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.
"As the Asia/Pacific region starts to roll out 5G services, the leading integrated and mobile operators in the region have already begun the process of migrating their network architecture to a cloud-native service architecture, which will ...
本調査レポートは、ICT市場全体から働き方改革を牽引する市場を切り出し、その市場規模と市場動向に関し調査、分析を行ったものである。IDCが保有する市場規模データを基に、国内企業に対するアンケートや取材結果を参考に規模を推定し、動向をまとめている。3年ほど前に始まった政府の働き方改革は、働き方改革関連法の施行も開始され、当初問題視されていた労務状況とその管理の改善にある程度の目処が付いた。しかし、安倍政権の働き方改革の本丸ともいうべき労働生産性の向上については課題が山積しており、今後ますますICTの利活用への期待が高まるであろう。
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This IDC study analyzes the U.S. mobile consumer and business services market outlook for 2019–2023. The study discusses the key market trends impacting both the consumer and business wireless market segments within the United States and ...
This study summarizes the 3rd Platform professional services market actual performance in 2018 and the market forecast from 2019 to 2023 into four key technology segments, which are cloud, business analytics (BA), enterprise mobility, and ...
This IDC study describes the most prominent use cases that are being digitally transformed in the hospitality industry. Hospitality organizations can use this document as a guide as they define what and how they will plan for change, innovation, ...
This IDC Market Forecast provides the forecast for the 5G mobile backhauling in Western Europe and in Central and Eastern Europe between 2019 and 2023. The market will grow to $1,099 million in 2023, and forecasts are broken down into routing, ...
This IDC study provides a forecast for the worldwide client endpoint management software market for 2018–2023.
"Client endpoint management, while maturing in some areas, is evolving around the themes of unified endpoint management ...
This IDC study provides a forecast for the worldwide IoT infrastructure market for 2019–2023.
"While IoT has been a slow burn for IoT infrastructure vendors, it is picking up some momentum, particularly as the IoT edge ecosystem develops ...
This IDC study provides a detailed description of IDC's Worldwide Semiannual Mobility Spending Guide methodology and taxonomy. It should be used as a companion piece for IDC's Worldwide Semiannual Mobility Spending Guide data deliverable ...
本調査レポートでは、国内5Gネットワークインフラストラクチャ市場に関する、2019年～2023年の予測と今後の展望を提供する。5Gサービス提供用ネットワークインフラストラクチャとして導入する、5G RAN（Radio Access Network）、5Gコアネットワーク、ルーター、イーサネットスイッチ、光伝送装置を対象にしている。国内5Gサービスは、予測期間の初期は2019年のラグビーワールドカップや2020年の東京オリンピック／パラリンピックをターゲットにした5Gサービス提供を目指すとみられ、5Gサービス向けインフラストラクチャの整備は限定的なエリアから始まる。5Gインフラストラクチャ整備は、5G ...
IDC 创新者是指年营业额低于$100M、有创新性技术或突破性商业模式的新兴厂商。本次IDC创新者研究对深圳市联软科技股份有限公司、北京梆梆安全科技有限公司、北京指掌易科技有限公司、北京智游网安科技有限公司、北京易安睿龙科技有限公司的移动应用安全创新技术及市场应用进行了全面调研。
"移动技术快速发展，移动互联逐步成为大众消费、出行、娱乐、办公等方方面面的重要选择。如何在享受新兴技术带来的便利和高效的同时保障移动应用相关数据、权限、业务流程的安全性，成为每个移动应用提供商越来越重视的问题。"等级保护2.0"于5月13日正式发布，其中针对移动终端、移动应用和无线网络部分提出了移动互联安全扩展要求，与安全通用要求一起构成了对采用移动互联技术的等级保护对象的完整安全要求。随着国家监管力度的不断提升，移动应用安全作为快速发展的新兴技术领域，其市场发展必将得到更为有力的促进。"——IDC中国负责IT安全市场研究的研究经理赵卫京表示。
...This IDC communications service provider (CSP) digital transformation (DX) use case taxonomy is an update on the January 2018 document. It describes the most prominent use cases for digital transformation in the communication services industry. ...
"IoT across APEJ continues to grow steadily as governments, municipalities, and enterprises move from proof of concept and tests to live deployments as part of a strategy to enhance productivity and efficiency, build Smart City infrastructure, ...
This study analyzes the network equipment spending capex and total CAPEX, including nonequipment structures and facilities, in the region in both fixed-line and mobile networks.
"As the region prepares for the introduction of 5G services ...
This IDC Market Forecast discusses the Western European market for business mobile connectivity services from 2019 to 2023. It analyzes the headline regional forecast for total spending on mobile connectivity services in the enterprise market. ...
本調査レポートは、国内コンピューティング／ネットワークインフラストラクチャソフトウェア市場をサーバーオペレーティングシステム市場、Software-Defined Computeソフトウェア市場、バーチャルクライアントコンピューティング市場、アベイラビリティ／クラスタリングソフトウェア市場、ネットワークインフラストラクチャソフトウェア市場に分類し、2018年のベンダーシェアを提供している。
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This IDC study presents the five-year forecast for mobile phone shipments worldwide by device type. The worldwide mobile phone market will reach a total of 1,786.6 million unit shipments in 2019, down 5.4% from the 1,887.7 million units ...
This IDC study presents the updated five-year forecast for smartphone shipments worldwide by operating system. The worldwide smartphone market will reach a total of 1.38 billion units shipped in 2019, down 1.9% from the 1.40 billion units ...
This IDC study analyzes the enterprise mobility management software market in 2018, ranking the top 15 vendors by revenue and providing the market trends and events that helped shape the market landscape in 2018.
"The proliferation ...
This IDC study contains vendor shares for the persuasive content management software market for 2016 to 2018. It includes commentary on the growth of the market and emerging trends and provides actionable advice for technology suppliers.
"The ...
This IDC study discusses how utilities are on a mission to digitally transform to create a value-based utility system. IDC publishes research on digital transformation and its influence on technology spending. This research includes both ...
This IDC study provides the worldwide market shares for order management applications. The market grew at a strong pace in 2018. Growth in the order management market was driven by the need for omni-channel "buy anywhere, fulfill anywhere" ...
This IDC study provides a detailed description of IDC's Worldwide Semiannual Customer Experience Spending Guide methodology and taxonomy. It should be used as a companion piece for IDC's Worldwide Semiannual Customer Experience Spending ...
This IDC study provides a sizing of the worldwide persuasive content management (PCM) software market in 2018, historical data, and a five-year forecast through 2023 by geographical region and deployment type. It also provides commentary ...
This IDC study examines the most prominent use cases for the carrier edge cloud and their associated market segments — the mobile edge cloud (cloud RAN, data plane of the packet core, and virtual backhaul), wireline edge cloud (virtual OLT, ...