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.
目前，各地政府智慧城市以及政府数字化转型相关的建设正如火如荼，一方面已建成的海量非AI视频监控设备有着巨大的智能化升级改造空间；另一方面，针对潜在的智能化监控设备增量市场，基于超高清视频的人工智能算法及相关设备的建设将是未来的主要发展方向。在应用场景方面，智慧安防，智慧交管，智慧法庭，智慧环保等场景是目前政府行业人工智能（AI）视频监控的主要发展着力点。不同场景下的用户需求有着显著差异，相比硬件设备的参数本身，贴合应用场景需求的算法数量与质量，多算法融合与调度能力是构成智能视频监控解决方案的核心。未来的视频监控解决方案开发将更多深入具体场景需求，有针对性地进行特定场景下的算法研发和设备设计。本文总结了不同应用场景中不同厂商提供的应对策略，介绍了对应的技术与应用解决方案，为相关经验读者提供借鉴。
IDC政府行业与智慧城市研究组研究经理詹墨磊表示："智能视频监控解决方案主要包含前端设备的智能化改造和后端视频数据处理的智能化提升。目前，法院、检察院等室内场所的监控场景中，非人工智能设备的部署相对普遍，该类场景中的智能化改造更多的以数据在后端服务器中的智能化处理；在面向数据量大、实时性较强的场景中，针对前端设备的硬件智能化改造方案将略胜一筹；同时，针对多场景的人工智能算法综合应用需要以更加开放的姿态，实现共享与协调发展。"
...本报告针对新冠肺炎疫情期间多个典型行业用户在远程办公、在线教学、医院网络安全、电商平台、视频监控平台等业务场景下的网络安全需求变化以及采取的应对方案进行了深入分析，并选取国内网络安全市场主要玩家的优秀解决方案进行了具体介绍。希望能够对各行业用户在应对疫情期间特殊网络安全需求，或解决数字化转型进程中遇到的信息系统安全、业务安全、数据和隐私安全等网络安全痛点时提供建议和参考。虽然受新冠肺炎疫情影响，2020年中国网络安全市场增速将会有所放缓，但在政策合规、新基建、数字化转型等多重利好因素的驱动下，未来中国网络安全市场仍将保持快速增长趋势。
“新冠肺炎疫情的突然爆发使得远程协同办公、在线教学、医疗信息化、电商平台等业务需求激增，各行业企业的安全团队面临比以往更为严峻的信息系统安全、业务安全、数据和隐私安全等方面的挑战。企业需要迅速评估其原有网络安全防护体系是否能够充分应对疫情状态下的新增安全需求，并实现快速响应需求、扩充系统资源、清除安全隐患等。IT安全提供商也在本次疫情期间迎来一次“大考”，其产品和服务是否能够切实有效的帮助用户减轻工作负载并解决网络安全问题，将决定其在用户侧的未来信誉。”——IDC ...
“高质量发展”是中国制造业2019年的主旋律，而新兴技术在制造业不同场景的落地和迭代更新则是制造业高质量发展的支撑。制造业拥有庞大复杂的产业链以及丰富的产业生态，新兴ICT技术在产业链各个层级使用的情况如何？各ICT技术的支出多少？有哪些应用场景？产业生态构成如何？这些问题都在本报告中得以体现。
“了解中国制造业产业链各个环节的技术投资重点和应用场景，深刻洞察产业生态构成，无论对于制造商进行技术投资，还是选择技术合作伙伴，都大有裨益。”——IDC中国Manufacturing ...
本文主要洞察了疫情爆发后政府ICT市场和智慧城市市场所经受的考验、应对措施、暴露的问题，以及对政府用户相对成功的应用案例进行了分析。
“面对疫情的影响，中国政府所保有的举国体制是抗“疫”的关键所在，政府ICT市场也在这种机制下保持稳定发展，IDC预测第一季度政府ICT市场的增长率受影响较小，保持在6.9%左右。同时，面对疫情带来的冲击，中国政府出台的“新基建”政策无疑给中国产业结构转型、智慧社会建设以及政府数字化转型带来一定的对冲效应以及新的发展契机。IDC预测2020年全年政府ICT市场将会迎来新的一轮建设浪潮，全年政府ICT市场增长率将达到12%左右。”——IDC政府行业与智慧城市组研究经理詹墨磊表示。
...本研究对数字经济和未来企业进行了系统梳理，首先介绍了数字经济的概念与特征，指出成为未来企业是抓住数字经济商机的核心策略；分析了未来企业成熟度框架的五个阶段和五大维度；介绍了打造未来企业的最佳实践；并提供了行业用户在部署未来企业和数字化转型战略方面的参考建议。
IDC中国互联网行业研究经理薛宇表示：“数字经济下，数字化转型与创新是企业赢得未来的必由之路。在经济全面数字化、数字技术发展日新月异、互联网由消费侧向供给侧发展的背景下，所有的企业都应重新审视自身的数字化战略，坚定走数字化道路，成为未来企业。”
...2019年12月底中国武汉市爆发了新冠肺炎疫情，从2020年1月到2月，疫情持续扩散和发展。中国传统的春节假期延期，餐饮、零售、影院、旅游景点等都相继关闭，很多企业假期后也推迟复工时间至2月底，人们的生产生活等都受到了很大影响，中国乃至全球经济和ICT市场也受到波及。
为了分析新冠肺炎对经济和ICT市场的影响，IDC中国从2月3日到2月18日调研了190位企业高管，包括69位来自ICT产品与服务解决方案商的高管和121位来自行业用户的CXO。了解他们对以下问题的看法：疫情发展、疫情对经济的影响、疫情对行业和企业的影响、疫情对ICT花费及产品与技术的影响、疫情后企业数字化转型的重点举措等，本报告就是基于此次定量调研的分析和总结。
"新冠肺炎疫情充分体现了IT和数字化转型的价值，企业的CXO要充分利用这个契机，把危机变为商机，加速推进与实施新的数字化转型策略，支持企业疫情后寻找业务突破点和创新点，实现企业健康可持续发展。"IDC中国区副总裁兼首席分析师武连峰先生表示。
...2019年6月，中国发放5G牌照，2019年9月，中国三大运营商5G网络正式商用，未来的数年，中国电信行业将开启5G时代。
一方面，政府推动的5G网络建设正在加速，另外一方面，5G终端的快速普及，物联网新兴业务的爆发，将坚定运营商在5G网络投资上的决心，中国新一代通信基础设施的发展将在全球保持领先位置。
5G网络的新的特性，对通信网络架构产生革命性的影响。软件定义网络（SDN），网络功能虚拟化 （NFV），安全开发运营一体化（DevSecOps），容器等技术，将帮助运营商构建灵活、健壮、弹性的基础通信网络，但是，新技术的引用同样对运营商的运维能力和开发能力提出挑战。
泛在的网络将加速中国企业的数字化转型（DX）。移动网络和移动应用正在改变企业IT应用的方方面面，从员工连接和使用业务数据，到关键业务资产和基础设施上云，通信技术（CT）和信息技术（IT）的融合，将进一步加速中国企业的数字化转型，并引领中国数字经济的蓬勃发展。
在本研究中，IDC中国分析师团队结合IDC全球的研究成果，描绘下一代通信技术在未来五年对IT组织和业务的影响，并为采购决策者提出建议，并对2020-2025年中国电信行业的发展提出十大预测。
...本文引用并介绍了云计算在银行、保险、证券和互联网金融等金融子行业的落地应用，归纳总结了在云架构、云灾备和云开发运维等三个领域的常见挑战，通过案例分享和和经验总结的方式，希望能给金融机构提供清晰的路径规划和指导，避开误区和陷阱，助力金融机构的云建设之路。
IDC中国金融行业研究市场分析师朱佳怡表示：“金融行业是信息化程度最高的行业之一，走过了电子化、互联网化和数字化的时代，金融行业也是监管要求最为严格的行业之一，监管部门在自主可控性、数据安全性和业务连续性方面出台了多项监管措施。无论是IT架构的转型，还是灾备、开发运维的转型，金融机构都需要打破金融业信息化建设的传统思维习惯，分析自身发展状况，进行长远的战略规划和技术选型，采用日趋成熟、切合自身业务实际的技术框架，参考同行业内真实案例，逐步推进改革，在保证业务稳妥发展和满足监管合规的前提下进行创新尝试，寻找适合自身发展的转型之路，建立数字金融生态。”
...报告为您洞察四大问题：
- 什么是数字经济：IDC采选业界共识的数字产业化和产业数字化作为数字经济的研究范畴，同时定义数字经济的核心是数字化产品和服务。
- 为什么发展数字经济：数字经济占比大（30%+）、数字经济驱动性强（2倍速GDP）、数字经济提升国家竞争力（数字经济+制造业）、数字经济调整人才结构（80万+AI在客户关系管理领域增加工作机会）是四个发展数字经济的主要原因。
- 数字经济发展趋势如何：政策与资源倾斜加快（8大政府主导科技峰会）、行业数字化转型如火如荼（超过67%的中国千强企业将数字化转型作为公司核心战略）、数字化产业和服务全方位渗透（两倍速传统产品和服务）、新技术不断涌现。
- 如何发展数字经济：深刻理解政策、行业与技术趋势，政府主导营造良好的营商环境，企业和组织整合各类可用资源，企业建立多方共赢生态。
IDC副总裁武连峰先生表示："在数字经济中，数字化产品和服务是核心，而信息和如何使用信息是数字化产品和服务的成功保障。行业用户和ICT厂商必须掌握数字经济的特征并把它们融入业务运营和企业文化的核心，深刻理解未来政策、未来技术、未来生态、未来行业、未来工作的内涵与发展趋势，加速成为数字化原生企业（DNE），这是在数字经济时代实现全方位转型，赢取未来先机的关键。"
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