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.
数字政府作为数字中国的重要组成部分，是构建高水平社会主义市场经济体制的重要支撑，是践行四个全面战略布局和五大新发展理念的重要抓手，是建设社会主义现代化国家的必经途径。从政策角度出发，十九届四中全会强调要创新行政方式，提高行政效能，建设人民满意的服务型政府；十九届五中全会强调推动国家治理体系和治理能力的现代化，而建设数字政府成为了这一理念实践过程中的重要抓手与引擎。截至2020年12月，全国已有15个省级行政单位提出了数字政府相关的规划，且规划主体正由省级政府向市级政府扩展，多层次的数字政府建设正渐渐拉开帷幕。从技术角度出发，大数据、区块链、云计算、人工智能等新兴信息技术不断融合创新，全面支撑数字政府的建设，科技全方面赋能的趋势逐步凸显。从市场规模角度出发，到2024年，数字政府相关的建设中仅IT解决方案的市场规模便会达到249亿人民币，市场前景广阔，未来可期。由此可见，数字政府建设正蓄势待发，。
IDC ...
云计算正渗透到各行各业，云的部署和运营方式日趋多样化，云系统可以既部署在中心云数据中心，也可以分布式部署在靠近客户本地的数据中心乃至边缘，为不同客户带来不同的云服务组合。本报告主要聚焦本地云服务模式，介绍了本地云服务的概念与特征、产品与模式、应用场景以及未来的发展趋势，并提出了一些建议，希望对云服务商未来发展提供一定的参考借鉴。
"本地云服务是分布式云中的重要组成部分，具备高灵活、低时延、可定制、高安全、一致体验五大特征。轻量化部署和规模化部署两大模式使本地云服务可以覆盖不同类型客户，满足安全敏感、本地交互、商业创新、云边一体等应用场景需求。当前本地云服务主要用于政府行业中，预期未来在医疗、金融、工业、教育等行业也会得到比较广泛的应用，成为云服务的重要选择。"——IDC中国企业级研究部高级研究经理刘丽辉表示。
...本报告包括四个部分，第一部分分析了中国数据中心服务市场的整体规模、行业与区域分布和市场发展动态；第二部分分析了中国数据中心服务市场的竞争格局和主要数据中心服务商发展动态；第三部分对中国数据中心服务市场进行了预测，并分析了该市场相关的驱动和阻碍因素；第四部分提出了一些简单建议，旨在为数据中心服务商提供决策参考。
“中国数据中心服务作为数字化战略的重要基础设施，得到了市场和政策的双重推动。企业数字化转型、新冠疫情刺激云计算发展、以及新技术带来的数据量激增增加了对数据中心服务的需求。互联网和金融行业仍是2019年数据中心服务市场增长的最强劲动力，而政府、制造业、零售业等其他行业需求也增长明显。市场对节能环保、成本优化、效率提升和合理规划等方面的要求，使得中国数据中心服务商正从注重基础设施能力深入到绿色高效、智能运维、混合云管理等综合能力提升上。中国数据中心服务市场将迎来一个从重视数量到重视质量的发展阶段。”——IDC中国云和服务研究组高级研究经理刘丽辉表示。
...该报告分析了2019年中国软件定义计算软件市场的规模，发展趋势和主要厂商的表现。
软件定义计算软件市场包括了虚拟化，云系统软件和容器基础架构软件三个市场，是建立云平台最重要的基础架构软件。2019年中国软件定义计算软件市场的市场规模达到9.2亿美元，未来五年的复合增长率仍将保持在19.0%。这个市场保持高速增长的原因主要来自于以下几个原因：中国虚拟化市场仍然有增长的空间；云平台成为新一代的IT基础架构，政府和企业在持续投资建设云平台；云原生理念的发展和传统行业的落地促使容器软件市场出现爆发式增长。另外未来5G的发展也会带动市场对于这个领域的投资。
IDC企业级系统和软件研究部高级研究经理李昭表示："虚拟化软件市场增长放缓，以云系统和容器基础架构软件为代表的新兴市场将成为未来软件定义计算软件市场增长的主要驱动力。由于疫情的影响，企业可能会因为业务的负增长而减少或延迟对新项目和现代化建设的投资，从而减缓软件定义计算软件的增长。但新冠疫情的发生也将使企业意识到保持企业敏捷性的重要性，并加大对数字技术的投入，以保持业务的连续性，灵活面对危机。"
...本报告包括三个部分，第一部分分析了中国公有云服务市场的整体规模、增速预测和行业分布，第二部分分析了互联网、金融、工业、政府和医疗五大重点行业的公有云应用情况和典型需求场景，第三部分分析了中国Top5公有云服务商的行业布局，旨在为云服务商、IT技术服务商提供决策参考。
“中国公有云服务正从互联网行业普及到政府、制造、金融、零售等各行各业，新冠疫情的刺激也将加速公有云向医疗、教育、服务等市场的渗透。各大公有云服务商均在强化垂直行业解决方案打造、合作伙伴培育和行业市场拓展，中国公有云服务市场正从注重云基础资源能力深入到助力企业业务数字化转型，将迎来一个从“量变”到“质变”的发展高潮。”——IDC中国云和服务研究组高级研究经理刘丽辉表示。
...2019年，金融科技发展规划靴子落地，创新监管试点范围不断扩大，基本扫除金融机构运用云计算及相关技术的顾虑，从基础设施到解决方案，金融机构向云计算架构演进已成必然。本报告在对金融云总体与细分市场的增长态势、竞争格局、未来趋势进行研究的基础上，结合最新产品技术、营销合作动态，分析总结了当前金融云服务商布局的焦点，并提出了未来金融云市场发展中应当关注的重点方向。
"当前，金融科技监管政策逐步完善、行业转型挑战不断加剧、金融云解决方案创新应用日渐成熟，金融云已经成为推动行业IT解决方案市场成长的重要力量。在核心上云逐步成为市场追逐热点的背景下，国产金融级交易型分布式数据库在大型银行核心信用卡、账务系统相继投产，亦为金融云市场增添新的信心与动力。未来，在混合架构、分步上云这一主旋律下，金融云市场仍将保持繁荣。"——IDC中国行业云研究经理魏云峰表示。
...在央地政府扶持政策双轮驱动、云服务商加大战略投入、工业云的市场认可度不断提升的背景下，2019年，工业云市场保持高速增长。本报告在对工业云总体与细分市场的增长态势、竞争格局、未来趋势进行研究的基础上，结合最新产品技术、营销合作动态，分析总结了当前工业云服务商布局的焦点与面临的关键挑战，并提出了未来工业云市场发展中应当关注的重点方向。
“在新冠疫情影响下，预计工业云市场增速在2020年略有下调，但长远来看，疫情也将加速企业生产方式与商业模式变革，提升工业企业对数字基础设施与解决方案的重视程度，为工业云市场远期增长创造更多可能。” ...
2019年，中国公有云服务市场（IaaS+PaaS+SaaS）规模达到124亿美元，同比增长61.2%。其中基础设施即服务（IaaS）市场规模达到77亿美元，同比增长65.6%；平台即服务（PaaS）市场规模达到15.6亿美元，同比增长83%；软件即服务（SaaS）市场规模达到31亿美元，同比增长43.4%。本报告以2019年全年的数据为基础，主要介绍了中国公有云服务市场的市场规模、未来五年市场规模预测、细分行业动态和竞争格局，同时也对关键市场动态进行了分析，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："整体来看，2019年中国公有云市场仍然呈现稳步增长的态势，纵观全球市场，中国市场的增速仍维持在高位。从云计算行业本身发展的轨迹来看，如今的云计算行业仍然处于线性增长阶段，但不同的是，在新冠疫情+新基建的影响下，云计算的市场教育成本减少，市场竞争也逐渐有序化、多元化。新基建建设提议将会促动更多"新基建+"行业和市场机遇。云厂商可结合其核心技术，如云计算、大数据、5G等，从企业信息化建设和数字化转型的角度切入，围绕业务领域提出新的发展概念，影响行业和市场，树立思想领导力，占领发展高地，推动潜力市场发展。"
...2019年，中国整体云运营服务市场依旧保持高速增长。虽然整体市场竞争格局已经形成，但是随着市场不确定因素增多，各家竞争逐渐加剧。本报告对整体云运营服务市场以及云代运营服务、云运维服务子市场的市场规模和份额、发展态势以及竞争格局进行了分析、研究与洞察，同时结合行业数据分析和动态，以及市场预测和需求解读为云运维服务供应商提供发展建议。
"在政府行业的大力投资、行业云的构建以及多云和混合云的管理运维需求的共同推动下，中国云运营服务市场在2019年稳步增长。虽然受新冠肺炎疫情影响，预计2020年该市场会有所下降，但未来，随着政府行业对云计算、大数据、5G和物联网（IoT）等新技术应用的大力支持以及公有云、私有云和混合云的快速发展，相信该市场在2021年会有小幅反弹。面对不断推陈出新的技术市场变化，云代运营复杂程度的提升以及云运维的新业态的产生，中国云运营服务商在补充自身知识技能的基础上，还应多将技能场景化，积极发展自动化，以追求更高价值的服务。"——IDC中国云与服务组高级研究经理刘丽辉表示。
...受企业数字化转型程度的加深的影响、产业互联网以及新技术发展的驱动，2019年中国整体云专业服务市场保持稳定增长，各个细分市场也呈现良好的发展态势。本报告在对整体云专业服务市场份额、发展态势、竞争格局研究的基础上，深入展开云专业服务下各细分市场的研究与洞察，并结合行业数据分析，为云专业的服务供应商提供市场预测、需求解读以及提升方向等指导意见。
"新技术的发展与落地不仅促进了企业数字化转型的加深以及产业互联网的发展，更催生了更多传统IT服务商向云专业服务的转型，也对云专业服务商自身的技术能力提出更高的要求。在新冠肺炎疫情的影响下，预计该市场的增长速度在2020年会有所放缓，但是疫情也让众多行业客户，甚至是大型政企更加坚定上云的策略，这为未来云专业服务市场的高速发展带来极大的推动力。面对市场上对数据分析、私有云/混合云建设、容器化改造等需求的不断增加，中国云专业服务商不仅要着重发展垂直行业和新技术应用能力，深耕云原生需求，更要积极构建生态合作，以拓展自身综合能力。"——IDC中国云与服务组高级研究经理刘丽辉表示。
...IDC行业云市场概览报告直观展示了行业云市场的构成与格局，包括行业解决方案、支持与技术服务、行业云应用、行业组织、监管机构等，并对市场发展、生态建设、主要厂商策略进行了总结。
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： ...
本报告梳理了“新基建”的定义和主要内容、出台背景以及涵盖的领域及投资规模，并结合新基建七大领域，如5G、大数据中心、人工智能和工业互联网等，重点分析了新基建带来的数据中心市场机会。报告显示，2020年第一季度，中国数据中心IT基础架构（包括服务器、外部磁盘存储和数据中心网络设备）市场规模达到46.9亿美元，同比下降3.9%。其中，服务器市场规模达到36.4亿美元，同比下降2.6%；外部磁盘存储市场规模达到6.9亿美元，同比下降7.8%；数据中心网络设备市场规模达到3.6亿美元，同比下降8.1%。此报告以2020年第一季度的数据为基础，主要介绍了在国家新基建政策下，中国数据中心市场的驱动因素，以及中国数据中心IT基础架构整体市场规模、未来五年市场规模预测、竞争分析和行业分析。同时，从市场规模、未来五年市场规模预测、竞争分析、行业趋势、市场热点等角度对服务器、外部磁盘存储和数据中心网络设备三个产品展开分析，并详细解读中国数据中心IT基础架构市场的发展进程和未来发展趋势。
IDC企业级研究部助理副总裁周震刚表示：“2020年第一季度，中国数据中心IT基础架构产品市场主要受新冠肺炎疫情影响较大，最终用户需求、厂商复工、订单的物流和交付等都受到不同程度的影响，使中国数据中心IT基础架构产品市场呈现下滑的趋势。中国政府鼓励新基建建设，其中明确5G、工业互联网、人工智能和数据中心等作为重点布局的大背景下，以及云计算、人工智能、边缘计算和5G等新兴技术在行业的深度应用，将推动中国数据中心IT基础架构市场未来几年保持稳定增长。中国抗疫成效显著，疫后复工复产有序进行。在整体外部宏观环境面临挑战的情况下，新基建将成为中国刺激疫后经济增长的主要驱动力。”
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