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 an overview of the vendors participating in the Internet of Things ecosystem.
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 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 Survey explores the selection criteria for cloud professional services providers in midsize and large organizations in Canada. This survey provides insights to help vendors, service providers, and partners understand the market ...
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―トは、デジタルインフラストラクチャ市場における2021年以降の変化を予測し、ITバイヤーが認識すべき10項目の予測（Predictions）としてまとめている。本調査レポートは米国において発行された『IDC FutureScape: Worldwide Future of Digital Infrastructure 2021 Predictions（IDC #、2020年10月発行）』の内容を基にしており、国内市場の状況を考慮して一部変更を加えている。
デジタルインフラストラクチャは、部分的にデジタル化された組織をサポートするものではなく、デジタル化でエンドツーエンドの運営を目指す組織を実現するものに役割が変わっている。テクノロジー自体は変革という目的を達成するための手段であり、目的そのものではない。このため、本Predictionsではテクノロジー自体に焦点を合わせるのではなく、デジタルインフラストラクチャのテクノロジーが急速に採用されることで、企業や組織にもたらす変革的なビジネス成果に焦点を合わせた予測を行っている。
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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 ...
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 Tech Supplier Presentation highlights the cloud adoption plans and budgets of small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), their hybrid cloud/multicloud adoption pattern, their workload shifts on cloud, and the way they have planned ...
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.
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The Indonesia banking industry continues to progress digital transformation by adopting 3rd Platform technologies as well as cognitive, Internet of Things (IoT), and digital core banking. This IDC research identifies the top 5 technology ...
This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation highlights the top 10 predictions and key drivers for the European cloud industry over the next five years. It analyzes the IT and business impact of each prediction in the market and provides guidance for ...
This IDC Presentation provides a detailed analysis of the market and competitive landscape in Hong Kong’s cloud services from January to June 2020 (1H20). It covers revenue snapshots for infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a ...
This IDC Presentation provides a detailed analysis of the market and competitive landscape in cloud services in India from January to June 2020 (1H20). It covers revenue snapshots on infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight examines whether IT infrastructure investment intent has begun to improve after the initial decline in spending intent throughout 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. These findings are based on wave 15 of the IDC ...
This report details an IDC interview with Mrs. Gülsün Akhisaroglu, the global IT director of Hayat Holding. She shared her valuable experience with developing and deploying an AI-powered predictive quality solution in a paper-production ...
This IDC Market Presentation focuses on the value of vendor attributes to partner businesses as they battle the COVID-19 crisis and the business resiliency of partners. This content was presented at IDC's Software Channel Leadership Council ...
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 ...
本調査レポートの目的は、オフィスプリント機器のエンドユーザーに対してサーベイ調査を実施し、COVID-19がオフィス勤務状況やプリントに与える影響について調査することである。そして、その結果から「ネクストノーマル」におけるオフィスおよびプリントの在り方を考察する。
This IDC Survey Spotlight looks at the progression and success of manufacturers as they assess their response to the short- and long-term impacts of COVID-19. In particular, respondents have indicated a mixed recovery, where manufacturers ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight looks at the impact of a business' COVID-19 recovery on their planned IoT technology spending for 2021.
This IDC Survey Spotlight comes from data as part of IDC's COVID-19 Impact on ...
This IDC Perspective discusses the concept of lifelong learning for individuals and businesses and its relevance in a fast-changing world of work. The ability of employees to become lifelong learners is crucial for future success. While ...
This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation discusses the Canadian regionalization of the IDC FutureScape: Worldwide Services 2021 Predictions (IDC #US45374020, October 2020). ...
This IDC Vendor Profile analyzes Snow Software, a Swedish company delivering technology intelligence solutions that cover the cloud, software, hardware, and infrastructure to organizations across the world. This report examines the company ...
This IDC Market presentation focuses on how COVID-19 is impacting partner businesses, specifically related to their stages to recovery and what that means to partner revenue. This content was presented at IDC's Software Channel Leadership ...
This IDC Presentation provides a detailed analysis of the market and competitive landscape in cloud services in Australia and New Zealand (ANZ) from January to June 2020 (1H20). It covers key events and trends in the overall cloud services ...
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 Perspective profiles Equinix, which is the global datacenter and interconnection leader.
"Equinix is well positioned to remain a leader in the colocation and interconnection sector. It has a strong global footprint ...
本調査レポートは、2020年までの国内クライアント仮想化市場、関連企業およびユーザー企業、それぞれの動向分析を基に、2021年の市場に影響を与える10項目についてIDCがまとめたものである。IDC Japan PC、携帯端末＆クライアントソリューションのシニアマーケットアナリストである渋谷 寛は、「2021年は、「ネクストノーマル」へ向けたIT戦略が試される年になるであろう。クライアント仮想化事業者は、サステナビリティやレジリエンシーを考慮した最適なハイブリッドソリューションを提案することが求められている」と指摘している。
...This IDC Survey Spotlight analyzes results from IDC's Enterprise Networking: Emergence of The New Normal Survey conducted during the November-December 2020 time period. IDC surveyed 250 respondent organizations targeting enterprise ...
This IDC Perspective delves into hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) architecture and how it can enable a hybrid cloud architecture that can provide a single, consistent view of both on-premises and public clouds.
"Software vendors ...
This IDC Market Presentation discusses how business dynamics and the availability of cloud applications are resulting in companies reexamining the best alternative to create market disruption or enhance their portfolio. As a result, strategic ...
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 Presentation offers an overview of the worldwide largest 15 cloud service provider infrastructure demand trend for third quarter of 2020.
This IDC Market Perspective explores European organizations' progress toward a transformed private-cloud-based IT infrastructure, examines companies' receptiveness to using the end-to-end cloud stacks of the leading public cloud vendors ...
This IDC Market Perspective provides a focus on value in network analytics. When examining network analytics solutions, it is easy to be drawn to leading-edge capabilities (e.g., packet telemetry, synthetic transactions, cloud visibility, ...
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 Survey Spotlight examines the wave 15 data collected from December 3 to 15, 2020. As noted in recent survey results, IDC is now asking about 2021 spending trends.
In this latest data set, we observe an increasingly negative ...
This IDC Market Note summarizes noteworthy developments in the European AI systems marketplace in 3Q20 as selected by IDC's European AI practice members.
"A number of sectors have been hard hit by the pandemic. AI vendors have lost ...
This IDC Vendor Profile examines Germany-headquartered Computomics, a start-up founded in 2012 that has developed AI software systems to support the activities of plant breeders. Computomics aims to bring the power of advanced machine learning ...
本調査レポートは、国内データエコシステム市場およびIoT市場において2021年に起きると予測する主要な10項目と、それらに対応すべくベンダーがどのようなアクションを取るべきかについてまとめたものである。企業がIoTデータや、基幹系システム／業務システムに蓄積されるデータなど、企業内部におけるさまざまなファーストパーティデータを、外部のセカンドパーティ（協業先の組織）／サードパーティ（協業先以外の外部組織）データと掛け合わせ、新たなビジネスモデル／収益モデルを創出すべく形成するステークホルダーの集合体を「データエコシステム」と定義している。ベンダーは、データエコシステムを取り巻く、法規制の変化、データ流通基盤技術の変化、期待されるソリューション像の変化、ステークホルダー間の関係性の変化、個人／企業の意識の変化など、さまざまな変化に対応する必要があるとみられる。
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This IDC Market Presentation provides the content presented at the December 2020 Infrastructure Channels and Ecosystem Leadership Council. The primary topic of the council was the increasing importance of the ecosystem and the growth of ...
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 TechBrief examines what options are available for upstream oil and gas companies with regard to land management software.
"There is a balance of functionality, cost, best practices, and business philosophy that will be balanced ...
The IDC Market Perspective presents an overview of telecommunications service provider's capital expenditure worldwide and discusses in brief the regional factors influencing the overall telecommunications service provider industry capex.
"The ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight examines Turkish organizations’ security investment plans and offers a perspective on such investments over the next two years. Survey respondents included security directors, security managers, CISOs, and CIOs ...
This IDC Market Perspective looks at the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the challenges associated with managing secure print in a hybrid work environment. This document discusses how organizations should approach print security for ...
本調査レポートは、2020年12月中旬までに収集した情報を基に、クラウドインフラストラクチャ／プラットフォーム領域およびクラウド向けITサービス事業を中心として、国内クラウド市場における主要ベンダーのビジネス動向をまとめたものである。また、国内クラウド市場における配備モデル／サービス別の市場動向と主要ベンダーのビジネス動向を分析し、ベンダーが成長するための提言を行っている。
新型コロナウイルス感染症（COVID-19）の感染拡大は企業のDXに対する意識を高めた。一方、クラウドファースト戦略だけでは、企業はDXへとつながるクラウドジャーニーを加速することはできない。企業は、デジタルインフラストラクチャや社内外のデータリソースを統合管理すると共に運用の自動化を実現し、迅速なアプリケーションの開発と展開を実現する「クラウドセントリックIT」に取り組む必要がある。「ベンダーは、企業のクラウドセントリックITの支援に貢献するベストプラクティスの公開と、マルチクラウド／ハイブリッド環境の導入／運用およびデータの利活用の簡易化／容易化を推進する必要がある」と、IDC ...
本調査レポートは、国内事業者データセンターにおける保守運用コスト（保守コスト、人件費、電力コスト）、および電力消費量を推計、分析したものである。保守運用コストは、6種類のモデルケースを平均的な事業者データセンターの例として設定し、各ケースについて推計している。また、電力消費量については、2020年と2024年の年間電力消費量を推計している。
「ハイパースケールデータセンターの急増によって、データセンターの電力需要も急速に増加している。データセンターの電力コスト削減が、データセンター事業者の収益性に大きく影響するようになる」とIDC ...