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 Market Note discusses the Akamai's Edge Summit EMEA 2019 analyst event that took place in London on October 22 and 23, 2019. It analyzes what Akamai presented during the event in terms of strategy, vision, and product plans, which ...
This IDC Market Perspective provides an overview and analysis of new 3D product launches at Formnext 2019. As well as providing information of key players, IDC provides a view of the emerging trends in this space.
"The 3D printing ...
This IDC Market Note discusses the steps Dell Technologies is taking toward advancing sustainability progress beyond offsetting the footprint of its operations, and its announcement of new sustainability goals under its Progress Made Real ...
This Market Note provides our observations and analysis of the recent multiday IFS World Conference 2019 event in Boston, Massachusetts.
This IDC Market Note analyzes the initiative launched by the German Ministry for Education and Research — together with the Ministry of Economics — to set up GAIA-X, a connected cloud-based data infrastructure for Europe to win back sovereignty ...
This IDC Market Note discusses IDC's opinion on Siemens' value proposition moving toward creating end-to-end visibility on the shop floor, and the implications and opportunities for operational staff and maintenance management.
This IDC Market Perspective summarizes IDC's key observations from the Microsoft Ignite event held the week of November 4, 2019, in Orlando.
"Microsoft is clearly picking up speed in converting its technology investments into consumable ...
This IDC Market Note collates inputs from IDC analysts regarding Microsoft's announcements at its recently held event in ExCel London on October 1 and 2, 2019. At the event, Microsoft not only demonstrated that its innovations are closely ...
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 ...
2019年10月8日～10日に、米国日立ヴァンタラ社主催の年次イベント「Hitachi NEXT 2019」が米国ネバダ州のラスベガスで開催された。
2020年1月に日立ヴァンタラとHitachi Consultingが統合することで新会社を設立し、デジタルビジネスプラットフォーム「Lumada」の拡販に向け、営業やコンサルティング、導入サービスをワンストップで行う体制を確立する意向がHitachi NEXT 2019において示された。新会社の設立によって、従来は両社間で分散していたリーダーシップや目的意識の統一化、顧客窓口の一元化、事業投資に関するスケールメリットの最大化、フロントビジネスユニット間のシナジー強化など、さまざまなメリットが期待できると考えられる。
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This IDC Market Note provides highlights from the NetApp Racebred Data Days 2019 event that took place on October 29 and 30, 2019, in Bologna, Italy. It provides IDC's views on the event, focusing on key announcements made by CEO George ...
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 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 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 ...
This IDC Market Note presents IDC's take on some of the key updates shared at the analyst briefing session held at Citrix's Industry Analyst Summit at its corporate headquarters in Santa Clara, California last November 13 and 14, 2019. Specifically, ...
本調査レポートは、国内企業や官公庁の企業変革を目的としたIT活用動向に関して調査、分析したものである。また、それらを解決するために新しいテクノロジーを導入する際の課題や障壁についても調査、分析を行った。国内企業に対して、2019年9月に実施したユーザー調査の結果から経営課題と課題解決のためにIT活用による期待、ITによる企業変革、つまりデジタルトランスフォーメーション（DX）の取り組み状況、およびDX推進を目的とした主要ソリューション利用動向の調査結果から、国内企業におけるDXを含めたITを活用した企業変革の取り組みの方向性を考察している。
国内IT市場はプラス成長で維持すると予測しているが、2020年以降、既存システム刷新案件のIT支出の伸びは、ハードウェアの低価格化、クラウドへのシフトなどによって低調となる一方で、大企業を中心にDXの取り組みが特に拡大するとみている。さらに今回の調査結果においてIoT、AIなどの新しいソリューションの利用動向においても、DXの取り組みが推進する企業で導入が進んでいる。つまりITサプライヤーにおいてDXを積極的に推進する企業と取引することが重要であるが、それだけではなく、既存の顧客企業に対してもDX推進を支援することが求められる。ただし、従業員規模、産業分野などによってユーザー企業のDXの動向は大きく異なるとみている。したがって、IDC ...
本調査レポートは、AI（Artificial Intelligence：人工知能）システムを運用するデータセンター（DC）、およびIoT（Internet of Things）におけるエッジマイクロDCに求められるファシリティ特性を検討し、それぞれの設置数（ラック数）を予測している。
デジタルトランスフォーメーション（DX）の拡大に伴いDX指向型の設置数は増加傾向にある。「AIシステムデータセンター、エッジマイクロDC共に、従来のDCとは異なるファシリティ特性を有する。効率的なキャパシティ管理やリモート運用のためのファシリティ運用モデルが重要になる」とIDC ...
本調査レポートは、今後のIoTデータ流通サービスプラットフォームの在り方について議論している。5Gのサービス開始などによって、膨大なIoTデータをアップロードすることの技術的ボトルネックが解消されつつある。このような流れを受け、国内では、政府や企業が「Society 5.0」の実現を目指してデータ流通サービスプラットフォームの構築に向けて動き出している。今後多くのデータ流通プラットフォームが構築されていくと考えられる。「大規模なデータ流通サービスプラットフォームを実現するには、スケーラビリティ、エッジの活用、リアルタイム性など、解決を必要とする技術的課題が多い。このような課題を解決できるユニークな技術を有するITベンダーが、今後のデータ流通サービスプラットフォームのエコシステムにおいて有利なポジションを獲得できる可能性が高い」と、IDC ...
This IDC Perspective provides our review and analysis of Inforum 2019, held in New Orleans, based on executive and customer presentations as well as discussions. A team of IDC analysts recently attended the event, which is Infor's annual ...
This IDC Market Perspective provides an overview of the current maturity level of IoT across European industries. It also analyzes the leading IoT use cases for European organizations, taking a deep dive on some of them across different ...
This IDC Perspective discusses how online shopping and an explosion in grocery fulfillment options have put a microscope on grocery operators' ability to digitally transform to both defend their regional and national market positions and ...
This IDC Market Perspective provides an overview of how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming the application development services market. This document synthesizes IDC MarketScape research and AI services and application services ...
This IDC Perspective provides an overview of the IoT-enabled asset performance management (APM) market and provides guidance on how to approach the buying decision in this emerging space.
"When a new technology solution emerges with ...