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.
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This IDC Web Conference presents a discussion by the members of IDC's Global Print analyst team on key predictions emerging from the COVID-19 pandemic that will reshape the trajectory of this industry. Past perceptions of enterprise printing ...
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This IDC Web Conference presents a discussion by IDC's Worldwide Education team on the key predictions that will impact CIOs and IT professionals in the worldwide education industry over the next one to five years. Senior IT leaders and ...
This IDC Web Conference presents a discussion by IDC's Kevin Prouty and Jon Lang on the convergence and digital integration of information technology (IT) with operational technology (OT) and the impact this will have on an organization's ...
This Web Conference presents a discussion by IDC's Group Vice President, Worldwide Research, Rick Villars, on the key developments that will shape the technology industry over the next one to five years and impact the ability of every enterprise ...
This IDC Web Conference presents the findings of IDC Financial Insights' FinTech Rankings and winners.
There has been some debate as to whether or not banks are technology companies or can FinTechs become a bank? Across all financial ...
This IDC Web Conference highlights the most important consumer trends for the third quarter and how consumer sentiment and behavior have progressed with the continued evolution of the COVID-19 pandemic. Topics to be discussed include:
- How ...
This IDC Web Conference provides insights and recommendations for energy companies that are working toward the Critical Infrastructure Protocol (CIP) compliance in the present and in the future. The Critical Infrastructure Protocol in its ...
This IDC Web Conference examines the relationship between sustainability/environmental, social, and governance (ESG), the employee experience, and diversity and inclusion (D&I). The COVID-19 pandemic and social unrest have been further ...
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This IDC Web Conference discusses the latest global IT spending data and industry outlook, 3Q20.
COVID-19 continues to impact IT budget trends as some countries move from crisis response to the beginning of a gradual recovery phase, ...
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The COVID-19 outbreak continues to impact the Middle East economy, including its ICT sector. While the ripples are clearly felt across verticals, the public sector is under the spotlight due to the multiple roles the sector must play in ...
本Web Conference Proceeding: Tech SupplierはIDC Japan ITサービス リサーチディレクターである松本 聡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。
新型コロナウイルス感染症（COVID-19）の影響は、クラウドの導入を加速するとIDCはみている。短期的には「コストの変動費化、削減」や「事業継続性」に焦点が合わせられ、ユーザー企業の「DX」に関する優先順位の低下が懸念される。しかし、既存ビジネスの維持／効率化からDXへと発展するクラウドジャーニーの波は早く訪れる。ユーザー企業のクラウドジャーニーを支援することが、ベンダーの成長戦略に欠かせない。本講演では、国内クラウド市場動向を考察する。
...本Web Conference Proceeding: Tech SupplierはIDC Japan PC, 携帯端末＆クライアントソリューション グループマネージャーである市川 和子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。
新型コロナウイルス感染症（COVID-19）の影響によって、国内のオフィスワーカーの働き方や労働に対する意識の潮目が変わる時を迎えている。政府からは在宅勤務を奨励するメッセージが頻繁に発信され、企業は初めて在宅勤務を導入する、もしくは在宅勤務の対象者や実施頻度を拡大するなどの対応に追われている。時間の経過と共に、企業組織もしくは従業員やIT部門が直面する課題も見えてきた。本講演では、今まさに成長期にある在宅勤務制度がITベンダーにもたらすビジネス機会について考察する。
...本Web Conference Proceeding: Tech SupplierはIDC Japan ITスペンディング グループマネージャーである村西 明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。
IDCでは、国内の産業分野を21に分類し、かつ企業規模を小規模から大企業までを5つに分類し、それぞれについて現在のITの支出状況と今後の支出動向の調査を行っている。本セッションでは、新型コロナウイルス感染症（COVID-19）が及ぼす各産業のIT投資への影響について、現在から中長期的なインパクトについて議論する。また、IDCのワールドワイドで現在検討している、DXがもたらす「Future ...
本Web Conference Proceeding: Tech SupplierはIDC Japan ITサービス リサーチマネージャーである伊藤 未明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。
メガクラウド事業者向けのハイパースケールデータセンター建設ラッシュが続いているが、過熱気味とも思われる投資拡大はいつまで続くのであろうか。その一方で、エンタープライズ系の業務システム運用に必要となる、非クラウド型データセンターの需要は今後どうなるのであろうか。本講演では「Cloud ...
本Web Conference Proceeding: Tech SupplierはIDC Japan ITサービス グループマネージャーである植村 卓弥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。
国内サービス市場では、顧客企業の業務領域に踏み込み、より広範囲に渡る変革を支援するサービスが拡大している。ビジネスコンサルティングとITサービスの融合、顧客企業との共創や長期的関係性の構築、複数のステークホルダーへの価値提供、インダストリークラウドの勃興といったサービス市場を取り巻くトレンドの中で、顧客や産業の変革を推進するためにあるべきサービスの姿とは、どのようなものなのか。本講演では、顧客の「Future ...
本Web Conference Proceeding: Tech SupplierはIDC Japanのグループディレクターである眞鍋 敬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。
顧客エクスペリエンス（CX：Customer Experience）の向上は、グローバル市場でCxOの最大のアジェンダの一つになりつつあり、企業は従業員生産性／顧客エンゲージメントの向上による競争力強化、経営の改善を、ITを活用して実現していく方法を模索している。本セッションでは、ユーザー企業が実際に活用するAI（Artificial ...
This IDC Web Conference shows how cloud is enabling European enterprises to move from crisis to recovery faster and more efficiently.
It puts cloud spending expectations of European organizations into a macroeconomic context. It talks ...
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This IDC Web Conference provides an overview of IDC's latest forecasts for IT spending from the Worldwide Black Book, along with the latest findings from the COVID-19 Tech Index. In the presentation, Stephen Minton of IDC's Customer Insights ...