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.
"Indian industrial organisations across oil and gas manufacturing and utilities are just in the early phases of looking to what an Industry 4.0–related operational transformation strategy can do to deliver efficiency, productivity, and improved ...
本プレゼンテーションでは、国内のビッグデータ／アナリティクス（BDA）市場における2018年の市場の分析と2019年～2023年の売上額予測、ユーザーニーズ動向調査について分析を行っている。
本プレゼンテーションは、『2019年 国内ビッグデータ／アナリティクス市場 企業ユーザー調査（IDC #JPJ44003419、2019年3月発行）』『国内BDAソフトウェア市場予測、2019年～2023年（IDC ...
进入2019年，IDC看到机器学习的应用场景不断扩展翻新。随着市场空间的凸显，越来越多的厂商参与市场竞争。市场参与者不再是初创公司为主，平台级公司凭借人才和资金的投入优势，也快速获得竞争优势。用户端也开始关心不同厂商之间的差异，IDC开展本次研究以帮助用户进行机器学习平台产品的选型。
IDC人工智能高级研究经理卢言霞表示： “尽管深度学习算法的创新速度变缓，但我们相信机器学习的应用将稳步渗透到各行各业的生产系统中。纯技术的创新速度有所放缓，但从技术到产品到商业化应用落地的速度在加快。未来，自动化机器学习也将降低行业用户采用AI的门槛，加速行业企业实现高级别的自动化、智能化”。
...This IDC Presentation provides a detailed analysis of the India software market and the competitive landscape in the big data, artificial intelligence (AI), customer relationship management (CRM), enterprise resource management (ERM), security, ...
This IDC Survey offers detailed insight into the results of IDC's 2019 European Enterprise Communications Survey, focusing on the wide area network (WAN). The survey contains data from nine countries, six verticals, and six business ...
This IDC Presentation examines the results from the IDC European Vertical Market Survey, 2018-2019, which focused on European banking. This study provides an overview of how the European banking industry is evolving across countries and ...
This IDC Market Note analyzes HPE's acquisition of MapR's assets.
"MapR's IP, technology, and expertise will perfectly dovetail with solutions from BlueData, another recent addition to the HPE family," said Chris Kanthan, research ...
本报告介绍了中国数据即服务市场进展、数据即服务价值链、数据即服务与数据货币化、数据即服务生态体系以及各子市场中的主要玩家，包括AI数据即服务厂商、大数据服务提供商及数据中间商，未来发展前景与趋势和对数据提供商的建议，供技术买家参考。
IDC中国研究经理刘迪认为：“中国数据即服务市场是一个具有潜力但受政策影响较大的市场。无论是数据提供商还是数据集市，高质量的稀缺数据资源都是确保企业核心竞争力的重要因素。在确保数据安全和合规性的基础上，数据的时效性、数据颗粒度和与业务的匹配程度是数据买家主要考虑的因素。”
...This IDC Perspective outlines how organizations can process personal data using functional separation to avoid falling out of compliance with privacy regulations. Big Data projects involve multiple phases, including data collection, data ...
This IDC study provides a detailed description of IDC's Worldwide Semiannual Big Data and Analytics Spending Guide methodology and taxonomy. It should be used as a companion piece for IDC's Worldwide Semiannual Big Data and Analytics Spending ...
This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation provides a summary of the digital transformation initiatives within the Canadian healthcare sector. Comprehensive data on the importance, adoption, benefits, and challenges of digital technologies such as ...
本調査レポートでは、国内企業を対象としたユーザー調査を通してストレージ保有容量とその容量の伸びに影響を与えているITプロジェクトについて調査を行った。
ITプロジェクトでは、リアルタイムデータ処理、AI（Artificial Intelligence：人工知能）、IoT（Internet of Things）、長期データ保存（アーカイブ）について、実際にデータが増えている用途や、今後のストレージ支出意向やデータ管理環境の変化について調査している。
また、自社所有の外付型ストレージシステムの更新期間、更新時期の変化とその理由、今後の支出意向と更新の際のストレージインフラやサポートサービスに対する要求についても調査している。
自社所有のストレージインフラについては、ストレージシステムだけでなく、テープストレージと光ディスクについても利用状況、保有容量、今後の支出意向、アーカイブで重視する項目について調査している。
...This IDC Perspective looks at key developments and news in the European healthcare provider industry in 2Q19.
"The second quarter of 2019 has seen a rise in investments related to patient engagement, confirming a trend toward a comprehensive ...
本調査レポートは国内BDAソフトウェア市場の2018年の実績に基づくベンダー別シェアを提供している。BDAソフトウェア市場に含まれる3つの中分類市場と、これらの中分類市場に含まれる16の機能市場セグメントのうち、一部市場を除いた13市場の情報を主に提供している。
IDC Japan ソフトウェア＆セキュリティのシニアマーケットアナリストである草地 慎太郎は、「ITサプライヤーは多数のメンバーが関わる広汎なデータ活用のプロセスを支援するためにラインナップの拡大と連携の強化を行うことで、BDAの生産性向上を支援することが求められる」と分析している。
...本調査レポートは、IDCが2019年7月に国内企業を対象に実施した、ストレージ保有容量とその容量の伸びを牽引しているITプロジェクトに関するユーザー調査「2019年 データの多様化が国内企業のストレージ支出に与える影響」の調査結果から抜粋して分析を加えたものである。本調査レポートでは、ストレージ容量の伸びを牽引しているITプロジェクトの影響の大きさや、影響の広がりについて分析している。
This IDC MarketScape evaluates leading service providers by performing a qualitative and quantitative assessment of their capabilities and strategies regarding their digital transformation offering to the utility sector across all value ...
This Market Note includes analyst opinion from the Qlik Asia Pacific Analyst Summit held on June 13, 2019 in Singapore.
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 three notable vendors that are ...
This IDC Survey examines Big Data analytics (BDA) and artificial intelligence (AI) trends among European life sciences organizations. The study analyzes adoption and investment plans for analytic technologies across five application areas ...
This IDC Market Note provides a summary of select ICT market developments that occurred across the Middle East and North Africa in June 2019, and assesses the potential impact that these developments could have on related markets.
"The ...
本調査レポートは国内BDAテクノロジー／サービス市場の2018年の実績と2019年～2023年の予測を提供している。実績、予測共に、インフラストラクチャ、サービス、ソフトウェア市場の3つのセグメントに分けて分析を行った。また、BDAテクノロジー／サービス市場のサブセットであるビッグデータテクノロジー／サービス市場についても分析を行っている。
IDC Japan ソフトウェア＆セキュリティのシニアマーケットアナリストである草地 慎太郎は、「国内市場においてはデータアナリティクスを含むITリソースのアウトソースの傾向が強いため、ITサプライヤーサイドでの長期的な視座に立った戦略的な人材獲得と育成のプランが市場全体の健全な成長のために重要である」と分析している。
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