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 Tech Buyer Presentation provides an overview of the worldwide telecommunications service provider industry for the half-year period ending June 2019. It also showcases the recent trends in various areas such as revenue, revenue ...
本プレゼンテーションは、国内ネットワークおよびデータセンターサービス市場に関してIDCが2018年から2019年に行った分析のサマリーを提供している。本市場に影響を与えるトレンド、競合分析、ユーザー動向、本市場の将来展望、ITサプライヤーへの提言などで構成される。
This IDC Market Presentation provides an overview of key developments linked to digital transformation (DX) in Europe in Q2 2019. It covers news, significant deals, policy announcements, regulatory actions, and investments that could impact ...
本調査レポートは、国内産業分野向け5G市場の動向を、4K/8K高精細映像（画像）の活用に焦点を絞って分析している。5Gの活用が期待される映像分野として、4K/8K高精細映像コンテンツの配信、機械学習による画像認識、3Dモデリングなどが挙げられる。また今後は、自動車、サービスロボット、ドローンなど自律移動する機器の利用が拡大すると考えられ、そのような機器での5Gの活用も期待される。本調査レポートでは、パブリック5Gとローカル5G、5Gと固定通信サービスの関係についても議論している。パブリック5Gとローカル5Gは、エリア的に補完し合い、顧客獲得において競合し合う関係となる。企業のプライベートな敷地内などへの無線エリア構築などでは、ほぼ同じ土俵の上で戦うことになる。
5Gを活用した4K/8K高精細映像の産業応用に取り組むITサプライヤーに対して、IDC ...
This IDC study presents the Japan WAN services market shares based on the number of lines and revenue in 2018. This study covers the L2/L3 private network services, Ethernet leased line services, and managed internet VPN services markets. ...
This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation provides an overview of worldwide telecommunication service provider industry for the full year ending December 2018. It also showcases the recent trends in various areas such as revenues, revenues by products, ...
This IDC Market Glance provides a look at the current vendors participating in the expanding and rapidly evolving market of government network and telecommunication solutions, plus associated services. It includes participants in government ...
本調査レポートは、国内WANサービス市場における2018年の回線数と売上額ベースの市場シェアを提供するものである。L2／L3閉域網サービス、イーサネット専用線サービス、マネージドインターネットVPNサービスを対象とする。IDC Japan コミュニケーションズのリサーチマネージャーである小野 陽子は、「クラウドやSDNなど新たなトレンドや課題に対して、早い段階でその影響を見極めて適切な投資を行った通信事業者が、市場の課題意識が高まる時期に多くの顧客獲得に成功する傾向が強まっている。通信事業者は市場トレンドの影響に敏感になるべきである。特に市場トレンドの到達が遅いセグメント（中小企業、地方など）を主要顧客とする通信事業者は出遅れることがないよう早めに取り組むべきである」と分析している。
...The IDC Market Perspective presents the trends of top 10 service provider group capital expenditure along with the spending trends in their country operations.
"The capex market share for the top 10 communications service providers ...
本調査レポートは、近年IoTの広がりを後押しするものとして関心を集める低消費電力の広域ネットワーク技術であるLPWA（Low Power Wide Area）市場について、LPWAサプライヤーの動向を中心に分析し、同技術を梃子としたIoTネットワークの普及シナリオについて考察するものである。
LPWAは低速、省電力、広域カバレッジという特徴から、IoTデータを取得する上でのコスト面のハードルを下げてIoTの普及を促進する技術と期待される。しかし、国内のMNOを始めとする主要なプレイヤーのラインナップが顔を揃えたところで、普及のボトルネックとなる新たな課題も見えてきた。ほぼすべてのサプライヤーにとって、「高コストなLPWAデバイス」「不透明なLPWA事業の収益性」「高まらないIoTイニシアティブ成熟度」は、共通する課題である。IDC ...
This IDC Market Glance provides an overview of the vendors participating in the enterprise mobility market.
本プレゼンテーションは、国内マネージドICTおよびネットワークサービス市場に関してIDCが2018年に行った分析のサマリーを提供している。本市場に影響を与えるトレンド、競合分析、ユーザー動向、本市場の将来展望、ITサプライヤーへの提言などで構成される。
This IDC Market Presentation provides an overview of the worldwide telecommunication service provider industry for the half year ending June 2018. It also showcases the recent trends in various areas such as revenue, revenue by product, ...
The IDC Market Glance for experiential retail presents a high-level view of the vendors participating in each of the digitally transformed technology categories presented. The digital transformation (DX) of retail has redefined business ...
本調査レポートは、国内SD-WAN市場の動向について分析したものである。国内でSD-WAN製品／サービスを提供する製品ベンダー、通信事業者、SI事業者などに取材し分析を行っている。SD-WAN製品／サービスでは、SD-WAN機能とセキュリティ機能など1台のアプライアンスに統合する多機能化が進みつつあり、市場は第2フェーズ（SD-WAN 2.0）を迎えつつある。「国内SD-WAN市場ではリーズナブルなSD-WANの提供が増加しているものの、価格はまだ高止まりしており、もう一段の低価格化が必要である」と、IDC ...
This IDC Market Perspective discusses open source AI software as a major and growing driver of AI server sales. Server vendors can and should take advantage of this trend by leveraging open source AI software as much as possible in their ...
本調査レポートでは、ユーザー企業がクラウド時代のグローバル（国際）WANの検討に当たって重要となるいくつかのポイントをまとめた。主なトピックとして、インターネットの活用、クラウド指向の新技術の導入、通信事業者の選定などを取り上げている。IDC Japan コミュニケーションズのリサーチマネージャーである小野 陽子は、「グローバルWAN市場にもクラウド技術による変化の波が押し寄せている。新技術はさまざまな形で、企業WANのアーキテクチャと運用管理の在り方を変えると共に、企業のDXへの取り組みをサポートするであろう。ユーザー企業は、通信事業者の選定に当たって、先進ネットワーク技術に対する取り組みなど、設備投資やコスト以外のファクターについても十分に見極めるべきである」と述べている。
...This IDC Market Presentation provides an overview of worldwide telecommunications service provider industry for the year 2017. It also showcases the recent trends in various aspects such as revenue, revenue by products, types of subscribers, ...