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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. </p> <br> <h5>Team Profile</h5> <p>Lists the analyst members of a topical team. Outlines general areas of coverage and any specialties. </p> </div> </div> <div class="accordion-item"> <div class="accordion-heading"> <p class="accordion-label">Briefs</p> </div> <div class="accordion-content"> <h5>Vendor Profile</h5> <p>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. </p> <br> <h5>IDC Perspective</h5> <p>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:</p> <ul class="custom"> <li>Strategy and planning</li> <li>Trends and observations</li> <li>IT spending and investment</li> <li>Vendor conferences and announcements</li> </ul> <br> <h5>IDC TechBrief</h5> <p>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:</p> <ul class="custom"> <li>What is the technology?</li> <li>When should I adopt it?</li> <li>What can it do for my business?</li> <li>What are the critical success factors?</li> <li>What are the risks?</li> <li>Who are the suppliers?</li> </ul> <br> <h5>Market Note</h5> <p>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.</p> <br> <h5>Market Perspective</h5> <p>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:</p> <ul class="custom"> <li>Competitive Environment</li> <li>Innovation & Market Opportunity</li> <li>New Business Models</li> <li>Partner & Channel Strategy</li> <li>Enterprise Strategies (targeted to supplier)</li> <li>Regulation</li> <li>Socioeconomics</li> </ul> <br> </div> </div> <div class="accordion-item"> <div class="accordion-heading"> <p class="accordion-label">Event Proceedings</p> </div> <div class="accordion-content"> <h5>Event Proceeding</h5> <p>Provides published slides, audio, and other materials from IDC and Insights Web conferences, briefings, forums, or other events.</p> </div> </div> <div class="accordion-item"> <div class="accordion-heading"> <p class="accordion-label">Events</p> </div> <div class="accordion-content"> <h5>Conference</h5> <p>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.</p> <br> <h5>Web Conference</h5> <p>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. </p> </div> </div> <div class="accordion-item"> <div class="accordion-heading"> <p class="accordion-label">IDC DecisionScapes</p> </div> <div class="accordion-content"> <h5>IDC FutureScape</h5> <p>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. </p> <br> <h5>IDC MarketScape</h5> <p>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. </p> <br> <h5>IDC MaturityScape</h5> <p>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. </p> <br> <h5>IDC MaturityScape Benchmark</h5> <p>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. </p> <br> <h5>IDC PeerScape</h5> <p>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. </p> <br> <h5>IDC PlanScape</h5> <p>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. </p> <br> <h5>IDC TechScape</h5> <p>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. </p> </div> </div> <div class="accordion-item"> <div class="accordion-heading"> <p class="accordion-label">IDC Links</p> </div> <div class="accordion-content"> <h5>IDC Link</h5> <p>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:</p> <ul class="custom"> <li>Financial announcements</li> <li>Product announcements</li> <li>Mergers and acquisitions or divestitures</li> <li>Events</li> <li>Response to news</li> </ul> </div> </div> <div class="accordion-item"> <div class="accordion-heading"> <p class="accordion-label">IDC Blink</p> </div> <div class="accordion-content"> <h5>IDC Blink</h5> <p>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:</p> <ul class="custom"> <li>Financial announcements</li> <li>Product announcements</li> <li>Mergers and acquisitions or divestitures</li> <li>Events</li> <li>Response to news</li> </ul> </div> </div> <div class="accordion-item"> <div class="accordion-heading"> <p class="accordion-label">Pivot Tables</p> </div> <div class="accordion-content"> <h5>Pivot Table</h5> <p>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. </p> </div> </div> <div class="accordion-item"> <div class="accordion-heading"> <p class="accordion-label">Presentations</p> </div> <div class="accordion-content"> <h5>IDC Survey</h5> <p>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. </p> <br> <h5>IDC Survey Spotlight</h5> <p>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. </p> <br> <h5>Market Presentation</h5> <p>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. </p> <br> <h5>Market Analysis Perspective</h5> <p>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. </p> <br> <h5>Tech Buyer Presentation</h5> <p>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.</p> <br> <h5>IDC Market Glance</h5> <p>Provides a look at the landscape of a tech market, including competitive positioning, adjacent segments, and potential partner opportunities.</p> </div> </div> <div class="accordion-item"> <div class="accordion-heading"> <p class="accordion-label">Press Releases</p> </div> <div class="accordion-content"> <h5>Press Release</h5> <p>Announces significant corporate news, such as key hirings or promotions, performance milestones, event highlights, or speaking engagements. </p> </div> </div> <div class="accordion-item"> <div class="accordion-heading"> <p class="accordion-label">Product Information</p> </div> <div class="accordion-content"> <h5>Fact Sheet</h5> <p>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. </p> </div> </div> <div class="accordion-item"> <div class="accordion-heading"> <p class="accordion-label">Studies</p> </div> <div class="accordion-content"> <h5>Industry Developments and Models</h5> <p>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.</p> <br> <h5>Market Forecast</h5> <p>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.</p> <br> <h5>Market Share</h5> <p>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).</p> <br> <h5>Special Study</h5> <p>Provides a one-time study produced by a research group that is not published as a deliverable under a subscription service.</p> <br> <h5>Taxonomy</h5> <p>Highlights and emphasizes how IDC tracks the market while also making it easier for customers to find and identify IDC Taxonomy documents.</p> <br> <h5>Technology Assessment</h5> <p>Provides an analysis of the intricacies of an emerging or established technology or the technologies contained within a specific product.</p> <br> <h5>IDC Innovators</h5> <p>IDC Innovators is aimed at informing IT buyers about emerging vendors with an innovative new technology or ground-breaking business model. 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