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。
"基于移动互联技术衍生的网络金融业态对传统金融带来了较大的冲击，面对这一挑战以及新冠疫情的直接影响，银行机构正在积极重构自己的业务逻辑和架构，探索远程服务、云服务等新模式，以期在数字时代的创新浪潮中迎头跃进。而国家积极推进的新基建投资中所聚焦的5G、数据中心、云计算、人工智能等新兴技术，无疑将为银行业的数智化转型带来一次更直接的催化。以分布式革新作为支点，银行业新一轮的IT建设大周期已经启动，银行IT投资有望保持增长态势。"——IDC中国金融行业研究部高级分析师任辰羽表示。
...本IDC研究报告分析了疫情对于中国ICT支出规模所带来的影响和应对疫情的各项措施对于ICT市场的促进，对2019年ICT支出和2020至2024年ICT支出规模做了预测分析，其中包括信息技术（IT）市场和通信技术（CT）市场，揭示了中国ICT市场的动态、关键驱动因素及发展趋势。本报告为IT厂商、电信运营商、IT渠道经销商等提供了决策参考。
"在全社会范围内开展的数字化转型逐渐从尝试阶段过渡到全面开展的阶段，在抗击新冠肺炎疫情的过程中，在线购物、居家远程办公、远程教育、远程医疗等各项业务凸显了数字化转型的价值；在疫情之后的经济恢复过程中，数字化转型也显示出巨大的作用。促进疫后经济恢复的"新基建"政策则直接促进ICT产业的发展。数字化转型的深入发展将推动云计算、移动应用、大数据、人工智能、物联网等技术应用的创新和成长，带动各类ICT产品、软件、IT服务和通信服务的升级和增长，中国ICT市场将会迎来一个新的发展高潮。"——IDC中国行业研究与咨询服务部高级研究经理肖宏亮表示。
...2020年6月1日，中共中央、国务院印发了《海南自由贸易港建设总体方案》（以下简称总体方案），并下发通知，要求各地区各部门结合实际认真贯彻落实。方案内容的核心是海南自贸港政策制度体系，除了风险防控体系之外，共有10大利好政策。方案的发展目标十分务实，IDC根据定量的指标来参考，综合给出发展的三阶段分析和常规、高速与突破的三种增长模式的定量预测。海南自有贸易港重点发展的旅游业、现代服务业和高新技术产业可以很好地与自贸港定位相匹配，也可以与其它地区和城市形成差异化定位，进而利用海南的特点和优势，在全球范围内形成自己的特色。这也为ICT市场带来了前所未有的发展机遇，预计到2045年，海南ICT市场规模将达到400亿美元，相当于2019年台湾CT市场规模的2倍；ICT占GDP的比例为5.9%，与新加坡2019年ICT占GDP的比例相当；35–45年复合增长率为10.7%。
市场对此方案反应非常热烈，很多企业和个人开始摩拳擦掌，不想错过可能是中国最后一波最大的对外开放机会，包括新基建、金融市场创新、高科技产业、离岸数据中心、区块链试验区机会等，这些机会的背后隐含了哪些挑战，又如何能够促进海南自贸港的真正腾飞？海南ICT市场是否是一座不可估量的金矿？本报告将一一洞察上述疑问。
...IDC数据透视表提供了2020–2024年中国省级国内生产总值（GDP）和 IT 支出的预测数据。其中包括 31 个大陆省份以及香港和台湾的数据：名义 GDP 价值、实际 GDP 增长率、按产品类别划分的 IT 支出（硬件、软件和IT 服务）以及 2018 年至 2024 年的市场规模数据。为 IT 供应商制定业务计划时提供参考。
IDC数据透视表包括以下数据：
- 省级 GDP，包括名义 GDP 值和实际 GDP 增长率
- 按 ...
中国新冠肺炎疫情已经得到了有效控制，复工复产正在接近常态。海外疫情虽有所好转，但仍然处于发展中，截至2020年5月底，海外累计确诊病例已经超过550万例，死亡人数也超过35万人。2020年全球经济衰退已成定局，全球经济衰退状况对中国经济的影响也越来越大，中国的IT市场也将受到较大影响。本研究报告首先分析了疫情对经济和IT市场最新影响，包括GDP和IT市场增长的最新预测。接着给出了政府最新政策催生的行业趋势，特别包括了中国政府刚刚结束的“两会（人大会议、政协会议）”中传递出的最新政策。结合IDC的最新研究，给出行业用户疫后五个阶段的业务复苏与创新行动指南，最后梳理了疫后下一个常态给ICT技术厂商带来的机会和应对策略。
“IT和数字化转型在疫情期间发挥了巨大价值，数字化优先的企业引领未来。行业用户应该利用此机会加速推进与实施新的数字化转型策略，技术厂商要把自己变成企业服务新物种，在下一个常态中做行业用户的创新支持者、可信赖顾问、批判性思想家、新技术网关。”——IDC中国区副总裁兼首席分析师武连峰先生表示。
...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、医疗保障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医疗数字化转型的发展，并重点分析了医疗行业各类主要医疗应用软件解决方案市场的发展情况和趋势，提供了对整个医疗行业 IT支出和主要医疗应用软件解决方案的市场规模预测，以及一些新技术应用市场规模预测。
“政府持续的医药卫生改革、医疗数字化转型升级发展及其所带动的医疗信息系统架构升级和新兴信息化技术应用是医疗IT发展的三大推动力。医疗信息化经过二十年的发展，在抗击新冠肺炎疫情中展现出巨大作用，医疗数字化转型正成为发展潮流。预计从 ...
疫情打破了刚性的经济约束与消费习惯，非接触商业与服务降低了商业活动中的大量成本。典型的非接触商业与服务应用场景包括在线办公、智慧生活、在线教育、互联网医疗以及在线购物，非接触商业与服务在各类应用场景的渗透，会带动各类智能终端设备的市场需求。例如，随着在线办公和移动办公成为未来工作的新常态，消费者会对兼具高续航能力与便捷性的超轻薄笔记本产生较大需求；互联网医疗使得更多用户关心健康与免疫力问题，具备体征监测与健身数据记录的各类可穿戴设备炙手可热；疫情催生的"宅经济"让虚拟现实（VR）设备在游戏、直播、医疗、教育等领域展露出新的机会。
"整体市场方面，疫情导致2020年一季度的智能终端市场在供应链、物流等方面能力受限，影响了第一季度的出货表现，但从长远来看，随着未来复工复产进度提速，市场逐渐会迎来反弹。产品方面，满足移动办公的超轻薄笔记本、实时健康数据监测的可穿戴设备、在线教育必不可少的平板电脑以及在诸多潜在应用场景中使用的VR设备，都会迎来较大的市场机会。渠道方面，此次疫情让传统线下店面生存愈加艰巨，但会提升智能终端产品在线上电子商务平台的销售比例。厂商建议方面，厂商需要抓住消费者类型与消费习惯偏好的细分、5G商业化进程推进、在线教育与移动办公的常态化加速，以及用户对医疗健康数据的关注程度提升等方面的机会，不断推出与场景和客户购买习惯相匹配的产品与解决方案，从而寻求业务突破。"——IDC中国终端系统研究部高级研究经理李睿表示。
...新冠肺炎疫情对经济和ICT市场的影响持续进行中，基于IDC中国趋势论坛数字经济专场中与参会嘉宾的交流，本研究报告回答了ICT厂商关注的问题，具体包括宏观环境与经济、总体ICT市场、细分ICT产品与技术、数字化转型与未来行业。希望ICT厂商通过IDC对这些问题的回答，能够在疫情防控新常态下洞悉未来企业新需求，发掘ICT市场新商机。
“在全球疫情的影响下，中国经济以及ICT市场持续受到影响。但与此同时，逆境下依然蕴藏着许多新的商机。IDC预计，2020年与疫情相关的ICT市场商机总计将超过1.5万亿人民币。ICT厂商要持续跟踪疫情发展状况和政府相关政策举措，开发新的ICT解决方案，打造远程协同工作的能力和习惯，做好线上产品服务营销与客户服务。”IDC中国区副总裁兼首席分析师武连峰先生表示。
...新冠肺炎疫情对经济和市场的冲击巨大，中国"新基建"相关政策举措刺激中国经济增长。数字化优先成为疫后企业新需求的核心，非接触连接商业的兴起将加速企业转型变革。技术厂商要把自己变成企业服务的新物种，发掘疫情后企业加速数字化转型新商机。
本报告首先分析了新冠肺炎疫情对政治、经济、行业、工作与生活的影响，给出了中国"新基建"相关政策对经济的拉动作用，接着分析了疫情后行业用户的核心诉求，最后结合疫情对经济和ICT市场的影响，梳理了10个新的ICT市场商机，提出了技术厂商要把自己变为新物种并获取商机的建议。
"技术厂商要把自己变成企业服务新物种，新物种的四大特征是：创新支持者、可信赖顾问、批判性思维、新技术网关。在后疫情时代，技术厂商要保持乐观的心态、打造远程协同工作的能力和习惯、做好线上营销与客户服务、帮助用户做好数字化转型的评估、重塑数字化转型的品牌定位。"——IDC中国区副总裁兼首席分析师武连峰先生表示。
...“高质量发展”是中国制造业2019年的主旋律，而新兴技术在制造业不同场景的落地和迭代更新则是制造业高质量发展的支撑。制造业拥有庞大复杂的产业链以及丰富的产业生态，新兴ICT技术在产业链各个层级使用的情况如何？各ICT技术的支出多少？有哪些应用场景？产业生态构成如何？这些问题都在本报告中得以体现。
“了解中国制造业产业链各个环节的技术投资重点和应用场景，深刻洞察产业生态构成，无论对于制造商进行技术投资，还是选择技术合作伙伴，都大有裨益。”——IDC中国Manufacturing ...
本文主要洞察了疫情爆发后政府ICT市场和智慧城市市场所经受的考验、应对措施、暴露的问题，以及对政府用户相对成功的应用案例进行了分析。
“面对疫情的影响，中国政府所保有的举国体制是抗“疫”的关键所在，政府ICT市场也在这种机制下保持稳定发展，IDC预测第一季度政府ICT市场的增长率受影响较小，保持在6.9%左右。同时，面对疫情带来的冲击，中国政府出台的“新基建”政策无疑给中国产业结构转型、智慧社会建设以及政府数字化转型带来一定的对冲效应以及新的发展契机。IDC预测2020年全年政府ICT市场将会迎来新的一轮建设浪潮，全年政府ICT市场增长率将达到12%左右。”——IDC政府行业与智慧城市组研究经理詹墨磊表示。
...本研究对数字经济和未来企业进行了系统梳理，首先介绍了数字经济的概念与特征，指出成为未来企业是抓住数字经济商机的核心策略；分析了未来企业成熟度框架的五个阶段和五大维度；介绍了打造未来企业的最佳实践；并提供了行业用户在部署未来企业和数字化转型战略方面的参考建议。
IDC中国互联网行业研究经理薛宇表示：“数字经济下，数字化转型与创新是企业赢得未来的必由之路。在经济全面数字化、数字技术发展日新月异、互联网由消费侧向供给侧发展的背景下，所有的企业都应重新审视自身的数字化战略，坚定走数字化道路，成为未来企业。”
...新冠肺炎疫情对2020年的中国经济造成了很大的负面影响，为了拉动经济可持续增长，“新基建”投资成为了政府与社会各界的必选项。本文梳理了“新基建”概念的由来、具体包括的内容、中国政府对“新基建”的重视程度。分析了“新基建”的投资规模、对经济的拉动作用、对企业数字化转型的作用。给出了“新基建”带动的ICT市场商机、获取“新基建”商机面临的挑战、对ICT厂商的建议。
“‘新基建’既对经济有巨大拉动作用，也将带来巨大的ICT商机，同时也将加速企业的全方位数字化转型。因此，ICT厂商必须给予足够的重视，首先要密切跟踪‘新基建’的最新政策和各级政府最新的项目规划，其次要整合内部资源协同开发针对‘新基建’的ICT解决方案，第三要打造或加入‘新基建’ICT商机的生态系统并寻找新的合作伙伴。”IDC中国区副总裁兼首席分析师武连峰先生表示。
...2019年12月底中国武汉市爆发了新冠肺炎疫情，从2020年1月到2月，疫情持续扩散和发展。中国传统的春节假期延期，餐饮、零售、影院、旅游景点等都相继关闭，很多企业假期后也推迟复工时间至2月底，人们的生产生活等都受到了很大影响，中国乃至全球经济和ICT市场也受到波及。
为了分析新冠肺炎对经济和ICT市场的影响，IDC中国从2月3日到2月18日调研了190位企业高管，包括69位来自ICT产品与服务解决方案商的高管和121位来自行业用户的CXO。了解他们对以下问题的看法：疫情发展、疫情对经济的影响、疫情对行业和企业的影响、疫情对ICT花费及产品与技术的影响、疫情后企业数字化转型的重点举措等，本报告就是基于此次定量调研的分析和总结。
"新冠肺炎疫情充分体现了IT和数字化转型的价值，企业的CXO要充分利用这个契机，把危机变为商机，加速推进与实施新的数字化转型策略，支持企业疫情后寻找业务突破点和创新点，实现企业健康可持续发展。"IDC中国区副总裁兼首席分析师武连峰先生表示。
...本报告梳理新了冠肺炎（COVID-19）发展的基本情况，分析了新冠肺炎对中国经济的影响，给出了新冠肺炎对中国ICT市场影响的更新预测，具体包括智能连接设备市场、企业级IT市场、重点新兴技术市场、重点垂直行业市场等，探索了新冠肺炎带来的十大潜在商机：数字平台与大数据、新型智慧城市与园区、互联网医疗服务、在线课堂与教育、远程办公与线上活动、5G行业应用、无人场景交易与服务、生鲜电商、供应链管理、制造与服务机器人，最后给出了总结与建议。
“新冠肺炎对经济的总体影响要高于2003年的SARS疫情，新冠肺炎对中国经济的影响主要集中在第一季度，对第二季度略有影响，对全年经济增长影响有限。新冠肺炎疫情结束后将引发中国宏观环境的五大变化：政府治理的智能化与现代化、“城市集群+中心城市”的分散化、数字化大健康体系加速推进、非接触连接商业与服务加速兴起、“中国+1”的全球供应链策略提速。这五大变化也会带来巨大的ICT市场商机，为了抗击疫情、应对挑战，企业应该打造远程协同工作的能力和习惯、做好线上产品和服务的营销、合理控制成本并充分利用国家的支持政策、投资寻找疫情过后的业务突破点与创新点，为疫情过后的增长做准备。”，IDC ...