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 PeerScape describes four best practices of how manufacturers from the automotive, aerospace, industrial machinery, and chemicals industries leverage data sharing and exchange with their ecosystem of partners, suppliers, and customers ...
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 represents a vendor assessment of providers offering eDiscovery services through the IDC MarketScape model. The assessment reviews both quantitative and qualitative characteristics that define current market demands and expected ...
This IDC study presents a vendor assessment of digital finance and accounting business process services (BPS) focusing on the use of digital levers to deliver these services and drive greater cost and process efficiencies, reduce total cost ...
This IDC TechScape discusses technologies that are essential to enable innovation through a retail commerce platform and to execute commerce everywhere business models efficiently and effectively. The study aims to help senior executives ...
This IDC study on artificial intelligence maturity is intended to offer a systematic and rigorous approach for organizations to assess their competency and maturity. To help financial institutions evaluate current artificial intelligence ...
This IDC study provides an assessment of SaaS and cloud-enabled contract life-cycle management software solutions and discusses what criteria are most important for companies to consider when selecting a system.
"Contract life-cycle ...
This IDC study provides an assessment of SaaS and cloud-enabled spend analysis software solutions and discusses what criteria are most important for companies to consider when selecting a system.
"Spend analysis solutions are moving ...
This IDC study provides an assessment of SaaS and cloud-enabled sourcing software solutions and discusses what criteria are most important for companies to consider when selecting a system.
"Sourcing solutions are becoming more cognitive ...
This IDC study provides an assessment of SaaS and cloud-enabled supplier relationship management software solutions and discusses what criteria are most important for companies to consider when selecting a system.
"Supplier relationship ...
This IDC study provides an assessment of SaaS and cloud-enabled procure-to-pay software solutions and discusses what criteria are most important for companies to consider when selecting a system.
"Procure-to-pay solutions have become ...
This IDC study provides an assessment of SaaS and cloud-enabled procurement software solutions and discusses what criteria are most important for companies to consider when selecting a system.
"Procurement solutions are evolving rapidly ...
This IDC study focuses on three IT leaders and how they imbued and institutionalized agile and resilient behavioral characteristics directly into their IT organizations: how they absorbed the first disruptive blow of the pandemic, made quick ...
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 PlanScape identifies the main drivers (why), foundational elements (what), key actors (who), and business outcomes (how) involved in enhancing customer experience that helps retail organizations better respond in real time to unpredictable ...
This IDC study describes the practices that CIOs should adopt with their business partners to successfully overhaul their development approaches. An Agile methodology describes the culture of transparency and trust within which Agile practices ...
This IDC TechScape examines technologies that are essential for safely reopening and managing office spaces during the COVID-19 pandemic and have the potential to evolve in the coming years. It provides a visual representation of the process ...
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 reinforces the aspects of culture that must surround agile practices. The Agile Manifesto is brief and the message of people over process is reinforced in many ways. The most popular development framework that builds on the ...
This IDC FutureScape details the top 10 predictions and their Asia/Pacific implications for the future of digital innovation in 2021 and beyond.
Fueled by meteoric market changes and accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic, leading Asia/Pacific ...
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 study looks at how companies can deploy wearables that monitor social distancing and contact tracing, as well as wearables that monitor wearer health for potential signs of illness. This includes looking at how these devices work, ...
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 Presentation discusses the 2021 worldwide Future of Intelligence 2021 predictions' impact on India. Each prediction is presented based on timeline projection, complexity assessment, and organizational impact on the mainstream market. ...
This IDC FutureScape provides IDC's top 10 predictions for the 2021 CIO agenda. These predictions provide a strategic context, which will enable CIOs to lead their organizations through the journey to recovery and in the next normal over ...
2020年的疫情给科技、生活的方方面面都带来了巨大影响，各行各业都不同程度地加速了数字化进程，以提高线上经营的能力和对市场变化灵活反应的能力。疫情为金融机构带来挑战的同时，同样也带来了通过加大科技投入、深化数字化转型来实现弯道超车的机会。本报告结合中国金融服务行业的技术热点及金融业务发展状况，给出2021-2025年间最重要的10条预测，并分别阐述外部驱动因素、对IT及业务的影响、对金融机构技术选型的建议等，希望对中国的金融服务行业深化数字化转型起到一定的指导作用。
...With the prospect of sharp recovery in economic activities in 2021, corporate banking in India is expected to witness a significant evolution in the path to recovery as banks redesign their corporate customer experience (CX) on a digitalized ...
The way digital services are consumed is changing rapidly in Asia/Pacific and Japan, especially in 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic forced changes on both organizations and consumers. The traditional way of securing digital transactions ...
This IDC FutureScape Presentation discusses the impact of the IDC FutureScape: Worldwide Cloud 2021 Predictions ( IDC #US46420120, October 2020) on India. Each prediction is presented based on the timeline projection, ...
IDC FutureScape针对增长中的区块链和分布式账本技术（DLT）市场做出10个预测。这些预测都受到IDC定义的在技术、行业、经济、政治、甚至文化方面总体趋势的影响。这些趋势或外部驱动因素为企业和业务部门的技术领导者提供了部署IT战略的工具。与往年一样，许多趋势来源于影响业务和技术的变化速度不断提升。但是今年，许多外部驱动因素也反映了全球COVID-19疫情的持续影响以及企业为保持抵抗能力并适应下一个正常状态所做的努力。
2021年FutureScape所涵盖的预测未按优先级或重要性排列，具体如下：
- 预测1：法律诉讼和控告阻碍电子选举的进程。到2025年，基于区块链的电子投票方案将成为主流的解决方案，会有5%的司法辖区进行区块链投票系统测试。
- 预测2：到2024年，医疗保健区块链数字身份标准将来自卫健委或其他卫生机构，可以实现以下四点：医疗数据互操作性、完善的客户/患者数据信息、患者"健康评分"、利于AI技术更好的服务医疗体系。
- 预测3：到2025年，供应链行业中15％的机构将与区块链服务公司合作，整合区块链技术与物联网平台，以此记录M2M通信所需的数据。
- 预测4：到2025年，将有15％的消费贷款以中央银行数字货币形式支付。
- 预测5：到2025年，将有8％的金融机构使用区块链技术来满足KYC合规需求，以此创建透明的、可审核的实体记录。
- 预测6：到2025年，在立法要求下，将有50％的跨洲航运会运用区块链技术记录船员健康信息、船用燃油来源和货物来源数据。
- 预测7：到2025年，10％的供应链交易将使用区块链完成道德信任溯源与可持续业务证实，以增加数据可信度。
- 预测8：到2025年，中国通证化资产市场将达到1000亿美元。
- 预测9：基于区块链的跨境汇款网络将在特定的地域持续发展。到2023年，支付规模将超过15亿美元。
- 预测10：COVID-19会在短期内阻碍基于区块链技术的贸易融资业务转型，但到2025年，15%的商业银行用户将被纳入区块链平台。
According to IDC’s 2020 Supply Chain Survey, almost 75% of Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) (APEJ) manufacturers see the lack of supply chain visibility and resiliency as the top gaps that will likely be problematic for supply ...
This IDC FutureScape for IT/operational technology (OT) convergence shows the implications for Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) (APEJ). The report shows the relative implications of each of the 10 predictions within IDC FutureScape: ...
This IDC FutureScape presents IDC Financial Insights’ view of the top 10 predictions for payment strategies as they apply to the Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) (APEJ) region as banks, merchants, and payment processors invest in the technology ...
Based on the IDC's study on the global data and analytics market, this IDC FutureScape presents the implications of top 10 predictions in the Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) (APEJ) region for the next five years. The predictions are presented ...
This IDC FutureScape provides the Australian view of the IDC FutureScape: Worldwide IT Industry 2021 Predictions (IDC #US46942020, October 2020). It delivers a ...
DevOps practices and methodologies have never been so critical. This IDC study delivers IDC's top 10 developer and DevOps predictions for Asia/Pacific organizations in 2021.
"Asia was the first to suffer from the COVID-19 pandemic, ...
In 2020 and with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) (APEJ) manufacturing is one of the hardest-hit sectors because of challenges from both supply and demand uncertainties. Restrictions imposed on people and ...
This IDC Presentation discusses the Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) (APEJ) regionalization of the Worldwide IT Industry FutureScape for 2021. It provides an outlook view of the ICT industry as it relates to tech buyers' road maps, priorities, ...
This IDC Presentation discusses the New Zealand implications of the IDC FutureScape: Worldwide IT Industry Awards, 2021 (IDC #US46942020). It delivers a detailed look at what is happening and what is expected to happen ...
This IDC FutureScape for Future of Operations (FoO) shows the implications for the Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) (APEJ) region. The report shows the relative implication on each of the 10 predictions within IDC FutureScape: ...
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 PeerScape introduces the concept of self-directed IT organizations as an alternative to traditional hierarchical, command-control structures in the face of increasing business volatility. It introduces practices ...
This IDC PeerScape describes practices that help CIOs improve their approaches to more traditional IT digital transformation governance while adopting new practices to improve its effectiveness.
"The need for speed coupled with the ...
This IDC PeerScape describes how four CIOs from very different organizations and industries had the foresight to prioritize cultural health as the foundation of their success. The cultures they created went well beyond the traditional boundaries ...
This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation provides the Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) (APEJ) regionalization of IDC FutureScape: Worldwide Digital Transformation 2021 Predictions (IDC #US46880818, ...
본 보고서는 세계 디지털 트랜스포메이션 2021년 전망에 있어 한국 시장에 대한 시사점을 제공한다. 2021년 IDC 미래전망(FutureScape)은 코로나19가 몰고 온 파괴적인 변화에 의해 주요 방향이 결정되었다. 코로나 위기 속에서 디지털로의 이동과 비즈니스 구도의 근본적인 변화가 가속화된 가운데, 트랜스포메이션 성숙도가 낮은 기업이 변화에 적응하는데 더 어려움을 겪으면서, 혁신은 파괴적인 변화에 대응하기 위한 전략과제가 ...
2020年是充满变化的一年，政治经济环境的巨大变化，正在重塑全球的商业模式和产业格局，而新冠疫情深刻地改变了人们的工作与生活方式。跨地域的协作正在变得更加重要，非接触性商业悄然崛起，远程教育、远程医疗正在成为 “新常态” ，而且R16成为3GPP第一个通过在线方式发布的国际通信标准。
展望新的十年，2021年将是新的开端，新兴科技将加速普及，物理世界与数字世界将实现真正的融合，连接技术的运用将至关重要。未来连接将向覆盖泛在化、应用场景化、技术融合化、管理智能化方向发展，在数字化转型的“新常态”下，帮助企业发现“新商机”。
数字化转型不是一蹴而就的，“技术+业务”将会有一个长期的磨合过程。未来将是一个万物互联、万物感知的时代，连接将是消除鸿沟、释放数字价值的核心要素。IDC近日发布的《IDC ...
This IDC FutureScape presents IDC Financial Insights' view of the top 10 predictions for financial services as they apply to the Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) (APEJ) region as banks, insurers, and capital market firms invest in technology ...
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 ...