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。”
IDC中国研究经理郭越表示：“国家5G建设在2019年又取得了新的进展，基站覆盖率又达到前所未有的高度，移动网络升级带来的周边需求也在随之增加；IPv6在2019年底正式耗尽，将开启IP地址管理与分配的新篇章；更重要的是DDI设备之所以被视为安全卫士，拥有强大的技术力量，多元化的功能融合才能担当起“守护者”这么重要的角色。”
中国AI已真正进入行业应用遍地开花的阶段，英伟达将持续为AI时代的计算进行加速，并成为下一代数据基础设施的领导者。
IDC中国助理研究总监卢言霞表示："从基础的开发库、工具链上，从数据准备到模型训练到推理的数据处理全过程，从底层硬件编程平台到上层端到端的应用，英伟达均有全面布局，为开发者提供了完善、便捷、灵活、易上手的AI开发平台。"
随着人们日益关注互联技术及其对工业生产率的影响，企业将着眼于可使其解密制造资产运营数据的投资。中国政府出台了多项举措和政策改革，还有多种激励措施，也使制造商积极投资于以工业IoT为核心的数字化战略。
“在过去几年中，具有IIoT能力的供应商取得了飞跃式的发展，尤其是当组织考虑利用企业数据来帮助确定流程差距和解决方案差距时，这一点尤其明显。除此之外，企业数据还可以为维持收入创造新的可行方案。”——IDC亚太地区制造洞察研究经理Sampath Kumar Venkataswamy表示。
...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 FutureScape针对增长中的区块链和分布式账本技术（DLT）市场做出10个预测。这些预测都受到IDC定义的在技术、行业、经济、政治、甚至文化方面总体趋势的影响。这些趋势或外部驱动因素为企业和业务部门的技术领导者提供了部署IT战略的工具。与往年一样，许多趋势来源于影响业务和技术的变化速度不断提升。但是今年，许多外部驱动因素也反映了全球COVID-19疫情的持续影响以及企业为保持抵抗能力并适应下一个正常状态所做的努力。
2021年FutureScape所涵盖的预测未按优先级或重要性排列，具体如下：
- 预测1：法律诉讼和控告阻碍电子选举的进程。到2025年，基于区块链的电子投票方案将成为主流的解决方案，会有5%的司法辖区进行区块链投票系统测试。
- 预测2：到2024年，医疗保健区块链数字身份标准将来自卫健委或其他卫生机构，可以实现以下四点：医疗数据互操作性、完善的客户/患者数据信息、患者"健康评分"、利于AI技术更好的服务医疗体系。
- 预测3：到2025年，供应链行业中15％的机构将与区块链服务公司合作，整合区块链技术与物联网平台，以此记录M2M通信所需的数据。
- 预测4：到2025年，将有15％的消费贷款以中央银行数字货币形式支付。
- 预测5：到2025年，将有8％的金融机构使用区块链技术来满足KYC合规需求，以此创建透明的、可审核的实体记录。
- 预测6：到2025年，在立法要求下，将有50％的跨洲航运会运用区块链技术记录船员健康信息、船用燃油来源和货物来源数据。
- 预测7：到2025年，10％的供应链交易将使用区块链完成道德信任溯源与可持续业务证实，以增加数据可信度。
- 预测8：到2025年，中国通证化资产市场将达到1000亿美元。
- 预测9：基于区块链的跨境汇款网络将在特定的地域持续发展。到2023年，支付规模将超过15亿美元。
- 预测10：COVID-19会在短期内阻碍基于区块链技术的贸易融资业务转型，但到2025年，15%的商业银行用户将被纳入区块链平台。
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 ...
各行各业、各种形式、各种规模的企业都在进行着积极的转型，因为它们希望在日益数字化的世界中开展业务。当前席卷全球的新冠疫情大流行进一步加速了企业转型的决策——如果说在新冠疫情危机之前，数字化转型对任何组织来说都是一件"好事"，那么现在它已成为一项关乎生死存亡的任务。
未来数字化基础架构是企业数字化转型的基石。IDC认为，未来数字化基础架构将以数据为核心，企业在数字化过程中产生了大量的数据，从数据的采集到处理、存储、管理和应用，数据在企业内部和外部流转的全过程中都需要一个能够全方位支撑的IT基础架构。未来数字化基础架构将是一个面向多云、无处不在、智能自治的基础架构，本次研究将介绍未来数字化基础架构的发展趋势，给出2021年–2026年中国数字化基础架构发展的十大预测，逐一分析其对IT的影响，并提出相关的行动建议，可为企业构建未来IT基础架构提供参考。
"新冠肺炎疫情对全球经济产生了深远的影响，疫情迫使大量中国企业加快数字化转型的进程，并催生了很多新型业务模式，企业需要构建全新的IT基础架构以应对下一个常态下的业务发展。面向多云、无处不在和智能自治是未来数字化基础架构的主要特征。中国的云计算发展上虽然起步较晚，但近年来发展迅速，对于多云、混合云的使用也更加深入。向混合型业务模式的转变将增加企业对灵活的、地理分散的基础架构资源的需求，例如对边缘基础架构的需求。同时，为了更有效地让数据在不同位置顺畅的流动，自动化运维将变得不可或缺，企业需要在基础设施的日常维护中实现自动化，从而释放更多的资源用于其他领域。"——IDC中国企业级研究部研究经理索引表示。
...2020年，中国智慧城市建设经历了疫情的考验，暴露了一些问题，也积攒了很多经验。中国对于疫情的防控取得很好的成效，率先在全球范围内复工复产，这对智慧城市的建设提供了有利的保障；同时，中国继续深化供给侧改革，并着力构建以国内大循环为主体、国内国际双循环的全新发展格局，中国经济发展长期积极向好的态势不会改变。特别是在新型城镇化建设取得显著进展的大背景下，主要城市群逐渐开启高质量发展的建设路径，这其中蕴含着巨大的智慧城市发展机遇。
基于以上背景，IDC根据全球智慧城市2021年十大预测，给出中国版本的趋势分析，如下：
- 预测1：到2023年，由于物联网生态系统的脆弱性，地方政府部署的设备中将有35%会成为恶意软件和勒索软件的攻击目标，这将使AI/ML的SOAR能力得到普及。
- 预测2：到2024年，55%的社区将使用基于云的应用程序、数字协作工具和移动技术的混合式办公方式，来维持服务的供给以及确保工作人员在工作-生活-健康间的平衡。
- 预测3：到2022年，30%的城市将会开始使用类似于数字孪生的数字空间规划工具，以加快社会经济从COVID-19疫情中复苏，并确保人员、商品以及服务的安全运行。
- 预测4：到2023年，60%的警察机构将使用包含视频传输和共享工作流程的数字化工具，运用替代响应体系方法，构建全新数字化警务工作。
- 预测5：到2023年，80%的中型智慧城市将任命专职负责人来推动创新和数字化转型，以满足不断增长的社区服务要求。
- 预测6：疫情促使了私人交通的发展。在中国，公共交通运输正在复苏，私人交通在一定程度上也得到了促进。到2024年，30%的中小型城市采用新技术平台以增加对私人交通运输解决方案的管理与使用。
- 预测7：到2024年，中国智慧城市与智慧社区相关的投资将超过2,300亿人民币，重点投资于公共安全、智慧交通、智慧政务、智慧环保、智慧应急等广泛领域。
- 预测8：到2024年，高速互联网是人们参与社会的重要基础设施，中国将有95%以上的城市将结束连接服务的鸿沟。
- 预测9：到2024年，40%的城市将通过物联网、人工智能和数字孪生等技术实现物理世界与数字世界的融合，改善关键基础设施和数字服务的远程管理水平。
- 预测10：到2026年，40%的城市产品和服务将通过多元融合的数字化体验方式来提供，这将改变群众与地方政府之间的互动。
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 ...
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。
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