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 Pivot Table banner book provides data for IDC's 3Q19 Service Provider Pulse publication that examines vendor product and technology use, ecosystems, and plans for deployment of application/managed/infrastructure and professional ...
This IDC Market Forecast contains data regarding European CSP spending in 2018-2023. It segments opex data by major subcategory. It also discusses major trends that will affect CSP capex and opex.
" CSP spending in Europe will experience ...
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、2019年～2023年の予測を行っている。2020年の東京オリンピック／パラリンピックではサイバー攻撃の増加が見込まれている。サイバー攻撃は高度化が進み、検知されにくい攻撃手法が開発されており、未公表の脆弱性を突くゼロデイ攻撃や未知の脅威に対するセキュリティ対策も高度な分析が必要になっている。だが、セキュリティ専門技術者の人材不足で、サイバー攻撃によって発生するセキュリティインシデントへの対応が難しくなっており、重大なインシデントを見逃す恐れも生じている。
「製品サプライヤーやサービスプロバイダーは、セキュリティ運用の自動化を可能にするセキュリティオーケストレーション／オートメーション製品と連携したサイバーセキュリティソリューションを訴求すべきである。これによって、高度化するサイバー攻撃で生じる重大なセキュリティインシデントの見逃しを防ぐと共に、人材不足となっているセキュリティ専門技術者の負荷を軽減できる」と、IDC ...
本調査レポートは、国内におけるITインフラの設計／構築、運用管理、保守に関わるサービスで構成される市場を定量的に分析し、2019年の見込み値および2020年～2024年の予測をセグメント別にまとめたものである。クラウドファーストへの流れが加速し、DXを支える基盤としてのITインフラの重要性が増す一方で、急速なクラウドの普及によって新たな課題も生じつつある。「ITサービスベンダーは、部分最適化が散見される企業／団体におけるITインフラ環境の全体最適化ニーズの支援と、構成変更／運用管理における標準化、自動化を組み合わせて推進する一方で、DXインフラと定型業務インフラの統合運用支援サービスの強化にも取り組むべきであろう」と、IDC ...
This IDC study presents the worldwide datacenter network consulting and integration services forecast for the 2019–2023 period.
"In an increasingly multicloud world, it is imperative that the datacenter infrastructure and, most importantly, ...
This IDC study details the 2019–2023 market sizing and growth rates for the worldwide services market. This market is broken down into two major views. The first is the macromarket view, which segments the services market into three primary ...
This IDC study presents the Romanian IT security market size and vendor shares in 2018, as well as key market trends.
"Romanian organizations' security strategies and investments increasingly prioritize a protect-detect-respond approach. ...
This IDC study presents an update to the worldwide and U.S. IT education and training services forecast for 2019–2023. The forecast includes an analysis of the regional drivers of IT education growth and delivery modalities and illustrates ...
This IDC study examines the needs and preferences for mobility services for small, medium-sized, and large Canadian businesses. Service offerings under examination include mobile enterprise application platforms, mobile content management, ...
This IDC Market Forecast provides our Nordic services market forecast for the 2019–2023 in the total Nordic IT services as well as in Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden. IDC forecasts the Nordic market for IT services will grow from $24.4 ...
This IDC study presents forecasts of spending (customer expenditures) for the offshore-based horizontal BPO services market for 2019–2023 that includes HR, finance and accounting, procurement, and customer care by four importing regions ...
This IDC study contains IDC's estimates for key business consulting services vendors' revenue for 2018. Because the key vendors have increasingly focused attention on the changing requirements of each client segment, especially the demand ...
本調査レポートでは、国内ストレージサービス市場を「コンサルティング」「導入／構築サービス」「管理／運用サービス」の3つのカテゴリーで構成されるプロフェッショナルサービスと、製品の維持メンテナンスを行う「保守サービス」に分類し、2018年の売上実績と市場動向に基づいて、2019年～2023年の市場予測を行っている。
「IoT（Internet of Things）の普及、AIの利用、リモートワークなどの影響で、ITインフラの構造は複雑化し、同時にデータ流通やAPI（Application ...
This IDC Technology Segment study presents the top 100 IT services providers in Turkey. It includes their market shares, as based on their 2018 results. The top 10 providers are examined in detail, with their market sizes and share data ...
This IDC study presents the 2018 market size and vendor shares for the IT security market in Hungary, as well as the key trends in this market.
"Increasing awareness of security issues is resulting in increasing adoption rates of advanced ...
本报告论述了中国教育行业发展的动态和主要的趋势，包括教育的基本统计信息、教育改革的方向、教育信息化的相关政策和财政投入等，报告预测了教育IT市场2019–2023年的市场规模，预测数据中包括主要的各类IT产品类别，阐述了教育IT增长的驱动力和主要驱动因素，可以供IT厂商、教育软件厂商和服务商在制定业务发展战略时参考。
“中国教育行业IT市场呈现出稳步发展的态势，政府优先保障对教育的财政投入和教育信息化促进政策是教育信息化发展的关键动力，而解决教育资源不平衡、建立教学与基础科学研究、激励创新、产学研结合等则是教育IT未来发展的关键动力。教育IT不仅表现在基础IT架构和系统持续的完善、集成和升级，而且表现在新兴信息化技术在教育领域的广泛探索和应用。IDC预计，中国教育IT市场将保持长期的稳步增长，这一市场的2018–2023年的复合增长率将达到7.9%；其中教育软件市场的2018–2023年的复合增长率将达到24.9%，各类基础架构软件、应用系统开发和部署软件、应用软件都将保持高速发展。”—IDC中国行业研究与咨询服务部高级研究经理肖宏亮表示。
...This IDC study presents the U.S. hosting infrastructure services market forecast for 2019–2023.
"The HIS segment will continue to grow steadily over the forecast time frame," according to Courtney Munroe, GVP, Worldwide Telecommunications ...
This IDC study reviews the top IT service providers in Canada. Market share is derived from information collected from IT and business services providers as well as additional IDC primary research and information presented in the public ...
This IDC study details the solid growth seen in the Czech security solutions market in 2018, which was driven by the continued expansion of security services — particularly managed security services and cloud security solutions. The study ...
本报告分析了中国生命科学发展的基本概况，阐述了生命科学行业发展与其采用信息化技术的应用场景，分析了2018–2023年生命科学IT支出预测，供生命科学应用软件厂商和相关服务厂商以及IT基础设施厂商、新兴信息化技术厂商参考，也可供生命科学企业在制定发展策略时参考。
“最近一些年中，新兴信息化技术极大地促进了生命科学的研究和开发，生物医学大数据正在建立起来，云计算为生命科学发展提供了计算力支持和管理超大规模数据的能力，人工智能技术则加速了生命科学研究方法改进，生物医药对于特定疾病的针对性治疗功能将越来越强大，转化医学在临床中的比例将越来越高，生命科学研究与开发也促使药品的生产制造与流通模式发生改进，这些都将加速生命科学IT支出规模的扩大。预计未来几年中，生命科学研究与开发的应用软件将会加速发展，大数据、云计算、人工智能等新兴技术将会被加速采用。”——IDC中国行业研究与咨询服务部高级研究经理肖宏亮表示。
...This IDC Market Forecast study provides an examination of the Russian hyperconverged systems market from 2018 to 2023. It includes a summary of the general market dynamics, together with an overview of the vendor landscape.
"With growing ...
This IDC study presents the IT services industry in Austria in 2018 and forecasts expenditure on IT services through 2023. The study contains market size and distribution by foundation market and vertical market. The study also presents ...
This IDC Technology Segment study divides Poland's IT security market into three submarkets: appliances, software, and services. It presents forecasts for each segment for 2019–2023, based on 2018 vendor revenues. It includes profiles of ...
This IDC Market Forecast discusses the enterprise mobility management software market in Western Europe.
"Growth in the enterprise mobility management market in Europe will be increasingly driven by vendors' ability to support enterprises' ...
This IDC study outlines IDC Canada's forecast for the Canadian information, communications, and technology (ICT) market for the 2019–2023 forecast period. It updates our previous forecast published in Canadian ICT Forecast, 2018–2022 ...
This IDC study explains the great diversity offered in TISS; a couple of items are worth noting before the larger text. First, TISS fills a need for predictive threat defense (i.e., see threats in the wild and prepare for them). Several ...
This IDC study presents the IT services industry in South Africa in 2018 and forecasts expenditure on IT services through 2023. The study contains market size and distribution by both foundation markets and vertical markets. The study also ...
本报告从政策驱动、国际环境以及细分市场份额出发，洞察政府行业数字化发展情况并为厂商提供发展建议。
"政府数字化转型的关键在于融合与促进社会信息化大发展，是中国国家竞争力能够在国际纷繁复杂的政治经济环境中得以立足的强有力保障。政府数字化转型提升了政府本身的业务信息化水平，促进了管理型政府向服务型政府的进一步转变，促进了社会营商环境的优化以及居民满意度的提升。在此基础上，政府数字化转型的核心将要考虑与智慧城市、平安城市以及其他场景化应用、管理与服务平台的结合，考虑与卫星应用、地理信息、5G、人工智能等技术发展的应用产生的新兴场景的融合，以及如何形成国家核心技术创新与"国产替代"进程加速的领先驱动力。2019年政府数字化转型将开启社会总体信息化发展大融合、新兴场景大爆炸、技术创新大变革的时代。"IDC政府行业和智慧城市研究经理詹墨磊表示。
...This IDC study is a translation of the Japanese document (IDC #JPJ43996719). It calculates and forecasts market sizes, mainly for new construction and expansion market and maintenance ...
This IDC Special Study presents IDC's Enterprise Infrastructure Market Pulse, which is designed to provide clients with a demand-side view of IT infrastructure spending sentiments in the early stages of each calendar quarter as well as insights ...
This IDC study examines the market for digital agency services globally. It presents estimates of total demand in 2017 and 2018, and it forecasts future demand for 2019-2023.
"Digital agency services remain in high demand because ...
This IDC study analyzes leading IT service vendors' revenues by service segment and by industry segment in order to understand the competitive landscape of leading IT service vendors in the Japan IT services market.
"In order for IT ...
This IDC Special Study provides clients with a demand-side view on IT infrastructure spending sentiments in 3Q19 as well as insights on technology buyer assessments of market trends that will shape the future of the IT infrastructure industry.
IDC's ...
This IDC study presents the current state of the IT partner ecosystem. IDC's IT channels and alliances taxonomy is a comprehensive framework describing the different relationships, business models, coverage plans, and go-to-market (GTM) ...
This IDC Technology Segment report examines the IT services industry in Hungary in 2018 and forecasts the country's expenditures on IT services through 2023. It includes market sizing and distribution by foundation market and vertical market. ...
This IDC study presents the top 100 IT services providers in Russia, including their market shares, based on their respective performances in 2018. It also examines in detail the performances of the top 10 IT services providers in Russia. ...
This IDC study presents the IT services industry in Turkey in 2018 and forecasts expenditure on IT services through 2023. The study contains market size and distribution by foundation market and vertical market and presents forecasts for ...
This IDC study provides IDC's forecast and spending for the worldwide managed cloud services (MCS) market across eight major regions for the 2019–2023 forecast period. IDC views managed cloud services as an extraction view of IDC's technology ...
This IDC Pivot Table banner book provides data for IDC's 2Q19 Service Provider Pulse publication that examines service investments, focusing on application/managed/infrastructure (today and in two years), industries, and specializations.
IDC's ...
本調査レポートは、国内データセンターサービス市場における2019年7月時点の市場予測を掲載している。DCサービス市場では、クラウドサービスの需要の急拡大によって高い成長率が続いている。「市場は高成長分野と低成長分野に二極化している。需要が拡大する分野の見極めが重要である」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。
本調査レポートは、国内ITサービス市場の概況や動向を取り上げ、ユーザー企業の18の産業分野（小分類）別の分析に加え、6つの産業分野（大分類）別、および3つのサービスセグメント（中分類）別にITサービス支出額をまとめたものである。市場分野ごとに2018年～2023年の市場規模および成長率を予測している。さらに、サービスベンダーに対するIDCの提言を加えている。2018年の国内ITサービス市場は、プロジェクトベース市場の好調によって、前年比成長率は若干ながら上昇した。2019年以降も、既存システムの刷新／更新需要がプロジェクトベース市場の成長を支えるものの、同市場の成長率は減速傾向が強まっていくであろう。「ITサービス事業者にとって、今後の成長を牽引するデジタル人材の確保／育成は重大な経営課題である。各社は、デジタル人材が活躍できる人事評価／報酬制度の整備を急ぐべきである」と、IDC ...