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.
Xero’s acquisition of Planday aligns to its strategy of supporting small and medium businesses (SMBs) through simplified business technology. The integration opportunities between workforce management, payroll and finance allows for business ...
This IDC PlanScape discusses integrated physical security solutions for cities. Integrated physical security solutions provide cities with better, more immediate situational awareness when responding to security incidents. Integrated card ...
This IDC study discusses creating professional development programs for cybersecurity.
"The world of cybersecurity is becoming increasingly siloed," says Mike Chapple, adjunct analyst, IDC's IT Executive Programs (IEP). "Leaders should ...
Today's customers have high expectations for frictionless, immersive, and empathetic shopping and browsing experiences in the channel of their choice. To be competitive, brands must personalize interactions in fractions of a second at scale. ...
As a result of the collaboration, data insights, and business continuity pressures from the pandemic, the market witnesses an accelerated focus on digital transformation across commercial businesses and public sector organizations. While ...
Social voice is an emerging evolution in social media experiences, as seen in the growth of applications such as Clubhouse, Twitter Spaces, and others. This will be both challenging and rewarding for organizations that look at this through ...
On February 25, the O-RAN Alliance held a virtual event during Mobile World Congress Shanghai. The alliance presented its main achievements and its road map, with the new Dawn release — expected in June–July 2021 with security, intelligence ...
The risk of growing digital gaps can have a serious impact on the speed of recovery in different parts of the world and society experience, according to the World Economic Forum's (WEF) recent 2021 Global Risk Perception Survey. Another ...
本Web Conference Proceeding: Tech BuyerはIDC Japan エンタープライズインフラストラクチャのシニアマーケットアナリストである加藤 慎也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。
近年、フラッシュメモリーやGPUはオンプレミス／オフプレミスを問わず利用可能になり、また次世代メモリーに加えて新たなアクセラレーターやアプライアンスの登場が、データとアプリケーションの配備までも変えつつある。この背景には、大規模な非構造化データ処理やリアルタイム処理における需要のいっそうの高まりがある。ユーザーにとって、このようなヘテロジニアスなアーキテクチャを持つインフラの適切な導入と利用は、デジタルトランスフォーメーション（DX）プロジェクトの成否に関わる大きな課題となっている。このようなチャレンジへのハードルを下げるべく、製品の幅に限らず、提供形態においてはオンプレミスでのサブスクリプションの整備が進んでいる。本セッションでは、エンタープライズインフラの製品動向がどのように市場を動かし、また新たな技術がユーザーのDXプロジェクトにどのような変革をもたらすかを考察する。
...本Web Conference Proceeding: Tech Buyerは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鈴木 康介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。
クラウドネイティブなアプリケーションが増えたことや、コンテナ技術によって開発／展開のスピードが向上したこともあって、ビジネスサイクルはますます高速化する傾向にある。AI（Artificial Intelligence：人工知能）／機械学習を応用した新たなサービス、ビジネスプロセスのアイデアも短期間で実現しており、企業が扱うデジタルデータは多様化、大容量化がハイペースで進んでいる。それと同時に、データ活用の先進ユーザーは、現場で生まれるデータから予測やインサイトを導出するためのデータパイプラインを整備し、その成果をカスタマーエクスペリエンス向上やリアルタイム制御による品質改善に結びつけるようになってきた。こうした新たなデータ活用／管理の中で必要とされるストレージインフラの要件は、アーキテクチャ、運用共にこれまでとは違ったものになる。本セッションでは、デジタルトランスフォーメーション（DX）に取り組む企業のデータ活用／管理ニーズの変化がストレージ要件にどのような影響を及ぼすか、需要サイドの視点から見たストレージ改革の方向性を考察する。
...本Web Conference Proceeding: Tech Buyer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）への取り組みが企業の成長や競争力を左右する時代には、「次世代インフラ」としての新しいストレージソリューションが求められる。本講演では、「次世代インフラ」としての新しいストレージソリューションの条件について多角的に分析し、その選定基準を考察する。具体的には、クラウドシフト、サブスクリプション（従量課金制）、エッジ／コアモデルなどの提供モデルの革新について議論すると共に、Software-Defined ...
This IDC Market Note examines the interplay between purpose; environmental, social, and governance (ESG); and corporate social responsibility (CSR) in the context of corporate value creation and the development of a purpose-driven, sustainable ...
This IDC Market Note includes 3D printing news that occurred in February 2021.
This IDC Market Note focuses on print vendors' financial results for the period ending December 31, 2020, and their strategic plans for business recovery, transformation, and future growth.
This IDC study examines the importance of building regulatory compliance in the cloud. In today's environment, it is not only possible but often preferable to run regulated workloads in a public cloud environment, and IT leaders around the ...
This IDC Survey provides insights into the Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) (APEJ) results from IDC Insight’s Worldwide Sustainability, Health and Safety survey conducted in 2020 for utilities, oil and gas, and mining companies operating the ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight highlights the organization's technology priorities for success of the business.
"During the COVID-19 crisis, organizations shifted cybersecurity priorities and budgets to business operations and crisis management. ...
This IDC Market Note includes news that occurred within the imaging and printing market in February 2021.
This IDC Market Note discusses 4Q20 and FY20 results and updates from the three U.S. cable companies that offer wireless services, along with DISH Network, which owns the Boost Mobile MVNO service. It summarizes IDC's opinion on market changes ...
This IDC Market Note examines facial recognition, explores the potential uses for such technology, and reviews potential solutions to guard against nefarious use. Facial recognition has gotten a bad rap in public policy and regulatory circles, ...
As the economy recovers in 2021 and beyond, organizations in the Middle East, Turkey, and Africa (META) region will consolidate their automation and intelligence gains from 2020 and build them into the core of their digital strategies. Insight-driven ...
This IDC study presents IDC's taxonomy of the social, environmental responsibility and ethics (SERE) initiatives that organizations across the world are committing to and delivering upon. It provides definitions of 4 functional categories ...
This IDC study lays the groundwork for performance-intensive computing (PIC) as a composite market. It combines infrastructure approaches across three major and fast-growing use case categories: modeling and simulation (M&S), artificial ...
This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation examines the key trends in integrated physical solutions — video surveillance and card access to buildings. Integrated physical security refers to the combination of people, workflow, and technology deployed ...
On February 24, 2021, NetApp reported financial results for the third quarter of fiscal year (FY) 2021, which ended on January 31, 2021.
This IDC Market Perspective explores the Internet of Things (IoT) market in New Zealand from the connectivity providers' perspective. The report provides a competitive landscape for IoT connectivity providers and serves as a guiding document ...
This report looks at the Australia and New Zealand (ANZ) results of IDC's 2020 Asia/Pacific Future of Work Employee Survey, focusing on technology and how it relates to the changing workspace and workforce.
This study also examines ...
With the global disruption of the supply chain because of the COVID-19 pandemic, organizations across Southeast Asia have undertaken several measures to develop a more resilient supply chain. Across sectors, the COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted ...
Due to a record number of PC processors shipped in 4Q20 and validation of sustained end demand for PC processors by PC OEMs in 1Q21 and extending through the 1H21, IDC will raise its forecast for PC processor shipments in 2021 from 9.6% ...
Dell Technologies recently completed fiscal 2021 and saw a steady improvement throughout the year in the demand environment as consumers, commercial businesses, and public sector organizations all turned to technology to help bridge the ...
On February 25, 2021, HP Inc. announced revenue growth of 7% to $15.6 billion for calendar year 4Q20 (HP Inc.'s fiscal 1Q21). Both Printing and Personal Systems groups delivered 7% revenue growth for the quarter, with remote work and learning ...
This IDC Web Conference highlights IDC's Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) Business Services research and provides guidance regarding how sustainability can help drive business value on the foundation of a purpose-driven strategy. ...
This Market Perspective outlines five of the key trends IDC believes will drive the enterprise networking market in 2021 and beyond.
"2021 will be a dynamic year in the enterprise networking market," says Brandon Butler, senior research ...
This Market Note presents IDC's view on the Climate Neutral Data Centre Pact signed in Europe in January 2021 by member organizations of Cloud Infrastructure Services Providers in Europe (CISPE).
This IDC study defines and provides a framework for analyzing the installed base of storage capacity, the amount of the installed base of storage capacity that is utilized, and the portion of the installed base that is available for storing ...
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 Note examines Ricoh Europe's decision to relaunch its GelJet technology to augment its services and solutions and support remote workers. In the current climate of economic and social uncertainty due to the COVID-19 pandemic, ...
This IDC Market Presentation examines the latest business sentiment among IT professionals in Europe regarding the role of sustainability and environmental, social, and governance (ESG) principles in day-to-day business operations and in ...
This IDC Special Study aims to understand enterprise readiness and attitudes toward deploying private cellular/5G/mobile networks and the partners they choose to design, build, run, and manage these networks.
"IDC believes services ...
This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation provides senior IT leaders with a detailed framework for integrated business portfolio management. An integrated business portfolio management strategy enables sustainable business and IT prioritization of ...