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 Special Study aims to understand enterprise readiness and attitudes toward deploying private cellular/5G/mobile networks and the partners they choose to design, build, run, and manage these networks.
"IDC believes services ...
This IDC study provides IDC's future enterprise use cases for the future of customer and consumer as it seeks to support business strategy and success. This taxonomy is organized to mime strategic priorities that serve to define how line-of-business ...
This IDC Survey presents the results of IDC's European IoT Decision-Maker Survey 2020, focusing on some key differences across European vertical markets. This survey assesses the current and planned deployment of IoT projects, including ...
This IDC Presentation provides a historic and forecast view on fixed data services for consumer and enterprise Australia and New Zealand (ANZ) markets. These markets cover internet access, Ethernet, IP VPN, IP television (IPTV), very-high–broadband ...
本調査レポートは、2020年3月に商用サービスが始まったモバイル通信規格5Gと、5Gをエリア限定で運用するローカル5Gが、今後、法人市場にどのように導入されていくかを分析および予測するものである。ローカル5Gベンダーの戦略や5Gの国内経済効果についての分析も行った。「5Gでは多くのベンダーが顧客との共創や個別顧客を支援するタイプのビジネス（ネットワーク構築、マネージドサービスなど）を志向し、取り組みが似通ってしまいがちである。マネタイズの源泉としてネットワーク構築やマネージドサービスは分かりやすく確実であるが、これだけでは選ばれる決め手としては弱い。顧客に選ばれるベンダーになるには、中長期的に必要とされる他社と競合しにくいソリューション分野を、今から開拓する取り組みが不可欠である」とIDC ...
This IDC Survey presents results from the German segment of IDC's European Internet of Things (IoT) Decision-Maker Survey. This survey assesses current and planned deployments of IoT projects, including benefits and challenges, impact of ...
This IDC study presents vendor share in the Japan 5G-ready (fifth-generation telecommunications standard) mobile phone market. "Although slightly affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, the 5G-ready mobile phone market is making a decent start. ...
This IDC Market Presentation provides an overview of smartphones used for online education or home-based learning as schools were shut down in various countries across Asia/Pacific, with school closures lasting almost a year in many of these ...
This IDC Taxonomy provides a comprehensive overview of the definitions used for measuring telecom services markets across the globe. The top-level methodology used to research these markets is also outlined in the study. The taxonomy summaries ...
한국 IDC 김경민 수석연구원은 "COVID-19으로 인한 기업 기술 투자 감소 추세속에서도 IoT는 기업들의 비즈니스 민첩성 확보에 핵심적인 기술로 부각되면서 그 역할이 확대되고 있고, 이러한 움직임은 AI 기반 데이터 분석이나 클라우드 등의 디지털 기술과 결합되면서 더욱 가속화되고 있다"고 말했다. 또한 김경민 수석은 "그러한 상황속에서 확장성과 다른 시스템과의 연동을 고려해 표준 기반의 다양한 기술을 효과적으로 연동할 ...
This IDC study analyzes the U.S. mobile consumer and business services market outlook for the 2021–2025 period.
"2020 was an unusual year, to say the least, with the COVID-19 pandemic slowing growth in subscribers in 1H20, but the ...
IDC中国研究经理郭越表示：“国家5G建设在2019年又取得了新的进展，基站覆盖率又达到前所未有的高度，移动网络升级带来的周边需求也在随之增加；IPv6在2019年底正式耗尽，将开启IP地址管理与分配的新篇章；更重要的是DDI设备之所以被视为安全卫士，拥有强大的技术力量，多元化的功能融合才能担当起“守护者”这么重要的角色。”
This IDC Survey details results from IDC's 2020 U.S. Smart Home Survey, which was fielded in July. The survey asked respondents questions regarding consumer adoption of and attitudes toward a variety of ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight looks at the impact of COVID-19 on 5G investment sentiment in Europe for 2021. European organizations are still understandably grappling with the pandemic. The havoc inflicted upon the continent's economies as a ...
This IDC Survey Snapshot highlights data gleaned from IDC's 2021 Professional Services for Enterprise Private Cellular/5G/Mobile Networks Study. IDC surveyed 500 enterprises globally to understand their readiness and ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight looks at, by specific major countries, what technology customers are investing in for MEC compute and storage infrastructure, and whether that may tie into expected latency requirements for their MEC solutions. ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight presents the top enterprise IT and network challenges over the next three years. It contains data from IDC's 2020 Enterprise Communications Survey of 800 United States–based business and IT executives and ...
云管理网络是一种全新的网络部署模式，它建立在网络设备管理功能与硬件解耦的基础之上，通常部署在企业园区或分支。在这种部署模式下，网络硬件仍然部署在本地，但管理功能迁移到了公有云上，管理员可以在任意位置通过Web页面或移动终端App等图形化方式对网络进行集中管理。管理功能上云后商业模式也发生了改变，从原来的一次性购买转变为订阅方式，即管理功能实现了软件即服务（SaaS）化。本报告给出了云管理网络定义和研究范畴，提出云管理网络带来的业界和生态变化，并对2016年到2019年中国云管理市场容量进行了分析，包括出货量，厂商收入，场景分布，商业模式，行业分布等。报告最后对截止至2024年的中国云管理网络市场做了预测和分析。
...This IDC Survey Spotlight analyzes 2021 spending plans for mobile applications across several vertical markets including retail or wholesale, government, manufacturing, and "other."
This IDC Survey Spotlight uses data from IDC's COVID-19 ...
This IDC Presentation discusses the Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) (APEJ) regionalization of the 2021 Worldwide Future of Connectedness Predictions. Each prediction is presented based on timeline projection, cost/complexity assessment, and ...
This IDC study provides a five-year forecast for the worldwide smart home device market.
"The worldwide market for smart home devices and services remains resilient despite the COVID-19 pandemic," says Adam Wright, senior research ...
IDC FutureScape针对增长中的区块链和分布式账本技术（DLT）市场做出10个预测。这些预测都受到IDC定义的在技术、行业、经济、政治、甚至文化方面总体趋势的影响。这些趋势或外部驱动因素为企业和业务部门的技术领导者提供了部署IT战略的工具。与往年一样，许多趋势来源于影响业务和技术的变化速度不断提升。但是今年，许多外部驱动因素也反映了全球COVID-19疫情的持续影响以及企业为保持抵抗能力并适应下一个正常状态所做的努力。
2021年FutureScape所涵盖的预测未按优先级或重要性排列，具体如下：
- 预测1：法律诉讼和控告阻碍电子选举的进程。到2025年，基于区块链的电子投票方案将成为主流的解决方案，会有5%的司法辖区进行区块链投票系统测试。
- 预测2：到2024年，医疗保健区块链数字身份标准将来自卫健委或其他卫生机构，可以实现以下四点：医疗数据互操作性、完善的客户/患者数据信息、患者"健康评分"、利于AI技术更好的服务医疗体系。
- 预测3：到2025年，供应链行业中15％的机构将与区块链服务公司合作，整合区块链技术与物联网平台，以此记录M2M通信所需的数据。
- 预测4：到2025年，将有15％的消费贷款以中央银行数字货币形式支付。
- 预测5：到2025年，将有8％的金融机构使用区块链技术来满足KYC合规需求，以此创建透明的、可审核的实体记录。
- 预测6：到2025年，在立法要求下，将有50％的跨洲航运会运用区块链技术记录船员健康信息、船用燃油来源和货物来源数据。
- 预测7：到2025年，10％的供应链交易将使用区块链完成道德信任溯源与可持续业务证实，以增加数据可信度。
- 预测8：到2025年，中国通证化资产市场将达到1000亿美元。
- 预测9：基于区块链的跨境汇款网络将在特定的地域持续发展。到2023年，支付规模将超过15亿美元。
- 预测10：COVID-19会在短期内阻碍基于区块链技术的贸易融资业务转型，但到2025年，15%的商业银行用户将被纳入区块链平台。
This IDC Presentation provides a graphic overview of the state of the mobile phone market, including smartphones and feature phones, in Asia/Pacific. Figures include units per product category, screen size segment, and top vendors according ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight examines how worldwide and U.S. enterprises expect their spending on 5G to shift in 2021 following the challenges of 2020. With the availability of 5G services and device types continuing to grow, 5G becomes more ...
This IDC Market Glance provides an overview of the vendors participating in the Internet of Things ecosystem.