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.
2020年6月1日，中共中央、国务院印发了《海南自由贸易港建设总体方案》（以下简称总体方案），并下发通知，要求各地区各部门结合实际认真贯彻落实。方案内容的核心是海南自贸港政策制度体系，除了风险防控体系之外，共有10大利好政策。方案的发展目标十分务实，IDC根据定量的指标来参考，综合给出发展的三阶段分析和常规、高速与突破的三种增长模式的定量预测。海南自有贸易港重点发展的旅游业、现代服务业和高新技术产业可以很好地与自贸港定位相匹配，也可以与其它地区和城市形成差异化定位，进而利用海南的特点和优势，在全球范围内形成自己的特色。这也为ICT市场带来了前所未有的发展机遇，预计到2045年，海南ICT市场规模将达到400亿美元，相当于2019年台湾CT市场规模的2倍；ICT占GDP的比例为5.9%，与新加坡2019年ICT占GDP的比例相当；35–45年复合增长率为10.7%。
市场对此方案反应非常热烈，很多企业和个人开始摩拳擦掌，不想错过可能是中国最后一波最大的对外开放机会，包括新基建、金融市场创新、高科技产业、离岸数据中心、区块链试验区机会等，这些机会的背后隐含了哪些挑战，又如何能够促进海南自贸港的真正腾飞？海南ICT市场是否是一座不可估量的金矿？本报告将一一洞察上述疑问。
...新冠肺炎疫情对经济和ICT市场的影响持续进行中，基于IDC中国趋势论坛数字经济专场中与参会嘉宾的交流，本研究报告回答了ICT厂商关注的问题，具体包括宏观环境与经济、总体ICT市场、细分ICT产品与技术、数字化转型与未来行业。希望ICT厂商通过IDC对这些问题的回答，能够在疫情防控新常态下洞悉未来企业新需求，发掘ICT市场新商机。
“在全球疫情的影响下，中国经济以及ICT市场持续受到影响。但与此同时，逆境下依然蕴藏着许多新的商机。IDC预计，2020年与疫情相关的ICT市场商机总计将超过1.5万亿人民币。ICT厂商要持续跟踪疫情发展状况和政府相关政策举措，开发新的ICT解决方案，打造远程协同工作的能力和习惯，做好线上产品服务营销与客户服务。”IDC中国区副总裁兼首席分析师武连峰先生表示。
...本文主要洞察了疫情爆发后政府ICT市场和智慧城市市场所经受的考验、应对措施、暴露的问题，以及对政府用户相对成功的应用案例进行了分析。
“面对疫情的影响，中国政府所保有的举国体制是抗“疫”的关键所在，政府ICT市场也在这种机制下保持稳定发展，IDC预测第一季度政府ICT市场的增长率受影响较小，保持在6.9%左右。同时，面对疫情带来的冲击，中国政府出台的“新基建”政策无疑给中国产业结构转型、智慧社会建设以及政府数字化转型带来一定的对冲效应以及新的发展契机。IDC预测2020年全年政府ICT市场将会迎来新的一轮建设浪潮，全年政府ICT市场增长率将达到12%左右。”——IDC政府行业与智慧城市组研究经理詹墨磊表示。
...本研究对数字经济和未来企业进行了系统梳理，首先介绍了数字经济的概念与特征，指出成为未来企业是抓住数字经济商机的核心策略；分析了未来企业成熟度框架的五个阶段和五大维度；介绍了打造未来企业的最佳实践；并提供了行业用户在部署未来企业和数字化转型战略方面的参考建议。
IDC中国互联网行业研究经理薛宇表示：“数字经济下，数字化转型与创新是企业赢得未来的必由之路。在经济全面数字化、数字技术发展日新月异、互联网由消费侧向供给侧发展的背景下，所有的企业都应重新审视自身的数字化战略，坚定走数字化道路，成为未来企业。”
...新冠肺炎疫情对2020年的中国经济造成了很大的负面影响，为了拉动经济可持续增长，“新基建”投资成为了政府与社会各界的必选项。本文梳理了“新基建”概念的由来、具体包括的内容、中国政府对“新基建”的重视程度。分析了“新基建”的投资规模、对经济的拉动作用、对企业数字化转型的作用。给出了“新基建”带动的ICT市场商机、获取“新基建”商机面临的挑战、对ICT厂商的建议。
“‘新基建’既对经济有巨大拉动作用，也将带来巨大的ICT商机，同时也将加速企业的全方位数字化转型。因此，ICT厂商必须给予足够的重视，首先要密切跟踪‘新基建’的最新政策和各级政府最新的项目规划，其次要整合内部资源协同开发针对‘新基建’的ICT解决方案，第三要打造或加入‘新基建’ICT商机的生态系统并寻找新的合作伙伴。”IDC中国区副总裁兼首席分析师武连峰先生表示。
...本报告梳理新了冠肺炎（COVID-19）发展的基本情况，分析了新冠肺炎对中国经济的影响，给出了新冠肺炎对中国ICT市场影响的更新预测，具体包括智能连接设备市场、企业级IT市场、重点新兴技术市场、重点垂直行业市场等，探索了新冠肺炎带来的十大潜在商机：数字平台与大数据、新型智慧城市与园区、互联网医疗服务、在线课堂与教育、远程办公与线上活动、5G行业应用、无人场景交易与服务、生鲜电商、供应链管理、制造与服务机器人，最后给出了总结与建议。
“新冠肺炎对经济的总体影响要高于2003年的SARS疫情，新冠肺炎对中国经济的影响主要集中在第一季度，对第二季度略有影响，对全年经济增长影响有限。新冠肺炎疫情结束后将引发中国宏观环境的五大变化：政府治理的智能化与现代化、“城市集群+中心城市”的分散化、数字化大健康体系加速推进、非接触连接商业与服务加速兴起、“中国+1”的全球供应链策略提速。这五大变化也会带来巨大的ICT市场商机，为了抗击疫情、应对挑战，企业应该打造远程协同工作的能力和习惯、做好线上产品和服务的营销、合理控制成本并充分利用国家的支持政策、投资寻找疫情过后的业务突破点与创新点，为疫情过后的增长做准备。”，IDC ...