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 Market Analysis Perspective provides detailed information on the European technology skills market. It addresses key skills trends and dynamics in the region, identifies skills market players and illustrates their interactions, ...
This IDC Survey presents insights on end-user sentiments in deploying private cloud environments. The insights are gathered as part of the broader research on IT infrastructure market trends conducted as part of IDC's Enterprise Infrastructure ...
本プレゼンテーションでは、12の重要な外部ドライバー（促進要因）、すなわち今後5年に渡り企業のIT戦略とビジネス戦略を形作っていくグローバルな事業エコシステムの変化を牽引している、外部の力について記述している。IDCは、政治、経済、社会、技術、環境、法令、事業を示す「PESTEL＋B」をパラダイムとして使用している。2020年の外部ドライバーでは、イノベーションの時代、加速するディスラプション、プラットフォームエコノミー、計測／計算／行動、デジタルトラストの危機、地政学リスク、どこでもインテリジェンス、高まる顧客の期待、物質世界を再考する、働き方の未来、人口動態のパラドックス、インテリジェンスの経済といった項目を取り上げている。
「デジタル技術を活用してどのような変革を起こすか、最終的に何を目指すかは、外部環境の変化を認識してこそ意思決定が行えるものである。自社／組織を世界的な環境変化の文脈の中に置き、中長期的な視点でデジタルトランスフォーメーションの戦略立案を行うべきである」と、IDC ...
This IDC Survey analyzes end-user responses regarding the firms they engage for consulting and integration services on IT infrastructure, examining both IT vendors and systems integrators. IDC's Infrastructure Services Survey, ...
This IDC Survey summarizes key technology investment trends based on IDC's U.S. Enterprise Communications Survey, 2019, an online survey of 800 United States–based businesses fielded in August 2019. It provides ...
This IDC Survey explores the status of the gap in the demand for IT skills in Canadian organizations and current supply of those skills in Canadian labor market. As a result of this gap, organizations turned to externally sourcing IT staff ...
This IDC Presentation provides a detailed analysis of the market and competitive landscape in IT services in China from January to June 2019 (1H19). It covers the market size movements and growth trends in each of the macromarkets (i.e., ...
This IDC Presentation provides a detailed analysis of Vietnam's IT services market and competitive landscape from January to June 2019 (1H19). It covers the market size movements and growth trends in each of the macromarkets (i.e., project-oriented ...
This IDC Presentation provides a detailed analysis of the market and competitive landscape in IT services in Australia from January to June 2019 (1H19). It covers the market size movements and growth trends in each of the macromarkets (i.e., ...
This IDC Presentation provides a detailed analysis of the market and competitive landscape in IT services in Malaysia from January to June 2019 (1H19). It covers the market size movements and growth trends in each of the macromarkets (i.e., ...
本プレゼンテーションでは、国内ITサービス市場における現在の市場動向や将来動向に対する知見を簡潔にまとめている。本プレゼンテーションによって、エンドユーザー視点での市場の見方を理解し、市場へのインパクトを知ることができる。
This IDC Market Presentation showcases the summary findings of IDC's 2Q19 Cloud Pulse via slide deck. Sections include total, region, company size, cloud type, and cloud adoption.
IDC's Cloud Pulse provides an overview of cloud adoption ...
This IDC Survey discusses the results of IDC's 2019 New Zealand IT Services Ecosystem Survey. This report is the first of two reports providing a deep dive into the New Zealand IT Services ecosystem. Part 1 provides an in-depth ...
This IDC Presentation provides a detailed analysis of the market and competitive landscape in IT services in India from January to June 2019 (1H19). It covers the market size movements and growth trends in each of the primary markets (i.e., ...
This IDC Presentation provides a detailed analysis of the market and competitive landscape in IT services in New Zealand from January to June 2019 (1H19). It covers the market size movements and growth trends in each of the macromarkets ...
本調査レポートでは、2019年9月に実施した国内DevOps動向調査に基づき、国内の企業や組織（官公庁、自治体、非営利組織を含む）515社のDevOpsの実践状況と課題について分析した結果をまとめている。また、DevOpsに関連するソフトウェア開発とIT運用管理の現状についても調査し、分析を行った。
IDCではDevOpsを「企業がスピード、生産性、品質などのビジネス能力を高めることを目標とし、ビジネスを支えるソフトウェアの開発から運用までのプロセスを通して、開発やテスト、運用、ビジネスなどに関わる複数の組織や担当者が共同で取り組むこと」と定義している。本調査では、DevOpsに対する理解があるIT担当者を対象としている。ただし、現在におけるDevOpsの実践の有無は問わない。
...This IDC Market Analysis Perspective provides an overview of the state of IT services in Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) (APEJ) for the year 2019, including market definition, the vendor landscape, buyer perspectives, and preferences for ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight shows the results that offer insights into one key area of this new procurement trend and reveals the metrics of the as-a-service models that matter. In September, IDC conducted a survey of 300 United States–based ...
This IDC Survey discusses the results of the 2019 New Zealand IT Services Ecosystem Survey. This report is the second of two reports delving deeply into the New Zealand IT Services ecosystem. Part 2 provides an in-depth analysis ...
This document explores the cloud adoption trends in Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) (APEJ) small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). Key findings from IDC's 1Q19 Cloud Pulse Survey and APEJ Future SMB Survey are highlighted to provide a view ...
云专业服务是指在企业云环境下提供的咨询、迁移、建设、应用开发有关的IT服务，包含云咨询服务、云迁移服务、云开发服务及云建设服务四大服务分类，对应IT服务定义里的IT咨询服务、系统集成服务、网络咨询与集成服务及定制化软件开发服务。本报告追踪了云专业服务市场的宏观市场趋势、细分市场概况、技术驱动及主要行业用户特点，给出典型厂商的动态，并提出未来发展趋势预测。
"随着云计算在行业中的深度应用，行业客户对于云专业服务的诉求越来越多，更依赖于云专业服务商提供的专业交付以及带来的先进行业经验。云专业服务商作为企业在数字化转型中重要的合作伙伴，在技术、成本优化、人员等多个方面为客户提供最优性价比的上云及用云支持，助力企业转型，深入行业变革。"——IDC云和服务市场高级分析师聂楠表示。
...This IDC Survey Spotlight looks at the top 10 worldwide use case adoption for AR/VR IT project-based services.
This IDC Survey Spotlight is based upon IDC's Worldwide IT Professional Services Survey carried out ...
This IDC Survey includes data from IDC’s 2019 U.S. Enterprise Communications Survey.
IDC surveyed approximately 800 United States–based decision makers responsible for network/strategy and operations for their organization’s ...