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 assesses the market for contractual print and document services among foremost global hardcopy vendors and identifies their strengths and challenges. This assessment discusses both the quantitative and qualitative characteristics ...
This IDC Market Note provides an Asia/Pacific-focused overview of ST Telemedia Global Data Centres' (STT GDC) physical footprint, types of customers, key accounts, strategic direction, product portfolio, recent merger and acquisition activities, ...
This IDC Market Perspective looks at the UC&C vendor landscape through the lens of the Future of Work. Enterprise communication is changing in line with ongoing digital transformation, creating new ways in which people communicate at ...
This IDC Market Note summarizes presentations and discussions at Ricoh's 2018 European Analyst Summit and assesses how Ricoh is progressing toward its goal of transforming its business portfolio.
This IDC Market Perspective provides details from Xerox's European press and analyst briefing in November 2018, which focused on its recently launched solutions, including its Workplace Assistant platform and App Gallery.
"There is ...
This IDC Financial Insights study uses the IDC MarketScape model to present a 2018-2019 assessment of 13 vendor companies servicing the insurance organizations across the globe in their digital transformation (DX) initiatives. This research ...
This IDC Market Note provides a summary of Kyocera's recent briefing with IDC on its contractual print and document solutions and services offerings. This document looks closely at Kyocera's contractual print and document services strategy ...
This IDC Market Note provides a summary of HP Inc.'s recent briefing with IDC on the company's contractual print and document solutions and services offerings. This document looks closely at HP Inc.'s strategy and provides a snapshot of ...
This IDC Market Note provides an overview of LRS' acquisition of Drivve, a software provider of specialized, document-related solutions with a focus on distributed data capture solutions. This document also discusses the impact this acquisition ...
This IDC Market Note provides a summary of Ricoh's recent briefing with IDC on the company's contractual print and document solutions and services offerings. This document looks closely at Ricoh's strategy and provides a snapshot of how ...
This IDC Market Note profiles Cloudreach, a U.K.-headquartered cloud computing consulting and managed service provider that specializes in planning, implementation, and management of public cloud services. It is the fourth in a series detailing ...
本プレゼンテーションは、世界と国内のIT市場において、2019年から2024年の間に起こるITに関する主要な10項目の予測（Predictions）について議論する。世界市場については『IDC FutureScape: Worldwide IT Industry 2019 Predictions (Japanese)（IDC #JPJ44382718、2018年12月発行）』において詳述しており、本プレゼンテーションでは、国内市場のPredictionsにおいて、世界市場からの変更点に焦点を合わせて論じている。
第3のプラットフォームが「試行」段階から「イノベーションの拡大」へと移る中、世界の企業はデジタルの活用を戦略的な優先項目の上位に置き、どのように自社のビジネスを変革、イノベートするかを考えている。使われる技術も、分散型クラウド、エッジAI、ハイパーアジャイルなアプリテクノロジー／アーキテクチャ、AIを利用した音声UIなどさまざまに進化を遂げている。国内企業もこれに追随し、自らを変革し、競争に打ち勝っていかなくてはならない。IDC ...
本調査レポートは、今後5年間のIT業界の10項目のPredictionsと主な促進要因を取り上げる。
IDCのチーフアナリストであるFrank Gensは、「デジタルイノベーションを取り巻く業界、そして世界経済のおいて、再調整と統合が急速に進むことから、企業幹部は、速いペースでイノベーションが拡大する世界に合わせて組織を全力で改革しなければならない。つまり、分散型クラウドインフラストラクチャ、パブリッククラウドソフトウェアのスタック、アジャイルでクラウドネイティブなアプリケーションの開発とデプロイメント、新しいユーザーインターフェースとしてのAI、セキュリティと信頼に対する全方位型のアプローチの大規模な展開などの実現を目指して、ITを再構築するということである」と述べている。
本調査レポートは、『IDC ...
This IDC Vendor Profile analyzes the United States–based colocation and interconnection vendor CoreSite. It provides an overview of the company and its financials, services portfolio, and business strategy and IDC's outlook and advice.
...This IDC Perspective represents feedback from 20 customer interviews on mobile application deployment best practices. IDC asked buying organizations, all of which used third-party services firms to build mobile applications, to share what ...
This IDC PlanScape presents a digital transformation road map framework that enables human resource organizations to develop their own digital transformation road map for achieving a strategically aligned workforce.
"The majority ...
This IDC Vendor Profile analyzes Curvature, a global provider of IT services, third-party maintenance, and pre-owned hardware. It reviews key success factors including strategy, offerings, partnerships, and target markets, and provides advice ...
This IDC Market Note provides a summary of Xerox's recent briefing with IDC on the company's contractual print and document solutions and services offerings. This document looks closely at Xerox's contractual print and document services ...
This IDC Market Note provides a summary of Konica Minolta's recent briefing with IDC on the company's contractual print and document solutions and services offerings. This document looks closely at Konica Minolta's strategy and provides ...
This IDC Market Note provides a summary of Lexmark's recent briefing with IDC on its contractual print and document solutions and services offerings. This document looks closely at Lexmark's strategy and provides a snapshot of how the firm ...
This IDC Market Note analyzes Wipro's position and development in the Nordic markets based on input from its advisor and analyst days in Copenhagen and Stockholm in September and October 2018.
This IDC Vendor Profile analyzes Persistent Systems — a global software product engineering services provider. This document examines Persistent's company strategy, vision, service offerings, revenue, and infrastructure metrics as well as ...
This IDC Market Note includes news about printer vendors from November 2018.
This IDC Vendor Profile reviews AcctTwo, a cloud-based finance and accounting technology and outsourcing firm. AcctTwo serves the midmarket (defined as companies between $10 million and $2 billion in annual revenue), offering managed accounting ...
本調査レポートは国内データセンター（DC）サービス市場のプレイヤーのうち、主要な17社のビジネス動向（2018年9月時点）を分析したものである。
「国内DCサービス市場では、メガクラウドの急成長と従来型アウトソーシングの低迷によって、構造変化の時を迎えており、DCファシリティの調達からサービス戦略に及ぶような事業戦略の再検討が必要である」と、IDC Japan ITサービスのリサーチマネージャーである伊藤 未明は分析している。