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.
This IDC Market Forecast contains data regarding European CSP spending in 2018-2023. It segments opex data by major subcategory. It also discusses major trends that will affect CSP capex and opex.
" CSP spending in Europe will experience ...
本报告论述了中国政府举办的基本医疗保险与商业医疗保险的发展动态和趋势，分析了中国医疗保障业务发展的形态与特征，阐述了信息化和数字化对于中国医疗保障发展的支撑性作用，预测了2018–2023年基本医疗保险管理系统和商业医疗保险管理系统的市场规模，供中国基本医保和商业医保信息化厂商以及ICT基础设施厂商、新兴信息化技术厂商等参考，也可供医疗保障管理部门在制定信息化建设和发展策略时参考。
"2018年3月，中国政府组建了国家医疗保障局，整合了原来分布在多个部委的医疗保障的相关职责，实现医疗保障的集中化管理，制定了未来基本医疗保险管理统一化、综合化和追求价值化的发展目标，同时也支持商业医疗保险与基本医疗保险同步发展，这些目标的实现离不开信息化和数字化的支撑。2019年开始的国家医疗保障信息平台建设，为未来全国范围内各省市医疗保障信息化的转型升级提供了借鉴和指引。预计未来一到三年中，各省市都将会启动新一代的医疗保障信息系统的建设；未来三到五年中，各省市之间医疗保障管理系统将开展大规模系统集成和医保数据的挖掘应用，商业医疗保险管理系统也将采用新兴信息化技术实现升级，进而更灵活地支持健康消费需求。在新一代的医疗保障信息系统建设中，新兴IT技术例如云计算、大数据、人工智能等将作为基础架构技术，支持医疗保障信息系统促进"健康中国2030"目标实现。"——IDC中国行业研究与咨询服务部高级研究经理肖宏亮表示。
...This IDC study examines some of the key technologies that are expected to trend upward in 2020, and it looks at ways in which IT and business services firms can address these technologies with customers to advance usage. The document highlights ...
This IDC study provides a detailed description of IDC's Worldwide Technology Impact Guide methodology and taxonomy. It should be used as a companion piece for IDC's Technology Impact Guide. Technology suppliers may utilize IDC's use case ...
本研究报告主要针对2018年数字政府大数据市场的市场规模、厂商竞争态势、技术发展趋势以及场景化的最佳实践等维度进行体系化的研究。
"数字政府建设尚未形成规模化、可复制的大数据平台服务与应用场景创新，尤其是在数字政府1.0时代，以Hadoop技术栈为主建设的大数据管理平台覆盖了国家级与多数省级市场，其主要功能在于提供分布式的数据存储。数字政府2.0时代，政府大数据基础平台建设逐渐融合Hadoop、GreenPlum、Spark等多元大数据技术，开始以业务导向为主，促成场景驱动技术选型。同时，基础平台在原本技术门槛高的基础上又融合了日益复杂的技术生态，使得基础平台市场趋近集约化。随着省级大数据基础平台部署基本覆盖，面向数据本身的管理与治理市场还处于大规模的人力投入阶段，相对较离散，正是技术颠覆的最佳发力点。"IDC政府行业与智慧城市研究组研究经理詹墨磊表示。
...This IDC Market Forecast projects future spending on strategic priorities related to DX in Europe. It provides an overview of the market context, an in-depth examination of key drivers and inhibitors, and essential guidance for developing ...
This IDC Market Forecast analyzes IT investments between 2019 and 2023 in Europe — which includes Western Europe (WE) and Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) — and provides a market size and forecast for IT spending by vertical market.
"Technology ...
This IDC study is a translation of the Japanese document (IDC #JPJ44583219) and analyzes vendors' shares in the robotic process automation (RPA) software market in 2018. The RPA software ...
本报告论述了中国教育行业发展的动态和主要的趋势，包括教育的基本统计信息、教育改革的方向、教育信息化的相关政策和财政投入等，报告预测了教育IT市场2019–2023年的市场规模，预测数据中包括主要的各类IT产品类别，阐述了教育IT增长的驱动力和主要驱动因素，可以供IT厂商、教育软件厂商和服务商在制定业务发展战略时参考。
“中国教育行业IT市场呈现出稳步发展的态势，政府优先保障对教育的财政投入和教育信息化促进政策是教育信息化发展的关键动力，而解决教育资源不平衡、建立教学与基础科学研究、激励创新、产学研结合等则是教育IT未来发展的关键动力。教育IT不仅表现在基础IT架构和系统持续的完善、集成和升级，而且表现在新兴信息化技术在教育领域的广泛探索和应用。IDC预计，中国教育IT市场将保持长期的稳步增长，这一市场的2018–2023年的复合增长率将达到7.9%；其中教育软件市场的2018–2023年的复合增长率将达到24.9%，各类基础架构软件、应用系统开发和部署软件、应用软件都将保持高速发展。”—IDC中国行业研究与咨询服务部高级研究经理肖宏亮表示。
...This IDC study is a translation of the Japanese document (IDC #JPJ45371019) and extracts the ICT market from the Japan workstyle transformation market, and examines and analyzes the ...
This IDC study investigates the enterprise legal management software market. It discusses overall market dynamics, analyzes the competitive landscape, and provides a quantitative assessment of the biggest vendors in the market.
"Many ...
This IDC study provides a detailed description of IDC's Worldwide Semiannual Digital Transformation Spending Guide methodology and taxonomy. It should be used as a companion piece for IDC's Worldwide Semiannual Digital Transformation Spending ...
This IDC study describes the most prominent use cases that are being digitally transformed in the precision agriculture space. IDC has created a use case taxonomy for digital transformation for multiple industry segments. The taxonomy follows ...
This IDC study presents a five-year forecast for the APEJ manufacturing IT applications industry as of September 2019. It reviews and analyzes market context, including both drivers and inhibitors of IT application growth. It also highlights ...
本报告分析了中国生命科学发展的基本概况，阐述了生命科学行业发展与其采用信息化技术的应用场景，分析了2018–2023年生命科学IT支出预测，供生命科学应用软件厂商和相关服务厂商以及IT基础设施厂商、新兴信息化技术厂商参考，也可供生命科学企业在制定发展策略时参考。
“最近一些年中，新兴信息化技术极大地促进了生命科学的研究和开发，生物医学大数据正在建立起来，云计算为生命科学发展提供了计算力支持和管理超大规模数据的能力，人工智能技术则加速了生命科学研究方法改进，生物医药对于特定疾病的针对性治疗功能将越来越强大，转化医学在临床中的比例将越来越高，生命科学研究与开发也促使药品的生产制造与流通模式发生改进，这些都将加速生命科学IT支出规模的扩大。预计未来几年中，生命科学研究与开发的应用软件将会加速发展，大数据、云计算、人工智能等新兴技术将会被加速采用。”——IDC中国行业研究与咨询服务部高级研究经理肖宏亮表示。
...This IDC study represents the first IDC channel forecast for the public SaaS and PaaS markets.
"The SaaS and PaaS markets and the partner ecosystem's role in expanding its reach and value is very strong and growing stronger. This can ...
This IDC study presents IDC's digital transformation (DX) use case taxonomy for human resource management. It includes descriptions of the strategic priority, programs, and use cases for this horizontal function.
"To address increasing ...
This IDC study discusses the key strategic priority, programs, and use cases that executives leading engineering and R&D teams across industries as diverse as automotive, consumer goods, chemical, high tech, life sciences, and retail ...
"This IDC Special Study quantifies the changing employment landscape and provides technology employment forecast by role and industry sector. The lack of available IT skills will result in over $390 billion in lost revenue annually in the ...
This IDC study is a translation of the Japanese document (IDC #JPJ44016019) and presents a forecast for the Japan satellite office market and teleworking market from 2019 to 2023.
"The ...
本报告从政策驱动、国际环境以及细分市场份额出发，洞察政府行业数字化发展情况并为厂商提供发展建议。
"政府数字化转型的关键在于融合与促进社会信息化大发展，是中国国家竞争力能够在国际纷繁复杂的政治经济环境中得以立足的强有力保障。政府数字化转型提升了政府本身的业务信息化水平，促进了管理型政府向服务型政府的进一步转变，促进了社会营商环境的优化以及居民满意度的提升。在此基础上，政府数字化转型的核心将要考虑与智慧城市、平安城市以及其他场景化应用、管理与服务平台的结合，考虑与卫星应用、地理信息、5G、人工智能等技术发展的应用产生的新兴场景的融合，以及如何形成国家核心技术创新与"国产替代"进程加速的领先驱动力。2019年政府数字化转型将开启社会总体信息化发展大融合、新兴场景大爆炸、技术创新大变革的时代。"IDC政府行业和智慧城市研究经理詹墨磊表示。
...This IDC study examines the market for digital agency services globally. It presents estimates of total demand in 2017 and 2018, and it forecasts future demand for 2019-2023.
"Digital agency services remain in high demand because ...
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。
“金融是一国的经济命脉所在，如何在监管和创新之间寻找平衡将是破局的关键。当下，技术革命浪潮再一次席卷全球，云计算、大数据、人工智能、区块链等技术成为新宠，作为金融行业中的支柱产业，银行业的数字化建设需要多方共同努力，一方面监管层要适当把握政策节奏，对金融科技既要鼓励又要审慎，另一方面银行主体需要强化改革意愿，以自身需求主动驱动变革而非被动接受软件系统厂商的技术和产品迭代，最终形成监管、银行、服务厂商三方良性的需求响应循环生态。”——IDC中国金融行业研究部高级分析师任辰羽表示。
...This IDC study examines the top issues for several vertical market segments with respect to the issues, challenges, and need for external services providers for several 3rd Platform innovation accelerators. The data shows the different priorities ...
This IDC study is a translation of the Japanese document IDC #JPJ44002519 and analyzes the IT spending by the LOB department in the Japan IT market by business function, industry, ...