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 document presents results from IDC's European Internet of Things (IoT) Decision Maker Survey, conducted in October 2020. The survey probed European organizations’ adoption of IoT solutions and plans for adoption in the context ...
This IDC Survey features data from IDC's 2020 COVID-19 Impact on IT Spending Survey, a global survey conducted from August 21–31, 2020. This document provides results and analysis from 329 Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) (APEJ) senior ...
This IDC Market Forecast analyzes the development of the business fixed data services market in Europe with an outlook to 2024. This market includes internet access, private IP, Ethernet, very-high bandwidth, cloud connectivity, and legacy ...
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 Survey Spotlight discusses the perception of the participation of security in digital transformation initiatives is incongruent with the perception of authority.
"When asked about true authority, requiring sign off, only 10% ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight presents key use cases for video assets from IDC's November 2020 Digital Experience and Video Platforms Survey. The analysis also highlights how the COVID-19 pandemic shifted the use of video from ...
This IDC study presents the U.S. wearable computing device forecast for the 2021–2025 period.
"Vendors will target a broader swath of users with multiple devices available with different feature sets and prices," says Ramon T. Llamas, ...
This IDC study provides the worldwide augmented and virtual reality hardware forecast for the 2021–-2025 period.
"The worldwide AR and VR market is poised for a return to growth," says Ramon T. Llamas, research director, IDC's Augmented ...
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 Market Presentation provides an overview of digital transformation (DX) developments in Europe in 3Q20. It covers news, significant deals, policy announcements, regulatory actions, and investments that could impact markets locally ...
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 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 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 ...
本調査レポートは、国内の産業を、17区分の企業と、中央官庁、地方自治体、教育、消費者の4区分の非企業の計21の産業分野に分類し、それぞれの分野の第3のプラットフォーム支出額実績（2019年）と予測（2020年～2024年）を報告する。また、同市場を5つの従業員規模に分けて分析し、産業分野別および従業員規模別の第3のプラットフォーム支出額の予測データを提供する。本調査レポートで用いる市場予測では、2020年11月時点における新型コロナウイルス感染症（COVID-19）の影響および見通しを考慮している。IDC ...
This IDC Presentation examines the results of IDC's Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker in Western Europe in 3Q20, focusing on the business segment. IDC follows more than 120 mobile device manufacturers in 16 countries, providing detailed shipment ...
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 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 the telecommunications services industry in Turkey in 2019 and forecasts expenditure on telecommunications services through 2024. It contains details about market size and distribution by technology category and vertical ...
This IDC study presents a five-year forecast for the worldwide digital transformation spending market.
"COVID-19 has upended the global economy," said Eileen Smith, vice president, IDC's Customer Insights and Analysis Group. "While ...
This IDC study presents the updated five-year forecast for smartphone shipments worldwide by operating system. The worldwide smartphone market will reach a total of 1.29 billion units shipped in 2020, down 6.4% from the 1.37 billion units ...
本調査レポートは、IDCが2020年10月に実施した、国内企業の5Gクライアント端末採用に関する現状と今後の展望に関する「2020年 国内5G企業ユーザー調査」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。
- 5Gのビジネス利用状況（検討を含む）
- 利用意向のある5G対応クライアントデバイスとその理由
- 5G対応クライアントデバイス採用に当たっての懸念事項
- 5G対応クライアントデバイス非検討の理由
- 5Gビジネス利用非検討の理由
This IDC study presents a forecast of subscribers and transactional clients of paid OTT video services for annual strategic planning. The purpose of this study is to help marketers, product managers, and policy makers gain insight, validate ...
This IDC study provides an update on some of the most prominent use cases being adopted in the precision agriculture space. IDC has created a use case taxonomy for the digital transformation of multiple industry segments. The taxonomy follows ...
This IDC study sizes and forecasts mobile in-app and in-game advertising and the payout to developers/publishers from that spending, broken down by region and by ad format. Mobile advertising revenue is also broken out by major type, format, ...
This IDC study presents the five-year forecast for mobile phone shipments worldwide by device type. The worldwide mobile phone market will reach a total of 1,609.6 million unit shipments in 2020, down 10.4% from the 1,795.4 million units ...
This IDC study examines the worldwide private LT/5G market for 2020–2024. A companion document, IDC PlanScape: Implementing a Private LTE or 5G Network (IDC #US46554920, June ...
据IDC发布的《中国企业无线市场解读，4Q2019》报告显示，2019年中国无线市场营收达到8.45亿美元，同比增长6.4%。此报告以2019年第一季度至第四季度的数据为基础，主要介绍了全球以及中国无线市场的整体规模和未来五年市场规模的预测、中国无线市场竞争分析和行业分析等，同时，从当前及未来五年市场规模预测等角度对中国无线市场展开分析。
IDC中国网络市场研究经理郭越表示： "2019年是无线市场蓄势待发的一年，从国家的宏观政策，到各企业的数字化转型项目都为ICT相关设备市场提供发育因素。行业中的教育，服务，制造和政府等行业引领中国无线整体市场。在产品层面，Wi-Fi ...
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 examines the impact of digital workspaces and VDI on endpoint security. Evidence is mounting that organizations are recalibrating end-user computing as work-from-home and hybrid arrangements rose during the pandemic ...
This IDC study provides an updated market forecast to Worldwide Digital Commerce Applications Forecast, 2020–2024 (IDC #US45243320, June 2020), to show how market assumptions ...
This IDC study provides a five-year forecast of the worldwide used smartphone market and its expansion and growth by 2024. This study provides an updated market forecast, based upon changes that will impact resellers, OEMs, vendors, carriers, ...
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. ...
数字政府作为数字中国的重要组成部分，是构建高水平社会主义市场经济体制的重要支撑，是践行四个全面战略布局和五大新发展理念的重要抓手，是建设社会主义现代化国家的必经途径。从政策角度出发，十九届四中全会强调要创新行政方式，提高行政效能，建设人民满意的服务型政府；十九届五中全会强调推动国家治理体系和治理能力的现代化，而建设数字政府成为了这一理念实践过程中的重要抓手与引擎。截至2020年12月，全国已有15个省级行政单位提出了数字政府相关的规划，且规划主体正由省级政府向市级政府扩展，多层次的数字政府建设正渐渐拉开帷幕。从技术角度出发，大数据、区块链、云计算、人工智能等新兴信息技术不断融合创新，全面支撑数字政府的建设，科技全方面赋能的趋势逐步凸显。从市场规模角度出发，到2024年，数字政府相关的建设中仅IT解决方案的市场规模便会达到249亿人民币，市场前景广阔，未来可期。由此可见，数字政府建设正蓄势待发，。
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This IDC study examines consumer connected mobility and connected home devices install base in Canada for 2020–2024.
"In a year plagued by unforeseen global incidences and restrictions to curb the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, certain ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight investigates how European healthcare organizations can survive and thrive after the COVID-19. It focuses on the capabilities that healthcare providers are expected to adopt to accelerate their digital transformation ...
This IDC Survey presents results from the French segment of IDC's European IoT Decision-Maker Survey. This survey assesses current and planned deployment of IoT projects, including benefits and challenges, impact of COVID-19 on IoT plans, ...
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 Survey presents results from the U.K. segment of IDC's European IoT Decision-Maker Survey. This survey assesses current and planned deployment of IoT projects, including benefits and challenges, impact of COVID-19 on IoT plans, ...
This IDC study provides the five-year forecast update of the tablet market in 2019–2024. Detailed views of product type, segment, operating system (OS), region, screen size, and connectivity type are provided.
"The rapidly growing ...
中国的智慧城市建设驱动力依旧遵循国家政策驱动、地方经济与产业发展带动为主、区域辐射与带动作用不断强化的宏观驱动因素；中国智慧城市的建设存在数据汇集与共享能力有待加强、业务处理流程优化空间大、城市全域感知能力有待加强的微观发展诉求。
IDC政府行业与智慧城市研究组研究经理詹墨磊表示：在全球视角下，中国的智慧城市建设在2019年已经达到了1,600亿元人民币，在国家层次排序里面位居第二位，仅次于美国。2020年，在全球疫情肆虐的情况下，中国提出的新基建、新型城镇化等系列政策，在稳定了中国疫情蔓延态势的同时，也在逐渐恢复国家经济与产业发展。未来，中国智慧城市建设进程将在"十四五"规划周期中进一步提速。从未来发展趋势上看，公共安全一直以来都是中国智慧城市建设的重点领域，未来在后疫情时代以及社会和谐发展的总体背景作用下，依旧会是智慧城市建设的主要内容之一；交通智慧化建设在交通强国战略、新基建等政策的叠加作用下，将会在智慧城市建设中占据越来越多的市场空间，未来的发展潜力巨大；应急管理、生态环境、智慧社区等细分场景的智慧化建设虽然起步较晚，但是在疫情的影响、生态文明建设的加强以及基层治理等政策要素的驱动下，在未来3-5年会有较大的增速以及广阔的市场空间。
...伴随人工智能、大数据、云计算等新兴技术的蓬勃发展，"智慧+行业"成为全球各国所关注的重点发展方向。其中，智慧城市便成为新兴技术与传统行业、应用场景相结合的产物。与此同时，万物互联时代下的安全隐患也层出不穷，智慧城市安全建设变得更加至关重要。
IDC 在本次研究中对中国重点技术服务供应商、最终客户进行了深入访谈，了解全国各地智慧城市安全运营中心的建设模式、建设痛点、建设内容和最佳实践。同时，IDC结合中国网络安全市场发展特色，从技术提供商和技术买家的不同视角给出建议。IDC ...
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 Market Analysis Perspective provides detailed information on the European technology skills market. It addresses key skills trends and dynamics in the region, identifies the skills market players and interactions, and provides a ...
本調査レポートでは、国内金融機関に加えて、金融機関以外の産業分野において金融サービスを展開する企業も調査対象として、IT支出動向を調査、分析している。なお、国内金融機関は18業態に分類し、2019年～2024年のIT支出動向の分析を行っている。また、国内金融機関における新型コロナウイルス感染症（COVID-19）の影響、デジタルトランスフォーメーション（DX）の取り組みを分析している。一方で、他の産業分野において金融サービスを展開する企業のビジネス／IT支出動向を分析している。特に金融機関以外の企業の金融サービスの意向に関するアンケート調査結果を基に、これらの企業の金融サービス展開のためのIT支出規模を国内FinTech関連／エコシステムIT支出規模として推計している。
国内金融機関では、COVID-19の感染拡大によって既存システム向けのIT支出は抑制、凍結する金融機関は多いが、非対面チャネルの強化、業務効率化を目的としたDX施策は高い優先順位で推進している。また、メガバンクなど大手金融機関では新しいビジネスモデル構築に向けたDX関連の案件は継続しており、大手保険会社においても健康増進支援、テレマティクス関連の保険商品／サービスの取り組みは加速している。国内金融機関において、今後既存ビジネスの成長性の停滞がさらに深刻になるとみており、業態を問わず新しいビジネスモデルの構築が求められる。したがって、「ITサプライヤーは、COVID-19の感染拡大の中でも新しいビジネスモデル構築の支援が求められる。特に金融サービスを展開する他の産業分野の企業との連携、および地域創生支援に対して積極的に支援することが有効である」と、IDC ...
"SD-WAN is driven by a combination of applications and data cloud migration, the COVID-19 pandemic's impact due to the work-from-home (WFH) scheme, the introduction of cloud-native architecture and technologies, the proliferation of fiber-optic ...
This IDC study provides details of IDC's Worldwide Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality (AR/VR) Spending Guide taxonomy. It should be used as a companion piece for the spending forecast. Technology suppliers can use this forecast structure ...