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.
Every quarter, thousands of different mobile phone models are sold by over 300 vendors across the globe. Not surprisingly, keeping track of competitive mobile phone prices by model can be a challenging and expensive proposition for any company. ...
The payment industry has seen drastic changes in the past decade. New technologies, entrants, and business models have forced incumbent vendors and their financial institution customers to rethink how they move money. Stakeholders across ...
IDC's Worldwide Tablet ODM QView provides a comprehensive analysis of tablet ODMs and the supply chain as it rapidly shifts toward new players in places like China. The service provides not only detailed quarterly shipment data but ...
IDC's Worldwide Smartphone ODM QView examines the upstream supply chain for smartphones, which is increasingly shifting toward a different ODM ecosystem in Asia/Pacific. This service provides quarterly insight into which ODMs manufacture ...
IDC's Worldwide Smartphone Display QView follows the supply chain for the screens used in smartphones. This product provides quarterly insights into screen sizes, technologies, and vendors.
Smart Cities and communities are focused on digital transformation to support sustainable development, improve resilience, meet residents' rising expectations, and attract investment, new businesses, and talent. This is a complex undertaking ...
IDC's Worldwide Digital Advertising Market Model (DAMM) provides data on the quarterly spending on internet advertising in 51 countries, including the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Japan, and China. ...
The Worldwide Robotics and Drones Spending Guide examines the robotics and drones opportunity from a use case, technology, industry, solution type, and geography perspective. This comprehensive database delivered via IDC's Customer ...
IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Wearable Device Tracker® provides details on vendors, technology, market opportunity, and trend analysis in the growing wearable device market. IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Wearable Device Tracker breaks ...
IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Augmented and Virtual Reality Headset Tracker® provides details on vendors, technology, market opportunity, and trend analysis in the newly created augmented reality and virtual reality device market. The ...
The Worldwide Semiannual Software-Defined Infrastructure Tracker® tracks the software-defined infrastructure (SDI) software market, key components of this market (compute, storage, and networking), and some of the leading vendors ...
IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker® fills the demand for detailed and timely information on the total mobile phone and smartphone markets for handset vendors, software developers, service providers, component suppliers, ...
IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Wireless LAN Tracker® greatly enhances clients' ability to quickly and effectively respond to today's dynamic IT market. Understanding which global markets and segments are growing and knowing the quarterly ...
The Worldwide Public Cloud Services Spending Guide examines the public cloud services opportunity from a technology, an industry, and a geography perspective. This comprehensive database delivered via IDC's Customer Insights query ...
The combination of efforts on customer experience, innovation, supply chain, and ecosystem enablement is leading retailers toward what IDC defines as new commerce everywhere business models, architected to generate value in the ecosystem ...
IDC's Worldwide and United States Datacenter Deployment Model is a semiannual pivot table–style data product that provides datacenter installed base, new build, rebuild, and spending trends by datacenter type and ownership. The product ...
Major market forces — an aging population, increasing prevalence of chronic conditions, access issues due to staffing shortages, and other pressing industry challenges — are compelling payers and providers to invest in connected health technology ...
As profit and regulatory compliance pressures increase, life science companies are actively seeking ways to shorten the time and decrease the cost of bringing new drugs and other medical products to market. The IDC Health Insights: Worldwide ...
IDC's India Monthly City-Level Smartphone Tracker: Sales-Out® provides timely and critical market intelligence of top 50 Indian Cities and rest of states (at sell-out level).
IDC's European Security Strategies service provides a forward-looking analysis of the vendors and markets for security products and services in Europe. Its coverage spans both the Western and Central & Eastern European ...
IDC's Argentina Personal Systems: Compete is a series of interactive advisory sessions guided by the local market experts, based on all existing standard research related to the Personal System markets, and through previous feedback ...
IDC's Brazil Personal Systems: Compete is a series of interactive advisory sessions guided by the local market experts, based on all existing standard research related to the Personal System markets, and through previous feedback ...
IDC's European Intelligent Application Services (IAS) research provides clients with a comprehensive view of the investment strategies and decisions of European Application Services providers as they re-define ...
In the 5G era, Telcos are becoming an integral part of digital value creation chains, transforming business and operations. This change affects their internal business (how they operate their networks and deploy IT, how they innovate), but ...
The Internet of Things (IoT) market is poised for exponential growth over the next several years. However, the IoT ecosystem is a complex segment with multiple layers and hundreds of players, including device and module manufacturers, communication ...
国内ソフトウェア市場は、第3のプラットフォーム、デジタルトランスフォーメーションの台頭によって、目覚ましく変化しています。Japan Applications and Customer Experience Strategies (Japanese Version)では、国内ソフトウェア市場の中でも変化の大きいアプリケーション市場（フロントエンドアプリケーション、バックエンドアプリケーション）、ユニファイドコミュニケーション、コラボレーティブワークスペースおよび顧客エクスペリエンス（CX）に関するさまざまな分野について、市場動向分析、予測、競合状況などを提供します。年間を通じ発行される調査報告書、プレゼンテーション資料、インクワイアリサービスは、同市場における市場機会の分析、競合分析、Go-to-Market ...
90% of CEOs have digital transformation at the core of their corporate strategy. Consequently, European organizations are investing millions of euros on digitizing the business processes to take the biggest possible share of the digital ...
IDC's Carrier Network Infrastructure service analyzes emerging opportunities and threats facing carrier networks as they embark on digital transformation. Network vendors seek to stay relevant as information and communication technology ...
Future of Workstyle（「働き方の未来」、以降FoWと略す）とは、ワークモデルを根本的に変えるコンセプトであり、人とマシンの協働を促進し、従業員スキルと従業員エクスペリエンスを向上させ、時間や物理的な場所といった制約から解放された労働環境を実現するためのフレームワークです。FoWは企業における価値創造に関わる領域を網羅しており、具体的には「ワークカルチャー」「ワークスペース」「ワークフォース」３つのピラー（柱）で構成されます。
IDCが、COVID-19の拡大以前に、デジタルトランスフォーメーションもしくはFoW関連の施策の決定者／助言者に対して実施した調査によると、働き方の未来を実現するための改革について自社が「世界の同業他社よりも進んでいる」とする企業は、国内では11％であるのに対し米国は42％と、日米で大きな開きがありました。日本人の控えめな国民性を考慮したとしても、FoW関連の施策に国内企業が遅れをとっている可能性を示す結果であると共に、それまで残業時間を短縮することや有給休暇の取得を推進することに邁進していた国内企業が多かったことを考えると、納得のいく結果であると言えます。ところが、COVID-19によるパンデミックの影響で、国内企業は働き方を変革することを余儀なくされ、在宅勤務が拡大し、在宅勤務をセキュアに円滑に行うために必要となるコミュニケーションツールやコレボレーションツールのクラウド型製品への移行や新たな導入という変化がほんの2、3か月の間に急速に進みました。
COVID-19と共に生きる状況は世界の経済活動にNext ...
The Middle East and North Africa ICT Market Opportunity and Digital Transformation Strategies subscription service provides an in-depth view of ICT markets across the Arab Middle East and North Africa (MENA). The service provides ...
Trust is a nebulous concept. It has traditionally been viewed through one of two lenses: either in a broad sense, relating to equally nebulous themes such as perception and loyalty; or in a narrow sense relating to specific technical approaches ...
As the competition in the mobile phone market becomes more intense, both international and domestic vendors are seeking harder to develop their products, channels, and services to maintain competitive advantages and maximize opportunities ...
The IDC Health Insights: Asia/Pacific Healthcare Digital Transformation Strategies service provides an overview of regional- and country-level digital strategies that various health-related entities are undertaking currently. It offers ...
Big Data and Analytics is a healthy and growing market, continuing to gain significant investment and attention from European organizations. An agile, resilient and data-driven approach to running business has never been more necessary than ...
The Internet of Things and OT Security Products service will analyze Internet of Things (IoT) security across corporate and consumer markets. It will clarify IoT security and privacy requirements across industrial controls, environmental ...
The implementation of technology into the business processes and the workforce determines its value. Humans and technology will interact in the future workplace in new ways - automation and intelligent enterprise applications will sharpen ...
- Industry markets covered include retail, financial, manufacturing, technology, telecommunications, health, government, energy
- Smart personalization, emotional engagement, customer adventures
- Customer data management ...
Australia and New Zealand: Future of Work (FoW) is a holistic strategy that aims to leverage digital technologies, attitudes, and behaviors to reinvent the way businesses engage with their employees, partners, and customers to drive ...
As digital technologies proliferate and millennials drive the convergence of work, live, and play, enterprises need to develop a holistic transformation strategy to future proof their organizations for the industry 4.0 era. IDC refers to ...
IDC中国物联网生态系统与趋势（中文版）聚焦在中国物联网市场，尤其是物联网技术在不同垂直行业的商业应用；深入分析中国物联网市场的总体情况、生态系统全景以及促进市场增长的关键因素。
IDC's Australia and New Zealand Data and Information Transformation research is focused on the areas of big data — which is a new generation of software and architectures designed to economically extract value from very large volumes ...
IDC's Australia and New Zealand 3rd Platform Heat Maps research program outlines the adoption of 3rd Platform technologies across all industries, sizes, and maturity. The heat map program addresses the market opportunities including: ...
IDC's Asia/Pacific Devices report series will provide insights of end-user consumption in the APEJ region. It looks at the trends of the different devices such as smartphones, wearables, PC, and many other end devices. Local country ...
IDC's ASEAN IT Services report provides a comprehensive view on tech-buyer adoption trends in the services market. The report series leverages various IDC Asia/Pacific end-user survey results and discusses specific trends and implications ...
2020年3月に商用サービスが開始された5Gデータ通信は、多接続性や広帯域、低遅延性など多くの点で現行の4Gを凌駕するため、多くのビジネス機会が期待されています。IDC Japan 年間情報提供サービス「Japan 5G Client Solutions and Adoption Strategies (Japanese Version)」は、クライアント端末やソリューションを中心に国内5G市場の市場調査を行い、同市場の動向や関連市場の動向の現状分析、並びに今後の技術動向や市場予測など、年間を通じてお客様のビジネスの成功に役立つ詳細な情報を提供するレポートサービスです。
2020年～2021年にご提供するレポートでは、国内5G市場における対応端末の出荷予測や、ユースケースも含めた今後の関連市場の見通しを予測・分析することで、社会的にも多くの注目を集める5G市場でビジネスを行う皆様にとって、さらなる成長を実現するために不可欠なインサイトをご提供します。2021年は、携帯電話等のベンダー別シェアも含めた2020年の国内市場の動向の総括に基づき、クライアントデバイス全体での5Gのトレンドを分析します。
...IDC's China Monthly Mobile Phone Tracker® is designed to provide more frequent and timely tracking of the mobile phone market in China and enables vendors to adjust their product strategies based on the most up-to-date movements of ...
IDC's China Quarterly City and District-Level Smartphone Tracker® provides details on market opportunity and trend analysis in the growing hard disk market. IDC's China Quarterly City and District-Level Smartphone Tracker provides ...
IDC's Brazil Monthly Mobile Phone Tracker® fills the demand for detailed and timely information on the global mobile phone market for device vendors, software developers, service providers, and component suppliers. It provides ...
IDC's Africa ICT Market Opportunity and Digital Transformation Strategies service analyzes emerging markets in Sub-Saharan Africa. Combining detailed market forecasts with market insights and outlook, key indicators and analysis, ...
IDC's India Monthly City-Level Smartphone Tracker® provides timely and critical market intelligence of the top 50 Indian cities that is essential for strategic and tactical planning in India, one of the fastest-growing markets in ...