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.
IDC中国能源行业研究经理周启珊表示:“中国电力企业的ICT支出将持续增长,目前硬件在总体占比33.8%位列第一,远大于软件及服务类市场的占比。但从未来五年的市场规模预测来看,对于软件的投资复合增长率是最高的,可达到16.3%。各ICT厂商应理解电力行业宏观政策走向因势利导、扩大行业生态合作、深入理解电力最终用户需求、增加技术创新与产品研发力度,为最终用户提供更优化的能源转型解决方案。”
本IDC调查焦点探讨了当前阶段电力企业用户在利用生成式AI技术时的投资意向与生成式AI最具可能性的落地应用场景。IDC对电力企业CIO开展了关于生成式AI技术采用方面的调研,数据结果呈现典型的钟形曲线特征,其中已投资生成式AI和近两年将入局此项技术的受访电力企业认为,现场技术知识管理支持、数据汇总与报告自动生成、对话式场景和客服支持是企业在采用生成式AI时会首先考虑的场景,即技术应用门槛较低且能带来最快收益的场景。
本演示文档是同主题IDC FutureScape主文件《IDC FutureScape: 全球电力行业2024年预测——中国启示》的附件,旨在为技术销售领导者和技术营销领导者提供具体的建议。
请参考《IDC FutureScape: 全球电力行业2024年预测——中国启示》。
本报告是IDC FutureScape全球电力行业2024年预测的中国启示,报告提供了中国电力市场发展概述,以及电力行业发展预测阐述,包括客户体验GenAI、用能效率、电网数字孪生、无线电网、作业现场GenAI、低碳电网、AI视觉巡检、电动汽车服务、网络安全即服务和可持续供应链10项预测,以及每项预测对IT方面的影响,并为技术买家提供了采用和部署这些技术的建议,可供中国企业在制定云发展战略和数字化转型策略时参考。
本报告是IDC FutureScape全球油气2024年预测的中国启示,报告提供了中国油气市场发展概述,以及油气行业发展预测阐述,包括GenAI、地下数据管理平台、AI驱动的碳数据管理、海上设施数字孪生、资产全生命周期管理、RPA、运营与能源效率、AI视觉、AI无处不在、IT与OT安全10项预测,以及每项预测对IT方面的影响,并为技术买家提供了采用和部署这些技术的建议,可供中国企业在制定云发展战略和数字化转型策略时参考。
本演示文档是同主题IDC FutureScape主文件《IDC FutureScape: 全球油气2024年预测——中国启示》的附件,旨在为技术销售领导者和技术营销领导者提供具体的建议。
请参考《IDC FutureScape: 全球油气2024年预测——中国启示》。
本IDC调查焦点探讨了当前阶段炼油炼化企业用户最关心的数字化转型的主要举措与主要障碍。IDC对炼化企业用户开展了关于数字化转型路径的调研。调研结果显示,企业最关注的是运营优化、CCUS、碳排放及质量控制等方面的数字化覆盖。仍有60%以上的受访者表示,目前数字化转型在基础数据治理方面仍存在阻碍。IDC建议企业需持续关注底层数据的治理情况,加强数据规范建设,结合市场上更先进的数据技术,如湖仓一体等,提高数据清洗、存储、抽取、调用的高效性、安全性和自动化程度,为未来的AI技术深度应用打好基础。
...本IDC研究呈现了中国油气行业上游专业软件2022年市场份额数据,描述了专业软件市场环境及驱动因素,并为软件技术提供商提出了发展建议。本报告所定义的专业软件主要包含在勘探开发领域内有关生产与研究的应用软件,例如地震解释与储层预测软件、三维地质建模软件、油藏数模与动态分析软件等,此部分专业软件的重点是将多种地下采集数据(如地震数据、测井数据等)进行归类、计算、模拟、集成与融合,建立统一的数据模型和机理模型来展开研究分析,最终生成专业化数据成果集合或专业报告,以辅助油田布井采油并提高采收率。
"近年来,油气行业在基础信息化建设方面的成果显著,基础设施发展快速、数据采集体系和信息管理系统建设逐步完善,同时对特定业务场景开展了不少智能化、数智化方向的探索。这些为专业软件的研发提供了良好的基础。如果有可能在各大油企之间开展统一的数据集成与软件集成技术架构顶层设计,落实全产业链战略意图,形成与高度集成的专业软件相配套的开发平台和大数据平台,组织高水准研发团队,基于国内的资源禀赋和研发现状,对各个细分领域形成特色化软件开发,对算法模型进行有效积累,仍存在改变市场格局的可行性。"——IDC中国能源行业研究经理周启珊表示。
..."不同业务规模制造企业解决数据融合的方式并不相同。大量中小规模的制造企业可以采用原生一体化IT应用,尽量从源头减少数据孤岛,或者通过主数据管理MDM实现现有有限异构系统之间数据互联互通;大型、集团型制造企业则更需要统一规划,先完成企业级别的组织和流程支撑体系、数据标准体系等数据治理工作,再将其固化在企业级的大数据平台中,为数据驱动的大数据和AI应用打好数据基础。"—IDC中国制造行业研究经理杜雁泽表示。
本IDC研究提供了中国电力行业大数据解决方案市场份额数据。
“电力行业是社会发展的基础性行业。随着全球能源形势的日益严峻,各国均大力开展了智慧电厂和智慧电网的研究和实践。其目标是建设一个覆盖整个电力生产过程,包括发电、输电、变电、配电、用电及调度等环节的实时系统,以支撑电网的安全、自愈、绿色、坚强及可靠运行。而其基础则是电力电网广域全景实时数据的采集、传输、存储、分析及决策支持。电力大数据必然继承了能源行业数据的特征,包括大量的因果关系数据、高维的时空数据,广域的监测控制,快速的时间响应及实时控制数据。”——IDC能源行业研究经理周启珊表示。
...This IDC FutureScape presents the top 10 predictions and key drivers for the oil and gas industry for the next five years. It highlights the midterm and long-term challenges that enterprise business, technology, and IT teams face as they ...
本IDC调查焦点探讨了当前阶段油气企业用户最关心的人工智能应用的驱动因素。IDC对油气企业用户开展了关于人工智能路径的调研。调研结果显示,企业最关注的是提升业务敏捷性与韧性、企业核心竞争力、客户体验和可持续化发展,这些热点领域也成为了企业推进人工智能应用的前四大因素。
本IDC调查焦点探讨了当前阶段油气企业用户在实现"净零"承诺上的具体举措。IDC对油气企业用户开展了关于能源转型的调研,结果显示油气企业主要采用的举措分别有对采油厂、炼化厂等场站进行站点优化、在业务流程中应用数据分析来做碳排监测与预测、提升可再生能源/清洁能源的用能比例、自产可再生能源/清洁能源、投资碳捕集技术、采购更多来自净零公司的原材料/产品等方式。同时,IDC在此次调查中重点关注了上、中、下游的碳排模式与降碳举措的关系。
本IDC Market Glance报告提供了油气行业上游勘探开发数字化技术市场中各类产品的细分市场与解决方案供应商代表,这些供应商在基础支撑、软件平台、行业应用、网络安全和业务生态方面提供服务。整体市场保持上行增长,底层商业化产品体系逐渐成型,软件平台市场为不同客户群体打造功能完备、流程完整、可定制的分析决策平台,行业应用案例推广是发展重点。
“电力行业是社会发展的基础性行业。随着全球能源形势的日益严峻,各国均大力开展了智慧电厂和智慧电网的研究和实践。其目标是建设一个覆盖整个电力生产过程,包括发电、输电、变电、配电、用电及调度等环节的实时系统,以支撑电网的安全、自愈、绿色、坚强及可靠运行。而其基础则是电力电网广域全景实时数据的采集、传输、存储、分析及决策支持。电力大数据必然继承了能源行业数据的特征,包括大量的因果关系数据、高维的时空数据,广域的监测控制,快速的时间响应及实时控制数据。此PeerScape报告展示了不同发展阶段的电力电网企业在大数据解决方案方面的前沿实践案例,展示了IT技术如何解决企业问题,帮助更多企业建立符合自己发展特色的大数据平台建设路径。”——IDC能源行业研究经理周启珊表示。
...This IDC Presentation provides organizations across a wide range of industries with IDC’s top 10 predictions on the future of operations, their underlying drivers, the IT and business impact of adopting new technologies and how they will ...
近年来不少领先企业开始在智能工厂建设中引入数字孪生技术,构建车间、设备的3D数字孪生。完整的生产3D数字孪生不仅包含3D模型,还包含了反映对象层次的物模型及反映过程原理和机理的机理模型。3D数字孪生对企业有营销宣传、项目加分、模拟培训和业务提升4个层面的价值。从业务提升层面来看,3D数字孪生在空间安环监测、远程集控、产品工艺档案、数字化移交、黑盒工艺展示优化、设备资产智能运维、生产排程和物流规划、设备运行控制优化等方向上能够帮助企业实现降本提质增效。本研究报告介绍了腾讯云、卡奥斯、优锘科技、十沣科技、康士伯数字等优秀服务商的数字孪生相关产品和布局。
"从长远看,构建生产数字孪生体实现业务运营优化是长期方向。短期内,生产数字孪生并不只是3D可视化。通过数字孪生构建业务模型,才能够更好地帮助企业实现业务的运营优化。"——IDC研究经理崔粲表示。
...近几年,能源转型叠加数字化转型的趋势越来越明显。尽管全球能源转型持续加快,但是在今后一个相当长的时期内,石油和天然气的主体能源地位不会改变,特别是作为清洁能源的天然气还将在未来有更大的市场。中国油气资源总体丰富,有很大的勘探开发潜力,截止到2021年底,已探明可采储量达36.7亿吨,2022年产量重回2亿吨,油气在中国能源结构中仍将占据主导地位。2023年政府工作报告也指出,针对全球高通胀带来的影响,能源行业要做好保供稳价,继续加大油气资源勘探开发和增储上产力度,着力提升高端化、智能化、绿色化水平,加快前沿技术研发和应用推广。
“十四五”时期是加快构建现代能源体系的关键五年。2022年,国家能源局、科学技术部印发的《“十四五”能源领域科技创新规划》提出要求,要着力补强能源技术装备“短板”和锻造能源技术装备“长板”。其中,油气安全保障供应方面需要提升的技术包括:陆上常规油气勘探开发技术、非常规油气勘探开发技术、油气工程技术、管输技术、炼化技术等。要加快传统产业的数字化转型,并提升智能化绿色化水平,对能源智能化基础共性技术的投入和发展不可或缺,重点包括:智能传感与智能量测技术、特种智能机器人技术、能源装备数字孪生技术、人工智能与区块链技术、大数据与云计算技术和物联网技术。
“在向数字化阶段转型的进程中,通过机器学习和数据智能支持勘探选区、地质成像、工程决策,采用知识图谱和NLP技术自动分析测录井、地震及采油数据,借助计算机视觉技术识别油井示功图、判断设备故障、油气泄露等异常工况和规范油田炼厂等生产作业区HSE措施,基于人机交互技术扩展远程决策功能,将为油气产业的勘探、生产、炼化、经营管理全链条业务的业务流程、技术研发、人财物管理、组织架构等环节带来全新的变革。”—— ...
本IDC研究报告给出了油气行业ICT市场中软件、硬件、服务的基本定义,回顾和分析了市场背景,包括市场发展的驱动因素和阻碍因素、重大市场变化等。报告给出了 2022–2027 年中国油气行业整体ICT市场规模预测,同时也分析了市场机会和未来趋势,并给技术提供商提出了发展建议。
"近几年国家政策和资本市场对实体经济给予足够重视和持续支持。处于2022年底国家对疫情管控政策的放开和油价的持续高位趋势等宏观利好,油气企业将逐渐缓解此前受到的新冠疫情和地缘政治的影响。随着《"十四五"能源领域科技创新规划》、《"十四五"现代能源体系规划》和《数字中国建设整体布局规划》相继发布并共同鼓励加快能源产业数字化和智能化升级、全面提升能源产业现代化水平,结合油气行业增储上产的基本目标来看,油气行业的ICT市场规模将持续稳定增长。"—— ...
本报告是IDC FutureScape全球油气2023年预测的中国启示,报告提供了中国油气市场发展概述,以及油气行业发展预测阐述,包括AI/ML与数据分析、碳排放平台、多元化创新、CCSaaS新业务模式、5G与边缘计算、搭载红外的无人机、现场自动化、网络安全、数字化团队、云与RPA技术10项预测,以及每项预测对IT方面的影响,并为技术买家提供了采用和部署这些技术的建议,可供中国企业在制定云发展战略和数字化转型策略时参考。
本报告是IDC FutureScape全球油气2023年预测中国启示中面向技术销售管理者和技术营销管理者的机会定位,报告提供了中国油气市场发展概述,以及油气行业发展预测阐述,包括AI/ML与数据分析、碳排放平台、多元化创新、CCSaaS新业务模式、5G与边缘计算、搭载红外的无人机、现场自动化、网络安全、数字化团队、云与RPA技术10项预测,以及每项预测对技术销售管理者的挑战和对技术营销管理者的首要任务,并为技术销售管理者和营销管理者提供行动号召,可供中国油气技术服务商参考。
...本IDC研究阐述了2021年中国公共事业 IT 安全硬件市场在整体态势、竞争格局、厂商动态等方面的情况,给出了整体市场规模和核心厂商的市场份额,并对相关厂商进行了介绍。
IDC研究经理周启珊表示:"未来三年,公共事业领域中,网络安全产业将保持持续增长。安全厂商需要不断打磨产品,打造适配多样化应用场景的、高度稳定的、规模供应的网络安全设备,以在愈发激烈的市场竞争中获得优势。"
This Survey Spotlight, based on IDC's' 2022 Future of Operations Survey, highlights how utilities companies in Asia/Pacific will invest in new technologies to make the remote monitoring of operations a central focus in the ...
This IDC study provides oil and gas companies with the top 10 predictions for 2023 and beyond.
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