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 Survey examines the spending intentions and behaviors of buyers of analytics, artificial intelligence (AI), and robotic process automation (RPA) services, with a specific focus on the impact of AI and intelligent automation on workforce ...
The IDC study provides a visual representation of the process of technology adoption, dividing technologies into three major categories based on their impact on the organization and assessing technology relative adoption levels within their ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight features the adoption of intelligent document processing (IDP) solutions within document workflows. The automation and optimization of document workflows leads to increased customer and employee satisfaction, increased ...
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 ...
The combination of Okta and Auth0 looks to be a win-win combination of philosophies and technologies, and Okta expects the action to be accretive from an EPS standpoint. A debate ensues about the $6.5B stock offer coming only eight months ...
This IDC Presentation looks at the priorities and requirements for successful implementations of the Internet of Things (IoT) for oil and gas in the Asia/Pacific region. There is acceptance among oil and gas companies in the Asia/Pacific ...
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。
...This IDC Perspective describes the drivers behind ERP modernizations and the factors that need to be considered when evaluating an ERP modernization project's business case. It also presents five ERP modernization scenario archetypes, identified ...
本調査レポートでは、2020年度と2021年度（見込み）のストレージ支出、ストレージインフラの利用実態、クラウド環境でのストレージ利用、データマネジメントの課題、ストレージ新技術の導入状況などについて国内企業695社を対象に調査を実施した。
ストレージ支出については、新型コロナウイルス感染症（COVID-19）やデジタルトランスフォーメーション（DX）がストレージ支出に与える影響についても調査した。ストレージインフラの利用意向についてはオンプレミスやクラウドサービス（パブリッククラウド、プライベートクラウド）などに分けて調査した。また、オンプレミスでは従量課金制について利用実態、利用理由、運用管理方法、利用範囲、改善項目などについて調査した。
ストレージインフラの運用管理については、特に人材に関する課題について焦点を合わせた。また、ストレージ運用管理におけるAI（Artificial ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight illustrates a level of adoption for DataOps and a distribution of methods being used in DataOps practices according to the results of IDC's December 2020 DataOps Survey. Adoption levels are high, but ...
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 ...
This IDC Market Note presents the most impactful points of IDC's conversation with Miruna Senciuc, CEO of BNP Paribas Personal Finance Bucharest Branch. The conversation covered several pivotal topics, such as how COVID-19 impacted people, ...
This IDC Perspective reports on the outcomes of January's IDC global CIO Research Advisory Board virtual roundtable. Ten CIOs from multinational organizations across multiple industries and regions shared key insights from the unprecedented ...
This IDC Perspective presents what is required to fully embrace price transparency throughout the payer enterprise. CMS mandates for payers and providers have emerged in response to "surprise billing" and a political response to consumer ...
This IDC TechScape examines the technologies that are essential for safely reopening and managing government office spaces during the COVID-19 pandemic, recognizing that many have the potential to evolve in the years to come. It provides ...
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 ...
Operations-intensive organizations are undergoing digital transformation. This is not only affecting technology and processes,but is also having a particularly strong impact on organizations' structures and roles, as well as the responsibilities ...
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. ...
The latest financial figures released by Workday on February 25, 2021, showed the company's total revenues for the year were $4.32 billion — up 19% year over year. Subscription revenues showed robust growth of 22.4%, reaching $3.79 billion ...
This IDC study provides a detailed description of IDC's Worldwide Big Data and Analytics Spending Guide methodology and taxonomy. It should be used as a companion piece for IDC's Worldwide Big Data and Analytics Spending Guide and all of ...
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 ...
This IDC Survey presents results from the customer experience (CX) section of IDC's European Software Survey, completed in November 2020 (n = 763). It focuses on cutting-edge CX technologies and the degree to which enterprises are using ...
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 IDC Survey Spotlight provides insights from IDC's 2020 Artificial Intelligence (AI) Maturity Survey conducted from October to November 2020. It looks specifically at which AI use cases are higher on the agenda ...
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 ...
This IDC Perspective analyzes how bp embarked on a subsurface knowledge mining project. bp intended to capitalize on the wealth of subsurface data it built over the years to boost the operational efficiency of its upstream business. The ...
This IDC Survey focuses on digital experience technologies and user preferences to deliver multichannel customer experiences. Buyer interest in headless content management systems to support dynamic web and mobile apps is on the rise. IDC's ...
在疫情常态化的今天，制造商开始重新审视其现有业务，并开始规划未来产业发展战略。在以国内大循环为主题、国内国际双循环相互促进的“双循环”战略背景之下，制造商如何保持业务可持续性？如何开拓新市场以满足内循环需求？在运营过程中如何减少供应链带来的风险？这些都是制造商普遍关注和亟待解决的问题。
IDC最新发布的《中国制造业供应链市场机会分析》报告，从宏观经济和产业角度分析了制造业供应链市场的重要性，并给出了智慧供应链的定义和在制造业的主要应用场景。结合中国制造业的实际，给出了制造业供应链市场的全貌、重点分析了领先技术提供商的主要业务和战略布局。在最后，给出了制造业供应链市场未来的发展趋势和市场机会点。
“未来制造商之间的竞争，从本质上说是企业供应链之间的竞争。制造业数字化供应链的特征是智能化、可视化、以及具有弹性。供应链服务商市场竞争格局初显，未来企业之间的竞争将愈发激烈。企业把握‘供应链创新’这一风向，不断加速新兴技术在制造业供应链场景的落地和应用，推动供应链创新应用实践。”——IDC中国制造业高级研究经理张兰英表示。
...The intent to merge announced by Arcserve and StorageCraft represents an interesting combination of Arcserve's backup and recovery software, Arcserve's partnership with Sophos for data security, and StorageCraft's converged scale-out storage ...
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 Glance provides a glance at the landscape of vendors playing in various segments of the IoT application development and deployment market. It includes vendors that offer IoT-specific software suites, as well as vendors that ...
This IDC Market Note discusses five significant announcements made in early 2021, four of which are specific to the database technology markets and one is more general. These announcements point to maturation and consolidation of IT (in ...
With the COVID-19 pandemic, resiliency has become a business priority. But traditional approaches struggle to integrate business resiliency with new digital realities. IDC presents a digital resiliency framework to help CEOs, CIOs, and other ...
This IDC Perspective identifies six crucial questions that IT executives should ask vendors claiming to offer cybersecurity solutions that incorporate machine learning technology. These questions are intended to identify the data and algorithms ...
This IDC Market Perspective features the branch of one, an emerging new architecture that has been precipitated by the impacts stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic.
"While enterprises may have rushed into decisions of how to rapidly ...
This IDC Market Glance provides a snapshot of the current data-driven policing landscape globally, including the definitions of the major segments of the market, the structure of the market, and the vendors within each segment.
This IDC Survey Spotlight examines the European sample (n = 962) of IDC's Energy Insights Utilities Consumer Survey, which surveyed 1,359 energy customers from around the world. The survey was carried out in July 2020 and covered ...
Dynatrace held its annual user conference as a virtual event during the week of February 8–12, 2021. The event drew an estimated online attendance of 25,000 versus 2,500 physical attendees the previous year. During the event, the company ...
This IDC study provides details of IDC's worldwide multicloud data management and protection taxonomy. The data protection market is highly dynamic, driven by new application workload deployments and cloud capabilities. The majority of IT ...
This IDC study provides IDC's future enterprise use cases for the future of customer and consumer as it seeks to support business strategy and success. This taxonomy is organized to mime strategic priorities that serve to define how line-of-business ...
This IDC Perspective discusses the state-of-the-art Future of Intelligence in Latin America and the role played by artificial intelligence in defining organizations able to harness the power of their data-driven culture, employee data literacy, ...