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.
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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 ...
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本报告论述了中国生命科学研发中使用的主要信息系统的厂商市场份额，分析了生命科学研发软件的发展趋势和该市场的竞争态势，并对领先厂商 2019年的市场表现给予了分析评价，可供生命科学研究与开发企业、医院等机构在选择研发信息系统供应商时参考，也可供投资机构参考。本报告中生命科学研发信息系统主要包括有生物信息学系统、智能实验室系统、研发协作系统、综合eClinical平台系统、临床数据分析与挖掘系统和支持生命科学研发的社交沟通系统，当前这些系统主要用于新药研发业务中，具体定义请见本报告的"市场定义"章节（本报告中不包括基因检测信息系统）。另外，IDC所定义的上述系统与厂商的系统名称可能存在不一致的指称，但是其功能内容和所发挥的作用是一致的。本报告中不包括生命科学的生产和运营领域、生命科学中各种运算所依赖的IT基础设施等技术及厂商的分析，这些分析将在其他报告中展现。
"信息化技术正在成为生命科学研发的引擎，大量的新兴生命科学研发信息系统厂商进入这一领域并快速融入生命科学研发业务。那些起步比较早、信息技术应用水平高的厂商在生命科学研发中展现出价值并快速成长。预计未来几年，生命科学研发信息系统厂商将大量出现，与新药研发、精准医疗等业务同步成长，未来三到五年厂商将呈现激烈竞争而快速成长的局面，而未来五到十年，获得市场认可的厂商将会逐步脱颖而出并在生命科学业务发展中成长壮大。"——IDC中国行业研究与咨询服务部高级研究经理肖宏亮表示。
...本报告将从市场发展现状、市场主要变化情况、厂商竞争格局、厂商市场占有率等视角研究高精度地图解决方案市场。报告将结合政策信息、市场变化信息给读者提供相应的市场建议。
IDC中国政府行业与智慧城市研究部研究经理詹墨磊表示：“高精度地图市场是一个新兴市场，国家层面尚未有专门性的产业发展规划以及标准文件的出台。但是，市场的发展已经跟随着技术的进步在稳步推进，国外图商由于政策限制因素正在寻求以数据应用开发角度切入市场；国内传统图商头部企业正在对外资本输出、对内加大研发力度的策略下逐渐构建与强化自身综合解决方案能力；新兴初创企业为了寻求差异化发展，也在数据采集、数据制作、数据更新与服务等角度提出全新的发展理念与策略；传统IT或互联网企业的悉数入场，也在加快市场的竞争节奏。高精度地图市场在中国的发展正在逐步由蓝海向红海进发。”
...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，得出对于中国保险业IT解决方案市场份额及竞争格局的整体判断，旨在为保险机构以及IT服务商提供参考。
“2019年金融科技规划的发布，推动了云计算、大数据、人工智能、5G等技术与金融行业深度结合，驱动着IT应用不断创新，这些应用正在深刻改变着保险行业。随着分布式革新浪潮在金融行业逐渐推进，保险行业的IT架构将进一步优化，各类系统独立、繁杂、冗余的情况将得到改善，形成从渠道到管理、从外围到核心的升级改造路径。此外，随着无接触式金融服务概念的推广深化，互联网保险将受到直接的发展驱动，实现营销渠道远程化、保险产品场景化、数据管理智能化等。”—IDC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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