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 Glance provides a view of the current makeup of the Intelligent CloudOps software landscape. It illustrates the participating vendors and depicts market segments and structure. This document aligns with the recently published ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight examines automation will remain the new normal.
Reconfirmed in the latest IDC survey of enterprise decision makers, the pandemic has had an enduring impact on work practices and technologies. The pandemic ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight offers insights into what some companies are doing to reduce downtime within their datacenters. 53% of companies have seen a reduction in downtime within their environments over the past two years.
In April ...
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 a detailed description of IDC's Worldwide Security Spending Guide methodology and taxonomy. It should be used as a companion piece for IDC's Worldwide Security Spending Guide data deliverable and all of IDC's worldwide ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight discusses the investment trend data that shows how services providers are working as digital chefs to blend hardware and software into digital business capabilities.
According to IDC's Worldwide Digital Transformation ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight looks at end users' anticipated spending on business consulting services in 2021 across different regions and purchasing departments. Data comes from IDC's December 2020 Global Buyer Perception of Business and ...
This IDC study provides the worldwide market forecast for document workflow automation and optimization from 2021 to 2025.
"Despite challenges due to COVID-19 over the past year, many businesses are entering a phase where they are ...
This IDC Presentation provides a detailed analysis of the market and competitive landscape in IT services in Singapore from January to June 2020 (1H20). It covers the market size movements and growth trends in each of the macro markets (i.e., ...
This IDC study presents IDC's first global forecast of CO2 emissions savings from cloud computing.
"IDC has been tracking the server market and quantifying compute power for nearly all of its 50+ years," says John Gantz, ...
As enterprises in Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) (APEJ) turned to new ways of working and serving customers remotely, application management (AM) SPs were quick to help enterprises remain resilient during the disruptions brought by the COVID-19 ...
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 Survey Spotlight analyzes the affects of the COVID-19 crisis on European IT buyer sentiment and business services spending. IDC conducts an IT buyer sentiment survey every two weeks to track how buyer sentiment and spending are ...
This IDC study presents the top 61 IT services providers in South Africa, including their market shares, based on their respective performances in 2019. Furthermore, it examines the performances of the top five IT services providers in South ...
This IDC Market Presentation discusses examples and analyzes the use cases and opportunities for digital twins and digital thread in support of building and infrastructure operation. Building information modeling (BIM) is a vital set of ...
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 Presentation provides a detailed analysis of the market and competitive landscape in IT services in Thailand from January to June 2020 (1H20). It covers the market size movements and growth trends in each of the macromarkets (i.e., ...
This IDC study provides market forecasts for the Japan private cloud market, taking into account the impact of and outlook for the COVID-19 pandemic as of the end of August 2020, based on the information collected by the end of August 2020.
The ...
한국 IDC 김경민 수석연구원은 "국내 IT서비스 시장은 팬데믹 상황을 경험하면서 수요와 경쟁구도에 있어 근본적인 변화를 경험하고 있다. 이러한 변화 속에서 IT서비스 시장 참여자들은 기업의 민첩성과 회복탄력성을 기반으로 한 디지털 트랜스포메이션을 지원할 수 있는 디지털 기술 역량을 확보해야 한다."며, "기술과 이에 수반되는 서비스 역량 확보 과정에서 전통적인 경쟁구도의 변화를 고려한 전략적 접근이 필요하다"고 강조했다.
...This IDC study provides a taxonomical overview of the datacenter IT OEM and ODM supplier market, including definitions used in the Computing Platforms and Storage ODM Direct QView. This taxonomy has been significantly overhauled to increase ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight offers insights into the value of support contracts in keeping downtime out of datacenter environments. These assets include servers, storage, networking, security, and datacenter facilities.
In April 2020, ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight looks at which of the six vendor types that enterprises would prefer to engage with at different stages of a business improvement project. In detail:
- The seven stages for a business improvement project ...
本調査レポートは、国内ITサービス市場の概況や動向を取り上げ、ユーザー企業の18の産業分野（小分類）別の分析に加え、6つの産業分野（大分類）別、および3つのサービスセグメント（中分類）別にITサービス支出額をまとめたものである。市場分野ごとに2020年～2024年の市場規模および成長率を予測している。さらに、サービスベンダーに対するIDCの提言を加えている。2020年の国内ITサービス市場は、前年の成長を牽引したWindows 7のサポート終了や消費増税に伴うシステム刷新などの特需の反動減に加えて、COVID-19の影響による新規プロジェクトの凍結や先送り、進行中のプロジェクトの中断や遅れなどによって、前年比2.8％減のマイナス成長になったとみられる。2021年は、プロジェクトベース市場を中心にV字回復することで、プラス成長に回帰し、レガシーシステムの刷新／更新需要、企業によるDX投資の本格化が2021年以降の市場成長を支えるであろう。「2020年は、COVID-19がもたらした変化への対応スピードが問われた年であった。ITサービス事業者は、経営層から現場までのあらゆる場面におけるスピードの向上に全社を挙げて取り組むべきである」と、IDC ...
This IDC study provides a comprehensive overview of and definitions for hardcopy peripherals. The definitions provided in this document represent the scope of IDC's HCP hardware research. This taxonomy outlines market segmentations and measurement ...
This IDC study describes the size and growth of IT professionals by role and region for 2019–2024.The document includes our forecast across 41 different job roles and an analysis of some of the key factors influencing IT professional employment ...
This IDC study provides a comprehensive overview and definitions for job roles and job role groups used to label activities within information and communication technology (ICT). This taxonomy forms the basis for estimates of full-time equivalents ...
This IDC study provides a detailed description of IDC's worldwide company size methodology and taxonomy. This document should be used as a companion piece for IDC's Worldwide Small and Medium Business Spending Guide and all of IDC's worldwide ...
This IDC Market Presentation provides worldwide data from IDC's Security ServicesView 2020 that examines the contemporary state of security services. Sections include total, company size, and technology adoption.
IDC's ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight provides insight from results of IDC's Worldwide IT and OT Integration Survey. It highlights survey results from manufacturing organizations related to investments drivers for securing IT and OT systems. ...
This IDC Survey examines the spending intentions and attitudes of buyers of IT consulting and business consulting services worldwide. One of its aims is to provide greater understanding of the strategic priorities of these organizations, ...
This IDC Presentation provides a detailed analysis of the market and competitive landscape in IT services in Taiwan from January to June 2020 (1H20). It covers the market size movements and growth trends in each of the macromarkets (i.e., ...
This IDC Market Glance provides an overview of vendors participating in the edge infrastructure market. As demand for edge solutions accelerates, a wide variety of companies have developed technology and services across several categories ...
This IDC Market Glance provides an overview of the vendors participating in the Internet of Things ecosystem.
This IDC Market Glance provides an overview, definitions, and sample participants in the digital automotive and transportation strategies ecosystem. This presentation is an update of the prior published version from 1Q20.
This IDC Survey Spotlight offers insights into the cost of downtime customers experience when datacenter assets are offline. These assets include servers, storage, networking, security, and datacenter facilities as well as human error.
In ...
This IDC Market Presentation focuses on the impact the COVID-19 pandemic has had on partner business metrics and investments, and how IP and profit are defining partner value now and post-vaccine. This content was presented at IDC's Software ...
This IDC Presentation provides a detailed analysis of the market and competitive landscape in IT services in China from January to June 2020 (1H20). It covers market size movements and growth trends in each of the macromarkets (i.e., project-oriented ...
This IDC Market Share study examines the 10 largest managed services providers in 2019 and how their market shares evolved in the context of market developments and dynamics. The top 10 managed service providers accounted for 42.8% of the ...
This IDC Presentation provides a detailed analysis of the market and competitive landscape in IT services in Australia from January to June 2020 (1H20). It covers market size movements and growth trends in each of the macromarkets (i.e., ...
This IDC Survey analyzes selected Nordic results from the IDC EMEA's Multicloud Survey, 2020.
"Most organizations use both multiple cloud services and cloud deployment models, but many still need to adopt actual multicloud services ...
This IDC Market Share analyzes the evolution of the intelligent application services vendor market shares in Europe in 2020.
"Intelligent application services in Europe is now coming of age. DevOps is now a major investment focus for ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight illustrates what traits third-party application providers must have to be considered best in class. The document contains data from IDC's 2020 U.S. Enterprise Deal-Making Strategies for Managed ...
This IDC Market Presentation offers an overview of the worldwide largest 15 cloud service provider infrastructure demand trend for third quarter of 2020.
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 finance and accounting (F&A) business process outsourcing. The survey involved U.S. respondents ...
This IDC study presents an overview of Oman's IT services market in 2019 and forecasts expenditure through 2024. The study includes market size and distribution analysis by vertical market and IDC's 12 foundation market categories.
The ...
This IDC study provides a sizing of the employee experience software and services markets in 2019 and a 2020–2024 forecast.
"The bottom line is that the road to recovery can be significantly helped with a focus on employee experience. ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight presents key findings on data storage and processing-related strategies among asset-intensive industries: manufacturing, oil and gas, utilities, and mining. It is based on data from IDC's EMEA IT and OT Convergence ...
This IDC study discusses the performance of the business consulting firms for 2019.
"In 2019, the consulting services market has shown yet another year of sequential growth, as clients are looking to business consulting firms to seek ...
This IDC study provides historical data (2015–2019) and forecast data (2020–2024) for the worldwide service provider compute and storage infrastructure market. The forecast and historical data illustrate consumption of infrastructure hardware ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight provides insight from IDC's 2020 Worldwide IT-OT Integration Survey. It highlights the impact of IT-OT coordination (or lack thereof) within manufacturing ...