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.
本Competeは、2023年第4四半期のIDCの調査データ「Worldwide Quarterly Enterprise Storage Systems Tracker」のHistorical Data、Forecast Dataにおける日本市場の分析を、プレゼンテーションスライドによって提供するものである。
本Competeは、2023年第4四半期のIDCの調査データ「Worldwide Quarterly Enterprise Storage Systems Tracker」のHistorical Dataにおける日本市場の分析を、プレゼンテーションスライドによって提供するものである。
This IDC study, which presents IDC's current taxonomy for the enterprise storage systems market, should serve as a guide for the existing base of enterprise storage research and for the planned base of IDC hardware research. IDC expects ...
This IDC study provides a detailed description of the purpose-built backup appliance (PBBA) market as part of IDC's Storage Solutions coverage and Worldwide PBBA Tracker.
"IDC continues to see organizations investing in PBBAs in support ...
本調査レポートでは、計算性能を重視した異種混在のプロセッサーによるコンピューティング環境であるヘテロジニアスコンピューティングの構成要素について考察し、これに関わるエンタープライズインフラベンダーの動向について分析している。
IDC Japan、エンタープライズインフラストラクチャのシニアマーケットアナリストである加藤 慎也は「AIワークロードが牽引する新たな計算需要の高まりが、ヘテロジニアスコンピューティングによる付加価値の高い提案機会をもたらす。ITサプライヤーは、ユーザーの目的に即した提案を、自社主導のエコシステムによって具現化することで、ユーザーの事業展開に即した収益獲得を進めることができる」と述べている。
...本Web Conference Proceeding: Tech Buyerは、IDC Japan、Enterprise Infrastructureのシニアマーケットアナリストである加藤 慎也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。
従来にない柔軟な支出を実現するのが、オンプレミスのストレージインフラのサービス利用である。ベンダー各社で従量課金サービスなどの整備が進む一方、採用に当たってはユーザーの視座に変化が求められている。本講演では、ストレージインフラにおける支出の捉え方、支出の最適化に伴うシステム部門の変革について考察する。
...本調査レポートは、国内外付型エンタープライズストレージシステム市場の2022年上半期の実績を示すと共に、ベンダー別の実績とシェアの分析、およびシェアの変化をもたらした要因について分析している。
IDC Japan エンタープライズインフラストラクチャのシニアマーケットアナリストである加藤 慎也は、「本市場は、前年に続き半導体を中心とした部材の供給不足の影響を受けている。また、急激な円安を背景に一部では投資抑制の動きが生じつつある。適切なインフラ利用が妨げられることで、海外との差が広がり、デジタルトランスフォーメーション(DX)への取り組みでいっそう出遅れるリスクが高まる。ストレージベンダーは、支出の最適化へ向けた提案への理解を得ることで、市場のシェア獲得と活性化に取り組むべきである」と分析している。
...本調査レポートでは、ITインフラのas-a-Serviceモデルの詳細と他の支出方法との違いを整理した上で、採用理由に基づく需要の背景、普及に向けた課題について考察する。また、as-a-Serviceモデルを提供する主要インフラベンダーの取り組みをまとめ、今後の採用拡大に向けたベンダーへの提言を行う。
「事業のアジリティとレジリエンスを向上させるas-a-Serviceモデルの価値は、事業とインフラの双方の理解と組織の変革によって最大化できる。インフラベンダーは、as-a-Serviceモデル採用による社内リソースの変化についてユーザーと理解を共有し、より戦略的な情報システム部門へ向けて支援していくことが求められる」とIDC ...
本調査レポートは、国内エンタープライズストレージシステム市場の2022年上半期の実績に基づいて、2022年~2026年の予測のアップデートを行っている。実績、予測共に支出額と出荷容量の観点から分析している。
IDC Japan エンタープライズインフラストラクチャのシニアマーケットアナリストである加藤 慎也は「市場の回復局面における部材の供給不足や円安などの環境変化によって、市場を支える更新需要さえも大きく変化していく可能性がある。事業活動に要求されるアジリティの確保に対し、ユーザーはハイブリッドクラウドを前提としたインフラに対する新たな評価基準を模索し、ストレージベンダーは適切な選択肢を提示できることが求められる」と分析している。
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