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 Tech Buyer Presentation provides data, insights, and perspectives on how innovation is central to the digital transformation (DX) journey for retailers in China. With the backdrop of China's online retail sales commanding almost ...
The China-US trade war has been ongoing through nearly a year and a half and has exerted negative impact on both countries and the global economy – with even greater negative impact on global enterprises with business operations in both ...
IDC全球云市场2019年十大预测中预测，到2020年，75%使用公有云的企业将同时使用私有云平台。而到2024年，90%的全球1,000强组织将建立多云管理的战略，包括使用能够跨公有云和私有云，进行统一管理的工具。当云已经成为企业IT投资不可缺少的部分，多云和混合云的使用在被大多数企业所接受的同时，对于云的管理成为越来越多的企业关心的话题。如何更好地实现云的自动化运维，把多种云资源以服务的方式提供给内部或者外部的客户，合理管理云的使用和费用支出，做好云的灾备等需求使得企业需要专门的云管理软件来更好地使用和管理云。云系统和服务管理软件市场跟踪统计的是厂商销售云管理软件获得的收入，其中包括软件许可、基础维保、软件订阅以及软件即服务（SaaS）等形式的销售收入。这类软件产品至少需要管理一种云资源，也可以同时管理多种类型的云和非云资源，包括私有云、公有云、混合云、多云以及物理设备、虚拟机等。
2018年中国云系统和服务管理软件市场的市场规模达到了1.1亿美元，主要的市场竞争者分为五类：云基础架构（软件或者硬件）提供商、独立的云系统和服务管理软件提供商、传统的系统和服务管理软件提供商、云管理服务提供商、公有云服务提供商。从2018年整体市场情况来看，云基础架构提供商贡献了大多数市场收入。以华为、VMware、新华三为代表的服务商在私有云领域有长期的积累和丰富的成功案例，云管理软件往往是其私有云解决方案中重要的组成部分。而随着用户对混合云和多云需求的不断增加，他们也不断扩充其云管理软件的能力，从虚拟机，私有云的管理到多种公有云资源和容器的管理，从而满足客户统一平台，多种资源管理和自服务的需求。独立的云系统和服务管理软件提供商在诞生之初即是专注于云管理这个领域，以飞致云为代表的这类厂商作为独立的第三方云管理软件服务商，在能够被统一管理的云平台的支持上更具有丰富性，在一些行业也拥有良好的口碑和成功案例。剩下的三类厂商在整体市场规模上的占比相对较小，但是同样拥有良好的增长势头。以传统的系统和服务管理软件提供商为例，他们大多数收入来源还是来自于对传统基础架构和流程的管理和运维，但是客户IT基础架构的变化也推动他们对产品功能进行拓展和完善，对多云和混合云管理的支持也成为他们重点发展的新领域。
IDC企业级系统和软件研究部高级研究经理李昭表示："云系统和服务管理软件市场是一个新兴的高速发展的市场，它的出现是企业IT基础架构向云转变的必然产物。现阶段企业使用云管理软件仍然以管理内部云资源为主，包括单个云资源池和多个或者异构的云资源池；企业也更倾向于购买软件许可把云管理软件部署在企业内部。随着公有云在企业中越来越高的渗透率，以及企业采购和使用习惯的转变，相信未来混合云和多个公有云在云管理软件管理的对象中的比例会越来越高，企业的采购方式也会越来越多样化。"
...本研究从连接类型和应用领域对2018年至2023年的中国物联网连接规模和增长速度进行了分析预测，并研究了中国物联网市场发展的主要驱动和阻碍因素，为技术服务提供商提出若干建议。
"在智能城市、智能制造、智能家居的推动下，智能抄表、安防监控、工业物联网、家用智能设备相关的物联网连接规模不断增长"，IDC中国研究经理卢春生认为，"未来，随着NB IoT、Lora、5G技术的进一步普及，连接技术将呈现出多元化发展的趋势。在石油、电力等要求网络广覆盖、低时延、高可靠的领域，公网与专网相结合将是长期发展趋势。"
...在当今全球的各类赛事中，网络安全保障已经成为重要的组成部分。为了避免平昌冬奥会网络安全事件的再次发生，北京冬奥组委首次选择网络安全厂商作为北京 2022 年冬奥会和冬残奥会官方赞助商。这一举措再次印证了在数字化时代，网络安全威胁无处不在，构建数字信任的相关举措将渗透到各行各业，无处不在。
中国人工智能进入了新技术融合、行业用户更关注应用落地的发展阶段：行业企业内部为了创新业务引入了多种新技术，不仅局限于单点AI能力，也逐步融入了HPC、机器人、5G等新兴技术。NVIDIA在2019 年一方面继续全面升级图形、AI& HPC等多领域技术能力，另一方面也逐步加强了其在中国的产业生态构建，从广泛的加速硬件选择逐步拓展到软件和应用层面的技术布局。
本文主要研究2018年DDI产品在中国市场的发展情况，研究显示中国的DDI市场依旧具有很大的开发潜力，主流行业为政府，金融，教育以及通信。
IDC中国研究经理郭越表示：“数字化融合性产品是当今智能、数字时代的大势所趋。如何更好地融合安全性、云功能、IPv6、5G、人工智能（AI）、边缘计算等热门IT趋势，也同样是DDI领域需要重点关注的理念。”
2019年腾讯云北京产品生态峰会对外展示了腾讯云在大数据和专有云产品、人工智能产品、云原生产品等方面的创新协作生态，分享了腾讯云在其不同产品上的合作伙伴实践案例，体现了腾讯云对合作伙伴生态建设的重视和战略思考。
On December 13, 2019, the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) announced a Phase One trade deal with China, providing immediate relief on the tariff front as well as longer-term hope on the horizon. Threats of system-level ...
IDC全球人工智能技术支出指南显示，2019年16.4%的AI软件部署在云端，而到2023 年，这一比例将达到41.7%。可以说AI云服务市场增长潜力巨大。而云服务厂商也逐渐成为AI创新的重要主体。AWS对AI的投资起步早，且应用实践广泛覆盖多个行业。2020年，AWS全球将继续重度投资机器学习及AI，同时也通过AWS Outposts, AWS Local Zones以及AWS WaveLength等多项新发布扩展部署能力。