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。
...本研究报告主要针对2018年数字政府大数据市场的市场规模、厂商竞争态势、技术发展趋势以及场景化的最佳实践等维度进行体系化的研究。
"数字政府建设尚未形成规模化、可复制的大数据平台服务与应用场景创新，尤其是在数字政府1.0时代，以Hadoop技术栈为主建设的大数据管理平台覆盖了国家级与多数省级市场，其主要功能在于提供分布式的数据存储。数字政府2.0时代，政府大数据基础平台建设逐渐融合Hadoop、GreenPlum、Spark等多元大数据技术，开始以业务导向为主，促成场景驱动技术选型。同时，基础平台在原本技术门槛高的基础上又融合了日益复杂的技术生态，使得基础平台市场趋近集约化。随着省级大数据基础平台部署基本覆盖，面向数据本身的管理与治理市场还处于大规模的人力投入阶段，相对较离散，正是技术颠覆的最佳发力点。"IDC政府行业与智慧城市研究组研究经理詹墨磊表示。
...本报告论述了中国教育行业发展的动态和主要的趋势，包括教育的基本统计信息、教育改革的方向、教育信息化的相关政策和财政投入等，报告预测了教育IT市场2019–2023年的市场规模，预测数据中包括主要的各类IT产品类别，阐述了教育IT增长的驱动力和主要驱动因素，可以供IT厂商、教育软件厂商和服务商在制定业务发展战略时参考。
“中国教育行业IT市场呈现出稳步发展的态势，政府优先保障对教育的财政投入和教育信息化促进政策是教育信息化发展的关键动力，而解决教育资源不平衡、建立教学与基础科学研究、激励创新、产学研结合等则是教育IT未来发展的关键动力。教育IT不仅表现在基础IT架构和系统持续的完善、集成和升级，而且表现在新兴信息化技术在教育领域的广泛探索和应用。IDC预计，中国教育IT市场将保持长期的稳步增长，这一市场的2018–2023年的复合增长率将达到7.9%；其中教育软件市场的2018–2023年的复合增长率将达到24.9%，各类基础架构软件、应用系统开发和部署软件、应用软件都将保持高速发展。”—IDC中国行业研究与咨询服务部高级研究经理肖宏亮表示。
...本报告分析了中国生命科学发展的基本概况，阐述了生命科学行业发展与其采用信息化技术的应用场景，分析了2018–2023年生命科学IT支出预测，供生命科学应用软件厂商和相关服务厂商以及IT基础设施厂商、新兴信息化技术厂商参考，也可供生命科学企业在制定发展策略时参考。
“最近一些年中，新兴信息化技术极大地促进了生命科学的研究和开发，生物医学大数据正在建立起来，云计算为生命科学发展提供了计算力支持和管理超大规模数据的能力，人工智能技术则加速了生命科学研究方法改进，生物医药对于特定疾病的针对性治疗功能将越来越强大，转化医学在临床中的比例将越来越高，生命科学研究与开发也促使药品的生产制造与流通模式发生改进，这些都将加速生命科学IT支出规模的扩大。预计未来几年中，生命科学研究与开发的应用软件将会加速发展，大数据、云计算、人工智能等新兴技术将会被加速采用。”——IDC中国行业研究与咨询服务部高级研究经理肖宏亮表示。
...当前，全球各行各业都在如火如荼地进行着以第三平台技术为基础的数字化转型。IDC认为，全球企业已经进入到数字化转型的倍增创新阶段，预计到2022年，全球企业数字化转型将进入到智能创新阶段。与此同时，新技术、新兴系统作为数字化转型的推动力也带来了许多网络安全的相关问题，网络攻击的广泛性、多样性、隐蔽性进一步加强，全球企业面临着严峻的网络威胁态势。在此背景下，2019年华为全连接大会（HUAWEI CONNECT）于9月18日在中国上海举办。其中，“打造全面的AI安全与隐私保障体系”和“云安全专场”论坛与业界专业人士共同探讨了如何建立万物互联时代的智能主动安全防御体系。华为致力于构建最安全的产品与服务，其网络安全战略成为其全球化发展的重要组成部分。
...本报告从政策驱动、国际环境以及细分市场份额出发，洞察政府行业数字化发展情况并为厂商提供发展建议。
"政府数字化转型的关键在于融合与促进社会信息化大发展，是中国国家竞争力能够在国际纷繁复杂的政治经济环境中得以立足的强有力保障。政府数字化转型提升了政府本身的业务信息化水平，促进了管理型政府向服务型政府的进一步转变，促进了社会营商环境的优化以及居民满意度的提升。在此基础上，政府数字化转型的核心将要考虑与智慧城市、平安城市以及其他场景化应用、管理与服务平台的结合，考虑与卫星应用、地理信息、5G、人工智能等技术发展的应用产生的新兴场景的融合，以及如何形成国家核心技术创新与"国产替代"进程加速的领先驱动力。2019年政府数字化转型将开启社会总体信息化发展大融合、新兴场景大爆炸、技术创新大变革的时代。"IDC政府行业和智慧城市研究经理詹墨磊表示。
...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。
“金融是一国的经济命脉所在，如何在监管和创新之间寻找平衡将是破局的关键。当下，技术革命浪潮再一次席卷全球，云计算、大数据、人工智能、区块链等技术成为新宠，作为金融行业中的支柱产业，银行业的数字化建设需要多方共同努力，一方面监管层要适当把握政策节奏，对金融科技既要鼓励又要审慎，另一方面银行主体需要强化改革意愿，以自身需求主动驱动变革而非被动接受软件系统厂商的技术和产品迭代，最终形成监管、银行、服务厂商三方良性的需求响应循环生态。”——IDC中国金融行业研究部高级分析师任辰羽表示。
...随着人工智能、大数据、云计算等新兴技术和传统汽车行业的融合和发展，汽车行业智能化发展不断加速。依托于不断的技术研发投入以及与整车厂的合作实践，腾讯在智能网联汽车领域硕果累累。在2019年8月26日中国国际智能产业博览会上，腾讯携手长安汽车对外展示了具备微信车载版功能的梧桐TINNOVE系统、腾讯智慧门店等一系列智能化建设成果。
本报告分析了中国医疗行业IT解决方案市场的趋势和厂商发展动态，列出了医疗IT解决方案市场领先厂商的收入和市场份额，以及医疗大数据和互联网医疗系统这两个子市场主要解决方案厂商的收入和市场份额，并分析了一些新兴的医疗IT解决方案厂商，针对主要厂商在2018年以来的市场表现给予了分析评价。
“传统医疗软件厂商与新兴技术厂商合作是2018年医疗信息化行业的热点，这两类厂商的合作关系在未来几年中也会持续推进，合作的同时也会伴随着竞争。医疗云、医疗大数据、医疗人工智能等技术发展，整个行业的厂商生态正在发生演变，IT基础架构厂商、医疗设备厂商等也逐步融入到医疗信息化领域中。未来三年中，医疗行业信息化厂商生态所呈现出来的割据争雄的局面将会愈加明显，抓住数字化转型机会的厂商将会成长起来，转型成功的传统厂商有机会在未来五到十年中逐渐成为行业霸主。”——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解决方案市场份额及竞争格局的整体判断，旨在为银行机构以及IT服务商提供参考。
"2018年中国银行业IT解决方案市场发生了更多资本层面的行为，头部厂商或完成A股挂牌上市，或接受互联网巨头的股权投资，这一系列事件表明，中国银行业IT解决方案市场的生态竞争边界正在被重新定义。随着技术驱动解决方案迭代加快，传统厂商和新入场的玩家均在积极挖掘增量市场的潜力方向。在未来的金融时代，银行业的客户服务理念与经营模式将完成重塑，越来越多的银行倾向于选择业务理解深刻、实施经验丰富、创新基因活跃的服务商共同成长。"——IDC中国金融行业研究与咨询部高级分析师任辰羽表示。
...在数字化转型过程中，人工智能是重要的加速器，企业也在致力于从传统的商业智能向更深入的数据智能分析迈进。2019年SAS分析师大会将创新的分析更进一步， 致力于为用户提供灵活、开放、集成、自动化、统一的分析平台，并结合创新的解决方案为企业提供更广泛的数据分析应用。
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、医疗支付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新兴医疗服务的发展和医疗行业数字化转型的发展，并重点分析了医疗行业各类主要IT解决方案市场的发展情况和趋势。本研究也提供了对整个医疗行业IT花费和主要解决方案的市场规模，以及数字化转型的市场规模的预测。
“中国医疗改革的持续推进和数字化转型在医疗领域的应用，是促进医疗信息化发展的两大直接推动力。经过二十年的医疗信息化建设之后，医疗业务的智能化正在成为下一步追求的目标，综合各类发展多年的智慧医疗服务正在成为医疗机构的工作议程。预计从2019年起，云计算平台将成为中国特色医疗健康服务体系运营的基础平台，医疗信息系统将会全面向云平台迁移，云平台也会支持人工智能技术、虚拟现实、机器人技术等应用在远程医疗、远程手术、医养结合、药品研发和健康管理等各个领域，使得智慧医疗实现质的飞跃，发展成为未来的医疗健康服务模式。2019年以及后续三年中，联接基层医疗、养老、居家护理等更加广泛和便捷的医疗健康服务体系将会建立起来，医疗保障的覆盖领域将会覆盖到新兴的医疗健康服务体系，医药研发与临床试验、临床治疗的流程衔接起来。新兴技术的持续应用是医疗数字化转型的直接动力，医疗信息化、数字化和智能化循序渐进。”——IDC中国行业研究与咨询服务部高级研究经理肖宏亮说。
...“互联网+医疗健康”业务在过去一些年中取得了很大发展，当前诸如人工智能、虚拟现实、区块链等新兴技术正在搭载在“互联网+医疗健康”平台上，使其获得更强大动力来提高医疗健康服务能力，提高民众健康水平。“互联网+医疗健康”平台搭载新兴技术正在成为大健康数字化转型的新动能。
本报告旨在洞察中国智慧城市行业及其子市场发展状况及未来发展趋势，通过对政策发布、市场趋势和产品份额等多方面进行分析，总结市场发展情况并为厂商提供发展建议。
"随着智慧城市试点项目开始落地，2017年智慧城市相关的信息化基础设施和解决方案投资与建设持续快速增长。政策依然对建设起主导作用，同时市场化机制的作用也在逐渐加强，尤其在"惠民"方面，除了国家大力推动信息惠民工程的建设与实施，重点解决社保、医疗、教育等九大领域的突出问题，企业也开始通过公共服务相关应用切入智慧城市市场，以政企协同的模式促进基本公共服务的均等化与智能化。随着智慧城市建设进入快车道，IDC建议厂商明确市场定位，准确抓住智慧城市市场变化新趋势，提升核心竞争力以更好地立足市场。"——IDC中国政府行业和智慧城市市场分析师祖碧遥表示。
...2018年12月21日，华为以“芯开始，让智能计算无所不及”为主题在北京举办了首届智能计算大会暨中国智能计算业务战略发布会，宣布成立智能计算业务部，并发布了以芯片创新、智能数据中心整合、云边协同为核心的智能计算新战略。
本报告从政策驱动以及各细分市场份额出发，洞察政府行业数字化发展情况及未来发展趋势并为厂商提供发展建议。
“政府行业数字化转型是驱动政府服务化转型的关键手段，尤其在国内外经济环境发展动荡的时期，政府信息化发展既是改善营商环境、提升服务体验的主要措施，也是驱动经济发展、政府加大投资的主要领域。2019-2020年，在财政收入不断提升的背景下，政府IT市场将迎来爆发式增长”。IDC政府行业和智慧城市高级研究经理闫海伦表示。