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 Perspective explores European organizations' progress toward a transformed private-cloud-based IT infrastructure, examines companies' receptiveness to using the end-to-end cloud stacks of the leading public cloud vendors ...
本調査レポートは、2020年12月中旬までに収集した情報を基に、クラウドインフラストラクチャ／プラットフォーム領域およびクラウド向けITサービス事業を中心として、国内クラウド市場における主要ベンダーのビジネス動向をまとめたものである。また、国内クラウド市場における配備モデル／サービス別の市場動向と主要ベンダーのビジネス動向を分析し、ベンダーが成長するための提言を行っている。
新型コロナウイルス感染症（COVID-19）の感染拡大は企業のDXに対する意識を高めた。一方、クラウドファースト戦略だけでは、企業はDXへとつながるクラウドジャーニーを加速することはできない。企業は、デジタルインフラストラクチャや社内外のデータリソースを統合管理すると共に運用の自動化を実現し、迅速なアプリケーションの開発と展開を実現する「クラウドセントリックIT」に取り組む必要がある。「ベンダーは、企業のクラウドセントリックITの支援に貢献するベストプラクティスの公開と、マルチクラウド／ハイブリッド環境の導入／運用およびデータの利活用の簡易化／容易化を推進する必要がある」と、IDC ...
This IDC Market Note captures IDC's observations and discussions on the compute-related announcements at AWS re:Invent 2020.
This IDC Market Note includes IDC's coverage and analysis of AWS Storage Day 2020 that took place on November 9 and 10.
In facing COVID-19, the drive by the respective governments in Asia/Pacific to embrace digital is obvious. This roundtable, conducted by AWS, could evolve with certain factors that are essential for seamless digital transformation for national ...
This IDC Market Perspective examines the role that 5G plays in accelerating and intensifying the transformation of mobile operators' networks. The advent of 5G brings tremendous promise, with the potential for advanced use cases and the ...
This IDC Market Perspective discusses blockchain platform-as-a-service solutions. The development and support of modern software applications can be very complex. Companies have to regularly update their apps to address security issues and ...
This IDC Market Perspective discusses the changing dynamics of the roles of managed SPs as related to cloud service providers (IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS). These roles are defined by the changing dynamics involving collaboration across partners, ...
This IDC Market Perspective examines the sustainability and environmental strategies of cloud providers in Europe as related to the efficiency of their datacenters. From an environmental perspective, this document highlights the benefits ...
This IDC Market Perspective analyzes how the main cloud providers are responding or have responded to the COVID-19 crisis. It details cloud providers' strategy, interprets internal survey results on the impact of COVID-19 in Europe, and ...
This IDC Vendor Profile analyzes the partnership between Amazon Web Services (AWS) and SAP as well as their company strategies, SAP service offerings on AWS, as well as their future opportunities, challenges, and the migration to S/4HANA. ...
This IDC Vendor Profile examines initiatives and programs led by Amazon Web Services (AWS) to support organizations that are interested in furthering the achievement of social good and social justice. Examples of social good and social justice ...
This IDC Market Note covers Computacenter's announcement of a strategic collaboration with AWS for public cloud adoption. On June 8, 2020, Computacenter announced a new enterprise transformation service with AWS: Adopt the Public Cloud for ...
This IDC Market Perspective analyzes the opportunity for cloud service providers in the European Internet of Things (IoT) market. It analyzes the growth of public cloud spending on IoT software, highlights the most important cloud-related ...
This IDC Market Perspective discusses dynamics of platform services from software-as-a-service (SaaS) vendors.
Variations in business demand bring the expectations of a high degree of flexibility and adaptability requirements from ...
This IDC Market Perspective analyzes the most important cloud-related use cases based on IDC's latest Internet of Things Spending Guide. The document focuses on the European market and includes the split per industry and growth, as well ...
This IDC Market Perspective discusses IDC views on the impact of edge offerings and solutions on managed cloud services and the competitive environment. IDC believes that the COVID-19 pandemic is going to tip the balance of enterprise use ...
This IDC Market Perspective considers scenarios of COVID-19's potential impact to the India cloud market and how enterprises are planning to change their cloud budgets and the technology demands to ensure business continuity. The research ...
The Market Note highlights AWS' approach to the Indian public sector, with a view on how AWS is aligning itself to the stated public sector priorities and a focus on citizen enablement.
This IDC Market Note examines the impact that the entry of global hyperscale cloud providers will have on the South African market.
This IDC Market Perspective highlights why the shift to the edge is gaining strong momentum and its impact on business models and ecosystems and implications for CDN providers.
"Ongoing edge developments are important steps toward ...
This IDC Market Perspective examines overall trends impacting European enterprise infrastructure in 2020. It studies the impact of the COVID-2019 pandemic on ongoing investments in IT infrastructure, funding, and support and details responses ...
This IDC Market Perspective presents the interconnection trends in the United States and briefly discusses initiatives of top service providers in the market. The consolidation of enterprise and telecom service provider datacenters has led ...
This IDC Market Note examines the portfolio and progress of the various public cloud storage and data management services available from NetApp and its public cloud partners in Europe.
This IDC Market Perspective discusses coprocessors as a critical component of hyperscale infrastructure security.
The current silicon-centric architecture deployed in datacenters, edge devices, and consumer handhelds has started to ...
This IDC Market Perspective analyzes how European cloud adoption patterns are evolving as cloud becomes the de facto foundation for digital transformation and technology modernization. Today, cloud is becoming distributed, nuanced, and hybrid ...
This IDC Market Perspective defines and discusses the varying manufacturing levels utilized by ODMs in their engagements with cloud service providers (SPs) and hyperscalers, as well as how the ODMs seek to expand their relationships beyond ...
This IDC Market Perspective discusses franchise cloud businesses as means of driving cloud services opportunities.
As enterprises expand their use of cloud services, they are showing increased interest in using new business models ...
本調査レポートは、2019年11月までに収集した情報を基に、クラウドインフラストラクチャ／プラットフォーム領域およびクラウド向けITサービス事業を中心として国内クラウド市場における主要ベンダーのビジネス動向をまとめたものである。また、国内クラウド市場における配備モデル／サービス別の市場動向と主要ベンダーのビジネス動向を分析し、ベンダーが成長するための提言を行っている。
マルチクラウド／ハイブリッドクラウドの発展と共に、クラウドの配備モデル／サービスやベンダー間の競合／協業関係は複雑さを増しており、国内クラウド市場はカオス期を迎えている。このカオスはDXが本格化する前兆であり、すべてのベンダーにとって新しい成長機会であると同時に、淘汰の脅威となっている。「ベンダーは、弱点の克服ではなく、強みの進化にリソースを投入すべきである。特に、DX事業では先行者利益の獲得が市場におけるリーダーの条件となる」と、IDC ...
This IDC Market Note discusses the infrastructure services–related announcements at AWS re:Invent 2019.
"One key message conveyed at re:Invent 2019 was the breadth and depth of foundational cloud capabilities at AWS," said Deepak Mohan, ...
This IDC Market Perspective looks at Amazon Web Services' (AWS') re:Invent 2019 event, held December 2–6 in Las Vegas. The event attracted 65,000 attendees and featured the announcement of dozens of new and enhanced products and services. ...
This IDC Market Perspective focuses on the important practices that have been adopted by organizations that have demonstrated their ability to accelerate software delivery.
"The notion of 'high velocity' software organizations refers ...
This IDC Market Note reviews the AWS Summit Bahrain on September 15, 2019. The event, attended by more than 2,000 people, explored trends in cloud innovation and adoption across the Middle East, with a focus on the public sector. Success ...
This IDC Market Perspective discusses AWS' efforts to become increasingly channel friendly through the Consulting Partner Private Offers (CPPO) program, Cloud marketplaces have emerged as an increasingly important route to market. Traditional ...
This IDC Market Note highlights Lemongrass Consulting, a global SAP-on-AWS specialist founded in 2008 and headquartered in the U.K. The company focuses on SAP Enterprise, Business One, and Business ByDesign on AWS. This document is part ...
This IDC Market Note reviews the AWS Public Sector Summit held on September 6, 2019 in New Delhi, India. The summit witnesses the attendance of AWS key customers, analysts, and developers. It highlights AWS's work with different state governments ...
This IDC Market Perspective provides an overview on how application management is transforming. Throughout 2019, IDC performed several studies analyzing the application management services market. This document represents an aggregation ...
This Market Note presents an overview of Leaven, Spark's new division that was announced on August 13, 2019. Leaven is a digital transformation (DX) consultancy built to assist organisations as they shift to new and more digital ways of ...
This IDC Market Perspective discusses the worldwide managed cloud services deal penetration for the IT outsourcing (ITO) services market for 2014–2018.
"Competing for managed cloud services deals is becoming much more intense with ...
This IDC Market Note provides a summary of select ICT market developments that occurred across the Middle East and North Africa in July 2019 and assesses the potential impact that these developments could have on related markets.
"The ...
This Market Note analyzes what the Capital One breach at Amazon could mean for the industry. The latest data breach at the Amazon cloud affecting customers of Capital One may be the trigger for increased scrutiny from regulators around security ...
Overall, IDC sees the quoted US$39 million contract value as likely to be quickly exceeded. IDC has observed that the use of 3rd Platform technology by enterprises building innovative new business services can drive their spending to consistently ...
The Market Note reviews the AWS Summit held on May 14 and 15 in Mumbai, which witnessed a turnout of 6,000 attendees. The event saw announcements such as the availability of VMware cloud on AWS in India. It also highlighted AWS' commitment ...