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.
本报告对中国互联网信息流市场做了系统梳理,涉及信息流市场定义、市场发展环境、产业链构成、典型信息流产品分析、未来展望等内容,并从内容、技术、生态合作等方面提供了相应建议。
“信息流正成为中国互联网市场最重要的内容分发模式,将在5G时代迅速扩展到所有的互联网产品形态,并向万物互联的物联网平台迁移。下一阶段的竞争将成为内容、技术、生态力量的综合比拼。”——IDC中国互联网行业研究经理薛宇表示。
从“互联网+”到“智能+”,政府主导的政策变化的背后,是人们生产和生活方式的又一次迭代,是技术发展的必然趋势。工业互联网是面向工业智能化发展的关键基础设施,是新一代信息技术和制造业深度融合形成的新兴业态和应用模式。本篇报告分析了“智能+”发展的挑战、工业互联网的价值以及实际应用的案例。
“工业互联网是产品服务数据化的前提、是连接获取数据的手段、是分析挖掘价值的工具、是管理控制实施的途径以及商业模式改变的基石。随着技术的不断演进发展和不同参与方的加入,工业互联网将不断赋能“智能+”,助力中国制造向高质量水平发展。”——IDC中国制造业高级研究经理张兰英表示。
...报告为您洞察四大问题:
- 什么是数字经济:IDC采选业界共识的数字产业化和产业数字化作为数字经济的研究范畴,同时定义数字经济的核心是数字化产品和服务。
- 为什么发展数字经济:数字经济占比大(30%+)、数字经济驱动性强(2倍速GDP)、数字经济提升国家竞争力(数字经济+制造业)、数字经济调整人才结构(80万+AI在客户关系管理领域增加工作机会)是四个发展数字经济的主要原因。
- 数字经济发展趋势如何:政策与资源倾斜加快(8大政府主导科技峰会)、行业数字化转型如火如荼(超过67%的中国千强企业将数字化转型作为公司核心战略)、数字化产业和服务全方位渗透(两倍速传统产品和服务)、新技术不断涌现。
- 如何发展数字经济:深刻理解政策、行业与技术趋势,政府主导营造良好的营商环境,企业和组织整合各类可用资源,企业建立多方共赢生态。
IDC副总裁武连峰先生表示:"在数字经济中,数字化产品和服务是核心,而信息和如何使用信息是数字化产品和服务的成功保障。行业用户和ICT厂商必须掌握数字经济的特征并把它们融入业务运营和企业文化的核心,深刻理解未来政策、未来技术、未来生态、未来行业、未来工作的内涵与发展趋势,加速成为数字化原生企业(DNE),这是在数字经济时代实现全方位转型,赢取未来先机的关键。"
...本IDC陈述报告描述了中国制造行业IT 2019年十大预测。报告为制造企业的高管提供了在未来的5年内制造业IT及其IT所支持的业务发展趋势,报告标识了这些预测发生作用的时间和受影响的业务领域,以及相应的复杂性和成本。每个预测包括IT对业务的影响和制造企业的行动指南。
2018年,中国制造业环境愈发复杂。在国际上面临着中美贸易摩擦、国际贸易保护主义升温等不稳定国际贸易形势;在国内面临着制造业成本上涨、企业资金压力大带来的挑战。在此纷繁复杂的环境下,2018年,数字化转型始终贯穿于制造业发展的始终,以人工智能、区块链、边缘技术等为代表的新兴技术日趋成熟、工业互联网生态如火如荼发展,制造业的发展也迎来了更多机遇。。
"进入2019年,中国制造业将面临更多挑战。制造业的高质量发展被中央经济工作会议列为19年重要工作的首位。得益于"中国制造2025"、"互联网+"、"工业4.0"等政策的持续推动,中国制造业升级将进入全新的阶段。受数字化转型先驱者的带动,越来越多的制造企业加入了数字转型的浪潮中来。以区块链和人工智能为中心的平台生态将实现企业的流程自动化,跨产业的协作将为企业缩减成本。为了提高速度、敏捷性、效率和创新,越来越多的制造企业将进行广泛的重建,将数据位于流程的中心。制造工厂的工人将通过增强现实/虚拟现实(AR/VR)、智能应用程序和协作机器人武装起来,提高生产效率并改善工作环境。IDC认为,以数字为中心、以平台为依托、跨产业的协作将助力中国制造业向高质量发展突破。"——IDC中国制造业高级研究经理张兰英表示。
...该报告旨在研究中国可连接设备,包括智能手机、笔记本电脑、平板电脑、可穿戴设备以及增强现实(AR)与虚拟现实(VR)等在内的市场发展预测。随着人工智能以及5G等技术的发展和普及,可连接设备在政府、公共事业、制造业等行业的商用场景得到不断丰富。本报告在全球报告的基础之上,提供了IDC 2019年对于中国可连接设备市场的十大预测:
预测1:双屏笔记本电脑将于2020年在中国大规模面市,但为了迎合多数员工需求,95%的IT部门会避开这种新形式的产品,仍选择传统笔记本电脑和可转换笔记本电脑。
预测2:在中国,到2020年,50%的新手机将装载嵌入式AI,公司将使用这项技术来预测和避免工作流程中的瓶颈。
预测3:在中国,到2021年,22%的大型企业将在工作场所部署智能助理,这将在全国范围内节省超过1亿美元的成本。
预测4:在中国,到2021年,近75%的商用智能手机将把面部识别作为主要的安全措施,从而实现围绕身份认证的新业务功能。
预测5:到2022年,超过35%的中国大型企业将部署配备5G的笔记本电脑,这将极大地改变员工使用和IT管理笔记本电脑的方式。
预测6:到2022年,中国15%的公司将签订多设备有关“设备及服务”(DaaS)合同,除个人电脑、平板电脑和智能手机外,许多公司还将采用可穿戴设备和AR/VR。
预测7:到2022年,7%的中国大型企业将部署智能手表,以增强工作安全性、提高生产率以及强化业务流程。
预测8:在中国,到2023年,20%的中国500强企业和政府机构将使用可穿戴设备来监测员工暴露在危险环境中的情况,从而减少员工可能受到的伤害,并节省15%的直接和间接成本。
预测9:到2024年,7%的中国企业将尝试以VR作为一种推动跨区域协作的方式。
预测10:到2024年,55%的中国大中型企业将为部分员工部署AR硬件,其关键驱动因素是效率的提升。
...本报告是IDC FutureScape全球健康行业2019年预测的中国启示,报告提供了2019-2024年间健康行业技术发展路线图,包含10项健康行业发展前沿的预测并融合了针对中国市场的观点看法。每项预测都包括该预测内容成为市场“主流”的时间和复杂性评估,以及该预测对于IT方面的影响,并为技术买家提供了采用和部署这些技术的建议,可供中国健康行业,如医疗、医保和医药等健康服务机构在制定发展战略和转型策略中参考。
数字化转型(DX)通过新的产品或服务、创新的商业模式和更深层次的业务关系持续推动着价值、增长和竞争优势的创造。大多数企业成功转型的主要威胁仍是其IT部门未能从内部业务流程的后勤提供者转变为能在人员、事物和数据之间为数字化业务流动提供动力的核心引擎。类似于服务器机房和机柜,无论在企业所有的,还是托管或云服务提供商所有的数据中心和边缘设施中,数字化转型正在发生。从现在开始到2023年,CIO们及其团队将会面对下列数据中心的发展:
- 预测1:到2021年的时候,保护产生于边缘区的离散数据的需求,将驱使30%的在中国的企业在多个数据中心基础设施上建立和运行数据仓库;
- 预测2:在2020年,60%的在中国的企业的新数字化业务将是一种综合型的工作负载,它们需要通过安全和可信的方式与第三方的数据和分析资源进行互联
- 预测3:在未来三年,50%的在中国的企业将接受软件定义分支和网络的解决方案,这样的解决方案可以使企业的应用安全和灵活的在云,数据中心和边缘之间切换;
- 预测4:到2022年,50%的在中国的企业的数据中心的能耗是现在的三倍,才能满足高能耗的加速计算系统的需求
- 预测5:到2022年年底,40%的在中国的企业的数据中心IT设施将利用嵌入式AI功能,拥有自主运转和控制的能力
- 预测6:到2022年,30%的在中国的企业在边缘位置和附近数据中心IT设施上的花费将两倍于核心数据中心IT设施的花费,这样才能更高效的把数字化服务提供给本地的人和物。
- 预测7:到2023年,40%的在中国的企业将使用灵活和低成本的IT消费模式,这种模式基于由硬件提供商和数据中心服务商联合运营的,集中式IT设施
- 预测8:在2021年,25%的在中国的企业将从集中式的大型数据中心转移到现代化的,更适宜的本地小型数据中心,来支持计算和数据敏感型的应用;
- 预测9:2020年以后,大多数在中国的企业将会投资部署可以承载创新型业务的专有云平台,而不是对现有数据中心进行现代化改造
- 预测10:到2022年,30%的在中国的企业从数据中心服务商购买的将不仅是基础的网络连接和基础设施服务,更多的是高级的设施管理和优化服务
未来的五年,以下列出的7个驱动力将对数据中心的发展产生最大的影响:
- 数字化转型的新篇章:技术驱动的转型正在改变商业和社会
- 创新的竞赛:变革、交付和运营的速度拉开了佼佼者和幸存者的距离
- 平台,平台,平台:行业创新规模的竞争
- 感知,计算,激励:将数据化为价值
- 风险的新特性:创新需要对安全和风险管理有新的思考
- 自主性的萌芽:学会与AI共存
- 新旧迭代:将旧世界重新融入数字化世界
基于全球数据中心市场2019年的十大预测,结合中国市场的实际情况,IDC发布了全球数据中心市场2019年的十大预测-中国启示,对十大预测对中国市场的影响进行了分析。
"中国的数据中心市场在网络经济异军突起,云计算、大数据、物联网、人工智能、机器学习等新技术驱动网络空间从人人互联向万物互联发展,数字化、智能化、网络化,边缘化服务将越来越普及的环境下保持着快速发展。现代化,智能,软件定义和边缘数据中心将成为未来几年中国数据中心发展的方向。中国企业也应该更加合理和广泛的借助外部资源,包括传统的服务提供商和新型的服务提供商来提高数据中心的运行效率,更好和更快的满足业务和客户的需求。"数据中心市场研究经理李昭表示。
...本调查对全球3,665家企业的物联网项目决策者进行调研,其中中国企业450家;覆盖金融、政府、医疗健康、零售、公用事业等领域的数十个行业;调查了企业决策者对物联网总体认知、项目决策、预算分配、物联网技术方案、厂商选择等方面的看法;中国被访者中,10.9%为企业总裁,47.3%为COO、CIO、CTO等职位或分管 IT、网络、运营、市场等领域的副总裁,41.8%为负责业 IT、网络、通信等领域的总监。
"中国物联网市场增长迅速,2017年59.1%的中国被访者已部署物联网方案,而2016年时这一数字仅为19.8%。"IDC ...
IDC定义的计算机视觉是指从单张或者连续的图像中提取信息,分析、理解并应用信息的技术。本报告追踪了计算机视觉重点行业以及应用场景的市场规模、行业用户技术支出特点,以及典型的厂商,并提出未来发展趋势预测。
本研究对中国区块链市场进行了系统梳理,内容涵盖区块链与分布式记账技术介绍、中国区块链市场发展环境、市场规模、生态构成、典型厂商动态、应用现状、前景展望等,并从技术和商业的角度为读者提供相应行动建议。
"2018年是区块链技术发展关键的一年,企业将实现从概念验证到全面部署的巨大飞跃。作为新兴技术创新和整合的领导者之一,中国区块链市场规模将持续增长,潜力巨大。中国企业将致力于拓展区块链技术应用领域,在提升现有运营效率的同时探索新的业务模式。同时,政府也将积极引导区块链产业发展,提升中国国际竞争力和话语权,实现弯道超车。"——IDC中国研究经理薛宇表示。
...本Insights 陈述报告提供了2017年中国智慧城市市场的十大预测。FutureScape通过对当前和未来几年的市场发展现状和发展趋势进行分析思考和合理预测,从而为期望了解IT投资发展趋势进而确定战略规划的城市决策者提供关键建议。
"这些预测的目的是为城市政府的领导人,包括市长、人大代表,以及发展和改革委员会、经济和信息化委员会、科技局等信息化建设相关部门提供战略框架参考,以帮助他们通过新技术的应用来解决有关业务问题。本报告基于IDC对目前中国新型城镇化建设的政策背景、智慧城市市场建设现状以及各种新兴技术的发展应用等相关方面的深入研究,提出了对中国智慧城市未来发展的主要趋势预测分析。"——IDC行业研究与咨询服务部研究经理麻芃博士表示。
...本篇IDC FutureScape报告描述了全球医疗IT 2017年十大预测。报告为医疗机构的高管提供了在未来的36个月内医疗IT及其IT所支持的医疗业务的发展趋势,报告标识了这些预测发生作用的未来时间和受影响的业务领域的相对的复杂性和成本。每个预测包括IT对业务的影响和对于医疗机构的行动指南。
作为2017年医疗IT十大预测的中国启示,本报告不仅仅描述了全球医疗IT的十大预测,也描述了这些预测主题在中国医疗IT领域中未来发挥作用的时间和在中国市场的相对复杂性和成本,并对中国市场的情景与全球市场发展做了对比分析。
这些预测所依据的IT投资的主要驱动力既与全球市场有关也与中国市场有关,包括数字化转型、万物互联、逐渐增加的疾病负担、移动与传感器的融合、网络安全应对等。
在这些预测中,有两个领域的预测非常显著,一是新兴技术的融合应用,即物联网采集大数据、认知计算、人工智能等融合,将会提升IT系统的智能化。这一点在全球市场和中国市场都表现得非常显著;二是为了解决逐渐增加的费用负担,医疗支付领域面临变革。在中国市场上,商业医疗保险正在快速成长,与政府办的医疗保险逐渐实现平衡发展,以支持解决不断增加的医疗费用。
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