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 MaturityScape discusses the many variables that impact an organization's ability to succeed in at-risk contracting. The ability to meet contract deliverables for quality and cost is among those that have the highest impact on success. ...
This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation was delivered during the keynote speech at the Austrian IDC Health Forum 2019 that took place in Vienna, Austria, on November 21, 2019.
This presentation looks at the role and the possible evolutions ...
This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation discusses the Canadian regionalization of IDC FutureScape: Worldwide Health Industry 2020 Predictions (IDC #US44351519, October ...
This IDC Perspective reflects the interviews IDC had with government executives over the past quarter and the public sector achievements of 2019.
A new way of government continues to emerge in Canada. The shift toward speed, flexibility, ...
This IDC Perspective addresses the key tactical challenge of developing an agile sourcing strategy. Spend for new and emerging technologies is quickly outpacing the spend for legacy technologies. In fact, the spend for legacy technologies ...
IDC Innovators are emerging vendors with revenue
This IDC FutureScape presents the top 10 predictions and key drivers for the European IT industry over the next five years. It tracks the biggest IT stories of our time — the digitalization of enterprises, edge buildout, tech-driven innovation, ...
This IDC Perspective provides an analysis of the cloud marketplace as a digital procurement enablement platform and explores the AWS Marketplace, one of the most feature-rich and progressive cloud marketplaces in the industry.
"A confluence ...
This IDC study presents the results of IDC's 2019 United States Digital Transformation MaturityScape Benchmark Survey (n = 500) and should be viewed as a supplement to IDC MaturityScape: The Future ...
This IDC Perspective provides the framework for a compelling and coherent innovation approach for the IT organization. The crux of a successful IT innovation strategy is understanding and defining how new ideas will be created or discovered, ...
This IDC Perspective, written for CIOs and senior technology executives, lays out a plan for leading the IT transformation that is essential for the digital transformation of a business. This document also provides an approach that reinforces ...
This IDC Presentation was presented at the IDC DevOps Conference in September 2019 in London. It followed Jen Thomson's keynote: DevOps-Led Business Transformation.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is becoming increasingly vital to DevOps ...
This IDC PeerScape examines alternatives to conventional approaches to funding IT innovation, presenting best practices from CIOs who have found ways to fund innovation when money is tight. This study helps CIOs consider and select approaches ...
This IDC PeerScape describes how IT and OT management at leading organizations have together developed their IT/OT convergence architecture, technology, and data to support their Industry 4.0 and IoT business goals with the following best ...
This IDC Perspective offers a framework for systematic IT innovation in the enterprise. CIOs need to invest time and resources to create tools, starting with an innovation model framework that defines key parameters in innovation efforts, ...
This IDC Perspective highlights the transformative solutions for U.S. federal and global public sector customers presented at the 2019 Unisys Global Analyst and Advisor Conference on November 11–12. Unisys' vision, enhancing people's lives ...
This IDC presentation provides the status of the Internet of Things (IoT) market across utilities sector within the Asia/Pacific (AP) region. The study highlights the major growth drivers, factors that are influencing strategic decisions, ...
本調査レポートは、国内IoTエッジインフラストラクチャ市場における、エッジヘビー（IoT利用における主要なコンピュート処理をIoTエッジインフラストラクチャにおいて行うこと）の動向を調査したものである。エッジヘビーによるIoT利用を実践しているユーザーを取材し、エッジヘビーを採用した背景、エッジヘビーの効果、今後の課題点や取り組みを調査した。
IDC Japan エンタープライズインフラストラクチャのリサーチマネージャーである下河邊 雅行は「IoTエッジインフラにおけるエッジヘビーは、今後ますます増大する。IoTテクノロジーバイヤーは、常にIoT関連の最新技術動向に関心を持ち、自社にとって最適な製品を最適な価格で調達する目利き力を養う必要がある」と分析している。
...This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation provides data, insights, and perspectives on how hyperscale operators, through their buying power and architectural preferences, are impacting the supply chain and overall market for Ethernet datacenter switching, ...
This IDC Perspective analyzes the position of European banks in the financial services industry and their relationships with consumers. It leverages data from an IDC consumer survey conducted in 2019 among 4,000 EU residents with active ...
This IDC Perspective discusses the impact of 5G wireless communication on robotics and manufacturing. It covers the current status of 5G development and commercial deployment, key differentiating capabilities of 5G as compared with previous ...
This IDC Web Conference presents a discussion by IDC's Alan Webber on the impact that new technologies, like artificial intelligence and analytics, and growing volumes of customer data will have on the customer experience, and ultimately ...
中国公有云服务商在补齐IaaS层能力之后，开始了面向行业面向应用场景的差异化服务的深耕。当前，人工智能应用虽尚未形成稳定的现金流业务，但却日益成为驱动云基础设施资源消耗的至关重要的因素，特别是随着IoT、5G等技术的进一步深入发展，人工智能云产生的价值将进一步凸显。过去三年，中国市场越来越多公有云服务商踏入该领域，凭借资金、人才、长期技术积累和行业实践验证，不断构建其竞争优势，给人工智能云市场带来了更多选择，IDC开展本次研究以帮助用户进行AI云服务的选型。
IDC云服务高级研究经理刘丽辉表示："AI云服务已经成为公有云服务中不可或缺的一部分，我们看到AI云服务已经开始渗透到各行各业，但当前多数案例还是以边实践边优化为主，产品和服务的商业化和标准化程度有待提升。企业客户应做好长期规划，根据自身的数字化基础、IT人员储备、AI应用场景需求等选择易用、稳定、安全的AI云服务，与公有云服务商共同探索，共同成长。"
...This IDC Perspective looks at key developments and news regarding European digital hospitals in 3Q19. It highlights major ICT deals signed and major initiatives put in place. Hospital technology vendors and service providers should examine ...
本調査レポートではIDCが2019年5月に行った2,473人の全世界のAIの導入戦略に関する意思決定者とインフルエンサーを対象にAIの適用および動向について調査を行い、調査結果に基づく一部に関して国内と世界を比較するという観点から得られた知見を示す。
「国内は世界と比較してAI導入プロジェクトの成否に差が認められた。その原因は組織のビジョン、人員、プロセス、技術、データに関連する。DXを実現するに当たりAIシステムの導入を進めているITバイヤーは、複数の観点において足並みが揃ったAIの導入戦略の再考と具体的な実践が求められる」とIDC ...