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.
Seismic has acquired Percolate for an undisclosed sum. The acquisition provides San Diego–based Seismic with stronger marketing software assets that Percolate describes as "the leading content marketing platform for the enterprise." Combining ...
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 ...
準大手／中堅ベンダーを見ると、外資系グローバルベンダーの日本法人と日系（非外資系）ベンダーでは経営基盤に大きな違いがあるが、日系（非外資系）ベンダーは、主要ベンダーよりも組織規模が小さいメリットを生かし、迅速に経営基盤の強化を図り、事業環境の変化への対応を急ぐべきである。一方、外資系ベンダーは、海外人材を豊富に持つアドバンテージを生かすため、国内の体制を強化すべきであり、特に、顧客企業の要件を適切に拾い上げ、海外のリソースの持つデジタルケイパビリティを活用したプロジェクトの枠を設計できるコンサルタントを増強すべきである
本調査レポートは国内ITサービス市場における準大手／中堅ベンダーのビジネス動向およびベンダー間の競合状況について、ベンダー各社に対して行った調査や、多様なリソースから収集した情報を総合し、定性的／定量的に分析した結果をまとめたものである。また、国内ITサービス市場における準大手／中堅ベンダーの2018年12月期、および2019年3月期の国内ITサービス売上額を、IDC定義に基づき、3つのサービスセグメント別／6つの産業分野別に推定し、各ベンダーの事業動向／ビジネス動向をプロフィールとして掲載している。
準大手／中堅ベンダーを見ると、外資系グローバルベンダーの日本法人と日系ベンダーでは経営基盤に大きな違いがある。「国内ITサービス市場の準大手／中堅ベンダーの多くを占める日系（非外資系）ベンダーは、主要ベンダーよりも組織規模が小さいメリットを生かし、迅速に経営基盤の強化を図り、事業環境の変化への対応を急ぐべきである」とIDC ...
This IDC study presents the 2018 market size and vendor shares for the IT security market in Hungary, as well as the key trends in this market.
"Increasing awareness of security issues is resulting in increasing adoption rates of advanced ...
Splunk recently held its annual customer conference, .conf19, in Las Vegas, where over 11,000 attendees from I&O, DevOps, security, and analytics teams gathered to hear more about Splunk's new positioning as the "Data-to-Everything" ...
This IDC Web Conference presents a discussion by IDC's Gerry Murray on several key issues facing chief marketing officers (CMOs) that will impact the operational and technology decisions that CMOs will need to make over the next one to five ...
This IDC Market Note reviews the strategies that Konica Minolta is putting in place to ensure long-term success for it and its channel partners going forward, as presented during its European Leadership Campus event in October 2019. It evaluates ...
This IDC Market Analysis Perspective provides detailed information on Canadian customer adoption and spending on managed cloud services. IDC views managed cloud services as an extraction view of IDC's technology outsourcing services markets ...
Xerox has entered into agreements with Fujifilm that significantly changes the course of the near 60-year relationship between the parties. Xerox is selling its stake in Fuji Xerox Co. Ltd. (FX) and Xerox International Partners (XIP).
...This IDC Market Note highlights the key learnings by the analysts and their take on the implications for Atos. Atos' North American Analyst and Advisor Conference showcased the company's well-developed technology and research and development ...
This IDC Survey includes data from IDC's U.S. Enterprise Communications Survey, 2019.
IDC surveyed approximately 800 United States–based decision makers responsible for network/strategy and operations about their organization's ...
This IDC Survey contains an extract of the results of an end-user study conducted by IDC's Western European Imaging, Printing and Document Solutions (IPDS) Research Group in 2Q19 aimed at gaining insight into the market dynamics related ...
The IDC Service Provider Pulse delivers quarterly insights into the requirements of cloud service providers — focusing on evolving business models, emerging product and service offerings, and providers' own investments in technology. The ...
本报告论述了中国教育行业发展的动态和主要的趋势，包括教育的基本统计信息、教育改革的方向、教育信息化的相关政策和财政投入等，报告预测了教育IT市场2019–2023年的市场规模，预测数据中包括主要的各类IT产品类别，阐述了教育IT增长的驱动力和主要驱动因素，可以供IT厂商、教育软件厂商和服务商在制定业务发展战略时参考。
“中国教育行业IT市场呈现出稳步发展的态势，政府优先保障对教育的财政投入和教育信息化促进政策是教育信息化发展的关键动力，而解决教育资源不平衡、建立教学与基础科学研究、激励创新、产学研结合等则是教育IT未来发展的关键动力。教育IT不仅表现在基础IT架构和系统持续的完善、集成和升级，而且表现在新兴信息化技术在教育领域的广泛探索和应用。IDC预计，中国教育IT市场将保持长期的稳步增长，这一市场的2018–2023年的复合增长率将达到7.9%；其中教育软件市场的2018–2023年的复合增长率将达到24.9%，各类基础架构软件、应用系统开发和部署软件、应用软件都将保持高速发展。”—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 IDC Survey Spotlight discusses IDC's recent survey of enterprise datacenter customers (500+ employees) on 25 attributes of support services ranging from technical expertise of staff to proactive and predictive capabilities to support ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight examines the business priorities of buyers of change consulting services and the performance of leading change consulting providers. Data comes from IDC's Global Change Consulting Services Buyer Perception Survey, ...
This IDC Survey presentation highlights results from IDC's 2019 U.S. Enterprise Mobile Security Survey about enterprise mobile app security testing software (MAST) adoption and priorities.
"Enterprises using mobile app ...
This IDC Market Note analyzes key topics presented by Red Hat during its EMEA Analyst Day 2019, held on September 26, 2019, at the Ned in London. During this meeting, Red Hat provided updates on the company's future strategies, vision, and ...
This IDC study provides the top 10 predictions and underlying drivers that we expect to impact SMBs in 2020 and beyond.
"Effective senior executives, business unit heads, and IT managers in small and midsize businesses worldwide will ...
This IDC study discusses the worldwide blockchain top 10 predictions for 2020.
"Blockchain has been attracting all types of attention in the past few years," said James Wester, research director, Worldwide Blockchain Strategies at ...
This IDC study presents the IDC IT/OT convergence team's analysis of key drivers relating to the convergence and digital integration of information technology with operational technology.
"The interplay and convergence between technologies ...
This IDC study provides manufacturers and retailers with the top 10 predictions and underlying drivers that we expect to impact IT investments in the supply chain in 2020 and beyond. Technology leaders and their counterparts in the line-of-business ...
This IDC study discusses the worldwide datacenter top 10 predictions for 2020.
"CIOs need to transform the 'culture' of the IT team in the next two years from a focus on acquiring/managing/supporting products within corporate datacenters ...
This IDC study discusses worldwide imaging, printing, and document solutions and 3D Printing 2020 top 10 Predictions.
"While the print market shows signs of maturity, its ongoing evolution should serve as a signal to buyers that it ...
This IDC study uses the IDC MarketScape model to provide an assessment of service providers participating in the Microsoft Dynamics 365 implementation services market with specific offerings and capabilities in the segment. It discusses ...