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.
IDC에서 국내 빅데이터 및 분석 리서치를 담당하고 있는 최승근 수석연구원은 "COVID-19 팬데믹을 겪으며 기업은 디지털 트랜스포메이션(DX)의 중요성뿐 아니라 AI 및 빅데이터 분석 신기술을 활용한 디지털 기반 비대면 기술의 필수성에 대해 그 어느 때보다도 깊이 인식하게 되었다. 조직은 디지털 혁신을 가속화하기 위해 클라우드 도입 및 데이터 분석 플랫폼 인프라를 강화하고, 포스트 코로나 시대를 준비함에 있어 비즈니스 ...
한국 IDC 김경민 수석연구원은 "COVID-19으로 인한 기업 기술 투자 감소 추세속에서도 IoT는 기업들의 비즈니스 민첩성 확보에 핵심적인 기술로 부각되면서 그 역할이 확대되고 있고, 이러한 움직임은 AI 기반 데이터 분석이나 클라우드 등의 디지털 기술과 결합되면서 더욱 가속화되고 있다"고 말했다. 또한 김경민 수석은 "그러한 상황속에서 확장성과 다른 시스템과의 연동을 고려해 표준 기반의 다양한 기술을 효과적으로 연동할 ...
본 보고서에서는 지속적인 디지털 혁신을 주도하고 있는 국내 하이퍼컨버지드 시스템 시장을 전망한다. 전통적인 IT인프라 시스템에 비해 향상된 가상화 리소스 운영 역량으로 IT서비스의 유연성 및 민첩성을 강화함으로써 프로젝트 투자 비용 절감 및 구성원의 생산성 확대 효과로 차세대 시스템으로 주목 받고 있다.
국내 IT인프라 시장 리서치를 담당하고 있는 김민철 책임연구원은 "하이퍼컨버지드 시스템은 최근 VDI 혹은 ...
2019년 국내 스마트 커넥티드 디바이스는 전년 대비 2.0% 감소한 약 2,410만대가 출하되었다. PC는 윈도우10 마이그레이션 수요로 7.2% 증가하였으며, 태블릿은 디지털 교육을 비롯한 가용 콘텐츠의 확대로 12.2% 성장하였다. 반면, 스마트폰은 시장 성숙에 따른 교체 수요의 둔화를 비롯해, 제조사 및 이통사의 수익 개선 정책과 보조금 혜택 감소로 5.9% 감소하였다.
PC는 신작 게임의 부재로 게이밍 ...
코로나 19는 업무 관련 투자와 전략의 변화를 야기했습니다. 비즈니스 연속성을 유지하는 위기 대응의 단계를 지나, 이제는 중장기 계획을 바탕으로 업무 혁신 전략을 재정비하여 미래의 변화에 회복 탄력성을 갖춘 조직으로 변혁해야 합니다. 본 서베이 보고서는 한국을 비롯한 아태 지역의 직원들의 업무에 대한 시각을 이해하는 것으로, 세부 내용에는 직원 참여, 경험, 동기 부여, 생산성 등을 포함하고 있습니다. 그리고, 코로나 19 ...
한국 IDC 김경민 수석연구원은 "국내 IoT시장은 계속해서 높은 성장세를 이어가는 가운데 2019년에는 기업들의 비즈니스 전반의 디지털 트랜스포메이션 행보와 그 움직임을 같이할 것으로 보인다. 여기에 IoT기술이 AI, ML, 클라우드 기술과 접목해가며 다양하고 폭넓은 인사이트를 제공하고, 비즈니스 의사결정을 하는데 핵심 정보수단으로 자리매김을 하면서 앞으로의 시장도 꾸준한 성장세를 유지할 것으로 예상된다. "고 말했다.
...IDC에서 국내 빅데이터 및 분석 리서치를 담당하고 있는 최승근 수석연구원은 "빅데이터 및 분석을 통한 인사이트를 경영 전략 설계, 경영 효율화, 성과 관리, 시장 예측 등 비즈니스 의사 결정에 활용하는 것은 더이상 조직의 선택이 아닌 필수 과제로 인식되고 있다. 이를 위해 우선적으로 기존 데이터의 정제와 관리 및 통합이 필수적인만큼 데이터 관련 시장은 꾸준한 성장을 보일 것으로 전망한다. 또한 정부의 정책적 지원과 더불어 ...