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.
本报告论述了中国生命科学研发中使用的主要信息系统的厂商市场份额，分析了生命科学研发软件的发展趋势和该市场的竞争态势，并对领先厂商 2019年的市场表现给予了分析评价，可供生命科学研究与开发企业、医院等机构在选择研发信息系统供应商时参考，也可供投资机构参考。本报告中生命科学研发信息系统主要包括有生物信息学系统、智能实验室系统、研发协作系统、综合eClinical平台系统、临床数据分析与挖掘系统和支持生命科学研发的社交沟通系统，当前这些系统主要用于新药研发业务中，具体定义请见本报告的"市场定义"章节（本报告中不包括基因检测信息系统）。另外，IDC所定义的上述系统与厂商的系统名称可能存在不一致的指称，但是其功能内容和所发挥的作用是一致的。本报告中不包括生命科学的生产和运营领域、生命科学中各种运算所依赖的IT基础设施等技术及厂商的分析，这些分析将在其他报告中展现。
"信息化技术正在成为生命科学研发的引擎，大量的新兴生命科学研发信息系统厂商进入这一领域并快速融入生命科学研发业务。那些起步比较早、信息技术应用水平高的厂商在生命科学研发中展现出价值并快速成长。预计未来几年，生命科学研发信息系统厂商将大量出现，与新药研发、精准医疗等业务同步成长，未来三到五年厂商将呈现激烈竞争而快速成长的局面，而未来五到十年，获得市场认可的厂商将会逐步脱颖而出并在生命科学业务发展中成长壮大。"——IDC中国行业研究与咨询服务部高级研究经理肖宏亮表示。
...本研究报告给出了制造业IT应用市场的定义和研究方法，回顾和分析了市场背景，其中包括制造业IT发展的驱动因素和障碍因素、重大市场变化等。从细分行业、技术分类等维度给出了2019-2024年中国制造业IT应用市场的预测，同时也分析了市场机会和未来趋势，并给技术提供商提出了发展建议。
"随着经济复苏，中国制造业IT市场需求将进一步释放。一方面，疫情倒逼制造业企业对工厂进行智能化改造，在远程维护、协同制造等应用场景加大投入；另一方面，分散在车间底层的工业生产数据的价值开始受到重视，IT和OT的融合将是大势所趋，同时，未来企业生产数据、流程管理数据上云的步伐也进一步加大。"——IDC制造业高级研究经理张兰英表示。
...本报告通过案头资料研究，以及对行业独立软件开发商、系统集成商、IT产品厂商及最终用户的直接访谈，得出对于中国银行业IT解决方案市场未来五年发展趋势的整体判断，旨在为银行机构以及IT服务商提供参考。
"基于移动互联技术衍生的网络金融业态对传统金融带来了较大的冲击，面对这一挑战以及新冠疫情的直接影响，银行机构正在积极重构自己的业务逻辑和架构，探索远程服务、云服务等新模式，以期在数字时代的创新浪潮中迎头跃进。而国家积极推进的新基建投资中所聚焦的5G、数据中心、云计算、人工智能等新兴技术，无疑将为银行业的数智化转型带来一次更直接的催化。以分布式革新作为支点，银行业新一轮的IT建设大周期已经启动，银行IT投资有望保持增长态势。"——IDC中国金融行业研究部高级分析师任辰羽表示。
...本报告通过案头资料研究，以及对行业独立软件开发商、系统集成商、IT产品厂商及最终用户的直接访谈，得出对于中国保险业IT解决方案市场份额及竞争格局的整体判断，旨在为保险机构以及IT服务商提供参考。
“2019年金融科技规划的发布，推动了云计算、大数据、人工智能、5G等技术与金融行业深度结合，驱动着IT应用不断创新，这些应用正在深刻改变着保险行业。随着分布式革新浪潮在金融行业逐渐推进，保险行业的IT架构将进一步优化，各类系统独立、繁杂、冗余的情况将得到改善，形成从渠道到管理、从外围到核心的升级改造路径。此外，随着无接触式金融服务概念的推广深化，互联网保险将受到直接的发展驱动，实现营销渠道远程化、保险产品场景化、数据管理智能化等。”—IDC金融行业研究部高级分析师任辰羽表示。
...“中国重症医学在中国的发展已经有十多年的时间，获得了巨大的进步，重症医学在今年的抗击新冠肺炎疫情中发挥了巨大作用，其作用和价值也引起重视。预计未来十年中，重症医学医护工作者、床位数、医疗设备等资源都将大幅增长，成为健康中国目标实现的关键能力。重症医学信息系统以及新兴信息化技术应用能够整合医疗设备、流程和人才技能，成为重症医学发展的充分条件之一。重症医学信息系统从2015年左右开始发展，将经历信息化、数字化和智能化的发展阶段，形成超级数字化和广泛智能化的特征。重症医学信息系统的开发和建设需要信息化厂商既要具有重症医学专业技术能力，又要具有医院信息化建设综合能力，且需要具备大数据、人工智能等新兴信息化技术能力，才能开发出支撑重症临床和重症科研的合格产品。医院在选择重症医学信息系统产品及厂商时需要评估厂商所具备的能力，选择适合医院发展特点需求的厂商，进而选择优秀的重症医学信息系统产品，支撑医院重症医学科发展壮大，并实现提高疾病治疗水平的目标，为健康中国发展贡献力量。”IDC ...
本IDC研究报告分析了疫情对于中国ICT支出规模所带来的影响和应对疫情的各项措施对于ICT市场的促进，对2019年ICT支出和2020至2024年ICT支出规模做了预测分析，其中包括信息技术（IT）市场和通信技术（CT）市场，揭示了中国ICT市场的动态、关键驱动因素及发展趋势。本报告为IT厂商、电信运营商、IT渠道经销商等提供了决策参考。
"在全社会范围内开展的数字化转型逐渐从尝试阶段过渡到全面开展的阶段，在抗击新冠肺炎疫情的过程中，在线购物、居家远程办公、远程教育、远程医疗等各项业务凸显了数字化转型的价值；在疫情之后的经济恢复过程中，数字化转型也显示出巨大的作用。促进疫后经济恢复的"新基建"政策则直接促进ICT产业的发展。数字化转型的深入发展将推动云计算、移动应用、大数据、人工智能、物联网等技术应用的创新和成长，带动各类ICT产品、软件、IT服务和通信服务的升级和增长，中国ICT市场将会迎来一个新的发展高潮。"——IDC中国行业研究与咨询服务部高级研究经理肖宏亮表示。
...本报告通过案头资料研究，以及对行业独立软件开发商、系统集成商、IT产品厂商及最终用户的直接访谈，得出对于中国银行业IT解决方案市场份额及竞争格局的整体判断，旨在为银行机构以及IT服务商提供参考。随着银行数字化转型的深入与需求的升级，本报告覆盖的厂商预计也将随之不断变化。
“2019年，随着金融科技规划的出台，新兴技术的商用化落地实践愈发丰富，在数字化转型全面推进的环境下，银行机构需要通过技术路线转型进而支撑业务创新转型，在IT建设改造方面的投入决心与力度出现明显提升。这一年中，银行业加速探索分布式革新，多数厂商均推出了同时支持集中式和分布式应用的新一代解决方案，以建信金科为代表的银行系科技公司同样将科技输出作为重点战略方向，行业供需两侧的整体竞合生态正在重塑，银行业IT解决方案的未来增量市场可期。”——IDC中国金融行业研究部高级分析师任辰羽表示。
...IDC认为，数字化转型已经进入到了2.0时代，未来企业就是坚定走数字化道路的组织，数字化运营实现规模化，创新速度比传统业务高出一个数量级。本文主要聚焦于未来企业业务的核心——数据，通过数据从产生与采集到传输与处理、存储与管理、分析与利用的全生命周期，来分析企业应该如何重塑基础架构，也就是我们提出的未来数据基础设施。
此外，我们认为未来数据基础设施是数据化经济时代的必然产物，是数字化转型2.0时代支撑未来企业业务的基石，是面向多云架构、承载新兴技术应用的平台。未来数据基础设施具有灵活部署、实时相应；有效容量、绿色节能；安全可靠、数据在线；数据智能，云端洞察；敏捷灵活、多云就绪这五大特性。
...本报告列出了中国电子病历系统主要厂商的市场份额，分析了电子病历系统市场的竞争态势，并对领先厂商在2019年的市场表现给予了分析评价，可供医院在选择电子病历系统供应商时参考，以及供综合性IT厂商在选择合作伙伴时做参考。
"随着电子病历应用水平的大幅提升，电子病历已经成为医疗业务管理的重要抓手，能够促进医疗质量提升，促进医疗资源平衡，支持分级诊疗和互联网医疗业务发展；电子病历也正在成为医疗信息化升级的着力点，能够促进医院核心管理系统的完善与升级。电子病历的重要地位以及政府推动的电子病历应用水平评级和医院信息互联互通成熟度测评，将促进电子病历在未来三年中的高速发展。电子病历市场的进入门槛越来越高，专业电子病历厂商在不断完善和巩固其市场地位的同时，将会获得越来越广阔的医疗信息化机会；医院核心管理系统厂商也开始注重电子病历的建设和升级，借助电子病历应用水平评级和互联互通评测，推动电子病历和核心系统更加匹配，支撑医疗信息化向更深更广扩展。预计未来，电子病历市场的集中度将进一步提升，电子病历厂商也将在医疗大数据、临床决策支持系统（CDSS）等产品上不断扩大市场份额。互联网医疗的发展，也将会促进电子病历的应用以及电子病历产品的升级，新型的电子病历将会产生和发展，互联网医疗厂商有望加入到电子病历产品的竞争中。"——IDC中国行业研究与咨询服务部高级研究经理肖宏亮表示。
...本报告通过对软件厂商的直接访谈，以及二手资料的研究，分析了中国财务云市场的发展动态和竞争格局，对中国主流财务云厂商进行了研究，并对市场的发展提出了一些建议，旨在为中国财务软件厂商和IT服务商提供一些建议。
“随着云计算，移动互联网以及人工智能技术的快速发展，数字化转型已经成为当代企业的目标共识，财务作为企业的核心部门，也同样面临着数字化转型的挑战。传统的套装财务软件难以满足企业数字化转型的需求，随着云计算相关技术的大力发展，财务云以其微服务的架构、按需付费等优势，能够满足企业未来的发展需求。特别在经历了2020年的疫情后，传统的部署模式面临着巨大挑战，而财务云因其更加符合企业未来的发展需求，有利于助力企业完成数字化转型，获得了逆势增长。”——IDC中国企业级研究部高级研究经理徐文婷表示。
...IDC数据透视表提供了2020–2024年中国省级国内生产总值（GDP）和 IT 支出的预测数据。其中包括 31 个大陆省份以及香港和台湾的数据：名义 GDP 价值、实际 GDP 增长率、按产品类别划分的 IT 支出（硬件、软件和IT 服务）以及 2018 年至 2024 年的市场规模数据。为 IT 供应商制定业务计划时提供参考。
IDC数据透视表包括以下数据：
- 省级 GDP，包括名义 GDP 值和实际 GDP 增长率
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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、医疗保障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医疗数字化转型的发展，并重点分析了医疗行业各类主要医疗应用软件解决方案市场的发展情况和趋势，提供了对整个医疗行业 IT支出和主要医疗应用软件解决方案的市场规模预测，以及一些新技术应用市场规模预测。
“政府持续的医药卫生改革、医疗数字化转型升级发展及其所带动的医疗信息系统架构升级和新兴信息化技术应用是医疗IT发展的三大推动力。医疗信息化经过二十年的发展，在抗击新冠肺炎疫情中展现出巨大作用，医疗数字化转型正成为发展潮流。预计从 ...