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 service providers offering unified communications as a service (UCaaS) for enterprise using the IDC MarketScape model. The assessment reviews both quantitative and qualitative characteristics ...
This IDC study represents a vendor assessment of service providers offering unified communications as a service (UCaaS) for SMBs using the IDC MarketScape model. The assessment reviews both quantitative and qualitative characteristics that ...
This IDC study provides an assessment of SaaS and cloud-enabled contract life-cycle management software solutions and discusses what criteria are most important for companies to consider when selecting a system.
"Contract life-cycle ...
This IDC study provides an assessment of SaaS and cloud-enabled procure-to-pay software solutions and discusses what criteria are most important for companies to consider when selecting a system.
"Procure-to-pay solutions have become ...
This IDC study provides an assessment of SaaS and cloud-enabled procurement software solutions and discusses what criteria are most important for companies to consider when selecting a system.
"Procurement solutions are evolving rapidly ...
This IDC study provides an assessment of SaaS and cloud-enabled supplier relationship management software solutions and discusses what criteria are most important for companies to consider when selecting a system.
"Supplier relationship ...
This IDC PlanScape identifies the main drivers (why), foundational elements (what), key actors (who), and business outcomes (how) involved in enhancing customer experience that helps retail organizations better respond in real time to unpredictable ...
This IDC FutureScape Presentation discusses the impact of the IDC FutureScape: Worldwide Cloud 2021 Predictions ( IDC #US46420120, October 2020) on India. Each prediction is presented based on the timeline projection, ...
According to IDC’s 2020 Supply Chain Survey, almost 75% of Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) (APEJ) manufacturers see the lack of supply chain visibility and resiliency as the top gaps that will likely be problematic for supply ...
Based on the IDC's study on the global data and analytics market, this IDC FutureScape presents the implications of top 10 predictions in the Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) (APEJ) region for the next five years. The predictions are presented ...
This IDC Presentation discusses the 2021 worldwide Future of Intelligence 2021 predictions' impact on India. Each prediction is presented based on timeline projection, complexity assessment, and organizational impact on the mainstream market. ...
This IDC FutureScape provides IDC's top 10 predictions for the 2021 CIO agenda. These predictions provide a strategic context, which will enable CIOs to lead their organizations through the journey to recovery and in the next normal over ...
This IDC study presents the assessment of 10 communication service providers (CSPs) that provide software-defined WAN (SD-WAN) managed services in the Asia/Pacific region. The assessment is based on their current capabilities, GTM strategies, ...
This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation provides the Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) (APEJ) regionalization of the Worldwide Small and Medium-Sized Business (SMB) FutureScape for 2021. This FutureScape piece delivers an outlook of the ICT industry ...
云计算在中国市场经过十多年的发展，已经从单纯地以满足资源型需求为主的中心云基础设施，发展成为汇聚各类信息技术，覆盖不同区域部署、兼顾垂直行业特定需求的新一代云平台生态系统，能够更好地支持企业的云原生应用、自动化管理和业务创新，满足用户在任何时间、任何地点对任何应用的响应需求。全球云计算2021年预测涵盖了云数据基础架构、云边、多云/混合云、云原生和应用现代化、云运营组织等多个方面，并一一为大家揭示了未来云计算市场的发展方向。本报告分别阐述了每项预测的含义，分析了其对IT方面的影响，并提出了顺应这些技术和市场趋势发展的建议，可为云服务商制定业务发展战略、技术买家进行数字化转型提供参考。
...The unprecedented COVID-19 outbreak is a worldwide crisis that does not spare any region on the planet. Various data sources, including the IDC COVID-19 Wave Survey, indicate that business sentiments in Asia/Pacific ...
本プレゼンテーションは世界と国内のデータ管理／アナリティクス市場における、2021年～2026年のITに関する主要な10項目の予測（Predictions）について記載する。新型コロナウイルス感染症（COVID-19）の感染拡大の影響によって、企業のデジタルトランスフォーメーション（DX）、消費者／ビジネスバイヤーのデジタルシフトが進む中、国内のデータ管理／アナリティクス環境は急速に変化しており、これに伴う市場の変化も急速である。
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本プレゼンテーションは、2021年～2026年に世界および国内のサービス市場で予測される10項目の主要な動向（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 Services 2021 Predictions（IDC #US45374020、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。
国内市場でも世界市場と同様に、新型コロナウイルス感染症（COVID-19）に伴うさまざまな影響や社会変化への適応が進む中で、過去には受け入れられなかった新たなプロセスや慣行が常態化している。こうした変化は同時に、消費者／従業員／パートナーを問わず、最適な「エクスペリエンス」を重視する傾向に拍車をかけ、その実現に向けたテクノロジーの活用やサービス市場の変化を促している。「DXジャーニーを共に進む外部サービスベンダーを選定する上では、テクノロジーや戦略、エクスペリエンスデザインといった能力が重要となる。また、DXに取り組む企業が先進層から主流層へと拡大する中、実現までの迅速性やサービスデリバリーのレジリエンシーといった実行力を勘案することが必要である」と、IDC ...
Besides the uncertainty stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic, during 2021, the regional situation will have to deal with low interest rates, escalating U.S.–China trade friction, formation of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership ...
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 ...
本調査レポート（プレゼンテーション）は、世界および国内クラウド市場を分析し、今後、ITバイヤーが留意すべき主要な10項目の展望（Predictions）と、各展望に関わる提言を提示している。なお、本調査レポートは、世界のクラウド市場のPredictionsの内容を基に国内市場の特性を反映してまとめている。
現在、クラウドネイティブアーキテクチャを基盤とした製品／サービスの発展が著しく見られる。また、デジタルトランスフォーメーション（DX）の基盤として、同アーキテクチャに対する企業の関心は高まっている。一方、企業がクラウドネイティブアーキテクチャを採用し、DXを実践するためには、新しいITスキルの習得や企業文化の変革が必要になる。「DXの実践には、クラウドネイティブアーキテクチャの採用と運用の変革が重要である。また、同時にデータの利活用に関わるフレームワークを整備することを、企業は忘れてはいけない」と、IDC ...
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 #US46470820、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 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 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 payable automation applications for enterprise and discusses the criteria that are important for companies to consider when selecting a system.
"Organizations ...
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 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 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 ...