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 study is a translation of the Japanese document IDC #JPJ44016419. It presents the share of head-mounted display (HMD) in the Japan Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality (AR/VR) ...
This IDC study examines the market shares of the major vendors in the U.S. smartwatch market in 2018.
"Apple once again accounted for the majority of the U.S. smartwatch market for the third year in a row, but a closer look shows progress ...
In this study, we provide our Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) (APEJ) forecast for all 13 countries (the "region") as subsequent work to our study in 2018 where we investigated connectivity growth in four APEJ markets (see Internet of Things ...
This IDC study examines the market shares of vendors in the worldwide smartwatch market in 2018.
"Apple finished 2018 in the same way that it finished 2017 — as the undisputed leader in the worldwide smartwatch market," points out ...
This IDC Government Insights study provides an overview of IT spending trends and forecasts for the European education sector for 2017-2022 (with 2017 as the base year).
The focus is on spending on hardware, packaged software, and ...
This IDC Market Forecast and the associated database (Telecom Operating Model or TOM) examine the development of the capex of this subset of telecom operators in the historical period 2017-2018, with a forecast of CSP capex in 2019-2023 ...
This IDC study presents the forecast for the U.S. smart video entertainment device market for the 2019–2023 period.
"The U.S. smart video entertainment market is steadily building a presence," says Ramon T. Llamas, research director ...
This IDC study examines the market share of the major vendors in the worldwide virtual reality hardware market in 2018.
"2018 marked a year of transition for the worldwide virtual reality head-mounted display market," said Ramon T. ...
"The Chinese game market bore a slowing revenue growth in 2018. Under the influence of environmental variation, the overseas market became the game vendors' focus area," said Turian Tan, gaming market analyst at IDC China. "Although the ...
This IDC study presents the situation and trends in the Japan IT services market. In addition to the IT services spending analysis according to user companies' 18 industry segments (subsegments), this study also presents the spending analysis ...
This IDC study reviews the worldwide smart speaker market shares for 2018.
"2018 marked yet another strong step forward for the worldwide smart speaker market," says Ramon T. Llamas, research director for IDC's Consumer Internet of ...
This IDC study provides a five-year forecast for the worldwide smart home device market.
"The worldwide smart home device market continues to lay down the foundation for growth in future years," points out Ramon T. Llamas, research ...
"China's game market has just experienced a turbulent development period in which it posted its lowest growth rate in the past decade, which is also an opportunity for the game industry to enter a new stage of development," says Turian Tan, ...
This IDC study provides a taxonomy for the Worldwide Black Book: Service Provider Edition, which tracks ICT spending by service providers. It is intended as a handbook for usage alongside the Worldwide Black Book: Service Provider ...
This IDC study provides an updated forecast for the worldwide augmented and virtual reality hardware market for the 2019–2023 period.
"2019 marks a turning point for the worldwide AR/VR market," says Ramon T. Llamas, research director ...
This IDC study presents the five-year forecast for smartwatches shipments in the United States.
"The U.S. smartwatch market is heading for continued growth," says Ramon T. Llamas, research director for IDC's Wearables team. "While ...
This IDC study provides a detailed description of IDC's Worldwide Semiannual Digital Transformation Spending Guide methodology and taxonomy. It should be used as a companion piece for IDC's Worldwide Semiannual Digital Transformation Spending ...
本研究报告给出了制造业IoT市场定义及研究方法，回顾和分析了市场背景，包括制造业IoT发展的驱动因素和障碍因素、重大市场变化，从技术分类、应用场景、垂直行业等维度给出了2018-2022年中国制造业IoT规模的预测，同时也分析了市场机会与趋势，并给技术提供商提出了具体建议。
"随着IoT技术的不断演进和其在制造业更多场景中的应用，IoT平台将不仅连接更多的工业设备，还将承担更多的数据分析功能。未来制造业IoT的发展需发挥系统集成商的作用，同时关注新兴技术如边缘计算、5G在制造业中的应用"。IDC制造业洞察部高级研究经理张兰英表示。
...This IDC study provides the U.S. government blockchain market forecast for 2019-2022.
"We believe asset management, identity management, and smart contracts will be the leading blockchain solutions for government," said Shawn P. McCarthy, ...
This IDC study discusses our forecast for the worldwide smartwatch market for 2019–2023.
"With the building blocks in the wearables market firmly in place, the next several years will bear witness to steadily greater shipments and ...
This IDC Special Study provides clients with a demand-side view on IT infrastructure spending sentiments in 1Q19 as well as insights on technology buyer assessments of market trends that will shape the future of the IT infrastructure industry. ...
This IDC study is a translation of the Japanese document IDC #JPJ44108619. It provides IT spending trends and forecasts by annual sales sizes. Annual sales sizes are classified based ...
This IDC study is a translation of the Japanese document IDC #JPJ42861818. It presents the Japan SMB IT market actual performance in 2017, estimated performance in 2018, and the market ...
This IDC study analyzes the Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) wireless software-defined WAN (SD-WAN) market and provides IDC's second forecast for this networking segment. "Systems integrators are realizing that multi-cellular and multinetwork ...
本調査レポートは、国内AR/VRヘッドセット市場について、Google Cardboardのような簡易組立式を除くヘッドマウントディスプレイの国内シェアを提供するものである。IDC Japan PC、携帯端末＆クライアントソリューションのシニアマーケットアナリストである菅原 啓は「2018年はVRが安定的な成長段階に入った一方、ARは厳しい状況が続いた1年であった。しかし、年末から2019年にかけてARも新規参入ベンダーや性能面で大きな進歩を遂げた新製品が登場しており、今後の成長に向けての再始動が始まっている。VRも高性能なスタンドアロン型ヘッドセットやさらなる高精細化を進めたケーブル型ヘッドセットの登場が見込まれており、ヘッドセットの多様性という観点からは市場の活性化が期待できる。したがって、今後の成長に向けてユーザー層の裾野を継続的かつ真剣に拡大していく取り組みが今後も求められる」と分析している。
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