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
Vendor Profile
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.
IDC Perspective
The IDC Perspective is a flexible doc that seeks to help business and tech buyers assess their business and IT strategy and/or associated business processes, especially as it relates to the use of technology. The document can be used in areas such as:
- Strategy and planning
- Trends and observations
- IT spending and investment
- Vendor conferences and announcements
IDC TechBrief
The IDC TechBrief helps the technology or business executive get smart about a single technology in the context of the business by answering 6 business critical questions about the technology:
- What is the technology?
- When should I adopt it?
- What can it do for my business?
- What are the critical success factors?
- What are the risks?
- Who are the suppliers?
Market Note
The Market Note is a flexible doc that provides IDC analysis and point of view on an industry event, new product or service, or a company announcement or development or fast breaking news.
Market Perspective
The Market Perspective is a flexible doc that analyzes key changes and developments happening in the market. This flexible research type can be used to analyze areas such as:
- Competitive Environment
- Innovation & Market Opportunity
- New Business Models
- Partner & Channel Strategy
- Enterprise Strategies (targeted to supplier)
- Regulation
- Socioeconomics
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
IDC Blink
IDC Blink
Provides timely context and insight around important market trends and events in a short opinion piece with a 2-minute audio clip. IDC Blinks provide IDC's point of view on:
- Financial announcements
- Product announcements
- Mergers and acquisitions or divestitures
- Events
- Response to news
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.
Presentations
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.
Market 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.
Tech Buyer 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.
IDC Market Glance
Provides a look at the landscape of a tech market, including competitive positioning, adjacent segments, and potential partner opportunities.
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
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 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 one-time study produced by a research group that is not published as a deliverable under a subscription service.
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.
IDC Innovators
IDC Innovators is aimed at informing IT buyers about emerging vendors with an innovative new technology or ground-breaking business model. Vendors identified in the document as innovators are linked together within a specific market area and around solving or alleviating a common business problem. Vendors included have annual revenue under $100 million at the time of selection.
Technology Segment
The IDC Technology Segment offers CEMA clients a comprehensive view of a technology segment in one country or subregion and provides a market view and forecast and/or market share and vendor profiles, including performances and strategies. It is specifically intended to serve smaller country markets and subregions.
The 2024 Tencent Global Digital Ecosystem Summit was held in Shenzhen from September 5-6, under the theme " INTELLIGENCE BRINGS OPPORTUNITIES, CLOUD BOOSTS GROWTH." Based on the insights from the two internationalization and globalization-themed ...
此研究包含的最佳实践来自IDC 2024年未来企业大奖中的5家“年度未来企业”优秀奖获得者的项目,他们分别是数智伊利激活产业新质生产力项目、苏州金龙数字化转型示范项目、江西铜业的工业互联网+人工智能助力数字矿山转型项目、北京金融街资本的国有资本运营体系的数字化管理平台应用项目、美年大健康的扁鹊SaaS智慧体检数字化管理平台项目。
IDC中国副总裁兼首席分析师武连峰表示:“我们已经进入AI无处不在的大转型时代,生成式AI将重塑行业与企业。中国企业的数字化转型支出仍在高速增长,为了在AI时代成功推进数字化转型,迈向未来企业,必须充分借鉴行业最佳实践,包括组织与人才开发、全方位体验、数字平台与运营模式、数据要素与大模型、基础架构、商业模式、合作伙伴等。”
...本IDC市场笔记梳理了用友推出BIP3 R6平台的背景,分析了其技术突破和应用创新的核心特点,探讨了其在推动企业智能化转型中的价值,提供了用友在AI无处不在时代保持领先地位的策略建议。2024年8月10日,用友在其2024年全球商业创新大会上发布了最新的BIP3 R6平台,定位为企业级数智化平台,最新版实现了6大技术突破和6大应用服务创新,并推出了YonGPT 2.0 AI引擎,为企业提供全方位的AI应用支持。
本IDC研究给出了中国数字化转型支出规模和未来五年预测,包括硬件、软件、服务,也包括云部署模式支出和非云部署模式支出,还给出了数字化转型支出19大行业每个行业前5大应用场景的规模及增长。报告也分析了中国数字化转型独特的市场环境,包括数字化转型特征、市场驱动因素、市场阻碍因素,并简要分析了可能影响企业数字化转型的重大市场变化。为支持技术提供商更好地获取商机给出了策略建议。
IDC中国副总裁兼首席分析师武连峰表示:“我们已经进入AI无处不在的大转型时代,生成式AI将重构整个技术栈:基础设施重构、数字平台重构、业务应用重构、交互模式重构、数据价值重构、安全可信重构。中国企业开发和运营数字化业务相关的ICT支出在未来5年中的总额将达到2.99万亿美元。ICT厂商要持续理解宏观政策走向,把握AI无处不在的大转型趋势,强化获取商机的3大抓手:认知要到位、定位要清晰、伙伴要合适。”
...亚马逊云科技在2024年中国峰会上全面展示了其最新的在算力、模型以及应用层面丰富的产品和服务,这些产品和服务可以助力企业加速构建和应用生成式AI。峰会也详细介绍了亚马逊云科技如何秉承客户至上的原则,与本地合作伙伴一起支持行业客户数字化转型和创新。本IDC市场笔记梳理了亚马逊云科技中国峰会传递出的关键信息,包括如何持续深耕生成式AI、如何持续深耕重点行业、如何持续深耕合作伙伴,最后给出了亚马逊云科技面临的挑战与应对建议。
在金蝶云苍穹峰会上,金蝶集团发布了最新的金蝶云·苍穹平台,其定位是金蝶新一代企业级AI平台,同时发布了面向未来的企业管理AI新物种—Cosmic:你的AI管理助手。本IDC市场笔记梳理了金蝶发布新一代企业级AI平台的原因,分析了金蝶新一代企业级AI平台的构成、特点及对行业用户智能化转型的价值,给出了金蝶赢在AI无处不在的智能数字业务时代的参考建议。
本IDC调查基于IDC月度未来企业韧性和支出调查(IDC′s Future Enterprise Resiliency & Spending [FERS] Survey)2024年Wave 2和Wave 3,该月度调查始于2020年IDC就新冠肺炎疫情对企业业务和数字化的影响开展的调查,其目的是探索与研究企业对宏观经济影响的看法、企业业务的优先级、企业的IT与数字化支出、数字技术如何帮助企业创新等诸多方面,其结果可以非常好地反映数字技术采购和应用情况、未来趋势,也可以给企业实施数字化转型提供良好的借鉴。
本报告覆盖企业对宏观环境的看法、经济发展状况对技术支出的影响、GenAI计划和应用场景优先级、负责任的AI与AI治理、云策略在实现AI目标中的作用、企业对GenAI定价的态度和方法等,这些结果可以为以生成式AI为抓手推进数字化转型与创新提供参考。
...我们已经处于AI无处不在的数字业务时代,发挥数据要素的价值已成为所有企业的刚需,打造新的数据平台刻不容缓。本研究以中国石化为案例,从行业用户视角分析了中国石化数据服务平台立项的背景、规划、落实及成效,总结了案例对于大型央国企的借鉴意义及启示。
在中国移动算力网络大会上,移动云明确提出了“构建新型万象生态关系,加速算力网络新质生产力落地”,本IDC市场笔记梳理总结了移动云构建新型万象生态加速大模型行业落地的4大策略:新增算力伙伴、扩大渠道伙伴、做深应用伙伴、培育创新伙伴。
2024两会报告把加快发展新质生产力列为十大任务举措首位。IDC认为,新质生产力核心是用新技术促进产业高端化、智能化、绿色化,ICT产业是发展新质生产力的核心支撑要素。ICT产业正在进入AI无处不在的大转型阶段,因此,无论厂商还是行业用户都要充分利用这一机会实现创新与增长。此研究来自2024年IDC中国趋势论坛的演讲,研究首先给出了新质生产力的定义和内涵,说明了ICT技术在发展新质生产力方面的核心支撑作用,通过数据说明了AI带来的经济影响。然后给出了全球和中国总体ICT市场的规模与增长,接着通过分析不同产品和技术领域增长、不同细分行业增长、用户应用生成式AI聚焦的核心问题等方面给出ICT厂商应该考虑的聚焦细分领域,最后给出了获取商机的三大抓手和建议。
IDC中国副总裁兼首席分析师武连峰表示:“要想抓住ICT产业AI大转型的无限商机,ICT厂商必须洞悉用户生成式AI的6类关键问题——基础设施、模型数据、安全信任、应用编排、服务转型、应用场景,在此基础上,认知要到位、定位要清晰、伙伴要合适。”
...本IDC市场笔记梳理了2024年华为全球分析师大会的核心内容,总结了华为正通过6大发展方向跃升数智生产力,这6个方向是:持续提升产品质量、持续优化产业组合、持续构建开放生态、持续助力新能源发展、持续推进全面智能、持续做实基础研究。研究也分析了华为的优势和面临的挑战,最后针对华为全面智能化给出了建议。
中国政府已经把发展新质生产力作为未来政策的核心方向,推动产业链供应链优化升级是发展新质生产力的三大目标之一。得产业链与供应链者得天下,企业要在智能数字业务时代做好转型并实现可持续发展,打造强大健康的产业链就极为关键。此研究首先简要分析了产业链供应链的重要性,接着详细给出了产业链与供应链发展的6大趋势,最后针对行业用户给出了参考建议。
IDC中国副总裁兼首席分析师武连峰表示:"要赢在智能数字业务时代,打造数字化韧性,企业需要洞悉产业链供应链的六大趋势——全链条可视可管、全渠道数字获客、全方位智能渗透、全球化品牌重塑、全绿色持续发展、全金融深化嵌入。"
...本IDC研究基于2024年中国两会政府工作报告,梳理了2023中国经济和社会发展主要业绩数据,归纳了2024年制定的发展预期目标和4大宏观政策取向,总结了政府为实现2024年目标要实施的10大任务举措,详细归纳和分析了实施任务举措对行业数字化发展和ICT市场的7大影响,并针对行业用户和ICT解决方案供应商给出了参考建议。
IDC中国副总裁兼首席分析师武连峰表示:"智能数字业务时代来临,政府明确提出了要发展新质生产力,此次两会相关政策和任务举措对行业数字化发展和ICT市场的影响体现在7大加速:智能基础设施建设加速、生成式 ...
This IDC Market Perspective provides an in-depth analysis of China's current economic situation and its impact on global technology markets. It explores the dynamics underpinning China's economic trajectory, including key drivers and inhibitors, ...
本IDC研究分析了宏观经济环境与大消费市场面临的挑战,给出了新供应链金融的概念、特征与大消费市场的关系,并以网商银行大雁系统为例说明新供应链金融对大消费市场发展的支持作用,最后通过5个案例说明了新供应链金融可以从"发新品、打旺季、拓渠道、提效率"等诸多方面助力大消费市场发展。IDC认为,消费作为拉动经济发展的关键因素进一步彰显,尤其与居民生活密切相关的食品、饮料、服装服饰、家居家电、消费电子、汽车等领域的大消费市场,在未来的经济发展中将发挥越来越重要的作用。科技与金融又是大消费市场发展的双引擎,供应链金融在其中将起到越来越大的作用。
IDC中国副总裁兼首席分析师武连峰表示:"中国大消费市场面临诸多挑战,大消费品牌企业要充分利用科技与金融的双引擎,不要把供应链金融仅仅当作金融产品和服务,要把它作为创新引擎、营销工具、提效利器,让企业更好地应对外部环境的各种挑战,实现可持续发展。"
...2024年,中国宏观经济的发展将持续企稳,扩大财政、宽松货币、释放消费、稳定出口是基本政策,我们预计2024年中国GDP增长在5%左右。数字化发展仍在快车道,根据IDC的预测,中国整体ICT市场(含第三平台技术)增长约9.4%,达到经济增长的近2倍,市场规模达到8,905亿美元,依然是经济增长的核心驱动力之一。此研究梳理了影响中国ICT商机的三个新现实:数字化发展不均衡、人口变化进入拐点、技术变革时代来临,针对每一个新现实,给出了关键的两点启示,并结合IDC最新的十大预测展望了具体的ICT商业机会,最后给出了建议。
IDC中国副总裁兼首席分析师武连峰表示:“生成式AI已经开启了智能数字化业务时代,企业至少需要从五个方面做好准备:打造以应用场景为核心的战略路线图,确定生成式AI可能颠覆自己的业务领域,梳理当前公司面临的技术挑战,做好AI无处不在的数据治理和可信安全,留出足够的践行生成式AI路线图的预算。”
...2024年数字化业务十大预测从数字化支出持续增长、创造新的商业模式与收入、底层技术平台需要重构、组织与人员转型适应AI无处不在的时代等多个角度给出了未来五年的驱动因素、发展趋势、IT影响、业务影响和行动建议,支持企业在AI无处不在的智能数字业务时代形成自己独特的策略,迈向下一个成功。
IDC中国副总裁兼首席分析师武连峰表示:“生成式AI已经开启了智能数字业务时代,企业至少需要从五个方面做好准备。战略路线——要开发和部署哪些应用场景?行业颠覆——生成式AI在哪些方面可能颠覆我的业务或行业?技术挑战——应该如何应对当今技术大变革的挑战?可信安全——AI无处不在的时代如何做好数据治理和安全?合适预算——践行生成式AI路线图需要的投资如何?”
...本演示文档是同一主题的《IDC FutureScape: 全球数字化业务2024年预测——中国启示》的附件,为技术供应商的销售领导者和营销领导者提供了具体的行动建议。
请参阅《IDC FutureScape: 全球数字化业务2024年预测——中国启示》。
IDC中国副总裁兼首席分析师武连峰表示:“生成式AI已经开启了智能数字业务时代,颠覆与重构已经开启,基础设施重构、业务应用重构、交互模式重构、数据价值重构、生态伙伴重构将重塑行业用户的业务,技术提供商要充分洞悉客户需求,制定合适的策略抓住这5大重构带来的机会。”
...This IDC Presentation provides IDC's guidance for the 2024 CIO agenda. Sales and marketing strategies should emphasize how their products or services can facilitate digital transformation for organizations supporting CIOs. Understanding ...
This IDC Presentation discusses the Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) regionalization of IDC FutureScape: Worldwide CIO Agenda 2024 Predictions (IDC #US51294523, ...
本IDC研究分析了数字供应链金融的重要性,梳理了国家相关的支持政策,给出了数字化供应链金融的典型业务模式,也分析了中国数字供应链金融的发展现状、挑战与趋势,最后给出中国数字供应链金融应用的典型案例和参考建议。IDC认为,企业的发展和创新离不开技术和金融,依托未来行业生态支持复杂环境下的创新是大中型品牌企业的必走之路,通过数字供应链金融服务赋能上下游经销商,不仅可以扩大业务规模,增加供应链的韧性,还可以倒逼企业数字化转型,增强企业核心竞争力,客观上也支持中国经济高质量可持续发展。
IDC中国副总裁兼首席分析师武连峰表示:"面对外部环境的不确定性和挑战,企业需采取积极措施以保持竞争力。首先要深化数字化转型,通过大数据、人工智能、云计算等新技术提高业务流程效率和透明度,帮助预测市场趋势并及时调整策略。其次要积极利用数字供应链金融服务,扩大业务规模,增强供应链韧性,有效应对市场动荡。"
...数字化转型进入深水区,智能数字业务时代来临,数据的业务化是核心,数据库升级是关键。此研究首先给出了智能数字业务时代来临的标志,接着分析了数据应用面临的6大挑战,随后提出了对新一代数据库的7大关键能力需求,最后给出了企业发挥数据库价值的7条策略。
IDC中国副总裁兼首席分析师武连峰表示:“随着智能数字业务时代的来临,对新一代数据库的关键能力需求是弹性扩展、稳定可靠、极致性能、融合分析、平滑迁移、多模能力、AI融合。”
本IDC技术买家演示文稿给出了智能数字业务时代来临的标志,分析了制造业发展面临的5大挑战,提出了未来制造产业发展的新范式,并给出了制造业企业赢在数字业务时代的6大策略。
IDC中国副总裁兼首席分析师武连峰表示:“中国制造业增加值已经占到GDP的27%,对国民经济和社会发展越来越重要。数字化发展已经进入智能数字业务时代,中国未来制造产业发展的新范式是:高质高效是根本,弹性智能是方向,生态创新是方法,服务体验是优势,绿色低碳是未来。”
This IDC study provides 2024 top 10 predictions for digital business strategies. These predictions provide guidance for organizations to mature as digital businesses in the next five years. They also lay out IDC’s vision for the 10 most ...
企业数字化已经从数字化转型进入到数字化业务时代,用户的数字化需求也发生了巨大变化,其带来的商机和挑战也非常巨大,技术厂商如何更好地抓住数字化业务时代的商机非常关键。此IDC技术销售领导者行动手册提供了简单清晰的数字化转型与数字化业务市场现状、竞争情况和用户需求变化,并给出数字化转型支出规模和未来增长预测,也给出了未来主要发展趋势,客户开发策略。技术销售主管可以使用这些信息来明确客户购买与决策标准和市场趋势的影响,进而在数字业务时代抓住商机,实现增长。