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 Market Perspective profiles Equinix, which is the global datacenter and interconnection leader.
"Equinix is well positioned to remain a leader in the colocation and interconnection sector. It has a strong global footprint ...
本調査レポートは、2020年までの国内クライアント仮想化市場、関連企業およびユーザー企業、それぞれの動向分析を基に、2021年の市場に影響を与える10項目についてIDCがまとめたものである。IDC Japan PC、携帯端末＆クライアントソリューションのシニアマーケットアナリストである渋谷 寛は、「2021年は、「ネクストノーマル」へ向けたIT戦略が試される年になるであろう。クライアント仮想化事業者は、サステナビリティやレジリエンシーを考慮した最適なハイブリッドソリューションを提案することが求められている」と指摘している。
...This IDC Perspective delves into hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) architecture and how it can enable a hybrid cloud architecture that can provide a single, consistent view of both on-premises and public clouds.
"Software vendors ...
This IDC Market Perspective explores European organizations' progress toward a transformed private-cloud-based IT infrastructure, examines companies' receptiveness to using the end-to-end cloud stacks of the leading public cloud vendors ...
This IDC Market Perspective provides a focus on value in network analytics. When examining network analytics solutions, it is easy to be drawn to leading-edge capabilities (e.g., packet telemetry, synthetic transactions, cloud visibility, ...
This IDC Vendor Profile examines Germany-headquartered Computomics, a start-up founded in 2012 that has developed AI software systems to support the activities of plant breeders. Computomics aims to bring the power of advanced machine learning ...
This IDC Market Note summarizes noteworthy developments in the European AI systems marketplace in 3Q20 as selected by IDC's European AI practice members.
"A number of sectors have been hard hit by the pandemic. AI vendors have lost ...
This IDC TechBrief examines what options are available for upstream oil and gas companies with regard to land management software.
"There is a balance of functionality, cost, best practices, and business philosophy that will be balanced ...
The IDC Market Perspective presents an overview of telecommunications service provider's capital expenditure worldwide and discusses in brief the regional factors influencing the overall telecommunications service provider industry capex.
"The ...
本調査レポートは、2020年12月中旬までに収集した情報を基に、クラウドインフラストラクチャ／プラットフォーム領域およびクラウド向けITサービス事業を中心として、国内クラウド市場における主要ベンダーのビジネス動向をまとめたものである。また、国内クラウド市場における配備モデル／サービス別の市場動向と主要ベンダーのビジネス動向を分析し、ベンダーが成長するための提言を行っている。
新型コロナウイルス感染症（COVID-19）の感染拡大は企業のDXに対する意識を高めた。一方、クラウドファースト戦略だけでは、企業はDXへとつながるクラウドジャーニーを加速することはできない。企業は、デジタルインフラストラクチャや社内外のデータリソースを統合管理すると共に運用の自動化を実現し、迅速なアプリケーションの開発と展開を実現する「クラウドセントリックIT」に取り組む必要がある。「ベンダーは、企業のクラウドセントリックITの支援に貢献するベストプラクティスの公開と、マルチクラウド／ハイブリッド環境の導入／運用およびデータの利活用の簡易化／容易化を推進する必要がある」と、IDC ...
本調査レポートは、国内事業者データセンターにおける保守運用コスト（保守コスト、人件費、電力コスト）、および電力消費量を推計、分析したものである。保守運用コストは、6種類のモデルケースを平均的な事業者データセンターの例として設定し、各ケースについて推計している。また、電力消費量については、2020年と2024年の年間電力消費量を推計している。
「ハイパースケールデータセンターの急増によって、データセンターの電力需要も急速に増加している。データセンターの電力コスト削減が、データセンター事業者の収益性に大きく影響するようになる」とIDC ...
This IDC Market Perspective looks at the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the challenges associated with managing secure print in a hybrid work environment. This document discusses how organizations should approach print security for ...
今後発行予定である調査レポート「IDC MarketScape: Japan Security Solutions and Services Hardcopy 2021 Vendor Assessment」の市場定義と評価基準について説明している。IDC US イメージング、プリンティング&ドキュメントソリューションのバイスプレジデントであるRobert Palmerは「セキュリティは、あらゆる企業において最重要課題になっており、現在ではMPS（Managed ...
This IDC Perspective examines how government agencies approach security as part of their ongoing edge computing efforts.
When computing moves to the edge, traditional security concerns still apply, but new concerns emerge related to ...
This IDC TechBrief provides a snapshot of the current status of continuous integration (CI)/continuous delivery and deployment (CD) platforms adoption in retail as well their benefits, critical success factors, risks, and investments. IDC ...
This IDC Market Note summarizes the key highlights from Splunk's virtual.conf20 event held in October. At this annual summit, the vendor showcased its engineering capabilities, business road map, and its own cloud and digital business model ...
This IDC Perspective extends the artificial intelligence (AI) automation framework by looking at business intelligence tasks and activities and analyzes them within the context of IDC's AI-based automation framework and looks at usage patterns ...
This IDC Market Note captures IDC's observations and discussions on the compute-related announcements at AWS re:Invent 2020.
This IDC TechBrief addresses how enterprises should embark on their edge computing strategy from the perspective of an application platform.
Network optimization has caught up with compute and storage innovation, enabling a variety ...
This IDC Perspective delves into the nuances of source code escrow arrangements. Source code escrow agreements are useful for mitigating risk. Nevertheless, in practice, their indiscriminate use has reduced their effectiveness, often providing ...
This IDC Market Perspective video series episode investigates the critical roles cloud platforms are playing in enterprises' crisis response and recovery efforts. Watch as IDC President, Crawford Del Prete; Chief Research Officer, Meredith ...
本調査レポートは、Society 5.0に求められる分野横断型のデータ流通サービスプラットフォームに求められる要件を議論したものである。Society 5.0では、さまざまなソースからのばらばらのデータを、デジタルツインなどによって統合し、アナリティクスやAI処理を行うことで、データによる社会経済課題の解決を実現する。そのベースとなる分野横断型のデータ流通サービスプラットフォームでは、スケーラビリティ、相互運用性の確保、トラストの確立などが重要な要件となる。「今後、デジタル保護主義によって、国／地域を越えたデータ流通が制約を受ける可能性がある。データ流通サービスプラットフォームを提供する事業者は、こうした事態に対応できるようデータローカリゼーションなどの各国／地域の規制などに対応可能なビジネススキームを持つべきである」とIDC ...
本調査レポートでは、国内ハイパーコンバージドシステム市場の市場背景、市場構造、参入ベンダーの競合状況やハイパーコンバージドシステムビジネスへの取り組み状況を分析し、国内市場の競争環境においてITサプライヤーが競争優位を維持、強化するためのIDCの提言を示す。
IDC Japan エンタープライズインフラストラクチャのシニアマーケットアナリストである宝出 幸久は「ハイパーコンバージドシステムがITインフラをSoftware-Defined化し、俊敏性、効率性、拡張性を向上することでITインフラの刷新を進めている。今後、ハイパーコンバージドシステムは、PaaSやセキュリティなどのITプラットフォームのさらに多くのコンポーネントを統合するソリューションへと進化する方向にある。ハイパーコンバージドシステムの成長性は高く、ハイブリッドクラウドを実現し、デジタルトランスフォーメーション（DX）の推進に貢献するためのITインフラ変革を担う有力なソリューションの一つである」と分析している。
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