce solution. The digital commerce software and services market is expansive precisely ...
This IDC Market Glance for experiential commerce and social commerce provides an overview of the software developers in each technology category that are at the junction between commerce and marketing. This convergence of experiential website ...
This IDC Market Glance for the payment, sales, and revenue generation for digital commerce market offers an overview of the incredible software that facilitates revenue growth and protection. These products improve customer lifetime value ...
This IDC Market Glance explores the various software options available to ideate, construct/architect/create, merchandise, and sell products and unique product experiences. In the digital commerce realm, products can encompass anything from ...
This IDC Market Glance for the core commerce layer software and services market presents a high-level representative view of the software vendors in each of the technology categories presented. The concept of a "layer" in this context is ...
PROS Outperform occurred on May 20–22, 2024, at the Hyatt Regency Grand Cypress in Orlando, Florida. The biggest announcement was the follow-up to last year's Gen IV AI roll-out, providing proof of concept and custom adoption of the new ...
This IDC Perspective provides a comprehensive overview of the EU AI Act, detailing its phased implementation, compliance requirements, and penalties for noncompliance. Scheduled to take effect in 2024, the Act classifies AI systems into ...
This IDC Market Note discusses highlights of VTEX DAY 2024.
VTEX DAY 2024 served as a springboard for a critical discussion — the future of leadership in a rapidly evolving tech landscape. While the event showcased advancements in ...
At Conga Connect 2024, in Dallas, Texas, April 22–24, 2024, Conga updated an enthusiastic audience of about 450 customers, partners, and analysts on its 2023 accomplishments and 2024–2025 road map. Front and center was Conga's new tagline ...
This IDC Market Perspective describes the key takeaways from the Infosys Analyst and Advisory Day event in Richardson, Texas, on March 7, 2024. The event focused on Infosys customers that deployed Infosys Cobalt (a set of cloud-based services, ...
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。