IDC Research Types
Analyst
Analyst Profile
Provides complete background information on an IDC analyst. Each profile provides a biography, a notable quotation, a frequently asked question relevant to the particular analyst's focus, and a list of research authored by that analyst.
Team Profile
Lists the analyst members of a topical team. Outlines general areas of coverage and any specialties.
Briefs
Flash
Provides rapid IDC insight and analysis about a significant industry event or conference, merger or acquisition, product announcement, or other fast-breaking news affecting the IT market.
Forecast Update
Provides a short, quick look at an updated forecast and the changed assumptions behind the update. It updates a market forecast published in the same calendar year, identifies changed and key forecast assumptions, and highlights actions for participants to consider in light of the changes.
IDC Insight
Provides coverage and analysis of an industry event, new product or service, or a company announcement or development.
Update
Provides brief overview coverage of what is happening in a market.
Vendor Profiles
Provides a concise, hard-hitting profile of an emerging vendor. A profile will highlight new players and technologies and the potential paradigm shifts or disruptions a vendor represents.
Daily Graphics
Daily Graphic
Illustrates IDC's keen analysis of major market trends in downloadable PowerPoints. Available as a free download the day it appears, an IDC Daily Graphic provides valuable material for speeches and strategic planning.
Event Proceedings
Event Proceeding
Provides published slides, audio, and other materials from IDC and Insights Web conferences, briefings, forums, or other events.
Events
Conference
Delivers dependable, relevant, and high-impact data and insight to help organizations make sound business and technology decisions. eBusiness executives, IT professionals, IT suppliers, and services suppliers benefit from the strategic insight and networking opportunities IDC conferences offer. Generally, all presentation slides are available online, and for most conferences, streaming audio of key discussions is available as well.
Web Conference
Focuses on significant trends and paradigm shifts. Each Web conference will provide attendees with leading-edge market information that will enable them to make smart business decisions. For those unable to attend in person or those wishing to review the content presented, these synchronized multimedia presentations are available online.
IDC DecisionScapes
IDC FutureScape
Serves as a framework for IT/tech professionals' IT strategy and planning for the next one to three years. It lists IDC's top 10 worldwide technology trends for the coming one to three years in a given research area and includes related drivers, projected IT/business strategy impact, and guidance.
IDC MarketScape
Helps IT/tech professionals develop a short list of suitable suppliers when selecting a vendor. Provides an unbiased assessment of tech suppliers in terms of offerings, strategy, capabilities, and other important factors in a given technology area.
IDC MaturityScape
Describes five stages of "maturity" or capability for a particular technology area, helps IT/tech professionals understand where their organizations fit within those stages, and provides guidance on key components for planning successful improvements to a tech initiative.
IDC MaturityScape Benchmark
Helps IT/tech professionals to benchmark their maturity against peers, develop a business case for a tech initiative, and build consensus about where critical IT investments should be made. Presents quantitative research results that show the market distribution for a given tech initiative across the five stages of maturity presented in the related IDC MaturityScape. Shows the results and components of particularly successful initiatives.
IDC PeerScape
Gives IT/tech professionals insight into best practices (and practices to avoid) by providing specific use case examples implemented by peers. Identifies practices that have the most impact on the success of a tech or business initiative, and provides actionable guidance for each practice.
IDC PlanScape
Helps IT/tech professionals to justify and plan a business and/or technology investment or opportunity by exploring why, what, who, and how (these are also the main section headings). Presents key players, critical success factors, risks, and actions to consider for a designated technology and/or business management area.
IDC TechScape
Helps IT/tech professionals with developing IT strategic plans and evaluating emerging technologies in terms of their risk to the business. Shows the adoption curve and risk levels over time for a specific emerging technology. Sorts technologies into three "adoption model" categories (transformational, incremental, opportunistic) to help tech leaders determine the potential impact for their organization.
IDC Links
IDC Link
Provides timely context and insight around important market trends and events in a short opinion piece. IDC Links provide IDC's point of view on:
- Financial announcements
- Product announcements
- Mergers and acquisitions or divestitures
- Events
- Response to news
Insights-only Research
Best Practices
Correlates the use of specific practices and superior performance as indicated by an analysis of the benchmarking database. Highlights any significant differences between industries. Conclusions provide a set of process priorities for improving a business case and advice on how to overcome change management issues.
Business Strategy
Helps buyers to assess their business strategies and/or associated business processes, especially as they relate to the use of technology.
Methods and Practices
Provides a step-by-step description of a method or methods that can be applied. As appropriate, the report may compare the benefits and drawbacks of several methods.
Perspective
Presents an article written by an Insights analyst on a topic of special interest to a target audience. This information has generally already appeared in an industry publication and is repackaged for display on the Insights Web site.
Vendor Assessment
Helps buyers select the right IT supplier. The report helps buyers understand the various providers of a technology by providing analysis on market landscape, vendor profiles, vendor market share, and vendor assessments.
Pivot Tables
Pivot Table
Presents an interactive spreadsheet tool for analyzing trends and activities in a specific market segment. These tables are available only through an annual subscription service.
Predictions
Top 10 Predictions
Provides bold, well-conceived market predictions grounded in solid methodologies, primary research, and analyst experience. Lays out a clear road map to understanding major market opportunities and trends.
Presentations
IDC Presentation
Provides the latest, select CIS forecast data, primary research survey findings, and critical IDC analyst opinion in a succinct, easy-to-digest PowerPoint format.
IDC Survey
Presents a hypothesis about what is happening in the market backed by the results of a demand-side or supply-side survey. The focus is on interpreting and analyzing the survey results and providing a strong point of view along with actionable advice.
IDC Survey Spotlight
Answers a timely question and provides a strong opinion backed by IDC survey data. This is a quick nugget of information that is presented in two concise PowerPoint slides.
Insights Presentation
Provides an easy-to-use format to post on the Web presentations that were previously delivered at public forums (such as conferences and events) or for internal client meetings and client presentations. It may not come as part of a consulting/custom engagement.
Market Analysis Perspective
Delivers a concise current state view of a market and insight into the impact of future trends. Business executives, product managers, and MI/AR professionals can use this information when looking to understand buyers' perspectives and market impacts.
Press Releases
Press Release
Announces significant corporate news, such as key hirings or promotions, performance milestones, event highlights, or speaking engagements.
Product Information
Fact Sheet
Describes a research product. Usually details the major areas of coverage and deliverables, and outlines key questions and competitive market conditions that the research will address. Includes links to all published research for a research product.
Studies
Competitive Analysis
Provides a detailed accounting and review of a vendor's programs, processes, products, service, satisfaction, and/or strategy in a target market. This knowledge helps clients reduce their risk of losing market share or enhance their position over the competition.
Customer Needs and Strategies
Focuses on the important decisions that business and IT professionals make every day.
Industry Developments and Models
Provides a detailed assessment of a specific target market's expansion pattern. This analysis helps clients develop and deploy the right mix of value-add products, programs, or services to support their sales and/or partnering efforts.
Market Analysis
Provides an in-depth examination of the dynamics and future of a single market or a group of related markets. The Market Analysis is where we will typically present our forecasts and assumptions, using a key forecast assumptions table.
Market Forecast
Provides the future of a single market or a group of related markets. It presents a new or updated market forecast, including key drivers and assumptions used in the forecast.
Market Share
Provides data on market size, regional allocations, and platform splits as well as a summary of vendor shares for the most recently completed period (year, quarter).
Special Study
Provides a onetime study produced by a research group that is not published as a deliverable under a subscription service.
Survey
Provides a study and interpretation of the results of a demand- or supply-side survey.
Taxonomy
Highlights and emphasizes how IDC tracks the market while also making it easier for customers to find and identify IDC Taxonomy documents.
Technology Assessment
Provides an analysis of the intricacies of an emerging or established technology or the technologies contained within a specific product.
Vendor Needs and Strategies
Provides an in-depth analysis of a company, a small group of companies, a division of a company focused on a particular market, or a best practice that the company exemplifies.
This IDC study provides IDC's top 10 predictions for digital transformation for 2020.
"Direct digital transformation (DX) investment is growing at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 17.5% from 2020 to 2023 and is expected to approach ...
This IDC study uses the IDC MarketScape model to provide an assessment of several providers participating in the worldwide support services market. IDC MarketScape is an evaluation based on a comprehensive framework and a set of parameters ...
This IDC study provides an assessment of the capabilities and business strategies of 11 vendors in the worldwide enterprise WLAN market for 2019.
"The enterprise WLAN industry is at an exciting time: Connectivity has never been more ...
This IDC study explores how a more modern healthcare IT infrastructure will accelerate digital transformation and deliver value to HCOs. It also provides a road map for HCOs to follow on their respective journeys to migrate legacy applications ...
This IDC study provides IDC's top 10 predictions for the 2020 CIO agenda. These predictions provide a strategic context that will enable CIOs to lead their organizations through a period of hyperscale, hyperspeed, and hyperconnection over ...
This IDC PeerScape explores three augmented maintenance applications by utilities with a view to extract relevant good practices. They range from equipment quality checks to gas infrastructure and power plant maintenance.
"Deploying ...
本調査レポートは、情報サービス業を除く国内企業で働く課長レベル以上で、デジタルトランスフォーメーション（DX）の意思決定に関わる人を対象として、IDCが2019年6月に実施した「国内Future Enterpriseの成熟度ステージ調査」の結果を、定量的に評価してステージ分類を行い、分析を加えたものである。Future Enterpriseおよびその特性別のステージ分類の結果は、国内企業が自社のDXの取り組みのベンチマークを実施する際にリファレンスとして活用されることを想定している。また、国内企業がDXを実現しFuture ...
随着企业数字化转型的深入，领先的企业已经开始尝试利用DevOps的理念和模式，来帮助企业实现快速交付和变更系统，以便于快速响应企业对于市场的变化、用户的需求。相比于传统软件模式，公有云服务模式成为企业快速实践DevOps的优先选择。IDC研究了中国市场上的主流厂商，选取了7家典型的DevOps云厂商进行重点研究。本报告分别从现有能力和未来战略维度两个层面对厂商进行评估，为技术买家进行产品选型提供参考。
“企业互联网和移动业务的迅速发展，对企业自身系统的研发效率和迭代速度带来挑战，DevOps市场需求显现。但企业普遍对如何选择DevOps工具和如何开展DevOps实践没有清晰的认知，一站式的公有云DevOps服务成为中小企业和部分大型企业快速实践DevOps的优先选择。同时，云厂商也在不断吸引和转化自身云平台的用户使用其DevOps服务，对外也在不断加强宣传教育工作进行市场培育。预计，未来1–2年DevOps云的企业级用户和个人开发者数量将呈现高速增长态势。”——IDC中国软件市场分析师王楠表示。
...This IDC study presents the top 10 predictions and key drivers for the IT industry for the next five years.
According to IDC Chief Analyst Frank Gens, "As more than half the global economy turns digital by 2023, a new species of enterprise ...
This IDC PeerScape covers the strategies of several chief information officers (CIOs) who are working to improve the employee experience throughout their enterprises — sometimes via technology and sometimes acting as transformational leaders ...
This IDC study provides a systematic assessment of technologies related to advanced authentication in 2019.
Advanced authentication capabilities are a tricky dribble. Ask for too much, and people go away; ask for too little, and people ...
This study presents the results of IDC's 2019 Future of Work MaturityScape Benchmark Survey in Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) (APEJ) and should be viewed as a supplement to IDC MaturityScape: The Future ...
This IDC study uses the IDC MarketScape model to provide an assessment of providers in the U.S. population health management market. The population health management technology market continues to shift as vendors drop out of the market ...
This IDC study considers the collective technologies in the application DevOps competitive market areas.
"As more and more organizations begin adopting DevOps practices, they need to stay aware of the ever-changing collection of technologies ...
本次研究对象包含了在中国Web应用安全市场具备一定技术水平和市场规模，并且在该领域有持续投入规划，具备不断完善产品和服务能力的主流厂商。厂商类型涵盖国内综合型安全厂商、典型云服务提供商及新兴Web应用安全产品和服务提供商等。IDC 针对入选的Web应用安全厂商的能力和战略进行综合评估，评估标准包括公司规模、产品技术能力、行业和客户拓展、生态系统建设以及未来发展战略等方面。各维度根据市场情况进一步划分为若干细分项，并配以不同权重，从而形成IDC MarketScape 综合评分体系，通过 ...
本次研究对象包含了在中国态势感知解决方案/平台市场具备一定技术水平和市场规模，并且在该领域有持续投入规划，具备不断完善产品和服务能力的主流厂商。厂商类型涵盖国内综合型安全厂商、云服务提供商及新兴态势感知解决方案/平台提供商等。IDC 针对入选的态势感知解决方案/平台安全厂商的能力和战略进行综合评估，评估标准包括收入规模、产品技术能力、行业和客户拓展、生态系统建设以及未来发展战略等方面。各维度根据市场情况进一步划分为若干细分项，并配以不同权重，从而形成IDC MarketScape ...
Using the IDC MarketScape model, IDC studied 9 organizations in 2019 that offer managed cloud services in Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan). The assessment reviews against a large set of parameters, such as breadth of service offerings; portfolio ...
This IDC study uses the IDC MarketScape model to provide an assessment of providers participating in the worldwide change consulting services market. The IDC MarketScape is an evaluation based on a comprehensive framework and a set of parameters ...
This IDC study proposes to redefine and illustrate how the robotics-as-a-service model can empower companies across asset-intensive industries such as manufacturing, supply chain, healthcare, energy, and utilities to increase their operational ...
This IDC MarketScape assesses providers offering managed cloud services through the IDC MarketScape model. The assessment reviews quantitative and qualitative characteristics that define current market demands and expected buyer needs for ...
This IDC PeerScape focuses on the strategy and organizational components of the IT/OT convergence and discusses the following best practices:
- Define an IT/OT strategy and organization that drives business outcomes.
- Create ...
This IDC study describes the IDC MaturityScape for SPM within the manufacturing industry. IDC developed the SPM maturity model to aid manufacturers define and assess their current service parts operations, processes, and capabilities in ...
This IDC study represents a vendor assessment of the Salesforce implementation services through the IDC MarketScape model. This assessment discusses both quantitative and qualitative characteristics that explain success in the Salesforce ...
This IDC report provides examples of how manufacturers have been looking at the predictive analytics space and the best practices that they have been adopting to address some of the challenges around application integrations, business unit ...
This IDC Manufacturing Insights report uses the IDC MarketScape model to provide an assessment of a number of providers participating in the worldwide supply chain demand planning market. The IDC MarketScape is an evaluation based on a comprehensive ...