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 FutureScape Web Conference presents a discussion by IDC's Al Gillen on the key developments that will impact the world of developers and application development over the next one to five years. Senior IT leaders and line-of-business ...
This IDC FutureScape Web Conference presents a discussion by IDC's Dan Vesset on the importance of capturing, preparing, and curating data for business analytics and the impact this will have as enterprises harness data for decision support, ...
This IDC Presentation was presented at the IDC DevOps Conference in September 2019 in London. It followed Jen Thomson's keynote: DevOps-Led Business Transformation.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is becoming increasingly vital to DevOps ...
This IDC Web Conference presents a discussion by IDC's Alan Webber on the impact that new technologies, like artificial intelligence and analytics, and growing volumes of customer data will have on the customer experience, and ultimately ...
This IDC Web Conference presents a discussion by Frank Della Rosa on some of the key developments that will impact the market for cloud services over the next three to five years and highlights some of the things buyers should consider when ...
This IDC Web Conference presents a discussion by IDC's Richard Villars, Jennifer Cooke, and Susan Middleton on the key developments that will shape the global datacenter market and impact the way companies distribute their cloud and on-premise ...
This IDC Web Conference presents a discussion by IDC's Gerry Murray on several key issues facing chief marketing officers (CMOs) that will impact the operational and technology decisions that CMOs will need to make over the next one to five ...
This IDC Web Conference presents a discussion by IDC's Senior Vice President and Chief Analyst Frank Gens on the key developments that will shape the technology industry over the next one to five years and impact the ability of every enterprise ...
本Conference: Tech SupplierはIDC Japanアナリストの講演の内容を音声ファイルによって提供するものである。
昨年9月に経済産業省が発表したDXレポートにおいて、多くの企業において現状のITシステムではDXを実現することが難しく国内の大きな経済損失につながるという「2025年の崖」問題が指摘され、業界関係者の関心が高まっている。この問題に対するユーザー企業の悩みや本音に対し、IDCのアナリストが議論を交わし、解決策を探る。
本Conference: Tech SupplierはIDC Japan ソフトウェア＆セキュリティ リサーチ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。
IDCではデジタルトランスフォーメーション（DX）の実現において、あらゆるデータを活用するための統合化されたプラットフォーム「DX Platform」の必要性を提唱している。経済産業省が発表したDXレポートにおいても統合プラットフォームの重要性が述べられている。本講演ではDX ...
本Conference: Tech SupplierはIDC Japanソフトウェア＆セキュリティ シニアマーケットアナリストである草地 慎太郎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。
2025年に向けたIT業界の人材不足が叫ばれているが、データ活用領域での人材不足とそれによる低生産性は、2025年を待つまでもなく今日現在の深刻な企業の課題となっている。一方で、予測分析やAI（Artificial Intelligence：人工知能）による自動化の進展は、データ活用の生産性が企業のビジネスに与えるインパクトを大きくしている。本セッションでは、DX ...
This IDC Web Conference was presented at the IDC DevOps Conference in September 2019 in London.
The pivot to DevOps is helping to drive cultural and operational change, unite engineering and development teams with the business, and ...
This IDC Web Conference shares a customer experience (CX) framework, together with CX business initiatives, priorities, and use cases driving CX technology investment. As organizations progress along their digital journeys, customer experience ...
This IDC Web Conference by senior research analyst Hayley Sutherland provides an overview of affective computing technology. Affective computing (AC) is the use of artificial intelligence (AI) software to identify and/or influence human ...
This IDC Web Conference discusses how digital transformation is having a significant and lasting impact on the global economy. As investment strategies shift from defensive approaches to counteract disruptors to offensive ones to ensure ...
This IDC Web Conference presents the main points of IDC's live webinar entitled "IDC's 2019 Retail Innovation Survey Highlights: The Path Toward Commerce Everywhere Business Models," held on July 9, 2019. Data in this webinar was based on ...
本Conference: Tech SupplierはIDC Japan ITサービスのグループマネージャーである植村 卓弥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。
国内企業のデジタルトランスフォーメーション（DX）への取り組みが進行する中で、クラウドの利用方法や提供形態も多様化している。先進的企業のサービスプロバイダー化や、従来型の産業特化ソリューションのクラウド移行といったトレンドは、クラウドの利用にどのように影響するのであろうか。本講演では、国内企業におけるDXイニシアティブの現状を踏まえ、クラウドの多様化や「インダストリークラウド」の発展について考察する。
...In this IDC Web Conference, Gabriele Roberti and Andrea Siviero from the IDC European Customer Insights & Analysis team discuss the combination of Innovation Accelerators (as artificial intelligence, Internet of Things, augmented and ...
This IDC Web Conference presents a discussion by Rory Duncan, research vice president, Cloud Service Providers, on what cloud service providers plan to bring to market in the next two years and what part technology vendors will play in this ...
This IDC Web Conference highlights the spending trends and opportunities in the Smart Cities market. The Smart Cities market is growing, and your organization can capitalize on it with the right data. Attendees of this web conference will ...
This IDC Web Conference shares results from its latest U.S. Consumer Connected and Automated Vehicle Survey exploring how vehicle owners use and plan to use these technologies. IDC's research has shown that vehicle owners are increasingly ...
This IDC Conference shares a clear governance framework that will help you drive your organization's understanding of its technology usage, how technology can be leveraged by external and internal stakeholders, and the value that it provides ...
本Conference: 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。
顧客のデジタル変化が加速度的に進んでいる現在、企業のデジタルトランスフォーメーション（DX）は顧客を起点とした「外部プロセス変革」にシフトする必要がある。外部プロセス変革には、デジタル顧客エクスペリエンス（CX）の創造が重要課題であり、市場ではB2C/B2Bの両方でCX創造のために、AI（人工知能）／リアルタイムデータを活用する「Hyper-Personalization」時代が到来している。本セッションでは、現在／将来のデジタル顧客エクスペリエンスがIT市場へ与える影響と、ITプロバイダーのビジネス機会について考察する。
...本Conference: Tech SupplierはIDC Japan コミュニケーションズのグループマネージャーである草野 賢一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。
早くもプレサービスが始まろうとしている5Gが、モバイル通信の枠を超えて、DXの牽引役になり企業にイノベーションをもたらすかは、企業間の共創を通じた5Gユースケースの発見と実践にかかっている。本講演では、国内における5G市場の展望とユースケースの可能性を議論し、ITサプライヤーや通信事業者が果たすべき役割を考察する。また、5Gを実現するネットワークインフラストラクチャについても市場予測と共にITサプライヤーの市場機会について論じる。さらに、DXの基盤になる企業やデータセンターの次世代ネットワークのあり方について考察する。
...本Conference: Tech SupplierはIDC Japanのグループディレクターである森山 正秋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）に取り組む企業が最も重視するものの一つがデータの収益化である。エンタープライズインフラはデータ基盤としてDXに取り組む企業を支えることが強く求められ、それがベンダーにとっての新たなビジネス機会を生み出している。本講演では、データ基盤としてエンタープライズインフラに求められる特性を新テクノロジー（NVMe、SCM、アクセラレーテッドコンピューティングなど）、コアとエッジ、支出モデル、ハイブリッドクラウド環境におけるデータ管理などの観点から分析し、エンタープライズインフラのイノベーションと中長期的な成長機会を考察する。
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