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 Survey Spotlight analyzes the maturity of retailers' customer journey models to improve real-time contextual customer experience (CX) personalization. It explores how retailers' customer journey models have changed since 2017 onward ...
This IDC Market Presentation analyzes a selection of data from IDC's Global Retail Innovation Survey, 2020. The analysis focuses on key worldwide findings from the viewpoint of the main retail subsegments (food and grocery, ecommerce ...
This IDC Survey presents key findings on some key sentiment by U.S. bank and credit union customers when it comes to their experiences, concerns, and engagement with their bank during their financial journey. The data is from IDC Financial ...
This IDC Market Presentation outlines how partner programs must change for the new digital economy. As customers look for solutions that meet their unique needs for an exact use case specific to their industry, partners have had to change ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight, based on the IDC European Tech and Industry Pulse Survey, 2019–2020, analyzes respondents that are adopting or planning to adopt one technology that also adopt or plan to adopt another technology. It shows ...
This IDC Market Presentation reviews the current state of distributor and aggregator marketplace platforms describing how capabilities have grown. This capability growth has increased the importance of these platforms to channel partners, ...
This IDC Survey provides an overview of the results from a 2020 U.S. survey of enterprises involving their use of managed (outsourced) services for customer care business process outsourcing. The survey involved over 200 U.S. respondents ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight looks at predicted spending patterns for healthcare and life science respondents for SaaS software and other technologies in 2021 as companies prepare for an anticipated emergence from the pandemic.
本IDC 陈述报告描述了中国制造行业IT 2021年十大预测。报告为制造企业的高管提供了在未来的60 个月内制造业IT 及其IT 所支持的业务发展趋势，报告标识了这些预测发生作用的未来时间和受影响的业务领域，以及相对的复杂性和成本。每个预测包括IT 对业务的影响和对于制造企业的行动指南。
2020年新冠疫情"黑天鹅"事件使得制造业遭受重大打击，尤其是离散型制造，由于供应链中断使得生产停滞。以汽车制造为例，在疫情头几个月，中国汽车的产销大幅下滑。与此同时，中美贸易摩擦并未停滞，美国政府对中国半导体、电子行业的贸易限制，也使得中国制造企业备受压力。
一边是疫情的全球肆虐，一边是中美贸易摩擦的持续升级。在此严峻的外部挑战之下，中国政府出台了"新基建"、"双循环"等政策，以应对经济下行压力，助推制造业复苏。我们也可以看到，一批新业态、新模式应运而生，并从根本上颠覆传统的工作模式、生产模式。
"展望未来，中国制造业的机会和挑战并存。从宏观上看，制造业IT投资将进一步提高，新技术、新模式将在业务落地的过程中将不断迭代更新，以适应不断变化的市场。基于AI的风险决策，能提供决策指导和洞察；机器视觉和增强/虚拟现实（AR/VR）将场外的专业知识延伸到现场，可以减少现场工作人员数量；分布式供应链网络将降低价值链意外中断的风险。另外，跨生态系统的运维中心将提高运营效率，缩短产品上市时间。"——IDC中国制造业高级研究经理张兰英表示。
...This IDC Survey Spotlight examines merchants' preferences between best-in-breed digital commerce applications and comprehensive digital commerce platforms/suites. Respondents break down between IT and LOB workers as well as B2B, B2C, and ...
This IDC Market Presentation provides a Canadian perspective of the current market and future trends for consumer smart home (or connected home) technologies in 2020. It includes recent consumer survey data coupled with industry analysis, ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight reveals insights on how COVID-19 will impact next year's enterprise spending on various cloud and noncloud models. This document is based on data from IDC's Cloud Pulse Survey conducted in 4Q20. ...
This IDC Survey presents data from the 14th of a series of surveys that will be run to track changing sentiment associated with COVID-19 impacts on technology adoption and future spending expectations through CY21. It includes a total of ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight focuses on executive sentiments about their IT spending in the cloud among European asset-intensive industries — manufacturing, utilities, and oil and gas. It is based on data from wave 12 (September 25–October ...
This IDC Market Analysis Perspective is an overview of the investment climate and spending intentions of decision makers regarding 5G in Western Europe. It outlines 5G adoption and top use cases in Europe as well as the competitive landscape. ...
本报告是IDC FutureScape全球医疗健康行业2021年预测的中国启示，报告提供了2021-2026年间医疗健康行业技术发展路线图，包含10项健康行业发展前沿的预测并融合了针对中国市场的观点看法。每项预测都包括该预测内容成为市场"主流"的时间和实现该项预测的复杂性评估，以及该预测对于IT方面的影响，并为技术买家提供了采用和部署这些技术的建议，可供中国医疗健康行业的各领域，如医疗、医保、医药、健康管理、生命科学等领域的机构和企业在制定发展战略和数字化转型策略中参考。
...This IDC Market Glance provides a list of current vendors offering monetization products and services, which are logically between CRM/ecommerce and ERP/accounting applications.
This report summarizes the current state of the Nigerian ICT market. It draws on sources such as IDC's Black Book and leverages market analysis by different IDC analysts to highlight key developments in the market and showcase emerging opportunities ...
This IDC Presentation provides an overview of how mobile gaming evolved with the rapid development of smartphones in Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan and China). This presentation will study the differences between the smartphones available ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight examines the business divisions that most require the introduction of new key performance indicators (KPIs) and metrics. "Processes that are not defined and documented cannot be measured. Organizational success ...
本报告包括四个部分，第一部分分析了中国数据中心服务市场的整体规模、行业与区域分布和市场发展动态；第二部分分析了中国数据中心服务市场的竞争格局和主要数据中心服务商发展动态；第三部分对中国数据中心服务市场进行了预测，并分析了该市场相关的驱动和阻碍因素；第四部分提出了一些简单建议，旨在为数据中心服务商提供决策参考。
“中国数据中心服务作为数字化战略的重要基础设施，得到了市场和政策的双重推动。企业数字化转型、新冠疫情刺激云计算发展、以及新技术带来的数据量激增增加了对数据中心服务的需求。互联网和金融行业仍是2019年数据中心服务市场增长的最强劲动力，而政府、制造业、零售业等其他行业需求也增长明显。市场对节能环保、成本优化、效率提升和合理规划等方面的要求，使得中国数据中心服务商正从注重基础设施能力深入到绿色高效、智能运维、混合云管理等综合能力提升上。中国数据中心服务市场将迎来一个从重视数量到重视质量的发展阶段。”——IDC中国云和服务研究组高级研究经理刘丽辉表示。
...This IDC Survey takes a closer look at the Apple ecosystem, showing the breadth and depth of the Apple device ecosystem and how it drives ongoing demand for Apple products (and services) and consumer spend as a result of Apple's deep consumer ...
This IDC Market Presentation explores IDC Canada's ICT predictions for 2021 and was originally presented as a Web Conference on December 8, 2020. As business and IT leaders look ahead to 2021, IDC expects that technology will play an increasingly ...
This IDC Presentation provides a comprehensive overview of the New Zealand (NZ) telecommunications market. It features an analysis of the fixed and mobile markets in NZ as well as profiles of the key players. In this year's presentation, ...
This IDC Market Presentation is an executive summary of IDC's 4Q20 Cloud Pulse, with a focus on cloud economics, customer value, and staffing.
Cloud Pulse provides an overview of cloud adoption and cloud trends among IT buyers. Cloud ...