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 ...
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。
...IDC认为，数据的机密性、完整性和可用性是数据安全保护策略的重要组成部分，也是长期控制目标。企业需要深入了解数据资产被成功攻击的概率以及由此造成的影响，并通过建立数据的发现、分类、监控、存储、加密及销毁等安全管理框架防范威胁事件的发生。
IDC中国区研究经理赵卫京表示："PB（Petabyte）级的数据系统部署在许多组织中已经很常见，很多数据经常被复制、共享和存储在多个资源库中。随着数据价值的增加，对数据的保护需求也在增加，同时，虚拟化基础设施、云计算的采用以及越来越多移动设备的加入使得企业数据日益分散、可见性和控制力降低，数据安全保护的难度不断增加。IDC认为，数据发现和分类分级能够帮助企业梳理最关键数据驻留在何处以及谁有权访问它，是实现有效数据安全防护的两个先决条件。同时，企业也应清醒地意识到，单纯从技术维度防护数据安全是远远不够的，数据的全生命周期安全防护需要技术、制度和人员等多个维度全面配合，并执行严格的监管。"
...本报告总结当前可穿戴设备在医疗健康领域应用的最新进展状况，包括应用的业务模式探索、应用技术环境发展情况、各模式发展的有利条件和需要克服的挑战等，并展望了未来三到五年的发展前景，为医疗机构管理者、医护工作人员、政府卫生管理者、生命科学研发机构等组织在利用可穿戴设备开展疾病诊断与治疗、民众健康维护、临床试验等方面的工作提供参考借鉴，也为提供可穿戴设备及其解决方案的厂商发展该项业务提供参考。
“数字化医疗器械的作用和价值逐步获得认可，个人健康管理观念日趋成熟和稳定，其运营模式则借助互联网医疗业务模式正在形成，未来将在疾病诊断与治疗、社区健康管理、个人健康管理领域以及生命科学研究领域发挥重要作用；同时医疗健康与生命科学在云计算、大数据领域的技术成熟，数据集成条件逐步具备。预计未来三年中，模式由探索转为成熟，可穿戴设备数据通过与电子病历和健康档案集成，成为医疗健康大数据的组成部分，获得广泛认可；预计未来五年中，将会更大范围扩展。”——IDC中国行业研究与咨询服务部高级研究经理肖宏亮表示。
...IDC 创新者是指年营业额低于$100M、有创新性技术或突破性商业模式的新兴厂商。本次 IDC 创新者研究对北京金睛云华科技有限公司（金睛云华）、北京中睿天下信息技术有限公司（中睿天下）、东巽科技（北京）有限公司（东巽科技）的APT检测与响应解决方案进行了全面调研。
“伴随全球各国数字化转型进程的进一步加快，全球网络威胁形势愈发严峻，高级可持续性威胁（APT）事件层出不穷，网络空间的安全能力已经成为全球各国综合实力的重要体现。目前，中国APT检测与防御解决方案市场还处于快速成长期，众多创新型厂商从APT攻击的不同阶段入手，运用人工智能、大数据等新兴技术来帮助用户解决APT攻击的问题。未来，中国APT检测与防御技术还需要进一步增强对完整攻击链的检测、追溯和反制能力、提升方案的整体协同联动性。同时，市场还需要综合型安全厂商与专业领域创新型厂商通力合作，形成优势互补的循环生态，帮助最终用户解决实际的安全威胁问题。”——IDC ...
当前，伴随全球数字化转型进程的进一步加快，人工智能、云计算、物联网、工业互联网的大规模快速发展，全球网络安全产业持续焕发蓬勃生机，数字信任成为各国逐步开始关心且重视的话题。作为全球网络安全投资第二大国，中国也在外部威胁、政策调整、技术进步等驱动力的作用下持续加大对网络安全产业的投资。本报告对中国网络安全市场2021年十大预测分别进行了阐述和解释说明。
十大预测内容如下：
预测一：到2023年，由于传统VPN远程访问解决方案的缺陷在大量居家办公（WFH）场景中暴露出来，针对现代软件定义安全接入解决方案的预算将翻四倍。
预测二：到2025年，为减少受限员工所面临的安全复杂性，企业安全投资的55%将用于统一的生态系统和平台框架的建设。
预测三：到2024年，在进行了数十亿美元的收购之后，全球三大公共云提供商中的两家将跻身前五大托管安全服务（MSS）提供商之列。
预测四：到2025年，将有80%的首席信任官要求技术供应商整合安全和风险能力以衡量公司的信任度，其中包括供应商关系和员工声誉。
预测五：到2023年，企业和其供应链之间的集体风险管理要求将迫使50%的第三方风险和安全服务提供商采用先进的分析工具。
预测六：到2023年，50%的G20国家/地区的隐私法规将要求社交媒体提供商提供删除有关16岁以下的儿童内容和数据的选项。
预测七：到2021年，10%的组织将利用员工生产力软件来监管和优化居家办公员工的数字工作流程。
预测八：到2022年，全球的医疗提供商、保险提供商和技术供应商联盟将采用一种数字身份框架，该框架将基于分布式账本技术来建立"联系人跟踪"应用程序。
预测九：到2023年，将有30%的组织获得监管认证，证明其基于AI和ML的算法系统是道德（无偏见和歧视）且透明的。
预测十：到2023年，35%的大型组织需要通过展示内部组织结构和流程以及在财务报表中公开报告结果的方式来体现其社会责任举措。
...该报告分析了2019年中国软件定义计算软件市场的规模，发展趋势和主要厂商的表现。
软件定义计算软件市场包括了虚拟化，云系统软件和容器基础架构软件三个市场，是建立云平台最重要的基础架构软件。2019年中国软件定义计算软件市场的市场规模达到9.2亿美元，未来五年的复合增长率仍将保持在19.0%。这个市场保持高速增长的原因主要来自于以下几个原因：中国虚拟化市场仍然有增长的空间；云平台成为新一代的IT基础架构，政府和企业在持续投资建设云平台；云原生理念的发展和传统行业的落地促使容器软件市场出现爆发式增长。另外未来5G的发展也会带动市场对于这个领域的投资。
IDC企业级系统和软件研究部高级研究经理李昭表示："虚拟化软件市场增长放缓，以云系统和容器基础架构软件为代表的新兴市场将成为未来软件定义计算软件市场增长的主要驱动力。由于疫情的影响，企业可能会因为业务的负增长而减少或延迟对新项目和现代化建设的投资，从而减缓软件定义计算软件的增长。但新冠疫情的发生也将使企业意识到保持企业敏捷性的重要性，并加大对数字技术的投入，以保持业务的连续性，灵活面对危机。"
...迪讯信息技术有限公司在DDI企业市场拥有多年经验积累，推出了具备一定特色的产品解决方案。IDC认为：
迪讯信息技术有限公司成立之初即专注于DDI产品，涉及域名解析系统、动态地址分配、IP地址管理（DNS/DHCP/IPAM）等细分领域，从硬件，软件，解决方案，服务以及培训等多角度帮助企业进行DDI设备以及整体解决方案建设。
迪讯信息技术有限公司在产品层面做了多细分领域覆盖，包括多数据中心的DNS域名建设与改造，DNS多出口流量智能调度，DNS安全防护体系建设，DDI设备在信息安全等级保护的应用，IPv6 ...