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 Pivot Table provides the semiannual worldwide and U.S. datacenter deployment model. This Pivot Table also provides data on number of datacenters, amount of space, rack, and power capacity, as well as facilities construction spending ...
本IDC研究报告通过对2018年ICT市场数据和2019至2023年的市场预测分析，其中包括信息技术（IT）市场和通信技术（CT）市场，揭示了中国ICT市场的动态、关键驱动因素及发展趋势。本报告为IT厂商、电信运营商、IT渠道经销商等提供了决策参考。
“在全社会范围内开展的数字化转型正逐步成为促进ICT市场增长的关键动力，基于云计算、移动应用、大数据、人工智能、物联网等技术应用的数字化转型促进传统产业升级，转型企业业务运行模式和用户参与方式，带动各类ICT产品、软件、IT服务和通信服务的升级和增长。同时新兴技术产业的发展也正在成为拉动ICT需求的重要力量，例如电动汽车、机器人、自助设备等，而未来三到五年中，5G通讯网络的部署和运营将是促进ICT进一步升级发展的关键驱动力，中国ICT市场将会迎来一个新的发展高潮。”——IDC中国行业研究与咨询服务部高级研究经理肖宏亮表示。
...This IDC study provides a detailed description of IDC's Worldwide Semiannual Artificial Intelligence Systems Spending Guide methodology and taxonomy. This document should be used as a companion piece for IDC's Worldwide Semiannual Artificial ...
本調査レポートでは年商規模別におけるIT支出動向と予測を行う。年商規模は2017年度（会計年）の売上額規模から100億円未満、100億円～300億円未満、300億円～1,000億円未満、1,000億円以上の4区分とし、国内IT市場の2017年、2018年における実績値および2019年～2023年の市場規模予測を年商規模別、製品分野別、産業分野別に行っている。国内IT市場全体では、2023年までプラス成長で推移するとみており、特に年商規模の大きいセグメントにおいては比較的高い成長率を見込んでいる。一方で年商規模100億円未満の企業では2020年以降低い成長率に留まるとみている。
また、製品別で見た場合、IaaS、ソフトウェアは堅調に成長すると予測している一方で、サーバー、ストレージ、ITサービスは低い成長率に留まるとみている。「オンプレミスからクラウド中心のビジネスモデルへのシフトが進み、かつ第3のプラットフォーム、イノベーションアクセラレーターが成長分野の中心となる中で、ITサプライヤーは、自社体制の強化と並行して販売パートナーが円滑に取り扱えるようにする支援施策の強化が求められる」とIDC ...
As an emerging market region, the top companies in Latin America can have a disproportionately important role in a vendor's strategy for success. IDC has developed a product to help companies better understand the top organizations in Argentina, ...
This IDC study presents the Japan IT spending performance (2017 and 2018) and forecasts (2019 to 2023) in the Japan IT market by industry segment and company size. In this study, IDC analyzes the market after dividing the industries into ...
本調査レポートは国内クラウド向けITサービス市場について2019年6月時点における概況や動向を分析し、2018年の実績と2019年~2023年の市場予測をセグメント別にまとめたものである。2018年の国内クラウド向けITサービス市場は、既存システムのクラウド移行などの「Lift & Shift」型の案件の本格化が進んだことによって、高い成長を維持している。2020年以降も、Lift & Shiftの需要は顧客層の拡大と併せて継続していく一方で、これまでは独立して進められることが多かったDXイニシアティブと連動して、企業全体レベルでのITトランスフォーメーションに取り組む企業が増加することで、市場の高成長を牽引していくとIDCではみている。IDC ...
This IDC study provides a detailed analysis of how AI is being used for the management of government datacenters and some of the paths government agencies can explore if they are looking to leverage AI for this purpose, especially if they ...
This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation provides IDC's view on customer consent — one of the key tenets of IDC's Hierarchy of Customer Expectations. The presentation highlights how customer consent becomes a critical point in implementing customer ...
This IDC PeerScape explores the enterprise cybersecurity budgeting process and the approaches taken by four CIOs across the airport, construction, hospitality, and commercial real estate industries. As this study shows, CIOs are increasingly ...
This IDC study provides a detailed description of IDC's Worldwide Semiannual Blockchain Spending Guide methodology and taxonomy. It should be used as a companion piece for IDC's Worldwide Semiannual Blockchain Spending Guide and all of IDC's ...
This IDC study provides a detailed description of IDC's Worldwide Semiannual Security Spending Guide methodology and taxonomy. It should be used as a companion piece for IDC's Worldwide Semiannual Security Spending Guide data deliverable ...
This IDC Forecast replaces IDC's Nordic Enterprise Infrastructure Spending Forecast, 2017-2021 (IDC #EMEA43601617, March 2018). It presents the latest forecast for enterprise ...
This IDC Pivot Table is the 1Q19 release of IDC's United States Black Book, covering updated forecasts for IT spending segmented by 16 vertical markets, 15 technologies (across hardware, software, and services), and all 50 ...
This IDC Survey analyzes investments in customer experience (CX) across three European customer-facing vertical markets in 2019: finance, retail, and telecom. More specifically, this IDC Survey focuses on how artificial intelligence (AI) ...
This IDC study presents an updated five-year forecast for the worldwide IT leasing and financing market in the top 25 countries. It updates the previous forecast published in Worldwide IT Leasing and Financing Forecast, 2018–2021: ...
This IDC study examines the market for digital transformation professional services, which is forecast to grow rapidly, with a CAGR of 12%, and is expected to reach over $175 billion by 2023.
"Projected spending growth for digital ...
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 ...