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。
...本报告直观展示了以工业互联网平台为核心的中国智能制造市场的构成与格局，包括智能工厂工业应用、网络设备、服务、车间应用、劳动力增强型应用、工业云、工业互联网平台、云平台等，同时本报告也对市场发展、主要厂商策略、生态建设进行了总结。
IDC最新发布的《中国数据中心IT基础架构产品解读，2020 Q2》（2020年11月发布）报告显示，2020年第二季度，中国数据中心IT基础架构（包括服务器、外置存储和数据中心网络设备）市场规模达到73.3亿美元，同比增长35.7%。2020年上半年，中国数据中心IT基础架构市场规模达到120.2亿美元，同比增长17.0%，其中，服务器市场规模达到92.8亿美元，同比增长19.4%；外置存储市场规模达到17.9亿美元，同比增长6.9%；数据中心网络设备市场规模达到9.6亿美元，同比增长14.8%。此报告以2020年第一季度至第二季度的数据为基础，主要介绍了中国数据中心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、外置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年上半年，由于新冠肺炎疫情在全球的扩散以及对经济活动的影响，全球经济受到较大冲击，各行业企业的需求有所延迟或缩减，使得全球数据中心IT基础架构市场增长面临严峻挑战，整体保持小幅增长。随着中国政府对疫情的有效控制以及各个行业的复产复工，中国数据中心IT基础架构产品市场迎来强劲复苏。由疫情催生的泛互联网业务爆发、企业将业务从线下转向线上加速进行、复工复产保证并促进IT项目逐步开展建设，以及国家新基建战略的支持等因素均推动了中国服务器、外置存储、以及数据中心网络市场的数据中心IT基础架构市场迎来上涨。"
...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。
...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。
...本IDC看法对数字化工程和未来运营进行了探讨。未来运营已然到来，并正在推动运营向以市场为导向并具有弹性。实现弹性决策是未来运营的核心。但是，弹性决策需要一个新的部门，它将成为未来运营的主要支持力量。该部门就是数字化工程部门。
Energy and Manufacturing Insights 集团副总裁凯文·普鲁蒂（Kevin Prouty）表示：“企业要想变得更具弹性，使运营与客户需求紧密贴合，就必须设立数字化工程部门。IT与OT的融合是实现数字化工程及其核心价值——弹性的推动力。”
...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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