IDC

International Data Corporation (IDC) stands as a preeminent global purveyor of market intelligence, advisory solutions, and impactful events tailored to the information technology, telecommunications, and consumer technology sectors. Housing a cadre of over 1,300 analysts spanning the globe, IDC's repository of expertise extends across global, regional, and local domains, proffering keen insights into technology landscapes and industry trends that span over 110 countries. This formidable wealth of analysis and perspective serves as a lodestar for IT professionals, corporate executives, and investment entities, enabling them to navigate technology choices grounded in empirical evidence and to attain pivotal business goals.

Tracing its origins to 1964, IDC emerges as a wholly-owned subsidiary of the International Data Group (IDG, Inc.), a venerable name in the realms of tech media, data dissemination, and marketing services worldwide.

IDC's assortment of Insights lines of business fulfills a vital role by empowering both business leaders and IT luminaries, alongside their supplier counterparts, with indispensable technological insights. Comprising seasoned analysts wielding decades of industry acumen, the global research unit champions in-depth consultation and research services that address the multifaceted nexus of contemporary business and technology. The span of IDC Insights coverage is expansive, encompassing critical sectors such as Energy, Financial, Government, Health, Manufacturing, and Retail.

By meticulously distilling complex technological nuances into comprehensible insights, IDC propels the transformation of information into actionable wisdom, thus charting a course for informed decision-making across diverse sectors and industries.

...Show More ...Show Less

6,066 Reports from IDC

Sort by:

IDC PeerScape: Lessons Learned from Leveraging AI in Project and Portfolio Management

Jul 26, 2025 | Published by: IDC | USD 7,500

This IDC PeerScape explores the impact of GenAI and other AI solutions on the PPM discipline from two angles:Preparing PPM structures and methodologies for AI: AI projects are different from traditional software projects; it is critical that PPM project structures and methodologies are defined and a ... Read More
Navigating Tokenized Pricing Models

Jul 26, 2025 | Published by: IDC | USD 7,500

This IDC Perspective explores how token-based pricing is transforming AI and cloud service monetization by converting complex usage patterns into transparent, metered units. It traces the evolution from seat-based and subscription models to prepaid and postpaid token approaches, highlighting real-wo ... Read More
Tariffs Just One Challenge Driving the Connected Automotive Ecosystem

Jul 26, 2025 | Published by: IDC | USD 7,500

This IDC Perspective highlights the impact of tariff on the connected automotive ecosystem. The disruptive tariff situation is forcing the global, interconnected automotive industry to rethink strategies while growth of software-defined vehicles (SDVs) and electric vehicles (EVs) continues, and new ... Read More
HPE's Unified Partner Strategy and AI Enablement

Jul 25, 2025 | Published by: IDC | USD 2,500

This IDC Market Note analyzes HPE's newly announced unified partner program and AI enablement strategy. It incorporates insights from a June 2025 executive briefing with Simon Ewington, SVP, worldwide channel and partner ecosystem at HPE, and Jesse Chavez, HPE vice president of worldwide partner pro ... Read More
Unified AI and Agentic AI Platforms in Asia: Solution Insights for Technology Leaders

Jul 25, 2025 | Published by: IDC | USD 7,500

This IDC Perspective showcases innovative AI-driven platforms that are emerging in the Asia/Pacific region as well as the key steps technology providers are taking to help businesses accelerate AI adoption. The uncertainty and volatility of global markets are pushing businesses to intensify their en ... Read More
Worldwide Managed Cloud Services Deal Penetration for the IT Outsourcing Services Market, 2020–2024

Jul 25, 2025 | Published by: IDC | USD 7,500

This IDC Perspective discusses the worldwide managed cloud services deal penetration for the IT outsourcing (ITO) services market for 2020–2024."Managed SPs are under enormous pressure to both adjust their business models and find new opportunities due to a wide array of factors involving geopolitic ... Read More
IDC MarketScape Criteria: Worldwide Document Scanner 2025 Vendor Assessment

Jul 25, 2025 | Published by: IDC | USD 7,500

This IDC Market Perspective provides a description of the market definitions and assessment criteria for IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Document Scanner 2025 Vendor Assessment (forthcoming)."The document-imaging scanner plays an important part in corporate digital transformation journeys. Organizations ... Read More
Cisco Live 2025: Transforming Enterprise Infrastructure for Agentic AI with a Unified Platform Across Networking, Security, and Silicon

Jul 25, 2025 | Published by: IDC | USD 2,500

This IDC Market Note discusses the key focus of Cisco Live on the company's unified platform, which integrates datacenter, workplace, and security architectures and is powered by specialized AI networking hardware, real-time telemetry, and domain-specific intelligence. Cisco Live marked a step forwa ... Read More
Physical AI: Using Edge Infrastructure to Merge the Real and Digital Worlds

Jul 25, 2025 | Published by: IDC | USD 7,500

This IDC Market Perspective provides an overview of physical AI and the technologies that are essential to its successful implementation. Market drivers and benefits are discussed, along with challenges inherent when merging digital technologies into the real world. "AI infused into real-world syste ... Read More
Empowering Efficiency and Innovation Through Managed Services: NTT DATA Business Solutions' Strategic Role in BSH's Digital Journey

Jul 24, 2025 | Published by: IDC | USD 7,500

This IDC Perspective examines how BSH tackled several challenges by partnering with NTT DATA Business Solutions for managed services. It highlights the specific challenges that prompted this decision and describes how BSH strategically worked with NTT DATA Business Solutions to effectively address t ... Read More
Navigating an Evolving Partnering Context: Insights from IDC's 2Q25 Partner Advisory Board Session

Jul 24, 2025 | Published by: IDC | USD 2,500

This IDC Market Note summarizes key themes and insights from the 2Q25 session of IDC's U.K. Partner Advisory Board. Anonymized quotes capture partner sentiment and provide relevant context into what shapes the strategic environment and thinking across the broader partner community. ... Read More
The Siemens AI with Purpose Summit 2025: Shaping the Future of Industrial AI Through Collaboration and Innovation

Jul 24, 2025 | Published by: IDC | USD 2,500

This IDC Market Note covers announcements and insights from the Siemens AI with Purpose Summit 2025 event, held recently in Munich and attended by IDC. The document looks specifically at developments related to analytics, data integration, AI, machine learning, and business intelligence. IDC also of ... Read More
Google Cloud UK Summit 2025 — Ecosystem Evolution in the Age of Agentic AI

Jul 24, 2025 | Published by: IDC | USD 2,500

Google Cloud is advancing its agentic AI strategy with deeper insight into its vision for Agentspace — a unified platform for building and managing AI agents. The U.K. Summit also highlighted the evolving AI Agent Marketplace, expanded sovereignty offerings, and strong startup momentum. Google is en ... Read More
Insights from the 2025 AWS Retail & Consumer Goods Symposium: London

Jul 24, 2025 | Published by: IDC | USD 2,500

This IDC Market Note summarizes key takeaways from the 2025 AWS Retail & Consumer Goods Symposium, held in London. The event highlighted how generative AI, composable commerce architectures, and data-driven personalization are reshaping retail transformation strategies. Retailers prioritizing th ... Read More
European Page Volume Dynamics

Jul 24, 2025 | Published by: IDC | USD 7,500

This IDC Market Perspective discusses the trends around and influences on European page volumes. This includes identifying the macro- and micro-reasons (e.g., end user perspectives) why pages will continue to contract. However, the report also helps to identify where opportunities still remain."Euro ... Read More
2Q25 Compliance Briefing: AI-Driven Strategies for Navigating Regulatory Complexity

Jul 24, 2025 | Published by: IDC | USD 7,500

This IDC Perspective discusses how regulatory activity surged in 2Q25, accelerating expectations for how institutions manage fraud, crypto exposure, sanctions, and cross-border risk. Compliance functions must now operate in real time and provide traceable, auditable decisions. The market is shifting ... Read More
European Business Automation Market Events, 1H25

Jul 24, 2025 | Published by: IDC | USD 2,500

This IDC Market Note highlights key developments in the business automation software market in Europe from January to June 2025, with a particular focus on product announcements and strategic initiatives driving end-to-end AI-powered automation. ... Read More
2025 AWS Public Sector Summit: Making the Cloud Foundational to Government and Public Sector

Jul 23, 2025 | Published by: IDC | USD 2,500

This IDC Market Note analyzes the key announcements made at the 2025 AWS Public Sector Summit held June 10–11, in Washington, D.C. The event underscored Amazon Web Services' (AWS') expanding role in enabling digital transformation across public sectors, including government, education, healthcare, a ... Read More
TCS at the Paris Air Show 2025: Scaling AI for Aerospace and Defense in a Cautious But Ambitious Industry

Jul 23, 2025 | Published by: IDC | USD 2,500

This IDC Market Note provides an overview of the 2025 Paris Air Show, where TCS highlighted its strategic role in aerospace and defense and emphasized innovative solutions such as its AI Innovation Center in Toulouse and integrated inspection systems. In a cautious industry, TCS' organic growth and ... Read More
Basware World Tour 2025: Innovative AI, Effective Change Management, and Accounts Payable Defense Strategies

Jul 23, 2025 | Published by: IDC | USD 2,500

This IDC Market Note highlights the key takeaways from the event, including a roster of hot topics related to the company's Artificial Investment journey and road map, fundamentals for effective change management, significance of business process improvement and building a robust accounts payable (A ... Read More
AWE USA 2025: Consumer XR Highlights and Headlines

Jul 23, 2025 | Published by: IDC | USD 2,500

This IDC Market Note reviews and assesses some key consumer-focused takeaways from AWE 2025, which was held in California in June and attracted >5,000 attendees. "Another Axiom's Gorilla Tag and VRChat's VRChat offered great context at AWE that other XR game and app studios should consider emulat ... Read More
SCSP AI+ Expo: Focusing on AI in National Security

Jul 23, 2025 | Published by: IDC | USD 2,500

This IDC Market Note analyzes the key announcements made at the Special Competitive Studies Project (SCSP) AI+ Expo, held from June 2 to 4 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C. The conference brought together approximately 15,000 participants from government, academia, an ... Read More
IDC PeerScape: Generative AI for Demonstrating Real Value in Financial Services

Jul 23, 2025 | Published by: IDC | USD 7,500

This IDC PeerScape describes three practices that financial institutions have leveraged to benefit from GenAI and agentic AI."AI agents will play a more significant role in business decisions by complementing human expertise, but as a regulated industry, banks must balance AI innovation with human o ... Read More
Vodafone UC&C Portfolio Innovation: Breathing New Life Into UC&C

Jul 21, 2025 | Published by: IDC | USD 2,500

This IDC Market Note examines how Vodafone is differentiating its unified communications and collaboration (UC&C) portfolio through innovative strategies, leveraging its Advanced Communications platform and solutions such as Advanced Voice, Messaging, and Solutions. By integrating AI-driven feat ... Read More
Rebooting Resilience: Technology and Policy Priorities After the Iberian Blackout

Jul 21, 2025 | Published by: IDC | USD 7,500

This IDC Market Perspective analyzes the implications of the April 2025 Iberian blackout, which exposed critical vulnerabilities in modern power systems and underscored the growing complexity of managing grids with high shares of renewable energy. The event revealed shortfalls in contingency plannin ... Read More