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 PlanScape discusses integrated physical security solutions for cities. Integrated physical security solutions provide cities with better, more immediate situational awareness when responding to security incidents. Integrated card ...
This IDC Market Note examines the interplay between purpose; environmental, social, and governance (ESG); and corporate social responsibility (CSR) in the context of corporate value creation and the development of a purpose-driven, sustainable ...
This IDC Market Note includes 3D printing news that occurred in February 2021.
This IDC Market Note focuses on print vendors' financial results for the period ending December 31, 2020, and their strategic plans for business recovery, transformation, and future growth.
This IDC Market Note includes news that occurred within the imaging and printing market in February 2021.
This IDC Market Note discusses 4Q20 and FY20 results and updates from the three U.S. cable companies that offer wireless services, along with DISH Network, which owns the Boost Mobile MVNO service. It summarizes IDC's opinion on market changes ...
This IDC Market Note examines facial recognition, explores the potential uses for such technology, and reviews potential solutions to guard against nefarious use. Facial recognition has gotten a bad rap in public policy and regulatory circles, ...
This IDC Market Perspective explores the Internet of Things (IoT) market in New Zealand from the connectivity providers' perspective. The report provides a competitive landscape for IoT connectivity providers and serves as a guiding document ...
This Market Note presents IDC's view on the Climate Neutral Data Centre Pact signed in Europe in January 2021 by member organizations of Cloud Infrastructure Services Providers in Europe (CISPE).
This Market Perspective outlines five of the key trends IDC believes will drive the enterprise networking market in 2021 and beyond.
"2021 will be a dynamic year in the enterprise networking market," says Brandon Butler, senior research ...
This IDC Market Note examines Ricoh Europe's decision to relaunch its GelJet technology to augment its services and solutions and support remote workers. In the current climate of economic and social uncertainty due to the COVID-19 pandemic, ...
This IDC Market Perspective provides insights into five key trends impacting the carrier networks infrastructure market in 2021 and beyond.
"Carrier networks are in a state of transition. The consumer and business demand on these networks ...
With the COVID-19 pandemic, resiliency has become a business priority. But traditional approaches struggle to integrate business resiliency with new digital realities. IDC presents a digital resiliency framework to help CEOs, CIOs, and other ...
This IDC Market Perspective discusses reported semiconductor shortages and inventory issues, the causes, how companies are currently addressing the issue, the outlook for different markets, and potential strategies to address the market.
"IDC ...
This IDC study represents a vendor assessment of service providers offering unified communications as a service (UCaaS) for enterprise using the IDC MarketScape model. The assessment reviews both quantitative and qualitative characteristics ...
This IDC study represents a vendor assessment of service providers offering unified communications as a service (UCaaS) for SMBs using the IDC MarketScape model. The assessment reviews both quantitative and qualitative characteristics that ...
IDC estimates that the current spend in Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) (APEJ) on Internet of Things (IoT)–driven manufacturing applications is around US$11.1 billion. Data will be crucial to ensure that organizations can recognize and realize ...
This IDC Market Note looks at the latest edition to Konica Minolta's expanding industrial and production printer portfolio and how the new product will enable the vendor and its partners to profit from growing demand for short-run corrugated ...
This IDC Market Perspective provides an overview of the evolution of Ricoh's service lines, its rapid reaction to the business impact of COVID-19, and the development of a customer engagement model including the launch of print devices that ...
This IDC Market Note includes industrial and production print news that occurred in January 2021.
This IDC Market Note examines how purpose and corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives can improve the employee experience. While CSR typically represents a normatively driven, non-standardized approach to sustainability, programs ...
This IDC Market Note discusses Infinidat's continued evolution along with an opinion on the company's future prospects under new leadership. In January 2021, enterprise storage vendor Infinidat announced Phil Bullinger as the new CEO. Infinidat ...
This IDC Market Perspective provides insight into five key trends that will impact the worldwide unified communications and collaboration (UC&C) market in 2021 and beyond.
"The importance of UC&C solutions, supported on robust ...
This IDC Market Perspective provides a framework of three sustainability pillars for the IT industry: Technology Vendor Performance, Technology as an Enabler, and Technology for Good. Using this framework, this document quantifies over 200 ...
This IDC Perspective provides insight into the steps necessary to transform asset life-cycle management processes and technologies. Asset life-cycle management is an enterprise effort with many dependencies — yet today it is executed in ...
本調査レポートは、2020年の新型コロナウイルス感染症（COVID-19）の感染拡大が国内ドキュメントイメージングスキャナー（Document Imaging Scanner：以下、DISとする）市場に与えた影響について分析した結果をまとめたものである。2020年上半期、COVID-19の感染拡大によって国内経済が落ち込む中でDISの出荷台数は前年同期比で増加した。IDCでは、在宅勤務においてビジネス文書をスキャンするニーズ、および在宅勤務環境でも文書を利用できるようオフィスの紙文書をスキャンするニーズが高まったためであると考えている。IDC ...
This IDC Market Perspective updates and expands analysis originally presented in Analyzing Intel's 2020 Industry Analyst Summit; Considering Patrick Gelsinger's Return as CEO in 2021 (IDC ...
This IDC Market Note provides an overview of the recently launched VMware Cloud Foundation v4.2. VMware announced VMware Cloud Foundation 4.2, featuring updates to help customers further improve the storage, networking, management, and security ...
This IDC Market Note looks closely at the new and improved large-format printers introduced by HP and examines how the enhanced features and benefits will enable PSPs to create business opportunities by tackling newly addressable print applications.
...This IDC Market Perspective assesses the key strategies of cloud providers in the telecommunications sector. The first wave of the establishment of the telecom cloud is well underway. Over the past five years, most tier 1 operators have ...
This IDC Market Perspective examines the reasons behind the rapid consolidation taking place in the European market of specialist cloud-native application services providers by major vendors.
"Major services players are now turning ...
本篇报告提供IDC对于英伟达在2020年GTC上新公告的评估观点。
IDC中国助理研究总监卢言霞表示：“纵观英伟达在过去一年的新产品新公告新举措，英伟达在计算加速领域精准又专注的定位，将保障公司在提供从核心到边缘的性能优化解决方案方面稳居领先地位。”
This IDC Market Note examines Microsoft's initial progress toward its goal of becoming carbon negative by 2030, a year after it was announced. By linking executive pay to the achievement of its "moonshot goals," the IT vendor hopes to encourage ...
This IDC PlanScape is a follow-on to the IDC MaturityScape and IDC MaturityScape Benchmark documents for print and document management that outlined the stages and dimensions of print and document management maturity and assessed where organizations ...
This IDC Perspective discusses IT-OT integration and its impact on O&G companies. European oil players that have already accomplished IT- OT integration have started to realize the business value the integrated business model brings ...
This IDC Market Note provides news impacting the European managed print and content services market and its market players in late 2020 and throughout January 2021.
This IDC Market Note highlights the Xerox Everyday Toner and its potential impact on the print supplies market. Its Everyday range of compatible toner enables Xerox to compete with different types of players operating in the print consumables ...
This IDC Perspective covers the emerging subject of digital resiliency, including its definition and highlighting three examples of enterprises that previously made the kinds of investments in digital innovation that allowed them to be resilient ...
This IDC Perspective highlights the winners of the second edition of IDC Europe and Central Asia Smart City Award invested in technology. These solutions could deliver value against tangible business and policy goals in the specific context ...
This IDC Market Note examines news that occurred in late 2020 and throughout January 2021 in the imaging and printing market.
This IDC Market Perspective provides a long-range strategic outlook of the markets and emerging technologies for the rise of the 5G cellular and the expected 6G network infrastructure. It highlights the upcoming 3GPP standards release under ...
IDC未来客户研究是以终端客户和消费者为中心，从共情化和同理心的角度出发，理解未来客户的需求，通过数据和数字化技术的应用，改进数字化和营销策略，平衡客户体验与业务成果之间的关系，有目标性地创建与终端客户之间个性、信任的客户关系。
- 预测1：到2021年，70%的组织将通过自动化操作和非接触式体验率先转向数字化，因为物理交互已成为过去式便利。
- 预测2： 到2025年，规模化共情和安全性表现优秀的企业将胜过那些没有同等能力企业的40%。
- 预测3：到2022年，中国财富500强B2C品牌中，45%的公司将指派高管，负责增加“消费者娱乐化”应用的使用，以接触Z世代和α世代的买家。
- 预测4：到2025年，50％中国财富500强企业在消费者生成视频的投入将验证其对企业收入和客户满意度的影响。
- 预测5：在2021年，客户将额外投入25%的花费在与数字化转型可快速轻松地适应新业务环境的公司合作方面。
- 预测6：到2024年，将有60％的技术购买者选择成熟知名的合作伙伴，通过越来越快的创新速度，来适应消费者提出的变化多端的需求。
- 预测7：到2023年，将有45％的组织使用标准化工作流与企业应用程序链接，来重新控制对用户定义的应用程序稳定性，从而提高客户数据安全性并提供出色的客户体验。
- 预测8：到2023年底，将有80％的大中型企业制定或修改社会责任声明，并使他们的客户重新认知，从而促进社会事业的发展。
- 预测9到2021年，65％的新移动应用程序将专注于为消费者提供人性化的数字体验，使消费者对新数字优先更加认同。
- 预测10：到2024年，隐私将被重新定义为“数据价值”，供应商将提供客户忠诚服务计划，以交换消费者数据，70％的消费者将参与其中。
This IDC Presentation discusses the Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) (APEJ) regionalization of the 2021 Worldwide Future of Connectedness Predictions. Each prediction is presented based on timeline projection, cost/complexity assessment, and ...
This IDC Market Perspective examines the production and large format printing markets in 2021 and the impact of COVID-19 on these markets.
The large format and production printing markets have been profoundly impacted by the COVID-19 ...
This IDC Market Perspective examines several trends and expectations for the storage and memory markets and how they will shape the coming 12 months.
"2020 was an unprecedented year, bringing about unexpected changes and shifts as ...
This IDC FutureScape discusses the Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) (APEJ) regionalization of the 2021 Worldwide Future of Digital Infrastructure Predictions. Each prediction is presented based on timeline projection, cost/complexity assessment, ...
This IDC study presents the assessment of 10 communication service providers (CSPs) that provide software-defined WAN (SD-WAN) managed services in the Asia/Pacific region. The assessment is based on their current capabilities, GTM strategies, ...
This IDC Market Perspective looks at how prevailing market conditions and innovation are accelerating the migration to cloud print and document management. Dramatic market disruption and incremental technology advancements are accelerating ...
Cyber-resilience programs focus on building an organization's capacity to anticipate, withstand, and recover from adverse events by applying time-tested engineering principles to the system design process. The practice of resilience engineering ...
This IDC Presentation localizes the IDC Worldwide FutureScape 2021 statement to the Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) (APEJ) region, which has seen the rapid adoption of print technology to augment traditional/analog workflows. APEJ will change ...
This IDC Presentation discusses the Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) (APEJ) regionalization of IDC FutureScape: Worldwide Future of Customer and Consumer 2021 Predictions ( IDC #US46909620, October 2020). As the region ...
This IDC Perspective discusses the value of video telemetry in non-security applications. Video surveillance is evolving from a purely safety- and security-focused technology to a business focus. Video data is becoming useful in helping ...
This IDC Perspective contains excerpts from public financial disclosures by leading hardcopy vendors and details the impact of COVID-19 on performance and forecasts.
"The COVID-19 headwinds lessened in the third quarter, as OEMs try ...
This IDC Market Note outlines key developments for NetApp in the Asia/Pacific (APAC) region during 2020 in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Over this period, NetApp has expanded its offerings by developing new solutions, strengthening ...
本プレゼンテーションは、信頼の未来（Future of Trust）における中長期的な動向について10項目の予測（Predictions）をまとめたものである。米国において発行された『IDC FutureScape: Worldwide Future of Trust 2021 Predictions（IDC # US46912920、2020年10月発行）』の内容を基に、国内市場の状況を考慮して一部変更を加えた。なお、本プレゼンテーション内の数値は断りなく使用されている場合は世界市場の数値を示しており、国内市場の数値には国内市場であることを明記している。
2020年の国内情報セキュリティ市場は、新型コロナウイルス感染症（COVID-19）の感染拡大によって、国内経済が低迷するものの、高度なサイバー攻撃の被害が継続的に発生していることや、職場勤務から在宅勤務へと大規模なリモートワークへの移行によって在宅勤務で利用するクライアントPCにおけるマルウェア感染や企業ネットワークへの侵害、クラウドサービスへの侵害など新たなセキュリティリスクへの危機感が高まった。
2021年から2024年にかけては、リモートワークの普及拡大と政府のデジタル化推進によって、企業におけるデジタルトランスフォーメーション（DX）も進展し、オンプレミスのIT環境はクラウド環境へと移行が加速すると思われる。また、EU一般データ保護規則（GDPR）など海外のプライバシー法や2020年6月に改正法案が可決、成立した個人情報保護法、米国政府調達における管理すべき重要情報（CUI：Controlled ...
本調査レポートでは、プリント／ドキュメントソリューションズおよび3Dプリンティング市場における2021年～2025年の変化を予測し、ITバイヤーが認識すべき10項目の予測（Predictions）としてまとめた。このレポートは、米国で発行された『IDC FutureScape: Worldwide Imaging, Printing, and Document Solutions and 3D Printing 2021 ...
本プレゼンテーションは、国内IT市場において、2021年から2025年に国内の顧客エクスペリエンス（CX）市場で起きると予測される主要な事象をITバイヤー向けに記載したものであり、新型コロナウイルス感染症（COVID-19）の感染拡大、顧客の急速なデジタルシフトなど未来の顧客に関する市場環境の変化を捉え、2021年以降に起きるとみられる10項目の事象（Predictions）を提示することで、ITバイヤーが時宣を得た対応策をとれるように支援することにある。
「企業は、全社的なCX向上への取り組みを早急に展開する必要がある。また、CXの成熟度を高める上で顧客データの収集／分析／アプリケーションへの展開による顧客データとAIの活用は欠かせない。これまで以上にブランド価値、顧客の価値を重視し、社会的役割／責任を果たす企業文化の構築は、広義のCXを向上させる施策として重要性が増していく」とIDC ...
本プレゼンテーションは、Future of Connectedness市場における2021年～2026年の10項目の予測（Predictions）をまとめたものである。本プレゼンテーションに先立って発行された『IDC FutureScape: Worldwide Future of Connectedness 2021 Predictions（IDC #US46921520、2020年10月発行）』の内容を基に、国内市場の状況を考慮して一部変更を加えた。なお、本プレゼンテーション内の数値は断りなく使用されている場合は世界市場の数値を示しており、国内市場の数値には国内市場であることを明記している。
消費者と企業のいずれにおいてもデジタルな関係への依存度が高まる中で、そこで求められるユビキタスで信頼性が高く、シームレスで広汎なネットワークがFuture ...
This IDC Market Note reviews the vendor's midrange offering, commenting on its prospects in enterprise storage going forward. In mid-2020, Hitachi Vantara introduced a midrange version of its flagship, Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform (VSP), ...
This IDC Perspective provides insights into Rigetti's quantum computing program and offerings. During an in-depth telephone interview, Rigetti provided deeper context for its quantum computing strategy and its forward-looking quantum road ...
This IDC Perspective provides insights into Intel's quantum computing program. During an in-depth telephone interview, Intel strongly clarified and provided deeper context for its quantum computing strategy and its forward-looking quantum ...
This IDC Perspective provides insights into D-Wave's quantum annealing offerings. During an in-depth telephone interview, D-Wave provided deeper context for its quantum annealing strategy and its forward-looking quantum road map. D-Wave's ...
This IDC Market Perspective examines the top 5 trends to expect in the U.S. mobile market for 2021 and beyond. 2020 was a year like no other, bringing unexpected changes and shifts in the U.S. mobile market. The coming year and beyond will ...
This IDC Perspective provides insights into IBM's quantum computing program and offerings. During an in-depth telephone interview, IBM strongly clarified and provided deeper context for its quantum computing strategy and its forward-looking ...
This IDC Perspective provides insights into IonQ's quantum computing program. IonQ's quantum computing strategy and forward-looking quantum road map focuses on developing error-free quantum technology that can be used to achieve quantum ...
This IDC Market Perspective provides a preliminary unit shipment range for worldwide hard disk drive (HDD) units by HDD drive class and estimated supplier market share for 4Q20.
"Reasonably healthy levels of demand from cloud hyperscale ...
This IDC Perspective looks at how the Belgian government harnessed the expertise of integrator DXC and PDF technology company iText to completely overhaul its records management system.
"The public sector is grappling with antiquated ...
This IDC Perspective looks at IT organizations' need to rethink the capabilities of enterprise SDS. Software-defined storage (SDS) is one of the fastest-growing segments of the enterprise storage systems market, attracting greenfield customers ...