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.
本篇报告提供IDC对于英伟达在2020年GTC上新公告的评估观点。
IDC中国助理研究总监卢言霞表示：“纵观英伟达在过去一年的新产品新公告新举措，英伟达在计算加速领域精准又专注的定位，将保障公司在提供从核心到边缘的性能优化解决方案方面稳居领先地位。”
云管理网络是一种全新的网络部署模式，它建立在网络设备管理功能与硬件解耦的基础之上，通常部署在企业园区或分支。在这种部署模式下，网络硬件仍然部署在本地，但管理功能迁移到了公有云上，管理员可以在任意位置通过Web页面或移动终端App等图形化方式对网络进行集中管理。管理功能上云后商业模式也发生了改变，从原来的一次性购买转变为订阅方式，即管理功能实现了软件即服务（SaaS）化。本报告给出了云管理网络定义和研究范畴，提出云管理网络带来的业界和生态变化，并对2016年到2019年中国云管理市场容量进行了分析，包括出货量，厂商收入，场景分布，商业模式，行业分布等。报告最后对截止至2024年的中国云管理网络市场做了预测和分析。
...IDC未来客户研究是以终端客户和消费者为中心，从共情化和同理心的角度出发，理解未来客户的需求，通过数据和数字化技术的应用，改进数字化和营销策略，平衡客户体验与业务成果之间的关系，有目标性地创建与终端客户之间个性、信任的客户关系。
- 预测1：到2021年，70%的组织将通过自动化操作和非接触式体验率先转向数字化，因为物理交互已成为过去式便利。
- 预测2： 到2025年，规模化共情和安全性表现优秀的企业将胜过那些没有同等能力企业的40%。
- 预测3：到2022年，中国财富500强B2C品牌中，45%的公司将指派高管，负责增加“消费者娱乐化”应用的使用，以接触Z世代和α世代的买家。
- 预测4：到2025年，50％中国财富500强企业在消费者生成视频的投入将验证其对企业收入和客户满意度的影响。
- 预测5：在2021年，客户将额外投入25%的花费在与数字化转型可快速轻松地适应新业务环境的公司合作方面。
- 预测6：到2024年，将有60％的技术购买者选择成熟知名的合作伙伴，通过越来越快的创新速度，来适应消费者提出的变化多端的需求。
- 预测7：到2023年，将有45％的组织使用标准化工作流与企业应用程序链接，来重新控制对用户定义的应用程序稳定性，从而提高客户数据安全性并提供出色的客户体验。
- 预测8：到2023年底，将有80％的大中型企业制定或修改社会责任声明，并使他们的客户重新认知，从而促进社会事业的发展。
- 预测9到2021年，65％的新移动应用程序将专注于为消费者提供人性化的数字体验，使消费者对新数字优先更加认同。
- 预测10：到2024年，隐私将被重新定义为“数据价值”，供应商将提供客户忠诚服务计划，以交换消费者数据，70％的消费者将参与其中。
2020年是充满变化的一年，政治经济环境的巨大变化，正在重塑全球的商业模式和产业格局，而新冠疫情深刻地改变了人们的工作与生活方式。跨地域的协作正在变得更加重要，非接触性商业悄然崛起，远程教育、远程医疗正在成为 “新常态” ，而且R16成为3GPP第一个通过在线方式发布的国际通信标准。
展望新的十年，2021年将是新的开端，新兴科技将加速普及，物理世界与数字世界将实现真正的融合，连接技术的运用将至关重要。未来连接将向覆盖泛在化、应用场景化、技术融合化、管理智能化方向发展，在数字化转型的“新常态”下，帮助企业发现“新商机”。
数字化转型不是一蹴而就的，“技术+业务”将会有一个长期的磨合过程。未来将是一个万物互联、万物感知的时代，连接将是消除鸿沟、释放数字价值的核心要素。IDC近日发布的《IDC ...
视频监控系统作为物联网应用的重要组成，不仅应用范围广、部署规模大，已经被广泛应用于预防和打击犯罪、交通违章、移动执法、园区与楼宇安防等领域。此外，随着视频监控系统应用的深入，视频监控系统已从传统的安防功能向业务应用渗透，视频监控系统正在成为支撑企业数字化运营的重要手段。视频监控系统安全防护与传统IT安全防护不同，存在一系列新的潜在安全风险，视频监控系统也正在成为网络攻击的新目标。
IDC 在本次研究中对视频监控系统主要的建设者和使用者行业进行了深入访谈，了解企业客户在视频监控系统部署和使用中的安全痛点和最佳实践，并结合中国视频监控系统安全市场发展特色，从技术买家的视角给出建议。同时，IDC ...