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.
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本IDC研究报告分析了中国医疗保障信息系统发展的现状和未来趋势,分析了国家级、省级和市级的医疗保障信息平台和医疗保障信息系统的建设进展和未来方向,对医疗保障信息系统解决方案市场规模做出预测与分析。本报告可供医疗保障信息系统厂商在开发产品和制定发展策略时参考,也可供医疗保障管理部门在制定发展规划时参考,还可供投资机构在制定投资策略时参考。
This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation explores the future of digital infrastructure for the Canadian educational sector. It emphasizes cloud technologies, operational efficiency, and the challenges faced by these institutions in digital transformation. ...
This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation outlines the trends in sustainable sourcing in the manufacturing industry in the Asia/Pacific region. It emphasizes the growing need for companies to include sustainability in their procurement and supply ...
This IDC Survey aims to analyze the progress of digital adoption for India enterprises across key industries amid the challenging business and global economic environment. It analyzes the impact of multiple vectors, including rising inflation ...
This IDC Market Perspective explores how cloud professional services (CPS) vendors can address specific customer challenges and requirements and play a significant role in bridging the gap between expectation and reality in the enterprise ...
This IDC Perspective discusses the impact of human-robot collaboration in smart warehousing, focusing on the Asia/Pacific region. Automation and robotics have become integral to companies' operations, enhancing resiliency, agility, efficiency, ...
"Despite some segment increases in 2023, the MFP market will continue to decline. It has suffered over recent years due to the COVID-19 pandemic as well as inventory and supply issues. Now, the market is in a period of economic uncertainty ...
This IDC Market Note focuses on the role of technology in overcoming some of the key challenges in the European education sector. It highlights the attractiveness of print services providers that can offer a broad range of solutions beyond ...
本調査レポートは、テラスカイの国内サービスビジネスの概況と同社の成長戦略について考察するものである。
「国内企業における持続的なクラウドニーズに対して不可欠となるデジタルプラットフォームの実装力を最適化しながら、その実装範囲を4大クラウドの導入/SAPマイグレーションおよび周辺領域に拡大し、ITマネージドサービス/サポートサービスへのサービス提供領域を拡大するテラスカイの方向性は、今後の国内ITサービス市場における成長要因に整合するものと評価できる。また、CX(Customer ...
本調査レポートは、国内企業のデジタルトランスフォーメーション(DX)/デジタルビジネス(DB)イニシアティブの状況と、各種のデジタルサービス(DX/DB支援サービス)の利用状況、支援サービス事業者の利用動向や選定基準、「ITの内製化」への取り組みなどについて、IDCが2024年2月に実施したユーザー調査の結果を基に分析を行ったものである。
本調査レポートで分析した主な項目は、以下の通りである。
- 国内企業におけるDX/DBイニシアティブの状況
- DX/DBイニシアティブにおける支援サービスの利用状況
- DX/DBイニシアティブにおける支援サービス事業者の利用状況
- DX/DBイニシアティブにおけるITの内製化の取組み
国内市場のDX/DBイニシアティブは、2023年の調査と比較して明らかな進展は見られず、全体としてやや停滞傾向にもみられる。このような市場動向の中で、DX/DBイニシアティブに取り組む企業では支援サービスの高い需要が見られる。また、DX/DBイニシアティブにおいてITの内製化に取り組む企業の割合は高いが、その過半は上流工程を中心とする部分的な内製化を志向している。「DX/DBイニシアティブにおいてITの内製化に取り組む企業の多くは企画/設計/要件定義などの上流工程の内製化を志向しており、ITサプライヤーには、ビジネス設計などの最上流から実装、運用まで広範な支援サービスの提供機会が存在する。顧客のDX/DBジャーニーとの継続的な接点を獲得し、ビジネス成長につなげるためには、パートナーエコシステムを含めた包括的な支援サービスおよびその提供体制の体系化と、支援サービスの全体像に対する顧客認知の形成が重要となる」と、IDC ...
This IDC Market Presentation discusses the status of generative AI investments in Europe, with a particular focus on how it will impact the Future of Work market. Companies are already leveraging generative AI to improve employee applications ...
This IDC Market Presentation provides the European cloud-native and modern app development 1Q24 market update. The aim of the research is to provide an understanding of current market dynamics including end-user sentiment and attitudes, ...
This IDC Market Perspective explores how generative AI is reshaping the software development and engineering domain in Europe. While this includes the view of AI-powered software development and engineering, it also looks at software development ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight outlines the key business motivations driving global manufacturers' investments in AI/GenAI to support customer experience initiatives. The presentation contains data from IDC's January 2024 Future Enterprise ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight examines the top security, compliance, and trust-related challenges facing European organizations. This is pertinent given the ongoing migration to cloud across many industries in Europe and their resulting need ...
This IDC Survey provides key findings from IDC's 2024 Future Enterprise Resiliency and Spending (FERS) Survey, Wave 1, which focuses on issues related to GenAI adoption and its implications on IT ...