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.
On February 25, 2021 HP Inc. announced revenue growth of 7% to $15.6B for calendar 2020Q4 (its fiscal 2021Q1). Both Printing and Personal Systems groups delivered 7% revenue growth for the quarter citing remote work and learning as continued ...
This IDC Market Perspective provides insights into five key trends impacting the carrier networks infrastructure market in 2021 and beyond.
"Carrier networks are in a state of transition. The consumer and business demand on these networks ...
This IDC Market Glance provides a glance at the landscape of vendors playing in various segments of the IoT application development and deployment market. It includes vendors that offer IoT-specific software suites, as well as vendors that ...
This IDC Market Note discusses five significant announcements made in early 2021, four of which are specific to the database technology markets and one is more general. These announcements point to maturation and consolidation of IT (in ...
This IDC Survey presents the results of IDC's European IoT Decision-Maker Survey 2020, focusing on some key differences across European vertical markets. This survey assesses the current and planned deployment of IoT projects, including ...
This IDC Market Glance provides a snapshot of the current data-driven policing landscape globally, including the definitions of the major segments of the market, the structure of the market, and the vendors within each segment.
This IDC study provides IDC's future enterprise use cases for the future of customer and consumer as it seeks to support business strategy and success. This taxonomy is organized to mime strategic priorities that serve to define how line-of-business ...
本調査レポートは、IDCが2021年1月に国内企業ユーザーに対して実施した「2021年 企業ネットワークサービス利用動向調査」の調査結果を分析したものである。本調査レポートで分析した主な項目は、以下の通りである。
- 新型コロナウイルス感染症（COVID-19）の感染拡大の影響
- 在宅勤務／Web会議用のIT環境と品質
- 外部データセンター／クラウドの利用
- インターネットトラフィックの増加
- インターネット活用のためのセキュリティゲートウェイ
- 拠点WAN回線の選定とWANの課題
- SD-WAN、およびネットワークと他システムの連携
- コールセンターの運用
The COVID-19 crisis has resulted in enterprises reassessing their technology priorities as they react to constantly changing environmental conditions and try to chart a course of action to resilience and recovery. This IDC Spotlight analyzes ...
One of the leading inhibitors of Industry 4.0 progression is the heterogeneous legacy technology landscape in industrial operations and the challenge of aggregating and managing operational data. By partnering to enable a hybrid cloud architecture, ...
This Market Note focuses on IDC's viewpoints on the path ahead for the healthcare organizations in India. As these organizations have firm plan to increase their IT spend in 2021, it is essential to channelize these investments, technologies ...
本調査レポートは、2020年3月に商用サービスが始まったモバイル通信規格5Gと、5Gをエリア限定で運用するローカル5Gが、今後、法人市場にどのように導入されていくかを分析および予測するものである。ローカル5Gベンダーの戦略や5Gの国内経済効果についての分析も行った。「5Gでは多くのベンダーが顧客との共創や個別顧客を支援するタイプのビジネス（ネットワーク構築、マネージドサービスなど）を志向し、取り組みが似通ってしまいがちである。マネタイズの源泉としてネットワーク構築やマネージドサービスは分かりやすく確実であるが、これだけでは選ばれる決め手としては弱い。顧客に選ばれるベンダーになるには、中長期的に必要とされる他社と競合しにくいソリューション分野を、今から開拓する取り組みが不可欠である」とIDC ...
This IDC Survey presents results from the German segment of IDC's European Internet of Things (IoT) Decision-Maker Survey. This survey assesses current and planned deployments of IoT projects, including benefits and challenges, impact of ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight shares the top artificial intelligence (AI) use cases currently being used by small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) within three European countries, namely the U.K., Germany, and France. It also highlights planned ...
This IDC Market Presentation examines the latest IDC Quarterly Smart Home Device Tracker for the Western Europe smart home market. In this tracker, IDC follows more than 55 smart home makes in 16 countries, providing detailed shipment volumes, ...
This IDC Market Note captures IDC's observations and point of view on IBM and Palantir's partnership offering Palantir for IBM Cloud Pak for Data, announced on February 8, 2021, and to release in 1Q21. It covers ...
This IDC study presents IDC's first global forecast of CO2 emissions savings from cloud computing.
"IDC has been tracking the server market and quantifying compute power for nearly all of its 50+ years," says John Gantz, ...
IDC에서 국내 빅데이터 및 분석 리서치를 담당하고 있는 최승근 수석연구원은 "COVID-19 팬데믹을 겪으며 기업은 디지털 트랜스포메이션(DX)의 중요성뿐 아니라 AI 및 빅데이터 분석 신기술을 활용한 디지털 기반 비대면 기술의 필수성에 대해 그 어느 때보다도 깊이 인식하게 되었다. 조직은 디지털 혁신을 가속화하기 위해 클라우드 도입 및 데이터 분석 플랫폼 인프라를 강화하고, 포스트 코로나 시대를 준비함에 있어 비즈니스 ...
"Internet of Things (IoT) in the Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) (APEJ) markets continues to grow steadily as government, municipalities, enterprises, and industries take advantage of extensive fiber and 4G LTE coverage and the anticipated ...
This IDC Market Glance provides a segmentation of technology solutions and technology and services providers being deployed and adopted by organizations to drive enterprise intelligence.
This IDC study analyzes vendor market shares and vendor trends in 2019 in the network virtualization and automation platform market, which is a major component of the Japan network virtualization and automation market. VMware and Cisco Systems ...
本Web Conference Proceeding: Tech Supplierは、IDC Japanのグループディレクターである眞鍋 敬による講演の内容をプレゼンテーションスライドと音声ファイルによって提供するものである。
2020年は新型コロナウイルス感染症（COVID-19）の影響によって、2019年以前には顕在化していなかった経済／ITに関する課題が浮き彫りになった。また今後の働き方、企業と顧客の関係は完全に元には戻らない「ネクストノーマル」時代への突入が予測される。IDCでは2021年以降、IT市場は緩やかな回復を予測しており、「ネクストノーマル」時代に向けた市場変化への準備を行うことがITサプライヤーの急務になっているとみている。本セッションでは、IT市場における「ネクストノーマル」時代を勝ち残るために必要なデータ活用／アナリティクスを議論する。
...本Web Conference Proceeding: Tech Supplierは、IDC Japan ソフトウェア＆セキュリティのグループマネージャーである入谷 光浩による講演の内容をプレゼンテーションスライドと音声ファイルによって提供するものである。
デジタルトランスフォーメーション（DX）の進展がコンテナ／Kubernetes、サーバーレス、マイクロサービスなどのクラウドネイティブ技術の導入を加速させている。さらにDXでアプリケーションの開発スピードが要求されるようになり、ローコード／ノーコード開発への注目が高まっている。この2つのアプリケーション変革は、企業におけるアプリケーションの消費から生産へのシフトを促し、デジタルイノベーションを加速させていく。本講演では、クラウドネイティブとローコード／ノーコードがユーザー企業とITサプライヤーにどのような影響を与えるかについて議論し、ITサプライヤーがとるべき施策について考察する。
...Oracle announced new features in marketing, sales, and service applications within Oracle CX that extend the use of AI and automation and improve integration between CX products that will help enterprise customers improve personalization ...
本Web Conference Proceeding: Tech Supplierは、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登坂 恒夫による講演の内容をプレゼンテーションスライドと音声ファイルによって提供するものである。
新型コロナウイルス感染症（COVID-19）の感染拡大による大規模な在宅勤務で企業ネットワークへのVPNアクセスが集中し、レスポンスの遅延など業務効率の劣化やVPNの脆弱性の問題が顕在化した。この在宅勤務への大規模移動は、2021年以降も継続されると思われ、VPNの問題を解決するために、インターネット回線から直接クラウドサービスを利用する企業が増えるとみられる。これによって境界防御が機能しなくなり、セキュリティ対策は複雑化する。本講演では、複雑化するセキュリティに対する新たな統合型セキュリティ戦略を説明すると共に、現状の課題を市場動向やユーザー調査を基に考察する。
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