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 study analyzes the network equipment spending (capex) and total capital expenditures (CAPEX) in the region in both fixed-line and mobile networks.
"The rapid rise of LTE handset penetration, combined with FTTP buildouts in developed ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight examines whether IT infrastructure investment intent has begun to improve after the initial decline in spending intent throughout 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. These findings are based on wave 15 of the IDC ...
This IDC Market Analysis Perspective (MAP) summarizes the key challenges and perspectives of Asia/Pacific small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), specifically during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond. It also examines their priorities and ...
This IDC Market Presentation discusses 6 of the 10 partner transformation tenets channel partners need to adopt to succeed in the digital economy and partners' associated maturity. It covers what IDC believes are the best practices that ...
This IDC Market Presentation analyzes a selection of data from IDC's Global Retail Innovation Survey, 2020. The analysis focuses on key worldwide findings from the viewpoint of the main retail subsegments (food and grocery, ecommerce ...
This IDC Market Presentation outlines how partner programs must change for the new digital economy. As customers look for solutions that meet their unique needs for an exact use case specific to their industry, partners have had to change ...
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 ...
本調査レポートは、国内IT市場の地域別の状況および動向を調査、分析してまとめたものである。IDCでは、国内を8つの地域に分けて従業員規模別での市場規模を提供する。本調査レポートで用いる市場予測では、2020年9月末時点におけるCOVID-19の影響および見通しを考慮している。COVID-19によって2020年の国内IT市場は各地域でマイナス成長を予測しているが、特にインバウンド需要の消失、観光自粛、大手製造業の生産停滞の影響によって大都市圏以外の地域を中心に大幅なマイナス成長を見込んでいる。ただし、大都市圏の大企業を中心にDXの推進の取り組みは継続している。2021年に大都市圏を中心にプラス成長に回復するが、大都市圏以外の地域では2021年以降も低い成長率に留まるとみている。このように2021年以降は地域経済の回復状況に加えて、地域の企業のDXの推進状況によって地域間の差異はさらなる拡大を予測している。
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本調査レポートは、国内データエコシステム市場およびIoT市場において2021年に起きると予測する主要な10項目と、それらに対応すべくベンダーがどのようなアクションを取るべきかについてまとめたものである。企業がIoTデータや、基幹系システム／業務システムに蓄積されるデータなど、企業内部におけるさまざまなファーストパーティデータを、外部のセカンドパーティ（協業先の組織）／サードパーティ（協業先以外の外部組織）データと掛け合わせ、新たなビジネスモデル／収益モデルを創出すべく形成するステークホルダーの集合体を「データエコシステム」と定義している。ベンダーは、データエコシステムを取り巻く、法規制の変化、データ流通基盤技術の変化、期待されるソリューション像の変化、ステークホルダー間の関係性の変化、個人／企業の意識の変化など、さまざまな変化に対応する必要があるとみられる。
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This IDC Market Forecast analyzes IT spending between 2019 and 2024 in Europe and provides a market size and forecast as well as key trends supporting technology investments by industry. This IT spending forecast is segmented into IDC's ...
This IDC study presents a five-year forecast for the worldwide digital transformation spending market.
"COVID-19 has upended the global economy," said Eileen Smith, vice president, IDC's Customer Insights and Analysis Group. "While ...
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 ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight looks at predicted spending patterns for healthcare and life science respondents for SaaS software and other technologies in 2021 as companies prepare for an anticipated emergence from the pandemic.
This IDC PlanScape provides a road map for hospitality and travel companies to leverage digital transformation strategies to drive seamless, augmented experiences in the appropriate and desired settings, where physical contact with a human ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight reveals insights on how COVID-19 will impact next year's enterprise spending on various cloud and noncloud models. This document is based on data from IDC's Cloud Pulse Survey conducted in 4Q20. ...