Products and Services

Advisory Services

IDC Energy Insights advisory services deliver relevant, accurate and insightful analysis across multiple technology and business disciplines within the energy industry. Our advisory services provide a steady stream of insights, analysis, and advice throughout the year, so you have the information you need at your fingertips.

Research Reports

IDC Energy Insights publishes a variety of research reports to help guide your business investments and plan for future technology needs.

Multiclient Studies

Customized research projects executed for a small group of clients. These studies are highly detailed, and provide in-depth analysis and recommendations to the clients for which the study is conducted.

Consulting/Custom Services

Our uniquely qualified, multidisciplinary experts help you develop business strategies, fine-tune product development and pricing, define and implement marketing goals, assess competitive forces, and evaluate joint ventures or acquisitions. For more information, download our Consulting brochure.

Go-to-Market Services

A modular set of deliverables to assist suppliers of technology products and services to the energy industry in extending their market reach, reinforcing their market strategy, and producing more responsive customer centric marketing campaigns.

IT Wallet

IDC's IT Wallet Service is an Excel pivot table that provides clients with estimates into the historical and expected technology spend of leading corporations. Segmented into hardware, software, services, telecommunications, and internal spend, data may be sorted by multiple aspects including geography, technology, and industry. The research is crafted to arm sales and marketing organizations of IT suppliers with the specific information they need to incorporate into a smart selling strategy. The IT Wallet service is available specifically for companies within the Energy industry; click here to view a description.
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Global IT Advisor

IDC's Global IT Advisor access service provides flexible, cross-disciplinary research coverage, granularity in market information and analysis, and timely delivery. It includes company profiles, technology forecasts, market trends, and competitive and international market analyses and is designed for a select client base whose needs vary across a range of technology areas, including IT, consulting, industrial, advertising/public relations, publishing/media, and retail. Click here to download a brochure.

IT Advisory Tools

The following IDC IT Advisory Tools are available:

• SmartAnalysis

  This tool assists senior sourcing, procurement, and asset management professionals with competitive intelligence and market analysis. SmartAnalysis provides exacting peer pricing benchmarks and cost management insights, ensuring decision makers have actionable intelligence and objective data. IDC collects key data so buyers can set realistic, effective goals in custom peer benchmarks built specifically for their needs. Additionally, IDC provides insights into market drivers, sourcing strategies, price assurance strategies/tactics, asset management and disposition strategies, quarterly market assessments, and custom analysis for each customer.

• SmartBuy

  SmartBuy dramatically simplifies the pricing and acquisition process of IT hardware, providing consistent, accurate, and timely pricing and specifications on thousands of systems and accessories. The data is refreshed daily. Having SmartBuy as a basis for negotiations can mean saving hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars.

• Smart Fair Market Value

  This tool provides accurate fair market values on almost any IT hardware asset, based on the actual liquidity value and resale costs of the products in the market. It saves time and money when establishing financial terms for used IT hardware acquisitions, end-of-lease purchases, liquidation of IT assets, or analysis related to fair market value.

• SmartIndex

  The SmartIndex tool is designed to ensure that buyers will maintain competitive pricing over the course of their contract with their IT supplier. The monthly or quarterly benchmark focuses on a buyer's specific system configurations, providing a comparison that buyers can use as a competitive market benchmark price on which to apply their volume discount. Also available are insights into peer discount levels appropriate for a given volume of purchase. IDC has been the de facto standard of price research in the marketplace for over 15 years and has saved companies millions of dollars on their IT hardware purchases.