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.
本調査レポートでは、国内情報セキュリティ市場を分析し、2019年～2023年の予測を行っている。2020年の東京オリンピック／パラリンピックではサイバー攻撃の増加が見込まれている。サイバー攻撃は高度化が進み、検知されにくい攻撃手法が開発されており、未公表の脆弱性を突くゼロデイ攻撃や未知の脅威に対するセキュリティ対策も高度な分析が必要になっている。だが、セキュリティ専門技術者の人材不足で、サイバー攻撃によって発生するセキュリティインシデントへの対応が難しくなっており、重大なインシデントを見逃す恐れも生じている。
「製品サプライヤーやサービスプロバイダーは、セキュリティ運用の自動化を可能にするセキュリティオーケストレーション／オートメーション製品と連携したサイバーセキュリティソリューションを訴求すべきである。これによって、高度化するサイバー攻撃で生じる重大なセキュリティインシデントの見逃しを防ぐと共に、人材不足となっているセキュリティ専門技術者の負荷を軽減できる」と、IDC ...
本报告论述了中国政府举办的基本医疗保险与商业医疗保险的发展动态和趋势，分析了中国医疗保障业务发展的形态与特征，阐述了信息化和数字化对于中国医疗保障发展的支撑性作用，预测了2018–2023年基本医疗保险管理系统和商业医疗保险管理系统的市场规模，供中国基本医保和商业医保信息化厂商以及ICT基础设施厂商、新兴信息化技术厂商等参考，也可供医疗保障管理部门在制定信息化建设和发展策略时参考。
"2018年3月，中国政府组建了国家医疗保障局，整合了原来分布在多个部委的医疗保障的相关职责，实现医疗保障的集中化管理，制定了未来基本医疗保险管理统一化、综合化和追求价值化的发展目标，同时也支持商业医疗保险与基本医疗保险同步发展，这些目标的实现离不开信息化和数字化的支撑。2019年开始的国家医疗保障信息平台建设，为未来全国范围内各省市医疗保障信息化的转型升级提供了借鉴和指引。预计未来一到三年中，各省市都将会启动新一代的医疗保障信息系统的建设；未来三到五年中，各省市之间医疗保障管理系统将开展大规模系统集成和医保数据的挖掘应用，商业医疗保险管理系统也将采用新兴信息化技术实现升级，进而更灵活地支持健康消费需求。在新一代的医疗保障信息系统建设中，新兴IT技术例如云计算、大数据、人工智能等将作为基础架构技术，支持医疗保障信息系统促进"健康中国2030"目标实现。"——IDC中国行业研究与咨询服务部高级研究经理肖宏亮表示。
...This study analyzes the Japan virtual client computing market in 2018 and presents the market forecast together with making clear the situation that the market is in today. "In 2019, digital workspace may evolve further into intelligent ...
This IDC study provides an updated market sizing for the worldwide customer service applications software market based on completed revenue modeling and a revised forecast for the market over a 10-year period, with a five-year forecast (2019–2023).
"Increasingly, ...
This IDC study highlights how the landscape of managed SPs competing in the managed cloud services market is evolving. For further details of the managed cloud services market definition, see IDC's Worldwide Managed ...
This IDC study contains vendor shares for the video platforms software market for 2016–2018. It includes commentary on growth of the market and emerging trends and provides actionable advice for technology suppliers.
"The video platforms ...
This IDC study presents the worldwide hybrid cloud infrastructure services market forecast for 2019–2023. This market includes the professional services for infrastructure across public, private, and traditional deployments. The forecast ...
This IDC study presents the worldwide datacenter network consulting and integration services forecast for the 2019–2023 period.
"In an increasingly multicloud world, it is imperative that the datacenter infrastructure and, most importantly, ...
This IDC study provides the forecast for the 5G network infrastructure market for 2019–2023.
"While Release 15 paved the way for initial commercial 5G launches, Release 16 (1H20) and beyond will be what unlocks 5G's full potential ...
This IDC study examines some of the key technologies that are expected to trend upward in 2020, and it looks at ways in which IT and business services firms can address these technologies with customers to advance usage. The document highlights ...
This IDC Market Forecast study analyzes and sizes the Western European SCM applications market for 2016–2018 and includes a forecast for 2019–2023. IDC segments the SCM applications market by functional segment (3 functional segments), deployment ...
This IDC study presents the Romanian IT security market size and vendor shares in 2018, as well as key market trends.
"Romanian organizations' security strategies and investments increasingly prioritize a protect-detect-respond approach. ...
本調査レポートは、国内ホワイトボックススイッチ市場に関して、2019年～2023年の予測と今後の展望を提供する。ホワイトボックススイッチとは、ネットワーク機器のハードウェアとソフトウェアを分離して調達して構成するNetwork Disaggregationの形式をとるイーサネットスイッチを指し、国内でもハイパースケーラーと呼ばれるグローバルメガクラウド事業者を中心に導入が始まっている。今後は「イノベーター」であるハイパースケーラーから、「アーリーアダプター」にユーザーが移行し成長期に向かうとIDCでは予測している。
ホワイトボックススイッチのユーザー層拡大に当たって、IDC ...
本調査レポートは、ソフトウェア市場に関するIDCの分類法について詳細に説明したものである。2018年の定義では、「アプリケーションソフトウェア」「アプリケーション開発／デプロイメント（AD&D）」「システムインフラストラクチャソフトウェア」の3つのソフトウェア市場があり、83の機能市場セグメントに分類される。
「IDCのソフトウェア市場定義は、世界のソフトウェア市場の包括的な見方を表している。世界のコマーシャルソフトウェアの定義と分類のための主たる情報ソース、TrackerやSpending ...
This IDC Market Share analyzes the Western Europe supply chain management applications market for 2016 to 2018 and provides the respective market shares for each vendor. It segments the SCM applications market by functional market (three ...
This IDC study provides worldwide market share data for server operating environment new license shipments, new subscriptions, and nonpaid deployments for calendar year 2018.
"IDC observed accelerated year-over-year growth from the ...
The European data protection and replication (DR&P) software and services market segment will continue to grow steadily until 2023. The software portion of the market will grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 1.9% while cloud ...
This IDC study summarizes the experiences of five IT end users experimenting with or using quantum computing today. IDC performed in-depth interviews (IDIs) with these end users, all of whom will remain anonymous. Industries represented ...
This IDC study presents the initial worldwide local cloud as a service (LCaaS) forecast for 2019–2023. This forecast includes the annual recurring revenue (ARR) derived by providers from the delivery of LCaaS solutions in corporate and service ...
This IDC study discusses worldwide cloud security market shares of software-defined compute workload security and firewall fabric for 2018.
"Trend Micro turned its 2009 acquisition of Third Brigade into a dominant position in software-defined ...
本調査レポートでは、IDCの各種の調査に基づいて、国内企業が保有するエンタープライズストレージシステム保有容量を算出し、2017年～2018年の実績と2019年～2023年の予測を提供している。また、エンタープライズストレージシステム保有容量については、産業分野別に実績と予測を提供しているほか、配備モデル別（クラウド、トラディショナルデータセンター）／配備場所別（オンプレミス、オフプレミス）にも実績と予測を提供している。
IDC Japanエンタープライズインフラストラクチャのグループディレクターである森山 ...
本次研究对中国公有云平台建设市场进行了梳理，对2018年该市场的发展状况进行了详细的分析，其中包括：市场的驱动和阻碍因素、按产品和服务商类型细分的市场规模、对市场变化和热点的解读和分析。此外，本报告还对未来五年（2019年到2023年）中国公有云建设市场的规模和增长情况进行了预测。
"公有云服务提供商作为IT市场的崛起者和创新者，为用户提供丰富的技术、产品、服务以及解决方案，不仅为市场孵化出大量的技术创新型企业，同时也助力中国企业数字化转型迈入2.0阶段。云计算市场走过了初始建设阶段后逐渐进入稳定增长阶段，同时，随着混合云和多云部署备受用户青睐，公有云服务提供商还将不断优化和扩大其在云计算市场的综合竞争力，持续加大对公有云平台的建设和投资。"——IDC中国企业级研究部高级分析师段萌表示。
...本研究报告对中国私有云平台建设市场的整体及其细分市场的发展进行了分析和预测，包括市场现状，市场的驱动和阻碍因素，重大市场变化，以及未来五年中国私有云平台建设市场的规模和增长率。
“虽然在经历了2018年的高速增长后，整体IT市场在2019年呈现增速放缓的趋势，但包括私有云在内的中国云计算市场仍然处于快速发展期，各大云服务供应商正在加速混合云战略落地，各种各样的新产品、新技术和新解决方案将继续推动私有云平台建设市场的创新发展。多云部署将成为企业用户建设其IT基础架构的首要选择，同时，公有云和私有云市场的交叉竞争也将给云计算市场带来新的活力，在改变竞争格局的同时也进一步促进整体市场的发展。对于供应商而言，如何从用户的应用需求这一根本出发，将创新的技术和全面的服务融入在私有云产品中，并以生态构建核心竞争力将成为未来决胜的关键。”——IDC中国企业级研究部研究经理索引表示。
...This IDC study presents forecasts of spending (customer expenditures) for the offshore-based horizontal BPO services market for 2019–2023 that includes HR, finance and accounting, procurement, and customer care by four importing regions ...
This IDC study contains vendor shares for the digital asset management software market for 2016–2018. It includes commentary on growth of the market and emerging trends and provides actionable advice for technology suppliers.
"The ...