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.
据IDC发布的《中国企业无线市场解读，4Q2019》报告显示，2019年中国无线市场营收达到8.45亿美元，同比增长6.4%。此报告以2019年第一季度至第四季度的数据为基础，主要介绍了全球以及中国无线市场的整体规模和未来五年市场规模的预测、中国无线市场竞争分析和行业分析等，同时，从当前及未来五年市场规模预测等角度对中国无线市场展开分析。
IDC中国网络市场研究经理郭越表示： "2019年是无线市场蓄势待发的一年，从国家的宏观政策，到各企业的数字化转型项目都为ICT相关设备市场提供发育因素。行业中的教育，服务，制造和政府等行业引领中国无线整体市场。在产品层面，Wi-Fi ...
数字政府作为数字中国的重要组成部分，是构建高水平社会主义市场经济体制的重要支撑，是践行四个全面战略布局和五大新发展理念的重要抓手，是建设社会主义现代化国家的必经途径。从政策角度出发，十九届四中全会强调要创新行政方式，提高行政效能，建设人民满意的服务型政府；十九届五中全会强调推动国家治理体系和治理能力的现代化，而建设数字政府成为了这一理念实践过程中的重要抓手与引擎。截至2020年12月，全国已有15个省级行政单位提出了数字政府相关的规划，且规划主体正由省级政府向市级政府扩展，多层次的数字政府建设正渐渐拉开帷幕。从技术角度出发，大数据、区块链、云计算、人工智能等新兴信息技术不断融合创新，全面支撑数字政府的建设，科技全方面赋能的趋势逐步凸显。从市场规模角度出发，到2024年，数字政府相关的建设中仅IT解决方案的市场规模便会达到249亿人民币，市场前景广阔，未来可期。由此可见，数字政府建设正蓄势待发，。
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伴随人工智能、大数据、云计算等新兴技术的蓬勃发展，"智慧+行业"成为全球各国所关注的重点发展方向。其中，智慧城市便成为新兴技术与传统行业、应用场景相结合的产物。与此同时，万物互联时代下的安全隐患也层出不穷，智慧城市安全建设变得更加至关重要。
IDC 在本次研究中对中国重点技术服务供应商、最终客户进行了深入访谈，了解全国各地智慧城市安全运营中心的建设模式、建设痛点、建设内容和最佳实践。同时，IDC结合中国网络安全市场发展特色，从技术提供商和技术买家的不同视角给出建议。IDC ...
本报告包括四个部分，第一部分分析了中国数据中心服务市场的整体规模、行业与区域分布和市场发展动态；第二部分分析了中国数据中心服务市场的竞争格局和主要数据中心服务商发展动态；第三部分对中国数据中心服务市场进行了预测，并分析了该市场相关的驱动和阻碍因素；第四部分提出了一些简单建议，旨在为数据中心服务商提供决策参考。
“中国数据中心服务作为数字化战略的重要基础设施，得到了市场和政策的双重推动。企业数字化转型、新冠疫情刺激云计算发展、以及新技术带来的数据量激增增加了对数据中心服务的需求。互联网和金融行业仍是2019年数据中心服务市场增长的最强劲动力，而政府、制造业、零售业等其他行业需求也增长明显。市场对节能环保、成本优化、效率提升和合理规划等方面的要求，使得中国数据中心服务商正从注重基础设施能力深入到绿色高效、智能运维、混合云管理等综合能力提升上。中国数据中心服务市场将迎来一个从重视数量到重视质量的发展阶段。”——IDC中国云和服务研究组高级研究经理刘丽辉表示。
...2019年9月，中共中央、国务院印发了作为顶层设计的《交通强国建设纲要》，在总体要求、指导思想、发展目标及保障措施等领域提出了全面而完善的规划纲要，开启了新时代交通发展新篇章。同时，在《数字交通发展规划纲要》的指导下，提出了着眼提升和实现全生命周期的数字化升级策略。2020年以来，“新基建”政策的提出，进一步驱动了以5G、人工智能、工业互联网、物联网为代表的数字基础设施建设浪潮。交通行业数字化转型市场也迎来了互联网厂商积极参与的生态多样化发展时期，新IT技术的发展也得到了广泛应用。
IDC政府行业与智慧城市研究组研究经理詹墨磊表示：“交通行业未来将以公众出行精准服务为基础，向多栖重点行业应用拓展，例如安防、旅游等，配合辅助安全驾驶等功能，以应用场景为切入点发展。大数据平台与云平台作为交通行业的数字基础，将从路侧设施、系统平台层面重点打造以车辆信息为主的V2X数据应用服务平台、以交管运行信息为主的公安交管赋能平台、以路网交通诊断为主的路况诊断与信息发布平台以及其他车辆使用服务平台，实现不同平台间的信息交互，推动行业车辆管理、交通出行服务的全面升级，形成跨行业、跨平台、跨网络信息交互及应用的综合技术解决方案。未来，云边协同能力的加强，将进一步提升终端侧计算能力，降低时延，增加可靠性，助力服务平台和路侧设备、车辆等实现交互，推动车辆调度、交通监测、违法执法等功能的全面数字化转型。”
...迪讯信息技术有限公司在DDI企业市场拥有多年经验积累，推出了具备一定特色的产品解决方案。IDC认为：
迪讯信息技术有限公司成立之初即专注于DDI产品，涉及域名解析系统、动态地址分配、IP地址管理（DNS/DHCP/IPAM）等细分领域，从硬件，软件，解决方案，服务以及培训等多角度帮助企业进行DDI设备以及整体解决方案建设。
迪讯信息技术有限公司在产品层面做了多细分领域覆盖，包括多数据中心的DNS域名建设与改造，DNS多出口流量智能调度，DNS安全防护体系建设，DDI设备在信息安全等级保护的应用，IPv6 ...
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。
...越来越多的中国企业意识到数字化转型对于企业运营和业务发展的重要性，以云计算、大数据、移动、社交为依托的“第三平台”的快速发展。企业传统IT网络环境也随之逐渐演变，企业网络边界已经变得越来越模糊和难以管控，同时，随着IT资产的种类和数量快速增长，企业需要对各类资产以及其中可能隐藏的脆弱性信息进行全面识别和管理。
IDC在本次研究中对中国重点行业客户进行了深入访谈，了解企业级客户在IT资产安全管理方面的业务痛点和最佳实践，并结合国内网络安全市场发展特色，从技术提供商和技术买家的不同视角给出IDC建议。同时，IDC从国内众多安全产品和服务提供商中选择了代表性厂商，并对他们的技术能力、产品及解决方案特色进行了介绍，希望能够在企业整体网络安全防护体系建设，尤其是企业IT资产发现与脆弱性管理能力建设方面提供参考。
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