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.
本IDC研究提供了2024–2028年中国云服务市场预测。
"展望2024–2028年,在各行业企业削减数字化转型的投资预算,政府大力推进新基建的背景下,IDC认为中国云计算的发展将提升到一个面向数据和智能的层次,未来以业务为导向的云服务市场将具备更高的发展潜力。在政府的总体推动下,各行业云计算基础设施向混合云形态(大数据、人工智能、边缘计算等)、云原生技术栈(分布式、服务化、高韧性)、多点接入能力(向市县乡下沉)的方向发展。随着场景化业务应用的不断迭代更新,更多新型IT技术栈将逐步融合于云、原生于云,并带动算力、存储、网络等云基础架构资源需求,成为云服务市场成长的新动力。大模型和GenAI的空前发展引发算力需求大增,各行业逐步展现大量对于云基础设施的建设需求。"——IDC中国分析师王彦翔和研究经理张犁表示。
...本IDC市场演示文稿是《IDC FutureScape: 全球云计算2024年预测——中国启示》的附件,提供了对中国云计算行业发展的预测阐述,包括生成式AI、安全性、高性能计算、边缘计算、合作伙伴生态、技术鸿沟、可持续性、FinOps、应用现代化、数据主权10项预测,以及每项预测下技术销售领导者面临的主要挑战和技术营销领导者面临的首要任务,并分别提出了发展建议。
本IDC技术买家演示文稿是IDC FutureScape: 全球云计算2024年预测的中国启示,提供了对2024–2029年间中国云计算行业的发展预测阐述,包括生成式AI、安全性、高性能计算、边缘计算、合作伙伴生态、技术鸿沟、可持续性、FinOps、应用现代化、数据主权10项预测,并为技术买家提供了建议。
本IDC技术买家演示文稿给出了 2024-2029 年有关开发者和DevOps市场的十大预测,描述了影响 IT 和业务决策者负责该项支出并有效利用相关解决方案的主要驱动因素。
本IDC市场演示文稿给出了 2024–2029 年有关开发者和DevOps的十大预测,描述了影响 IT 和业务决策者负责该项支出并有效利用相关解决方案的主要驱动因素,并给出了面向技术销售领导者和技术营销领导者的相关建议。
本次技术评估报告主要围绕云原生基础设施能力开展。IDC定义的云原生基础设施与云基础设施的计算、存储、网络等相对应,它是指在云计算环境下,为支持容器化应用程序、微服务架构和DevOps而设计的新型基础设施。本次技术评估面向运行时、云原生存储、云原生网络、镜像、编排调度等能力。从交付方式上看,当前主要存在以云服务方式向用户交付云原生基础设施服务,以及为用户提供云原生基础设施软件两个市场。从核心技术能力上看,不同市场厂商的能力侧重及发展方向略有区分,但整体趋同,因此本次评估也囊括了以上两个市场的厂商,以对中国云原生基础设施技术供应商进行综合评估。本次评估希望通过对中国云原生基础设施技术供应商的技术评估来帮助市场更加全面地了解中国云原生基础设施相关技术在过去的发展情况以及未来的技术发展趋势。
IDC中国云原生市场分析师王彦翔表示:“随着行业数字化转型的推进和企业对降本增效的迫切需求,用户对基础设施的敏捷性、弹性、可扩展性和开放性等要求也日益提高。相较于传统基础设施,云原生基础设施在这些方面表现出更明显的优势。在云原生时代,不仅容器技术被更广泛应用,网络和存储技术也在不断革新;同时,更复杂的业务场景和更多类型的工作负载也驱动了编排调度能力的迭代。目前,我们正处于云原生基础设施普及和发展的关键节点,技术供应商应积极把握机遇、勇敢面对挑战,在增加技术研发投入的同时,始终保持开放的态度,以便在云计算的新时代中占据更有利的地位。”
...IDC Market Glance描述了中国市场中可观测性和AIOps市场,包括各个细分子市场,并显示了每个细分市场中活跃的供应商。
本报告通过调研、访谈等方式对中国DevOps市场进行了深入分析,从市场发展现状、技术发展趋势、典型厂商分析几个方面展现了中国DevOps市场发展全景,并为技术买家提供了相关的行动建议。IDC希望通过本报告为广大企业用户在考虑是否采用DevOps技术及技术选型提供可靠的建议和参考。
IDC中国高级市场分析师王彦翔表示:"DevOps已在全球范围内展现其强大势能,特别是在快速应用迭代、系统灵活部署和高质量交付方面,赢得了广大企业的信任和采纳。随着传统企业数字化转型的加速,DevOps的市场需求也在不断扩大,预期投资将继续增长。然而,与这种快速发展相伴的,是企业实施DevOps的复杂度不断提升。为了应对这一挑战,很多企业选择了成熟的DevOps平台型产品,以期望获得更高的功能集成度和产品易用性。在中国,DevOps实践已经深入各行各业,很多企业在积极探索适合自身的最佳实践路径。同时,DevOps平台供应商也在努力积累和提炼实践经验,以满足市场的多样化需求。在选择合作伙伴时,企业应充分考虑自身的实际需求,寻找最合适的解决方案。整体来看,DevOps的未来发展前景广阔,我们期待其在数字化转型进程中发挥更大的作用。"
...本IDC研究呈现了2022年中国容器市场的份额数据,分析了容器云服务厂商与容器软件厂商在容器市场的竞争态势,对领先厂商在2022年的市场表现给予了分析评价,并对相关技术供应商提供了可参考的建议。
IDC中国云原生分析师王彦翔表示:"在云原生时代,容器技术因其敏捷、弹性、易扩展、可移植性等特性得到广泛应用。当前中国容器市场正处在蓬勃发展的阶段,除互联网、电商等行业外,越来越多传统行业也在逐步采用容器技术。围绕着容器技术诞生的生态、工具也层出不穷,进一步扩展了容器的应用场景。不论在云上还是云下,容器市场都存在广阔的市场空间。"
...This report summarizes key events among China vendors and technology buyers in 2022 and offers relevant analyst insights on the cloud services market in the country. Furthermore, it analyzes the trends and competitive landscape in the China ...
本IDC研究通过IDC MarketScape厂商评估模型对中国低代码/无代码开发平台厂商进行了评估。近年来,中国低代码/无代码开发市场发展迅速,低代码/无代码技术得到更广泛应用,也涌现出众多低代码/无代码开发平台厂商。在此背景下,IDC启动了中国低代码/无代码开发平台厂商评估报告。IDC希望结合能力与战略两个维度对市场上主流低代码/无代码开发平台厂商进行全面评估,探索在云原生开发模式下的最优解。
"IT供给能力不足、应用开发迭代效率低、业务侧长尾需求响应慢等问题正在制约企业的数字化创新能力,而低代码/无代码开发平台成为解放数字化创新能力的关键工具。然而,当前市场上的这类平台能力主要集中在应用开发阶段,用户在测试、部署和管理等后续环节仍然面临挑战;并且由于各厂商产品技术体系相对封闭,客观上容易造成厂商锁定问题;此外,产品的学习成本和易用性也成为制约平台推广的重要因素。随着AIGC技术的发展、行业标准的逐步健全、产品应用生命周期管理能力的提升,低代码/无代码开发平台有望更全面地满足企业需求,助力其更高效地应对市场变化,加速创新并提升竞争力。"——IDC中国高级市场分析师王彦翔表示。
...本报告通过调研、访谈等方式对中国Serverless市场进行了深入分析,从发展现状、用户需求、优势与挑战、典型厂商几个方面全方位展现了中国Serverless市场发展全景,并为技术买家提供了相关的行动建议。IDC希望通过本报告为广大企业用户在考虑是否采用Serverless技术及技术选型时提供可靠的建议和参考。在数字化时代,Serverless为企业提供了一种灵活、高效、弹性、低成本的云服务范式,给业务带来更大价值,助企业实现敏捷创新。
IDC中国高级市场分析师王彦翔表示:"Serverless是一种新兴的云服务模型,随着云计算技术的快速发展,Serverless在全球范围内都受到了极大的关注,中国作为全球最大的云计算市场之一,Serverless的应用也在持续增长。Serverless实现了底层基础设施的封装,帮助开发者聚焦业务逻辑,提升开发效率。同时,Serverless与容器、DevOps、低代码/无代码、AI/ML、边缘计算等技术也在交叉和融合,从而带来更丰富的应用场景,以便更好地满足企业数字化转型的需求。"
...IDC云计算高级分析师王彦翔表示:“在产业升级的驱动下,中国企业正在由产品出口转向产业出海,越来越多高科技企业在海外开疆拓土,在激烈竞争的市场中占据了一席之地。面对错综复杂的市场环境,信息化、数字化、智能化是企业的制胜法宝。云服务商凭借在海外的长期耕耘积累的丰富的经验、成熟的生态和强大的服务能力,可以帮助出海企业更好地构建全球数字化基座,更快实现海外业务的高质量发展。”
"展望2023—2027年,在各行业放缓数字化转型步伐,政府大力推进新基建的背景下,IDC认为中国云服务的发展将提升到一个面向数据和智能的层次,未来在以业务为导向的云服务市场将具备更高的发展潜力。在政府的总体推动下,各行业云计算基础设施向混合云形态(大数据、人工智能、边缘计算等)、云原生技术栈(分布式、服务化、高韧性)、多点接入能力(向市县乡下沉)的方向发展。随着新型场景化应用的丰富,更多新型技术及平台将融合于云、原生于云,并带动算力、存储、网络等基础资源需求,成为云服务市场成长的新动力。大模型的空前发展引发算力需求大增,从而逐步展现对于云数据中心和基础设施的建设热潮。"——IDC中国分析师王彦翔和研究经理张犁表示。
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