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.
On January 13, VMware announced that CEO Pat Gelsinger will leave the company to become the CEO of Intel, effective February 15. Current Intel CEO Bob Swan is stepping down after taking over the position, first as interim CEO for seven months ...
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 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 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 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 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 ...
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 Market Forecast presents a view of AI software platforms revenue from historical year 2019 and 2020-2024. IDC sees AI software platforms being used in a wide variety of industries and application types.
"The AI software platforms ...
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 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 ...
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 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 Forecast assesses the European communications platform-as-a-service market for 2019 to 2024. It provides insight into the underlying forces impacting this market in the forecast period.
"CPaaS has moved far beyond basic ...
本調査レポートでは、国内データサービス市場をコンペティティブ市場（Competitive Market）として定義し、「データ保護」「セキュリティとコンプライアンス」「データ統合とオーケストレーション」「データロケーション最適化」の4つのカテゴリーに分類し、2019年の売上実績と市場動向に基づいて、2020年～2024年の市場予測を行っている。
「ネクストノーマルの中でデジタルトランスフォーメーション（DX）はいっそう広がりを見せ、デジタルデータの取り扱い種類、量はこれまでとは大きく異なっていく。持続的なイノベーションのためには、データガバナンスの整備が重要であり、データサービスの各ソリューションの需要拡大は続くであろう」とIDC ...
This IDC study provides a 2020–2024 forecast for the worldwide project and portfolio management software market, which grew 4.5% to $3.9 billion in 2019 with current IDC numbers (compared with growth of 6.7% to $3.7 billion in 2018). We ...
This IDC study provides a 2020–2024 forecast update for the worldwide software change, configuration, and process management (SCCPM) market. We have slightly more than doubled our initial, overly conservative forecast for this market to ...
This IDC study provides an updated analysis of the 2020–2024 automated software quality (ASQ) market forecast. It discusses IDC's ASQ assessment for a market that showed single-digit growth of 4.9% to $2.9 billion in 2019 (compared with ...
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 Pivot Table banner book provides data for IDC's 4Q20 Cloud Pulse publication for Asia/Pacific, which examines cloud adoption and cloud trends among IT buyers, with a focus on cloud economics, customer value, and staffing. IDC's ...
This IDC Pivot Table banner book provides data for IDC's 2Q20 Cloud Pulse publication for Asia/Pacific, which examines cloud adoption and cloud trends among IT buyers, with a focus on cloud vendors, loyalty, and trade-offs. Cloud Pulse looks ...
This IDC Pivot Table banner book provides data for IDC's 3Q20 Cloud Pulse publication for Asia/Pacific that examines cloud adoption and cloud trends among IT buyers, focusing on cloud vendors, loyalty, and tradeoffs. The IDC 3Q20 Cloud Pulse ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight looks at predicted spending patterns for healthcare and life science respondents for SaaS software and other technologies in 2021 as companies prepare for an anticipated emergence from the pandemic.
This IDC study provides forecasts for spending and shipments in the Japan hyperconverged systems market from 2020 to 2024. It also provides spending forecasts by company size, industry segment, region, workload, and solution type (appliance/rack ...
本調査レポートでは、国内情報セキュリティ市場を分析し、2020年～2024年の予測を行っている。COVID-19の感染拡大による大規模な在宅勤務からのVPN接続による企業ネットワークへのリモートアクセスで、企業ネットワークの逼迫によるレスポンスの遅延など業務効率の劣化の問題が表面化した。その問題を解消するためにインターネット回線から直接クラウドサービスに接続する利用が増えることで境界防御の限界が顕在化し、境界防御に依存しない総合的なセキュリティ対策が求められる。「ITサプライヤーは、総合的なセキュリティソリューションの機能を集約し一元的に管理、運用できる集約型のSaaS型セキュリティリューションを訴求すべきである。これによって、企業はインターネット回線経由で直接クラウドサービスを利用した場合においてもセキュリティが強化され、業務効率と運用効率を向上できるようになる」と、IDC ...
This IDC study provides an updated market sizing for the worldwide customer service applications software market based on completed revenue modeling and a revised forecast over a 10-year period and including consideration for the impact ...
This IDC Market Perspective looks at the recently submitted STABLE Act, a bill introduced into the U. S. Congress. The bill represents an attempt by U.S. legislators to control growth of stablecoins — currency tokens with a value pegged ...
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 ...
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 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 Survey Spotlight reveals insights on how COVID-19 will impact next year's enterprise spending on various cloud and noncloud models. This document is based on data from IDC's Cloud Pulse Survey conducted in 4Q20. ...
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 forecast for the worldwide product information management and syndication applications market through 2024 by cloud versus on-premises deployments and by global regions. The product information management and syndication ...
This IDC Market Note summarizes the key highlights from Splunk's virtual.conf20 event held in October. At this annual summit, the vendor showcased its engineering capabilities, business road map, and its own cloud and digital business model ...
This IDC study highlights how the landscape of managed SPs competing in the managed cloud services market is evolving. For further details of the managed cloud services market definition, see IDC's Worldwide Managed ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight focuses on executive sentiments about their IT spending in the cloud among European asset-intensive industries — manufacturing, utilities, and oil and gas. It is based on data from wave 12 (September 25–October ...
This IDC Survey presents data from the 14th of a series of surveys that will be run to track changing sentiment associated with COVID-19 impacts on technology adoption and future spending expectations through CY21. It includes a total of ...
This IDC study analyzes the key trends affecting the ADC market. It provides a worldwide revenue forecast for the ADC market, segmented by the following geographic regions: North America, EMEA, Asia/Pacific (including Japan), and Latin America. ...
云计算正渗透到各行各业，云的部署和运营方式日趋多样化，云系统可以既部署在中心云数据中心，也可以分布式部署在靠近客户本地的数据中心乃至边缘，为不同客户带来不同的云服务组合。本报告主要聚焦本地云服务模式，介绍了本地云服务的概念与特征、产品与模式、应用场景以及未来的发展趋势，并提出了一些建议，希望对云服务商未来发展提供一定的参考借鉴。
"本地云服务是分布式云中的重要组成部分，具备高灵活、低时延、可定制、高安全、一致体验五大特征。轻量化部署和规模化部署两大模式使本地云服务可以覆盖不同类型客户，满足安全敏感、本地交互、商业创新、云边一体等应用场景需求。当前本地云服务主要用于政府行业中，预期未来在医疗、金融、工业、教育等行业也会得到比较广泛的应用，成为云服务的重要选择。"——IDC中国企业级研究部高级研究经理刘丽辉表示。
...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 the market share of container infrastructure software vendors in 2019 as well as the market forces that influenced their performances. Container infrastructure software is a competitive market within IDC's software ...
The disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as enterprises' responses to it, triggered urgent digital transformation efforts for agile workforces, contactless customer engagements, and automated business operations in 2020. ...
This IDC study examines the software construction components and tools market. The market experienced modest growth in 2019 but is expected to deliver strong growth in the years ahead.
"The software construction components and tools ...
This IDC study provides historical data (2015–2019) and forecast data (2020–2024) for the worldwide service provider compute and storage infrastructure market. The forecast and historical data illustrate consumption of infrastructure hardware ...
This IDC Market Note captures IDC's observations and discussions on the compute-related announcements at AWS re:Invent 2020.
This IDC Market Share discusses trends and vendor dynamics in the public cloud market in Western Europe.
"Public cloud is growing in double digits in Western Europe with the most important cloud providers delivering all types of public ...