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.
본 보고서는 세계 디지털 트랜스포메이션 2021년 전망에 있어 한국 시장에 대한 시사점을 제공한다. 2021년 IDC 미래전망(FutureScape)은 코로나19가 몰고 온 파괴적인 변화에 의해 주요 방향이 결정되었다. 코로나 위기 속에서 디지털로의 이동과 비즈니스 구도의 근본적인 변화가 가속화된 가운데, 트랜스포메이션 성숙도가 낮은 기업이 변화에 적응하는데 더 어려움을 겪으면서, 혁신은 파괴적인 변화에 대응하기 위한 전략과제가 ...
본 보고서에서는 국내 하이브리드 클라우드 시장 현황과 함께 활성화 방안을 모색하고자 한다. 그리고, 클라우드 서비스 사업자와 솔루션 벤더 등 다양한 시장 참여자의 동향을 알아봄으로써 향후 지속적인 성장이 예상되는 하이브리드 클라우드 시장에 대한 대응책 마련을 제시한다.
한국IDC 김민철 책임연구원은 "2020년은 예상하지 못한 재난 상황과 같은 코로나19 사태로 인해서 기존 비즈니스의 연속성을 유지하기 위한 클라우드 ...
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 ...
본 연구에서는 최근 코로나19로 인한 팬데믹 (Pandemic) 상황에서 재평가 및 재검토가 요구되고 있는 스마트 시티 산업의 국내 상황을 업데이트하면서 시장의 발전 방향과 도전과제를 분석하고 이를 기반으로 국내 스마트 시티 시장 참여자들에게 제언을 한다.
한국 IDC 김경민 수석연구원은 "데이터가 IoT, 빅데이터, AI 등의 디지털 기술을 통해 통찰력을 확보한 정보로 진화하는 과정에서 탄생한 스마트 시티의 ...
2020년 1분기 신종 코로나바이러스(COVID-19; 코로나19)의 영향이 전세계적으로 확산되는 추세를 보이면서 이를 제어하기 위한 정부의 대응 방안이 본격화되고 있다. 코로나19 상황은 내수 경기 및 해외 시장 여건의 위축으로 이어지면서 국내 ICT 시장도 그 영향을 받게 될 것으로 보인다. ICT 시장은 코로나19 발생으로2020년 전년 대비2.4%로 성장률이 하향 조정되고, IT 시장은 침체 여파가 좀더 크게 나타나며 ...
Korea Big Data and Analytics Competitive Landscape and Vendor Analysis, 2019 보고서에서는 국내 빅데이터 분석 시장의 주요 기술 및 서비스 벤더의 솔루션과 비즈니스 현황 및 시장 전략을 살펴본다. 클라우드 빅데이터 플랫폼 기반 인공지능 분석 솔루션 공급, 국내 SI 기업의 빅데이터 및 AI 분석 서비스 확대, 빅데이터 분석 워크로드에 최적화된 하드웨어 솔루션 증가 ...
본 보고서는 세계 디지털 트랜스포메이션 2020년 전망에 있어 한국 시장에 대한 시사점을 제공한다. 기업 디지털 트랜스포메이션(DX) 양상에 있어 기존에 파괴적인 혁신 효과를 기반으로 시장에 신규 진입한 업체들이 시장을 견인하던 구도에서 이제 새로운 유형의 파괴자들이 더욱 부상하게 될 것으로 보인다. 여기에는 이미 브랜드를 구축하고 있고, 대개의 경우 레거시 시스템과 프로세스, 그리고 여러 세대로 구성된 직원을 보유하고 ...
한국IDC 김민철 책임연구원은 "퍼블릭 클라우드 서비스의 고도화로 전통적인 상용 솔루션 못지 않은 성능 및 안정성이 보장되면서 다양한 산업 분야에서 클라우드의 도입이 확대되고 있다. 하지만, 기존 온프레미스 기반의 데이터센터에서 퍼블릭 클라우드 환경으로의 전환에 데이터 보안이나 규제 준수와 같은 다양한 어려움에 직면하는 가운데 하이브리드 클라우드가 대안이 되고 있다"고 말했다. 또한 "동시에 퍼블릭 클라우드 사업자 뿐만 ...
본 IDC PeerScape에서는 국내 다양한 지방자치도시들이 스마트 시티 구축 과정에서 도시 문제를 해결하기 위해 IoT를 어떻게 활용하고 있는 지를 고찰해 본다. IoT기술의 발전과 성숙에 따라 스마트 도시 구현에서 IoT를 활용하는 사례가 증가하고 있는 가운데 좀 더 지능화된 서비스 개발 및 인프라 관리와 지금 까지와는 다른 관점의 문제 해결 방안을 모색하기 위해 IoT의 이용이 확대되고 있는 것으로 보인다.
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