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.
对于区块链技术发展，2019年是具有里程碑意义的一年。2019年10月中共中央政治局就区块链技术发展现状和趋势进行学习时，习近平总书记强调，"要把区块链作为核心技术自主创新的重要突破口，加快推动区块链技术和产业创新发展"。2020年4月，国家发改委明确新基建范围，进一步强调了区块链技术的重要性。至此，区块链技术历经代币炒作带来的泡沫，走过低谷阶段，在支持性政策加持下重新站上风口，迎来新的发展机遇。根据IDC预测，2020年中国区块链市场规模将达到4.7亿美元。
本次研究选取在中国境内提供BaaS平台产品且已在市场上推出落地案例的领导厂商。基于IDC ...
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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本IDC 陈述报告描述了中国制造行业IT 2020年十大预测。报告为制造企业的高管提供了在未来的60 个月内制造业IT 及其IT 所支持的业务发展趋势，报告标识了这些预测发生作用的未来时间和受影响的业务领域，以及相对的复杂性和成本。每个预测包括IT 对业务的影响和对于制造企业的行动指南。
2019年，对于中国制造业而言是非同寻常的一年。面临的外部形势依旧严峻，包括中美经贸摩擦在内的外部不确定性依旧存在，给中国制造业带来严峻的外部挑战；另外，成本压力、环保压力使得传统制造业盈利空间进一步缩小。“高质量”发展是2019中国制造业的主旋律。人工智能、大数据、5G等信息技术快速发展，并在制造业不同场景得以广泛应用；以工业互联网为代表的新业态和新模式给制造业带来了新的发展动能，带来了更多的商业机会。
“展望未来，中国制造业将持续快速发展，创新模式将不断涌现。数据驱动对运营弹性的需求，将使得智能工厂战略的重点由技术实施转移到流程变更管理；弹性供应链能降低劳动力成本、提高生产率；数字孪生技术将建立物理世界的映射，实现运营成本的节约；智能机器人流程化将实现重复工作的自动化，化，缓解人才短缺问题；受可持续性发展需求驱动，制造商将利用区块链提供可靠来源，提高审计效率，这些都是未来制造商投资的重点领域。”——IDC中国制造业高级研究经理张兰英表示。
...本报告是IDC FutureScape全球教育2020年预测的中国启示，报告提供了2020-2025年间教育行业技术发展路线图，包含10项教育行业发展前沿的预测并融合了针对中国教育行业的观点看法。每项预测都包括该预测内容成为市场“主流”的时间和复杂性评估，以及该预测对于IT方面的影响，并为技术买家提供了采用和部署这些技术的建议，可供中国教育机构和教育管理部门在制定发展战略和数字化转型策略中参考。
随着网络技术和智能技术的商用化程度越来越高，从互联网金融进化而来的金融科技正在加速重构金融行业的发展模式和竞争格局。近五年来，中国金融行业积极拥抱云计算、大数据、人工智能、移动互联、物联网等新一代信息技术，金融科技已全面融入支付、信贷、保险、证券、资产管理、供应链金融等领域，活跃的交投市场更是培育出了多家金融科技独角兽企业。
中国金融行业IT支出呈逐年增加趋势，预计到2020年将达到2,208亿元，2018年–2023年复合增长率（CAGR）为9.7%。金融行业将形成开放共建的生态圈，客群关注点向小微转移，金融业务呈现数据资产化、业务场景化、服务智能化的特征。金融行业也将更加关注信息科技建设，在云、大数据、人工智能等技术应用研发和产品采购方面投入更多，积极探索智慧金融新趋势。
在本研究中，IDC全球分析师团队描述了影响IT决策者和业务决策者的主要驱动因素，并给出了2020年–2025年有关金融行业的十大预测。
每一个预测都是基于它的影响（处理的成本和复杂性）和时间范围评估。该研究还为IT决策者和业务决策者在战略制定和资源配置方面提供了指导。
IDC的这份报告在全球报告的基础之上，提供了IDC ...
安永亚太区块链峰会对外展示了安永在区块链领域取得的成绩、技术进展以及战略规划，解释了区块链技术如何帮助企业提质降本增效、建设可信体系、构建平台经济，分享了安永区块链在不同行业的落地案例，展现了区块链技术对中国及全球企业数字化转型的价值。
中国政府在推进“健康中国”建设中，推出了“健康城市”“健康乡村”再向下细化到“健康企业”相关政策，泛社会化医疗健康服务体系正在建立。 “健康中国”将以健康数据为基本管理工具，区块链技术则成为健康数据管理的关键技术，未来发展中区块链也有望成为分布式医疗健康信息系统建立的关键支撑技术。
从政府的视角来看，中国政府肯定区块链技术作为新兴科技的潜力，积极引导其规范化发展。在中央层面，区块链与量子通信、人工智能、大数据等技术并列，被定义为战略性前沿技术，政府鼓励其创新、试验和应用，并制定了发展路线图。各省、自治区、直辖市也根据国家战略方向纷纷发布配套政策，围绕区块链项目试点、企业税收优惠等方面进行产业布局，把握新兴技术带来的产业升级机遇。
本文总结了政府机构在票据监管、司法存证、数据共享等方面的常见挑战，介绍了区块链在财税、司法、轨道交通三个政府和智慧城市子行业的若干实践案例，并总结了相关经验供读者借鉴。
IDC中国区块链行业研究经理薛宇表示："2019年以来，'币'与'链'的区分更为明确，'产业区块链'、'无币区块链'、'区块链+实体经济'等理念逐步成为市场主流。数字政府和智慧城市是区块链落地较有成效的领域，将在未来继续成为行业数字化转型和创新重要的'试验田'。"
...中共中央政治局10月24日下午就区块链技术发展现状和趋势进行第十八次集体学习，要把区块链作为核心技术自主创新的重要突破口，明确主攻方向，加大投入力度，着力攻克一批关键核心技术，加快推动区块链技术和产业创新发展。
IDC认为，本次集体学习给区块链技术定了基调，表现出中国发展区块链技术的决心，对澄清市场认知、推动技术落地有巨大作用，也为产业带来了重大发展机遇。