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.
本Conference: Tech SupplierはIDC Japanのソフトウェア＆セキュリティ シニアマーケットアナリストである草地 慎太郎による講演の内容をプレゼンテーションスライドと音声ファイルによって提供するものである。
データは現代における最も重要な経営資源の一つであるとしばしば言われている。しかし、データを多く持っていても、それを価値創出につなげるためには企業戦略、人材、テクノロジープラットフォームそしてデータアーキテクチャを考慮し、仕組みを作り上げる必要がある。本講演ではIDCがデジタルトランスフォーメーションの中で、企業がデータという資源を価値創出につなげるためのテクノロジープラットフォームとして定義しているDX ...
This IDC study provides a detailed description of IDC's Worldwide Semiannual Customer Experience Spending Guide methodology and taxonomy. It should be used as a companion piece for IDC's Worldwide Semiannual Customer Experience Spending ...
This IDC study covers the worldwide dynamic data management systems software market over five years, ending in 2023 and including the historical year 2018. It includes a description of the market forces that drive or inhibit growth in the ...
This IDC study presents a view of artificial intelligence (AI) software platforms revenue from the historical year 2018 through to the five forecast years of 2019–2023.
"The AI software platforms market continued to grow at a steady ...
This IDC Market Perspective presents key DX-related developments and initiatives in the telecom industry in Sub-Saharan Africa. It describes approaches taken by operators as they have embarked on their DX journeys. It provides recommendations ...
本調査レポートは、IDCが2019年4月に実施した「IDC MaturityScape Benchmark：国内ビッグデータ／アナリティクス市場」調査の集計結果およびその分析結果をまとめたものである。本調査は国内のビッグデータ／アナリティクス（BDA）に取り組む企業に勤務し、当該分野の方針決定に対して影響力を持つ対象者に対して、BDAの実態について調査し、これらを総合して国内のBDAの成熟度を分析したものである。
IDC Japan ソフトウェア＆セキュリティのマーケットアナリストである草地 ...
IDC 创新者是指年营业额低于$100M、有创新性技术或突破性商业模式的新兴厂商。本报告分析了如下三个提供数据智能化治理的厂商（排名不分先后）：明略数据、普元信息技术股份有限公司和杭州世平信息科技有限公司。
IDC中国研究经理刘迪表示：“企业需要提升对数据智能化治理的重视程度。随着未来多方技术的融合，应用场景的持续增加，数据结构、数据类型的多元化，数据治理的难度和迫切性也会进一步提升。企业应该尽早认识到数据治理对企业的价值，在数据化转型中做好数据准备工作。”
...This IDC Perspective examines how organizations need to find the right balance between intuition and data in a digital world. The biggest threat corporate management faces is the disruption that is changing the way business is done from ...
This IDC Market Note analyzes secondary storage and data protection vendor Cohesity's acquisition of Imanis Data, a backup and data management specialist for distributed databases, for an undisclosed sum. Imanis Data brings backup, recovery, ...
This IDC Perspective focuses on the current state of decision making and the pressures organizations are under to move toward more data-driven decision making, the key factor being digital disruption. With retrospect, you can get an understanding ...
This IDC Market Note looks at AWS Partner Summit Singapore 2019, held on April 9th, and AWS TechFest and Summit Singapore, held on April 10th and 11th. At the three-day exclusive event AWS executive leaders, subject matter experts, and customers ...
This IDC Market Perspective discusses key market developments in enterprise applications ecosystems. On March 4, 2019, IDC analysts across Europe contributed to an online brainstorming conference and explored large enterprise applications ...
This IDC Perspective outlines the role of analytics software and ecosystems in the success of Internet-of-Things (IoT) projects in asset maintenance across industries. Traditionally, asset maintenance has often been seen as no more than ...
According to IDC's latest IoT Spending Guide, a total of US$11.3 billion will be spent on public safety and emergency response systems in Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) by federal and local governments. While they provide a way for cities ...
This IDC Market Note discusses SwiftStack's multicloud AI/ML data management solution.
"Infrastructure challenges are the primary inhibitor for broader adoption of AI/ML workflows," said Amita Potnis, research director at IDC's Infrastructure ...
Containers running on bare metal servers appears to be the unmistakable direction that carriers have chosen for the upcoming buildout of 5G and multi-access edge infrastructure. However, significant work remains to be done in the open source ...
This IDC Survey analyzes the results of an IDC survey on artificial intelligence (AI) and Big Data analytics (BDA) adoption and investment plans across European healthcare providers. The set of data analyzed in this document is from the ...
本調査レポートは、国内の産業を17区分の企業、および中央官庁、地方自治体、教育、消費者の4区分の非企業の計21の産業分野に分類し、それぞれの分野の第3のプラットフォーム支出額実績（2018年）と予測（2019年～2023年）を報告する。また、同市場を5つの従業員規模に分けて分析を行い、産業分野別および従業員規模別の第3のプラットフォーム支出額の予測データを提供している。「DXは将来、社会システムの革新を実現する。ITサプライヤーは、DXによる社会システムの変化や社会からの要請の変化を考慮しながら顧客の進めるDXに対応し、ITソリューションの支援を行っていくべきである」とIDC ...
This IDC Market Perspective provides a broad review and analysis of the announcements and messages at Next '019 that we believe will most significantly impact Google Cloud's efforts to increase growth and market share.
"At Next '19, ...
本調査レポートでは、高度なサイバーセキュリティ対策への期待が高まる日本において、多種多様なログの分析をリアルタイムに行うことが可能なElasticの検索エンジン「Elasticsearch」を取り上げ、Elasticのユニークなビジネスモデルやセキュリティ分野でのユースケースについて考察した。
This IDC study provides an overview of the artificial intelligence (AI) market's technology components and solutions, associated professional services, and deployment location definitions.
"IDC's Worldwide Artificial Intelligence taxonomy ...
本調査レポートは国内企業のデータアナリティクス人材確保への取り組みについて、IDCの実施したユーザー調査の結果を中心に分析を行った。
IDC Japan ソフトウェア＆セキュリティのシニアマーケットアナリストである草地 慎太郎は「BDAはDXを推進するための核であり、DXは企業の今後のビジネスを大きく左右する一大プロジェクトである。この点を認識し、外部に舵取りのすべてを委ねるようなことがないように、自社でコントロールするリソースを持つことが求められる」と分析している。
...The Atlassian Summit 2019 took place at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas, Nevada, from April 9 to 11, 2019. The largest summit Atlassian (Nasdaq: TEAM) has hosted brought over 5,000 customers and partners to hear the latest ...