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.
IDCでは2018年、2019年に引き続き、2020年における国内企業のイノベーションアクセラレーターに関する取り組み状況を把握するため、ユーザー企業調査を実施した。本調査レポートはその調査結果に基づいて、産業分野別でのイノベーションアクセラレーターの現在の活用動向や過去からの進展状況について分析を行い、ITサプライヤーが国内企業のデジタルトランスフォーメーション推進をサポートするための参考情報を提供する。
IDC Japan ITスペンディングのリサーチマネージャーである敷田 ...
本調査レポートは、国内5G市場に関し、AR/VR、ならびにウェアラブルデバイスなど、社会的に幅広いユースケースが期待される応用分野での現状について取材を行い、分析したものである。IDC Japan PC、携帯端末＆クライアントソリューションのシニアマーケットアナリストである菅原 啓は「AR/VRやウェアラブルデバイスと5Gの連携については、各社が市場に投入しているデバイスの特徴によってその期待度が大きく異なる。しかし、モバイル通信が今後5Gに確実に移っていく以上、今後もこの市場への注目は続けていく必要がある」と分析している。
...本調査レポートは国内ビジネスコンサルティング（BC）市場における事業者のビジネス動向について定性的に分析した結果をまとめたものである。また、同市場における主要事業者のビジネス動向や成長戦略をプロフィールとして掲載している。国内BC市場は、景気変動の影響を受けやすい市場であり、新型コロナウイルス感染症（COVID-19）によるマイナス影響は短期的には非常に強くなるとIDCではみている。一方で、国内企業のデジタルトランスフォーメーション（DX）を支援するプロフェッショナルサービスの中核としてのビジネスコンサルティングの重要性と、これに対する企業からの需要自体は「構造的」なものであり、より中長期的観点では継続／拡大する可能性が高い。
「ビジネスコンサルティング事業者は、COVID-19がもたらす短期的影響を考慮しつつも、ソフトウェアアセットを活用した生産性の向上や、企業の組織／文化といったソフト面の変革支援能力の強化、複数企業／ステークホルダー向けの価値提供の仕組み構築など、中長期での成長に向けた投資やリソース強化を継続することが重要になる」とIDC ...
MaaS（Mobility as a Service）は、自動車や交通／運輸関連産業に留まらない広範な社会／事業領域において、デジタルトランスフォーメーション（DX）につながる大きなインパクトを生み出す可能性がある。本調査レポートでは、MaaSの概念を整理し、社会的／事業的インパクトの広がりとMaaSエコシステムプレイヤー動向の分析から、そのインパクトの拡大に伴うITサプライヤーの事業機会の考察を行う。IDC Japan ITスペンディングのリサーチマネージャーである敷田 ...
本調査レポートは、今後のIoTデータ流通サービスプラットフォームの在り方について議論している。5Gのサービス開始などによって、膨大なIoTデータをアップロードすることの技術的ボトルネックが解消されつつある。このような流れを受け、国内では、政府や企業が「Society 5.0」の実現を目指してデータ流通サービスプラットフォームの構築に向けて動き出している。今後多くのデータ流通プラットフォームが構築されていくと考えられる。「大規模なデータ流通サービスプラットフォームを実現するには、スケーラビリティ、エッジの活用、リアルタイム性など、解決を必要とする技術的課題が多い。このような課題を解決できるユニークな技術を有するITベンダーが、今後のデータ流通サービスプラットフォームのエコシステムにおいて有利なポジションを獲得できる可能性が高い」と、IDC ...
本調査レポートは、企業における業務効率化、生産性向上を推進することで収益拡大、企業成長を図る施策としての「オペレーションDX」戦略の取り組み、ならびに第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の活用に関する調査結果を産業分野別にまとめたものである。国内企業では、人材不足、「働き方改革」対応が喫緊の課題となっている一方で、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の台頭によって、オペレーションDXの取り組みが加速している。本調査レポートでは、ユーザー企業調査結果と、ケーススタディを通して、国内企業のオペレーションDXの取り組みを分析している。
現在は多くの企業でオペレーションDXの取り組みが本格化しているが、今後はオペレーションDXだけに留まらず、オムニエクスペリエンスDX、情報DXなどへの注力が予測される。「ITサプライヤーには、現在案件が顕在化しているオペレーションDXのみに焦点を絞ったソリューション提案に留まらず、ユーザー企業の中長期的な計画、戦略も把握した上で、将来のロードマップを提示し、包括的な提案を行うことが求められる」と、IDC ...
本調査レポートは、国内産業分野向け5G市場の動向を、4K/8K高精細映像（画像）の活用に焦点を絞って分析している。5Gの活用が期待される映像分野として、4K/8K高精細映像コンテンツの配信、機械学習による画像認識、3Dモデリングなどが挙げられる。また今後は、自動車、サービスロボット、ドローンなど自律移動する機器の利用が拡大すると考えられ、そのような機器での5Gの活用も期待される。本調査レポートでは、パブリック5Gとローカル5G、5Gと固定通信サービスの関係についても議論している。パブリック5Gとローカル5Gは、エリア的に補完し合い、顧客獲得において競合し合う関係となる。企業のプライベートな敷地内などへの無線エリア構築などでは、ほぼ同じ土俵の上で戦うことになる。
5Gを活用した4K/8K高精細映像の産業応用に取り組むITサプライヤーに対して、IDC ...