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.
本調査レポートは、IDCが2021年1月に国内企業ユーザーに対して実施した「2021年 企業ネットワークサービス利用動向調査」の調査結果を分析したものである。本調査レポートで分析した主な項目は、以下の通りである。
- 新型コロナウイルス感染症（COVID-19）の感染拡大の影響
- 在宅勤務／Web会議用のIT環境と品質
- 外部データセンター／クラウドの利用
- インターネットトラフィックの増加
- インターネット活用のためのセキュリティゲートウェイ
- 拠点WAN回線の選定とWANの課題
- SD-WAN、およびネットワークと他システムの連携
- コールセンターの運用
As the Middle East, Turkey, and Africa region emerges from the economic fallout of COVID-19 and works its way to a smarter recovery, the shift to "cloud-based enterprises" will accelerate in 2021 and beyond. Addressing cloud model and management ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight presents select findings from IDC's IT Infrastructure for Storage Survey. The survey was conducted in October 2020 and includes responses from over 600 IT and line-of-business (LOB) personnel responsible ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight presents select findings from IDC's IT Infrastructure for Storage Survey. The survey was conducted in October 2020 and includes responses from over 600 IT and line-of-business (LOB) personnel responsible ...
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 Market Presentation examines the latest IDC Quarterly Smart Home Device Tracker for the Western Europe smart home market. In this tracker, IDC follows more than 55 smart home makes in 16 countries, providing detailed shipment volumes, ...
This IDC Presentation provides a detailed analysis of the market and competitive landscape in Taiwan's cloud services from January to June 2020 (1H20). The report covers revenue snapshots for infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight compares selection criteria for cloud professional services providers for Canadian organizations that experienced revenue or operating budget growth in 2020 over 2019 with those organizations that had flat or declining ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight illustrates the preferences of Canadian medium-sized and large businesses in terms of how they procure professional services for cloud services (SaaS, IaaS, PaaS, SISaaS). The document contains data from IDC Canada's ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight reveals the main reasons why enterprises found their cloud spending to exceed the original budget last year. This document is based on data from IDC's Cloud Pulse Survey conducted in 4Q20. IDC ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight examines the impact of digital workspaces and VDI on endpoint security in Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) (APEJ).
The demand for virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) and digital workspace increased as physical ...
国内企業は、システムの運用最適化を図るため、クラウドサービスを適材適所に活用するようになってきた。この変化は、データ運用に複雑性が加わることを意味している。本調査レポートは、データ管理が複雑化している実態を調査し、潜在需要やユーザー企業への効果的な訴求方法を明確化することを目的にしている。クラウドサービスの利用が一般化し、クラウドとオンプレミスにシステムが分散することがデータ管理運用（データ保護、データセキュリティ、データ統合など）にどのような影響を与えているかを明らかにすると共に、新型コロナウイルス感染症（COVID-19）や個人情報保護法の改正などの社会変化の影響を含めて多角的な調査を実施している。課題意識やソリューション導入意欲の高いユーザーセグメントを見つけるため、分析の視点（クロス集計の軸）として、従業員規模、産業分野以外にも、クラウドサービスの利用社数、デジタルトランスフォーメーション（DX）の取り組み歴などによる分析も行った。
...This IDC Market Glance provides a graphical view of open source software projects associated with key system infrastructure software and application development and deployment software technologies. It includes representative open source ...
This IDC Market Presentation highlights select results from IDC's 2020 CloudShare ISV Survey for Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) (APEJ) and some key differences in strategies and attitudes between ISVs in the region and ...
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 ...
More than 1,000 senior executives from influential technology vendors, telecommunication operators, and IT service providers in Saudi Arabia participated in the IDC Directions virtual event held in early 2021. This event provided participants ...
This IDC Market Presentation provides an overview of the European grocery subvertical in 2021 and examines how grocery retailers in Europe are transforming their operations to respond to the opportunities emerging from the post-pandemic ...
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This IDC Survey provides an overview of the results from a 2020 U.S. survey of enterprises involving their use of managed services for infrastructure involving datacenters, networks, and endpoint devices (e.g., PCs, laptops, smartphones/tablets). ...
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 ...
该报告分析了2019年中国虚拟终端计算软件市场的规模，发展趋势和主要厂商的表现。
VCC软件市场包括集中式虚拟桌面、虚拟用户会话和其他形式的终端虚拟化产品。2019年中国虚拟终端软件市场的市场规模达到1.97亿美元，未来五年的复合增长率仍将保持在14.1%。由于新冠疫情的爆发，工作空间和方式转型成为企业数字化转型（DX）计划的一部分。更灵活和敏捷的工作方式在未来将成为常态，这将是VCC软件市场的驱动力。
IDC企业级系统和软件研究部高级研究经理李昭表示：“尽管新冠疫情的爆发对经济和企业的ICT支出产生负面影响，但它也加快了企业进行数字化转型的步伐，包括对工作空间的改造。新的远程工作和协作系统不是单一的工具，而是一个统一的平台或集成的解决方案，包括应用程序和桌面虚拟化、内容和协作应用、端点管理、安全和审计应用以及IT服务和资产管理。更灵活和敏捷的工作方式在未来将成为常态，这将是VCC软件市场的驱动力。”
...This IDC Survey Spotlight discusses the last-mile strategies that help shave costs and delight the consumer.
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This IDC Survey Spotlight looks at which service providers or suppliers are considered the most important for customers' cloud strategies for the next two years. Data is included from IDC's global Cloud Pulse surveys conducted 1Q19-4Q20. ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight presents the outlook for network management investment and priorities for 2021 and beyond. It contains data from IDC's survey titled Enterprise Networking: Emergence of the New Normal. Survey ...
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. ...