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
Vendor Profile
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.
IDC Perspective
The IDC Perspective is a flexible doc that seeks to help business and tech buyers assess their business and IT strategy and/or associated business processes, especially as it relates to the use of technology. The document can be used in areas such as:
- Strategy and planning
- Trends and observations
- IT spending and investment
- Vendor conferences and announcements
IDC TechBrief
The IDC TechBrief helps the technology or business executive get smart about a single technology in the context of the business by answering 6 business critical questions about the technology:
- What is the technology?
- When should I adopt it?
- What can it do for my business?
- What are the critical success factors?
- What are the risks?
- Who are the suppliers?
Market Note
The Market Note is a flexible doc that provides IDC analysis and point of view on an industry event, new product or service, or a company announcement or development or fast breaking news.
Market Perspective
The Market Perspective is a flexible doc that analyzes key changes and developments happening in the market. This flexible research type can be used to analyze areas such as:
- Competitive Environment
- Innovation & Market Opportunity
- New Business Models
- Partner & Channel Strategy
- Enterprise Strategies (targeted to supplier)
- Regulation
- Socioeconomics
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
IDC Blink
IDC Blink
Provides timely context and insight around important market trends and events in a short opinion piece with a 2-minute audio clip. IDC Blinks provide IDC's point of view on:
- Financial announcements
- Product announcements
- Mergers and acquisitions or divestitures
- Events
- Response to news
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.
Presentations
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.
Market 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.
Tech Buyer 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.
IDC Market Glance
Provides a look at the landscape of a tech market, including competitive positioning, adjacent segments, and potential partner opportunities.
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
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 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 one-time study produced by a research group that is not published as a deliverable under a subscription service.
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.
IDC Innovators
IDC Innovators is aimed at informing IT buyers about emerging vendors with an innovative new technology or ground-breaking business model. Vendors identified in the document as innovators are linked together within a specific market area and around solving or alleviating a common business problem. Vendors included have annual revenue under $100 million at the time of selection.
Technology Segment
The IDC Technology Segment offers CEMA clients a comprehensive view of a technology segment in one country or subregion and provides a market view and forecast and/or market share and vendor profiles, including performances and strategies. It is specifically intended to serve smaller country markets and subregions.
This IDC MarketScape evaluates leading consulting and digital services providers by qualitatively and quantitatively assessing their capabilities and strategies regarding their offerings for upstream O&G businesses. From a worldwide ...
This IDC Presentation provides an in-depth analysis of the public cloud services market in India from July to December 2023 (2H23). It analyzes key market trends, market share by product category, and key vendor strategies in the infrastructure ...
This IDC Market Presentation provides a detailed analysis of the market and competitive landscape in personal computing in China from September to December 2023 (23Q4). This study covers mainly personal computing device, which includes desktops, ...
This IDC Market Presentation is a companion product to IDC flagship Trackers that are a leading industry benchmark for measuring and monitoring a market's size and forecast. This presentation provides an in-depth analysis of the Korea enterprise ...
This IDC Market Presentation is a companion product to IDC flagship trackers that are a leading industry benchmark for measuring and monitoring a market’s size and forecast. This presentation provides an in-depth analysis of the Korea enterprise ...
This IDC Market Note looks at how sustainability/CSR initiatives are evolving from nice-to-have differentiators to becoming critical factors in ensuring ESG compliance. Managed print services contracts must therefore be constructed to alleviate ...
This IDC Market Presentation reviews key trends that will impact global communications service providers in 2024. These trends include driving 5G monetization with FWA and private 4G/5G networks, emphasis on tailored managed services using ...
These event proceedings were presented to technology buyers, discussing the implementation of AI in the supply chain. IDC's predictions for the next five years were explored, highlighting how organizations can utilize them to scale technology ...
This IDC study represents a vendor assessment of the multicloud and hybrid cloud management with automation software market through the IDC MarketScape model.
"Enterprises need a solution to the complexity of supporting the digital ...
This IDC Market Presentation is an executive summary of IDC's 2024 EdgeView Survey findings. It is intended to aid technology organizations, hardware vendors, software developers, services suppliers, and investors in ...
This IDC Market Presentation is an executive summary of IDC's SAP Infrastructure View survey findings exploring in key detail the demands and characteristics that influence the infrastructure deployment patterns and key software platform ...
This IDC Market Presentation provides an update to IDC's quarterly semiconductor competitive landscape vendor ranking for IDC's Semiconductor Technology Supply Chain Intelligence (STSI) subscribers.
This IDC Market Presentation identifies ...
本調査レポートは、国内Data Platform, Logistics and Operations市場をコンペティティブ市場(Competitive Market)として定義し、「データ保護」「データセキュリティ」「データ管理システム」「その他のデータガバナンス」の4つのカテゴリーに分類し、2023年までの売上実績と市場動向に基づいて、2024年~2028年の市場規模の予測を行うと共に、AI(Artificial Intelligence:人工知能)技術の進化が当該市場に与える影響について考察している。
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本IDC技术买家演示文稿为技术领导者提供了一份技术员工技能管理和培养计划,确保企业拥有或能够开发面向数字企业的技术技能。制定一份能满足当前和未来需要的人员、角色和技能计划,对于留住现有员工、吸引新员工至关重要。本指南介绍了一条团队人才管理之路,它开始于技能评估和前瞻规划,包括培训、技能重塑和培养学习文化等。
优秀员工的招聘、保留和技能重塑从未像现在这样困难。多种外因导致全球一半以上的企业面临技能断层危机,影响到了企业的利润、收益、生产力和竞争力。随着全球技能短缺问题愈演愈烈,企业必须制定周密、全面的战略,让员工及时了解新兴技术。
IDC最新研究探讨了培训在项目成功中的作用,发现在混合多云、自动化、IT管理和数据分析项目中,额外的培训与成功和目标达成直接相关。这使得IT人才管理、培训和技能发展成为一项战略要务。
“对于具备某些技能、态度和特质的人,根本找不到合适的替代人选。首席信息官(CIO)必须发挥创造性,综合运用招聘新员工、指导培训现有员工、利用派遣员工和服务提供商/合作伙伴等方法,打造所需的能力矩阵,”IDC数字业务IT技能研究总监Gina ...
在中国移动算力网络大会上,移动云明确提出了“构建新型万象生态关系,加速算力网络新质生产力落地”,本IDC市场笔记梳理总结了移动云构建新型万象生态加速大模型行业落地的4大策略:新增算力伙伴、扩大渠道伙伴、做深应用伙伴、培育创新伙伴。
本調査レポートでは、電通総研における顧客エクスペリエンス(CX)変革サービスに関するビジネスの最新動向について考察する。
「主にマーケティング領域を対象とした電通グループの横断組織である電通DXグラウンドが擁する9社/4,000人超の体制(2024年3月末時点)は、CX変革に関わる国内サービス事業者において最大級である(ただし、IDCが定義するCX変革サービスは、マーケティング/広告サービス、メディアサービスを含めない)。また、電通DXグラウンドにおいて、電通総研が有するテクノロジーの実装力とコンサルティング/シンクタンクのケイパビリティは、同グループのCX関連ビジネス領域をカスタマージャーニー全体に広げ、グループシナジーを伴って五感を活用した感覚的な体験の向上を伴う顧客接点の構築に寄与する。このような広告/マーケティング分野における同グループのケイパビリティと電通総研によるシナジーが今後拡大することは、CXを中心とした事業戦略推進(CXフォーカスイニシアティブ)の新たな方向性を開拓することにも寄与する」とIDC ...
This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation presents a framework for enterprises hoping to stay ahead of a worsening global IT skills shortage. It includes data from IDC's 2024 IT Skills Survey as well as best practices for cultivating ...
This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation discusses challenges and opportunities facing Canadian municipalities. Key themes include affordable housing, aging infrastructure, security, citizen engagement, and budget priorities. With insights on population ...
This IDC Market Presentation summarizes IDC's Worldwide Financial Services Market Trends 2024 Report, which aims to provide technology vendors with an overview of the key business trends shaping the worldwide financial services industry ...
This IDC Pivot Table forecasts the worldwide volume of data generated (created/captured and replicated/consumed) each year in IDC's Global DataSphere. The Pivot Table segments data generated by created/captured and replicated/consumed, as ...
This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation reveals how point-of-interest (POI) and places data is increasingly becoming a pivotal resource across various industries, offering a wealth of information that can significantly enhance decision-making processes ...
This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation provides breakout session slides from Coupa Inspire 2024. The session covered the rapid development and advancements of GenAI and how they are influencing the procurement space.
This IDC Pivot Table provides a summary of worldwide hard disk drive (HDD) component quarterly demand for 1Q24 and a four-quarter demand outlook. This Pivot Table provides insight into the demand for select HDD components by HDD form factor, ...
本調査レポートでは、2023年の国内エンタープライズクライアント市場および国内クライアント仮想化市場について分析し、同市場が現在置かれている状況を明確にすると共に、2024年3月時点のIDCのGDP成長率予測と前提条件を考慮し、今後の予測を行っている。
IDC Japan、Infrastructure & Devicesのシニアマーケットアナリストである渋谷 寛は「2024年は、ハイブリッドワークが定着する年である。リモートおよびリアル(対面)をハイブリッドに組み合わせ、業務の効率化および生産性の向上と新規ビジネスの創造に取り組むことが求められている。このようなハイブリッドワークにおいてエンタープライズクライアントは、クライアント環境を戦略的基盤として活用できる有効な施策の一つになる」と指摘している。
...本調査レポートは、国内ハイパースケールデータセンター(DC)の需給バランスを、供給側および需要側の定量的な分析を基に考察している。さらに、2045年までのハイパースケールDC需要の長期的展望についても分析している。
「国内のハイパースケールDCは長期的にも増加傾向が続く可能性が高い」とIDC Japan、Software & Servicesのリサーチマネージャーである伊藤 未明は指摘する。