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 represents a vendor assessment of the Canadian cloud professional services market through the IDC MarketScape model. This IDC study covers a variety of vendors including global systems integrators and Canada-based firms. The ...
本プレゼンテーションは、信頼の未来（Future of Trust）における中長期的な動向について10項目の予測（Predictions）をまとめたものである。米国において発行された『IDC FutureScape: Worldwide Future of Trust 2021 Predictions（IDC # US46912920、2020年10月発行）』の内容を基に、国内市場の状況を考慮して一部変更を加えた。なお、本プレゼンテーション内の数値は断りなく使用されている場合は世界市場の数値を示しており、国内市場の数値には国内市場であることを明記している。
2020年の国内情報セキュリティ市場は、新型コロナウイルス感染症（COVID-19）の感染拡大によって、国内経済が低迷するものの、高度なサイバー攻撃の被害が継続的に発生していることや、職場勤務から在宅勤務へと大規模なリモートワークへの移行によって在宅勤務で利用するクライアントPCにおけるマルウェア感染や企業ネットワークへの侵害、クラウドサービスへの侵害など新たなセキュリティリスクへの危機感が高まった。
2021年から2024年にかけては、リモートワークの普及拡大と政府のデジタル化推進によって、企業におけるデジタルトランスフォーメーション（DX）も進展し、オンプレミスのIT環境はクラウド環境へと移行が加速すると思われる。また、EU一般データ保護規則（GDPR）など海外のプライバシー法や2020年6月に改正法案が可決、成立した個人情報保護法、米国政府調達における管理すべき重要情報（CUI：Controlled ...
本調査レポ―トは、デジタルインフラストラクチャ市場における2021年以降の変化を予測し、ITバイヤーが認識すべき10項目の予測（Predictions）としてまとめている。本調査レポートは米国において発行された『IDC FutureScape: Worldwide Future of Digital Infrastructure 2021 Predictions（IDC #、2020年10月発行）』の内容を基にしており、国内市場の状況を考慮して一部変更を加えている。
デジタルインフラストラクチャは、部分的にデジタル化された組織をサポートするものではなく、デジタル化でエンドツーエンドの運営を目指す組織を実現するものに役割が変わっている。テクノロジー自体は変革という目的を達成するための手段であり、目的そのものではない。このため、本Predictionsではテクノロジー自体に焦点を合わせるのではなく、デジタルインフラストラクチャのテクノロジーが急速に採用されることで、企業や組織にもたらす変革的なビジネス成果に焦点を合わせた予測を行っている。
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本調査レポートでは、プリント／ドキュメントソリューションズおよび3Dプリンティング市場における2021年～2025年の変化を予測し、ITバイヤーが認識すべき10項目の予測（Predictions）としてまとめた。このレポートは、米国で発行された『IDC FutureScape: Worldwide Imaging, Printing, and Document Solutions and 3D Printing 2021 ...
This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation highlights the top 10 predictions and key drivers for the European cloud industry over the next five years. It analyzes the IT and business impact of each prediction in the market and provides guidance for ...
This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation discusses the Canadian regionalization of the IDC FutureScape: Worldwide Services 2021 Predictions (IDC #US45374020, October 2020). ...
This IDC study examines the current state of the digital infrastructure market and provides additional insights about the speed of adoption, technology potential for success, and level of market buzz so that IT and line-of-business decision ...
This IDC study represents a vendor assessment of Salesforce implementation services through the IDC MarketScape model. This assessment discusses both quantitative and qualitative characteristics that explain success in the Salesforce implementation ...
This IDC study provides a visual representation of the process of technology adoption, dividing technologies into three major categories based on their impact on the organization and assessing technology relative to adoption levels within ...
This IDC study provides an assessment of the SaaS and cloud-enabled AP automation applications for midmarket and discusses the criteria that are important for companies to consider when selecting a system.
"The ground underneath the ...
This IDC study provides an assessment of the SaaS and cloud-enabled accounts receivable automation applications for enterprise and discusses the criteria that are important for companies to consider when selecting a system.
"Businesses ...
This IDC study provides an assessment of the SaaS and cloud-enabled accounts receivable automation applications for midmarket and discusses the criteria that are important for companies to consider when selecting a system.
"Businesses ...
This IDC study provides an assessment of the SaaS and cloud-enabled accounts payable automation applications for enterprise and discusses the criteria that are important for companies to consider when selecting a system.
"Organizations ...
This IDC Presentation discusses the Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) (APEJ) regionalization of the 2021 Worldwide Cloud Predictions. Each prediction is presented based on timeline projection, cost/complexity assessment, and organizational ...
本調査レポートは、今後5年間にIT産業で起こるであろう10項目の予測（Prediction）と主要な促進要因（ドライバー）をまとめたものである。その中で、新型コロナウイルス感染症（COVID-19）のパンデミックによって引き起こされたビジネスの破壊的な変化への対応を先導したり、「ネクストノーマル」において競争優位を獲得しようとしたりする際に企業のITチームが直面する中長期の課題も明らかにしている。
IDC Worldwide ResearchのグループバイスプレジデントであるRick ...
本プレゼンテーションは、世界と国内において2021年から2026年にかけて起こる、IT市場に関する主要な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 2021 Predictions (Japanese)（IDC #JPJ46951620、2020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。
新型コロナウイルス感染症（COVID-19）の感染拡大は、国内および世界のIT支出にマイナスの影響を与えた一方、「コロナ禍」で経験したデジタル中心、非接触中心の社会は、デジタルトランスフォーメーション（DX）を加速させるきっかけにもなった。2021年以降もこの傾向は弱まるどころか加速し、新たな技術利用と共に国内企業のビジネスや顧客との関わり方を変えていくであろう。IDC ...
This IDC study provides an assessment of prominent integrated workplace management system (IWMS) vendors and discusses what criteria are most important for companies to consider when selecting an IWMS software solution.
"Organizations ...
This IDC PeerScape highlights several examples of banks with specific risk or compliance challenges and the actions each took to overcome it.
"Financial institutions cannot adequately transform themselves without appropriate digital ...
This IDC study represents a vendor assessment of the Oracle cloud implementation services ecosystem through the IDC MarketScape model. This assessment discusses both quantitative and qualitative characteristics that explain success in the ...
This IDC study evaluates the population health analytics vendor market. The market remains stable as clients demand and vendors deliver the functionality to ingest the growing number of new data types and sources such as SDoH. Other advancements ...
本調査レポートは、「IDC MaturityScape：データエクセレンス」について解説する。IT部門が、企業のデジタルトランスフォーメーション（DX）の実現に必要な、データエクセレンスを効果的に実行するためのステップ、重要な対策、結果の評価、およびアクションを示している。また本調査レポートでは、ビジネスおよびテクノロジーの責任者が、DXの主要5分野についてサポートの強化が必要な領域を特定できるようにする。「IDC MaturityScape：データエクセレンス」によって、企業は自身の能力と成熟度を評価し、短期および長期の目標と改善計画を策定することが可能である。企業の幹部は、自社の潜在的なデータ資産の活用と管理を行う上での優先順位やガイダンスを包括的に取得することが可能である。また、ビジネス指向の企業目標を達成するためのデータ駆動型の意思決定に向けた、業界全体に対する自社の成熟度を測る際の客観的基準となる。
「情報からの人間の学習とデータからの機械学習で学習方法は異なるが、知識とインサイトの管理である学習は人間とマシンの緊密なコラボレーションによるプロセスとして複合的になりつつある」とIDC ...
The IDC study provides a visual representation of the process of technology adoption, dividing technologies into three major categories based on their impact on the organization and assessing technology relative adoption levels within their ...
This IDC PeerScape provides insight into the best practices related to the implementation and use of data catalog software within the context of data enablement in an organization. Users of data catalogs are a part of how IDC defines data-native ...
This IDC study provides an assessment of prominent SaaS and cloud-enabled asset-intensive EAM application vendors and discusses what criteria are most important for companies to consider when selecting a software solution.
"Asset-intensive ...
This IDC study represents a vendor assessment of cloud enterprise performance management (EPM) software for planning, budgeting, and forecasting through the IDC MarketScape model. This assessment discusses both quantitative and qualitative ...
This IDC study represents a vendor assessment of providers offering enterprise AM services on the cloud through the IDC MarketScape model. The assessment reviews both quantitative and qualitative characteristics that define current market ...
全球数字化转型已经进入倍增创新阶段，云平台已经成为支撑全球企业数字化转型的关键基础设施。越来越多的客户将IT系统部署在公有云上以达到降低运营成本、提升敏捷性及工作效率的目的。因此，公有云市场持续保持快速增长，2019年，中国公有云市场增速达到了61.2%之高。正是由于公有云的价值与日俱增，出于获利等目的针对云的网络攻击也越发频繁。面对数字化时代威胁的不断升级，中国政府也在大力进行网络安全的治理和政策建设工作，不断提升国家监管力度。
本次研究对象包括中国公有云IaaS市场具备一定安全建设水平和规模的领导厂商。IDC针对入选的云服务提供商的安全性战略和能力进行评估，主要标准包括产品和服务、市场化及商业表现三个维度，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 ...
当前大数据技术的创新速度已经领先于市场需求，一方面技术提供商在不断突破创新，另一方面行业用户还困在大数据应用如何带来价值的起步阶段。不同行业不同数字化阶段的用户，对于技术能力、工程能力以及产品之外的生态互补能力需求均有不同的侧重点。在此背景下，IDC启动了这一厂商评估研究，以期不断理清大数据落地现状、挑战，为行业参与者如何深化数据智能提供参考。
IDC中国助理研究总监卢言霞表示："推动大数据平台的建设，核心即深化数字化业务战略及执行。大数据平台建设能取得的成就与数字化转型能实现的高度呈正相关，要推动数字化转型首先需要建立协同的组织架构与流程：1）建立自上而下的战略，由核心高管推动落地；2）建立真正能够推动数字化的组织架构，3）建立高度认可、全员积极推动的数据文化；4）建立业务与技术部门的有效协同机制。"
...This IDC study provides IDC's 2021 top 10 predictions for the future of digital infrastructure.
"2020 has compelled business leaders to rethink their relationship with digital infrastructure. It has compelled organizations to make ...
This IDC study discusses the top 10 predictions for worldwide future of trust for 2021.
"Organizations' futures are built on trust and that is evident in IDC's top 10 future of trust predictions," according to Michael Suby, IDC research ...
This IDC study highlights key trends in digital business models and monetization technology adoption and presents the top 10 predictions and key drivers for the next five years.
"The COVID-19 pandemic has emphasized the importance ...
This IDC study provides 10 predictions for the cloud market.
"The disruption and uncertainty of the past year have underscored the benefits of resilient and flexible IT and accelerated investments toward an agile digital foundation," ...
This IDC FutureScape presents 10 transformational trends for B2B sales leaders and their teams to consider as opportunities for differentiation and competitive advantage. Key themes include AI, analytical skills, value and virtual selling, ...
This IDC study provides manufacturers and retailers with the top 10 predictions and underlying drivers that we expect will impact IT investments in the supply chain in 2021 and beyond. Technology leaders and their counterparts in the line-of-business ...
This IDC study provides IDC's 2021 top 10 predictions for data and analytics technology trends.
"Predictions highlighted in this IDC FutureScape outline some of the key requirements for the future of data and analytics, which is a ...
While the long-term impact of COVID-19 remains to be seen, some changes are obvious as they will merely accelerate existing trends. This means changes in distribution and servicing models, as physical high-touch relationships models will ...
This IDC study presents the top 10 predictions and key drivers for the agriculture industry for the next five years. IDC Energy Insights has identified the main drivers that set the context and conditions for designing and executing agriculture ...
This IDC study presents 10 transformational trends for CMOs and their marketing teams to consider as opportunities for differentiation and competitive advantage. Key themes include AI, empathy and trust, social responsibility, and operational ...
This IDC study provides IDC's 2021 top 10 predictions for future of intelligence trends, encompassing topics of human and machine intelligent gathering, decision making, and knowledge management.
"Predictions in this IDC FutureScape ...
This IDC study presents IDC's intelligent ERP top 10 predictions for 2021.
"COVID-19 has been the tipping point accelerating enterprise application investments as organizations apply speed to their journey of digital transformation. ...
This IDC study explores how hospitality, dining, and travel organizations are responding to the drivers of business and offers guidance on actions to consider.
"The hospitality and travel industries have been thrust into a period of ...
This IDC study discusses the top 10 predictions for worldwide imaging, printing, and document solutions and 3D printing for 2021.
"COVID-19 has interrupted the conventional flow for printing and imaging technologies," says Keith Kmetz, ...
This IDC study provides IDC's top 10 predictions for worldwide services for 2021 and beyond.
"Organizations' reliance on service firms has grown since the pandemic as assistance is sought to adapt and even thrive in a dramatically ...
This IDC study discusses the top 10 predictions for worldwide national governments in 2021.
"Right now, 2021 is shaping up to be a unique and challenging year for most national governments," said Shawn P. McCarthy, research director, ...