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.
2018년 4분기 국내 PC 출하량은 85만대로 전년 대비 8.3% 감소하였으며, 매출도 3.2% 하락하였다. 컨수머 시장은 44만대를 출하하여 전년 대비 6.8% 감소하였지만, 컨버터블 노트북을 비롯한 프리미엄 라인업이 확대되고 가성비가 우수한 두께 18<21mm 울트라슬림 노트북은 증가하였다. 교육 및 기업 부문은 출하량이 감소하였지만, 노트북의 도입은 지속적으로 늘어나고 있으며, 공공 부문은 정부부처, 공사 기관을 ...
한국IDC 김민철 책임연구원은 "국내 클라우드 네이티브 환경의 확대는 퍼블릭 PaaS 시장의 성장으로 이어지고 있으며, 기업의 비즈니스 혁신을 위한 다양한 워크로드 개발 그리고 효율적인 데이터의 활용 및 관리를 위하여 퍼블릭 PaaS에 대한 관심이 높아지고 있다"고 말했다. 또한, "정부의 퍼블릭 클라우드 장려 정책으로 클라우드 활용에 대한 규제가 완화되고 있는 가운데 규제에 민감한 금융권에서도 퍼블릭 PaaS의 도입을 ...
한국IDC 김민철 책임연구원은 "최근 퍼블릭 클라우드 서비스에 대한 국내 사용자의 인식 향상 그리고 정부의 클라우드 활성화 정책에 따른 완화된 규제로 글로벌 클라우드 사업자의 글로벌 확장성과 함께 다양하고 진화된 클라우드 솔루션 제공 그리고 국내 클라우드 사업자의 국내 환경 친화적인 클라우드 솔루션 지원으로 보다 다양한 영역으로 클라우드 사업자의 진출이 확대되고 있다"고 말했다. 또한, "퍼블릭 클라우드 서비스의 안정성 ...
2019년 상반기 국내 LFP 시장은 전년 동기 대비 4.8% 하락하여 전체 3,600대를 출하했으며 매출은 경제적 불확실성으로 인해 전년 동기 대비 8.2% 감소한 455억 원의 시장 규모를 형성하였다. 캐드 시장의 성장률은 건축 시장과 위치 정보 시스템 시장의 지속적인 수요에도 불구하고, 건설업의 부진한 성장으로 인해 전년 동기 대비 0.3%로 소폭 하락하며 전체 1,031대를 출하하였다.
국내 문서 스캐너 ...
한국IDC 한은선 전무는 "기업의 디지털 혁신 행보가 가속화되며 다양한 컴퓨팅 환경과 확장성에 대한 요구가 증가하는 가운데 대기업 시장에서의 퍼블릭 클라우드 서비스에 대한 수요가 한층 탄력을 받으면서, 2019년 국내 퍼블릭 IT 클라우드 서비스 시장은 전년 대비 18.0%의 견조한 성장률로 1조 1,329억원의 시장 규모를 형성할 것으로 예상된다"고 말했다. 또한, "정부 주도의 클라우드 산업 활성화 정책이 더욱 확대되며 ...
2019년 1분기 국내 HCP (Hardcopy Peripherals) 시장은 전체 544,600대 출하로 지난해 같은 기간 대비 11.6% 성장을 기록하였다. 잉크젯은 Top3 업체의 탱크 타입 (정품 무한) 시장 경쟁이 본격화되어, 탱크 타입 출하량은 전년 대비 30.1%의 급격한 성장을 나타냈으며, 전체 잉크젯 시장은 3분기 연속 전년 대비 성장 추이를 유지하고 있다.
레이저 시장은 기업 내 필수적인 출력 ...
2018년 국내 스마트 커넥티드 디바이스의 출하량은 2,460만대로 전년 2,310만대 대비 6.6% 성장하였으며, PC와 태블릿의 출하량 하락에도 불구하고 스마트폰이 시장 성장을 견인하였다. 전세계 시장은 4.3% 하락하여 국내 시장과 대조적인 모습을 보였으며, 이는 2018년 국내의 태블릿과 스마트폰 시장이 상대적으로 견조하였기 때문이다.
국내 PC 출하량은 전년 대비 6.9% 하락하여, 전세계 0.4% 하락보다는 ...
국내 IT인프라스트럭처 시장 리서치를 담당하고 있는 김민철 책임연구원은 "기업의 IT비즈니스 활성화로 데이터 양은 폭발적으로 증가하고 있으며, 데이터의 종류도 방대해지면서 이를 기업의 비즈니스에 효율적으로 활용하기 위한 스토리지의 역할이 그 어느 때 보다도 중요해지고 있다."고 말했다. 또한 그는 "AFA 등장 이후 지속적인 활용 사례의 확대로 인한 안정성의 검증으로 빠르게 AFA의 도입이 증가하고 있는 가운데 2018년에는 ...
2018년 3분기 국내 PC 출하량은 90만대로 전년 대비 10.7% 감소하였으며, 매출도 10.0% 하락하였다. 데스크톱, 노트북 모두 전년 대비 각각 13.1%, 8.1% 감소하였으며, 교육 및 대기업을 제외하면 모든 세그먼트에서 물량이 줄어들었다. 그럼에도 불구하고, 메인스트림 및 프리미엄 제품군인 컨버터블 노트북과 18mm 미만 울트라슬림 노트북의 성장으로 수익성 측면에서의 감소는 상대적으로 크지 않을 것으로 분석된다.
오프라인 ...
국내 IT인프라 시장 리서치를 담당하고 있는 김민철 책임연구원은 "기업에서는 최소한의 비용으로 데이터센터의 민첩성, 유연성, 확장성을 요구하고 있으며, 그에 대한 일환으로 최근 하이퍼컨버지드 시스템에 대한 관심이 증가하고 있다"고 말했다. 또한 그는 "컴퓨팅 리소스가 가상화되며 여러 노드에서 다양한 애플리케이션의 개발 및 운영이 하나의 어플라이언스에서 가능해졌으며, 스토리지 역시 소프트웨어적인 구현을 통해 하이퍼컨버지드 ...