IDC
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.
6,041 Reports from IDC
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Key Announcements from RSAC 2025 for DevSecOps and Software Supply Chain Security
This IDC Perspective summarizes key product announcements and market developments from RSA Conference 2025, with a focus on application security. The event featured a surge of innovation across areas including securing AI agents and applications, modernizing application security testing, strengtheni ... Read More
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NTT DATA Horizons 2025: Key Takeaways for the Financial Services Industry
At NTT DATA's Horizons 2025 event, the company showcased innovations aimed at a connected and sustainable future, with an emphasis on AI, data management, and data protection. Key innovations relevant to the financial services industry include the IOWN initiative for photonic technology, digital twi ... Read More
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Pivoting Toward Cloud and Software Delivery Strategic Autonomy: The Geopolitical Environment Creates the Premise for New Strategic Road Maps in Europe
This IDC Market Perspective discusses initiatives taking shape in Europe regarding technology self-reliance within the software infrastructure, cloud, and software delivery space in the context of geopolitical changes that affect U.S.-Europe relations. It introduces considerations around investment ... Read More
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Japan Data Platform, Logistics, and Operations Forecast, 2025–2029
In this IDC study, we define the Japan data platform, logistics, and operations market as a competitive market and classify it into four categories: data protection, data security, data management systems, and other data governance. Based on revenue performance and market trends up to 2024, we forec ... Read More
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SAP 1Q25: Continued Cloud Growth, Plus Data and AI, Is Enabling Businesses and the Future of Work
This IDC Market Note discusses SAP’s recent announcement of its 1Q25 results, and this document is a review of the earnings announced along with guidance.“SAP continues to achieve growth in cloud and has a solid data and AI strategy,” said Mickey North Rizza, group vice president, Enterprise Softwar ... Read More
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Agents as Apps: An Opportunity for Greater Innovation, More Revenue, and Increased Market Share
This IDC Market Perspective looks at the opportunity for enterprise application vendors and their partners to completely rethink their products and markets and gain more market share. AI agents will double the TAM for enterprise software vendors. With the threat of tariffs, geopolitical strife, and ... Read More
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IDC PlanScape: How to Put Down an Enterprise Learning Rebellion
This IDC PlanScape examines learning resistance in enterprises. It presents the IDC learning empowerment framework, comprising eight pillars, that enterprises can use to reduce learning resistance and design more evocative, effective, and efficient training initiatives."Addressing learning rebellion ... Read More
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Customer Economic and Geopolitical Concerns: Potential Effects on the IT Service Management Market
This IDC Market Perspective highlights the shifts in IT spending related to IT service management, enterprise service management, and IT asset management due to geopolitical changes, with a focus on automation and AI. "Amid economic uncertainty, organizations look to AI and automation investments fo ... Read More
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Cybersecurity in EMEA Retail: AI's Role in Enhancing Cyberattack and Fraud Protection in Retail
This IDC Perspective discusses how cybersecurity in EMEA retail is being fundamentally reshaped by the integration of AI to address evolving digital threats. As retailers in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa accelerate their digital transformation efforts — adopting technologies such as omni-chann ... Read More
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First Learnings in Applying GenAI to Value Stream Management
This IDC Perspective discusses the current state of value stream management (VSM) and AI intersection (primarily in the form of large language models [LLMs]) and how organizations can plan and prepare to leverage AI and VSM in the future. Value stream maps represent detailed “pictures” of business a ... Read More
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Windows Protected Print: A Comprehensive Look at the Impact of Microsoft's Efforts to Modernize Office Printing
This IDC Market Perspective examines Microsoft's efforts to modernize office printing through Windows Protected Print (WPP) and Universal Print. It highlights the need for secure, efficient printing in today's digital landscape, addressing challenges with legacy systems. With WPP, Microsoft has intr ... Read More
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Agents as Apps Will Dramatically Expand the Addressable Market for Enterprise Applications
This IDC Market Perspective discusses how agents as apps will dramatically expand the addressable market for enterprise applications. As vendors' software portfolios increasingly morph into AI agents, or agents as apps, software vendors will have a growing opportunity to also sell those agents to th ... Read More
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MVNOs Signal a Stronger Push into the Wireless Market, Driven by Wireless Subscriber and Revenue Growth in 1Q25
This IDC Market Note examines the 1Q25 earnings from the three U.S. cable companies that offer mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) services as well as EchoStar's Boost Mobile MVNO business that were released from April 24 to May 09, 2025. ... Read More
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Is Open Source Adding to AI Coolness or Complexity? European Companies' Approach to Open Source in AI
This IDC Market Perspective explores the growing role of open-source technologies in AI development, highlighting their benefits and challenges. European companies are increasingly adopting open-source AI for its flexibility, customization, and collaborative nature, with large firms and tech-forward ... Read More
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The Inkjet Market: Consumer Versus Commercial
This IDC Market Perspective discusses the changing landscape of the inkjet market in terms of trends within consumer and commercial segments. It aims to help suppliers align their portfolios with developments in the market and manage their offerings in a market that is in decline."Inkjet markets are ... Read More
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Zendesk's Outcome-Based Pricing for AI Agents: A Shift Toward Resolution-Centric Customer Service
This IDC Market Note discusses Zendesk's August 2024 launch of the company's outcome-based pricing model, which charges customers only when Zendesk's AI agents fully resolve inquiries autonomously, emphasizing value and pricing transparency. At the 2025 Relate Conference, Zendesk introduced the Zend ... Read More
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Syncron Announces a Strategic Partnership with CPQ Finland: SLM Capabilities Expand in the Nordics
This IDC Market Note highlights the announcement that Syncron will engage in a strategic partnership with CPQ Finland, enabling manufacturers and aftermarket service firms to optimize and strategically enhance their businesses. ... Read More
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Why Industry 4.0 Needs Dedicated Cloud Infrastructure
This IDC Perspective explores why the Industry 4.0 digital transformation of the industrial world requires dedicated, private cloud infrastructure. While public cloud services offer broad reach and cost benefits, the unique requirements of industrial environments make private cloud solutions necessa ... Read More
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Preparing for the Quantum Threat to Print
This IDC Market Note looks at market and supplier readiness for post-quantum cryptography (PQC) implementations. ... Read More
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Google Cloud Next 2025: Strong Stack — Now the Test of Execution in Asia/Pacific
This IDC Market Note provides an insightful overview of the Google Cloud Next 2025 event held at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, Nevada on April 8–10, 2025. Google showcased its AI-native cloud stack, emphasizing modular, open architectures, and AI automations. Despite robust offerings, execution remains ... Read More
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How AI Agents will Impact Next-Generation Partner Business Models
This IDC Market Perspective focuses on how deploying AI agents within their own services offerings will impact the business models of IT services organizations' and the offerings they provide to end customers."Agentic AI will significantly disrupt the existing business models and financial models of ... Read More
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Worldwide IDC Global DataSphere Forecast Update, 2025–2029: Regional Analysis
This IDC study presents a regional analysis of the 2025 worldwide IDC Global DataSphere, which is a measure of how much data is created, captured, replicated, and consumed each year. It is forecast by several segments including consumer/enterprise and cloud/noncloud."As digital ecosystems evolve, re ... Read More
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Google Cloud Next '25: Agents Accelerating an AI-Native Future
This IDC Market Perspective focuses on the rich array of software-related data and AI announcements from Google Cloud Next '25, the event's theme of an agentic AI-driven future, and the implications for Google's strategy and market positioning. Google Cloud Next '25 was held at Mandalay Bay in Las V ... Read More
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Japan Telecommunications Services Forecast, 2025–2029
This IDC study provides market forecasts and outlook for the Japan telecommunications services market from 2025 to 2029. The Japan telecommunications service market in 2024 was expected to see an increase in traffic because of increased cloud connections and expanding investment in Internet of Thing ... Read More
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IDC's Global CIO Advisory Board — An Overview of SAP's Recent Strategy and Product Announcements
This IDC Perspective summarizes IDC's Global CIO Advisory Board discussion on SAP's latest strategy and product announcements."SAP latest strategy unifies AI, applications, and data to enhance app functionality, operational performance, and efficiency. By standardizing the IT core, organizations can ... Read More
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