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 Web Conference presents a discussion by IDC's Kevin Prouty on the convergence and digital integration of information technology (IT) with operational technology (OT) and the impact this will have on an organization's effectiveness, ...
This IDC Presentation provides an overview of the tectonic shifts changing the landscape of enterprise infrastructure buying behavior. It provides context on current and future market trends in the European marketplace by defining and explaining ...
This IDC Web Conference explores how the concurrent development of these (5G and WiFi 6) two high-performance, low-latency wireless connectivity technologies in the licensed and unlicensed domains is creating an enthusiastic debate about ...
This IDC Web Conference discusses the blockchain market based on data from the IDC Worldwide Blockchain Spending Guide. Blockchain is moving beyond technical proofs of concept and evolving into proofs of business, and the future of blockchain ...
This IDC Conference presents a review by Stephen Minton on the latest ICT spending data and leading economic indicators for ICT budget trends and new 3rd Platform technologies, alongside updated market sizing and forecasts from IDC's Worldwide ...
This IDC Web Conference shares a customer experience (CX) framework, together with CX business initiatives, priorities, and use cases driving CX technology investment. As organizations progress along their digital journeys, customer experience ...
This IDC Web Conference by senior research analyst Hayley Sutherland provides an overview of affective computing technology. Affective computing (AC) is the use of artificial intelligence (AI) software to identify and/or influence human ...
This IDC Web Conference discusses how digital transformation is having a significant and lasting impact on the global economy. As investment strategies shift from defensive approaches to counteract disruptors to offensive ones to ensure ...
This IDC Web Conference presents the main points of IDC's live webinar entitled "IDC's 2019 Retail Innovation Survey Highlights: The Path Toward Commerce Everywhere Business Models," held on July 9, 2019. Data in this webinar was based on ...
IDC predicts that, by 2019, 25% of Tier 1 and Tier 2 cities will have open data sharing platforms that enable service improvements, private sector innovation, and transparency. To realize these benefits, data publishers/providers need to ...
In this IDC Web Conference, Gabriele Roberti and Andrea Siviero from the IDC European Customer Insights & Analysis team discuss the combination of Innovation Accelerators (as artificial intelligence, Internet of Things, augmented and ...
This IDC Conference presents a review by Stephen Minton on the latest ICT spending data and leading economic indicators for ICT budget trends and new 3rd Platform technologies, alongside updated market sizing and forecasts from IDC's Worldwide ...
This IDC Web Conference presents a discussion by Rory Duncan, research vice president, Cloud Service Providers, on what cloud service providers plan to bring to market in the next two years and what part technology vendors will play in this ...
本Conference: Tech SupplierはIDC Japan コミュニケーションズのリサーチマネージャーである小野 陽子による講演の内容をプレゼンテーションスライドと音声ファイルによって提供するものである。
国内SD-WAN市場は成長期に突入した。今後は、さまざまな導入障壁を取り除きながら緩やかに普及が進むと予測される。また同時に、SD-WANはゲームチェンジャーとしてネットワーク市場を変革していく可能性もある。本講演では、SD-WANの普及見込みと、ネットワーク業界構造を変える動きを取り上げる。さらに中長期的展望として、仮想化された広域ネットワークが、DXを支える基盤としてどのように進化していくかについて併せて議論する。
...This IDC Web Conference highlights the spending trends and opportunities in the Smart Cities market. The Smart Cities market is growing, and your organization can capitalize on it with the right data. Attendees of this web conference will ...
This IDC Web Conference shares results from its latest U.S. Consumer Connected and Automated Vehicle Survey exploring how vehicle owners use and plan to use these technologies. IDC's research has shown that vehicle owners are increasingly ...
本Conference: Tech SupplierはIDC JapanのリサーチVPである寄藤 幸治による講演の内容をプレゼンテーションスライドと音声ファイルによって提供するものである。
多くの企業がDXに向けた取り組寄藤 幸治みを行う中、実際にそれをビジネス価値に結び付けているデジタル先進企業とそれ以外の企業との格差が広がりつつあるとIDCではみている。デジタル先進企業はそれ以外の企業と何が違うのか。本講演では、ITサプライヤーの顧客をデジタル先進企業にするためにITサプライヤーが支援すべきこと、そして最終的に顧客と共にイノベーションを創出していく道を考える。
...本Conference: Tech SupplierはIDC Japan ソフトウェア＆セキュリティのリサーチマネージャーである登坂 恒夫による講演の内容をプレゼンテーションスライドと音声ファイルによって提供するものである。
DXの進展によって、AI、IoT、ロボティクス、AR/VRといった「イノベーションアクセラレーター」は収集したデータを活用し、新たなビジネスを創出する。データの信頼性が維持できなければ、事業継続に支障を来し、大きなビジネスリスクとなる。また、EU ...
本Conference: Tech SupplierはIDC Japanのグループディレクターである眞鍋 敬による講演の内容をプレゼンテーションスライドと音声ファイルによって提供するものである。
顧客のデジタル変化が加速度的に進んでいる現在、企業のデジタルトランスフォーメーション（DX）は顧客を起点とした「外部プロセス変革」にシフトする必要がある。外部プロセス変革には、デジタル顧客エクスペリエンス（CX）の創造が重要課題であり、市場ではB2C/B2Bの両方でCX創造のために、AI（人工知能）／リアルタイムデータを活用する「Hyper-Personalization」時代が到来している。本セッションでは、現在／将来のデジタル顧客エクスペリエンスがIT市場へ与える影響と、ITプロバイダーのビジネス機会について考察する。
...本Conference: Tech SupplierはIDC Japan コミュニケーションズのグループマネージャーである草野 賢一による講演の内容をプレゼンテーションスライドと音声ファイルによって提供するものである。
早くもプレサービスが始まろうとしている5Gが、モバイル通信の枠を超えて、DXの牽引役になり企業にイノベーションをもたらすかは、企業間の共創を通じた5Gユースケースの発見と実践にかかっている。本講演では、国内における5G市場の展望とユースケースの可能性を議論し、ITサプライヤーや通信事業者が果たすべき役割を考察する。また、5Gを実現するネットワークインフラストラクチャについても市場予測と共にITサプライヤーの市場機会について論じる。さらに、DXの基盤になる企業やデータセンターの次世代ネットワークのあり方について考察する。
...本Conference: Tech SupplierはIDC Japanのグループディレクターである森山 正秋による講演の内容をプレゼンテーションスライドと音声ファイルによって提供するものである。
デジタルトランスフォーメーション（DX）に取り組む企業が最も重視するものの一つがデータの収益化である。エンタープライズインフラはデータ基盤としてDXに取り組む企業を支えることが強く求められ、それがベンダーにとっての新たなビジネス機会を生み出している。本講演では、データ基盤としてエンタープライズインフラに求められる特性を新テクノロジー（NVMe、SCM、アクセラレーテッドコンピューティングなど）、コアとエッジ、支出モデル、ハイブリッドクラウド環境におけるデータ管理などの観点から分析し、エンタープライズインフラのイノベーションと中長期的な成長機会を考察する。
...本Conference: Tech SupplierはIDC JapanのITスペンディング リサーチマネージャーである村西 明による講演の内容をプレゼンテーションスライドと音声ファイルによって提供するものである。
IDCでは、国内の産業分野を21に分類し、かつ企業規模を小規模から大企業までを5つに分類し、それぞれについて現在のITの支出状況と今後の支出動向の調査を行っている。本年に控える消費税増税および、翌年の東京オリンピックパラリンピック開催、昨今の働き方改革や米中貿易摩擦など、ユーザー企業や官公庁におけるITの支出に与える影響を産業分野別および企業規模別に分類し、ユーザー調査結果を踏まえた分析を行う。また、第3のプラットフォームや5Gに代表される新たな技術変革が牽引する、産業構造の変革に関する将来像を海外の事例も交えて考察し、ITサプライヤーが今後とるべき戦略について考察する。
...本Conference: Tech SupplierはIDC Japan ソフトウェア＆セキュリティのリサーチマネージャーである入谷 光浩による講演の内容をプレゼンテーションスライドと音声ファイルによって提供するものである。
IDCでは2018年から2023年にかけて5億もの新しいアプリケーションが生成されると予測している。これは過去40年間に開発されたアプリケーションの数に相当する。DX時代におけるこのアプリケーションの爆発的増加は、クラウドネイティブアプリケーションプラットフォームの導入、マイクロサービスアーキテクチャへの移行、アジャイル／DevOpsによる開発手法の変革によって引き起こされる。さらにAIやローコード／ノーコードのようなテクノロジーがこのアプリケーション革命を加速させている。本講演ではアプリケーションに起こっている変化と進化について複数の視点から分析し、ITサプライヤーが取るべき方向性について考察する。
...本Conference: Tech SupplierはIDC Japanのソフトウェア＆セキュリティ シニアマーケットアナリストである草地 慎太郎による講演の内容をプレゼンテーションスライドと音声ファイルによって提供するものである。
データは現代における最も重要な経営資源の一つであるとしばしば言われている。しかし、データを多く持っていても、それを価値創出につなげるためには企業戦略、人材、テクノロジープラットフォームそしてデータアーキテクチャを考慮し、仕組みを作り上げる必要がある。本講演ではIDCがデジタルトランスフォーメーションの中で、企業がデータという資源を価値創出につなげるためのテクノロジープラットフォームとして定義しているDX ...
本Conference: Tech SupplierはIDC Japan イメージング, プリンティング＆ドキュメントソリューションのグループマネージャーである石田 英次による講演の内容をプレゼンテーションスライドと音声ファイルによって提供するものである。
第3のプラットフォームを始めとするテクノロジーの進化は、オフィス、そして働く環境を大きく変えようとしている。特に、オフィスで扱うデータ量の爆発的な増加は、働く環境に抜本的な変革をもたらす可能性がある。IDCでは、このオフィス関連データの流通量が、今後5年間に世界全体で2倍以上になると予測している。膨大な情報を処理しなければならない将来のオフィスワーカーに対して、プリント環境は何ができるであろうか。本講演では、プリントを含む新たなオフィス環境提案に向けた発想のヒントとなる情報を提供する。
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