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.
The combination of Okta and Auth0 looks to be a win-win combination of philosophies and technologies, and Okta expects the action to be accretive from an EPS standpoint. A debate ensues about the $6.5B stock offer coming only eight months ...
Xero’s acquisition of Planday aligns to its strategy of supporting small and medium businesses (SMBs) through simplified business technology. The integration opportunities between workforce management, payroll and finance allows for business ...
本Web Conference Proceeding: Tech Buyerは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 康介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。
クラウドネイティブなアプリケーションが増えたことや、コンテナ技術によって開発／展開のスピードが向上したこともあって、ビジネスサイクルはますます高速化する傾向にある。AI（Artificial Intelligence：人工知能）／機械学習を応用した新たなサービス、ビジネスプロセスのアイデアも短期間で実現しており、企業が扱うデジタルデータは多様化、大容量化がハイペースで進んでいる。それと同時に、データ活用の先進ユーザーは、現場で生まれるデータから予測やインサイトを導出するためのデータパイプラインを整備し、その成果をカスタマーエクスペリエンス向上やリアルタイム制御による品質改善に結びつけるようになってきた。こうした新たなデータ活用／管理の中で必要とされるストレージインフラの要件は、アーキテクチャ、運用共にこれまでとは違ったものになる。本セッションでは、デジタルトランスフォーメーション（DX）に取り組む企業のデータ活用／管理ニーズの変化がストレージ要件にどのような影響を及ぼすか、需要サイドの視点から見たストレージ改革の方向性を考察する。
...Today's customers have high expectations for frictionless, immersive, and empathetic shopping and browsing experiences in the channel of their choice. To be competitive, brands must personalize interactions in fractions of a second at scale. ...
As a result of the collaboration, data insights, and business continuity pressures from the pandemic, the market witnesses an accelerated focus on digital transformation across commercial businesses and public sector organizations. While ...
Social voice is an emerging evolution in social media experiences, as seen in the growth of applications such as Clubhouse, Twitter Spaces, and others. This will be both challenging and rewarding for organizations that look at this through ...
The latest financial figures released by Workday on February 25, 2021, showed the company's total revenues for the year were $4.32 billion — up 19% year over year. Subscription revenues showed robust growth of 22.4%, reaching $3.79 billion ...
Dell Technologies recently completed fiscal 2021 and saw a steady improvement throughout the year in the demand environment as consumers, commercial businesses, and public sector organizations all turned to technology to help bridge the ...
The intent to merge announced by Arcserve and StorageCraft represents an interesting combination of Arcserve's backup and recovery software, Arcserve's partnership with Sophos for data security, and StorageCraft's converged scale-out storage ...
On February 16, 2021, VMware launched Customer Connect, a rebranding and unification effort of My VMware and other VMware customer experience-facing assets, tools, and platforms. The unification of these resources can help customers easily ...
Dynatrace held its annual user conference as a virtual event during the week of February 8–12, 2021. The event drew an estimated online attendance of 25,000 versus 2,500 physical attendees the previous year. During the event, the company ...
Chorus reported December HY21 operating revenues of NZ$473m, down 2.1% from NZ$483m in HY20. A key driver was migration of customers from legacy copper services to alternative networks, particularly in non-Chorus UFB areas. Continued headwinds ...
One of the leading inhibitors of Industry 4.0 progression is the heterogeneous legacy technology landscape in industrial operations and the challenge of aggregating and managing operational data. By partnering to enable a hybrid cloud architecture, ...
This IDC Web Conference was presented in February 2020 as the last in a three-part series exploring the convergence of modern application development and modern business automation.
Culture permeates everything that an organization ...
Cisco closed out the calendar year 2020 fourth quarter – its second fiscal year 2021 quarter – with flat revenue growth which included weakness in its core infrastructure platforms given the tough pre-COVID-19 year-over-year (YoY) comparisons. ...
The news that Lectra is acquiring its long-time competitor comes at a time when the industries it serves — namely those that involve sewn products, including apparel, furniture, and automotive seating — are struggling due to shutdowns, economic ...
HP Inc. has launched a new partner initiative called HP Amplify Impact. The program — one of the first of its kind — provides access to a broad range of resources aimed at helping channel partners establish long-term, measurable goals for ...
本Web Conference Proceeding: Tech Supplierは、IDC Japanのグループディレクターである眞鍋 敬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。
2020年は新型コロナウイルス感染症（COVID-19）の影響によって、2019年以前には顕在化していなかった経済／ITに関する課題が浮き彫りになった。また今後の働き方、企業と顧客の関係は完全に元には戻らない「ネクストノーマル」時代への突入が予測される。IDCでは2021年以降、IT市場は緩やかな回復を予測しており、「ネクストノーマル」時代に向けた市場変化への準備を行うことがITサプライヤーの急務になっているとみている。本セッションでは、IT市場における「ネクストノーマル」時代を勝ち残るために必要なデータ活用／アナリティクスを議論する。
...本Web Conference Proceeding: Tech Supplierは、IDC Japan ソフトウェア＆セキュリティのグループマネージャーである入谷 光浩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）の進展がコンテナ／Kubernetes、サーバーレス、マイクロサービスなどのクラウドネイティブ技術の導入を加速させている。さらにDXでアプリケーションの開発スピードが要求されるようになり、ローコード／ノーコード開発への注目が高まっている。この2つのアプリケーション変革は、企業におけるアプリケーションの消費から生産へのシフトを促し、デジタルイノベーションを加速させていく。本講演では、クラウドネイティブとローコード／ノーコードがユーザー企業とITサプライヤーにどのような影響を与えるかについて議論し、ITサプライヤーがとるべき施策について考察する。
...本Web Conference Proceeding: 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。
2020年3月に国内でも商用5Gサービスが始まり、5G対応スマートフォンの拡充やサービスエリアの拡大が進みつつある。また、地域や産業分野での活用が期待されているローカル5Gも、28GHz帯に続き4.7GHz帯の制度化やSA（Stand ...
本Web Conference Proceeding: 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。
次世代インフラによるテクノロジーや提供形態の革新は、デジタルトランスフォーメーション（DX）を推進するユーザー企業にとって重要な支援策になると共に、ITサプライヤーの新しいビジネス機会の創出につながっている。一方、次世代インフラの台頭は、ITサプライヤーに新たな競争環境をもたらしており、この競争環境に対応できないITサプライヤーは市場での競争力を失うことになる。本講演では、次世代インフラがもたらす競争環境を、クラウドシフト、エッジ／コアモデル、サブスクリプション化、自動化／自律化などの観点から分析し、ユーザー企業に選定されるITサプライヤーの条件を探る。
...Red Hat's acceleration of the move positioning CentOS Linux as an upstream community distribution that is a precursor for subsequent Red Hat Enterprise Linux releases, not surprisingly, has ruffled some feathers in the CentOS community. ...
Oracle announced new features in marketing, sales, and service applications within Oracle CX that extend the use of AI and automation and improve integration between CX products that will help enterprise customers improve personalization ...
本Web Conference Proceeding: 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。
新型コロナウイルス感染症（COVID-19）の世界的大流行（パンデミック）は、企業や社会のデジタル化を促進した。しかし一方で緊急の取り組みが多かったため、必ずしも全社規模でのデジタルトランスフォーメーション（DX）、Future ...