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.
本調査レポートは、IDCが2019年1月に実施した、国内企業のビッグデータ／アナリティクスソフトウェアの利用に関する「2019年 国内ビッグデータ／アナリティクス市場 企業ユーザー調査」の調査結果から抜粋し分析を加えたものである。本調査レポートには以下の調査項目が含まれる。
- 国内企業ユーザーのストリームデータアナリティクスの採用／検討状況
- ストリームデータアナリティクスにおいて利用しているテクノロジー
This IDC Market Presentation discusses IDC Energy Insights' view of utilities in 2019 and beyond. It combines the 10 worldwide predictions for utilities with evidence from several IDC and IDC Energy Insights surveys and market evaluations. ...
This IDC Market Note describes the recent upgrades and enhancements to IBM's virtualization stack, starting from the hypervisor and going all the way up to cloud orchestration tools.
"IBM's singular leadership in servers and virtualization ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight examines how much European organizations have integrated their Big Data analytics (BDA) environments with key Innovation Accelerator technologies. Survey respondents are European companies with more than 10 employees ...
The Finovate Europe 2019 trade show, held February12-15 at London's Tobacco Dock venue, provided a stage for 64 international fintech companies to showcase their new products, tools, and ideas in a seven-minute live demo to the 1,000+ attendees, ...
本調査レポートは国内企業／団体におけるビッグデータ／アナリティクスについての認知／導入の状況や、データアナリティクスに対する取り組みを行っている企業／団体における利用目的や組織／人材の状況、新技術への取り組み状況などについて、IDCが2019年1月に実施したユーザー調査の結果を基に分析を行ったものである。
「データアナリティクスへの企業の取り組みは、進展が見られるものの、DXデッドロックの兆候が顕在化してきており、今後の中長期の成長を楽観視できないという調査結果となっている。データアナリティクスに取り組むベンダーはユーザー企業とのより緊密な取り組みを通じて確実に成果を積み上げることが求められる」とIDC ...
This IDC Market Forecast discusses the BDA software and implementation services market in the Nordic countries for 2018 to 2022.
"The Nordic market for Big Data and analytics software and services reached €3.4 billion in 2017 and is ...
This IDC study provides a detailed description of IDC's Worldwide Semiannual Big Data and Analytics Spending Guide methodology and taxonomy. It should be used as a companion piece for IDC's Worldwide Semiannual Big Data and Analytics Spending ...
These event proceedings were presented at the IDC Directions conferences in Santa Clara and Boston in March 2019.
The days of the omnipresent homogeneous, general-purpose server are over. The speed with which training and inferencing ...
These event proceedings were presented at the IDC Directions conferences in Santa Clara and Boston in March 2019.
Recently conducted IDC Business Value research has shown how organizations deploying new technology initiatives — such ...
These event proceedings were presented at the IDC Directions conferences in Santa Clara and Boston in March 2019.
Since the first bespoke non-volatile memory express (NVMe)–based system shipped in 2016, many more vendors have tossed ...
These event proceedings were presented at the IDC Directions conferences in Santa Clara and Boston in March 2019.
The systems integrator landscape will be transformed by AI-based automation in services delivery. The evolution of automation ...
This IDC Survey analyzes a portion of the 2018 IDC Energy Insights Annual Survey of the European oil and gas (O&G) industry. The survey was carried out between July and October 2018 and targeted managers with IT responsibilities. ...
This IDC study presents a five-year forecast for the worldwide virtual client computing software market as defined in IDC's Worldwide Software Taxonomy, 2018: Update (IDC #US44835319, ...
This IDC Survey presents key findings from IDC's European DataBench Survey on the benefits that European companies are achieving or expect to achieve through the deployment of Big Data and analytics (BDA) solutions. ...
This IDC Market Note discusses Arena Racing Company's single customer view initiative, and how its transition to a new data management suite is a key part of that initiative. For many organizations, building a single view of customers is ...
This IDC Tech Buyer presentation represents the data collected in IDC's 2018 IT and Operational Technology (OT) Convergence Survey (June 2018).
The research objectives are to study and uncover the motivations ...
This IDC study describes the overview of AI Systems adoption and impact and opportunities in Latin America, identifying top-ranking use cases and providing market forecasts from IDC's Worldwide Semiannual Artificial Intelligence Systems ...
This presentation was given at the Chief Data Officer Summit, Budapest, Hungary, in December 2018. The presentation addresses the growing challenges of managing data and extracting value from it. These challenges have, in turn, prompted ...
This IDC Survey highlights results from the IDC Health Insights Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) Survey conducted in December 2018, with a major focus on hospitals, followed by telehealth services, virtual care services, and aged care ...
本調査レポートでは、国内ファイル／オブジェクトストレージ市場における支出額と出荷容量を4つのセグメントに区分して、2019年～2022年の予測を行っている。IDC Japan エンタープライズインフラストラクチャのグループディレクターである森山 正秋は、「ファイル／オブジェクトストレージはデジタルトランスフォーメーション（DX）を支える「データ基盤」としての役割が強く求められるようになっている。そうした要求に対応してファイル／オブジェクトストレージが成長していくためには、ハイブリッドクラウド環境やマルチクラウド環境において、オンプレミスとオフプレミスを連携したデータ管理ソリューションの提供が重要になる」と分析している。
...本調査レポートでは、国内企業を対象としたユーザー調査を通して2018年度と2019年度（見込み）のストレージ支出や、各種のITプロジェクトがストレージ支出に与える影響について調査を行った。ITプロジェクトの中では、AI（Artificial Intelligence：人工知能）、IoT（Internet of Things）、大容量データのアーカイブがストレージ支出に与える具体的な影響についても調査した。
ストレージインフラについては、オンプレミス（自社所有、オンプレミスの従量課金制）とオフプレミス（パブリッククラウドサービス、プライベートクラウドサービスなど）に分けて利用実態と利用計画について調査したほか、ストレージインフラの選定基準や選定の際の課題について調査した。また、データマネジメントについては策定状況、対象項目などに関する調査に加え、データマネジメントでの重要性が増している「データの最適配置」を実現するための課題についても調査を行った。
ストレージ技術の利用意向については、特にオールフラッシュアレイ、Software-Defined ...
Some of Saudi Arabia's most influential senior executives and decision makers joined top-level strategists from technology firms, telecommunications operators, and IT service providers for the "IDC Directions 2019" conference at The Ritz-Carlton, ...
This IDC Market Glance provides a snapshot of the current intelligent urban transportation landscape globally, including the definitions of the major segments of the market, the structure of the market, and the vendors participating in each ...