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.
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。"
...Huawei focused on the 5G ecosystem at its 4th Middle East Innovation Day. The event in Dubai on October 7 was held in conjunction with GITEX Technology Week, 2019. This IDC Market Note explores some of the key announcements made ...
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 Perspective provides a current overview of the IoT connectivity management landscape, including a discussion of key market trends and profiles of 18 companies that offer connectivity management solutions.
"As IoT deployments ...
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。
...本次研究对象包含了在中国态势感知解决方案/平台市场具备一定技术水平和市场规模，并且在该领域有持续投入规划，具备不断完善产品和服务能力的主流厂商。厂商类型涵盖国内综合型安全厂商、云服务提供商及新兴态势感知解决方案/平台提供商等。IDC 针对入选的态势感知解决方案/平台安全厂商的能力和战略进行综合评估，评估标准包括收入规模、产品技术能力、行业和客户拓展、生态系统建设以及未来发展战略等方面。各维度根据市场情况进一步划分为若干细分项，并配以不同权重，从而形成IDC MarketScape ...
This IDC Market Note discusses the 2019 IFA event held in Berlin. It outlines and analyzes the biggest product announcements and launches from manufacturers of personal computing and mobile devices, as well as smart-connected technologies.
...本調査レポートでは、国内IoTエッジインフラ市場における、主要IoTインフラベンダーのIoT戦略、IoTエッジ専用製品の製品動向を調査し、同市場における当該製品の競合状況を分析した。また、IoTエッジインフラで今後の活用が期待されているAI技術に関し、各ベンダーのIoTエッジインフラ製品における対応状況について調査を行った。
IDC Japan エンタープライズインフラストラクチャのリサーチマネージャーである下河邊 雅行は「国内IoTエッジインフラストラクチャ市場は注目すべき成長市場であり、IoTインフラベンダー間の競争が激化すると予測される。IoTインフラベンダーは、IoTエッジ専用製品の製品戦略、ITとOTを俯瞰した提案が重要になる」と分析している。
...This IDC Pivot Table is a unique deliverable for ConsumerScape 360° presenting results in a user-friendly pivot table. Net Promoter Score is a widely used metric by thousands of brands and companies to measure the willingness of customers ...
This IDC Market Note discusses the key developments associated with the Datacenter Facility Domain of Huawei Network Energy announced at its Analyst Summit held in Shenzhen China from April 16 to 19, 2019. Key aspects of Huawei Network Energy's ...
This IDC Market Note provides a summary of select ICT market developments that occurred across the Middle East and North Africa in July 2019 and assesses the potential impact that these developments could have on related markets.
"The ...
Over the past few years, cloud initiatives have swept across the world. This trend has dramatically advanced datacenter networks but it has had little impact on campus networks. With the growing number of intelligent campus network projects ...
过去几年云的建设推动了数据中心网络的快速发展，与之对应的园区网络却没有太大变化。随着智慧园区项目的不断开发，以及物联网和边缘计算的拓展，园区网络迎来了新的变革机遇。这些变革体现在三个层面，分别是网络对业务重要性越来越高、引入机器学习和人工智能应用以及基于意图的网络不断发展；交换机产品演进则体现为高性能、零丢包、有线无线一体化和智能运维管理四个方面。
This IDC study uses the IDC MarketScape model to provide an assessment of several providers participating in the worldwide network consulting services market. IDC MarketScape is an evaluation based on a comprehensive framework and a set ...
This IDC study provides an assessment of the capabilities and business strategies of nine vendors in the worldwide UC&C market for 2019.
"Organizations have a variety of deployment options to choose from today, but also the challenge ...
This IDC Perspective provides an overview of municipalities' changing use cases for wireless access services in public spaces and provides recommendations for technology buyers on the challenges of building a sustainable approach.
"New ...
Mining operations will become increasingly dependent on connectivity capabilities as they digitise, and the dependency on data to drive, automate, and inform operational becomes an increasing factor in the management and execution within ...
"Although Turkey has been experiencing political and economic tensions in the last few years, foreign vendors will continue investing in the country due to its young population, planned large-scale projects, 5G initiatives, and the rising ...
This IDC Market Note provides key takeaways from the Huawei Analyst Summit 2019 held in Shenzhen, China from April 16 to 18, 2018. The report zeroes in on Huawei's strategy, direction, and approach to the challenges around deploying 5G radio ...
平安城市建设是中国城镇化建设的“基础保障”，是国家层面重点宣传的核心工程，也是信息技术直接为政府带来“业务”价值的典型场景。其以金盾工程为核心，在物联网、视频技术、大数据技术和云技术的带动下，形成“终端智能化、应用灵活化、数据海量化、基础设施解耦化”的发展特征。
“在天网工程、智慧交通、应急保障等工程试点和场景建设的驱动下，中国平安城市市场保持高速发展状态。尤其在终端建设逐步完善的情况下，基于人工智能的前端设备升级、面向视频数据和传统数据的全量融合、面向基础设施的云化重构是未来3年建设的重点。”——IDC政府行业研究副总监闫海伦认为。
...This IDC Market Perspective includes current fair market value, residual value, and specification charts for HPE's enterprise and midrange disk storage systems. It offers primary and secondary market analysis for the vendor and its products.
"Demand ...
This IDC Market Note provides a summary of select ICT market developments that occurred across the Middle East and North Africa in February 2019 and assesses the potential impact that these developments could have on related markets.
"To ...
This IDC Market Note describes recent ICT market developments in Turkey and presents IDC's analysis of those developments.
"According to IDC's Turkey CIO Summit survey in 2018, Turkey has the highest adoption rate of digital transformation ...
本次研究对象包括中国金融行业云市场具备一定规模的领导厂商，及各种不同类型金融云厂商中的典型企业，涵盖基础设施厂商、系统集成商、互联网公司和金融机构的科技公司等。IDC针对入选的金融行业云厂商的能力和战略进行评估，主要标准包括技术产品和解决方案、市场、人才和商业表现，以及公司业务管理运作等多个维度，各维度根据市场情况进一步划分为若干细分项，并配以不同权重，从而形成IDC MarketScape综合评分体系，IDC分析师针对厂商和最终用户的深入访谈，集中分析并确定各厂商在IDC ...
This IDC Market Note provides a summary of select ICT market developments that occurred across the MENA region in December 2018 and January 2019 and assesses the potential impact they could have on related markets.
"Vendors and organizations ...