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.
本調査レポートでは、国内情報セキュリティ市場を分析し、2019年～2023年の予測を行っている。2020年の東京オリンピック／パラリンピックではサイバー攻撃の増加が見込まれている。サイバー攻撃は高度化が進み、検知されにくい攻撃手法が開発されており、未公表の脆弱性を突くゼロデイ攻撃や未知の脅威に対するセキュリティ対策も高度な分析が必要になっている。だが、セキュリティ専門技術者の人材不足で、サイバー攻撃によって発生するセキュリティインシデントへの対応が難しくなっており、重大なインシデントを見逃す恐れも生じている。
「製品サプライヤーやサービスプロバイダーは、セキュリティ運用の自動化を可能にするセキュリティオーケストレーション／オートメーション製品と連携したサイバーセキュリティソリューションを訴求すべきである。これによって、高度化するサイバー攻撃で生じる重大なセキュリティインシデントの見逃しを防ぐと共に、人材不足となっているセキュリティ専門技術者の負荷を軽減できる」と、IDC ...
本报告论述了中国政府举办的基本医疗保险与商业医疗保险的发展动态和趋势，分析了中国医疗保障业务发展的形态与特征，阐述了信息化和数字化对于中国医疗保障发展的支撑性作用，预测了2018–2023年基本医疗保险管理系统和商业医疗保险管理系统的市场规模，供中国基本医保和商业医保信息化厂商以及ICT基础设施厂商、新兴信息化技术厂商等参考，也可供医疗保障管理部门在制定信息化建设和发展策略时参考。
"2018年3月，中国政府组建了国家医疗保障局，整合了原来分布在多个部委的医疗保障的相关职责，实现医疗保障的集中化管理，制定了未来基本医疗保险管理统一化、综合化和追求价值化的发展目标，同时也支持商业医疗保险与基本医疗保险同步发展，这些目标的实现离不开信息化和数字化的支撑。2019年开始的国家医疗保障信息平台建设，为未来全国范围内各省市医疗保障信息化的转型升级提供了借鉴和指引。预计未来一到三年中，各省市都将会启动新一代的医疗保障信息系统的建设；未来三到五年中，各省市之间医疗保障管理系统将开展大规模系统集成和医保数据的挖掘应用，商业医疗保险管理系统也将采用新兴信息化技术实现升级，进而更灵活地支持健康消费需求。在新一代的医疗保障信息系统建设中，新兴IT技术例如云计算、大数据、人工智能等将作为基础架构技术，支持医疗保障信息系统促进"健康中国2030"目标实现。"——IDC中国行业研究与咨询服务部高级研究经理肖宏亮表示。
...This IDC study sizes and forecasts mobile in-game advertising and developers' share of that spending, broken down by region and by ad format.
"Mobile in-game advertising has proven to be a business model for game developers that is ...
This IDC study examines the adoption of 5G — as many more operators target 2020 as a launching point for 5G services — through the lens of traditional mobile subscribers and cellular IoT connections across the Americas, Asia/Pacific, and ...
本調査レポートは、国内におけるITインフラの設計／構築、運用管理、保守に関わるサービスで構成される市場を定量的に分析し、2019年の見込み値および2020年～2024年の予測をセグメント別にまとめたものである。クラウドファーストへの流れが加速し、DXを支える基盤としてのITインフラの重要性が増す一方で、急速なクラウドの普及によって新たな課題も生じつつある。「ITサービスベンダーは、部分最適化が散見される企業／団体におけるITインフラ環境の全体最適化ニーズの支援と、構成変更／運用管理における標準化、自動化を組み合わせて推進する一方で、DXインフラと定型業務インフラの統合運用支援サービスの強化にも取り組むべきであろう」と、IDC ...
This IDC study presents the worldwide datacenter network consulting and integration services forecast for the 2019–2023 period.
"In an increasingly multicloud world, it is imperative that the datacenter infrastructure and, most importantly, ...
This IDC study provides the forecast for the 5G network infrastructure market for 2019–2023.
"While Release 15 paved the way for initial commercial 5G launches, Release 16 (1H20) and beyond will be what unlocks 5G's full potential ...
This IDC study details the 2019–2023 market sizing and growth rates for the worldwide services market. This market is broken down into two major views. The first is the macromarket view, which segments the services market into three primary ...
This IDC study examines some of the key technologies that are expected to trend upward in 2020, and it looks at ways in which IT and business services firms can address these technologies with customers to advance usage. The document highlights ...
This IDC study provides a detailed description of IDC's Worldwide Technology Impact Guide methodology and taxonomy. It should be used as a companion piece for IDC's Technology Impact Guide. Technology suppliers may utilize IDC's use case ...
This IDC study presents the Romanian IT security market size and vendor shares in 2018, as well as key market trends.
"Romanian organizations' security strategies and investments increasingly prioritize a protect-detect-respond approach. ...
This IDC study presents an update to the worldwide and U.S. IT education and training services forecast for 2019–2023. The forecast includes an analysis of the regional drivers of IT education growth and delivery modalities and illustrates ...
This IDC study examines the needs and preferences for mobility services for small, medium-sized, and large Canadian businesses. Service offerings under examination include mobile enterprise application platforms, mobile content management, ...
本研究报告主要针对2018年数字政府大数据市场的市场规模、厂商竞争态势、技术发展趋势以及场景化的最佳实践等维度进行体系化的研究。
"数字政府建设尚未形成规模化、可复制的大数据平台服务与应用场景创新，尤其是在数字政府1.0时代，以Hadoop技术栈为主建设的大数据管理平台覆盖了国家级与多数省级市场，其主要功能在于提供分布式的数据存储。数字政府2.0时代，政府大数据基础平台建设逐渐融合Hadoop、GreenPlum、Spark等多元大数据技术，开始以业务导向为主，促成场景驱动技术选型。同时，基础平台在原本技术门槛高的基础上又融合了日益复杂的技术生态，使得基础平台市场趋近集约化。随着省级大数据基础平台部署基本覆盖，面向数据本身的管理与治理市场还处于大规模的人力投入阶段，相对较离散，正是技术颠覆的最佳发力点。"IDC政府行业与智慧城市研究组研究经理詹墨磊表示。
...This IDC Market Forecast projects future spending on strategic priorities related to DX in Europe. It provides an overview of the market context, an in-depth examination of key drivers and inhibitors, and essential guidance for developing ...
This IDC Market Forecast provides our Nordic services market forecast for the 2019–2023 in the total Nordic IT services as well as in Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden. IDC forecasts the Nordic market for IT services will grow from $24.4 ...
This IDC Market Forecast analyzes IT investments between 2019 and 2023 in Europe — which includes Western Europe (WE) and Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) — and provides a market size and forecast for IT spending by vertical market.
"Technology ...
This IDC study presents forecasts of spending (customer expenditures) for the offshore-based horizontal BPO services market for 2019–2023 that includes HR, finance and accounting, procurement, and customer care by four importing regions ...
This IDC study contains IDC's estimates for key business consulting services vendors' revenue for 2018. Because the key vendors have increasingly focused attention on the changing requirements of each client segment, especially the demand ...
本調査レポートでは、国内ストレージサービス市場を「コンサルティング」「導入／構築サービス」「管理／運用サービス」の3つのカテゴリーで構成されるプロフェッショナルサービスと、製品の維持メンテナンスを行う「保守サービス」に分類し、2018年の売上実績と市場動向に基づいて、2019年～2023年の市場予測を行っている。
「IoT（Internet of Things）の普及、AIの利用、リモートワークなどの影響で、ITインフラの構造は複雑化し、同時にデータ流通やAPI（Application ...
This IDC Technology Segment study presents the top 100 IT services providers in Turkey. It includes their market shares, as based on their 2018 results. The top 10 providers are examined in detail, with their market sizes and share data ...
This IDC study is a translation of the Japanese document (IDC #JPJ44583219) and analyzes vendors' shares in the robotic process automation (RPA) software market in 2018. The RPA software ...
This IDC study presents the 2018 market size and vendor shares for the IT security market in Hungary, as well as the key trends in this market.
"Increasing awareness of security issues is resulting in increasing adoption rates of advanced ...
This IDC Market Forecast provides an update on the emerging landscape for 5G service launches across the Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) (APEJ) region, including projections for 5G in South Korea, Australia, China, India, and the full gamut ...
本报告论述了中国教育行业发展的动态和主要的趋势，包括教育的基本统计信息、教育改革的方向、教育信息化的相关政策和财政投入等，报告预测了教育IT市场2019–2023年的市场规模，预测数据中包括主要的各类IT产品类别，阐述了教育IT增长的驱动力和主要驱动因素，可以供IT厂商、教育软件厂商和服务商在制定业务发展战略时参考。
“中国教育行业IT市场呈现出稳步发展的态势，政府优先保障对教育的财政投入和教育信息化促进政策是教育信息化发展的关键动力，而解决教育资源不平衡、建立教学与基础科学研究、激励创新、产学研结合等则是教育IT未来发展的关键动力。教育IT不仅表现在基础IT架构和系统持续的完善、集成和升级，而且表现在新兴信息化技术在教育领域的广泛探索和应用。IDC预计，中国教育IT市场将保持长期的稳步增长，这一市场的2018–2023年的复合增长率将达到7.9%；其中教育软件市场的2018–2023年的复合增长率将达到24.9%，各类基础架构软件、应用系统开发和部署软件、应用软件都将保持高速发展。”—IDC中国行业研究与咨询服务部高级研究经理肖宏亮表示。
...This IDC study is a translation of the Japanese document (IDC #JPJ45371019) and extracts the ICT market from the Japan workstyle transformation market, and examines and analyzes the ...
This IDC study presents the U.S. hosting infrastructure services market forecast for 2019–2023.
"The HIS segment will continue to grow steadily over the forecast time frame," according to Courtney Munroe, GVP, Worldwide Telecommunications ...
This IDC study investigates the enterprise legal management software market. It discusses overall market dynamics, analyzes the competitive landscape, and provides a quantitative assessment of the biggest vendors in the market.
"Many ...
This IDC study provides a detailed description of IDC's Worldwide Semiannual Digital Transformation Spending Guide methodology and taxonomy. It should be used as a companion piece for IDC's Worldwide Semiannual Digital Transformation Spending ...
This report provides an analysis of the 2018 vendor share and vendor trends in the whole of the Japan network equipment market by product segment that includes Ethernet switches, routers, WLAN, and by user segment namely, enterprise and ...
This IDC study provides a forecast for the worldwide edge computing and storage infrastructure market for the 2019–2023 period.
"Edge computing has evolved significantly from the days of isolated IT at ROBO locations," said Kuba Stolarski, ...
This IDC study describes the most prominent use cases that are being digitally transformed in the precision agriculture space. IDC has created a use case taxonomy for digital transformation for multiple industry segments. The taxonomy follows ...
This IDC study presents a five-year forecast for the APEJ manufacturing IT applications industry as of September 2019. It reviews and analyzes market context, including both drivers and inhibitors of IT application growth. It also highlights ...
This IDC study discusses our forecast for the worldwide smartwatch market for 2019–2023.
"The appeal of smartwatches will reach a broader audience in the years to come and resulting from that is a steady increase in shipments each ...
This IDC study discusses the worldwide workspace management software forecast for 2019–2023.
"Since the dawn of client computing, each application has created its own 'workspace,' with humans creating the connection between them. In ...
This IDC study details the solid growth seen in the Czech security solutions market in 2018, which was driven by the continued expansion of security services — particularly managed security services and cloud security solutions. The study ...
本报告分析了中国生命科学发展的基本概况，阐述了生命科学行业发展与其采用信息化技术的应用场景，分析了2018–2023年生命科学IT支出预测，供生命科学应用软件厂商和相关服务厂商以及IT基础设施厂商、新兴信息化技术厂商参考，也可供生命科学企业在制定发展策略时参考。
“最近一些年中，新兴信息化技术极大地促进了生命科学的研究和开发，生物医学大数据正在建立起来，云计算为生命科学发展提供了计算力支持和管理超大规模数据的能力，人工智能技术则加速了生命科学研究方法改进，生物医药对于特定疾病的针对性治疗功能将越来越强大，转化医学在临床中的比例将越来越高，生命科学研究与开发也促使药品的生产制造与流通模式发生改进，这些都将加速生命科学IT支出规模的扩大。预计未来几年中，生命科学研究与开发的应用软件将会加速发展，大数据、云计算、人工智能等新兴技术将会被加速采用。”——IDC中国行业研究与咨询服务部高级研究经理肖宏亮表示。
...This IDC Market Forecast study provides an examination of the Russian hyperconverged systems market from 2018 to 2023. It includes a summary of the general market dynamics, together with an overview of the vendor landscape.
"With growing ...
This IDC study reviews the top IT service providers in Canada. Market share is derived from information collected from IT and business services providers as well as additional IDC primary research and information presented in the public ...
This IDC study presents the five-year forecast for smartwatches shipments in the United States.
"Smartwatches will continue to gain traction in the United States," says Ramon T. Llamas, research director for IDC's Wearables program. ...
This IDC study presents the IT services industry in Austria in 2018 and forecasts expenditure on IT services through 2023. The study contains market size and distribution by foundation market and vertical market. The study also presents ...
This IDC study represents the first IDC channel forecast for the public SaaS and PaaS markets.
"The SaaS and PaaS markets and the partner ecosystem's role in expanding its reach and value is very strong and growing stronger. This can ...
This IDC Technology Segment study divides Poland's IT security market into three submarkets: appliances, software, and services. It presents forecasts for each segment for 2019–2023, based on 2018 vendor revenues. It includes profiles of ...
This IDC study presents IDC's digital transformation (DX) use case taxonomy for human resource management. It includes descriptions of the strategic priority, programs, and use cases for this horizontal function.
"To address increasing ...
This IDC study discusses the key strategic priority, programs, and use cases that executives leading engineering and R&D teams across industries as diverse as automotive, consumer goods, chemical, high tech, life sciences, and retail ...
This IDC study forecasts the CPaaS segment will grow from $3.3 billion in 2018 to $17.2 billion in 2023.
The CPaaS segment is entering a new stage of explosive growth led by industry leaders Twilio and Vonage (formerly Nexmo). "CPaaS ...
This IDC Market Forecast discusses the enterprise mobility management software market in Western Europe.
"Growth in the enterprise mobility management market in Europe will be increasingly driven by vendors' ability to support enterprises' ...
"This IDC Special Study quantifies the changing employment landscape and provides technology employment forecast by role and industry sector. The lack of available IT skills will result in over $390 billion in lost revenue annually in the ...
This IDC study outlines IDC Canada's forecast for the Canadian information, communications, and technology (ICT) market for the 2019–2023 forecast period. It updates our previous forecast published in Canadian ICT Forecast, 2018–2022 ...
This IDC study examines the active consumer install base for connected mobility and connected home devices in Canada for 2019–2023 and addresses the current state of this market in Canada.
"As the Canadian consumer continues to be ...