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.
Data marketplaces have been gaining traction over the past 18 months, and Amazon Web Services' (AWS') entry into this landscape will continue the momentum. This open type of marketplace with a suite of available services can be of great ...
This IDC Market Analysis Perspective discusses the current state of the Big Data platforms and tools market in Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) (APEJ), including ongoing trends, emerging players, buyer perspectives, and a future outlook. The ...
This IDC Market Presentation provides an executive summary of the worldwide findings for IDC's Managed CloudView Survey. This survey involved polling 1,500 organizations, which included both IT and LOB respondents, ...
This IDC Survey provides an overview of buyers' preference for how a blockchain network should operate including the ideal number of participants, preferred cloud and blockchain platforms, and type of network (a major supplier or technology ...
This IDC Market Glance provides a glance at the current makeup of the smart manufacturing market landscape for manufacturing industries.
This IDC Market Analysis Perspective (MAP) examines the worldwide data management software market. Data management is in a period of transition — moving to the cloud, adopting new architectures, and throwing away old assumptions. Hadoop ...
This IDC Market Analysis Perspective (MAP) provides big data and analytics (BDA) software technology vendors with an overview of the BDA market, offering the information required to support strategic planning and strategic marketing initiatives. ...
This IDC Market Analysis Perspective analyzes the state of the market for persuasive content management software and includes commentary on market drivers and trends in website software, digital asset management, product information management, ...
This IDC Market Analysis Perspective (MAP) examines the IT service management and virtual client computing markets as they continue their divergence between a more traditional approach based on existing approaches and an "AI-first" approach ...
This IDC Market Analysis Perspective provides insight into the current state and outlook of the rapidly evolving artificial intelligence (AI) software platforms market. As an innovation accelerator market, analysis of artificial intelligence ...
本プレゼンテーションでは、国内のDevOpsソフトウェア市場の概況とユーザー動向、将来の展望について分析を行っている。
本プレゼンテーションは、IDCの調査レポート『国内DevOpsソフトウェア市場予測、2019年～2023年（IDC #JPJ44003119、2019年5月発行）』と『2018年 ...
This IDC Market Glance provides an overview of the current makeup of the digital commerce software market landscape, illustrates the participating vendors, and depicts the segments and structure of the market.
本プレゼンテーションでは、国内のビッグデータ／アナリティクス（BDA）市場における2018年の市場の分析と2019年～2023年の売上額予測、ユーザーニーズ動向調査について分析を行っている。
本プレゼンテーションは、『2019年 国内ビッグデータ／アナリティクス市場 企業ユーザー調査（IDC #JPJ44003419、2019年3月発行）』『国内BDAソフトウェア市場予測、2019年～2023年（IDC ...
This IDC Market Glance provides a view of the current makeup of the data integration and integrity (DII) software market landscape. This document covers three subsegments of the DII software market: data integration, data integrity and intelligence, ...
This IDC Market Glance is intended to define and illustrate the component building block of data protection as a service (DPaaS) solutions and the vendors that participate in those building block segments. Data protection as a service is ...
This IDC Market Glance provides an overview of the broad spectrum of technology and services providers that make datacenters more resilient and sustainable.
At its inaugural security conference — AWS re:Inforce— AWS executives showcased the company's investment in information security and announced the general availability of key components of the AWS security architecture — AWS Control Tower ...
This IDC Market Glance provides an overview of the current service provider landscape in Canada, describes the structure and segments of the market, and identifies providers participating in each segment.
This IDC Survey describes the global adoption trends and strategies of organizations that are using artificial intelligence (AI) solutions either developing them in-house, using COTS, or a combination of both. Respondents were given the ...
This IDC Market Glance provides an overview of the current service provider landscape, describes the structure and segments of the market, and identifies providers participating in each segment.
This IDC Market Presentation provides a glance at the current structure of the manufacturing business ecosystems landscape for manufacturing industries.
During SAPPHIRE NOW, SAP's largest gathering of customers and partners, the company announced general availability of interoperability between SAP Leonardo IoT and AWS IoT Core. What this means for customers is that they can leverage AWS ...
This IDC Market Glance provides a look at the current vendors participating in the expanding and rapidly evolving market of government network and telecommunication solutions, plus associated services. It includes participants in government ...
This IDC Survey compares IDC's latest primary research on the issue of IoT-related leadership and selection criteria in Canada and around the world. In the fourth quarter of 2018, IDC surveyed 4,873 respondents across 26 countries worldwide ...
This IDC Market Glance provides a look at the current participants in the highly competitive market of government datacenters and the systems integrators that help spec, develop, and manage government solutions.
It also looks at communities ...
This IDC Market Glance provides a glance at the current makeup of the container management software landscape, illustrates the participating vendors, and depicts the segments and structure of the market.
This IDC Market Analysis Perspective discusses the current state and vectors of movement for cloud platforms in Europe, including end-user attitudes and vendors positioning and product development evolutions. Cloud platforms remain central ...
This IDC Market Glance provides a glance at the current makeup of the cloud system and service management software landscape, illustrates the participating vendors, and depicts the segments and structure of the market.
This IDC Market Glance provides IDC Financial Insights' view of connected banking in Canada, illustrating the vendors participating within the structure of banking segments including cloud, IT services, enterprise, data providers, omni-channel, ...
This IDC Market Presentation provides an overview of the key events that occurred during the second half of the 2018 calendar year that involve or address the artificial intelligence and data analytics market in Canada. A short analysis ...
Red Hat's recent launch of OperatorHub.io, in collaboration with a range of partners (Google Cloud, AWS, and Microsoft), offers enterprises a single open source destination to locate and download native full-stack Kubernetes Operator automations ...
本調査レポートは国内企業／団体におけるビッグデータ／アナリティクスについての認知／導入の状況や、データアナリティクスに対する取り組みを行っている企業／団体における利用目的や組織／人材の状況、新技術への取り組み状況などについて、IDCが2019年1月に実施したユーザー調査の結果を基に分析を行ったものである。
「データアナリティクスへの企業の取り組みは、進展が見られるものの、DXデッドロックの兆候が顕在化してきており、今後の中長期の成長を楽観視できないという調査結果となっている。データアナリティクスに取り組むベンダーはユーザー企業とのより緊密な取り組みを通じて確実に成果を積み上げることが求められる」とIDC ...
This IDC Market Glance explores the current makeup of the future of work technology landscape, illustrates participating vendors, and depicts the segments and structure of the market.
This IDC Market Glance provides a snapshot of the current data-driven policing landscape globally, including the definitions of the major segments of the market, the structure of the market, and the vendors participating within each segment.
...This IDC Market Glance provides a glance at the current makeup of the IT/OT convergence market landscape for manufacturing industries.
This IDC Market Glance provides an overview of the vendors participating in the container infrastructure software ecosystem.
This IDC Presentation analyzes the results of the IDC IT/OT integration survey for mining undertaken in May 2018. It provides an analysis of the approaches, priorities, barriers, and challenges that mining companies face as they tackle IT/OT ...
This IDC Market Glance provides an overview of the current infrastructure systems, platforms, and technologies landscape; describes the structure and segments of the market; and illustrates the vendors participating in each segment.
This IDC Market Glance provides a view of the current makeup of the big data and analytic (BDA) tools market landscape. This presentation covers three subsegments of the BDA tools market: business intelligence and analytic tools, analytic ...
This IDC Market Glance takes a look at the current makeup of the artificial intelligence (AI) software platform, content analytics, and AI-enabled search systems market landscape in 1Q19. It illustrates the participating vendors and depicts ...
This IDC Market Glance provides an overview of the current internet of things (IoT) infrastructure landscape (e.g., compute, storage, and networking), describes the structure and segments of the market, and illustrates the vendors participating ...
This IDC Market Glance provides the IDC Financial Insights' view of connected banking, illustrating the vendors participating within the structure of banking segments including cloud, IT services, enterprise, data providers, omni-channel, ...
This IDC Market Glance provides an overview of the current infrastructure for AI applications and workloads landscape, describes the structure and segments of the market, and illustrates the vendors participating in each segment.
On January 15, 2019, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced it was acquiring TSO Logic, a small software company based in Vancouver, British Columbia. TSO Logic was founded in 2013 and focused on helping customers understand existing costs ...
This IDC Market Glance document provides a glance at the landscape of application development languages, development frameworks and development tools, and components and platforms.
This IDC Market Glance for platform-as-a-service (PaaS) software breaks down individual components of the ecosystem while identifying various entities participating in each segment.
The PaaS software has been constantly changing since ...
Developers and new applications remain one of the most important on-ramp vectors to AWS today, and long term, and it constitutes the primary avenue to AWS success. Accordingly, developers remain a central focus for all the cloud megaplatform ...
This IDC Survey provides insights into the DevOps practices of large enterprise organizations within the United States. The survey data included in this presentation encompasses DevOps adoption and drivers, application modernization approaches, ...
The IDC Market Glance for experiential retail presents a high-level view of the vendors participating in each of the digitally transformed technology categories presented. The digital transformation (DX) of retail has redefined business ...
This IDC Market Presentation highlights the key Internet of Things (IoT) use cases under trial and production for the financial services industry in Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan). It helps address the key questions that end-user organizations ...