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 discusses persistent storage for containers, why they are needed, and the advanced data management services they consume. Enterprises are increasingly adopting cloud-native solutions for scale, agility, and access to ...
This IDC Market Note discusses the Analyst Day hosted by HP Inc. in its Asia/Pacific (including Japan) (APJ) Customer Welcome Center called "Enabling Digital Transformation in Asia for Asia." The event was centered around how HP Inc. was ...
This IDC Market Note presents highlights and observations from the Qlik Qonnections 2019 Global Conference held in Dallas, Texas, on May 13 to 16, 2019, and the Qlik EMEA Analyst Summit held in London on June 26, 2019. It focuses on announcements ...
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 Market Note specifically focuses on Telstra Purple. Australian telecommunications and IT services provider Telstra announced the launch of Telstra Purple. Telstra Purple is a newly formed standalone services firm, which is an evolution ...
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 Market Note presents an overview of Leaven, Spark's new division that was announced on August 13, 2019. Leaven is a digital transformation (DX) consultancy built to assist organisations as they shift to new and more digital ways of ...
本調査レポートは、2019 年8月時点の国内データセンター事業者のファシリティ新設／増設投資の動向を分析している。事業者データセンター新設／増設投資は、クラウドサービスプロバイダーのDC増設需要によって拡大している。
「DC新設投資はクラウドDCにおいて急拡大しているが、アウトソーシング拠点としてのDCでは新設投資が手控えられるようになる」と、IDC Japan ITサービスのリサーチマネージャーである伊藤 未明は述べている。
This IDC Market Note reviews the enhancements to Computacenter's Digital Power portfolio.
"Computacenter has evolved its portfolio to meet client cloud and digitization demands with its new Digital Power portfolio, which enables its ...
This IDC Market Note reviews two recent announcements: UPS' announcement of seven-day delivery and My Choice for Business Platform for SMBs and Alibaba's announcement of the company's online marketplace being made available to U.S. SMBs.
...This IDC Market Note provides an overview of AWS Public Sector Summit, held June 11–12 in Washington, D.C., where analysts had the opportunity to attend workshops and engage one to one with AWS customers and senior public sector leadership ...
This IDC Market Note presents IDC's analysis of recent ICT market developments in Turkey.
"Business technology is being transformed by the digital economy with the introduction of innovation accelerators such as augmented/virtual reality, ...
This IDC Market Perspective provides an update on the delivery of secure, scalable, and serviceable multicloud environments that can be managed, orchestrated, and automated to deliver seamless workloads to the enterprise.
Users demand ...
This IDC Market Note discusses Curvature's investment into high-value professional services to help serve more complex IT needs of the company's customers across the full asset life cycle.
Curvature has established its roots in independent ...
This IDC Market Note discusses the key developments associated with the Datacenter Facility Domain of Huawei Network Energy announced at its Analyst Summit held in Shenzhen China from April 16 to 19, 2019. Key aspects of Huawei Network Energy's ...
本調査レポートでは、クライアント仮想化製品を導入した550社のユーザー企業を対象に調査した結果に基づいて、IDC独自のROIの分析手法を用いて定量的な分析を実施し、投資対効果（ROI）を算出している。IDC Japan PC、携帯端末＆クライアントソリューションのシニアマーケットアナリストである渋谷 寛は、「IDCで実施しているROI算出は、ITの実証性を測定する定量的指標として有効な指標の一つである。クライアント仮想化はデジタルワークスペース／インテリジェントワークスペースへ進展することで、さらに高いROIを示している。導入に踏み切れないユーザー企業の経営層に対し、このような定量的指標を訴求することで、導入が促進されるとIDCではみている」と述べている。
...This IDC Vendor Profile focuses on Apstra's intent-based datacenter automation solution, the Apstra Operation System (AOS), now in version 3.1. This solution is vendor agnostic and can run on a variety of switches and routers, including ...
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 Market Note focuses on a stakeholder approach to sustainable business conduct that is targeted at demands from the investors' side. It highlights how PwC's Sustainability practice helps clients improve their reporting and disclosure ...
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 Market Perspective provides highlights from the Orange Business Services Analyst Days that took place on July 9 and 10, 2019, in Paris, France. It summarizes strategy updates provided by Orange Business Services executives and provides ...
This IDC Market Perspective examines how cloud service providers globally are responding to the rapid increase in demand for cloud services and are changing their business models and practices as a result. It further details the reasons ...
This IDC Market Note provides a brief overview of current public sector initiatives that key stakeholders in Europe are undertaking to address the emerging skills gap. The purpose of this paper is to provide the reader with the understanding ...
This IDC Market Perspective examines and provides an overview of the OpenText Enterprise World conference, held in Toronto in July 2019, where OpenText announced several key product introductions and partnerships, including a major partnership ...
This IDC Market Perspective provides IDC Health Insights' review of key Q2 2019 IT deals, news, and digital initiatives in the European life sciences industry. In the evolving industry environment in Europe, it is critically important for ...