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 study provides an assessment of the primary PIM application vendors for digital commerce use cases. The study also discusses what criteria are most important for companies to consider when selecting a system.
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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 IDC Market Forecast presents the total market value and shipment volume for smart home devices in the Middle East, Turkey, and Africa in 2018 and a market forecast for value and unit shipments through 2023. The report also presents ...
This IDC Market Presentation explores IDC Canada's ICT predictions for 2020 and was originally presented as a web conference on December 4, 2019. The digital economy is already a reality for many industries, and forward-looking companies ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight examines the need for investments in third-party solutions around ethics and AI along the AI life cycle. Data comes from IDC's Ethics and AI Client Survey, 2019.
This IDC Market Glance provides a glance at the current makeup of vendors offering monetization products and services that are logically between CRM/eCommerce and ERP/accounting applications.
This IDC Market Perspective is the first of two near-term documents on the emerging cloud-stream gaming (CSG) market. This document primarily focuses on the four major international CSG providers that are directly offering services today ...
This IDC study sizes and forecasts mobile in-game advertising and developers' share of that spending, broken down by region and by ad format.
"Mobile in-game advertising has proven to be a business model for game developers that is ...
This IDC Perspective outlines the benefits and challenges that enterprises face when implementing a smart assistant solution and the key factors to consider before deploying smart assistant devices in the workplace.
"Smart assistants ...
This IDC Perspective provides an overview of the state of front-end interfaces for operations workers and guidance for operations and IT executives on how to evaluate augmented reality as an emerging technology and strategic priority.
"For ...
Orange forecasts a 2%–3% yearly growth rate between 2021 and 2023, driven by growth in the Middle East and Africa, the enterprise and financial services segments, and strict efficiency discipline, in particular a €1 billion net savings program. ...
This IDC study examines the adoption of 5G — as many more operators target 2020 as a launching point for 5G services — through the lens of traditional mobile subscribers and cellular IoT connections across the Americas, Asia/Pacific, and ...
This IDC Market Perspective provides an update on the status of Canadian 5G wireless spectrum allocation. The timing of 5G wireless network development and its ultimate success will be largely contingent upon the availability and timely ...
本报告对中国互联网信息流市场做了系统梳理，涉及信息流市场定义、市场发展环境、产业链构成、典型信息流产品分析、未来展望等内容，并从内容、技术、生态合作等方面提供了相应建议。
“信息流正成为中国互联网市场最重要的内容分发模式，将在5G时代迅速扩展到所有的互联网产品形态，并向万物互联的物联网平台迁移。下一阶段的竞争将成为内容、技术、生态力量的综合比拼。”——IDC中国互联网行业研究经理薛宇表示。
本プレゼンテーションは、世界と国内において、2020年から2025年に起こるIT市場に関する主要な10項目の予測（Predictions）について議論する。世界市場については『IDC FutureScape: Worldwide IT Industry 2020 Predictions (Japanese)（IDC #JPJ45564919、2019年12月発行）』において詳述しており、本プレゼンテーションでは、国内市場のPredictionsにおいて、世界市場からの変更点に焦点を合わせて論じている。
デジタルトランスフォーメーション（DX）の動きは個々の企業／組織によるものから、経済全体に広がっている。数年内には経済成長の多くの部分をデジタル化された企業が生み出す「デジタル優位（Digital ...
本調査レポートは、IT業界全体のテクノロジー採用における主要トレンドを明らかにし、以下を含む今後5年間の10項目のPredictionsおよび主な要因を示すものである。
- Prediction 1－イノベーションの加速：IT支出全体のうち（2018年の31％に対し）2024年までに50％以上がデジタルトランスフォーメーション（DX）／イノベーション向けとなり、そのCAGRは17％で増加する（DX以外のITのCAGRは2％）。
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This IDC Perspective investigates global Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite constellations to extend high-speed broadband internet and wireless to unserved areas.
"Renewed interest in Low Earth Orbit satellite constellations has resulted ...
This IDC Market Perspective analyzes different automotive systems and estimates the data generated by each. Primary areas of discussion include infotainment and the digital cockpit and the sensor systems used by advanced driver assistance ...
This IDC Survey presents key findings focused on provider investment plans and approaches to clinical mobility and clinician communication and collaboration from the 2019 Connected Health and Value-Based IT Investment Plans Survey.
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This IDC Market Perspective provides insights into edge strategies for service providers and technology suppliers. Research indicates that IT spending in the near term is shifting from centralized infrastructure to distributed architectures ...
This IDC Market Note explains why VMware recently provided a technology preview of its Project Maestro teleco cloud orchestration platform.
"One of the greatest challenges communications SPs face today as they move toward a multicloud ...