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 Perspective looks at how the Belgian government harnessed the expertise of integrator DXC and PDF technology company iText to completely overhaul its records management system.
"The public sector is grappling with antiquated ...
This IDC Web Conference presents a discussion by IDC's Mutaz Shegewi on the key predictions that will impact CIOs and IT professionals in the worldwide healthcare industry over the next one to five years. Senior IT leaders and line-of-business ...
This IDC Perspective summarizes key takeaways from IDC's European Manufacturing Executive Digital Forum 2020, which took place on November 24, 2020. It summarizes the highlights of our partner and CXO community presentations from the perspective ...
This IDC Perspective looks at data in action in the Canadian marketplace. The initial focus of this study was to assess the role that data plays in industry disruption. What we found is that Big Data and analytics, on its own, does not drive ...
This IDC Perspective provides a view into how manufacturers have adapted to the challenges imposed by COVID-19, the investments still needed, and why the industry needs to embrace the future of work to succeed in the short term and long ...
For companies planning on digital patient engagement initiatives, it is important to closely examine the whole spectrum of use cases to spot the opportunities and the key benefits therein. This IDC PlanScape offers a comprehensive framework ...
This IDC TechBrief helps healthcare provider IT leaders and buyers come quickly up to speed on enterprise imaging. Medical images and imaging-related data can serve as a valuable source of clinical insight but will pose more challenges than ...
本IDC 陈述报告描述了中国制造行业IT 2021年十大预测。报告为制造企业的高管提供了在未来的60 个月内制造业IT 及其IT 所支持的业务发展趋势，报告标识了这些预测发生作用的未来时间和受影响的业务领域，以及相对的复杂性和成本。每个预测包括IT 对业务的影响和对于制造企业的行动指南。
2020年新冠疫情"黑天鹅"事件使得制造业遭受重大打击，尤其是离散型制造，由于供应链中断使得生产停滞。以汽车制造为例，在疫情头几个月，中国汽车的产销大幅下滑。与此同时，中美贸易摩擦并未停滞，美国政府对中国半导体、电子行业的贸易限制，也使得中国制造企业备受压力。
一边是疫情的全球肆虐，一边是中美贸易摩擦的持续升级。在此严峻的外部挑战之下，中国政府出台了"新基建"、"双循环"等政策，以应对经济下行压力，助推制造业复苏。我们也可以看到，一批新业态、新模式应运而生，并从根本上颠覆传统的工作模式、生产模式。
"展望未来，中国制造业的机会和挑战并存。从宏观上看，制造业IT投资将进一步提高，新技术、新模式将在业务落地的过程中将不断迭代更新，以适应不断变化的市场。基于AI的风险决策，能提供决策指导和洞察；机器视觉和增强/虚拟现实（AR/VR）将场外的专业知识延伸到现场，可以减少现场工作人员数量；分布式供应链网络将降低价值链意外中断的风险。另外，跨生态系统的运维中心将提高运营效率，缩短产品上市时间。"——IDC中国制造业高级研究经理张兰英表示。
...This IDC Perspective summarizes several of the top considerations that merchants should have when evaluating digital commerce application providers, as there are many different ways to approach the digital commerce application evaluation ...
This IDC PlanScape provides a road map for hospitality and travel companies to leverage digital transformation strategies to drive seamless, augmented experiences in the appropriate and desired settings, where physical contact with a human ...
This IDC Perspective provides analyst insights on the growing importance of eCOAs, especially in the post-COVID-19 world. Despite the world being hit by a horrific pandemic, the pharma and biotech industry has risen to the occasion and leveraged ...
本报告是IDC FutureScape全球医疗健康行业2021年预测的中国启示，报告提供了2021-2026年间医疗健康行业技术发展路线图，包含10项健康行业发展前沿的预测并融合了针对中国市场的观点看法。每项预测都包括该预测内容成为市场"主流"的时间和实现该项预测的复杂性评估，以及该预测对于IT方面的影响，并为技术买家提供了采用和部署这些技术的建议，可供中国医疗健康行业的各领域，如医疗、医保、医药、健康管理、生命科学等领域的机构和企业在制定发展战略和数字化转型策略中参考。
...IDC research has found that modernizing enterprise applications, especially those that support core business processes, is a top priority for enterprises in Asia/Pacific. This IDC Perspective discusses the motivation behind enterprises to ...
This IDC Perspective video series episode reviews the impact COVID-19 had on industry's focus on digital transformation and ongoing recovery efforts and areas of focus. Watch as IDC President, Crawford Del Prete; Chief Research Officer, ...
This IDC Perspective video series episode explores how students and their families are adjusting to the new normal of hybrid, remote, and increased virtual education options in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Watch as IDC President, Crawford ...
IDC认为，数据的机密性、完整性和可用性是数据安全保护策略的重要组成部分，也是长期控制目标。企业需要深入了解数据资产被成功攻击的概率以及由此造成的影响，并通过建立数据的发现、分类、监控、存储、加密及销毁等安全管理框架防范威胁事件的发生。
IDC中国区研究经理赵卫京表示："PB（Petabyte）级的数据系统部署在许多组织中已经很常见，很多数据经常被复制、共享和存储在多个资源库中。随着数据价值的增加，对数据的保护需求也在增加，同时，虚拟化基础设施、云计算的采用以及越来越多移动设备的加入使得企业数据日益分散、可见性和控制力降低，数据安全保护的难度不断增加。IDC认为，数据发现和分类分级能够帮助企业梳理最关键数据驻留在何处以及谁有权访问它，是实现有效数据安全防护的两个先决条件。同时，企业也应清醒地意识到，单纯从技术维度防护数据安全是远远不够的，数据的全生命周期安全防护需要技术、制度和人员等多个维度全面配合，并执行严格的监管。"
...This IDC Perspective video series episode explores how retailers can close their digital transformation gaps and capitalize on changing customer expectations as the major holiday shopping season approaches. Watch as IDC President, Crawford ...
This IDC Web Conference presents a discussion by IDC's Shawn McCarthy and Adelaide O'Brien offering relevant predictions that will impact national government agencies from now through 2024. Agency CIOs, program managers, and line-of-business ...
This IDC Web Conference presents a discussion by IDC's Worldwide Utilities team on the key predictions that will impact CIOs and IT professionals in the worldwide utility industry over the next one to five years. Senior IT leaders and line-of-business ...
This IDC Perspective discusses how COVID-19 has driven investment in contract life-cycle management and the importance and benefits of implementing contract life-cycle management tools. This document also discusses the common implementation ...
This IDC Perspective outlines major workplace trends, provides representative software vendor offerings in response to COVID-19, and makes recommendations for organizations with respect to workplace management applications. Organizations ...
This IDC Perspective explores selecting digital focus areas, overcoming challenges to demonstrating digital business value, and introducing as well as using new digital metrics. IDC's COVID-19 Impact on IT Spending Survey, ...
This IDC Web Conference presents a discussion by IDC's Gerry Murray on the key developments that will impact the skills, practices, and technology needs of chief marketing officers (CMOs) and their teams as they learn to thrive in the next ...
This IDC Perspective examines the evolving relationship between OEMs and industrial operators, the digital twin technologies and approaches that offer the opportunity to aid in mutual value creation, and strategic considerations for each ...
This IDC Perspective summarizes key takeaways from IDC's European Manufacturing Executive Digital Forum 2020, which took place on November 24, 2020. The key theme of the IDC European Manufacturing Executive Digital Forum 2020 was about the ...
This IDC study provides an assessment of 14 vendors participating in digital transformation of sales and marketing processes in the life science industry. Digital transformation is occurring at a rapid pace in life science companies, including ...
This IDC Perspective looks at the criteria that enterprises should consider when evaluating IT savings, and it provides guidance on the appropriate areas to consider when looking to make a change.
"Enterprise customers have made it ...
本报告总结当前可穿戴设备在医疗健康领域应用的最新进展状况，包括应用的业务模式探索、应用技术环境发展情况、各模式发展的有利条件和需要克服的挑战等，并展望了未来三到五年的发展前景，为医疗机构管理者、医护工作人员、政府卫生管理者、生命科学研发机构等组织在利用可穿戴设备开展疾病诊断与治疗、民众健康维护、临床试验等方面的工作提供参考借鉴，也为提供可穿戴设备及其解决方案的厂商发展该项业务提供参考。
“数字化医疗器械的作用和价值逐步获得认可，个人健康管理观念日趋成熟和稳定，其运营模式则借助互联网医疗业务模式正在形成，未来将在疾病诊断与治疗、社区健康管理、个人健康管理领域以及生命科学研究领域发挥重要作用；同时医疗健康与生命科学在云计算、大数据领域的技术成熟，数据集成条件逐步具备。预计未来三年中，模式由探索转为成熟，可穿戴设备数据通过与电子病历和健康档案集成，成为医疗健康大数据的组成部分，获得广泛认可；预计未来五年中，将会更大范围扩展。”——IDC中国行业研究与咨询服务部高级研究经理肖宏亮表示。
...本Conference Proceeding: Tech BuyerはIDC Japan ソフトウェア＆セキュリティ グループ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。
DXの進展、さらに新型コロナウイルス感染症（COVID-19）によって企業のITシステムはクラウドへのシフトが加速する。加えて、活用するエンドポイントデバイスはPCとサーバーだけでなく、モバイルデバイスやIoTデバイスと多種多様になる。また、システムの開発と運用はDevOpsの適用が進む。本講演では、こうしたITトランスフォーメーションにおいて、企業はどのようなセキュリティ施策と対策が求められるのかについて考察する。
...This IDC Perspective focuses on Spanish gas distribution system operator Madrileña Red de Gas and the successful cloud transformation it carried out as part of a wider strategy to become more efficient and customer centric. It highlights ...
This IDC Web Conference presents a discussion by IDC Retail Insights on the 2021 top 10 technology predictions and the drivers of change for the global retail industry over the next five years. As retailers continue to manage through pandemic-driven ...
This IDC MarketScape assesses the capabilities and strategies of worldwide service providers (SPs) in supporting and collaborating with the retail industry in defining and executing co-innovation strategies. Therefore, we consider the shared ...
This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation investigates the global trends shaping the mining industry while mapping them to IDC’s Worldwide Mining 2021 predictions as identified in IDC’s FutureScape: Worldwide Mining 2021 Predictions ...
本調査レポートは、今後5年間にIT産業で起こるであろう10項目の予測（Prediction）と主要な促進要因（ドライバー）をまとめたものである。その中で、新型コロナウイルス感染症（COVID-19）のパンデミックによって引き起こされたビジネスの破壊的な変化への対応を先導したり、「ネクストノーマル」において競争優位を獲得しようとしたりする際に企業のITチームが直面する中長期の課題も明らかにしている。
IDC Worldwide ResearchのグループバイスプレジデントであるRick ...
This IDC Perspective analyzes a recent digital transformation to illustrate key factors of success. Using Denmark-based Grundfos as a case study, both the technical and nontechnical aspects of the implementation are described.
"Grundfos ...
本プレゼンテーションは、世界と国内において2021年から2026年にかけて起こる、IT市場に関する主要な10項目の予測（Predictions）について議論する。世界市場については『IDC FutureScape: Worldwide IT Industry 2021 Predictions (Japanese)（IDC #JPJ46951620、2020年12月発行）』において詳述しており、本プレゼンテーションでは、国内市場のPredictionsにおいて、世界市場からの変更点に焦点を合わせて論じている。
新型コロナウイルス感染症（COVID-19）の感染拡大は、国内および世界のIT支出にマイナスの影響を与えた一方、「コロナ禍」で経験したデジタル中心、非接触中心の社会は、デジタルトランスフォーメーション（DX）を加速させるきっかけにもなった。2021年以降もこの傾向は弱まるどころか加速し、新たな技術利用と共に国内企業のビジネスや顧客との関わり方を変えていくであろう。IDC ...
This IDC MarketScape identifies the key criteria European education-sector stakeholders need to successfully select a vendor to deliver collaboration applications for all key processes, including pedagogical procedures.
"Stakeholders ...
This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation highlights how the COVID-19 pandemic accelerated workplace collaboration applications adoption by five years. This research-based document provides insights and benefits in unlocking secure collaboration ...
This IDC Perspective is the CIO's guide to the future of connectedness, which will be a source of exponential challenge as CIOs move from pandemic response to enabling a robust next normal that allows access to everything, everywhere, anytime, ...
This IDC study examines the key strategies and capabilities that point-of-sale (POS) software vendors are offering in solutions for the quick-service restaurant (QSR) and fast-casual restaurant segments of the restaurant industry. The research ...
This IDC Perspective discusses IDC's European Future of Work Summit, held on November 10, 2020, as a virtual event. It summarizes key takeaways from keynotes and breakout sessions during the event.
"The Future of Work is a paradigm ...
The 2020 New Zealand CIO Summit provided insight into how the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the way businesses are leveraging their digital road maps to create opportunities for growth. Overarching themes of trust, empathy, organisational ...
This IDC Perspective discusses how COVID-19 gave urgency to the need to identify individuals at the highest risk of a poor outcome if infected. Blue Shield of California, in collaboration with the data-science-as-a-service provider Cogitativo, ...
This IDC Perspective details three IT skill development use cases and the usage of Coursera to solve these use cases. To unlock this value, organizations often turn to the L&D function to help properly skill the IT organization. And ...
本調査レポートは、ユーザー企業の基幹業務を中心に業務プロセスの自動化を支援するソフトウェアであるERP、RPA、プロセスマイニングの市場動向を分析し、その調査結果を報告している。IDCでは、新型コロナウイルス感染症（COVID-19）によるテレワークや社会的距離の確保の影響によってユーザー企業の業務プロセス変革と自動化が加速するとみている。
「ユーザー企業は業務プロセスの自動化に取り組むに当たりゴール設定を明確に行う必要がある。COVID-19によってビジネス環境が破壊的に変化する中、ユーザー企業は業務プロセスを固定化せず、柔軟性を持たせて最適化することが求められる。自動化のロードマップを進める過程で自動化を支援する最新技術の有効活用が重要である」と、IDC ...
This IDC Perspective outlines what device as a service (DaaS) means. It discusses two case studies that highlight the driving and inhibiting factors on whether now is the right time for wearables to be embraced under the DaaS model.
"The ...
This IDC Web Conference presents a discussion by the members of IDC's Global Print analyst team on key predictions emerging from the COVID-19 pandemic that will reshape the trajectory of this industry. Past perceptions of enterprise printing ...
This IDC Web Conference presents a discussion by IDC's Device and Consumer Research Group Vice President, Tom Mainelli, on top predictions impacting IT buyers focused on new types of commercial endpoints. Join to learn how COVID-19 is accelerating ...
This IDC Web Conference presents a discussion by IDC's Supply Chain team on key predictions that will impact business processes and technology adoption in both manufacturing and retail supply chains over the next five years. Senior line-of-business ...
根据《IDC全球半年度人工智能系统支出指南，2H19》——跟踪范围为人工智能在行业和用例层面的软件、硬件、服务和落地案例——到2020年，全球范围的企业预计将投资501亿美元于人工智能解决方案。预计到2024年，中国人工智能市场规模将达到119亿美金，2019-2024年复合增长率达23.0%。
在本研究中，IDC全球分析师团队描述了影响IT和业务决策者负责该项支出并有效利用相关解决方案的主要驱动因素，并给出了2021-2026年有关人工智能自主性项目的十大预测。
每一个预测都是基于它的影响（投入和复杂度）和时间范围评估。该研究还为IT和业务决策者在人工智能领域的战略制定、修改和资源配置的投入提供了指导。
此报告在全球的基础之上，提供了中国人工智能市场2021-2026的十大预测：
- 预测1：到2023年，在金融，医疗，政府和其他受监管的公共部门中，超过15%的以消费者为中心的AI决策系统将引入解释其分析和决策过程的相关规定。
- 预测2：到2021年，超过50%的组织将在呼入电话处理环境中增加AI功能。
- 预测3：到2024年，45%的重复工作任务将通过使用由 ...