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 provides the CY 3Q19 vendor share results and the forecasts for both the short term (3Q19–4Q20) and the long term (2019–2024) for the worldwide NAND flash memory market. The Pivot Table includes:
- Worldwide ...
This IDC study analyzes trends in the enterprise infrastructure solutions market in Sub-Saharan Africa. It examines the drivers and inhibitors of the enterprise server and storage markets and provides a forecast for the 2019–2023 period. ...
This IDC study provides an analysis of vendor performance in the tablet market for 3Q19.
"With detachable shipments growing double digits in the third quarter on the heels of some promising product launches and a steadily growing customer ...
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 Pivot Table provides the CY 3Q19 DRAM vendor share results and forecasts for both the short term (3Q19–4Q20) and the long term (2019–2024) for the worldwide DRAM market. The Pivot Table includes:
- Worldwide DRAM revenue ...
This IDC study presents an update to the Worldwide Hard Disk Drive Forecast, 2019–2023 (IDC #US45022919, May 2019). The worldwide HDD forecast update ...
This IDC Pivot Table provides the CY 3Q19 DRAM and NAND vendor share results. The Pivot Table includes:
- Worldwide DRAM revenue share by vendor, 3Q19 and 2Q19
- Worldwide NAND revenue share by vendor, 3Q19 and 2Q19
- Worldwide ...
This IDC study provides the forecast for the 5G network infrastructure market for 2019–2023.
"While Release 15 paved the way for initial commercial 5G launches, Release 16 (1H20) and beyond will be what unlocks 5G's full potential ...
This IDC study provides historical data (2014–2018) and a forecast data (2019–2023) for the worldwide and U.S. enterprise storage systems markets. The forecast and historical data focuses on end-user consumption of external enterprise storage ...
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 quantifies the worldwide MFP market opportunities and analyzes issues, trends, and product advances in this market. It contains 2013–2018 data showing actual unit shipments, value of shipments (end-user spending), and ...
This IDC study examines some of the key technologies that are expected to trend upward in 2020, and it looks at ways in which IT and business services firms can address these technologies with customers to advance usage. The document highlights ...
This IDC study provides a 2019–2023 forecast for the worldwide IP PBX market (pure IP and hybrid IP) by lines/seats or licenses shipped and manufacturers' revenue.
"IDC survey data indicates that, for many organizations, IP telephony ...
This IDC study quantifies the U.S. printer page volume market in detail, analyzing issues, trends, and changes in device usage. It contains IDC's review and forecast of the U.S. printer page volume market for 2013–2023. Printer installed ...
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. ...
本調査レポートは、国内ホワイトボックススイッチ市場に関して、2019年～2023年の予測と今後の展望を提供する。ホワイトボックススイッチとは、ネットワーク機器のハードウェアとソフトウェアを分離して調達して構成するNetwork Disaggregationの形式をとるイーサネットスイッチを指し、国内でもハイパースケーラーと呼ばれるグローバルメガクラウド事業者を中心に導入が始まっている。今後は「イノベーター」であるハイパースケーラーから、「アーリーアダプター」にユーザーが移行し成長期に向かうとIDCでは予測している。
ホワイトボックススイッチのユーザー層拡大に当たって、IDC ...
本調査レポートは、データセンター向けイーサネットスイッチとADC市場の2018年のベンダーシェアとベンダー動向を分析している。国内データセンター向けイーサネットスイッチ市場は、ベンダーの二極化／寡占化が進んでいる。シスコシステムズとアリスタネットワークスは、他の上位ベンダーの売上が軒並み伸び悩んでいるのに対して、2018年も二桁成長を達成し、2社合計のシェアは7割を超える。一方のADC市場は、2018年はほぼ横ばいで市場の活性度がやや低下している。そのような市場環境においては、ADCベンダー間の勢力図で大きな変化は起こりにくい状況にある。国内データセンター向けイーサネットスイッチ市場で上位2社に追従するベンダーは、「市場のトレンドであるIP ...
本調査レポートは、ソフトウェア市場に関するIDCの分類法について詳細に説明したものである。2018年の定義では、「アプリケーションソフトウェア」「アプリケーション開発／デプロイメント（AD&D）」「システムインフラストラクチャソフトウェア」の3つのソフトウェア市場があり、83の機能市場セグメントに分類される。
「IDCのソフトウェア市場定義は、世界のソフトウェア市場の包括的な見方を表している。世界のコマーシャルソフトウェアの定義と分類のための主たる情報ソース、TrackerやSpending ...