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 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 Presentation highlights the main trends, competition landscape, and technical segmentation for the EMEA external storage market in 3Q20 as well as a five-year forecast.
This IDC Market Presentation offers an overview of the worldwide largest 15 cloud service provider infrastructure demand trend for third quarter of 2020.
This IDC Presentation examines the results of IDC's Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker in Western Europe in 3Q20, focusing on the business segment. IDC follows more than 120 mobile device manufacturers in 16 countries, providing detailed shipment ...
据IDC发布的《中国企业无线市场解读，4Q2019》报告显示，2019年中国无线市场营收达到8.45亿美元，同比增长6.4%。此报告以2019年第一季度至第四季度的数据为基础，主要介绍了全球以及中国无线市场的整体规模和未来五年市场规模的预测、中国无线市场竞争分析和行业分析等，同时，从当前及未来五年市场规模预测等角度对中国无线市场展开分析。
IDC中国网络市场研究经理郭越表示： "2019年是无线市场蓄势待发的一年，从国家的宏观政策，到各企业的数字化转型项目都为ICT相关设备市场提供发育因素。行业中的教育，服务，制造和政府等行业引领中国无线整体市场。在产品层面，Wi-Fi ...
This IDC Market Analysis Perspective is an overview of the investment climate and spending intentions of decision makers regarding 5G in Western Europe. It outlines 5G adoption and top use cases in Europe as well as the competitive landscape. ...
This IDC Market Presentation offers a third calendar quarter 2020 overview of the enterprise storage systems market and related trends.
This IDC Market Presentation offers a third calendar quarter (3Q20) overview of the server market and related trends.
This IDC Survey presents results from the French segment of IDC's European IoT Decision-Maker Survey. This survey assesses current and planned deployment of IoT projects, including benefits and challenges, impact of COVID-19 on IoT plans, ...
This IDC Presentation provides an overview of how mobile gaming evolved with the rapid development of smartphones in Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan and China). This presentation will study the differences between the smartphones available ...
This IDC study presents market share data for the worldwide traditional PC market for 3Q20.
"Demand for PCs remained unprecedented during 3Q20, work/learn/entertain from home continued to push PC shipments into near-record-breaking ...
This IDC study provides an analysis of vendor performance in the tablet market for 3Q20.
"As the tablet market moved into the third quarter of a year impacted by a growing pandemic, tablet shipments reached unprecedented levels. While ...
This IDC Market Glance provides an overview of the vendors participating in the enterprise mobility market.
This IDC Market Presentation provides updates on the private cloud infrastructure market, including market share for hardware (server and storage) vendors, market forecast for hardware and software infrastructure, assumptions on the future ...
This IDC Market Presentation looks at the performance of the EMEA enterprise infrastructure market for 1H20 against 1H19. It compares the performance of the top 10 vendors against overall market performance and looks at the performance of ...
This IDC Market Share analyzes European enterprise network equipment market in the first half of 2020, including the Ethernet switch, router, and WLAN market segments.
"In light of COVID-19 and resulting aggressive government measures, ...
This IDC Market Glance provides insights into India's telecommunications ecosystem. To ensure increased collaboration and tighter margin focus as operators battle regulatory complexities, communications SPs must rely on operations providing ...
This IDC Pivot Table provides the CY 3Q20 vendor share results and the forecasts for both the short term (3Q20–4Q21) and the long term (2020–2025) for the worldwide NAND flash memory market. The Pivot Table includes:
- Worldwide ...
This IDC Market Presentation highlights the latest IDC EMEA Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker results for the Western European mobile phone market. In this tracker, IDC follows more than 110 phone makers in 16 countries, providing detailed ...
This IDC study features data on revenue attributable to worldwide datacenter Ethernet switching by speed (bandwidth) for the calendar year 2017 as well as for the ensuing calendar quarters of 2018, 2019, and the first two quarters of 2020. ...
This IDC Market Presentation delivers quarterly insights into the requirements of cloud service providers — focusing on evolving business models, emerging product and service offerings, and providers' own investments in technology. The insights ...
IDC最新发布的《中国数据中心IT基础架构产品解读，2020 Q2》（2020年11月发布）报告显示，2020年第二季度，中国数据中心IT基础架构（包括服务器、外置存储和数据中心网络设备）市场规模达到73.3亿美元，同比增长35.7%。2020年上半年，中国数据中心IT基础架构市场规模达到120.2亿美元，同比增长17.0%，其中，服务器市场规模达到92.8亿美元，同比增长19.4%；外置存储市场规模达到17.9亿美元，同比增长6.9%；数据中心网络设备市场规模达到9.6亿美元，同比增长14.8%。此报告以2020年第一季度至第二季度的数据为基础，主要介绍了中国数据中心IT基础架构整体市场规模、未来五年市场规模预测、竞争分析和行业分析，同时，从市场规模、未来五年市场规模预测、竞争分析、行业趋势、市场热点等角度对服务器、外置存储和数据中心网络设备三个产品展开分析，并详细解读中国数据中心IT基础架构市场的发展进程和未来发展趋势。
IDC企业级研究部助理副总裁周震刚表示："2020年上半年，由于新冠肺炎疫情在全球的扩散以及对经济活动的影响，全球经济受到较大冲击，各行业企业的需求有所延迟或缩减，使得全球数据中心IT基础架构市场增长面临严峻挑战，整体保持小幅增长。随着中国政府对疫情的有效控制以及各个行业的复产复工，中国数据中心IT基础架构产品市场迎来强劲复苏。由疫情催生的泛互联网业务爆发、企业将业务从线下转向线上加速进行、复工复产保证并促进IT项目逐步开展建设，以及国家新基建战略的支持等因素均推动了中国服务器、外置存储、以及数据中心网络市场的数据中心IT基础架构市场迎来上涨。"
...This IDC Presentation provides an analysis of the business growth drivers and restraints of the key Chinese smartphone vendors in Southeast Asia and determines their growth prospects in the short term. This presentation will help the smartphone ...
本調査レポートでは、IoTインフラユーザーにおけるインテリジェントエッジの利用動向を踏まえ、インテリジェントエッジにおいて、深層学習、機械学習といった高度なデータ分析を行うAI（Artificial Intelligence：人工知能）技術の実装方法を調査し類型化を行った。また、代表的なインテリジェントエッジ製品を例示し主な特徴について調査した。
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エッジにおけるデータ分析が多様化し、AI技術を利用して高度なデータ分析処理を行うインテリジェントエッジのニーズは拡大する。IoTインフラベンダーは、インテリジェントエッジにおけるAI技術の実装方式を見極めながら、インテリジェントエッジの製品ラインナップを強化していくことが必要である」と説明している。
...本調査レポートでは、国内アクセラレーテッドコンピューティング市場に関わるベンダーについて、主要なサーバーベンダーに加えて半導体ベンダーやクラウドサービスプロバイダーの動向を分析している。本市場はエンタープライズインフラにおける成長分野であり、寡占化や垂直統合の一方で、新規参入や他市場への展開によって変化しつつある。IDC Japan エンタープライズインフラのシニアマーケットアナリストである加藤 慎也は「新型コロナウイルス感染症（COVID-19）の感染拡大に伴う非接触型ビジネスの需要が、アクセラレーテッドコンピューティングの需要に寄与する。新たな市場変化を導くのはAI（Artificial ...
This IDC study provides a brief overview of the worldwide enterprise storage systems (ESS) market performance during CY 2Q20.
"The enterprise storage systems market came in with a few surprises during 2Q20, all things considered," ...
This IDC study provides a brief overview of the worldwide server market performance during the second quarter of 2020.
"Global demand for enterprise servers was strong during the second quarter of 2020," said Paul Maguranis, senior ...
This IDC Market Glance provides a glance at the current makeup of the Arm processor ecosystem, illustrates the vendor landscape, and depicts the segments and structure of the market.