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.
OceanBase作为分布式数据库行业的代表厂商,通过持续的技术创新,不断加速并深化分布式数据库市场的技术内涵,引领行业向前发展。第二届OceanBase开发者大会中,Oceanbase 4.3的产品将分布式数据库HTAP能力和一体化能力进一步提高,并将云数据库作为OceanBase未来发展的重要方向之一。
本IDC研究根据IDC软件市场目录,对中国应用集成厂商进行了进一步划分,通过中国应用集成软件市场相关现状,分析了应用集成市场现阶段的挑战,围绕中美贸易摩擦、低代码技术应用、云化改造持续增长和数据质量要求提高等市场动力,对未来中国应用集成软件市场的发展趋势进行了展望。报告还对行业的部分典型厂商及其相关产品进行了简要介绍,并对选型过程中需要注意的关键问题提出建议。
“中国应用集成软件市场正经历着快速的发展,中间件ISV和公有云厂商两大力量竞相角逐。中间件ISV以其丰富的产品线和私有化交付方式,满足了大型企业和行业领先者的需求,而公有云厂商则凭借强大的云技术能力和融合性iPaaS平台,展现出了强劲的发展势头。未来,随着云计算、大数据等技术的普及,应用集成软件的需求将持续增长。中间件ISV将进一步推动产品的云化改造,提升产品的扩展性和灵活性。而公有云厂商则将利用自身的技术优势,进一步巩固和拓展市场份额。” ...
本报告通过调研B2C出口电商SaaS技术平台市场相关现状,分析了出口电商市场现阶段的挑战以及政策鼓励、国际电商高速发展、精细化运营和AIGC技术变革的市场动力,并对未来中国B2C出口电商SaaS技术平台市场的发展趋势进行了展望。报告对行业的部分典型厂商及其相关产品进行了简要介绍,同时为技术买家提供了基本的技术厂商选型策略,并对选型过程中需要注意的关键问题提出建议。
"随着中国国内电子商务市场竞争日益激烈和全球电子商务市场的持续增长,不少中国卖家将目光转向了国际市场。但对于国内的卖家而言,将领域拓展至全球市场,在机遇面前同样存在不小的挑战。复杂多变的全球政治环境和各地不同的法律法规对合规性的严格要求,以及各个区域市场独特的商业环境与本地用户需求,都给中国卖家的国际化之路设下了层层考验。
B2C出口电商SaaS技术平台,作为卖家迈向国际舞台、扩展国际业务的根本工具,肩负着构建平台合规性审查和个性化营销等复杂功能,为电子商务卖家提供全方位的一站式解决方案。这些SaaS平台不仅能够帮助卖家规避信息不对称所带来的销售风险,也减少了因缺乏对国际市场的深入了解而产生的不必要的试错成本。
未来中国的出口份额预计将持续增长,出口电商SaaS平台的能力也预期将通过更加深入的市场掌控和AIGC等新兴技术的采用而得到进一步的增强和提升。这些平台将为卖家创造更多适应国际市场的策略,利用数据分析和市场洞察,优化其产品和营销战略,确保在多元且竞争激烈的全球市场中获得成功。"——IDC中国软件市场研究经理李凌霄表示。
...本演示文档是同一主题的《IDC FutureScape: 全球智能ERP2024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: 全球智能ERP2024预测——中国启示》
智能ERP和相关应用正在经历深刻的变革,已经超越了传统的企业内部部署的范畴。现今的SaaS和云应用融入了生成人工智能(GenAI)、人工智能、机器学习(ML)、微服务、API以及自动化工作流程等尖端技术。这些现代化、模块化、智能化的系统不仅能实时处理海量数据,更能在一夜之间大幅度提升企业的运营效率。更为重要的是,这些系统正在引领业务流程向更自主的方向进化,将信息的功能从单纯的智能提升到提供洞察,再进一步转化为即时的决策行动。当企业能够充分利用这些技术进步时,就能够在运营速度、规模和灵活性方面获得竞争优势,从而真正转型为数字化企业。全球正在迅速走向数字化,对于企业来说,利用创新技术提高适应性的黄金时机尚未到来。本报告将结合全球市场和中国市场的特点,深入探讨智能ERP和企业应用市场和系统的主要趋势,同时预测未来五年的十大关键技术和驱动因素。
...本IDC PeerScape报告根据案例收集甄选,并对相应的IT负责人或领导者进行访谈,形成最终报告及观点。以某大型商业银行个人业务核心为例,介绍面对数据库升级后与传统硬件兼容性低、浪费硬件性能挑战时,通过软硬一体化改造的方式完成全栈Oracle替换;以中国移动某政企支撑核心为例,介绍在数据库迁移改造过程中关注迁移改造效率、降低项目风险的具体实践;以海底捞进销存系统为例,介绍面向C端场景资源占用弹性大、并发要求高等挑战,通过公有云方案降本增效;以招商银行和某全国性股份制商业银行手机银行为例,介绍金融行业在传统集中式数据库方案达到性能上限时,通过分布式关系型数据库大型集群进一步提高整体性能;以某国内大型券商为例,介绍终端用户为避免对特定单一平台或厂商产生技术绑定,借助生态综合服务商完成跨产品、跨平台的软硬协同。IDC希望通过本次报告对相关案例的深度分析和解读,帮助广大终端用户进一步了解分布式关系型数据库在不同领域实施的机遇和挑战,充分评估风险,获得方案思路。
IDC中国软件市场研究经理李凌霄表示:"近年来中国的分布式关系型数据库相关技术和产品在全球降本增效的浪潮中获得快速发展,并在众多大型场景中完成了对传统集中式数据库的改造和升级,让市场看到分布式关系型数据库在性能与成本的博弈与平衡中展现出的巨大潜力。而在交付过程中,终端用户需根据自身业务场景和需求来评估其必要性,确保能解决现有业务痛点。同时,要充分预估数据库改造的各类成本和对应用层的影响,确保项目的经济性和可行性。在选择数据库产品时,除了关注产品功能和性能,厂商的服务能力也是一个重要的考量因素,以确保获得持续的技术支持和培训,保障数据库的稳定运行。"
...本IDC 研究聚焦于中国分布式关系型数据库的技术提供商。IDC 针对入选厂商的战略、能力进行评估,主要标准包括其产品能力、服务能力、生态、市场化等多个评估维度,各维度进一步划分为若干评分项,并配以不同权重,从而形成IDC MarketScape 综合评分体系。通过IDC 分析师对厂商和最终用户的深入访谈,集中分析并确定各服务商在IDC MarketScape 中的相对位置,并探讨各供应商的优势及战略思路,总结市场发展现状与痛点趋势,为数字内容的提供者与行业终端用户选择分布式关系型数据库技术提供商及伙伴提供参考。
IDC中国软件市场研究经理李凌霄表示:“近年来中国的分布式关系型数据库相关技术和产品在全球降本增效的浪潮中获得快速发展,并在众多大型场景中完成了对传统集中式数据库的改造和升级,让市场看到分布式关系型数据库在性能与成本的博弈与平衡中展现出的巨大潜力。在这个市场中,升级改造带来的巨大效能提升使得终端用户展现出对于技术提供商足够的开放性和包容性,加速分布式关系型数据库产品的迭代与技术创新。当前,分布式关系型数据库的崛起已深度影响中国交易型数据库的市场格局。预计在未来五年里,分布式关系型数据库市场将维持强劲的增长势头,而竞争格局亦将经历一轮新的重塑与洗牌。”
...此项研究成果的主要来源包括对头部和典型的BI产品技术提供商的调研访谈,以及对其当前技术能力的评估。除此之外,研究过程中还包括一系列二手资料的调研,包含但不限于全球行业专家的评论和分析、全球学术界的技术洞察研究、IDC全球商业智能领域的技术和市场研究积累以及最终用户提供的反馈等。报告中使用的数据均来源于IDC长期以来对全球各技术服务提供商和最终用户的数据跟踪,访谈调研。
本次技术评估报告主要围绕BI产品技术开展,希望通过对中国市场BI产品技术提供商的技术评估以及对大量最终用户的客观访谈来帮助市场更加全面地了解国内BI相关技术的发展现状和发展方向。本次报告将会重点评估中国市场的主要BI产品技术提供商的技术能力,具体评估内容包括但不限于数据处理、报表查询、可视化设计、分析交互、高级分析、集成开发、管理部署、产品生态和落地部署等。
IDC中国软件市场研究经理李凌霄表示:“中国国内BI市场已经形成了比较成熟的市场格局和产品体系,在兼顾传统数据查询需求的基础上兼顾深度数据分析能力,但深度数据分析是BI市场发展的深水区,产品深度和落地能力需要厂商和用户的共同推进。同时,随着大模型技术的逐渐成熟和平民化,未来大模型技术与BI产品的融合将打破现有市场格局,新的市场玩家将对传统BI厂商形成一定的冲击,但从整体上看,整个行业的技术发展,无论是新老玩家,迎来的都将是一个重大机遇。”
...本报告通过调研中国知识管理软件市场相关现状,分析了知识管理市场现阶段的挑战以及围绕人员流动性增加、AI技术爆发和企业合规性要求产生的市场动力,并对未来中国知识管理软件市场的发展趋势进行了展望。报告对行业的部分典型厂商及其相关产品进行了简要介绍,同时以高成熟度的知识管理应用框架为例,拆解知识管理基础模块、应用场景和用例,为知识管理软件的技术提供商和解决方案提供商提供参考。
"企业知识管理虽不是新兴市场,但相对国际市场,国内市场对于知识管理的认识仍大多停留在文档管理和文档协同层面。近年来企业合规性要求的提高和AI技术大爆发,使得市场对于知识管理的认知和需求大幅提升,AIGC与知识管理的融合被认为是最具有落地价值的场景之一。未来,随着AI技术与知识管理的进一步融合以及市场对于知识管理认知的提升,企业将投入更多专项资源用于构建知识管理平台,推动企业内外部的知识创造、知识协作与知识赋能,将知识管理融入到企业发展战略当中"——IDC中国软件市场研究经理李凌霄表示。
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