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.
IDC中国区研究经理赵卫京表示："金融科技发展规划（2019–2021年）的出台进一步推动了金融行业数字化转型的发展进程。新兴技术的不断发展与成熟在为金融行业的蓬勃发展提供强大助力的同时，也带来了诸多新的网络安全风险和挑战。在满足国家、行业对金融企业网络安全建设合规要求的基础上，根据自身业务特点和信息化建设所处阶段，部署和应用针对性的网络安全解决方案，建立健全网络安全管理制度，对企业整体网络安全态势进行综合防控，保障金融行业网络安全、数据安全、业务安全等，是每一个金融企业持续努力的方向。"
...本文总结了最终用户在建设智慧城市安全运营中心时所遇到的常见挑战，介绍了与之相关的若干实践、案例，并总结了相关经验供读者借鉴。
IDC 中国区市场分析师王一汀表示："在数字化转型进程不断加深的时代，智慧城市的建设成为了科技革命下新技术、新服务、新模式发展的重要产物，智慧城市安全运营中心则成为了保障智慧城市稳定运行的重要载体。目前，全国众多用户在建设智慧城市安全运营中心时面临着"安全孤岛"、产品与服务独立建设、人才缺口不断扩大等诸多问题。未来，最终用户在建设安全运营中心时，需要将安全左移、规划前置，增强顶层设计规划能力。与此同时，提高安全能力的多元化水平，增强安全运营中心及周边的教育服务水平，从技术、服务、人才等多个方向发力，持续提升自身的主动安全、动态安全能力。"
...本报告总结了医院网络安全防护体系建设过程中面临的常见挑战，以及若干与之相关的实践案例和指导建议，供同行业其他医院网络安全管理者借鉴。
IDC中国区研究经理赵卫京表示： "医疗信息化应用在本次新冠肺炎疫情防控过程中发挥了巨大的作用，然而，我国医疗行业目前的网络安全建设投入仍然较低，众多医院不完善的安全防护体系并不足以应对越来越频繁和复杂的网络威胁。随着网络安全法、等级保护2.0、个人信息保护法等与医疗行业密切相关的法律法规陆续实施，国家对于网络安全的监管和违规处罚力度日益增强，同时，勒索病毒、数据泄露、网页篡改等网络威胁事件时有发生，给医疗系统和医院信誉带来越来越直接和严重的负面影响，我国医疗行业对网络安全的重视程度正在逐年提升，疫情防控常态化更是进一步巩固了这一市场趋势。"
...本IDC 陈述报告描述了中国制造行业IT 2021年十大预测。报告为制造企业的高管提供了在未来的60 个月内制造业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未来时间和受影响的业务领域，以及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制造企业的行动指南。
2020年新冠疫情"黑天鹅"事件使得制造业遭受重大打击，尤其是离散型制造，由于供应链中断使得生产停滞。以汽车制造为例，在疫情头几个月，中国汽车的产销大幅下滑。与此同时，中美贸易摩擦并未停滞，美国政府对中国半导体、电子行业的贸易限制，也使得中国制造企业备受压力。
一边是疫情的全球肆虐，一边是中美贸易摩擦的持续升级。在此严峻的外部挑战之下，中国政府出台了"新基建"、"双循环"等政策，以应对经济下行压力，助推制造业复苏。我们也可以看到，一批新业态、新模式应运而生，并从根本上颠覆传统的工作模式、生产模式。
"展望未来，中国制造业的机会和挑战并存。从宏观上看，制造业IT投资将进一步提高，新技术、新模式将在业务落地的过程中将不断迭代更新，以适应不断变化的市场。基于AI的风险决策，能提供决策指导和洞察；机器视觉和增强/虚拟现实（AR/VR）将场外的专业知识延伸到现场，可以减少现场工作人员数量；分布式供应链网络将降低价值链意外中断的风险。另外，跨生态系统的运维中心将提高运营效率，缩短产品上市时间。"——IDC中国制造业高级研究经理张兰英表示。
...对于区块链技术发展，2019年是具有里程碑意义的一年。2019年10月中共中央政治局就区块链技术发展现状和趋势进行学习时，习近平总书记强调，"要把区块链作为核心技术自主创新的重要突破口，加快推动区块链技术和产业创新发展"。2020年4月，国家发改委明确新基建范围，进一步强调了区块链技术的重要性。至此，区块链技术历经代币炒作带来的泡沫，走过低谷阶段，在支持性政策加持下重新站上风口，迎来新的发展机遇。根据IDC预测，2020年中国区块链市场规模将达到4.7亿美元。
本次研究选取在中国境内提供BaaS平台产品且已在市场上推出落地案例的领导厂商。基于IDC ...
数字政府作为数字中国的重要组成部分，是构建高水平社会主义市场经济体制的重要支撑，是践行四个全面战略布局和五大新发展理念的重要抓手，是建设社会主义现代化国家的必经途径。从政策角度出发，十九届四中全会强调要创新行政方式，提高行政效能，建设人民满意的服务型政府；十九届五中全会强调推动国家治理体系和治理能力的现代化，而建设数字政府成为了这一理念实践过程中的重要抓手与引擎。截至2020年12月，全国已有15个省级行政单位提出了数字政府相关的规划，且规划主体正由省级政府向市级政府扩展，多层次的数字政府建设正渐渐拉开帷幕。从技术角度出发，大数据、区块链、云计算、人工智能等新兴信息技术不断融合创新，全面支撑数字政府的建设，科技全方面赋能的趋势逐步凸显。从市场规模角度出发，到2024年，数字政府相关的建设中仅IT解决方案的市场规模便会达到249亿人民币，市场前景广阔，未来可期。由此可见，数字政府建设正蓄势待发，。
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本报告是IDC FutureScape全球医疗健康行业2021年预测的中国启示，报告提供了2021-2026年间医疗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"的时间和实现该项预测的复杂性评估，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，可供中国医疗健康行业的各领域，如医疗、医保、医药、健康管理、生命科学等领域的机构和企业在制定发展战略和数字化转型策略中参考。
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