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 FutureScape presents the top 10 predictions and key drivers for the European IT industry over the next five years. It tracks the biggest IT stories of our time — the digitalization of enterprises, edge buildout, tech-driven innovation, ...
中国公有云服务商在补齐IaaS层能力之后，开始了面向行业面向应用场景的差异化服务的深耕。当前，人工智能应用虽尚未形成稳定的现金流业务，但却日益成为驱动云基础设施资源消耗的至关重要的因素，特别是随着IoT、5G等技术的进一步深入发展，人工智能云产生的价值将进一步凸显。过去三年，中国市场越来越多公有云服务商踏入该领域，凭借资金、人才、长期技术积累和行业实践验证，不断构建其竞争优势，给人工智能云市场带来了更多选择，IDC开展本次研究以帮助用户进行AI云服务的选型。
IDC云服务高级研究经理刘丽辉表示："AI云服务已经成为公有云服务中不可或缺的一部分，我们看到AI云服务已经开始渗透到各行各业，但当前多数案例还是以边实践边优化为主，产品和服务的商业化和标准化程度有待提升。企业客户应做好长期规划，根据自身的数字化基础、IT人员储备、AI应用场景需求等选择易用、稳定、安全的AI云服务，与公有云服务商共同探索，共同成长。"
...This IDC study represents a vendor assessment of providers offering unified endpoint management (UEM) software through the IDC MarketScape model. The assessment reviews both quantitative and qualitative characteristics that define current ...
This IDC PeerScape discusses strategies from organizations that have undergone a shift to participate in industry clouds. Readers will learn how to overcome some challenges that are similar to traditional cloud adoption and other challenges ...
This IDC study uses the IDC MarketScape model to provide an assessment of vendors participating in field service management specific to service life-cycle management. This study specifically analyzed these offerings from a manufacturing ...
This IDC study provides IDC's top 10 predictions for enterprise network infrastructure for 2020 and beyond.
"Digital transformation has simultaneously created pressure on enterprise networks to evolve to meet the increasing demands ...
This IDC study highlights key trends in digital business models and monetization technology adoption and presents the top 10 predictions and key drivers for the next five years.
"As the pace of digital innovation quickens, so does ...
This IDC study presents the 2020 top 10 predictions for the worldwide enterprise infrastructure market.
"In the age of innovation, CIOs must have a keen understanding of trends in technologies to pursue the optimal digital transformation ...
This IDC study provides the outlook of IDC Energy Insights' analyst team for the worldwide oil and gas industry for 2020, as well as the planning horizon for the next five years.
"Even in a depressed market, oil and gas companies are ...
This IDC study discusses the worldwide datacenter top 10 predictions for 2020.
"CIOs need to transform the 'culture' of the IT team in the next two years from a focus on acquiring/managing/supporting products within corporate datacenters ...
This IDC FutureScape presents the top 10 predictions for the corporate banking industry. Each prediction is shaped by a common set of key drivers that provides a planning tool for technology leaders and their line-of-business counterparts ...
This IDC study discusses worldwide imaging, printing, and document solutions and 3D Printing 2020 top 10 Predictions.
"While the print market shows signs of maturity, its ongoing evolution should serve as a signal to buyers that it ...
This IDC study presents IDC's developer- and DevOps-related top 10 predictions for 2020.
"The pressure on organizations to innovate and fundamentally rethink how they operate internally and what technologies they embrace has ramped ...
This IDC study provides IDC's top 10 predictions for cloud for 2020 and beyond.
"Digital transformation (DX) drives disruption in how businesses create and deliver value to customers, driven largely by changes in buyer and user behavior. ...
This IDC study presents the 2020 top 10 predictions for the mobility and telecommunications market.
"To implement competitive services that facilitate dynamic, reliable engagement with customers and partners, enterprises require a ...
This IDC study provides an assessment of the capabilities and business strategies of 11 vendors in the worldwide enterprise WLAN market for 2019.
"The enterprise WLAN industry is at an exciting time: Connectivity has never been more ...
This IDC study explores how a more modern healthcare IT infrastructure will accelerate digital transformation and deliver value to HCOs. It also provides a road map for HCOs to follow on their respective journeys to migrate legacy applications ...
随着企业数字化转型的深入，领先的企业已经开始尝试利用DevOps的理念和模式，来帮助企业实现快速交付和变更系统，以便于快速响应企业对于市场的变化、用户的需求。相比于传统软件模式，公有云服务模式成为企业快速实践DevOps的优先选择。IDC研究了中国市场上的主流厂商，选取了7家典型的DevOps云厂商进行重点研究。本报告分别从现有能力和未来战略维度两个层面对厂商进行评估，为技术买家进行产品选型提供参考。
“企业互联网和移动业务的迅速发展，对企业自身系统的研发效率和迭代速度带来挑战，DevOps市场需求显现。但企业普遍对如何选择DevOps工具和如何开展DevOps实践没有清晰的认知，一站式的公有云DevOps服务成为中小企业和部分大型企业快速实践DevOps的优先选择。同时，云厂商也在不断吸引和转化自身云平台的用户使用其DevOps服务，对外也在不断加强宣传教育工作进行市场培育。预计，未来1–2年DevOps云的企业级用户和个人开发者数量将呈现高速增长态势。”——IDC中国软件市场分析师王楠表示。
...This IDC study presents the top 10 predictions and key drivers for the IT industry for the next five years.
According to IDC Chief Analyst Frank Gens, "As more than half the global economy turns digital by 2023, a new species of enterprise ...
This IDC study considers the collective technologies in the application DevOps competitive market areas.
"As more and more organizations begin adopting DevOps practices, they need to stay aware of the ever-changing collection of technologies ...
Using the IDC MarketScape model, IDC studied 9 organizations in 2019 that offer managed cloud services in Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan). The assessment reviews against a large set of parameters, such as breadth of service offerings; portfolio ...
This IDC MarketScape assesses providers offering managed cloud services through the IDC MarketScape model. The assessment reviews quantitative and qualitative characteristics that define current market demands and expected buyer needs for ...
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。”
...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 ...