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
Flash
Provides rapid IDC insight and analysis about a significant industry event or conference, merger or acquisition, product announcement, or other fast-breaking news affecting the IT market.
Forecast Update
Provides a short, quick look at an updated forecast and the changed assumptions behind the update. It updates a market forecast published in the same calendar year, identifies changed and key forecast assumptions, and highlights actions for participants to consider in light of the changes.
IDC Insight
Provides coverage and analysis of an industry event, new product or service, or a company announcement or development.
Update
Provides brief overview coverage of what is happening in a market.
Vendor Profiles
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.
Daily Graphics
Daily Graphic
Illustrates IDC's keen analysis of major market trends in downloadable PowerPoints. Available as a free download the day it appears, an IDC Daily Graphic provides valuable material for speeches and strategic planning.
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
Insights-only Research
Best Practices
Correlates the use of specific practices and superior performance as indicated by an analysis of the benchmarking database. Highlights any significant differences between industries. Conclusions provide a set of process priorities for improving a business case and advice on how to overcome change management issues.
Business Strategy
Helps buyers to assess their business strategies and/or associated business processes, especially as they relate to the use of technology.
Methods and Practices
Provides a step-by-step description of a method or methods that can be applied. As appropriate, the report may compare the benefits and drawbacks of several methods.
Perspective
Presents an article written by an Insights analyst on a topic of special interest to a target audience. This information has generally already appeared in an industry publication and is repackaged for display on the Insights Web site.
Vendor Assessment
Helps buyers select the right IT supplier. The report helps buyers understand the various providers of a technology by providing analysis on market landscape, vendor profiles, vendor market share, and vendor assessments.
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.
Predictions
Top 10 Predictions
Provides bold, well-conceived market predictions grounded in solid methodologies, primary research, and analyst experience. Lays out a clear road map to understanding major market opportunities and trends.
Presentations
IDC Presentation
Provides the latest, select CIS forecast data, primary research survey findings, and critical IDC analyst opinion in a succinct, easy-to-digest PowerPoint format.
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.
Insights 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.
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
Competitive Analysis
Provides a detailed accounting and review of a vendor's programs, processes, products, service, satisfaction, and/or strategy in a target market. This knowledge helps clients reduce their risk of losing market share or enhance their position over the competition.
Customer Needs and Strategies
Focuses on the important decisions that business and IT professionals make every day.
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 Analysis
Provides an in-depth examination of the dynamics and future of a single market or a group of related markets. The Market Analysis is where we will typically present our forecasts and assumptions, using a key forecast assumptions table.
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 onetime study produced by a research group that is not published as a deliverable under a subscription service.
Survey
Provides a study and interpretation of the results of a demand- or supply-side survey.
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.
Vendor Needs and Strategies
Provides an in-depth analysis of a company, a small group of companies, a division of a company focused on a particular market, or a best practice that the company exemplifies.
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한국 IDC 김경민 수석연구원은 "코로나19로 인해 국내 소프트웨어 시장의 수요 감소가 뚜렷이 나타나는 가운데에서도 비대면 환경 및 업무 자동화를 위한 협업 솔루션, 전자 문서 관리, RPA, VDI 등을 중심으로는 오히려 수요가 증가하는 모습을 보이고 있다, 또한 그 과정에서 민첩성 및 비용 효율성 확보를 위해 클라우드 소프트웨어 도입도 가속화되고 있다,"며, "넥스트 노멀이라는 새로운 비즈니스 패러다임 등장속에서 기업들의 ...
본 보고서에서는 국내 퍼블릭 PaaS 시장이 성장하면서 마이크로서비스 기반의 유연한 개발 환경이 확대되는 가운데, 사업자들이 다양하게 등장하는 클라우드 플랫폼 서비스를 통합적으로 제공할 것을 제시하며, 포스트 코로나 시대에 기업들이 비즈니스 경쟁력을 확보하기 위한 AI/ML기반 데이터 플랫폼 투자 확대 및 클라우드 네이티브 아키텍처 도입 확대가 지속되면서 국내 퍼블릭 PaaS 시장의 성장을 이어갈 것으로 전망한다.
한국IDC ...
2020년 1분기 국내 프린터∙복합기 시장의 출하량은 전체 432,900대로 지난해 같은 기간 대비 17.2% 하락하였다.
제품별로 잉크젯은 2020년 1분기 지난해 같은 기간 대비 29.9% 하락한 185,800대를 출하하였다. 과거 19년 1분기 전년 대비 43.9% 성장에 대한 기저 효과로 시장 감소가 심화되었으며 동시에 1분기부터 코로나 여파로 잉크젯 공급 이슈 나타났다. 개학에 대한 정부 발표 지연으로 ...
2019년 4분기 국내 프린터·복합기 출하량은 전체 333,700대로 전년 동기 대비 8.5% 감소하였다. 사용자별 시장 중 컨수머 영역은 전체 112,000대로 전년 대비 19.6% 감소하였으며, 카트리지 타입 잉크젯의 수요 하락이 주요 요인으로 작용하였다. 퍼블릭과 기업을 포함한 커머셜 영역은 기업의 출력 수요 감소에도 불구하고 렌탈, 리스, 솔루션 연계 거래의 비중 확대 및 제품 교체를 위한 대형 입찰 수주가 원활히 ...
Korea Big Data and Analytics Competitive Landscape and Vendor Analysis, 2020 보고서에서는 국내 빅데이터 분석 시장의 주요 기술 및 서비스 벤더의 솔루션과 비즈니스 현황 및 시장 전략을 살펴본다. COVID-19로 인한 국내 BDA 솔루션 도입 및 기술 투자 증가, 데이터 3법 개정에 따른 빅데이터 산업의 가속화, 자동화된 AI/ML 기반 분석과 클라우드 네이티브 ...
2020년 1분기 국내 PC 출하량은 144만대로 전년 대비 1.5% 성장하였다. 코로나 19 감염증은 PC 산업 변화에 큰 영향을 미쳤으며, 대표적으로 공급 부족 현상의 발생, 초중고의 온라인 수업에 따른 신규 수요 창출, 재택 및 원격 근무에 의한 노트북 전환 가속화, 오프라인 채널에서 온라인 채널로의 무게 중심 이동을 들 수 있다.
코로나 19로 야기된 온라인 수업은 초중고의 PC 구매를 발생하였지만, 가계 ...