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 Perspective profiles Equinix, which is the global datacenter and interconnection leader.
"Equinix is well positioned to remain a leader in the colocation and interconnection sector. It has a strong global footprint ...
This IDC Market Perspective looks at the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the challenges associated with managing secure print in a hybrid work environment. This document discusses how organizations should approach print security for ...
本調査レポートは、国内事業者データセンターにおける保守運用コスト（保守コスト、人件費、電力コスト）、および電力消費量を推計、分析したものである。保守運用コストは、6種類のモデルケースを平均的な事業者データセンターの例として設定し、各ケースについて推計している。また、電力消費量については、2020年と2024年の年間電力消費量を推計している。
「ハイパースケールデータセンターの急増によって、データセンターの電力需要も急速に増加している。データセンターの電力コスト削減が、データセンター事業者の収益性に大きく影響するようになる」とIDC ...
今後発行予定である調査レポート「IDC MarketScape: Japan Security Solutions and Services Hardcopy 2021 Vendor Assessment」の市場定義と評価基準について説明している。IDC US イメージング、プリンティング&ドキュメントソリューションのバイスプレジデントであるRobert Palmerは「セキュリティは、あらゆる企業において最重要課題になっており、現在ではMPS（Managed ...
本調査レポートは、Society 5.0に求められる分野横断型のデータ流通サービスプラットフォームに求められる要件を議論したものである。Society 5.0では、さまざまなソースからのばらばらのデータを、デジタルツインなどによって統合し、アナリティクスやAI処理を行うことで、データによる社会経済課題の解決を実現する。そのベースとなる分野横断型のデータ流通サービスプラットフォームでは、スケーラビリティ、相互運用性の確保、トラストの確立などが重要な要件となる。「今後、デジタル保護主義によって、国／地域を越えたデータ流通が制約を受ける可能性がある。データ流通サービスプラットフォームを提供する事業者は、こうした事態に対応できるようデータローカリゼーションなどの各国／地域の規制などに対応可能なビジネススキームを持つべきである」とIDC ...
This IDC Market Note presents the key takeaways from several IDC analysts who virtually attended Capgemini's Global Analyst and Advisor Summit 2020 held October 14 and 15. During the event, Capgemini shared with IDC how it is strategically ...
This IDC Market Note comprises financial news announced in late October and November 2020 among print vendors.
This IDC Market Note includes industrial and production printer news that occurred in November 2020.
This IDC Market Perspective describes some of the key ways that CX services vendors can adopt to better serve their clients in 2021. Clients and vendors of CX services have had a dramatic 2020, with new business priorities and new ways of ...
This IDC Market Note discusses announcements and observations from Cisco Partner Summit 2020, held virtually for the first time this year on October 28 and 29. Cisco CX is in its third year of a multiyear journey, where, in 2019, the company ...
This IDC Market Note highlights the key learnings selected by IDC analysts at Cognizant's virtual analyst event. Cognizant has a strong business in QA, which it continues to take forward with next-generation testing and robotic test automation. ...
This IDC Market Perspective examines the similarities between work-from-home (WFH) corporate policies and bring your own device (BYOD) policies in a post-COVID-19 enterprise market. This document discusses how employee choice will influence ...
This IDC Market Note presents the key takeaways from several IDC analysts who virtually attended EY's Tech Summit on September 28–29. During the event, EY shared with IDC how it is executing on its NextWave consulting strategy while articulating ...
This IDC Market Note provides an overview of Kodak Alaris' recent announcements on expanding the company's document capture portfolio. These announcements include updates to its INfuse platform, expanded remote service and device management ...
This IDC Market Note discusses Atos' Diversity & Inclusivity strategy and the program that it is rolling out across the world, including in Europe.
"Solving gender imbalance in technology professions requires combined effort from ...
This Market Note provides a European perspective on IBM's plan to reinvent itself and develop a new growth strategy for the next decade by splitting into two companies.
This IDC Market Perspective discusses the changing dynamics of the roles of managed SPs as related to cloud service providers (IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS). These roles are defined by the changing dynamics involving collaboration across partners, ...
This IDC Market Note discusses the acquisition of Pericom Singapore's by ABBYY, which will be renamed as ABBYY Singapore. It also discusses the nature of the acquisition, industry context, and the future of both ABBYY and the Pericom Group.
...This IDC Market Note summarizes IDC Canada's observations regarding IBM's announcement on October 8, 2020, that it will spin off its managed infrastructure services business into a separate company, temporarily called NewCo.
"NewCo ...
本調査レポートは、国内ITサービス市場における準大手／中堅ベンダーのビジネス動向およびベンダー間の競合状況について、ベンダー各社に対して行った調査や、多様なリソースから収集した情報を総合し、定性的／定量的に分析した結果をまとめたものである。国内ITサービス市場における準大手／中堅ベンダーの2019年12月期、および2020年3月期の国内ITサービス売上額を、IDC定義に基づいて3つのサービスセグメント別／6つの産業分野別に推定し、各ベンダーの事業動向／ビジネス動向をプロフィールとして掲載している。
新型コロナウイルス感染症（COVID-19）の感染拡大下で大きな変化を迎えている国内ITサービス市場において、準大手／中堅ベンダーが受ける影響は主要ベンダーよりも大きくなるとみられ、今後、それを前提とした戦略が求められるであろう。「準大手／中堅ベンダーは、得意としてきた顧客／産業分野の知見や従来の体制も生かし、デジタル技術を活用したBPOサービスを組み込んだオファリングを充実させて収益の安定化と差別化を図ると同時に、経営トップがリーダーシップを取り、コーポレートガバナンス／リスク管理のさらなる強化にも取り組むべきである。また、グローバルベンダーは、新しいビジネスモデルへの対応も含めて地方へのサービス販売体制を充実させるべきである」と、IDC ...
This IDC Market Note looks at the GCP life-cycle suite of services to accelerate cloud adoption. While the hype cycle has purported easy procurement and movement to the cloud, enterprises are finding it much more challenging than they once ...
This IDC Market Perspective looks at the distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) prevention market in Europe. DDoS attacks are becoming increasingly complex, and they frequently employ multiple attack types and strategies such as multivector ...
本調査レポートは、AI（Artificial Intelligence：人工知能）システムを運用するデータセンター（DC）、およびIoT（Internet of Things）におけるエッジマイクロDCに求められるファシリティ特性を検討し、それぞれの設置数（ラック数）を予測している。
デジタルトランスフォーメーション（DX）の拡大に伴いDX指向型の設置数は増加傾向にある。「新型コロナウイルス感染症（COVID-19）の影響によって2020年の設置数増加は一時的に鈍化するものの、2021年以降は増加が再び加速する」とIDC ...
This IDC Vendor Profile explores the relevancy and timeliness of Infosys Live Enterprise (LE) services offering to enable customers to identify gaps in their current infrastructure and restructure their technology deployments as they navigate ...
This IDC Market Perspective examines the managed print and content services market pre-, mid-, and post-pandemic, highlighting the rapidly changing market dynamics that provide opportunities and pose challenges for managed print and content ...