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.
当前，伴随全球数字化转型进程的进一步加快，人工智能、云计算、物联网、工业互联网的大规模快速发展，全球网络安全产业持续焕发蓬勃生机，数字信任成为各国逐步开始关心且重视的话题。作为全球网络安全投资第二大国，中国也在外部威胁、政策调整、技术进步等驱动力的作用下持续加大对网络安全产业的投资。本报告对中国网络安全市场2021年十大预测分别进行了阐述和解释说明。
十大预测内容如下：
预测一：到2023年，由于传统VPN远程访问解决方案的缺陷在大量居家办公（WFH）场景中暴露出来，针对现代软件定义安全接入解决方案的预算将翻四倍。
预测二：到2025年，为减少受限员工所面临的安全复杂性，企业安全投资的55%将用于统一的生态系统和平台框架的建设。
预测三：到2024年，在进行了数十亿美元的收购之后，全球三大公共云提供商中的两家将跻身前五大托管安全服务（MSS）提供商之列。
预测四：到2025年，将有80%的首席信任官要求技术供应商整合安全和风险能力以衡量公司的信任度，其中包括供应商关系和员工声誉。
预测五：到2023年，企业和其供应链之间的集体风险管理要求将迫使50%的第三方风险和安全服务提供商采用先进的分析工具。
预测六：到2023年，50%的G20国家/地区的隐私法规将要求社交媒体提供商提供删除有关16岁以下的儿童内容和数据的选项。
预测七：到2021年，10%的组织将利用员工生产力软件来监管和优化居家办公员工的数字工作流程。
预测八：到2022年，全球的医疗提供商、保险提供商和技术供应商联盟将采用一种数字身份框架，该框架将基于分布式账本技术来建立"联系人跟踪"应用程序。
预测九：到2023年，将有30%的组织获得监管认证，证明其基于AI和ML的算法系统是道德（无偏见和歧视）且透明的。
预测十：到2023年，35%的大型组织需要通过展示内部组织结构和流程以及在财务报表中公开报告结果的方式来体现其社会责任举措。
...IDC最新发布的《中国内容分发网络（CDN）服务市场解读，2019》（2020年8月发布）报告显示，2019年，中国内容分发网络（CDN）服务市场规模达到33.2亿美元，同比增长31.7%。其中，OTT（over-the-top）视频市场规模达到10.5亿美元，同比增长35.5%；在线游戏市场规模达到9.6亿美元，同比增长37.1%；电子商务市场规模达到7.8亿美元，同比增长31.3%；网络、电子邮件和数据市场规模达到5.3亿美元，同比增长17.6%。此报告以2019年全年的数据为基础，主要介绍了中国内容分发网络（CDN）服务市场市场规模、未来五年市场规模预测、竞争格局和行业动态，同时也对市场的驱动因素和阻碍因素进行了分析，为服务商提供可行性建议。
IDC企业级研究部研究经理诸葛兰表示： ...
本报告对中国物联网十大预测进行深度解读，分析其市场驱动力和对IT部门的影响，并对技术买家给出若干建议。
物联网应用逐步从云向边缘扩展，并且进一步人工智能、大数据分析、数字孪生、运营技术（OT）融合，拓展出更多的应用场景；同时，随着物联网通信技术的发展和通信基础设施的完善，采用多种连接技术的物联网终端逐步增长，针对不同的业务场景使用不同的连接技术，实现通信速率、功耗、距离、成本最佳平衡。
数字化战略正在成为国家战略，数字中国、网络强国、智慧社会、新型基础设施、国家大数据战略等提及次数明显增加，而智慧城市和新型智慧城市既是这些核心国家数字战略的关键组成部分，也是5G、人工智能、物联网、大数据等新技术的"试验场"。
互联网和移动互联网不断渗透，C端对于线上支付、数字化服务、数字化营销等方式已经完全接受，而城市服务目前看来线上化占比相对较低，依然有大量的改进空间和市场机会存在，尤其在智慧交通、智慧园区、城市大数据平台、城市云因中心等领域。
在中国十年（2009-2019）的发展过程中，智慧城市建设投资规模大、政策驱动明显，但是建设效果并不理想，尤其是市民获得感并不强。这其中的一个关键点是连续运营能力差，更多的是项目制投资，而不是长期运营型投资；另一个关键点是不仅仅政府要进行智慧化投资，其他运营主体尤其是地产商等提供空间运营服务的角色需要数字化转型。
在价值层面，"惠民、强政、兴业"的价值主张并没有变化，其中数字产业发展和传统产业数字化转型是智慧城市建设过程中政府更关注的重点；此外，在美丽中国的政策引导下，环保和生态价值将成为智慧城市项目建设另一个价值关注点。
厂商视角上，越来越多的非传统ICT解决方案提供商开始进入这个市场，尤其是具备科技输出能力的大型企业，比如地产商、金融机构等。
IDC认为未来5年智慧城市市场的十大预测如下：
- 预测1：在2022年，10-20%的智慧城市物联网项目将难以推进，由于项目价值及关键绩效指标（KPI）定义不清、厂商交付内容不理解、不充分的投资和利益关键人的了解。
- 预测2：到2020年，20%的城市将使用复合型指标来评估城市情况，比如主动预警情况、移动即服务情况和个人关怀。
- 预测3：到2022年，为应对市民和组织意见，50%下一代的安全技术采购将被严格的政策规范预先限制。
- 预测4：由于公众对政府使用个人数据的不信任程度不断攀升，到2022年，50%的城市将发布数据伦理政策来定义何种数据可以被收集、使用和共享。
- 预测5：到2022年，30%的智慧城市数字孪生平台将用以应对海量资产、产品极其相互关系带来的复杂性。
- 预测6：到2022年10%的安全事件将来源于智慧城市物联网设备，驱动两位数的安全软件和员工培训的预算增加。
- 预测7：到2024年，60%的未开发城市和10%的现有城市将使用数字化空间规划能力和新的分区规则来助力分享经济的快速发展。
- 预测8：到2023年，80%的城市数据科学家无法被满足，将引起机器人流程自动化/人工智能（RPA/AI）原生系统的投资增加，这些系统将成倍地增加数据能力而不需要增加人数。
- 预测9：到2023年，1/3的智慧城市场景将被5G影响，70%一二线城市将使用5G技术实现实时犯罪中心，车到一切（V2X）连接和智慧场馆等规模化服务。
- 预测10：到2024年，25%的一线和二线城市使用5G ...
2017年6月，《网络安全法》的颁布明确了社会各个主体的安全义务，成为网络安全法制化建设的里程碑。2019年5月，含《信息安全技术网络安全等级保护基本要求》在内的三大核心标准发布，将网络安全建设变为企业级用户的刚需。除此之外，2019年颁布的《数据安全管理办法（征求意见稿）》、《中华人民共和国密码法》等法律法规进一步对网络安全细分领域的建设进行了规定，推动了整体中国网络安全产业的发展。与此同时，不断涌现和完善的新兴技术也对国内网络环境和安全市场带来显著影响，本报告对中国安全市场2020年十大预测分别进行了阐述和解释说明。
十大预测内容如下：
预测1：受安全技能人才长期短缺的影响，到2022年，60%安全运营中心（SOC）的初级分析师将利用人工智能（AI）和机器学习（ML）持续提高其工作效率并提升其运营的安全水平。
预测2：到2024年，运营技术（OT）可视化工具的发展将推动60%的工业企业采用融合了信息技术（IT）和运营技术（OT）的方法进行安全监控。
预测3：将工作负载迁移到云正在转变组织对于托管安全服务的消费模式。到2022年，30%的托管安全服务（MSS）将由云托管安全服务提供商所提供。
预测4：在地缘政治背景下，到2022年，（全球）60%的市场将主动使用本地网络安全供应商来确保政府和关键基础设施的安全。
预测5：伴随数字信任业务重要性的不断提高，到2024年，30%的安全服务支出将专门用于开发、实施和维护“信任框架”。
预测6：消费者需要同时实现超凡的数字体验与身份保护。到2022年，60%的消费者在线交易将实现高信任并且无需密码。
预测7：企业对网络风险的关注与日俱增并将网络风险与品牌声誉紧密结合。到2022年，60%的上市公司将网络风险监控纳入其业务计划和季度报告中。
预测8：数据和分析的爆炸式增长推动了边缘计算的快速发展。为了确保数据的来源可信，到2024年，10%的企业数据将储存在分布式帐本系统中。
预测9：创新、机遇和市场需求共同推动了超大规模云提供商直接且持续地增强其安全业务。到2024年，云服务商9%的收入将来源于安全。
预测10：在网络空间，有效打击国家和网络犯罪组织依赖于不对称的漏洞与情报数据。为避免因漏洞带来的风险，到2023年，20%的发达市场将立法全面披露网络违规信息、共享网络漏洞与情报。
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