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 Note provides an overview of the recent pricing trends in the wireline telecommunications sector and the efforts of service providers to pivot away from competing solely on price to emphasis the transformative capabilities ...
This IDC Perspective addresses the key tactical challenge of developing an agile sourcing strategy. Spend for new and emerging technologies is quickly outpacing the spend for legacy technologies. In fact, the spend for legacy technologies ...
This IDC Perspective provides an analysis of the cloud marketplace as a digital procurement enablement platform and explores the AWS Marketplace, one of the most feature-rich and progressive cloud marketplaces in the industry.
"A confluence ...
This IDC Market Note collates inputs from IDC analysts providing opinions on Google's announcements at the recently held Google Next event at the Google Cloud Academy in London on October 14, 2019. At the event, Google demonstrated its cloud ...
This IDC Market Note analyzes the initiative launched by the German Ministry for Education and Research — together with the Ministry of Economics — to set up GAIA-X, a connected cloud-based data infrastructure for Europe to win back sovereignty ...
This IDC Market Perspective summarizes IDC's key observations from the Microsoft Ignite event held the week of November 4, 2019, in Orlando.
"Microsoft is clearly picking up speed in converting its technology investments into consumable ...
5G will require advanced coherent optical technologies, software defined networking control, service orchestration, and automation of the optical network, including XHaul, midhaul, and backhaul. Starting from day one, the fronthaul will ...
This IDC Market Note provides highlights from the NetApp Racebred Data Days 2019 event that took place on October 29 and 30, 2019, in Bologna, Italy. It provides IDC's views on the event, focusing on key announcements made by CEO George ...
本調査レポートでは、クライアント仮想化の使い方が拡張されている点に着目し、40のユースケースと22の事例分析に基づいて、クライアント仮想化技術の新たな市場機会を探る。
IDC Japan PC、携帯端末＆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渋谷 寛は、「ユースケースおよび事例は年々増加する傾向にある。事業者とユーザー企業の共創によって、新たなユースケースが生み出されている。クライアント仮想化はすでにメインストリームのインフラとして、不可欠な立ち位置にあることを認識すべきである」と述べている。
...本調査レポートは、国内企業や官公庁の企業変革を目的としたIT活用動向に関して調査、分析したものである。また、それらを解決するために新しいテクノロジーを導入する際の課題や障壁についても調査、分析を行った。国内企業に対して、2019年9月に実施したユーザー調査の結果から経営課題と課題解決のためにIT活用による期待、ITによる企業変革、つまりデジタルトランスフォーメーション（DX）の取り組み状況、およびDX推進を目的とした主要ソリューション利用動向の調査結果から、国内企業におけるDXを含めたITを活用した企業変革の取り組みの方向性を考察している。
国内IT市場はプラス成長で維持すると予測しているが、2020年以降、既存システム刷新案件のIT支出の伸びは、ハードウェアの低価格化、クラウドへのシフトなどによって低調となる一方で、大企業を中心にDXの取り組みが特に拡大するとみている。さらに今回の調査結果においてIoT、AIなどの新しいソリューションの利用動向においても、DXの取り組みが推進する企業で導入が進んでいる。つまりITサプライヤーにおいてDXを積極的に推進する企業と取引することが重要であるが、それだけではなく、既存の顧客企業に対してもDX推進を支援することが求められる。ただし、従業員規模、産業分野などによってユーザー企業のDXの動向は大きく異なるとみている。したがって、IDC ...
This IDC Perspective provides our review and analysis of Inforum 2019, held in New Orleans, based on executive and customer presentations as well as discussions. A team of IDC analysts recently attended the event, which is Infor's annual ...
This IDC Perspective discusses the Google Cloud management and governance portfolio with the goal of providing enterprise IT buyers with a strategic framework for assessing how to best incorporate Google Cloud's management and governance ...
This IDC Market Note presents the details of Trustwave's partnership with Microsoft Azure. On November 4, 2019, Trustwave released the advanced Threat Detection and Response services for Microsoft Azure to better assist organizations with ...
This IDC Market Note describes the key takeaways from the annual OVHcloud Summit held last October 9–10, 2019 in Paris, France. The summit witnessed the attendance from customers, partners, and analysts. The first day was hosted specifically ...
This IDC Vendor Profile analyzes the success of Computacenter, a U.K.-headquartered IT infrastructure services provider that combines technology sourcing and services. Having established its European core business, first as a reseller and ...
This IDC Perspective provides an overview of the discussion IDC recently had with Ducati's CTO Konstantin Kostenarov regarding the company's purchase and deployment of NetApp HCI in support of the company's race day operations.
"Hyperconverged ...
This IDC Market Note describes the key takeaways of IDC analysts, regarding Hitachi Vantara and its services business, who participated in Hitachi's NEXT 2019 conference, October 8–10, in Las Vegas.
Enterprise business requirements are getting increasingly complex in today’s digital era. Customers, both internal and external, expect their requirements to be addressed quickly while maintaining a high level of user experience. This adoption ...
This IDC Market Perspective outlines the new agenda for the CEO running the digital enterprise. As the digital economy emerges on the horizon, a new agenda develops for the CEO who is effectively now running a digital enterprise. This agenda ...
This IDC Perspective describes common concerns CIOs express as they contemplate making the move from traditional on-prem IT architectures to cloud computing models. The document shows that these concerns are generally offset by the benefits ...
This IDC Market Perspective discusses the Ethernet access devices (EADs) market — a market poised for revival. As carriers consider Ethernet-based fronthaul options (eCPRI and RoE) across a progressively denser cell site footprint and as ...
Communication service providers (comm. SPs) across Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) (APEJ) are positioning themselves to provide not just network connectivity but to become the ICT providers for their enterprise customers. Over the last three ...
本調査レポートでは、国内ユーザー企業がデータサービスソリューションに対して、どのようなニーズや課題意識を持っているのか、インタビュー取材とWebアンケート調査を基に分析している。データ分析の技術が進化したことと、クラウド、IoT、データ流通など利用可能なデータソースが増えたことで、データ活用が企業の競争力に大きな影響を持つようになる中、データサービスソリューションのベンダーがビジネス戦略を立案する際に考慮すべき点を提言している。
IDC Japan エンタープライズインフラストラクチャのリサーチマネージャーである鈴木 ...
本調査レポートは、国内データセンターサービス市場のプレイヤー主要19社のビジネス動向（2019年9月時点）を分析したものである。
「クラウドサービスの急成長と同時に、非クラウド型アウトソーシングは低成長時代に突入している。DC事業者によっては戦略の見直しが必要となる」と、IDC Japan ITサービスのリサーチマネージャーである伊藤 未明は分析している。
This IDC Market Note provides a snapshot of key announcements made by vendors at the OCP Summit 2019 Amsterdam. IDC intends to keep a close watch on the Open Compute Project to keep pace with the latest technology innovations and designs ...