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.
As the economy recovers in 2021 and beyond, organizations in the Middle East, Turkey, and Africa (META) region will consolidate their automation and intelligence gains from 2020 and build them into the core of their digital strategies. Insight-driven ...
This IDC Survey presents results from the customer experience (CX) section of IDC's European Software Survey, completed in November 2020 (n = 763). It focuses on cutting-edge CX technologies and the degree to which enterprises are using ...
With the global disruption of the supply chain because of the COVID-19 pandemic, organizations across Southeast Asia have undertaken several measures to develop a more resilient supply chain. Across sectors, the COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted ...
This report looks at the Australia and New Zealand (ANZ) results of IDC's 2020 Asia/Pacific Future of Work Employee Survey, focusing on technology and how it relates to the changing workspace and workforce.
This study also examines ...
This IDC Presentation provides a historic and forecast view on fixed data services for consumer and enterprise Australia and New Zealand (ANZ) markets. These markets cover internet access, Ethernet, IP VPN, IP television (IPTV), very-high–broadband ...
This IDC Survey is an update to previously published COVID-19 Impact: 2020 Canadian Consumer Behaviours and Services (IDC #CA46166220, July 2020). It presents the ...
This IDC Market Glance provides a snapshot of the current data-driven policing landscape globally, including the definitions of the major segments of the market, the structure of the market, and the vendors within each segment.
本調査レポートは、IDCが2021年1月に国内企業ユーザーに対して実施した「2021年 企業ネットワークサービス利用動向調査」の調査結果を分析したものである。本調査レポートで分析した主な項目は、以下の通りである。
- 新型コロナウイルス感染症（COVID-19）の感染拡大の影響
- 在宅勤務／Web会議用のIT環境と品質
- 外部データセンター／クラウドの利用
- インターネットトラフィックの増加
- インターネット活用のためのセキュリティゲートウェイ
- 拠点WAN回線の選定とWANの課題
- SD-WAN、およびネットワークと他システムの連携
- コールセンターの運用
This IDC Survey presents results from the German segment of IDC's European Internet of Things (IoT) Decision-Maker Survey. This survey assesses current and planned deployments of IoT projects, including benefits and challenges, impact of ...
This IDC Market Presentation examines the latest IDC Quarterly Smart Home Device Tracker for the Western Europe smart home market. In this tracker, IDC follows more than 55 smart home makes in 16 countries, providing detailed shipment volumes, ...
This IDC Market Presentation provides an overview of the European grocery subvertical in 2021 and examines how grocery retailers in Europe are transforming their operations to respond to the opportunities emerging from the post-pandemic ...
This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation examines customer engagement and loyalty strategies for touchless retail. The new normal requires continued investment in touchless omni-channel retail business to engage customers and drive customer lifetime ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight highlights key results from IDC's 2020 Smart Home Survey with a focus on examining differences in characteristics between consumers that use a smart assistant and those that don't. The survey includes ...
This IDC Survey details results from IDC's 2020 U.S. Smart Home Survey, which was fielded in July. The survey asked respondents questions regarding consumer adoption of and attitudes toward a variety of ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight discusses the last-mile strategies that help shave costs and delight the consumer.
Historic surges in ecommerce demand are putting pressure on logistics operations to focus on the last mile, which is the most ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight looks at, by specific major countries, what technology customers are investing in for MEC compute and storage infrastructure, and whether that may tie into expected latency requirements for their MEC solutions. ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight presents the top enterprise IT and network challenges over the next three years. It contains data from IDC's 2020 Enterprise Communications Survey of 800 United States–based business and IT executives and ...
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 Presentation highlights the challenges European manufacturers continue to face in 2021 in light of the COVID-19 crisis, as well as how digital transformation is seen as a way of strengthening resilience in a fast-changing ...
This IDC FutureScape for Future of Operations (FoO) shows the implications for the Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) (APEJ) region. The report shows the relative implication on each of the 10 predictions within IDC FutureScape: ...
This IDC FutureScape presents IDC Financial Insights’ view of the top 10 predictions for payment strategies as they apply to the Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) (APEJ) region as banks, merchants, and payment processors invest in the technology ...
According to IDC’s 2020 Supply Chain Survey, almost 75% of Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) (APEJ) manufacturers see the lack of supply chain visibility and resiliency as the top gaps that will likely be problematic for supply ...
IDC FutureScape针对增长中的区块链和分布式账本技术（DLT）市场做出10个预测。这些预测都受到IDC定义的在技术、行业、经济、政治、甚至文化方面总体趋势的影响。这些趋势或外部驱动因素为企业和业务部门的技术领导者提供了部署IT战略的工具。与往年一样，许多趋势来源于影响业务和技术的变化速度不断提升。但是今年，许多外部驱动因素也反映了全球COVID-19疫情的持续影响以及企业为保持抵抗能力并适应下一个正常状态所做的努力。
2021年FutureScape所涵盖的预测未按优先级或重要性排列，具体如下：
- 预测1：法律诉讼和控告阻碍电子选举的进程。到2025年，基于区块链的电子投票方案将成为主流的解决方案，会有5%的司法辖区进行区块链投票系统测试。
- 预测2：到2024年，医疗保健区块链数字身份标准将来自卫健委或其他卫生机构，可以实现以下四点：医疗数据互操作性、完善的客户/患者数据信息、患者"健康评分"、利于AI技术更好的服务医疗体系。
- 预测3：到2025年，供应链行业中15％的机构将与区块链服务公司合作，整合区块链技术与物联网平台，以此记录M2M通信所需的数据。
- 预测4：到2025年，将有15％的消费贷款以中央银行数字货币形式支付。
- 预测5：到2025年，将有8％的金融机构使用区块链技术来满足KYC合规需求，以此创建透明的、可审核的实体记录。
- 预测6：到2025年，在立法要求下，将有50％的跨洲航运会运用区块链技术记录船员健康信息、船用燃油来源和货物来源数据。
- 预测7：到2025年，10％的供应链交易将使用区块链完成道德信任溯源与可持续业务证实，以增加数据可信度。
- 预测8：到2025年，中国通证化资产市场将达到1000亿美元。
- 预测9：基于区块链的跨境汇款网络将在特定的地域持续发展。到2023年，支付规模将超过15亿美元。
- 预测10：COVID-19会在短期内阻碍基于区块链技术的贸易融资业务转型，但到2025年，15%的商业银行用户将被纳入区块链平台。
This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation provides details from the Retail Digital Transformation (DX) Infrastructure 2021 Investment Guide. The guide provides benchmark IT budget data and insights as to where retailers have been prioritizing IT ...