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。
...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
- 按 ...
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 ...
本报告论述了中国政府举办的基本医疗保险与商业医疗保险的发展动态和趋势，分析了中国医疗保障业务发展的形态与特征，阐述了信息化和数字化对于中国医疗保障发展的支撑性作用，预测了2018–2023年基本医疗保险管理系统和商业医疗保险管理系统的市场规模，供中国基本医保和商业医保信息化厂商以及ICT基础设施厂商、新兴信息化技术厂商等参考，也可供医疗保障管理部门在制定信息化建设和发展策略时参考。
"2018年3月，中国政府组建了国家医疗保障局，整合了原来分布在多个部委的医疗保障的相关职责，实现医疗保障的集中化管理，制定了未来基本医疗保险管理统一化、综合化和追求价值化的发展目标，同时也支持商业医疗保险与基本医疗保险同步发展，这些目标的实现离不开信息化和数字化的支撑。2019年开始的国家医疗保障信息平台建设，为未来全国范围内各省市医疗保障信息化的转型升级提供了借鉴和指引。预计未来一到三年中，各省市都将会启动新一代的医疗保障信息系统的建设；未来三到五年中，各省市之间医疗保障管理系统将开展大规模系统集成和医保数据的挖掘应用，商业医疗保险管理系统也将采用新兴信息化技术实现升级，进而更灵活地支持健康消费需求。在新一代的医疗保障信息系统建设中，新兴IT技术例如云计算、大数据、人工智能等将作为基础架构技术，支持医疗保障信息系统促进"健康中国2030"目标实现。"——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IDC研究报告通过对2018年ICT市场数据和2019至2023年的市场预测分析，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正逐步成为促进ICT市场增长的关键动力，基于云计算、移动应用、大数据、人工智能、物联网等技术应用的数字化转型促进传统产业升级，转型企业业务运行模式和用户参与方式，带动各类ICT产品、软件、IT服务和通信服务的升级和增长。同时新兴技术产业的发展也正在成为拉动ICT需求的重要力量，例如电动汽车、机器人、自助设备等，而未来三到五年中，5G通讯网络的部署和运营将是促进ICT进一步升级发展的关键驱动力，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。
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