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 IDC's 2020 top 10 predictions for data, integration, and analytics technology trends.
"Predictions highlighted in this IDC FutureScape outline some of the key requirements for the future of intelligence, which ...
This IDC study explores the impact that technology will have on customer experience.
According to Alan Webber, program vice president for Customer Experience at IDC, "The customer experience space is in a period of significant shift ...
This IDC report provides examples of how manufacturers have been looking at the predictive analytics space and the best practices that they have been adopting to address some of the challenges around application integrations, business unit ...
This IDC study explores 3rd Platform and other new technologies for changing previous customer centricity approaches or frameworks in Asia/Pacific banks. The focus of this study spans planning (why, what, and who) to designing (how) without ...
进入2019年，IDC看到机器学习的应用场景不断扩展翻新。随着市场空间的凸显，越来越多的厂商参与市场竞争。市场参与者不再是初创公司为主，平台级公司凭借人才和资金的投入优势，也快速获得竞争优势。用户端也开始关心不同厂商之间的差异，IDC开展本次研究以帮助用户进行机器学习平台产品的选型。
IDC人工智能高级研究经理卢言霞表示： “尽管深度学习算法的创新速度变缓，但我们相信机器学习的应用将稳步渗透到各行各业的生产系统中。纯技术的创新速度有所放缓，但从技术到产品到商业化应用落地的速度在加快。未来，自动化机器学习也将降低行业用户采用AI的门槛，加速行业企业实现高级别的自动化、智能化”。
...This IDC MarketScape evaluates leading service providers by performing a qualitative and quantitative assessment of their capabilities and strategies regarding their digital transformation offering to the utility sector across all value ...
This IDC MarketScape assesses the capabilities and strategies of leading service vendors to support electricity companies in transforming and optimizing their grids (high, medium, and low voltage). IDC Energy Insights believes grid digital ...
本調査レポートは、IDCが2019年4月に実施した「IDC MaturityScape Benchmark：国内ビッグデータ／アナリティクス市場」調査の集計結果およびその分析結果をまとめたものである。本調査は国内のビッグデータ／アナリティクス（BDA）に取り組む企業に勤務し、当該分野の方針決定に対して影響力を持つ対象者に対して、BDAの実態について調査し、これらを総合して国内のBDAの成熟度を分析したものである。
IDC Japan ソフトウェア＆セキュリティのマーケットアナリストである草地 ...
This IDC study — a collaboration of IDC and IDC Retail Insights teams — provides an assessment of the next-generation infrastructure components that enterprises need to use as the foundation for a more successful and future-proofed digital ...
This IDC study describes the IDC MaturityScape for data excellence, a framework for identifying the stages, critical measures, outcomes, and actions required for IT organizations to effectively evolve to the data excellence as a critical ...
本プレゼンテーションは、国内IT市場において、2019年～2024年に国内の顧客エクスペリエンス（CX）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。
国内ユーザー企業においては、消費者のデジタルトランスフォーメーション（DX）が浸透し、デジタル型eコマースが進む。この結果、企業はDXを優先し、デジタルによるCXを最大化するデジタルネイティブ企業（DNE）への変革をいっそう加速する。そしてCXでは、2020年までに企業がAI、アナリティクス、ビッグデータの取り込みによって顧客にパーソナライズされたブランドを築き始める。一方、消費者は、単一トランザクションのやり取りではなく、モバイルを主体としてマーケティング、セールス、サービスなどの購買プロセスを通じて、より一貫した企業とのやり取りを求め、このような一貫性を提供できるプロバイダーに対する信頼性をますます高めている。
「企業は、顧客一人ひとりへの価値、顧客個別のブランドを最適化するために、リアルタイムに顧客ニーズを予測し、一貫性を持って製品やサービスを提供することが求められる。顧客と良好な関係を構築、維持するためには、企業内の複数ある顧客データを連携（もしくは統合）したマルチデバイス対応のデジタルプラットフォームを整備すると共に、連携（もしくは統合）された環境から得られる広範囲なデータ管理、分析、および将来性のあるAIを取り込んだ中長期的な技術計画が必要となる」と、IDC ...
本プレゼンテーションは世界と国内のアナリティクス／インフォメーションマネジメント市場において、2019年～2024年のITに関する主要な10項目の予測（Predictions）について議論する。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。
IDC Japan ソフトウェア＆セキュリティのマーケットアナリストである草地 慎太郎は、「アナリティクスとAIによる自動化によって社会の生産性向上が叫ばれる一方で、倫理面で課題があったり、スキルやリソースの問題でテクノロジーに十分アクセスできない企業や個人との格差といった懸念も表面化している。企業は社会にAIが浸透（パーベイシブ）する中で、リスクをケアしながらメリットを最大限享受するために新たな体制、新たなテクノロジーの活用が求められる」と分析している。
...This IDC Presentation provides the Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) (APEJ) regional forward perspective and implications of the IDC FutureScape: Worldwide Robotics 2019 Predictions (IDC Manufacturing Insights #US43376918, ...
根据《IDC全球大数据及分析消费指南》和《IDC全球认知/人工智能消费指南》——跟踪范围广泛的大数据分析、人工智能、信息管理在区域层面上各行业的软件、硬件、服务和落地案例——到2019年全球范围的企业预计将投资1850亿美元于大数据和人工智能解决方案。预计到2022年中国人工智能市场规模将达到98.4亿美元，2017-2022年复合增长率达到54.5%。
在本研究中，IDC全球分析师团队描述了影响IT和业务决策者负责该项支出并有效利用相关解决方案的主要驱动因素，并给出了2019-2024年有关分析市场和人工智能自主性项目的十大预测。
每一个预测都是基于它的影响（处理的成本和复杂性）和时间范围评估。该研究还为IT和业务决策者在大数据分析、人工智能和信息管理的战略制定、修改和资源配置的投资提供了指导。
IDC的这份报告在全球报告的基础之上，提供了IDC ...
自2017年6月《中华人民共和国网络安全法》正式实施以来，国内各行各业在法律监管下正不断完善网络安全建设水平，为中国安全市场带来了持续的增长机遇。众多安全厂商正在积极利用创新技术及新商务模式不断完善自身产品和服务，开启了从传统安全到下一代安全的变革，并且在云安全、物联网安全、区块链安全等领域已有诸多成功实践。不断涌现和完善的新兴技术将会对国内网络环境和安全市场带来显著影响，本报告对中国安全市场十大预测分别进行了阐述和解释说明。
十大预测内容如下：
预测1：到2022年，个人身份信息相关法律的执行将严重影响至少1家中国500强公司，措施包括强制执行巨额罚款和交易限制，以提升企业高管对相关法律的关注度，并推动企业推出年度数字风险报告。
预测2：到2022年，50％的合理安全警报将进行自动响应，不受人类分析师的影响。
预测3：到2024年，70％的托管安全服务客户将采用威胁生命周期服务，与2019年的20%相比明显增加。
预测4：到2024年，量子计算将得到充足发展，25％的国家将有办法解密当前的公钥基础设施（PKI）技术。
预测5：到2024年，30％的数字人物会与可验证的合法身份相关联。
预测6：到2019年，大约有1,400家公司提供网络安全服务或重要产品。到2023年，网络安全公司的数量将比2019年下降近40％。
预测7：到2021年，对密钥管理即服务的需求将增长40％，公有云提供商所提供的本地加密服务将会更受关注。
预测8：到2021年，匿名将仅存在于暗网；所有在网络上进行商业活动或社交活动的人或将使用虚拟名称（身份虽受保护，但可通过法院命令获取），或将使用可被直接识别的身份。
预测9：到2024年，联合国将把“互联网封锁”视为一种经济制裁手段，并实施于至少一个国家或政权。
预测10：到2023年，采用大数据分析平台相关的数据迁移项目将促使安全团队采用消除孤岛式的加密解决方案，可节约30％的加密成本。
...This IDC Presentation captures the Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) regionalization of the worldwide predictions for security products and services and the implications for the region.
This IDC Presentation discusses the Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) (APEJ) regionalization of the Worldwide IT Industry FutureScape for 2019. It provides an outlook view of the ICT industry as it relates to tech buyers' road maps, priorities, ...
This IDC PlanScape aims to help service leaders and IT within manufacturing organizations rethink the way in which service parts management needs to evolve as more products and equipment become connected. The IoT has enabled a wealth of ...
本次研究对象包括具备一定规模的中国政务大数据市场领导厂商，及政务大数据管理平台各种不同类型厂商中的典型企业，涵盖IT基础设施厂商、系统集成商、互联网公司等。IDC 针对入选的政务大数据平台厂商的能力和战略进行评估，主要标准包括技术产品和解决方案、市场和商业表现，以及公司业务管理运作三个维度，各维度根据市场情况进一步划分为若干细分项，并配以不同权重，从而形成IDC MarketScape 综合评分体系，通过IDC 分析师针对厂商和最终用户的深入访谈，集中分析并确定各厂商在IDC ...
This IDC study provides the top 10 predictions and underlying drivers that we expect to impact customer experience in 2019 and beyond.
According to Alan Webber, research director, IDC Customer Experience, "Providing a differentiated ...
This IDC FutureScape discusses the worldwide corporate banking sector and is a planning tool for technology leaders and their line-of-business (LOB) counterparts to use in their IT strategic planning efforts. It provides foresight for tech-based ...
Most of our predictions refer to the continuous changes and aspirations of global manufacturing players. The predictions in this document will guide their technology investment and priorities. To consolidate their strategies in smart manufacturing, ...
This IDC study explores how different drivers are collectively impacting technology in the hospitality industry and offers guidance on actions to consider. Hospitality organizations are hard-pressed in the new digital era to respond to a ...
This IDC study explores how different drivers are collectively impacting technology in the health industry and offers guidance on actions to consider. Healthcare and life science organizations are hard pressed in the new digital era to respond ...
This IDC study provides an assessment of the principal SaaS and cloud-enabled B2B digital commerce platforms and discusses what criteria are most important for companies to consider when selecting a system.
"Selecting the right cloud ...