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.
On January 26th, 2021, Xerox announced its Q4 2020 earnings. While the announcement revealed similar financial metric performances observed during the pandemic, it was encouraging to review information on future developments. ...
On January 27, 2021, three months after its acquisition of Optimizely and six months from incorporating Idio under the Episerver brand, Episerver announced it was rebranding the company to Optimizely. The rebrand is part of an effort to ...
Conversational artificial intelligence vendor Uniphore announced its acquisition of Emotion Research Lab, a developer of artificial intelligence-based video analysis software that uses machine learning to identify emotion and attention in ...
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 ...
On January 12, 2020, HCL announced that it closed calendar year 2020 by surpassing $10.022 billion in revenue. The company achieved 3.6% revenue growth, compared with the prior year, and recorded EDITDA of 26.5% with net income of $1.781 ...
Veritas announced the release of NetBackup 9, an upgrade to its flagship enterprise backup and recovery software that can now be deployed across edge, core, and cloud environments as an HCI appliance managed under a standard interface. 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 ...
This IDC study provides an analysis of the global and Korea Smart Cities in the digital transformation (DX) age, which discusses the response and development of Korea's Smart Cities based on the trends of Smart Cities globally. In addition, ...
This IDC Market Glance provides an overview of vendors participating in the edge infrastructure market. As demand for edge solutions accelerates, a wide variety of companies have developed technology and services across several categories ...
This IDC Market Glance provides an overview of the vendors participating in the Internet of Things ecosystem.
This IDC Market Perspective considers some of the key technology trends that occurred in retail in Europe during 2020 — the strong expansion of ecommerce, the rising importance of logistics, and the rise of contactless in brick-and-mortar ...
This IDC Market Note discusses the announcement of the definitive agreement published on December 1, 2020, for Slack (NYSE: WORK) to be acquired by Salesforce (NYSE: CRM).
With a definitive agreement signed for Slack to be acquired ...
This IDC Perspective introduces the concept of digital transformation "levers" that can help ensure uptake and use of digitally enabled products, services, and experiences. The levers are strategies and tactics that harness emerging and ...
This IDC Perspective discusses the need to convey the power of IT to support and change the enterprise. IT's strength and survival are highly dependent upon IT's customer vision captured within the IT service portfolio. The service portfolio ...
Last week, Singapore's government announced that it has invested an additional S$40 million in developing 5G applications for enterprises' digital transformation (DX), becoming the latest in a series of governments to move in this direction. ...
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。
IDC ...
本調査レポートは、各種クライアントデバイス（PC、携帯電話、ウェアラブルデバイス、AR/VRなど）に関して今後の見通しをまとめた調査レポート『IDC FutureScape: Worldwide Connected Devices and Consumer DX 2021 Predictions IDC（IDC #US46920320、2020年10月発行）』に関し、内容を抄訳した上で実現時期や組織へのインパクトなどの点に対し、日本国内事情の現状に基づいた変更を加えたものである。
なお、本調査レポートでは主に以下のテクノロジー／テーマについて扱っている。
- AR/VR
- ウェアラブルデバイス
- ノートブックPC
- スマートフォン
- AI（Artificial ...
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 ...
中国数字化转型的趋势受到三方面的影响，一是全球数字化大趋势和新冠肺炎疫情；二是中国政府相关的政策，特别是"十四五"规划；三是中国市场独有的特征与当前中国企业数字化成熟度情况。从全球趋势看，数字化产品和服务深度驱动经济增长，新冠肺炎疫情加速了企业数字化转型的进程。中国"十四五"规划的三个关键词将影响数字化转型的方向，一是双循环格局：聚焦于国内内需市场、提升产业/供应链完整性、通过内需吸引全球资源；二是高质量发展：产业结构的高质量、区域协调的高质量、产品服务的高质量；三是重科技创新：完善科技创新体制机制、大力发展战略新兴产业、践行科技自立自强战略。中国市场独有特征包括：通过新基建打造数字经济新底座、通过新循环引导经济发展新方向、通过新智慧促进城市发展新格局、通过新科技提供产业升级新动力、通过新平台催生产业网络新玩家、通过新国货促进消费产业新升级。
数字化转型2021年十大预测从疫情影响、数字化投资、组织架构、数字平台、数字文化、商业创新、员工体验等多个角度给出了未来五年的驱动因素、发展趋势、IT影响以及行动建议，支持企业在疫后下一个常态中明确投资方向，加速演进成"未来企业"。
IDC中国副总裁兼首席分析师武连峰表示："千万不要低估新冠肺炎疫情造成的影响，企业应该找出数字化转型差距，更新数字化转型愿景战略和路线图，开发数据采集、整合、处理与货币化能力，重构组织体系及关键绩效指标（KPI），投资数字平台并打造新的生态系统。"
...本プレゼンテーションは、国内IT市場において、2021年から2025年に国内の顧客エクスペリエンス（CX）市場で起きると予測される主要な事象をITバイヤー向けに記載したものであり、新型コロナウイルス感染症（COVID-19）の感染拡大、顧客の急速なデジタルシフトなど未来の顧客に関する市場環境の変化を捉え、2021年以降に起きるとみられる10項目の事象（Predictions）を提示することで、ITバイヤーが時宣を得た対応策をとれるように支援することにある。
「企業は、全社的なCX向上への取り組みを早急に展開する必要がある。また、CXの成熟度を高める上で顧客データの収集／分析／アプリケーションへの展開による顧客データとAIの活用は欠かせない。これまで以上にブランド価値、顧客の価値を重視し、社会的役割／責任を果たす企業文化の構築は、広義のCXを向上させる施策として重要性が増していく」とIDC ...