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 summarizes the competitive landscape of vendors in the Japan office and home printing market, the MPDS market, the production printing market, the large format printer market, and the 3D printer market in 2018, as well as analyzes ...
This IDC Special Study presents a view of AI-enabled search software revenue from the historical year 2018 through to the five forecast years of 2019–2023.
"The AI-enabled search market grew significantly from 2017 to 2018, and we ...
This IDC study provides a forecast for the worldwide edge computing and storage infrastructure market for the 2019–2023 period.
"Edge computing has evolved significantly from the days of isolated IT at ROBO locations," said Kuba Stolarski, ...
This IDC study describes the most prominent use cases that are being digitally transformed in the precision agriculture space. IDC has created a use case taxonomy for digital transformation for multiple industry segments. The taxonomy follows ...
This IDC study quantifies the U.S. MFP page volume market opportunity and provides an in-depth look at the U.S. installed base and page volume forecasts for the inkjet and laser MFP segments, as well as the total page volumes for these segments. ...
This IDC study quantifies the worldwide and U.S. total market value for the entire consumer/office printing market and analyzes market trends and drivers. This forecast calculates the total value of the consumer/office printing market by ...
This IDC study presents a comprehensive view of the cloud services market in CEE, including market sizing for public and private cloud delivery models. It contains quantitative data from 2018 and market forecasts for 2019–2023. It summarizes ...
This IDC study discusses how the Canadian server market performed in 2018 overall and by vendor. It will help suppliers figure out what worked and what didn't work over the past year by correlating vendors' strategies with their market results. ...
This IDC study provides a forecast by operational categories, segments, deployment types, and subregion market distribution for the APEJ DevOps software tools market for the 2019–2023 period.
The APEJ DevOps software tools market reached ...
This IDC Market Forecast presents a view of MFP shipments in Western Europe by end-user segment, focusing on the home market, businesses with fewer than 10 employees, 10-99 employees, 100-499 employees, and 500+ employees; and government/education.
"As ...
This IDC study presents a five-year forecast for the APEJ manufacturing IT applications industry as of September 2019. It reviews and analyzes market context, including both drivers and inhibitors of IT application growth. It also highlights ...
This IDC study presents the 2019-2023 forecast for the advanced versus basic augmented reality head-mounted devices market.
"As the augmented reality market grows, so does the need for different types of devices," says Ramon T. Llamas, ...
This IDC study examines market shares of the top networking equipment vendors in Canada. It updates the previous study (see Canadian Networking Equipment Market Shares, 2017: Incumbents Lose Share ...
This IDC Pivot Table provides worldwide data for IDC's Industry CloudPath 2019, IDC's premier cloud-specific benchmark survey for subscribers looking to gain a deep understanding of how organizations in each industry ...
This IDC Pivot Table provides worldwide data for IDC's SaaSPath 2019, IDC's premier SaaS-specific benchmarking survey, providing subscribers with demand-side guidance on the mind and journey of SaaS buyers, including a deep ...
This IDC study provides a five-year forecast update for the worldwide smart home device market.
"While it's still early days for the smart home market, we expect to see considerable growth over the next few years, especially as consumers ...
This IDC Market Share presents an analysis of the 2019 EMEA enterprise network equipment market, including the Ethernet switch, router, and WLAN segments.
"The EMEA enterprise networking market continues to grow across all technologies. ...
This IDC study presents a view of Canadian AI software market revenue from the historical year 2018 through the 2019–2023 forecast period.
"Strong growth of approximately 30% per year is forecast for the Canadian AI software market ...
本調査レポートは、国内プライベートクラウド市場について、2019年9月上旬までに収集した情報を基に定性的かつ定量的な分析結果をまとめたものである。また、同市場の配備モデル別に2019年～2023年の市場予測を提示している。
国内プライベートクラウド市場では、企業はシステムごとの個別導入から、全体最適を実現し、DXの基盤となるハイブリッドクラウド／マルチクラウド環境へと、移行し始めている。しかし、同環境の構築、運用は容易ではない。「ベンダーは、ユーザー企業のクラウドジャーニーの支援体制を整備すると共に、統合運用管理を軸としたハイブリッドクラウド／マルチクラウド戦略の強化が求められる」と、IDC ...
This IDC study presents a five-year forecast for the worldwide IT operations analytics software market as of September 2019. This study updates the previous forecast published in Worldwide IT Operations Analytics Software Forecast, 2018–2022 ...
This IDC study details the solid growth seen in the Czech security solutions market in 2018, which was driven by the continued expansion of security services — particularly managed security services and cloud security solutions. The study ...
本报告分析了中国生命科学发展的基本概况，阐述了生命科学行业发展与其采用信息化技术的应用场景，分析了2018–2023年生命科学IT支出预测，供生命科学应用软件厂商和相关服务厂商以及IT基础设施厂商、新兴信息化技术厂商参考，也可供生命科学企业在制定发展策略时参考。
“最近一些年中，新兴信息化技术极大地促进了生命科学的研究和开发，生物医学大数据正在建立起来，云计算为生命科学发展提供了计算力支持和管理超大规模数据的能力，人工智能技术则加速了生命科学研究方法改进，生物医药对于特定疾病的针对性治疗功能将越来越强大，转化医学在临床中的比例将越来越高，生命科学研究与开发也促使药品的生产制造与流通模式发生改进，这些都将加速生命科学IT支出规模的扩大。预计未来几年中，生命科学研究与开发的应用软件将会加速发展，大数据、云计算、人工智能等新兴技术将会被加速采用。”——IDC中国行业研究与咨询服务部高级研究经理肖宏亮表示。
...한국IDC 김민철 책임연구원은 "최근 퍼블릭 클라우드 서비스에 대한 국내 사용자의 인식 향상 그리고 정부의 클라우드 활성화 정책에 따른 완화된 규제로 글로벌 클라우드 사업자의 글로벌 확장성과 함께 다양하고 진화된 클라우드 솔루션 제공 그리고 국내 클라우드 사업자의 국내 환경 친화적인 클라우드 솔루션 지원으로 보다 다양한 영역으로 클라우드 사업자의 진출이 확대되고 있다"고 말했다. 또한, "퍼블릭 클라우드 서비스의 안정성 ...
This IDC Market Forecast study provides an examination of the Russian hyperconverged systems market from 2018 to 2023. It includes a summary of the general market dynamics, together with an overview of the vendor landscape.
"With growing ...