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.
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This IDC Survey Spotlight offers insights into the cost of downtime customers experience when datacenter assets are offline. These assets include servers, storage, networking, security, and datacenter facilities as well as human error.
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This IDC study presents forecasts for the European security-as-a-service market over the 2019–2024 period. The report analyzes the key trends shaping each of the key cloud security submarkets delivered as a service.
"COVID-19 is accelerating ...
This IDC Market Glance provides an overview, definitions, and sample participants in the digital automotive and transportation strategies ecosystem. This presentation is an update of the prior published version from 1Q20.
This IDC Web Conference is a market update on security services for 1Q21.
In this quarterly webinar, the IDC Security Services Team reviews the latest trends and developments in the worldwide security services market, discusses new ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight features why North American organizations expect a significant or profound impact on business operations to link social responsibility and ethics investments.
"North American respondents indicate two key areas ...
This IDC Market Note summarizes key messages from KPN's annual Industry Analyst Day for its Business division on October 8 and corporate strategy update on November 24. It also provides IDC's perspective on both events.
This IDC study presents IDC's taxonomy of the cybersecurity software and appliance market. It provides definitions of security solutions in five functional markets, four product types, and three deployment types. This taxonomy forms the ...
This Vendor Profile looks at the development of Tanium, with a specific focus on its expanding presence in Europe, as well as the development of its solutions portfolio.
This IDC Market Note includes 3D printing news that occurred in December 2020.
This IDC Presentation shows the Europe, Middle East, and Africa Quarterly Security Appliance Tracker results for 3Q20. It examines market movements and dynamics within this fast-moving and expanding market.
This slide set presents:
- EMEA ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight provides insights from IDC's Data Protection and Data Privacy Survey (conducted in December 2020). This IDC Survey Spotlight focuses on the metrics organizations reported around data subject ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight examines Turkish organizations’ security investment plans and offers a perspective on such investments over the next two years. Survey respondents included security directors, security managers, CISOs, and CIOs ...
本調査レポートでは、国内データサービス市場をコンペティティブ市場（Competitive Market）として定義し、「データ保護」「セキュリティとコンプライアンス」「データ統合とオーケストレーション」「データロケーション最適化」の4つのカテゴリーに分類し、2019年の売上実績と市場動向に基づいて、2020年～2024年の市場予測を行っている。
「ネクストノーマルの中でデジタルトランスフォーメーション（DX）はいっそう広がりを見せ、デジタルデータの取り扱い種類、量はこれまでとは大きく異なっていく。持続的なイノベーションのためには、データガバナンスの整備が重要であり、データサービスの各ソリューションの需要拡大は続くであろう」とIDC ...
This IDC study provides a 2020–2024 forecast update for the worldwide software change, configuration, and process management (SCCPM) market. We have slightly more than doubled our initial, overly conservative forecast for this market to ...
视频监控系统作为物联网应用的重要组成，不仅应用范围广、部署规模大，已经被广泛应用于预防和打击犯罪、交通违章、移动执法、园区与楼宇安防等领域。此外，随着视频监控系统应用的深入，视频监控系统已从传统的安防功能向业务应用渗透，视频监控系统正在成为支撑企业数字化运营的重要手段。视频监控系统安全防护与传统IT安全防护不同，存在一系列新的潜在安全风险，视频监控系统也正在成为网络攻击的新目标。
IDC 在本次研究中对视频监控系统主要的建设者和使用者行业进行了深入访谈，了解企业客户在视频监控系统部署和使用中的安全痛点和最佳实践，并结合中国视频监控系统安全市场发展特色，从技术买家的视角给出建议。同时，IDC ...
本調査レポートでは、国内情報セキュリティ市場を分析し、2020年～2024年の予測を行っている。COVID-19の感染拡大による大規模な在宅勤務からのVPN接続による企業ネットワークへのリモートアクセスで、企業ネットワークの逼迫によるレスポンスの遅延など業務効率の劣化の問題が表面化した。その問題を解消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に接続する利用が増えることで境界防御の限界が顕在化し、境界防御に依存しない総合的なセキュリティ対策が求められる。「ITサプライヤーは、総合的なセキュリティソリューションの機能を集約し一元的に管理、運用できる集約型のSaaS型セキュリティリューションを訴求すべきである。これによって、企業はインターネット回線経由で直接クラウドサービスを利用した場合においてもセキュリティが強化され、業務効率と運用効率を向上できるようになる」と、IDC ...
This IDC Market Perspective looks at the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the challenges associated with managing secure print in a hybrid work environment. This document discusses how organizations should approach print security for ...
本調査レポートは、2019年以降にITインフラストラクチャサービス分野における新たなサービスの提供やサービス事業の刷新の取り組みなどを発表したベンダーを中心に、国内の主要ITサービスベンダー8社に取材し、その結果をプロフィールの形でまとめると共に、それに基づく分析を加えたものである。
全体として成長率が高いとは言えない国内ITインフラストラクチャサービス市場の中で、各ベンダーは生き残りを賭けて、プラットフォーム型サービスの発表を始めとするさまざまな取り組みを進めている。「サービスベンダーは、発表したプラットフォーム型サービスの迅速かつ着実な稼働を目指すと共に、as-a-Service型モデルに対応した販売体制の組み換えを進めるべきである。またレファレンスアーキテクチャ開発に注力するベンダーは、ユースケースに基づく取り組みに注力すべきである」と、IDC ...
This IDC study provides an update on some of the most prominent use cases being adopted in the precision agriculture space. IDC has created a use case taxonomy for the digital transformation of multiple industry segments. The taxonomy follows ...
This IDC Market Note discusses PwC and Microsoft's recently announced partnership, which is the bedrock of PwC's Risk Command suite of products. PwC is leveraging Microsoft's AI capabilities and the scale provided by Azure to transform the ...
今後発行予定である調査レポート「IDC MarketScape: Japan Security Solutions and Services Hardcopy 2021 Vendor Assessment」の市場定義と評価基準について説明している。IDC US イメージング、プリンティング&ドキュメントソリューションのバイスプレジデントであるRobert Palmerは「セキュリティは、あらゆる企業において最重要課題になっており、現在ではMPS（Managed ...
This IDC Market Presentation is an executive summary of IDC's Security ServicesView 2020, which examines the contemporary state of security services.
Security ServicesView helps IT companies' demand-side ...
This IDC Market Note summarizes the key highlights from Splunk's virtual.conf20 event held in October. At this annual summit, the vendor showcased its engineering capabilities, business road map, and its own cloud and digital business model ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight examines the impact of digital workspaces and VDI on endpoint security. Evidence is mounting that organizations are recalibrating end-user computing as work-from-home and hybrid arrangements rose during the pandemic ...