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.
在数字化转型过程中，人工智能是重要的加速器，企业也在致力于从传统的商业智能向更深入的数据智能分析迈进。2019年SAS分析师大会将创新的分析更进一步， 致力于为用户提供灵活、开放、集成、自动化、统一的分析平台，并结合创新的解决方案为企业提供更广泛的数据分析应用。
IDC 创新者是指年营业额低于$100M、有创新性技术或突破性商业模式的新兴厂商。本报告分析了如下三个提供数据智能化治理的厂商（排名不分先后）：明略数据、普元信息技术股份有限公司和杭州世平信息科技有限公司。
IDC中国研究经理刘迪表示：“企业需要提升对数据智能化治理的重视程度。随着未来多方技术的融合，应用场景的持续增加，数据结构、数据类型的多元化，数据治理的难度和迫切性也会进一步提升。企业应该尽早认识到数据治理对企业的价值，在数据化转型中做好数据准备工作。”
...IDC 创新者是指年营业额低于$100M、有创新性技术或突破性商业模式的新兴厂商。本次 IDC 创新者研究对北京顶象技术有限公司、深圳永安在线科技有限公司、瑞数信息技术（上海）有限公司、同盾科技有限公司、北京亚鸿世纪科技发展有限公司的业务安全反欺诈创新技术及市场应用进行了全面调研。
“移动互联、在线支付、电子商务等技术的迅猛发展，使得越来越多企业的关键业务暴露在互联网中。面对每天频繁的业务交互，如何实时精准识别海量数据的真实性、合规性对于业务提供者来说尤为重要。同时，在巨大利益的诱惑下，黑灰产的欺诈攻击已经覆盖了几乎所有业务场景，业务安全反欺诈已经成为全球各行各业企业级用户不容忽视的问题。优质的业务安全产品和服务能够帮助企业有效抵御业务欺诈威胁，为企业业务的稳定、安全运行保驾护航。”——IDC ...
本IDC报告研究了中国医疗行业IT市场的现状和未来发展趋势，研究领域主要涵盖医疗服务、医疗支付和医药流通三大领域，分析了中国医疗改革的主要措施、行业发展趋势、新兴信息化技术及其支撑的新兴医疗服务的发展和医疗行业数字化转型的发展，并重点分析了医疗行业各类主要IT解决方案市场的发展情况和趋势。本研究也提供了对整个医疗行业IT花费和主要解决方案的市场规模，以及数字化转型的市场规模的预测。
“中国医疗改革的持续推进和数字化转型在医疗领域的应用，是促进医疗信息化发展的两大直接推动力。经过二十年的医疗信息化建设之后，医疗业务的智能化正在成为下一步追求的目标，综合各类发展多年的智慧医疗服务正在成为医疗机构的工作议程。预计从2019年起，云计算平台将成为中国特色医疗健康服务体系运营的基础平台，医疗信息系统将会全面向云平台迁移，云平台也会支持人工智能技术、虚拟现实、机器人技术等应用在远程医疗、远程手术、医养结合、药品研发和健康管理等各个领域，使得智慧医疗实现质的飞跃，发展成为未来的医疗健康服务模式。2019年以及后续三年中，联接基层医疗、养老、居家护理等更加广泛和便捷的医疗健康服务体系将会建立起来，医疗保障的覆盖领域将会覆盖到新兴的医疗健康服务体系，医药研发与临床试验、临床治疗的流程衔接起来。新兴技术的持续应用是医疗数字化转型的直接动力，医疗信息化、数字化和智能化循序渐进。”——IDC中国行业研究与咨询服务部高级研究经理肖宏亮说。
...2019年4月26日，浪潮商用机器有限公司在北京召开了媒体纷享会，主题为“POWER 之春，赋能数字经济新活力”。