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、国内外付型エンタープライズストレージシステム市場における2020年上半期の産業分野別支出額実績をベースに、2020年～2024年の予測のアップデートを行っている。また、OS（メインフレームとオープン）別、接続環境（SAN （Storage Area Network）/NAS（Network-Attached Storage））別の観点からも予測している。
IDC Japan エンタープライズインフラストラクチャのシニアマーケットアナリストである加藤 ...
This IDC study is the last of three IDC PlanScape documents that provide recommendations for CIOs as they enhance their organization's measurement maturity. In this study, the key performance indicators (KPIs) that the CIO shares should ...
This IDC study is the second of three PlanScape documents providing recommendations for CIOs as they enhance their organization's measurement maturity. The key performance indicators that the CIO shares should evolve as the enterprise progresses ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight provides insights as to how Canadian organizations have reallocated the cost savings that they have experienced within their IT budgets with the adoption of cloud services.
The data in this document is based ...
This IDC Presentation provides a graphic overview of the state of the mobile phone market, including smartphones and feature phones, in Asia/Pacific. Figures include units per product category, screen size segment, and top vendors according ...
This IDC Market Note outlines key developments for NetApp in the Asia/Pacific (APAC) region during 2020 in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Over this period, NetApp has expanded its offerings by developing new solutions, strengthening ...
This IDC Web Conference presents a discussion by Christopher Rodriguez on growing need for an application-centric approach to delivering trust. Applications are the machinery that powers digital transformation and are set to become even ...
This IDC Perspective takes a look at WekaIO and its WekaFS parallel file system platform, discussing both its technical differentiators and its go-to-market strategy. The unstructured storage market is undergoing significant change right ...
This IDC Perspective reviews the challenges that organizations face as they transition to the new work experience and presents a framework for addressing those challenges. As organizations accelerate and expand digital transformation (DX) ...
This IDC Perspective discusses meaningful IT service management (ITSM) metrics that "make a difference" and capture the essence of critical success factors for determining IT operations' contribution to the enterprise's business outcomes. ...
This IDC Perspective addresses outdated savings strategies that are disconnected with agency program and business needs; these strategies are starting to backfire across most vertical industries including government. Progressive innovation ...
This IDC Perspective looks at how to avert the unintended consequences of IT metrics.
Poorly designed KPIs and metrics for IT services actually damage the line-of-business (LOB) view of IT's capabilities, perceptions, and deliverables. ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight examines how worldwide and U.S. enterprises expect their spending on 5G to shift in 2021 following the challenges of 2020. With the availability of 5G services and device types continuing to grow, 5G becomes more ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight provides insights from IDC's Data Protection and Data Privacy Survey (conducted in December 2020). This IDC Survey Spotlight focuses the frequency reported by enterprises of successful cyberattacks.
Conversational artificial intelligence vendor Uniphore announced its acquisition of Emotion Research Lab, a developer of artificial intelligence–based video analysis software that uses machine learning to identify emotion and attention in ...
On January 26th, 2021, Xerox announced its Q4 2020 earnings. While the announcement revealed similar financial metric performances observed during the pandemic, it was encouraging to review information on future developments. ...
On January 27, 2021, three months after its acquisition of Optimizely and six months from incorporating Idio under the Episerver brand, Episerver announced it was rebranding the company to Optimizely. The rebrand is part of an effort to ...
This IDC Market Perspective looks at how security service providers have to be able to provide the mix of MDR, managed, and professional security services that their clients and prospects need in order to plan for, protect against, and respond ...
本調査レポートでは、多様な形態のデバイス／センサーの発展が期待されるIoTデバイス／センサーセキュリティ市場を調査し、関連する製品／サービスを提供する企業の特徴的なビジネスモデルや戦略について分析した。
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赤間 健一は「IoT デバイス／センサーの多様化は、デバイスとデータ保護の重要性を高め、テクノロジーの進化とセキュリティ市場の拡大に寄与する。ITベンダーによるIoT/OTセキュリティベンダーの買収によるプラットフォーマー化と、セキュリティ専業ベンダーによる連携ソリューションの二極化が進み、IT/OTコンバージェンスが加速する」と述べている。
...本プレゼンテーションは、国内市場において、2021年から2026年に国内のAI（Artificial Intelligence：人工知能）市場で起きると予測される主要な事象をITバイヤー向けに記載したものである。2020年AIシステム市場は国内において急速な成長を見せた。IDCの調査によると国内のユーザー企業は戦略的イニシアティブであるAIシステムへの投資は継続的かつ増加傾向にあり、新型コロナウイルス感染症（COVID-19）の影響を受けてもなおデジタルトランスフォーメーション（DX）の中核技術をなすAIや機械学習（ML：Machine ...
本プレゼンテーションは、Future of Workstyle（働き方の未来、以下FoW）市場における2021年～2026年の10項目の予測（Predictions）をまとめたものである。本プレゼンテーションに先立って発行された『IDC FutureScape: Worldwide Future of Work 2021 Predictions（IDC #US46248920、2020年10月発行）』の内容を基に、国内市場の状況を考慮して一部変更を加えた。なお、本プレゼンテーション内の数値は断りなく使用されている場合は世界市場の数値を示しており、国内市場の数値には国内市場であることを明記している。
FoWのフレームワークはFuture ...
本プレゼンテーションは世界と国内のデータ管理／アナリティクス市場における、2021年～2026年のITに関する主要な10項目の予測（Predictions）について記載する。新型コロナウイルス感染症（COVID-19）の感染拡大の影響によって、企業のデジタルトランスフォーメーション（DX）、消費者／ビジネスバイヤーのデジタルシフトが進む中、国内のデータ管理／アナリティクス環境は急速に変化しており、これに伴う市場の変化も急速である。
IDC Japanのグループディレクターである眞鍋 ...
本プレゼンテーションは、2021年～2026年に世界および国内のサービス市場で予測される10項目の主要な動向（Predictions）をまとめたものである。米国において発行された『IDC FutureScape: Worldwide Services 2021 Predictions（IDC #US45374020、2020年10月発行）』の内容を基に、国内市場の状況を考慮して一部変更を加えた。なお、本プレゼンテーション内の数値は、断りなく使用されている場合は世界市場の数値を示しており、国内市場の数値には国内市場であることを明記している。
国内市場でも世界市場と同様に、新型コロナウイルス感染症（COVID-19）に伴うさまざまな影響や社会変化への適応が進む中で、過去には受け入れられなかった新たなプロセスや慣行が常態化している。こうした変化は同時に、消費者／従業員／パートナーを問わず、最適な「エクスペリエンス」を重視する傾向に拍車をかけ、その実現に向けたテクノロジーの活用やサービス市場の変化を促している。「DXジャーニーを共に進む外部サービスベンダーを選定する上では、テクノロジーや戦略、エクスペリエンスデザインといった能力が重要となる。また、DXに取り組む企業が先進層から主流層へと拡大する中、実現までの迅速性やサービスデリバリーのレジリエンシーといった実行力を勘案することが必要である」と、IDC ...
Besides the uncertainty stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic, during 2021, the regional situation will have to deal with low interest rates, escalating U.S.–China trade friction, formation of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership ...
Based on the IDC FutureScape study of the global future of intelligence (FOI) market, this report presents the implications of the top 10 predictions in Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) (APEJ) for the next five years. The predictions are presented ...