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 Presentation is focused on the trends in the application development and testing market while providing insights on compute and storage infrastructure deployments for the development tools and applications workload, as well ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight analyzes whether organizations have deployed, or are planning in the next 18 months to deploy, workloads using accelerated compute infrastructure like GPUs, DPUs, or FPGAs. It also looks at the reasons why organizations ...
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。
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This IDC Link discusses IBM's newly released Power S1012 compact server and its impact on the enterprise edge IT infrastructure market. Power S1012 is a one-socket, half-wide system that runs on the Power10 processor and is optimized for ...
This IDC Market Presentation is an executive summary of IDC's SAP Infrastructure View survey findings exploring in key detail the demands and characteristics that influence the infrastructure deployment patterns and key software platform ...
This IDC link describes Lenovo's recently announced solutions in the company's artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure portfolio and discusses its impact on the IT infrastructure market. As AI expands its hold on edge, Lenovo's flexible ...
This IDC Perspective explores how the evolution of edge computing and edge-native applications is helping transform enterprise digital infrastructure priorities to help organizations fully harness the business value of data collected and ...
This IDC Link discusses the recent announcement by the Linux Foundation of an open standard initiative for interoperability at the edge of the industrial automation ecosystem.
This IDC Market Perspective provides an update on what defines an application as being cloud native from an infrastructure perspective. As cloud-native technology continues to grow in popularity, it is important to understand the main characteristics ...
This IDC link is dedicated to NVIDIA's GTC 2024 conference that took place from March 18 to March 21, 2024, in San Jose, CA. It highlights significant news, developments, and product announcements and provides a quick analysis of their impact ...
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 Market Presentation analyzes the enterprise server workloads infrastructure market to determine the trends that influenced the market in 2022 and trends that we expect to influence the forecast period from 2023 to 2027. This presentation ...
On February 21, 2024, Arm, a leading global semiconductor design company, announced the launch of two new Arm Neoverse Compute Subsystems (CSS) built on its third-generation Neoverse IP dubbed Neoverse S3: Neoverse CSS V3, which is the first ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight analyzes the top 5 realized or expected benefits and challenges of using containers to support workloads and looks at whether the benefits outweigh or at least meet the challenges or whether the challenges outweigh ...
This IDC Market Presentation showcases survey findings from IDC's SAP Infrastructure View Survey that examines infrastructure deployment patterns and choices for key software platforms from SAP. The SAP Infrastructure ...
This IDC Pivot Table banner book provides the abbreviated worldwide data for IDC's 4Q23 Cloud Pulse publication that examines infrastructure deployment patterns and choices for key software platforms from SAP. The SAP Infrastructure View ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight compares penetration of commercial, open source, and custom-built applications at the enterprise workloads level along with the level of application customization at a workload level and analyzes the trends behind ...
This IDC Perspective summarizes the key themes and announcements during KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America (NA) 2023. Key topics covered include enterprise adoption of open source software, the maturity of Kubernetes and its foundational ...
This IDC study provides an overview of the market size and forecast for global spending on enterprise infrastructure to power enterprise workloads. Suppliers of server and storage systems, cloud service providers that offer infrastructure ...
This IDC Market Note highlights and analyzes the themes of the keynotes at the 2023 OCP Global Summit regarding the rise of AI applications and their impact on the hardware infrastructure market, as well as how the solutions apply to the ...
This IDC Market Presentation provides insights on deployment of enterprise workloads on HCI appliances including the forecast of end-user spending, shipped storage capacity, and system units. The forecast is based on the data published in ...
This IDC Perspective discusses "edge native" platforms and applications and analyzes how workloads at the edge will be impacted by them. Edge-native technology has recently become popular as it allows organizations to integrate multicloud ...
This IDC study discusses worldwide edge enterprise infrastructure forecast for 2023–2027. Edge IT is the deployment of IT resources at peripheral or edge locations relative to where an organization's central or core IT is located. The term ...
This IDC study provides assessment of the market size and forecast for global spending on server and storage infrastructure for enterprise workloads running in edge environments. Suppliers of edge-focused server and storage systems, cloud ...
This IDC study provides an overview of the market size and forecast from 2022 to 2027 for the worldwide server infrastructure workloads by operating system environment market. It also provides a segmentation of this market view and forecast ...