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.
从“互联网+”到“智能+”，政府主导的政策变化的背后，是人们生产和生活方式的又一次迭代，是技术发展的必然趋势。工业互联网是面向工业智能化发展的关键基础设施，是新一代信息技术和制造业深度融合形成的新兴业态和应用模式。本篇报告分析了“智能+”发展的挑战、工业互联网的价值以及实际应用的案例。
“工业互联网是产品服务数据化的前提、是连接获取数据的手段、是分析挖掘价值的工具、是管理控制实施的途径以及商业模式改变的基石。随着技术的不断演进发展和不同参与方的加入，工业互联网将不断赋能“智能+”，助力中国制造向高质量水平发展。”——IDC中国制造业高级研究经理张兰英表示。
...This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation empowers executives from across the urban transportation ecosystem — city mobility planners, urban transit strategic planners, car OEM strategists, ride-hailing and ride-sharing operators, and technology ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight, which draws from IDC's 2019 Turkey CIO Survey conducted in April 2019 among respondents from multiple industries, looks at the key drivers of big data and analytics spending in Turkey.
This Tech Buyer Presentation draws insights from IDC's CloudPath Survey and IDC Retail Insights' ongoing research with retail vendors, users, and service providers to understand the cloud trends impacting the retail industry ...
This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation provides an overview of the worldwide telecommunications service provider industry for the half-year period ending June 2019. It also showcases the recent trends in various areas such as revenue, revenue ...
This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation offers CIOs actionable guides to IT organizational transformation among three types of stakeholders: direct reports, C-level executives, and line-of-business (LOB) executives. Global IT organizations are ...
This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation discusses about technical debt and its many causes and consequences, especially the perceived need (real or imagined) for getting things to market quickly. Short-term decisions made by business leaders in ...
本报告为您洞察三大问题：
- "智能+"时代园区发展面临的主要挑战是什么？
IDC认为园区数字化转型主要面临四个层面的挑战，一是慢全球化与经济下行压力越来越大；二是招商同质化带来的新兴科技产业招商困难；三是园区运营方如何帮助园区企业不断发展壮大；四是如何持续打造高质量的营商环境。
- "智能+"时代园区发展的主要商机在哪里？
IDC认为园区发展有五个维度的发展商机，一是产业视角下的数字经济发展；二是资本视角下的内外资并重；三是企业视角下生态龙头企业与高成长企业并重；四是大力发展夜间经济；五是面向基于空间流量的精细运营。
- "智能+"时代园区转型升级的主要策略是什么？
IDC认为园区数字化转型核心策略主要有六点，一是打造独特的愿景与文化；二是制定战略规划与路线图；三是加大数字化服务投资；四是打造个性化精准的政策；五是探索流量变现的商业模式；六是变革组织架构与考核体系。
IDC副总裁武连峰先生表示："传统产业智能化建设是数字化转型2.0时代的必然发展趋势，新时代下园区的数字化建设与运营正迎来新的发展高峰。在数字技术逐步成熟、数字技术获取度逐步降低的背景下，园区数字化建设重点正在从IT基础设施、烟囱式应用建设转向能够直接促进园区业务发展和服务提升的应用建设，其中物联网、人工智能、区块链三项技术将扮演重要角色。建议行业用户和ICT厂商密切关注园区市场的核心建设场景，赢取未来发展先机。"
...This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation, Artificial Intelligence: Applications and Maturity in Public Safety, presents the five levels of artificial intelligence (AI)–based automation and sample use cases of new ...
This IDC Presentation discusses strategic considerations for carriers mulling MEC investments. This presentation was presented as a keynote session at the SDN NFV World Congress 2019, The Hague, Netherlands, on October 16, 2019.
The ...
This IDC presentation talks about the top-level business concerns, government initiatives, and technology trends that have a direct impact on the growth of smart manufacturing in India. The presentation also includes some recommendations ...
This IDC report dives into the digital healthcare trends in ASEAN by merging survey data with country analysis. It analyzes the current healthcare landscape, digital healthcare trends, and government drives in each country to understand ...
This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation describes 12 critical drivers — important external forces — that are driving change in the global business ecosystem and that will shape enterprise IT and business strategies for the next 12–24 months. IDC ...
This IDC planning guide focuses on developing and effectively using new digital KPIs. IDC's research shows that even companies that are successfully leading transformations are challenged in getting digital capabilities fully adopted across ...
This IDC planning guide outlines tactics for attracting and cultivating the digital talent necessary for the future of work. The module includes exercises for determining an organization's digital talent requirements, assessing current talent ...
This IDC planning guide will help digital leaders learn the best ways to create and manage a communications strategy that draws stakeholder support, empowers IT staff, and messages goals and KPIs to the widest audience.
The Transformation ...
This IDC planning guide provides peer advice and examples to spark a more innovative culture that supports transformation and helps enterprises become "digital natives" in the way their executives and employees think, produce, and operate. ...
This IDC planning guide helps technology executives to develop priorities, programs and use cases that support the digital mission. A successful digital transformation requires a strategy and roadmap based on real expectations. Based on ...
This IDC planning guide for technology executives outlines initial change management strategies for those early on in a digital transformation. It offers a step-by-step guide to the early transformation process, including choosing a change ...
This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation identifies the digital transformation (DX) use cases associated with effective national government and top technologies driving DX and provides guidance on selecting technology and service providers.
This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation evaluates the current maturity treasury model in aspects such organizational structure, technology, and ecosystem strategy.
Also, we explore the use of technology as the main enabler for treasurers ...
This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation covers global CFOs' top priorities, the impact of new trends on their daily operations, and how financial institutions must transform the way they serve corporate clients if they aim to be relevant.
The ...
This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation takes the utilities use case taxonomy for digital transformation and transposes it into a three-horizon road map. In each horizon, different uses cases are considered, introducing the logic of a transformation ...
This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation highlights what was discussed at the Midmarket Enterprise Summit in Phoenix, Arizona, September 21, 2019.
The importance of digital activities to any organization has created a need at executive levels ...
This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation provides IDC's view on customer centricity — one of the key strategies of a huge number of companies worldwide. This presentation is specific to the Asia/Pacific financial services industry. Highlights include:
- Why ...