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 Market Perspective provides highlights from the annual Telefónica Analyst Day that took place on June 11-12, 2019, in Madrid, Spain. This document provides IDC's views from an EMEA telecommunications and networking perspective, ...
本調査レポートは、国内ユニファイドコミュニケーション／コラボレーション（UC&C）市場の2018年のベンダー売上額実績に基づく市場シェアの分析を提供している。IDCでは、国内UC&C市場を「IPテレフォニー市場」「コラボレーティブアプリケーション市場」「IPコンファレンスシステム市場」「IPコンタクトセンターシステム市場」の4つの大分類ソリューションセグメントに分類して、市場を分析し予測を行っている。
2018年の国内UC&C市場は、クラウド販売を中心とするベンダーが好調であり、ハードウェア販売を中心とするベンダーが低調となる二極化が進んだ。「国内ユニファイドコミュニケーション／コラボレーション市場に参入するITサプライヤーは、今後の成長のために、中小企業向け働き方改革を軸にしたUCとコラボレーションのシナジー販売、AI／アフェクティブコンピューティングを活用したソリューション開発、および急成長する新興ベンダーに対応する戦略検討が必要である」と、IDC ...
This Market Analysis Perspective seeks to establish a relationship between the fast-changing business landscape and its impact on enterprise network and technology initiatives in India. In this report, we identify and assess Indian businesses' ...
This IDC Survey Presentation examines results from the European Enterprise Communications Survey, 2019, which finds that growth in voice will be driven by IP Centrex and SIP trunking. While IP Centrex is benefiting from improved security ...
This IDC study provides an assessment of the capabilities and business strategies of nine vendors in the worldwide UC&C market for 2019.
"Organizations have a variety of deployment options to choose from today, but also the challenge ...
本調査レポートは、国内CRMアプリケーション市場の2018年の実績（売上額ベース）と2019年～2023年の市場予測を提供している。IDCでは、国内CRMアプリケーション市場を「広告アプリケーション」「コンタクトセンターアプリケーション」「カスタマーサービスアプリケーション」「デジタルコマースアプリケーション」「マーケティングキャンペーン管理アプリケーション」「セールス生産性／管理アプリケーション」の6つの機能市場に分類し、市場を分析し予測を行っている。2018年の同市場は、マーケティングキャンペーン管理アプリケーション、コンタクトセンターアプリケーションが好調に推移した。「国内CRMアプリケーション市場が今後も成長を継続するために、ITサプライヤーは、CX向上を目的とした統合型CRMシステムの提供、B2B向けHyper-Personalizationへの対応、およびCRMにおけるAIのユースケース化準備を行うことが重要である」と、IDC ...
This IDC Presentation summarizes key trends around video technology solutions based on IDC's 2019 European Enterprise Communications Survey. In particular, it focuses on the current and planned use of video equipment (endpoints/systems) ...
This IDC study provides the 2018 results and forecasts for the unified communications and collaboration (UC&C) market from 2019 to 2023. IDC divides the Japan UC&C market into four major categories based on solution types — the ...
This IDC study provides forecast for worldwide artificial intelligence in telecommunications for 2019–2023.
"Artificial intelligence and machine learning built on the many years managing and analyzing data at scale are other important ...
This IDC Market Share provides the 2018 market shares of vendors in the European UC&C equipment and software market. The document covers the market shares of Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise, Avaya, Cisco, Huawei, Lifesize, Microsoft, Mitel, ...
This IDC study provides a systematic assessment of technologies related to unified communications and collaboration (UC&C) in 2019. The IDC TechScape is an evaluation based on a comprehensive framework and a set of parameters that assess ...
In early June, Cisco welcomed almost 30,000 customers and partners to San Diego for its annual Cisco Live U.S. conference, where the company announced a series of enhancements to its network management products. These included a vision for ...
This IDC Perspective reviews the role that collaboration applications and company culture play in accelerating productivity, customer experience, and employee experience. Collaboration is the interpersonal activities that creates value when ...
This IDC Market Note discusses key takeaways from Atos' analyst event held in Boston in April 2019. Atos is targeting new growth areas in the market, including cloud solutions. The company is aligning its portfolio, architecture, and partnerships ...
Late last year we identified the need for telcos to undertake a comprehensive transformation — a revolution — in how they organize their internal operations. Earlier this year, we forecast that the pace of this revolution in telco operations ...
VMware revenue for 1Q20 was $2.27 billion, an increase of 13% year over year (y/y). SaaS comprised greater than 12% of total revenues, with 35% growth y/y. License revenue for the first quarter was $869 million, an increase of 12% y/y. Some ...
This IDC study aggregates segments of key technology market forecasts that make up the worldwide unified communications and collaboration (UC&C) ecosystem. The segments that have been aggregated for this study represent IDC's estimates ...
本調査レポートは、国内SD-WAN市場の動向について分析したものである。国内でSD-WAN製品／サービスを提供する製品ベンダー、通信事業者、SI事業者などに、戦略、案件動向、今後の見通しなどについて取材し分析を行っている。SD-WAN市場は、2019年から成長期に入り、今後、市場は拡大する。「SD-WANは、パラダイムシフトをもたらすディスラプティブな技術である。WAN関連市場のプレイヤーは、新規に、あるいは隣接ドメインからSD-WANを擁して自らの市場ドメインに参入してくる競合プレイヤーの動きに注意を払うべきである。当初は競合とはみなしていなかったプレイヤーもパラダイムシフトの波にうまく乗れば、数年後には脅威になる可能性がある」と、IDC ...
This IDC Market Forecast examines the enterprise communications and collaboration market in the Nordics, covering fixed and mobile data, fixed and mobile voice, as well as UC&C and related technologies. In addition, the report compares ...
Cisco once again impressed investors with strong quarterly earnings for the third quarter of its 2019 fiscal year. Revenue growth has been consistently positive for six quarters as the company continues to execute on key initiatives, including ...
本調査レポートは、国内サテライトオフィス市場およびテレワーク市場の2019年～2023年の予測を提供するものである。
IDC Japan PC、携帯電話＆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浅野 浩寿は、「サテライトオフィスの導入は、レンタルオフィスやコワーキングスペースの特徴やメリットを理解している企業で進んでいる。しかしながら、2018年の施設利用型テレワークの導入企業の比率は低く、レンタルオフィスやコワーキングスペースのメリットを認知している企業とそうでない企業との意識の差が大きく乖離している可能性がある」と述べている。
...Experience Avaya 2019 Asia/Pacific event, held on April 24 in Singapore, announced key information such as Avaya's strategy and its latest technology vision including new products and solutions. IDC Financial Insights also presented several ...
This IDC study is the follow-up to Canadian Networking Equipment Forecast, 2018–2022 (IDC #CA42531218, May 2018). The networking equipment market in Canada is forecast to reach ...