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.
本IDC 陈述报告描述了中国制造行业IT 2021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。
2020年新冠疫情"黑天鹅"事件使得制造业遭受重大打击，尤其是离散型制造，由于供应链中断使得生产停滞。以汽车制造为例，在疫情头几个月，中国汽车的产销大幅下滑。与此同时，中美贸易摩擦并未停滞，美国政府对中国半导体、电子行业的贸易限制，也使得中国制造企业备受压力。
一边是疫情的全球肆虐，一边是中美贸易摩擦的持续升级。在此严峻的外部挑战之下，中国政府出台了"新基建"、"双循环"等政策，以应对经济下行压力，助推制造业复苏。我们也可以看到，一批新业态、新模式应运而生，并从根本上颠覆传统的工作模式、生产模式。
"展望未来，中国制造业的机会和挑战并存。从宏观上看，制造业IT投资将进一步提高，新技术、新模式将在业务落地的过程中将不断迭代更新，以适应不断变化的市场。基于AI的风险决策，能提供决策指导和洞察；机器视觉和增强/虚拟现实（AR/VR）将场外的专业知识延伸到现场，可以减少现场工作人员数量；分布式供应链网络将降低价值链意外中断的风险。另外，跨生态系统的运维中心将提高运营效率，缩短产品上市时间。"——IDC中国制造业高级研究经理张兰英表示。
...本报告是IDC FutureScape全球医疗健康行业2021年预测的中国启示，报告提供了2021-2026年间医疗健康行业技术发展路线图，包含10项健康行业发展前沿的预测并融合了针对中国市场的观点看法。每项预测都包括该预测内容成为市场"主流"的时间和实现该项预测的复杂性评估，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，可供中国医疗健康行业的各领域，如医疗、医保、医药、健康管理、生命科学等领域的机构和企业在制定发展战略和数字化转型策略中参考。
...本IDC 陈述报告描述了中国下一代汽车行业 2020年十大预测。报告为下一代汽车业的高管提供了在未来的60 个月内下一代汽车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下一代汽车企业的行动指南。
2019年，中国汽车销量持续下滑，中国汽车协会数据显示，2019年全年中国汽车产销完成2572.1万辆和2576.9万辆，较2018年下滑7.5%和8.2%。一边是传统汽车市场的低迷，一边却是新兴市场的狂欢。由于百度、华为等互联网造车新势力的加入，使得中国下一代汽车市场呈现出广阔前景和新的竞争局面。电动化、智能化、网联化、共享化从概念性的趋势变成了实实在在的市场方向。随着物联网、AI、5G等新兴IT技术在汽车行业的加速融入，下一代汽车市场为消费者带来了更个性化和优良的驾驶体验。
“2020年，下一代汽车行业的竞争将愈发激烈，新兴IT技术在汽车行业的应用将不断加强和落地。边缘计算将成为智能网联汽车平台的一部分，以支持增强的应用、服务和效率；人工智能和物联网（IoT）技术将集成在新车中，以实现自动化系统和车载娱乐信息系统无缝连接；L2级和L3级自动驾驶车辆将采用平视显示器，以提高驾驶员的安全性、认知度和生产率。毫无疑问，那些把握住了未来汽车IT发展趋势的企业，将会在这场下一代汽车市场的军备竞赛中胜出”——IDC中国制造业高级研究经理张兰英表示。
...数字化战略正在成为国家战略，数字中国、网络强国、智慧社会、新型基础设施、国家大数据战略等提及次数明显增加，而智慧城市和新型智慧城市既是这些核心国家数字战略的关键组成部分，也是5G、人工智能、物联网、大数据等新技术的"试验场"。
互联网和移动互联网不断渗透，C端对于线上支付、数字化服务、数字化营销等方式已经完全接受，而城市服务目前看来线上化占比相对较低，依然有大量的改进空间和市场机会存在，尤其在智慧交通、智慧园区、城市大数据平台、城市云因中心等领域。
在中国十年（2009-2019）的发展过程中，智慧城市建设投资规模大、政策驱动明显，但是建设效果并不理想，尤其是市民获得感并不强。这其中的一个关键点是连续运营能力差，更多的是项目制投资，而不是长期运营型投资；另一个关键点是不仅仅政府要进行智慧化投资，其他运营主体尤其是地产商等提供空间运营服务的角色需要数字化转型。
在价值层面，"惠民、强政、兴业"的价值主张并没有变化，其中数字产业发展和传统产业数字化转型是智慧城市建设过程中政府更关注的重点；此外，在美丽中国的政策引导下，环保和生态价值将成为智慧城市项目建设另一个价值关注点。
厂商视角上，越来越多的非传统ICT解决方案提供商开始进入这个市场，尤其是具备科技输出能力的大型企业，比如地产商、金融机构等。
IDC认为未来5年智慧城市市场的十大预测如下：
- 预测1：在2022年，10-20%的智慧城市物联网项目将难以推进，由于项目价值及关键绩效指标（KPI）定义不清、厂商交付内容不理解、不充分的投资和利益关键人的了解。
- 预测2：到2020年，20%的城市将使用复合型指标来评估城市情况，比如主动预警情况、移动即服务情况和个人关怀。
- 预测3：到2022年，为应对市民和组织意见，50%下一代的安全技术采购将被严格的政策规范预先限制。
- 预测4：由于公众对政府使用个人数据的不信任程度不断攀升，到2022年，50%的城市将发布数据伦理政策来定义何种数据可以被收集、使用和共享。
- 预测5：到2022年，30%的智慧城市数字孪生平台将用以应对海量资产、产品极其相互关系带来的复杂性。
- 预测6：到2022年10%的安全事件将来源于智慧城市物联网设备，驱动两位数的安全软件和员工培训的预算增加。
- 预测7：到2024年，60%的未开发城市和10%的现有城市将使用数字化空间规划能力和新的分区规则来助力分享经济的快速发展。
- 预测8：到2023年，80%的城市数据科学家无法被满足，将引起机器人流程自动化/人工智能（RPA/AI）原生系统的投资增加，这些系统将成倍地增加数据能力而不需要增加人数。
- 预测9：到2023年，1/3的智慧城市场景将被5G影响，70%一二线城市将使用5G技术实现实时犯罪中心，车到一切（V2X）连接和智慧场馆等规模化服务。
- 预测10：到2024年，25%的一线和二线城市使用5G ...
本报告是IDC FutureScape全球医疗健康行业2020年预测的中国启示，报告提供了2020-2025年间医疗健康行业技术发展路线图，包含10项健康行业发展前沿的预测并融合了针对中国市场的观点看法。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，可供中国医疗健康行业的各领域，如医疗、医保和医药等领域的医疗健康服务机构在制定发展战略和数字化转型策略中参考。
该IDC PlanScape旨在为银行类金融机构提供建立数字银行战略的框架与路线参考，帮助银行更好地理解数字银行的特征，以及如何在自身的体系内打造数字银行的各项数字能力。
"数字时代的数字银行从服务的本质上来讲，就是要打造银行的连接、开放和智能。连接的含义有两层，一个是银行服务与各行业的连接、与物的连接、与人的连接、与不同机构之间的数据连接，另一个是从银行自身来讲实现核心的连接。开放是指时间上的开放和数据上的开放。时间上的开放，是银行突破原有服务时间的限制，提供即时的金融服务给客户。数据上的开放是与其它生态联盟建立有效、安全的数据共享与价值实现的机制，真正实现数据推动产品与服务。智能是需要银行利用新兴技术让业务运营与服务更加智能，不再依附于人的智能进行更新与迭代，而是能够形成一个有机体，由技术、流程、服务和产品的自身智能推动发展 ...