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 Presentation offers a first calendar quarter 2019 overview of the enterprise storage system market and related trends.
This IDC Market Presentation provides an executive summary of the worldwide findings from IDC's 2019 Industry CloudPath Survey.
Industry CloudPath provides deep insight into how each industry is moving to the cloud, ...
This IDC Market Presentation highlights the latest IDC Quarterly Wearable Device Tracker results for the Western Europe wearables market. In this tracker, IDC follows more than 80 wearables makers in 16 countries, providing detailed shipment ...
Algorithmic IT operations or artificial intelligence for IT operations (AIOps) refer to the application of artificial intelligence, machine learning, and big data and analytics to address the challenges of modern infrastructure management ...
This IDC Market Analysis Perspective presentation discusses IDC's insights, data, and forecasts on the technologies, industry dynamics, and trends influencing the Canadian Internet of Things ecosystem.
"While the IoT market is steadily ...
The presentation analyzes data from IDC’s 2018 Information Technology (IT) and Operational Technology (OT) Convergence Survey. It focuses on IT/OT convergence trends among organizations in Europe, taking a detailed look at the role ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight discusses a new way to classify partners by where they are investing resources to differentiate and grow their businesses. This change from classifying partners based on their primary activity such as resale, consulting, ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight examines the sentiments of U.S. consumers toward their new notebook purchases. With stable macros and more technically informed PC buyers of today, the notebook model mix is starting to evolve with an increased ...
This IDC Market Analysis Perspective provides an overview of the state of support services market services in Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) (APEJ) for the year 2018, consisting of both hardware and software support services. This presentation ...
This IDC Survey reviews the financial services sector findings from IDC's primary research on the adoption of analytics in Canada. In October 2018 and April 2019, IDC surveyed 310 and 301 respondents, respectively, including respondents ...
This IDC Market Presentation provides an executive summary of PaaSView and the developer 2019. The executive summary synthesizes key findings about the state of contemporary development today. Topics covered in the executive summary include ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight highlights key issues of adopting the consumption pricing model and offers insights and guidance to improve. This IDC Survey Spotlight leverages results from IDC's 2019 SaaSPath Survey. SaaSPath is ...
2018년 3분기 국내 PC 출하량은 90만대로 전년 대비 10.7% 감소하였으며, 매출도 10.0% 하락하였다. 데스크톱, 노트북 모두 전년 대비 각각 13.1%, 8.1% 감소하였으며, 교육 및 대기업을 제외하면 모든 세그먼트에서 물량이 줄어들었다. 그럼에도 불구하고, 메인스트림 및 프리미엄 제품군인 컨버터블 노트북과 18mm 미만 울트라슬림 노트북의 성장으로 수익성 측면에서의 감소는 상대적으로 크지 않을 것으로 분석된다.
오프라인 ...
This IDC Survey presents key findings from IDC's 2019 Business Consulting Client Value Survey.
The goal of the survey was to identify business priorities, industry and regional trends, and consulting characteristics best associated ...
This IDC Presentation presents successful examples of Netherlands- and Nordics-based retailer organizations investing in innovation and digital transformation. The analysis is based on IDC's primary research (IDC's European Vertical Market ...
本調査レポートは、IDCが2019年4月に実施した「2019年 国内CIO調査」の結果を分析し、まとめたものである。IDCでは、国内企業におけるIT部門の投資動向、IT部門の課題と取り組み、開発の内製化動向、業務部門のIT投資動向などについて把握するため、毎年、国内企業のCIOやIT部門長、またはそれに準じる立場の管理者を対象としたアンケート調査を行っている。主な調査項目は以下の通りである。
- IT部門の投資動向
- IT部門の課題と取り組み
- 開発の内製化動向
- 海外におけるIT投資動向
- 業務部門のIT投資動向
国内企業のIT部門の投資は全体的に増加傾向にあり、海外におけるIT支出も大企業を中心に拡大している。大企業ではデジタルトランスフォーメーション（DX）への取り組みも具体的な実験／実行段階に入っているところが多く、また、業務部門独自のIT予算も珍しくなくなっている。IT部門の最大の課題はセキュリティ／リスク管理で、サイバーセキュリティ分野への投資も活発に行われている。その一方、内製化への取り組みとも相まって、IT要員の不足が課題となっている企業も多い。「国内サービスベンダーには、ユーザー企業のIT部門と業務部門の双方をテクノロジーによってサポートし、その負担を軽減させつつ企業のDXジャーニーを包括的に支援する役割が求められるであろう」と、IDC ...
This IDC Market Presentation highlights the main trends and competition landscape for the Western European purpose-built backup appliance (PBBA) market in 1Q19.
In 2H18, optimism in new government projects and sustained private spending continued to drive growth in the IT services market. The recent successful appointment of the third telco player also came in time for the stricter mandated push ...
This IDC Market Presentation provides the CY 1Q19 memory (DRAM and NAND) vendor share results and forecasts for both the short-term (1Q19–4Q20) and the long-term (2019–2023) worldwide memory market. The Presentation file includes:
- Memory ...
The IDC Service Provider Pulse delivers quarterly insights into the requirements of cloud service providers — focusing on evolving business models, emerging product and service offerings, and providers' own investments in technology. The ...
This IDC Survey examines two questions in a recent global survey of more than 1200 IT managers and IT professionals: What is your role in selecting or purchasing training/professional development for yourself? And, What is your role in selecting ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight focuses on the main differences between the wider trends in Europe and specific trends observable in the U.K. As such, this document provides deeper, country-level insights, which build on information already provided ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight looks at how users extend the scope of MPS contracts. Users want to realize cost savings and improve efficiencies. To do this, they work with suppliers that can provide strategic insights and offer holistic services ...
This IDC Market Presentation focuses on the rise of software development as a valued activity among the partner ecosystem and what this means to vendor strategy and programs. It provides a perspective on how vendors should be thinking about ...
This IDC Energy Insight Presentation analyzes a portion of the 2018 IDC Energy Insights Annual Survey for the European utilities sector. It focuses exclusively on the water segment.
The survey was carried out between July and ...