Data Measurement for Asia/Pacific

IDC expects digital transformation (DX) investments in technologies to continue increase significantly over the foreseeable future. By 2019, DX investments will reach US$556 billion in Asia Pacific excluding Japan (APeJ), representing 33% increase from 2017. This represent an increased spend in 3rd Platform technologies (Cloud, Big Data, Social and Mobility) as well as innovation accelerators like AR/VR, IoT, Cognitive/AI Systems and Robotics. IDC believes that Cloud is the enterprise digital platform for DX and act as a key enabler to accelerate business transformation and innovation.

Asia-Pacific is primed for Cloud as enterprises shifted their IT operations spend from legacy on-premises to cloud infrastructure and platform, increasing the use of cloud native technology. This APeJ CloudView Survey 2018 from IDC will examine the strategic benefits from the cloud. With more enterprises adopting a multi-cloud strategy to optimize the performance, cost and security requirement of specific workloads on cloud, we also investigate the organizations’ plans on their cloud projects across the different industry verticals. The survey will capture the cloud investment and buying intentions of enterprise IT decision makers and their selection criteria for cloud service providers.

Key Topics Covered:

• Estimate what percentage of your organization’s TOTAL ANNUAL IT BUDGET (including servers, applications, software, databases, storage products, networking, IT staff, and services) is allocated to the different deployment models (for Today & 24 months from Today)
• What are the SKILLS/PROCESSES currently implemented to manage your organization’s Cloud environment efficiently?
• What are the TECHNOLOGIES/TOOLS currently implemented to manage your organization’s Cloud environment efficiently?
• What KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS (KPIs) and its expected improvement over the next 2 years based on your organization’s use of Cloud Services?
• What is your organization’s plans for the types of CLOUD PROJECTS? (Industry specific application workloads for BFSI, Manufacturing, Retail, Energy, Healthcare and Government)
• What is your organization’s PUBLIC CLOUD plans for the types of horizontal application workloads?
• Which COMPANIES / SERVICE PROVIDERS would you use or prefer to use to assist with each types of cloud projects?

Countries in Scope: Australia, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Korea, Malaysia, New Zealand, Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam

Total Sample Size: 2,000

For more information on this survey, contact Marie Afuang at mafuang@idc.com

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The digital economy has influenced rapid changes to enterprise preferences, behavior, and initiatives. Organizations are adopting next-gen technologies such as software-defined networking (SDN) and virtual network services (VNS) to address some of their DX network challenges. This survey taps into the pulse of enterprises in APeJ to establish a relationship between their business goals, impact on their network and internal technology initiatives.

Key Topics Covered:

• General – Technology/3^rd Platform
  • Business initiatives driving network and comms investments, challenges
  • Top tech platform investments, secure cloud interconnect or cloud connect adoption
  • Preferred service providers, Telco as a service provider (if not, why)
• SDN/NFV – (One section for each, SDN and NFV)
  • Current state, primary motivators, inhibitors, challenges
  • Key value propositions and budget allocation, use cases, perceived benefits
• WAN (incl. SD-WAN)
  • Change in bandwidth requirements, Challenges with traditional WAN (if any)
  • Criteria when purchasing WAN equipment or services, Hybrid WAN adoption, Hybrid N/w management
  • SD-WAN adoption, future plans, impact of SaaS in organisation’s WAN choice
  • SD-WAN value prop, expected cost savings, % enterprise applications accessed over internet
  • SD-WAN use cases, solution preferences, vendor selection criteria
  • Vendor selection criteria and preferred partners

Countries in Scope: Australia, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, New Zealand, Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam

Total Sample Size: 1,400

For more information on this survey, contact Marie Afuang at mafuang@idc.com

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The annual Future of Work survey is designed to interactively engage IT decision makers and LOBs across 13 countries to acquire the most accurate, up-to-date information on workspace, workforce, and work culture transformation initiatives.

Key Topics Covered:

• Key initiatives for Future of Work, including employee- and customer-focused technologies, policies, governance mechanisms, and budgets
• Strategies on workspace transformation, investment priorities, and measurement of effectiveness
• Security requirements and needs, key security concerns
• Selection criteria for vendors, and future plans/initiatives

Countries in Scope: Australia, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Korea, Malaysia, New Zealand, Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam

Total Sample Size: 1,100+

For more information on this survey, contact Marie Afuang at mafuang@idc.com.

The IDC Asia/Pacific Cognitive/Artificial Intelligence (AI) survey annually targets executive and IT LOB to understand the adoption, development and business priority of Cognitive Computing and AI technologies, including the challenges, focus areas, as well as platform and framework preferences. The survey takes into count the latest dynamics and evolving procurement and consumption behaviors in different parts and different industries of Asia/Pacific. It is studied in conjunction with businesses' progress along the maturity curve of Information Transformation.

Key Topics Covered:

• How much & how much % of overall IT budget, does your organization plan to invest on cognitive/AI technologies in the next 2 years?
• What are the key barriers inhibiting deployment of cognitive/AI systems in your business today?
• What would be your organization’s main criteria when considering purchasing of cognitive/AI solutions?

Countries in Scope: Greater China, India, SEA, ANZ

Total Sample Size: 660

For more information on this survey, contact Marie Afuang at mafuang@idc.com.

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This survey is a collaborative effort between Printer and PC domains, offering a view into how commercial end users think, decide, or even change their ways when it comes to their attitude and decision-making processes around device procurement. Consequently, insights from the survey can help brands plan better when it comes to their product and marketing plans/strategies. Data points can be sliced and diced by country (12 in Asia/Pacific), employee size, and 13 verticals.

Key Topics Covered:

• How many PC and Print devices were purchased in the last 12 months?
• What are the most common brands being purchased for different product types (i.e., Desktop, Notebooks, Slate and Detachable Tablets, as well as Inkjet, Desktop Laser, Floor standing Laser MFP, 3D printers and Production printers?
• How are devices being procured in the organization
• What factors drive the purchase of new or replacement devices?
• How is the purchasing/usage behavior changed by new technologies such as artificial intelligence?

Countries in Scope: Australia, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Korea, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam

Total Sample Size: 3,000

For more information on this survey, contact Marie Afuang at mafuang@idc.com.

The IDC APeJ Business and IT Services survey is an annual executive line-of-business (LOB) and IT-focused study that provides comprehensive insights into the market dynamics that are currently shaping the region. Analyzing the spending intentions of IT and line-of-business (LOB) buyers who engage external service providers to implement digital transformation (DX) initiatives, the study provides insights into digital business initiatives, DX adoption patterns, crucial DX focus areas, IT services spend in relation to DX, and evolving sourcing strategies in relation to DX.

Key Topics Covered:

• Top Business and IT Initiatives
  • How would you rate the following business and IT initiatives in terms of importance to your organization?
• Sourcing Strategies

• Who is your primary external businesses and IT services provider to support your important business and IT priorities?
• Please rate the level of effectiveness of your business and IT services provider in supporting your organization’s business priorities
• What is the most important factor you considered in selecting this primary business/IT services provider?

• Adoption Patterns and Focus of Digital Transformation Initiatives

• What is your organization's current state of digital technologies’ adoption?
• Among different aspects of Digital Transformation, what is your organization's top focus?
• What do you prioritize for adoption in response to changes brought about by Digital Technologies?

• Business and IT Services Spend in relation to Digital Transformation

• Which division funds digital transformation (DX) projects?
• Considering your organization’s total planned spend for digital transformation initiatives, what percentage is your organization planning to use internally (in-house resources), versus using a primary external vendor?

Countries in Scope: Australia, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Korea, Malaysia, New Zealand, Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam

Total Sample Size: 1,300

For more information on this survey, contact Marie Afuang at mafuang@idc.com.

The disruptions created by 3rd Platform-related technologies are leading to the convergence of ICT and industries in the digital economy. IDC's Asia/Pacific C-Suite Barometer is an annual C-Level research initiative that seeks to understand transformation initiatives and their respective sizes, scope, timings, organizational approaches, and more. Covering sentiment, understanding, and insight around DX urgency, IT supplier clients will have access to a wealth of knowledge on the profiles of DX leaders in the region, how best to approach a digital leadership team and its stakeholders, as well as crafting an effective message to position capabilities.

Key Topics Covered:

• Sense of DX urgency
• Size, scope, and timing of transformation initiatives and efforts
• Organizational structures and approaches
• Business and monetization models
• Organizational challenges
• Key strategic priorities and programs and technologies required for enabling digital capabilities
• Approach, types, investments, and talent sourcing for DX platform strategies
• Digital measures and metrics and how they being used to transform, monitor, and manage the business

Countries in Scope: Asia/Pacific

Total Sample Size: 1,000 C-Level respondents

For more information on this survey, contact Marie Afuang at mafuang@idc.com.

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This survey seeks to uncover key trends in cutting-edge digital government deployments, understand what drives industry-wide partnerships, and provide insights into digital government knowledge ecosystems, so as to advocate for effective digital transformation practices. Key focus points include Future Citizens, engaging LoB stakeholders, strategic sourcing, next-generation workspaces, 360-degree stakeholder engagement and security implications, and data-to-digital economy outcomes.

Key Topics Covered:

• For Government Technology Buyers
  • Current & Future Technology Trends
  • Information to Enable Better Decision-Making
  • Helping Governments Justify Decisions with Solid Research-Based Data and Analysis
  • Suppliers & their performance record as well as solution market leaders
  • Competitors' insights (other Governments)
  • Opportunities for government offshore expansions/ investments
• For Solution Providers
  • Government IT Procurement Intelligence
  • Intelligence on key political, social, economic, and technology trends, opportunities, gaps, and challenges related to Government technology investments
  • Intelligence on Government Purchasing priorities, budgets and timelines
  • Intelligence on Government decision-making criteria
  • Intelligence on Government evaluation criteria
  • Market sizing and intelligence on competitor landscape for specific verticals, e.g., education, health
  • Intelligence on key decision makers in Government
  • Intelligence on key procurement decision makers

Countries in Scope: Australia, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Korea, Malaysia, New Zealand, Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam

Total Sample Size: 390

For more information on this survey, contact Marie Afuang at mafuang@idc.com.

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In recent years there has been heightened interest in the area of digital transformation (DX). The recent interest in DX has been weighted heavily on the business aspects of change and tended to neglect the complexity of the technical datacenter (DC) environment.

Almost unnoticed, there has been a parallel maturation of DC-related technologies that have made the software-defined DC possible. Without this parallel infrastructure maturity, the full benefits of DX would not be possible. These technologies include integrated infrastructure, hyperconverged appliances, software-defined storage, flash storage, software-defined networks and datacenter information management (DCIM).

There is now a perfect confluence of business and these ICT trends in the marketplace creating the necessary alignment for the DC to support DX. As a result, value is shifting to the DC and the DC is becoming the center piece of the extended hybrid cloud which now includes an IoT ecosystem. The future “DX Economy” will require a highly accurate, fully automated, lights-out DC that uses predictive analytics to reduce downtime.

This survey focuses exclusively on enterprise computing plans and smart datacenter and edge deployments. Data is used to provide insight into solution adoption and major trends in enterprise DC operations and management.

Key Topics Covered:

• Enterprise Infrastructure
  • Top enterprise infrastructure initiatives, priorities, challenges and business expectations for 2018.
  • Change in enterprise IT infrastructure spending across deployment types.
  • Application types being moved to public cloud services.
• Smart Datacenters
  • Datacenter deployments by size and retirement, expansion, retrofit and new build plans. Datacenter challenges.
  • Approach to datacenter design standards, energy efficiency, power resiliency, cooling adaptability, datacenter placement and expansion, and predictive maintenance.
• Edge Datacenters
  • Definition, strategies, benefits, required services, preferred vendors, hardware, types of workloads

Countries in Scope: Australia, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Korea, Malaysia, New Zealand, Singapore, Thailand, Philippines, Taiwan

Total Sample Size: 1,053

For more information on this survey, contact Marie Afuang at mafuang@idc.com

This survey covers the key businesses and IT priorities of close to 500 manufacturers in 13 countries across the APeJ region. The goal of the survey is to understand Asia/Pacific-based manufacturers' key business objectives and priorities, as well as IT spending, challenges, DX initiatives, and the decision criteria involved in making IT purchases.

Key Topics Covered:

• What best describes your company's primary Manufacturing activity?
• What are the main business concerns for your organization ?
• In the next 3 to 4 years , what will be your organization's business priorities?
• What are the Top 3 drivers to improve your organization's Manufacturing Operations?
• What are your organization's current IT challenges?
• What are the key new technologies your organization plans to invest, in the next 2 years?
• What is the current level of awareness and usage of the 3^rd Platform Technologies?
• What are the top 3 challenges your organization faces in its Digital transformation journey?
• In terms of supply chain digital initiatives what are the top 3 programs you looking at investing currently?

Countries in Scope: Australia, China, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, New Zealand, Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand

Total Sample Size: 440

For more information on this survey, contact Marie Afuang at mafuang@idc.com.

The IDC Asia/Pacific Software Survey enables software vendors as well as service providers and channel partners, to gain valuable insights into the buying sentiment (including vendor mind shares) of over 900 CIOs and LoB decision makers across the Asia Pacific region, for both short and the long term. In addition, this survey provides country, vertical industry, and organization size-specific insights.

Key Topics Covered:

• Is your organization investing more or less on these initiatives (BDA, cloud, enterprise apps, app development and deployment, infrastructure software, security) in the next 12 months?
• Which of the following analytics software (e.g.,BI, data warehouse, CRM analytics, cognitive/AI) are you planning to deploy over the next 18 months?
• For new business initiatives (e.g. Omni experience, DevOps, Big data and analytics), what is your software deployment strategy?
• which of the following business processes in an ERP solution are you planning to use, on public cloud, private cloud or on-premise in the next 12-18 months?
• Does your organization use or have plans to deploy the following frameworks or technologies (e.g., CI/CD, DevOps, microservices, application containerization, API management)?
• For those who have implemented or are looking to implement agile methodology and DevOps practices, what are the main drivers for doing so?

Countries in Scope: Australia, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Korea, Malaysia, New Zealand, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand

Total Sample Size: 900+

For more information on this survey, contact Marie Afuang at mafuang@idc.com.

The growth in devices shipments are slowing down in Asia Pacific, with upgrades accounting for a large portion of the demand. This makes understanding the consumer behavior and preferences essential to improve customer retention as the barriers to enter the market is very low. This survey takes a closer look at the devices users behavior when choosing to purchase the device and their intention of purchase in their next device, from PCs, tablets, wearables and even VR headsets.

Key Topics Covered:

• Why do you prefer buying a small or large screen size phone?
• Do you intend to buy a smartwatch in the next 12 months?
• Do you intend to buy a VR headset in the next 12 months?
• Do you cover up the webcam on your PC for privacy purposes?
• Top 3 criteria in choosing a device
• Why did you buy a detachable tablet?
• Do you use a PC for gaming?
• What is your perception of curved screen monitors?

Countries in Scope: Australia, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Korea, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam

Total Sample Size: 4,500+

For more information on this survey, contact Marie Afuang at mafuang@idc.com.

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We know that trust drives economic growth and so IDC has developed a framework for thinking about Digital Trust and its ability to enable Digital Transformation.
Digital Trust is defined as “Enabling the decisions made between two or more entities that reflect their level of confidence in each other; these decisions are based on each entity's digital reputation as well as the assurance levels provided by each entity's cybersecurity programs for a proposed digital activity.”
Encompassing issues such as

• Internal IT risk
• Share IT resource risk
• Digital Activity Reputation
• Organizational reputation

Key Topics Covered:

It will seek to better understand:

• Where trustworthiness fits in with other elements that might drive DX and revenue
• What the key elements of trustworthiness are, and which matter most to organizations across APeJ
• Talent management practices and cultural aspects, around anytime anywhere working etc.

Some of the key questions this Digital Trust study will help answer:

• How well resourced internal IT security departments are in terms of funding and headcount
• Key security strategies for the next 12-18 months
• Security spending as a % of overall IT spending
• Expected benefits of key security technologies
• Anticipated future risks

Countries in Scope: Australia, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Korea, Malaysia, New Zealand, Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam

Total Sample Size: 500

For more information on this survey, contact Marie Afuang at mafuang@idc.com.