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.
This IDC Market Presentation provides a detailed analysis of the market and competitive landscape in cloud services in the People's Republic of China from January to June 2022 (1H22). This study covers key findings and revenue snapshots ...
This IDC study analyzes the development trends and dynamics of the China esignature software market, lists the revenues and shares of leading vendors in the China esignature software market, reviews and evaluates the current situation of ...
This IDC study introduces the research on Alibaba Cloud, OceanBase, Baidu AI Cloud, PingCAP, Hundsun, Huawei, Tencent Cloud, and Dameng to present the status of the native security capabilities of those representative database products as ...
根据IDC全球数据圈(IDC's Global DataSphere)报告显示,2021年全球有超过80ZB的数据被创建、捕获、复制和消费,预计到2026年将超过220ZB,2021–2026年间的复合年增长率(CAGR)为21%。更大的数据量带来了更多围绕数据的创新场景和业务,但在数据管理方面也带来了新的问题。
随着移动互联网的发展和企业数字化转型的深入,社会正在高速数字化,个人、企业与信息的关联更加密切。市场上对处理海量、复杂、关联、多变的网状数据的需求不断增加,而传统的大数据处理和关系型数据库产品已经很难满足这种海量复杂的分析需求。在这类场景下,图数据库成为众多用户的首选工具,在发现和分析数据间关联关系方面,图数据库的性能远远高于传统的数据管理和分析手段。目前,图数据库适用的应用场景正在不断增多,在金融交易、征信、反欺诈、社交网络、智能营销、生物工程的使用需求大量涌现。
相对其它数据库产品,图数据库产品出现较晚,大规模的商业化应用不过十多年的时间,相关技术在持续地发展和迭代,新的产品不断涌现,图数据供应商类型也呈现出多样化,如云厂商、头部互联网厂商、新兴厂商、 ...
This IDC PeerScape introduces some organizations from industries such as internet, manufacturing, finance, education, and pan-real estate. It also explores common challenges facing these organizations in building applications and business ...
本报告主体内容包括四个部分,第一部分分析了中国公有云服务市场整体发展现状和趋势,包括2021年的市场规模和未来5年预测;第二部分按照基础设施即服务(IaaS)、平台即服务(PaaS)和应用即服务(SaaS)三个细分市场展开,分析了各市场的发展概况、市场构成和发展趋势;第三部分分析了IaaS、PaaS和SaaS市场的竞争格局,包括2021年Top10厂商的增速和份额等;第四部分分析了IaaS和PaaS市场的行业分布,并对互联网行业和非互联网行业的动态进行了解读,旨在为云服务商、IT技术服务商提供决策参考。
"在疫情、供应链短缺、宏观经济增长动力不足等诸多不稳定因素的影响下,中国公有云市场压力加剧,发展态势逐渐从高增长趋于较快稳定增长。过去三年,互联网行业对公有云服务市场的贡献度逐渐降低,但与此同时,非互联网政企行业的数字化转型持续深化,他们正在经历的是组织、流程和业务的重塑,是供应链、产业链和价值链的变革,这为公有云市场带来了新的发展机遇,也对云服务商及其生态提出了新的考验。公有云服务商在关注产品和技术的同时,还必须强化生态建设,打造丰富的行业化场景化解决方案,提升服务交付和后服务质量,赋能千行百业的数字化转型成功。"——IDC中国云和服务研究组助理研究总监刘丽辉表示。
...IDC 创新者是指年营业额低于1亿美元、有创新性技术或突破性商业模式的新兴厂商。以下是 IDC 针对北京偶数科技有限公司(偶数科技)、北京万里开源软件有限公司(万里数据库)、广州巨杉软件开发有限公司(巨杉数据库)、天云融创数据科技(北京)有限公司(天云数据)的研究概述(排名不分先后)。
“随着互联网业务的繁荣发展和数字化转型的深化,企业越来越重视对于数据的管理和使用。中国庞大的市场规模和人口红利使中国企业有着远超海外大部分同等企业的数据规模和增长态势。与国外相比,中国市场对分布式数据库展现出了更大的热情和关注,中国企业已然成为全球分布式关系型数据库实践的先行者。”——IDC中国企业级系统研究部研究经理王楠表示。
...相对于自行构建和维护DevOps系统,许多企业更倾向于选择功能集成度和产品易用性较高的成熟DevOps平台型产品来直接使用。IDC研究了中国市场上的主流厂商,选取7家典型的DevOps平台厂商进行重点研究。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。
这份IDC PeerScape报告引用并介绍了来自金融行业、媒体行业、教育行业的相关企业在日常数据库管理和运维工作中的诸多常见挑战,并从它们利用数据库管理平台等相关解决方案的实践案例入手,为行业用户提供了相关的指导建议,供读者借鉴与参考。
IDC 软件研究高级分析师王楠表示:“随着数字化转型的深入和移动互联网业务的快速发展,企业业务的连续性变得愈发重要,而这离不开稳定的IT基础架构的支撑,尤其是稳定的数据库系统。但是,企业的数据库使用情况正在呈现大规模化、多品牌多品类、部署环境日趋复杂等趋势,使企业数据库运维的挑战越来越大。传统依靠人工的运维方式已经不能满足要求,企业应注意利用更加智能化、自动化、一体化的数据库管理产品,帮助企业降低数据库管理的难度、减少日常运维的工作负担。”
...这份 IDC PeerScape 报告引用并介绍了来自于互联网、制造、金融、教育、泛地产等行业的相关企业,在企业应用和业务系统开发建设中的诸多常见挑战,并从它们利用低代码开发平台等相关产品和解决方案的实践案例入手,为行业用户提供了相关的指导建议,供读者借鉴与参考。
IDC软件研究高级分析师王楠表示:"在数字化转型的大趋势下,企业信息系统的先进性和敏捷性很大程度上制约着企业业务创新的速度。低代码开发作为传统开发方式的进一步演化,由于其高效、灵活、开放、通用等特点,受到企业的广泛关注。IDC研究显示,2021年中国低代码软件市场规模在2亿美元左右,预计到2025年这一市场规模将扩大约五倍,超过10亿美元,未来市场有巨大的增长潜力。"
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