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 study defines and provides a framework for analyzing the installed base of storage capacity, the amount of the installed base of storage capacity that is utilized, and the portion of the installed base that is available for storing ...
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 study provides details of IDC's worldwide multicloud data management and protection taxonomy. The data protection market is highly dynamic, driven by new application workload deployments and cloud capabilities. The majority of IT ...
本調査レポートでは、国内Software-Defined Storage（SDS）市場における支出額と出荷容量について、2018年～2024年の分析と予測を行っている。市場予測はブロック、ファイル、オブジェクトと、ハイパーコンバージドインフラストラクチャの4セグメントに分けて実績の算出と予測を行っている。IDC Japanのグループディレクターである森山 正秋は「国内SDS市場でビジネスを展開するベンダーにとっては、ハイブリッドクラウド環境におけるビジネス機会の獲得が新しい成長戦略になりつつある。ハイブリッドクラウド環境におけるソリューションの提供能力が、ベンダーのSDSビジネスの成長に大きく影響する」と分析している。
...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 ...
本調査レポートは、2020年3月に商用サービスが始まったモバイル通信規格5Gと、5Gをエリア限定で運用するローカル5Gが、今後、法人市場にどのように導入されていくかを分析および予測するものである。ローカル5Gベンダーの戦略や5Gの国内経済効果についての分析も行った。「5Gでは多くのベンダーが顧客との共創や個別顧客を支援するタイプのビジネス（ネットワーク構築、マネージドサービスなど）を志向し、取り組みが似通ってしまいがちである。マネタイズの源泉としてネットワーク構築やマネージドサービスは分かりやすく確実であるが、これだけでは選ばれる決め手としては弱い。顧客に選ばれるベンダーになるには、中長期的に必要とされる他社と競合しにくいソリューション分野を、今から開拓する取り組みが不可欠である」とIDC ...
This IDC study represents a vendor assessment of service providers offering unified communications as a service (UCaaS) for enterprise using the IDC MarketScape model. The assessment reviews both quantitative and qualitative characteristics ...
This IDC study represents a vendor assessment of service providers offering unified communications as a service (UCaaS) for SMBs using the IDC MarketScape model. The assessment reviews both quantitative and qualitative characteristics that ...
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, ...
This IDC study analyzes vendor market shares and vendor trends in 2019 in the network virtualization and automation platform market, which is a major component of the Japan network virtualization and automation market. VMware and Cisco Systems ...
This IDC study provides an analysis of the Japan unified communications and collaboration workspace market share based on vendor revenue performance in 2019. IDC classifies the market into four major solution segments — the IP telephony ...
This IDC study provides a comprehensive overview of and definitions for personal computing devices (PCDs). The definitions provided in this document represent the scope of IDC's PCD hardware research.
This taxonomy outlines market ...
This IDC Taxonomy provides a comprehensive overview of the definitions used for measuring telecom services markets across the globe. The top-level methodology used to research these markets is also outlined in the study. The taxonomy summaries ...
This IDC study provides an overview of computing platforms market. In 2021, the taxonomy has been significantly overhauled to include non-rack and custom rack form factors (including accommodations for systems deployed in supercomputing). ...
This IDC Market Forecast discusses the European fixed business voice services market for 2019 to 2024. It examines the transition from TDM to IP voice services and from on-premises voice platforms to hosted services. IDC data products, such ...
This IDC study provides a comprehensive overview of and definitions for workstations. The definitions provided in this document represent the scope of IDC's workstation hardware research. This taxonomy outlines market segmentations and measurement ...
This IDC Market Forecast provides an overview of spending in enterprise networking in Europe, including the enterprise switching, routers, and WLAN markets until 2024. It addresses market drivers and inhibitors and provides essential guidance ...
This IDC study provides a brief overview of the worldwide enterprise storage systems market performance during the third calendar quarter of 2020 (CY 3Q20).
"The enterprise storage systems market remained on largely a stable growth ...
This IDC study provides a comprehensive overview and definitions for IDC's enterprise storage systems research, outlining market segmentations and measurement methodologies for the storage industry including classification by technology, ...
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 PlanScape is a follow-on to the IDC MaturityScape and IDC MaturityScape Benchmark documents for print and document management that outlined the stages and dimensions of print and document management maturity and assessed where organizations ...
This IDC study provides a brief overview of the worldwide server market performance during the third quarter of 2020 (CY 3Q20).
"Global demand for enterprise servers was a bit muted during the third quarter of 2020, although we did ...
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 ...
IDC未来客户研究是以终端客户和消费者为中心，从共情化和同理心的角度出发，理解未来客户的需求，通过数据和数字化技术的应用，改进数字化和营销策略，平衡客户体验与业务成果之间的关系，有目标性地创建与终端客户之间个性、信任的客户关系。
- 预测1：到2021年，70%的组织将通过自动化操作和非接触式体验率先转向数字化，因为物理交互已成为过去式便利。
- 预测2： 到2025年，规模化共情和安全性表现优秀的企业将胜过那些没有同等能力企业的40%。
- 预测3：到2022年，中国财富500强B2C品牌中，45%的公司将指派高管，负责增加“消费者娱乐化”应用的使用，以接触Z世代和α世代的买家。
- 预测4：到2025年，50％中国财富500强企业在消费者生成视频的投入将验证其对企业收入和客户满意度的影响。
- 预测5：在2021年，客户将额外投入25%的花费在与数字化转型可快速轻松地适应新业务环境的公司合作方面。
- 预测6：到2024年，将有60％的技术购买者选择成熟知名的合作伙伴，通过越来越快的创新速度，来适应消费者提出的变化多端的需求。
- 预测7：到2023年，将有45％的组织使用标准化工作流与企业应用程序链接，来重新控制对用户定义的应用程序稳定性，从而提高客户数据安全性并提供出色的客户体验。
- 预测8：到2023年底，将有80％的大中型企业制定或修改社会责任声明，并使他们的客户重新认知，从而促进社会事业的发展。
- 预测9到2021年，65％的新移动应用程序将专注于为消费者提供人性化的数字体验，使消费者对新数字优先更加认同。
- 预测10：到2024年，隐私将被重新定义为“数据价值”，供应商将提供客户忠诚服务计划，以交换消费者数据，70％的消费者将参与其中。
This IDC study provides a comprehensive overview of and definitions for gaming desktop, notebook and monitors. The definitions provided in this document represent the scope of IDC's Gaming Tracker hardware research.
This taxonomy outlines ...
This IDC Presentation discusses the Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) (APEJ) regionalization of the 2021 Worldwide Future of Connectedness Predictions. Each prediction is presented based on timeline projection, cost/complexity assessment, and ...
This IDC FutureScape discusses the Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) (APEJ) regionalization of the 2021 Worldwide Future of Digital Infrastructure Predictions. Each prediction is presented based on timeline projection, cost/complexity assessment, ...
This IDC study presents the assessment of 10 communication service providers (CSPs) that provide software-defined WAN (SD-WAN) managed services in the Asia/Pacific region. The assessment is based on their current capabilities, GTM strategies, ...
This IDC study quantifies the U.S. business inkjet market in detail, analyzing issues, trends, and product advances. It contains IDC's review and forecast of the U.S. business inkjet market for 2014–2024. Unit shipments, value of shipments, ...
This IDC study reports on the market size and trends in the worldwide large format roll and flatbed cutter market.
"The large format cutter market is in a state of transition," said Tim Greene, research director, Hardcopy Solutions ...
This IDC study presents the first iteration of our Worldwide Edge Spending Guide taxonomy for 2020, which provides a framework to categorize and relate technology elements within the dynamic edge market. This document provides definitions ...
Cyber-resilience programs focus on building an organization's capacity to anticipate, withstand, and recover from adverse events by applying time-tested engineering principles to the system design process. The practice of resilience engineering ...
This IDC Presentation localizes the IDC Worldwide FutureScape 2021 statement to the Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) (APEJ) region, which has seen the rapid adoption of print technology to augment traditional/analog workflows. APEJ will change ...
This IDC Presentation discusses the Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) (APEJ) regionalization of IDC FutureScape: Worldwide Future of Customer and Consumer 2021 Predictions ( IDC #US46909620, October 2020). As the region ...
本調査レポートでは、国内外付型エンタープライズストレージシステム市場における2020年上半期の産業分野別支出額実績をベースに、2020年～2024年の予測のアップデートを行っている。また、OS（メインフレームとオープン）別、接続環境（SAN （Storage Area Network）/NAS（Network-Attached Storage））別の観点からも予測している。
IDC Japan エンタープライズインフラストラクチャのシニアマーケットアナリストである加藤 ...
This IDC study forecasts the worldwide market graphics processing units (GPUs) designed for desktop PCs, mobile PCs, workstations, servers, and embedded and intelligent systems.
"In 2021, we expect the discrete GPU market to stabilize," ...
本調査レポートは、国内産業用ネットワーク機器市場に関する2021年～2025年の市場予測と今後の展望を提供する。製造業を中心にIoT（Internet of Things）の進展やDXの推進と共に成長を続けてきた国内産業用ネットワーク機器市場も、新型コロナウイルス感染症（COVID-19）の感染拡大の影響から免れることはできず、2020年はわずかな成長に留まった。一方で、生産設備や製造現場のネットワーク化は、COVID-19の感染拡大状況下のみならずポストCOVID-19においても不可逆的な動きであり、産業用ネットワーク機器市場の根源的な成長エンジンである。2021年後半からは産業用ネットワーク構築プロジェクトの回復が見込まれ、2021年から再び成長基調に転じ、安定して成長するとIDCでは見込んでいる。産業用ネットワークの重要性の高まりと複雑性の増加に伴って、ネットワーク管理の必要性も高まっている。産業用ネットワーク機器ベンダーは、「産業用ネットワーク管理ソリューションの強化を、ネットワーク自動化／高度化とネットワーク管理促進の両面からアプローチすべきである。前者には、自律的回復力を備えたネットワーク自動化ソリューションを提供し、後者には無償化したネットワーク可視化ソリューションが有効である」とIDC ...
本プレゼンテーションは、信頼の未来（Future of Trust）における中長期的な動向について10項目の予測（Predictions）をまとめたものである。米国において発行された『IDC FutureScape: Worldwide Future of Trust 2021 Predictions（IDC # US46912920、2020年10月発行）』の内容を基に、国内市場の状況を考慮して一部変更を加えた。なお、本プレゼンテーション内の数値は断りなく使用されている場合は世界市場の数値を示しており、国内市場の数値には国内市場であることを明記している。
2020年の国内情報セキュリティ市場は、新型コロナウイルス感染症（COVID-19）の感染拡大によって、国内経済が低迷するものの、高度なサイバー攻撃の被害が継続的に発生していることや、職場勤務から在宅勤務へと大規模なリモートワークへの移行によって在宅勤務で利用するクライアントPCにおけるマルウェア感染や企業ネットワークへの侵害、クラウドサービスへの侵害など新たなセキュリティリスクへの危機感が高まった。
2021年から2024年にかけては、リモートワークの普及拡大と政府のデジタル化推進によって、企業におけるデジタルトランスフォーメーション（DX）も進展し、オンプレミスのIT環境はクラウド環境へと移行が加速すると思われる。また、EU一般データ保護規則（GDPR）など海外のプライバシー法や2020年6月に改正法案が可決、成立した個人情報保護法、米国政府調達における管理すべき重要情報（CUI：Controlled ...
本調査レポートでは、プリント／ドキュメントソリューションズおよび3Dプリンティング市場における2021年～2025年の変化を予測し、ITバイヤーが認識すべき10項目の予測（Predictions）としてまとめた。このレポートは、米国で発行された『IDC FutureScape: Worldwide Imaging, Printing, and Document Solutions and 3D Printing 2021 ...
本プレゼンテーションは、国内IT市場において、2021年から2025年に国内の顧客エクスペリエンス（CX）市場で起きると予測される主要な事象をITバイヤー向けに記載したものであり、新型コロナウイルス感染症（COVID-19）の感染拡大、顧客の急速なデジタルシフトなど未来の顧客に関する市場環境の変化を捉え、2021年以降に起きるとみられる10項目の事象（Predictions）を提示することで、ITバイヤーが時宣を得た対応策をとれるように支援することにある。
「企業は、全社的なCX向上への取り組みを早急に展開する必要がある。また、CXの成熟度を高める上で顧客データの収集／分析／アプリケーションへの展開による顧客データとAIの活用は欠かせない。これまで以上にブランド価値、顧客の価値を重視し、社会的役割／責任を果たす企業文化の構築は、広義のCXを向上させる施策として重要性が増していく」とIDC ...
本プレゼンテーションは、Future of Connectedness市場における2021年～2026年の10項目の予測（Predictions）をまとめたものである。本プレゼンテーションに先立って発行された『IDC FutureScape: Worldwide Future of Connectedness 2021 Predictions（IDC #US46921520、2020年10月発行）』の内容を基に、国内市場の状況を考慮して一部変更を加えた。なお、本プレゼンテーション内の数値は断りなく使用されている場合は世界市場の数値を示しており、国内市場の数値には国内市場であることを明記している。
消費者と企業のいずれにおいてもデジタルな関係への依存度が高まる中で、そこで求められるユビキタスで信頼性が高く、シームレスで広汎なネットワークがFuture ...
This study analyzes the network equipment spending (capex) and total capital expenditures (CAPEX) in the region in both fixed-line and mobile networks.
"The rapid rise of LTE handset penetration, combined with FTTP buildouts in developed ...
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 ...
本調査レポートでは、国内ストレージソフトウェア市場を以下の5分野、1. データレプリケーション／保護ソフトウェア、2. アーカイビングソフトウェア、3. Software-Defined Storage コントロールソフトウェア、4. ストレージ／デバイス管理ソフトウェア、5. ストレージインフラストラクチャソフトウェア、に分類し、2020年～2024年の国内市場における売上額を機能市場セグメント別に予測している。
「デジタルデータは今後も活用の場面が増え続け、企業活動はデータドリブン（データに基づいて判断、行動を進めること）になっていくであろう。そのようなデータを確実に保護し、活用を促進するストレージインフラは、その効率性と経済性をさらに高めることが要求され、その実現のためにストレージソフトウェアが果たすべき役割はますます重要になる」とIDC ...
This IDC study examines the current state of the digital infrastructure market and provides additional insights about the speed of adoption, technology potential for success, and level of market buzz so that IT and line-of-business decision ...
This IDC Market Forecast analyzes the European unified communications as a service market over the 2019–2024 forecast period.
"Cloud-based communication enables businesses to adapt their work environments to their distributed workforce, ...
This IDC study provides a visual representation of the process of technology adoption, dividing technologies into three major categories based on their impact on the organization and assessing technology relative to adoption levels within ...
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 ...
5G is gaining momentum across the Asia Pacific (excluding Japan), or APEJ, region. While South Korea was the first country in the world to launch 5G in April 2019, China, the U.S. and Australia followed suit very quickly. By June 2019, several ...