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.
The IDC Market Glance provides the highest-level view of the healthcare IT landscape for 4Q20. The major categories and vendors identified in the document include infrastructure, core transaction, clinical and financial risk management, ...
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 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 ...
本报告直观展示了以工业互联网平台为核心的中国智能制造市场的构成与格局，包括智能工厂工业应用、网络设备、服务、车间应用、劳动力增强型应用、工业云、工业互联网平台、云平台等，同时本报告也对市场发展、主要厂商策略、生态建设进行了总结。
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 explores identity management in telcos and the challenges telcos face in harnessing digital identity to optimize their customer-facing operations. The document explores the business goals telcos can achieve through ...
This IDC Market Presentation provides an executive summary and overview to identify critical new social impact activities and describes how those in the technology sector can harness technology to have positive social impact across three ...
"Hospitals are facing a number of challenges in terms of hiring and nurturing a talented and dedicated workforce. However, this is also an opportunity to improve care through staff reskilling and process modernization. Investments in HCM ...
This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation provides an overview of the results from IDC's customer satisfaction award program, the IDC SaaS and Cloud CSAT Awards, which recognizes the leading software-as-a-service (SaaS) vendors ...
2019年，中国公有云服务市场（IaaS+PaaS+SaaS）规模达到124亿美元，同比增长61.2%。其中基础设施即服务（IaaS）市场规模达到77亿美元，同比增长65.6%；平台即服务（PaaS）市场规模达到15.6亿美元，同比增长83%；软件即服务（SaaS）市场规模达到31亿美元，同比增长43.4%。本报告以2019年全年的数据为基础，主要介绍了中国公有云服务市场的市场规模、未来五年市场规模预测、细分行业动态和竞争格局，同时也对关键市场动态进行了分析，为服务商提供可行性建议。
IDC企业级研究部研究经理诸葛兰表示："整体来看，2019年中国公有云市场仍然呈现稳步增长的态势，纵观全球市场，中国市场的增速仍维持在高位。从云计算行业本身发展的轨迹来看，如今的云计算行业仍然处于线性增长阶段，但不同的是，在新冠疫情+新基建的影响下，云计算的市场教育成本减少，市场竞争也逐渐有序化、多元化。新基建建设提议将会促动更多"新基建+"行业和市场机遇。云厂商可结合其核心技术，如云计算、大数据、5G等，从企业信息化建设和数字化转型的角度切入，围绕业务领域提出新的发展概念，影响行业和市场，树立思想领导力，占领发展高地，推动潜力市场发展。"
...This IDC Market Share analyzes the Nordic enterprise applications market for 2017-2019 and provides the market shares of each vendor. It segments the ERM, CRM, SCM, production applications, and engineering applications market by functional ...
This IDC Market Glance provides a glance at the current makeup of the payer IT landscape, illustrates the vendor landscape, and depicts the segments and structure of the market.
本プレゼンテーションは、国内ユニファイドコミュニケーション（UC）／コレボレーティブワークスペース／CRM（Customer Relationship Management）アプリケーション／EA（Enterprise Applications）ソフトウェア市場に関連する2019年の市場動向、各市場セグメントの動向、および2020年～2024年の予測を提供する。IDCでは、国内UC／コラボレーション／CRMアプリケーション／EAソフトウェア市場の調査レポートを年間情報提供サービスとして提供している。このサービスでは、国内の企業向けアプリケーションに関連する市場を定義し、各市場の動向と市場規模を調査、分析して報告する。
...This IDC Presentation provides an overview of the Australia Federal Government ICT spending trends and forecast up to 2024. This report incorporates an overview of the digital transformation (DX) trends and initiatives as well as digital ...
This IDC Market Presentation provides a comprehensive overview of the entire New Zealand ICT market, specifically focusing on shifting business attitudes, vertical growth breakdowns, and vendor performance. New Zealand organisations continue ...
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 Perspective provides responses from 100 U.S. federal government respondents to the IDC's May 2020 Worldwide Industry CloudPath Survey. This is the second of two documents derived from this survey and includes ...
Multicloud and hybrid cloud are the way to go for enterprises today. However, today's public cloud is not carrier-grade. This IDC Market Analyst Perspective highlights why and how telcos should compete and cooperate with public cloud hyperscalers ...
This IDC Market Presentation provides an executive summary of the worldwide findings from IDC's 2020 Industry CloudPath Survey.
Industry CloudPath provides deep insight into how each industry is moving to the cloud, ...
This IDC study provides historical market share data (2018-2019) for the worldwide compute infrastructure market for workloads. This historical data illustrates top server vendor shares overall and by workload category. IDC reported these ...
This IDC study discusses the market for AL4 platforms, which remains strong at $3.5 billion worldwide. The siloed AL4 platforms of the past have been opened up and can now be fully leveraged for digital DX while the rest of the datacenter ...
The objectives of TM Forum's Open Digital Architecture (ODA) are to help communications service providers (SPs) lower the amount of spend on IT systems (OSS/BSS) that will run their existing business, address the needs of new network technology, ...
This IDC Perspective discusses the drivers that will impact that deficient communications infrastructure on which the COVID-19 event rested upon. This pandemic event and concurrent regulation have finally driven payers to the realization, ...
This IDC Web Conference, which includes forecast numbers and edge computing trends, looks at how edge-based processing, with new 5G connectivity as its pipeline, will become a conduit for rapid government system growth. On today's government ...
This IDC Presentation outlines the top 10 changes we expect in the next normal of the World of Work post-COVID-19, inspired by the initiatives of industry leaders in the Future of Work.
COVID-19 has shocked the world in the past few ...
This IDC presentation analyzes the cloud adoption and priorities in the utilities sector for the Asia/Pacific region, mainly concentrated in India, China, Australia, and New Zealand. This presentation examines Asia/Pacific utility results ...
This week, Oracle announced that it has been selected by Zoom Video Communications to help it scale its growth that, at this writing, includes a jump from 10 million to 300 million daily Zoom Meetings participants in just a few months. Oracle ...
This IDC Market Note provides a high-level overview of the Oracle OpenWorld Europe 2020 event, with implications for European manufacturers.
This IDC Vendor Profile provides analysis of Oracle's Internet of Things (IoT) strategy.
This IDC Market Glance provides an overview of the telecommunications ecosystem, including hardware and software vendors, standardization bodies, open systems players, infrastructure suppliers, network service providers, communications platform–as-a-service ...
This IDC Market Analysis Perspective (MAP) provides an overview of the EMEA European enterprise infrastructure market in 2020, including trends around the impact of COVID-19, digital and IT transformation, multicloud adoption, and partnering ...
This Market Presentation presents IDC's view of the cloud services market for the Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) (APEJ) financial services industry, with insights into cloud adoption and buyer needs, a competitive assessment of key players, ...
This IDC Market Glance provides insights into the manufacturing sector worldwide. Creating a collaborative ecosystem requires the right technology, integrated into a functional and transparent technology landscape. Tools and solutions should ...
This IDC Market Glance provides an overview of the current makeup of the facility management software market landscape, illustrates the participating vendors, and depicts the segments and structure of the market.
This IDC Perspective shares key takeaways from the second annual Oracle Food and Beverage Connect 2020, which took place on March 2–4 at the InterContinental Miami. The gathering of 400+ restaurant operators and technology partners offered ...
This IDC Market Presentation provides an overview of developments linked to digital transformation (DX) in Europe in Q4 2019. It covers news, significant deals, policy announcements, regulatory actions, and investments that could impact ...
本調査レポートでは、国内企業におけるITインフラ（サーバー、ストレージにフォーカス）の導入状況や今後の投資意向を踏まえて、システムタイプといった視点から分析している。具体的には、SoR（Systems of Record）としての基幹業務システムと、SoE（Systems of Engagement）やSoI（Systems of Insight）で重要度が高いと考えられる機械学習やAI（Artificial Intelligence：人工知能）に着目して、その活用状況や採用しているITインフラストラクチャについて分析している。さらに、ハイブリッドクラウドの活用状況について考察している。
...This IDC Market Glance updates a high-level representative view of major unified communications and collaboration (UC&C) vendors and providers in each of the technology categories presented. UC&C solutions are designed to enhance ...
This IDC Market Glance identifies the key stakeholders in the European education ecosystem, and examines its key vendors.
本IDC Market Glanceレポートは、国内におけるFoW（Future of Work：働き方の未来）市場のセグメント構造を解説すると共に、各セグメントにおいて製品やサービスを提供するベンダーのマップを提供するものである。
This IDC Market Analysis Perspective examines the main challenges facing telcos and how best to overcome them. Like all enterprises, telcos need to transform how they operate their core businesses. For telcos, this not only means their network ...
This IDC Market Glance provides a look at the current makeup of the connected health landscape, illustrates who some of the major players are, and depicts the segments and structure of the market.
This IDC Market Glance explores the current makeup of the future of work (FoW) technology landscape, illustrates the participating vendors, and depicts the segments and structure of the market.