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.
本調査レポートは、国内IT市場における産業分野別／従業員規模別／年商規模別のIT支出額実績（2017年、2018年）と予測（2019年～2023年）を報告している。本調査レポートでは、産業を21区分、従業員規模および製品分野をそれぞれ5区分、年商規模別を4区分に分けて分析し、各産業分野で見られるIT支出のトレンドなどを報告する。
ITサプライヤーは、従来のオンプレミスのシステム提供による売り切りを基本としたビジネスモデルから、ユーザー企業自身の事業構造や業態の変化に柔軟に対応しITリソースを提供する、サブスクリプション型のビジネスモデルへの変革が急務となっている。さらにさまざまなデータを分析し、ユーザー企業が新たな価値創造を生むために、ユーザー企業のビジネスの上流から支援するデジタルコンサルタント領域の強化も必要になりつつあるとIDCは考える。IDC ...
本調査レポートは、国内プライベートクラウド市場について、2019年9月上旬までに収集した情報を基に定性的かつ定量的な分析結果をまとめたものである。また、同市場の配備モデル別に2019年～2023年の市場予測を提示している。
国内プライベートクラウド市場では、企業はシステムごとの個別導入から、全体最適を実現し、DXの基盤となるハイブリッドクラウド／マルチクラウド環境へと、移行し始めている。しかし、同環境の構築、運用は容易ではない。「ベンダーは、ユーザー企業のクラウドジャーニーの支援体制を整備すると共に、統合運用管理を軸としたハイブリッドクラウド／マルチクラウド戦略の強化が求められる」と、IDC ...
本調査レポートは、国内SoR向けエンタープライズインフラ市場におけるアベイラビリティレベル別支出額の予測を提供するものである。さらに、アベイラビリティレベルと配備モデルの組み合せで同市場を分類して分析している。
本調査レポートは、ICT市場全体から働き方改革を牽引する市場を切り出し、その市場規模と市場動向に関し調査、分析を行ったものである。IDCが保有する市場規模データを基に、国内企業に対するアンケートや取材結果を参考に規模を推定し、動向をまとめている。3年ほど前に始まった政府の働き方改革は、働き方改革関連法の施行も開始され、当初問題視されていた労務状況とその管理の改善にある程度の目処が付いた。しかし、安倍政権の働き方改革の本丸ともいうべき労働生産性の向上については課題が山積しており、今後ますますICTの利活用への期待が高まるであろう。
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本調査レポートでは年商規模別におけるIT支出動向と予測を行う。年商規模は2017年度（会計年）の売上額規模から100億円未満、100億円～300億円未満、300億円～1,000億円未満、1,000億円以上の4区分とし、国内IT市場の2017年、2018年における実績値および2019年～2023年の市場規模予測を年商規模別、製品分野別、産業分野別に行っている。国内IT市場全体では、2023年までプラス成長で推移するとみており、特に年商規模の大きいセグメントにおいては比較的高い成長率を見込んでいる。一方で年商規模100億円未満の企業では2020年以降低い成長率に留まるとみている。
また、製品別で見た場合、IaaS、ソフトウェアは堅調に成長すると予測している一方で、サーバー、ストレージ、ITサービスは低い成長率に留まるとみている。「オンプレミスからクラウド中心のビジネスモデルへのシフトが進み、かつ第3のプラットフォーム、イノベーションアクセラレーターが成長分野の中心となる中で、ITサプライヤーは、自社体制の強化と並行して販売パートナーが円滑に取り扱えるようにする支援施策の強化が求められる」とIDC ...
本調査レポートは国内クラウド向けITサービス市場について2019年6月時点における概況や動向を分析し、2018年の実績と2019年~2023年の市場予測をセグメント別にまとめたものである。2018年の国内クラウド向けITサービス市場は、既存システムのクラウド移行などの「Lift & Shift」型の案件の本格化が進んだことによって、高い成長を維持している。2020年以降も、Lift & Shiftの需要は顧客層の拡大と併せて継続していく一方で、これまでは独立して進められることが多かったDXイニシアティブと連動して、企業全体レベルでのITトランスフォーメーションに取り組む企業が増加することで、市場の高成長を牽引していくとIDCではみている。IDC ...
本調査レポートでは、国内IT市場におけるLOB部門によるIT支出について、職務機能別、産業分野別、および企業規模（従業員規模）別に分析を行った。産業分野や職務機能ごとにLOBのIT支出の成長率の差はあるが、今後もLOBによるIT投資は拡大する。「今回の調査で初めて職務機能としてのIT部門の支出がマイナス成長に転じており、将来LOBとIT部門の垣根が次第になくなる方向にある。ITサプライヤーは、ユーザー企業のDXを支援するために、ユーザー企業のIT／LOB双方の協働を促すための、仕組み作りが今後重要になる」と、IDC ...