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 Web Conference presents a discussion by IDC's Alan Webber on the impact that new technologies, like artificial intelligence and analytics, and growing volumes of customer data will have on the customer experience, and ultimately ...
This IDC Presentation provides an overview of the tectonic shifts changing the landscape of enterprise infrastructure buying behavior. It provides context on current and future market trends in the European marketplace by defining and explaining ...
This IDC Web Conference discusses how digital transformation is having a significant and lasting impact on the global economy. As investment strategies shift from defensive approaches to counteract disruptors to offensive ones to ensure ...
This IDC Web Conference presents the main points of IDC's live webinar entitled "IDC's 2019 Retail Innovation Survey Highlights: The Path Toward Commerce Everywhere Business Models," held on July 9, 2019. Data in this webinar was based on ...
In this IDC Web Conference, Gabriele Roberti and Andrea Siviero from the IDC European Customer Insights & Analysis team discuss the combination of Innovation Accelerators (as artificial intelligence, Internet of Things, augmented and ...
This IDC Web Conference shares results from its latest U.S. Consumer Connected and Automated Vehicle Survey exploring how vehicle owners use and plan to use these technologies. IDC's research has shown that vehicle owners are increasingly ...
This IDC Web Conference highlights the spending trends and opportunities in the Smart Cities market. The Smart Cities market is growing, and your organization can capitalize on it with the right data. Attendees of this web conference will ...
本Conference: Tech SupplierはIDC Japan コミュニケーションズのグループマネージャーである草野 賢一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。
早くもプレサービスが始まろうとしている5Gが、モバイル通信の枠を超えて、DXの牽引役になり企業にイノベーションをもたらすかは、企業間の共創を通じた5Gユースケースの発見と実践にかかっている。本講演では、国内における5G市場の展望とユースケースの可能性を議論し、ITサプライヤーや通信事業者が果たすべき役割を考察する。また、5Gを実現するネットワークインフラストラクチャについても市場予測と共にITサプライヤーの市場機会について論じる。さらに、DXの基盤になる企業やデータセンターの次世代ネットワークのあり方について考察する。
...本Conference: Tech SupplierはIDC JapanのITスペンディング リサーチ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。本年に控える消費税増税および、翌年の東京オリンピックパラリンピック開催、昨今の働き方改革や米中貿易摩擦など、ユーザー企業や官公庁におけるITの支出に与える影響を産業分野別および企業規模別に分類し、ユーザー調査結果を踏まえた分析を行う。また、第3のプラットフォームや5Gに代表される新たな技術変革が牽引する、産業構造の変革に関する将来像を海外の事例も交えて考察し、ITサプライヤーが今後とるべき戦略について考察する。
...This IDC Web Conference highlights Internet of Things (IoT) spending trends and outlook. IoT adopters have proven to need a diversity of technologies that will advance their strategic investment objectives. With experience and increasing ...
This IDC Web Conference discusses how the manufacturing industry is undergoing a transformation to stay fit for purpose. IDC Manufacturing Insights analysts Maggie Slowik and Lorenzo Veronesi discuss how it is inevitable for the industry ...
These event proceedings were presented at the IDC Directions conferences in Santa Clara and Boston in March 2019.
Recently conducted IDC Business Value research has shown how organizations deploying new technology initiatives — such ...
These event proceedings were presented at the IDC Directions conferences in Santa Clara and Boston in March 2019.
As AI workload demands and applications are better understood, companies will look to extend AI to non-IT industry segments ...
These event proceedings were presented at the IDC Directions conferences in Santa Clara and Boston in March 2019.
Success in digital transformation requires new thinking about the consumption of IT resources in increasingly "smart" ...
These event proceedings were presented at the IDC Directions conferences in Santa Clara and Boston in March 2019.
By 2022, IDC estimates that over 50% of software revenue will come from the subscription/consumption business model, ...
These event proceedings were presented at the IDC Directions conferences in Santa Clara and Boston in March 2019.
These event proceedings were presented at the IDC Directions conferences in Santa Clara and Boston in March 2019.
Digitally transforming and innovating for the consumer are table stakes in retail. IDC's research confirms that most ...
These event proceedings were presented at the IDC Directions conferences in Santa Clara and Boston in March 2019.
We are living in the new age of the technology-driven experience economy, where what differentiates one company from ...
本Conference: Tech Supplierは、IDC Japan コミュニケーションズのシニアマーケットアナリストである鳥巣 悠太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。
国内のIoT（Internet of Things）利用企業の割合は4年連続で増加しており、それに伴ってIoT技術を活用した既存ビジネスの革新を試みる企業も増加している。その一方、過去1年間の国内企業のデジタルトランスフォーメーション（DX）に取り組みにおける成熟度はあまり変化していないという調査結果も見られることから、IoTの取り組みを始めてみたものの、何らかの要因によってプロジェクトが頓挫している企業は少なくないとIDCではみている。本プレゼンテーションでは、企業がIoTを通じた継続的なビジネス変革を成し遂げる上でベンダーが人材強化や組織間連携の観点から、どのように企業をサポートすべきかを明らかにする。その上で、ベンダーと企業がIoTシステムや業務システムのデータを組み合わせてマネタイゼーションを進めるための取り組みについて提言を行う。
...本Conference: Tech Supplierは、IDC Japan PC、携帯端末＆クライアントソリューションの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。
IDCは2018年に、「働き方の未来（Future of Work）」というコンセプトを発表した。働き方の未来の最終的な目的は競争優位性を獲得することにある。そのために、ワークカルチャー、ワークスペース、ワークフォースにおいて最新テクノロジーを活用して、顧客、パートナー、従業員のエクスペリエンスに変革を起こすことが、将来の競争優位性の確立につながるとIDCでは考えている。一方で、国内では働き方改革の施策としてテレワークやRPA（Robotic ...
本Conference: Tech SupplierはIDC Japanのグループディレクターである森山 正秋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。
デジタルトランスフォーメーション（DX）に取り組む企業の増加に伴い、エンタープライズインフラに求められる条件が大きく変化している。本プレゼンテーションでは、DX時代のエンタープライズインフラの条件を、支出モデルの多様化、新テクノロジー（NVMe、アクセラレーテッドコンピューティング）の台頭、Software-Defined化とコンバージェンスの進展、インテリジェントエッジ市場の拡大、AI（Artificial ...
本Conference: Tech SupplierはIDC Japanのリサーチバイスプレジデントである寄藤 幸治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。
デジタルトランスフォーメーション（DX）の事例が国内企業においても出始めている一方、検討段階や実証実験から先に進まない企業も少なくない。しかし、多くの企業にとってDXは優先順位の高い経営課題であるべきであり、ITサプライヤーもその実現に向けて支援をしていかなくてはならない。本プレゼンテーションでは、2019年における国内企業のDX実現の動向、イノベーションアクセラレーターなど技術の可能性、ITサプライヤーの在り方などについて概説する。
...本Conference: Tech BuyerはIDC JapanのITスペンディング シニアマーケットアナリストである岩本 直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。
すでにデジタルトランスフォーメーション（DX）は現実のものとなりつつある。IDCの調査では製造業はその牽引役を担う存在であり、そのバリューチェーンの随所でDXユースケースが確認されている。本講演では、製造業への調査結果からDXの取り組み状況を共有し、国内製造業およびバリューチェーンパートナーが仕掛けるDX事例を紹介しながらDX推進の在り方を考察する。
...This IDC Web Conference presents a discussion by the IDC Worldwide Smart Cities team regarding the key predictions that will impact CIOs and IT professionals in the worldwide utilities industry over the one three to five years. Senior IT ...
This IDC Web Conference presents a discussion by IDC's Alan Webber on the key predictions that will impact how enterprises address the customer experience over the next three to five years. Senior IT leaders and line-of-business executives ...