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 presentation focuses on how COVID-19 is impacting partner businesses, specifically related to their stages to recovery and what that means to partner revenue. This content was presented at IDC's Software Channel Leadership ...
This IDC Perspective discusses how data is working in Canadian marketplace. Customers are up for grabs. Industries are quickly realizing the value of customer engagement as competitive differentiation. There is a big difference from aspiring ...
This IDC study extracts the market that drives workstyle transformation from the entire ICT market to explore and analyze the market size and trends. It estimates the market size and summarizes the market trends with reference to the questionnaires ...
This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation discusses the importance of creating a shared and enterprisewide digital transformation strategy and the relevance of measuring it step by step. The presentation is split in three sections. The first one ...
This IDC Market Note discusses QA's offerings and initiatives, focusing on its programs to reskill the wider workforce and expanding the tech talent pool through apprenticeships.
This IDC Market Note is part of our Women in Tech research series. It discusses AWS' initiatives around diversity and inclusion in Europe, focusing on its programs through the talent life cycle to attract and retain women in technical roles.
...This IDC Survey features data from IDC's 2020 COVID-19 Impact on IT Spending Survey, a global survey conducted from August 21–31, 2020. This document provides results and analysis from 329 Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) (APEJ) senior ...
This IDC Perspective looks at how the Belgian government harnessed the expertise of integrator DXC and PDF technology company iText to completely overhaul its records management system.
"The public sector is grappling with antiquated ...
This IDC Web Conference presents a discussion by IDC's Mutaz Shegewi on the key predictions that will impact CIOs and IT professionals in the worldwide healthcare industry over the next one to five years. Senior IT leaders and line-of-business ...
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 ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight discusses the perception of the participation of security in digital transformation initiatives is incongruent with the perception of authority.
"When asked about true authority, requiring sign off, only 10% ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight presents key use cases for video assets from IDC's November 2020 Digital Experience and Video Platforms Survey. The analysis also highlights how the COVID-19 pandemic shifted the use of video from ...
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 Perspective examines the influence of artificial intelligence on the achievement of sustainable and social goals as well as its related ethical and fairness challenges. The document highlights the use cases of AI in Europe ...
This IDC Market Presentation provides an overview of digital transformation (DX) developments in Europe in 3Q20. It covers news, significant deals, policy announcements, regulatory actions, and investments that could impact markets locally ...
This IDC Perspective summarizes key takeaways from IDC's European Manufacturing Executive Digital Forum 2020, which took place on November 24, 2020. It summarizes the highlights of our partner and CXO community presentations from the perspective ...
This IDC Perspective looks at the key trends and vendors in Europe driving workplace transformation and the Future of Work through UC&C tools. Collaboration that facilitates Future of Work best practices is no longer linked to the use ...
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 Survey presents key findings on some key sentiment by U.S. bank and credit union customers when it comes to their experiences, concerns, and engagement with their bank during their financial journey. The data is from IDC Financial ...
This IDC Perspective looks at data in action in the Canadian marketplace. The initial focus of this study was to assess the role that data plays in industry disruption. What we found is that Big Data and analytics, on its own, does not drive ...
本調査レポートは、国内の産業を、17区分の企業と、中央官庁、地方自治体、教育、消費者の4区分の非企業の計21の産業分野に分類し、それぞれの分野の第3のプラットフォーム支出額実績（2019年）と予測（2020年～2024年）を報告する。また、同市場を5つの従業員規模に分けて分析し、産業分野別および従業員規模別の第3のプラットフォーム支出額の予測データを提供する。本調査レポートで用いる市場予測では、2020年11月時点における新型コロナウイルス感染症（COVID-19）の影響および見通しを考慮している。IDC ...
This IDC Market Presentation reviews the current state of distributor and aggregator marketplace platforms describing how capabilities have grown. This capability growth has increased the importance of these platforms to channel partners, ...
This IDC Survey provides an overview of the results from a 2020 U.S. survey of enterprises involving their use of managed (outsourced) services for finance and accounting (F&A) business process outsourcing. The survey involved U.S. respondents ...
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 TechBrief helps healthcare provider IT leaders and buyers come quickly up to speed on enterprise imaging. Medical images and imaging-related data can serve as a valuable source of clinical insight but will pose more challenges than ...
For companies planning on digital patient engagement initiatives, it is important to closely examine the whole spectrum of use cases to spot the opportunities and the key benefits therein. This IDC PlanScape offers a comprehensive framework ...
This IDC Perspective provides a view into how manufacturers have adapted to the challenges imposed by COVID-19, the investments still needed, and why the industry needs to embrace the future of work to succeed in the short term and long ...
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 ...
This IDC study provides an update on some of the most prominent use cases being adopted in the precision agriculture space. IDC has created a use case taxonomy for the digital transformation of multiple industry segments. The taxonomy follows ...
本IDC 陈述报告描述了中国制造行业IT 2021年十大预测。报告为制造企业的高管提供了在未来的60 个月内制造业IT 及其IT 所支持的业务发展趋势，报告标识了这些预测发生作用的未来时间和受影响的业务领域，以及相对的复杂性和成本。每个预测包括IT 对业务的影响和对于制造企业的行动指南。
2020年新冠疫情"黑天鹅"事件使得制造业遭受重大打击，尤其是离散型制造，由于供应链中断使得生产停滞。以汽车制造为例，在疫情头几个月，中国汽车的产销大幅下滑。与此同时，中美贸易摩擦并未停滞，美国政府对中国半导体、电子行业的贸易限制，也使得中国制造企业备受压力。
一边是疫情的全球肆虐，一边是中美贸易摩擦的持续升级。在此严峻的外部挑战之下，中国政府出台了"新基建"、"双循环"等政策，以应对经济下行压力，助推制造业复苏。我们也可以看到，一批新业态、新模式应运而生，并从根本上颠覆传统的工作模式、生产模式。
"展望未来，中国制造业的机会和挑战并存。从宏观上看，制造业IT投资将进一步提高，新技术、新模式将在业务落地的过程中将不断迭代更新，以适应不断变化的市场。基于AI的风险决策，能提供决策指导和洞察；机器视觉和增强/虚拟现实（AR/VR）将场外的专业知识延伸到现场，可以减少现场工作人员数量；分布式供应链网络将降低价值链意外中断的风险。另外，跨生态系统的运维中心将提高运营效率，缩短产品上市时间。"——IDC中国制造业高级研究经理张兰英表示。
...This IDC Perspective summarizes several of the top considerations that merchants should have when evaluating digital commerce application providers, as there are many different ways to approach the digital commerce application evaluation ...
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 examines the impact of digital workspaces and VDI on endpoint security. Evidence is mounting that organizations are recalibrating end-user computing as work-from-home and hybrid arrangements rose during the pandemic ...
数字政府作为数字中国的重要组成部分，是构建高水平社会主义市场经济体制的重要支撑，是践行四个全面战略布局和五大新发展理念的重要抓手，是建设社会主义现代化国家的必经途径。从政策角度出发，十九届四中全会强调要创新行政方式，提高行政效能，建设人民满意的服务型政府；十九届五中全会强调推动国家治理体系和治理能力的现代化，而建设数字政府成为了这一理念实践过程中的重要抓手与引擎。截至2020年12月，全国已有15个省级行政单位提出了数字政府相关的规划，且规划主体正由省级政府向市级政府扩展，多层次的数字政府建设正渐渐拉开帷幕。从技术角度出发，大数据、区块链、云计算、人工智能等新兴信息技术不断融合创新，全面支撑数字政府的建设，科技全方面赋能的趋势逐步凸显。从市场规模角度出发，到2024年，数字政府相关的建设中仅IT解决方案的市场规模便会达到249亿人民币，市场前景广阔，未来可期。由此可见，数字政府建设正蓄势待发，。
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This IDC Perspective provides analyst insights on the growing importance of eCOAs, especially in the post-COVID-19 world. Despite the world being hit by a horrific pandemic, the pharma and biotech industry has risen to the occasion and leveraged ...
本报告是IDC FutureScape全球医疗健康行业2021年预测的中国启示，报告提供了2021-2026年间医疗健康行业技术发展路线图，包含10项健康行业发展前沿的预测并融合了针对中国市场的观点看法。每项预测都包括该预测内容成为市场"主流"的时间和实现该项预测的复杂性评估，以及该预测对于IT方面的影响，并为技术买家提供了采用和部署这些技术的建议，可供中国医疗健康行业的各领域，如医疗、医保、医药、健康管理、生命科学等领域的机构和企业在制定发展战略和数字化转型策略中参考。
...This IDC Survey Spotlight investigates how European healthcare organizations can survive and thrive after the COVID-19. It focuses on the capabilities that healthcare providers are expected to adopt to accelerate their digital transformation ...
IDC research has found that modernizing enterprise applications, especially those that support core business processes, is a top priority for enterprises in Asia/Pacific. This IDC Perspective discusses the motivation behind enterprises to ...
This IDC Perspective video series episode reviews the impact COVID-19 had on industry's focus on digital transformation and ongoing recovery efforts and areas of focus. Watch as IDC President, Crawford Del Prete; Chief Research Officer, ...
This IDC Perspective video series episode explores how students and their families are adjusting to the new normal of hybrid, remote, and increased virtual education options in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Watch as IDC President, Crawford ...
This IDC Market Perspective provides insight on enterprise application spending in 2021. Enterprise application vendors are sitting on a gold mine for 2021 if they have paid attention and moved to a modern, modular, and transformational ...