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 study outlines 10 of the most urgent issues CMOs must master to drive their brands, organizations, and careers to the top of the next set of disruptions coming to marketing.
"Marketing is transitioning from a decade of investment ...
This IDC study contains IDC analysts' future of work worldwide outlook for 2020.
"Technology, worker expectations, and the need for a new type of organizational agility are changing work as we know it," said Roberta Bigliani, vice ...
This IDC study discusses the top 10 predictions for worldwide national governments in 2020.
"Government agencies have a new set of IT skills to learn," said Shawn P. McCarthy, research director, IDC Government Insights. "These range ...
This IDC study presents the worldwide education 2020 top 10 predictions.
"Education institutions today are constantly being confronted to rethink their future digital transformation strategies. online education competition, high-profile ...
This IDC study provides IDC's top 10 predictions for worldwide services for 2020 and beyond.
"As organizations increasingly partner with service firms to reach their technical and strategic goals, they must assess them based on the ...
This IDC study provides manufacturers with the top 10 predictions and underlying drivers that we expect to impact manufacturers' IT investments in 2020 and beyond.
"Manufacturing companies are transforming from efficiency-oriented ...
This IDC study provides IDC's top 10 predictions for manufacturing product and service innovation for 2020 and beyond.
"In the 2020 IDC FutureScape for product and service innovation, innovation augmentation is a major theme throughout. ...
This IDC study explores how different drivers are collectively impacting technology in the retail industry and offers guidance on actions to consider. Retail organizations are hard pressed in the new digital era to respond to a wide range ...
This IDC study provides IDC's top 10 Smart City and Communities predictions for 2020.
"Regional and municipal governments are working hard to keep pace with technology advances and take advantage of new opportunities in the context ...
智慧园区市场是智慧城市市场的下沉市场之一，也是近三年IDC中国智慧城市和数字政府的研究重点方向之一，IDC认为中国智慧园区市场发展的主要方向如下：
从宏观上看，中国智慧园区建设正在进入快速发展期，2019年数字化投资超过1,600亿元，预计未来三年将增长近20%。一是由于智慧家居和智慧城市的快速发展，智慧园区作为空间视角下的“中段”（几百平方米到几十平方公里），是智慧家居的升级版以及智慧城市的缩小版。二是由于宏观经济变化，产业发展被摆到更重要的位置，而产业的核心是企业，园区是线下企业服务的入口。
从园区业态视角看，IDC研究主要包括8种业态，其中住宅地产园区、商业地产园区、产业地产产业园区、政府主导产业园区四种业态是投资和建设重点方向。IDC预测到2020年，政府产业园智慧园区投资754.3亿元，住宅地产智慧园区建设投资279.6亿元，商业地产智慧园区投资327.6亿元，产业地产智慧园区投资222.6亿元。
从驱动力上来看，不同业态园区建设的驱动力各不相同，但与其他行业数字化转型类似，智慧园区项目更多是“一把手”工程，尤其在地产行业，创始人普遍对数字技术缺少认知、对数字技术如何与运营业务结合存在怀疑，因而“一把手”的思维转型是关键驱动。当然，我们也看到很多地产公司已经走在前列，龙湖成立千丁、万科成立万翼和万睿、越秀与阿里合作、中海与华为的合作等。
从技术应用视角看，智慧园区建设一个方面是“补短板”，园区市场与其他行业的数字化转型相比成熟度较低，如何应用已经成熟的技术，比如云计算、大数据、移动应用等来完善园区的运营是其中一个重要方向，成熟型的园区将出现大量的平台类建设标的。另一个方面是“找创新”，如何通过更创新性的技术，比如无人驾驶、机器人、人工智能（AI）、区块链、物联网、5G、边缘计算等，找到其与园区业务的结合点，实现创新。
在竞争格局上，与传统智慧园区建设不同，此轮智慧园区建设的参与方不仅仅以集成商为主，平台服务商、新技术服务商、运营服务商都在不断切入。尤其是以华为、阿里、腾讯为代表的平台服务商对智慧园区市场关注度提升，将加速此市场发展。另一个值得关注的群体是运营服务商，从资产增值的视角帮助园区拥有方进行技术化手段运营。
本文明晰了智慧园区的研究定义和边界，面向政府产业园区、产业地产园区、商业园区、住宅园区等领域进行了市场投资分析，同时对中国智慧园区未来发展趋势进行了分析。此外，本文还对产业链和最佳实践进行了探究。
IDC中国数字政府助理研究总监闫海伦表示“智慧城市下沉市场一共有三个方向，一是面向智慧交通、平安城市的解决方案下沉；二是面向智慧园区、智慧社区的城市智慧化空间区隔；三是面向中小型城市的整体解决方案下沉。IDC对三个市场都进行了相应的研究，而智慧园区研究是核心关注点。随着线上流量“枯竭”，新的流量在哪里产生？IDC认为，随着5G、物联网（IoT）等技术的落地成熟，个人和企业的需求及行为将可以在园区空间内被充分感知，智慧园区成为线下服务的新流量入口。”
...本Conference: Tech SupplierはIDC Japanアナリストの講演の内容を音声ファイルによって提供するものである。
昨年9月に経済産業省が発表したDXレポートにおいて、多くの企業において現状のITシステムではDXを実現することが難しく国内の大きな経済損失につながるという「2025年の崖」問題が指摘され、業界関係者の関心が高まっている。この問題に対するユーザー企業の悩みや本音に対し、IDCのアナリストが議論を交わし、解決策を探る。
This IDC Market Perspective provides an overview of the EMEA oil and gas industry in 3Q19, covering M&As, agreements, reorganizations, and major business developments; upstream, midstream, and downstream deals; global LNG contracts; ...
This IDC study provides IDC's top 10 predictions for digital transformation for 2020.
"Direct digital transformation (DX) investment is growing at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 17.5% from 2020 to 2023 and is expected to approach ...
本調査レポートは、IDCが2019年8月に実施した「2019年 企業ネットワーク機器利用動向調査」を基に、ネットワーク仮想化技術の利用動向について分析したものである。本調査レポートで分析した項目は、以下の通りである。
- データセンターネットワーク仮想化／自動化技術の活用と課題
- 企業ネットワーク仮想化／自動化技術の活用と課題
- 仮想化／クラウド環境におけるネットワークの課題
- Network Disaggregationの可能性
- DX（デジタルトランスフォーメーション）の取り組みとネットワーク仮想化／自動化
This IDC Market Note describes the key takeaways of five IDC analysts who participated in Infosys Americas Confluence, held on September 11–13, 2019, in Scottsdale, Arizona.
This IDC study explores how a more modern healthcare IT infrastructure will accelerate digital transformation and deliver value to HCOs. It also provides a road map for HCOs to follow on their respective journeys to migrate legacy applications ...
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 Survey analyzes the results of IDC's 2019 Global IoT Decision-Maker Survey on European healthcare organizations through the lens of the Digital Determination blueprint. The European healthcare providers sample ...
本調査レポートは、情報サービス業を除く国内企業で働く課長レベル以上で、デジタルトランスフォーメーション（DX）の意思決定に関わる人を対象として、IDCが2019年6月に実施した「国内Future Enterpriseの成熟度ステージ調査」の結果を、定量的に評価してステージ分類を行い、分析を加えたものである。Future Enterpriseおよびその特性別のステージ分類の結果は、国内企業が自社のDXの取り組みのベンチマークを実施する際にリファレンスとして活用されることを想定している。また、国内企業がDXを実現しFuture ...