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.
本研究报告对中国私有云平台建设市场的整体及其细分市场的发展进行了分析和预测，包括市场现状，市场的驱动和阻碍因素，重大市场变化，以及未来五年中国私有云平台建设市场的规模和增长率。
“虽然在经历了2018年的高速增长后，整体IT市场在2019年呈现增速放缓的趋势，但包括私有云在内的中国云计算市场仍然处于快速发展期，各大云服务供应商正在加速混合云战略落地，各种各样的新产品、新技术和新解决方案将继续推动私有云平台建设市场的创新发展。多云部署将成为企业用户建设其IT基础架构的首要选择，同时，公有云和私有云市场的交叉竞争也将给云计算市场带来新的活力，在改变竞争格局的同时也进一步促进整体市场的发展。对于供应商而言，如何从用户的应用需求这一根本出发，将创新的技术和全面的服务融入在私有云产品中，并以生态构建核心竞争力将成为未来决胜的关键。”——IDC中国企业级研究部研究经理索引表示。
...This IDC study presents forecasts of spending (customer expenditures) for the offshore-based horizontal BPO services market for 2019–2023 that includes HR, finance and accounting, procurement, and customer care by four importing regions ...
This IDC study contains vendor shares for the digital asset management software market for 2016–2018. It includes commentary on growth of the market and emerging trends and provides actionable advice for technology suppliers.
"The ...
한국IDC 김민철 책임연구원은 "국내 클라우드 네이티브 환경의 확대는 퍼블릭 PaaS 시장의 성장으로 이어지고 있으며, 기업의 비즈니스 혁신을 위한 다양한 워크로드 개발 그리고 효율적인 데이터의 활용 및 관리를 위하여 퍼블릭 PaaS에 대한 관심이 높아지고 있다"고 말했다. 또한, "정부의 퍼블릭 클라우드 장려 정책으로 클라우드 활용에 대한 규제가 완화되고 있는 가운데 규제에 민감한 금융권에서도 퍼블릭 PaaS의 도입을 ...
This IDC study examines the performance of the PC microprocessor market overall and through its desktop PC processor and mobile PC processor segments.
"In 1Q19, on a unit basis, the PC processor market declined sequentially in line ...
IDC Innovators are emerging vendors with revenue <$100 million that have demonstrated either a groundbreaking business model or an innovative new technology — or both. This IDC Innovators study profiles Bragi, Nuheara, and Waverly Labs ...
This IDC study contains IDC's estimates for key business consulting services vendors' revenue for 2018. Because the key vendors have increasingly focused attention on the changing requirements of each client segment, especially the demand ...
This IDC study provides a brief overview of the worldwide AFA market performance through the end of 1H19.
"From a product functionality point of view, customers could hardly go wrong buying an all-flash array from any of the top 10 ...
This IDC Market Share is based on the 2018 version of IDC’s Semiannual Public Cloud Services Tracker and examines the Western European public cloud system and service management software market. This document also includes market vendor ...
This IDC study presents a view of worldwide AI-enabled search revenue broken down by vendor for the historical year 2018.
"As the amount of unstructured information produced by knowledge workers grows and the pressure on enterprises ...
This IDC study contains vendor shares for the website software market for 2016–2018. It includes commentary on growth of the market and emerging trends and provides actionable advice for technology suppliers.
"The website software ...
本調査レポートでは、国内ストレージサービス市場を「コンサルティング」「導入／構築サービス」「管理／運用サービス」の3つのカテゴリーで構成されるプロフェッショナルサービスと、製品の維持メンテナンスを行う「保守サービス」に分類し、2018年の売上実績と市場動向に基づいて、2019年～2023年の市場予測を行っている。
「IoT（Internet of Things）の普及、AIの利用、リモートワークなどの影響で、ITインフラの構造は複雑化し、同時にデータ流通やAPI（Application ...
This report provides a detailed view of public cloud system and service management (SSM) software spending and vendor market shares in 2018, including public cloud services and on-premise/others. Figure 1 shows revenues and growth for individual ...
This IDC Technology Segment study presents the top 100 IT services providers in Turkey. It includes their market shares, as based on their 2018 results. The top 10 providers are examined in detail, with their market sizes and share data ...
本調査レポートは、国内ハイパーコンバージドシステム市場における支出額と出荷台数について、2019年～2023年の予測を提供する。支出額については、従業員規模別、ワークロード別、地域別およびソリューションタイプ別（アプライアンス／ラックスケール、ソフトウェアおよびサーティファイドサーバー）の予測も提供する。
IDC Japan エンタープライズインフラストラクチャのシニアマーケットアナリストである宝出 幸久は、「国内ハイパーコンバージドシステム市場は急成長が続いている。2018年から2019年上半期にかけて、関東地方を中心に大企業への普及が加速している。一方、関東地方以外においても中堅中小企業や官公庁などでハイパーコンバージドシステムの導入が活発化している。今後も国内ハイパーコンバージドシステム市場は裾野が拡大し、成長を続ける見込みである」と分析している。
...This IDC study discusses 2018 vendor market shares and market activity across the worldwide datacenter system and application control software market, a submarket of IDC's functional IT automation and configuration management software market.
"The ...
This IDC study discusses IDC's forecast for the worldwide IT automation and configuration management software market.
"The worldwide IT automation and configuration management software market is now forecast to grow to $10.5 billion ...
This IDC study is a translation of the Japanese document (IDC #JPJ44583219) and analyzes vendors' shares in the robotic process automation (RPA) software market in 2018. The RPA software ...
This IDC Market Forecast examines the Western Europe system and service management software market and the evolution of the IT industry in various Western European regions during the next five years. This document also explores market growth ...
This IDC study is a translation of the Japanese document (IDC #JPJ44583219) and analyzes the 2018 vendor shares and trends in the Japan network virtualization and automation market. ...
This IDC study presents the 2018 market size and vendor shares for the IT security market in Hungary, as well as the key trends in this market.
"Increasing awareness of security issues is resulting in increasing adoption rates of advanced ...
This IDC Market Forecast provides an update on the emerging landscape for 5G service launches across the Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) (APEJ) region, including projections for 5G in South Korea, Australia, China, India, and the full gamut ...
本調査レポートは、国内外付型エンタープライズストレージシステム市場の2019年上半期の実績を示すと共に、ベンダー別の実績とシェアの分析、およびシェアの変化をもたらした要因について分析している。
IDC Japan エンタープライズインフラストラクチャのシニアマーケットアナリストである加藤 慎也は、「今期はメインフレームの大型案件があった2015年上半期以来の2桁のプラス成長となった。成長に最も貢献したのはオールフラッシュアレイ（AFA）であるが、売上額シェアの増減には大型案件も大きく影響している。継続的なシェア拡大に当たっては、大型案件よりもAFAへの取り組みが効果的である。ストレージベンダーは、総売上の増減だけにとらわれず、特殊要因を除いた実績や自社の顧客動向を把握し、ハイブリッドクラウドに対応できるエコシステムの構築によって、シェアの拡大を図ることができる」と分析している。
...This report provides a detailed view of the Western Europe public cloud system and service management software spending and growth in the next five years; Figure 1 shows annual market revenue and growth percentages and breaks down revenues ...
This IDC study reviews the worldwide service provider router market for 2Q19.
"While the continuing slump in North American service provider spending further negatively impacted the overall service provider routing market in 2Q19, ...