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.
"Communication SPs (comm. SPs), since their inception, have always collected and analyzed massive troves of data. In many ways, the amount of data that a comm. SP has in its possession is the envy of many industry players, but it has struggled ...
This IDC Perspective evaluates the ongoing shift amongst software-as-a-service (SaaS) providers toward customer success methodologies in both intent and strategy. Customer success focuses on helping customers achieve specific outcomes that ...
近些年来利好政策驱动了中国人工智能市场的蓬勃发展， 2019年中国企业级人工智能市场规模达28.1亿美元，并将持续增长；单点AI技术也在持续演进，行业用户在组织内部引入了多项AI能力，AI技术融合发展成为趋势；2019年AI应用场景百花齐放，主流用例已经落地，有明确业务需求的AI应用也在市场中逐步得到推广，未来随着人工智能技术的发展，一些具备潜力的应用场景会在未来引领业务创新，AI辐射到了更多行业，碎片化应用也开始广泛渗透；人工智能软件与应用市场也在不断细分，稳步拓展；2020年，中国人工智能市场将再续辉煌，终端用户需要挑选合适的合作伙伴部署适用于自己企业内部的AI应用，并借鉴部署AI过程的最佳实践形成差异化优势。
IDC人工智能高级分析师程荫表示： ...
This IDC Market Note discusses key announcements from VMworld Europe 2019 relevant to the European enterprise infrastructure market.
This IDC Market Note describes the key takeaways and insights of IDC analysts, regarding Unisys and its services business, who participated in the 2019 Unisys Global Analyst and Advisor Conference, held November 11-12 in New York City, New ...
This IDC Perspective discusses how NetApp — a technology provider — has transformed its own IT organization and, in the process, gained the respect of its customers undergoing this transformation themselves.
Technology providers are ...
This IDC Perspective introduces the future of digital innovation and the digital innovation supply chain. Software is becoming a bigger piece of how every enterprise competes. The enterprise is shifting from a pure software consumer of applications ...
This IDC Market Note provides our take on the recent Orange Cyberdefense Analyst Day held in Paris. The main announcement was that Orange Cyberdefense was on track to deliver €1 billion in 2022 and that Orange Cyberdefense aims at becoming ...
This IDC Perspective considers the changing nature of development and the transitions of organizations from a role of software consumer, adding the roles of software development and software distribution to their historical role of sourcing ...
한국IDC 김민철 책임연구원은 "퍼블릭 클라우드 서비스의 고도화로 전통적인 상용 솔루션 못지 않은 성능 및 안정성이 보장되면서 다양한 산업 분야에서 클라우드의 도입이 확대되고 있다. 하지만, 기존 온프레미스 기반의 데이터센터에서 퍼블릭 클라우드 환경으로의 전환에 데이터 보안이나 규제 준수와 같은 다양한 어려움에 직면하는 가운데 하이브리드 클라우드가 대안이 되고 있다"고 말했다. 또한 "동시에 퍼블릭 클라우드 사업자 뿐만 ...
This IDC Perspective discusses the concept of the future of intelligence as expanded by a global team of IDC analysts. We highlight the capabilities that enable enterprises to achieve economies of intelligence and reap benefits such as productivity ...
This IDC Perspective discusses the future of intelligence as defined by a global team of IDC analysts. We highlight the three key capabilities needed to drive value from information and set the stage for a deeper evaluation of practices ...
The IDC Market Perspective presents the trends of service providers' capital expenditure by region in general and a detailed analysis of spending from the top 10 carrier groups.
"The consolidated capex numbers for operators worldwide ...
This IDC Market Note briefly looks at ways to enhance datacenter infrastructure, reduce datacenter operating costs, and improve data security. The methods explored include utilizing software-defined technologies and cloud platforms, physically ...
This IDC Market Perspective focuses on the important practices that have been adopted by organizations that have demonstrated their ability to accelerate software delivery.
"This IDC Market Perspective shows how attitudes vary between ...
This IDC Perspective highlights key areas of interest for the public sector discussed at AWS re:Invent 2019 in Las Vegas on December 2–6 and at the event's AWS Analyst Summit on December 2–3. Solution announcements and meetings with AWS ...
This IDC Market Perspective presents capital expenditure trends for the top 10 service provider groups along with the spending trends in their country operations.
"The capex market share for the top 10 communication service providers ...
This IDC Perspective explores the service mesh ecosystem from the point of view of enterprise workloads and provides best practices on adopting service mesh infrastructure including various consumption options. Service mesh infrastructure ...
本調査レポートは、2019年11月までに収集した情報を基に、クラウドインフラストラクチャ／プラットフォーム領域およびクラウド向けITサービス事業を中心として国内クラウド市場における主要ベンダーのビジネス動向をまとめたものである。また、国内クラウド市場における配備モデル／サービス別の市場動向と主要ベンダーのビジネス動向を分析し、ベンダーが成長するための提言を行っている。
マルチクラウド／ハイブリッドクラウドの発展と共に、クラウドの配備モデル／サービスやベンダー間の競合／協業関係は複雑さを増しており、国内クラウド市場はカオス期を迎えている。このカオスはDXが本格化する前兆であり、すべてのベンダーにとって新しい成長機会であると同時に、淘汰の脅威となっている。「ベンダーは、弱点の克服ではなく、強みの進化にリソースを投入すべきである。特に、DX事業では先行者利益の獲得が市場におけるリーダーの条件となる」と、IDC ...
本調査レポートでIDCは、DX時代のデータセンターファシリティ運用モデルとして、「スマーターデータセンター」というモデルを提唱し、国内データセンターにおける導入状況を分析している。スマーターデータセンター実装の重要なツールであるDCIM（データセンターインフラストラクチャマネジメント）の導入率の推定／予測も行っている。
「国内データセンターでは、DCIMをコスト削減ツールとしてだけでなく、データセンターの運用品質およびサービス品質の強化ツールとして導入する傾向が強まっている」とIDC ...
This IDC Market Note discusses the infrastructure services–related announcements at AWS re:Invent 2019.
"One key message conveyed at re:Invent 2019 was the breadth and depth of foundational cloud capabilities at AWS," said Deepak Mohan, ...
This IDC Perspective summarizes key takeaways from Salesforce's Dreamforce 2019 for technology buyers, including discussion around new product releases and future product road maps.
"Salesforce has invested heavily in some key acquisitions ...
This IDC Market Note assesses data management vendor Actifio's latest platform launching in 2020 — Actifio 10c — that is multicloud, hybrid cloud, container, and DevOps ready.
This IDC Market Note discusses a new hybrid, multicloud security tool — STIX-Shifter.
Highly fragmented markets support a lot of unique solutions, and a few other IT disciplines have seen such technology sprawl as security. As legacy ...
This IDC Market Note comments on the Tableau Conference Europe event held in Berlin on June 18 and 19, 2019. The acquisition of Tableau by Salesforce had been announced two weeks before the conference but was blocked by the U.K. Competition ...