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.
该报告分析了2019年中国虚拟终端计算软件市场的规模，发展趋势和主要厂商的表现。
VCC软件市场包括集中式虚拟桌面、虚拟用户会话和其他形式的终端虚拟化产品。2019年中国虚拟终端软件市场的市场规模达到1.97亿美元，未来五年的复合增长率仍将保持在14.1%。由于新冠疫情的爆发，工作空间和方式转型成为企业数字化转型（DX）计划的一部分。更灵活和敏捷的工作方式在未来将成为常态，这将是VCC软件市场的驱动力。
IDC企业级系统和软件研究部高级研究经理李昭表示：“尽管新冠疫情的爆发对经济和企业的ICT支出产生负面影响，但它也加快了企业进行数字化转型的步伐，包括对工作空间的改造。新的远程工作和协作系统不是单一的工具，而是一个统一的平台或集成的解决方案，包括应用程序和桌面虚拟化、内容和协作应用、端点管理、安全和审计应用以及IT服务和资产管理。更灵活和敏捷的工作方式在未来将成为常态，这将是VCC软件市场的驱动力。”
...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最新发布的《中国企业级应用软件SaaS市场，2019》中显示，2019年中国软件即服务（SaaS）市场份额已经达到31亿美元，同比增长43%。2020年受到疫情的影响，增速有所放缓，预计市场份额将达到41亿美元，但是从未来五年的增速来看，中国的企业级应用SaaS市场的增长势头依旧保持不变，以33%的年复合增长率增长。此报告以2019全年数据为基础，主要介绍了中国企业级应用SaaS市场的主要发展动态、竞争格局以及未来发展趋势。通过这份报告，读者可以清楚了解到中国企业级应用SaaS市场目前发展的状况及未来主要发展趋势。
IDC企业级系统和软件研究部高级研究经理徐文婷表示：“在2020年的疫情背景下，对比传统软件的部署模式，SaaS的优势更加凸显，因此，疫情反而促进了中国SaaS市场的增长。但考虑到有些行业，例如服务、线下零售等中小型企业受到疫情打击较大，SaaS市场的增速会放缓，但到2021年下半年基本会回到原来的增速水平。对于中大型企业来说，疫情加速了其数字化转型的进程，云计算又是数字化转型的基础，所以很多中型特别是大型企业开始接受公有云SaaS的部署模式，这也将成为中国SaaS市场未来的主要驱动力量。对比中小型企业，中大型企业的业务类型更为复杂，这就给中国的SaaS厂商提出了更多的挑战，如何提升技术研发能力，特别是平台即服务（PaaS）的能力，是未来中国SaaS厂商重点考虑的发展方向。
...IDC最近发布的《2019下半年中国企业级应用软件市场跟踪调研报告》中显示，2019年中国企业级应用软件市场规模达到56亿美元，同比增长22.7%。主要的驱动力来自于云计算的快速发展以及企业数字化转型的需求，随着云计算的快速发展，企业对企业级应用软件即服务（SaaS）的接受程度也在大幅提高，特别是中型企业；因此，云计算是未来中国企业级应用软件市场发展的主要推动力。本报告从中国宏观经济影响因素开始，逐步为读者分析中国企业级应用软件市场的未来发展趋势以及主要的竞争格局。
在本报告中，IDC将中国企业级应用软件分为两大部分，一部分是客户关系管理应用软件（CRM），其中包括销售自动化管理应用（SFA）、事件营销管理应用（MC）、客服管理、数字化商务以及广告营销等应用；另一部分是企业级资源管理应用软件（ERP），其中包括财务应用、人力资本管理应用、企业资产管理和供应链管理等应用。
IDC企业级系统和软件研究部高级研究经理徐文婷表示：“云计算（SaaS）和数字化转型是中国企业级应用软件市场未来主要的发展驱动力，2020年的疫情影响倒逼企业重新思考数字化转型，加速了其数字化转型的进程，而云计算作为基础是企业实现数字化转型的关键。企业未来不仅仅关注内部运营效率的提升，更加关注外部协同的高效性，因此，具备有社交属性的CRM、云化的供应链管理等应用是企业未来的主要的关注领域，这就为中国的企业级应用供应商提出了很大的挑战，既要加快相关云原生产品的研发和迭代速度，同时要满足企业不同规模的个性化需求。不仅要成为企业的产品提供商，更要做企业数字化转型的合作伙伴。”
...云计算在中国市场经过十多年的发展，已经从单纯地以满足资源型需求为主的中心云基础设施，发展成为汇聚各类信息技术，覆盖不同区域部署、兼顾垂直行业特定需求的新一代云平台生态系统，能够更好地支持企业的云原生应用、自动化管理和业务创新，满足用户在任何时间、任何地点对任何应用的响应需求。全球云计算2021年预测涵盖了云数据基础架构、云边、多云/混合云、云原生和应用现代化、云运营组织等多个方面，并一一为大家揭示了未来云计算市场的发展方向。本报告分别阐述了每项预测的含义，分析了其对IT方面的影响，并提出了顺应这些技术和市场趋势发展的建议，可为云服务商制定业务发展战略、技术买家进行数字化转型提供参考。
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