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.
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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中国的智慧城市建设驱动力依旧遵循国家政策驱动、地方经济与产业发展带动为主、区域辐射与带动作用不断强化的宏观驱动因素；中国智慧城市的建设存在数据汇集与共享能力有待加强、业务处理流程优化空间大、城市全域感知能力有待加强的微观发展诉求。
IDC政府行业与智慧城市研究组研究经理詹墨磊表示：在全球视角下，中国的智慧城市建设在2019年已经达到了1,600亿元人民币，在国家层次排序里面位居第二位，仅次于美国。2020年，在全球疫情肆虐的情况下，中国提出的新基建、新型城镇化等系列政策，在稳定了中国疫情蔓延态势的同时，也在逐渐恢复国家经济与产业发展。未来，中国智慧城市建设进程将在"十四五"规划周期中进一步提速。从未来发展趋势上看，公共安全一直以来都是中国智慧城市建设的重点领域，未来在后疫情时代以及社会和谐发展的总体背景作用下，依旧会是智慧城市建设的主要内容之一；交通智慧化建设在交通强国战略、新基建等政策的叠加作用下，将会在智慧城市建设中占据越来越多的市场空间，未来的发展潜力巨大；应急管理、生态环境、智慧社区等细分场景的智慧化建设虽然起步较晚，但是在疫情的影响、生态文明建设的加强以及基层治理等政策要素的驱动下，在未来3-5年会有较大的增速以及广阔的市场空间。
...本报告包括四个部分，第一部分分析了中国数据中心服务市场的整体规模、行业与区域分布和市场发展动态；第二部分分析了中国数据中心服务市场的竞争格局和主要数据中心服务商发展动态；第三部分对中国数据中心服务市场进行了预测，并分析了该市场相关的驱动和阻碍因素；第四部分提出了一些简单建议，旨在为数据中心服务商提供决策参考。
“中国数据中心服务作为数字化战略的重要基础设施，得到了市场和政策的双重推动。企业数字化转型、新冠疫情刺激云计算发展、以及新技术带来的数据量激增增加了对数据中心服务的需求。互联网和金融行业仍是2019年数据中心服务市场增长的最强劲动力，而政府、制造业、零售业等其他行业需求也增长明显。市场对节能环保、成本优化、效率提升和合理规划等方面的要求，使得中国数据中心服务商正从注重基础设施能力深入到绿色高效、智能运维、混合云管理等综合能力提升上。中国数据中心服务市场将迎来一个从重视数量到重视质量的发展阶段。”——IDC中国云和服务研究组高级研究经理刘丽辉表示。
...This IDC Survey Spotlight examines the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry, which continues to rapidly shift from siloed old technology to data-driven, digital, and model based. The building life cycle is complex and ...
This IDC Market Presentation highlights the main trends and competition landscape for Western Europe purpose-built backup appliance (PBBA) market in 3Q20.
This IDC Market Analysis Perspective (MAP) provides big data and analytics (BDA) software technology vendors with an overview of the BDA market, offering the information required to support planning, market intelligence, competitive intelligence, ...
This IDC Survey provides a high-level summary of key technology investment trends. It includes data from IDC's 2020 U.S. Enterprise Communications Services Survey.
This IDC Survey Spotlight looks at European businesses' strategies to achieve business resiliency. Today's volatile business environment, linked to ongoing digital transformation, has made resiliency a central characteristic of any organization ...
开源技术是人工智能市场发展的重要驱动力，从最早的开源框架、算法模型，到今天端到端的人工智能应用解决方案，再到开发语言，以及底层的开发平台，人工智能应用开发已不再是简单的训练算法模型，而更重要的是打造端到端的AI技术栈。本报告分析了从算力选择到训练推理框架再到算法的市场趋势及用户份额，并为如何划定目标用户群体、扩张市场份额提供参考。
IDC中国助理研究总监卢言霞表示：“近2年，越来越多的传统企业开始进行智能化升级，或者加大内部AI研发力量的投入，为AI框架应用带来新的机会。有计划或者新发布开源框架的企业，可以从选定高潜力的应用场景、推出能够落地到生产环境的算法模型、软硬一体技术栈高度优化、寻找新兴用户这四个方面着手获得更高市场份额。”
...This IDC Survey Spotlight looks at the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on organizations' perceptions of shortcomings in their analytic and artificial intelligence/machine learning models. More than half of organizations think they have inadequacies ...
This IDC Presentation analyzes the regulatory and governing structure of the utilities industry along with enabling technologies and digital opportunities for eight different countries within Asia including India, China, Malaysia, Indonesia, ...
This IDC Market Presentation, presented in October 2020, elaborates on some of the ways that telecommunications service providers (telcos) are advancing the sustainability agenda in their strategies. It tackles the following questions:
- Why ...
This IDC Survey examines upcoming investment areas, business expectations underpinning those investment areas, and other related challenges in the Australia software market.
This IDC Survey is the second of a series of reports on the Australia/New Zealand (A/NZ) results of IDC's Worldwide COVID-19 Impact Survey, Wave 9 and 10 in August 2020, involving organisations across 24 countries, including 101 respondents ...
This IDC Market Presentation provides supporting empirical and market data for IDC's assertion that integrated and native data management and protection capabilities are a must for container environments. This IDC Market Presentation makes ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight illustrates the impact of COVID-19 on Big Data and analytics spend intentions since the beginning of the pandemic in the European region.
"The uncertainty in economic outlook and customer behavior caused ...
This IDC Survey is the fifth in the series of IDC Health Insights reports examining European life sciences organizations' digital transformation (DX) strategies and priorities across the five key dimensions of DX: leadership and culture, ...
This IDC Market Analysis Perspective highlights the market sizing and forecasts as well as the competitive landscape and buyer perception for the year 2020.
"The effects from the COVID pandemic and the learnings from its impact on ...
This IDC Market Analysis Perspective provides an overview of the worldwide virtual client computing market. The client virtualization software was, pre-pandemic, experiencing strong growth as enterprises adopted "work from home" and "intelligent ...
This IDC Market Presentation examines the buying intentions and implementation concerns, challenges, and targets for 3rd Platform and innovation accelerator technologies and solutions (cloud, big data and analytics, IoT, and cognitive) as ...
本プレゼンテーションでは、国内のビッグデータ／アナリティクス（BDA）市場における2019年の市場の分析と2020年～2024年の売上額予測、ユーザーニーズ動向調査について分析を行っている。
本プレゼンテーションは、『2020年 国内ビッグデータ／アナリティクス市場 企業ユーザー調査（IDC #JPJ45144220、2020年7月発行）』『国内BDAテクノロジー／サービス市場予測、2020年～2024年（IDC ...
This IDC Presentation provides a detailed analysis of the India software market and the competitive landscape in the big data, analytics, and artificial intelligence (AI) software platform, customer relationship management (CRM) applications, ...
This IDC Market Presentation examines worldwide digital transformation (DX) investment trends during COVID-19.
As Shawn Fitzgerald, research director, Worldwide Digital Transformation Strategies at IDC, states, "COVID-19 has affected ...
This IDC Survey presentation offers the latest perspective on the ICT market outlook of Middle East retail, wholesale, and hospitality companies in the wake of the COVID-19 crisis. It provides results from the COVID-19 impact CIO survey ...
This IDC Survey focuses on the impact of COVID-19 on European telcos and their technology investment plans. It is based on Wave 7 of IDC's European IT Buyer Sentiment Survey, which surveyed 545 organizations across Europe, and it ...