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
Flash
Provides rapid IDC insight and analysis about a significant industry event or conference, merger or acquisition, product announcement, or other fast-breaking news affecting the IT market.
Forecast Update
Provides a short, quick look at an updated forecast and the changed assumptions behind the update. It updates a market forecast published in the same calendar year, identifies changed and key forecast assumptions, and highlights actions for participants to consider in light of the changes.
IDC Insight
Provides coverage and analysis of an industry event, new product or service, or a company announcement or development.
Update
Provides brief overview coverage of what is happening in a market.
Vendor Profiles
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.
Daily Graphics
Daily Graphic
Illustrates IDC's keen analysis of major market trends in downloadable PowerPoints. Available as a free download the day it appears, an IDC Daily Graphic provides valuable material for speeches and strategic planning.
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
Insights-only Research
Best Practices
Correlates the use of specific practices and superior performance as indicated by an analysis of the benchmarking database. Highlights any significant differences between industries. Conclusions provide a set of process priorities for improving a business case and advice on how to overcome change management issues.
Business Strategy
Helps buyers to assess their business strategies and/or associated business processes, especially as they relate to the use of technology.
Methods and Practices
Provides a step-by-step description of a method or methods that can be applied. As appropriate, the report may compare the benefits and drawbacks of several methods.
Perspective
Presents an article written by an Insights analyst on a topic of special interest to a target audience. This information has generally already appeared in an industry publication and is repackaged for display on the Insights Web site.
Vendor Assessment
Helps buyers select the right IT supplier. The report helps buyers understand the various providers of a technology by providing analysis on market landscape, vendor profiles, vendor market share, and vendor assessments.
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.
Predictions
Top 10 Predictions
Provides bold, well-conceived market predictions grounded in solid methodologies, primary research, and analyst experience. Lays out a clear road map to understanding major market opportunities and trends.
Presentations
IDC Presentation
Provides the latest, select CIS forecast data, primary research survey findings, and critical IDC analyst opinion in a succinct, easy-to-digest PowerPoint format.
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.
Insights 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.
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
Competitive Analysis
Provides a detailed accounting and review of a vendor's programs, processes, products, service, satisfaction, and/or strategy in a target market. This knowledge helps clients reduce their risk of losing market share or enhance their position over the competition.
Customer Needs and Strategies
Focuses on the important decisions that business and IT professionals make every day.
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 Analysis
Provides an in-depth examination of the dynamics and future of a single market or a group of related markets. The Market Analysis is where we will typically present our forecasts and assumptions, using a key forecast assumptions table.
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 onetime study produced by a research group that is not published as a deliverable under a subscription service.
Survey
Provides a study and interpretation of the results of a demand- or supply-side survey.
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.
Vendor Needs and Strategies
Provides an in-depth analysis of a company, a small group of companies, a division of a company focused on a particular market, or a best practice that the company exemplifies.
This IDC Perspective details how retailers are fully awake to the opportunity to transform the store into a multifaceted digital-physical service hub, tailored to each location and the location's consumers' needs. The shopper journey will ...
This IDC Perspective examines the approaches taken to securing workloads in the cloud. Looking to gain insight into how security professionals were approaching security in platform-as-a-service (PaaS) and infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) ...
This IDC Perspective investigates how digital transformation impacts mobility (also transportation) hubs — such as major bus, metro and train stations, and airports — that provide the physical and digital infrastructure and services that ...
This IDC Perspective outlines the challenges that organizations face and provides a discussion around the approach that can be taken to meet those challenges.
Financial institutions and other organizations face new fraud challenges ...
This IDC Perspective examines the approaches taken to secure workloads in the cloud. Looking to gain insight into how security professionals were approaching security in platform-as-a-service (PaaS) and infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) ...
This IDC discusses micro-mobility vehicles (also called personal mobility devices or PMDs) and their impact on city living in Europe. PMDs such as bicycles, scooters, and mopeds are changing how people move in European cities. They can increase ...
This IDC Perspective provides an overview and analysis of telecom and cable service provider network M&A deals, joint ventures (JVs), and IPOs disclosed in 1H19. The document is limited to M&A deals in which the acquirer would take ...
This IDC Perspective looks at the inevitable evolution of supply chain capabilities linked to multi-enterprise networks.
"Businesses need to be more connected and more resilient — networks enable both and must be supported by network-centric ...
This IDC Perspective lays out actions in four key areas essential to building IT and operations collaboration — the foundation of the digitally determined enterprise. The document discusses the importance of creating bridges between IT and ...
This IDC Perspective outlines the expected impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on marketing roles. Because of the high degree of decision making in marketing, this function will be among the first to be radically transformed by AI. The ...
物联网作为互联网的延伸，通过使用射频识别、红外感应、全球定位系统、激光扫描装置等技术将终端信息捕捉与采集设备进行网络互连，实现人与人、物与物、人与物的互连。物联网技术在保险行业更是有着广泛的前景，以及颠覆性的影响。积极布局物联网保险对于保险公司在未来3到5年尤为重要。虽然各行业都对物联网技术注入了大量的资源，但物联网的发展还是存在多方挑战，例如，物联网技术标准的统一、技术应用的成本效率以及安全威胁等。本篇报告旨在帮助保险公司在物联网技术实践之初或过程中，能够更加了解即将或正在面临的风险，帮助保险公司更好地规划物联网战略与计划，准确评估项目效益，降低风险。同时，本报告从物联网保险的场景机会展开，总结了物联网保险的数据价值与应用机会。通过建立物联网保险关键要素模型，为保险公司总结出在考虑和规划物联网保险项目与实施路线时需要思考的关键要素，最后为保险公司提出部署和实施物联网保险的三点建议。
“IDC的研究发现，预计到2023年中国物联网市场规模将达到2,613亿美元。对于保险市场来说，物联网保险将逐步取代互联网保险，物联网及延伸的技术将从根本上改变保险产品的运营及服务模式。抢占物联网保险先机的保险机构也将建立新的业务模式并获得新的利润增长机会。发展物联网保险，保险公司必须结合自身优势领域，对未来的挑战做好分析与应对，建立基于物联网保险关键要素模型的战略与实施计划。”IDC金融行业研究总监郑煜表示。
...Investing in smart datacenter tools can help accelerate the software-defined journey for enterprises. Real-time information could be accessed to plan workload placements and forecast future needs. However, organizations should be mindful ...
This IDC Perspective provides insights into AHIP Institute's 2019 conference.
"The AHIP Institute 2019 conference showed how consumerism, big data, whole-person coordinated care, social determinants of health, and innovation are indeed ...
This IDC Perspective presents the execution of the Sonoma County vision for integrated care for its citizens. Local, county, state, and federal agencies all recognize the value of putting the client before agency needs, but few have been ...
This IDC Perspective recommends that senior technology procurement executives adopt the principles of Agile procurement to speed the procurement process, respond to customer requirements, and provide flexibility in a rapidly changing technology ...
This IDC Perspective examines the soft skills required for digital transformation (DX) in public sector organizations. The successful implementation of digital transformation projects hinges on more than just the underlying technologies. ...
This IDC Perspective discusses customer perceptions and usage modes for unified storage. With the advent of new high-performance storage products based on NVMe such as persistent memory and storage-class memory and evolving storage functionality ...
"Indian industrial organisations across oil and gas manufacturing and utilities are just in the early phases of looking to what an Industry 4.0–related operational transformation strategy can do to deliver efficiency, productivity, and improved ...
This IDC Perspective examines the approaches taken to securing workloads in the cloud. Looking to gain insight into how security professionals were approaching security in platform-as-a-service (PaaS) and infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) ...
This IDC Perspective discusses approaches to containerization of applications. Containers are appealing to enterprises for benefits such as faster software development, modernized application architecture to meet DevOps and agile objectives, ...
This IDC Perspective presents an overview of key takeaways from SAP Industry Analyst Base Camp (IABC) in SAP's Newtown Square headquarters, with a focus on SAP's retail vision. During the event, SAP executives presented the company's mission ...
This IDC Perspective provides a data-driven overview of the current spending trends of line-of-business technology professionals. This document is aimed to help business and IT decision makers better understand the scope and direction of ...
This IDC report discusses the power of emerging technologies in enhancing the patient experience in the healthcare care delivery system. This report is built on a platform of innovation accelerators and anchors its approach on IDC Digital ...
This IDC Perspective provides an overview of the key takeaways from the annual European SAS conference for industry analysts, focusing on SAS' financial services strategy. Following up on major takeaways from the event, held in May 2019 ...
This IDC Perspective describes key citizen services activities by European governments for April to June 2019. It provides insight into major announcements, ICT contracts signed, projects and pilots launched, and business developments. It ...