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 study provides an assessment of the principal SaaS and cloud-enabled enterprise content applications and presents the criteria most important for companies to consider when selecting a system. This assessment discusses both quantitative ...
This IDC study presents a vendor assessment of the 2019 cloud communications platforms (CPaaS) vendor market using the IDC MarketScape model. This assessment covers eight key cloud communications service providers on a worldwide basis. The ...
This IDC study uses the IDC MarketScape model to provide an assessment of vendors participating in the mobile app security testing (MAST) market. This study specifically analyzed MAST software offerings from MAST vendors that have a strong ...
This IDC PlanScape is a follow-on to the IDC MaturityScape and IDC MaturityScape Benchmark documents for print security that outlined the stages and dimensions of print security maturity and assessed where organizations currently stand along ...
This IDC study provides IT executives, learning program/initiative leaders, and learning and development leaders a framework to consistently align L&D activities with IT organizational priorities. That alignment will then lead to successful ...
This IDC PlanScape discusses the creation of a progressive workplace culture as a key component to cultivating and sustaining a comprehensive talent transformation strategy. Establishing a new workplace culture is the ...
This IDC PlanScape outlines a framework for merchandising and IT leaders in retail organizations to better understand and communicate the need for revisiting their investments in the critical foundational system for retailers — merchandising ...
This IDC study uses the IDC MarketScape model to provide an assessment of several vendors participating in the U.S. acute care electronic health records (EHR) market. The IDC MarketScape is an evaluation based on a comprehensive framework ...
This IDC study presents a vendor assessment of U.S. emerging providers offering managed security services (MSS) through the IDC MarketScape model. The assessment reviews both quantitative and qualitative characteristics that define current ...
This IDC study presents assessment of eight CDN vendors that provide commercial CDN services on a global basis. The assessment is based on their current capabilities and future strategies for delivering CDN services. This is the first comprehensive ...
本篇IDC PeerScape报告通过案头资料研究，以及对银行机构、IT厂商的直接访谈，列举出银行部署智能风控项目所面临的四大挑战及对应的实践案例，用以展示当下银行机构如何利用大数据和人工智能技术对传统风控业务进行数字化改造。
"信贷利率的定价，不仅要覆盖资金成本和业务成本，同样也要覆盖风险成本，最后留下合理利润，这样才会保证银行信贷业务的可持续性。对于长尾客户来说，由于其业务成本和风险溢价较高，往往会形成信贷利率高、放款审核通过率较低的现象。随着大数据和人工智能技术在银行业的商用化落地，破解民营企业的两融难题成为可能，未来，银行机构将通过新型风控手段，以尽可能低的成本，尽量充分地获取客户群体更丰富的信息，从而实现智能化的客户分析及风险定价。"——IDC中国金融行业研究部高级分析师任辰羽表示。
...This IDC PeerScape profiles several CIOs who have robust IT diversity efforts and have seen the business benefits. They can draw from a broader IT talent pool in a tight labor market. The greater "diversity of thought" on IT project teams ...
进入2019年，IDC看到机器学习的应用场景不断扩展翻新。随着市场空间的凸显，越来越多的厂商参与市场竞争。市场参与者不再是初创公司为主，平台级公司凭借人才和资金的投入优势，也快速获得竞争优势。用户端也开始关心不同厂商之间的差异，IDC开展本次研究以帮助用户进行机器学习平台产品的选型。
IDC人工智能高级研究经理卢言霞表示： “尽管深度学习算法的创新速度变缓，但我们相信机器学习的应用将稳步渗透到各行各业的生产系统中。纯技术的创新速度有所放缓，但从技术到产品到商业化应用落地的速度在加快。未来，自动化机器学习也将降低行业用户采用AI的门槛，加速行业企业实现高级别的自动化、智能化”。
...This IDC PlanScape presents a framework that enables companies across asset-intensive industries, such as manufacturing, mining, oil and gas, and utilities, to develop or improve their own road map for the implementation of digitally transformed ...
This IDC study presents a vendor assessment of security services in Canada through the IDC MarketScape model. Using the IDC MarketScape model, 15 security service providers with operations and customers in Canada were compared. This process ...
This IDC study represents a vendor assessment of providers offering ediscovery review software delivered via SaaS/public cloud through the IDC MarketScape model. The assessment reviews both quantitative and qualitative characteristics that ...
This IDC PeerScape explores Connected Collaboration initiatives that are created by banks to transform traditional models into an open environment. The document describes five practices that are at the heart of an open banking institution, ...
这份IDC PeerScape报告引用并介绍了人工智能技术在三种不同类型的银行的落地实施经验与总结。三个案例分别来自国有大型银行与股份制商业银行，这表明，不同体量的银行都需要加大在人工智能技术上的投入，并不断探索人工智能技术落地的场景与应用。
IDC Financial Insights研究总监郑煜表示：“虽然人工智能在银行业的进一步发展依然面临着众多挑战，如监管机制的待完善、技术与算法的进一步创新、数据的深度挖掘、运营和服务流程的优化与再造，以及人工智能技术所带来的风险防范，但是毋庸置疑，人工智能技术的进一步发展将重塑我们的金融产品与服务，改变银行类金融机构的运营模式。所以，各个体量的银行都应当加快人工智能技术应用的步伐，快速部署可以为银行带来一定规模效益的人工智能技术。”
...本文简述了企业在五个维度内不同成熟阶段内的不同特征，是对《IDC MaturityScape：Digital Transformation 1.0》（IDC #254721, 2015年3月）的更新。
This IDC study provides a detailed analysis of how AI is being used for the management of government datacenters and some of the paths government agencies can explore if they are looking to leverage AI for this purpose, especially if they ...
This IDC study uses the IDC MarketScape model to provide an assessment of vendors participating in the mobile app security testing (MAST) market. This study specifically analyzed MAST software offerings from MAST vendors that have a strong ...
This IDC PeerScape complements another document, Using "Objectives and Key Results" to Drive IT Transformation and Organizational Change (IDC #US45349619, ...
This IDC PeerScape explores the enterprise cybersecurity budgeting process and the approaches taken by four CIOs across the airport, construction, hospitality, and commercial real estate industries. As this study shows, CIOs are increasingly ...
This IDC PeerScape explores how organizations are building their AI capabilities.
"Decisions such as whether to build an AI solution in-house, outsource build to a third party, or buy AI as a service are too important to be approached ...
This IDC MarketScape evaluates leading service providers by performing a qualitative and quantitative assessment of their capabilities and strategy strategies with regards to providers in their offerings around with respect to customer experience ...