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5,957 Reports from IDC
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Adobe Summit 2025: AI-Driven Innovation in the New Golden Age of Design
This IDC Market Note explores the features, applications, partnerships, and impact of Adobe’s latest innovations as presented at Adobe’s flagship conference. The 2025 Adobe Summit showcased the evolution of AI from a tactical tool to an operational backbone, emphasizing the strategic importance of i ... Read More
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Geospatial Data and Intelligence as a Platform: Highlights from the 2025 Esri Federal GIS Conference
In this Market Note, IDC analyzes the key announcements made at the 2025 Esri Federal GIS Conference, held from February 24–26 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C. The conference brought together federal government Esri users, selected state and local government users, a ... Read More
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U.S. Human Capital Management and Payroll Applications Forecast, 2025–2028
This IDC study discusses the human capital management (HCM) and payroll applications market for 2025–2028. The U.S. market for human capital management and payroll applications continues to show steady growth at or near the thresholds for equivalent global growth reported in Worldwide Human Capital ... Read More
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Adobe Summit: Commerce Optimizer and the Path to AI Enablement in the Adobe Commerce Ecosystem
This IDC Perspective discusses Adobe Summit 2025 that featured announcements representing a significant evolution in the vendor's commerce capabilities, particularly in AI-driven personalization and optimization. While the full vision won't be realized until late 2025, the road map is compelling for ... Read More
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AI-Powered Accounts Receivable: Navigating Global Complexity and Optimizing Cash Flow
This IDC Market Perspective outlines the increasing complexities in global accounts receivable because of economic shifts and regulatory scrutiny. It proposes agentic AI–powered software as a solution, detailing its capabilities in intelligent automation, learning, and proactive insights. The docume ... Read More
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Transformation of Orange Business Received Significant Airtime at MWC2025
This IDC Market Note highlights one of the major themes of MWC2025, referred to as the “telco to techco” transition in current parlance. A considerable number of IDC telco-centric analysts noted how frequently industry peers, equipment vendors, and service integrators cited Orange Business as a prim ... Read More
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Vertical Farming: Infinite Acres Collaborates with Siemens, Sick, Signify, and TTA-ISO for the Future of Food
This IDC Perspective report provides a snapshot of Infinite Acres' Filed Lab and how collaboration among technology partners is shaping the future of food. Infinite Acres, a wholly owned subsidiary of 80 Acres Farms, has formed strategic alliances with industry leaders Siemens, Sick, Signify, and TT ... Read More
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From Policy to Practice: AI Implementation in Europe – Insights from the Paris AI Summit
The AI Action Paris Summit 2024 emphasized AI adoption, investment, and economic growth, with 61 countries signing a statement on inclusive and sustainable AI. Key initiatives included the European InvestAI fund and France's AI investment commitments. The summit highlighted the divergence in AI gove ... Read More
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What in the Flock Is Going on in Public Safety Tech? Flock Safety Offers Shift from Monolithic Technologies to Integrated Platforms
This IDC Perspective discusses how Flock Safety offers a shift from monolithic technologies to integrated platforms. Flock Safety is disrupting the public safety technology market by expanding to a comprehensive platform, challenging established players like Axon and Motorola. The company's software ... Read More
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Worldwide Augmented, Extended, Mixed, and Virtual Reality Headset Forecast, 2025–2029: CY 2Q25
This IDC study presents a five-year forecast for the worldwide augmented, extended, mixed, and virtual reality headset market."The worldwide XR headset market received a much-needed boost in 2024 with the debut of Apple's Vision Pro headset," said Ramon T. Llamas, research director with IDC's XR tea ... Read More
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2025 KPMG Analyst Event — Evidence of Agentic AI Everywhere
This IDC Market Perspective discusses KPMG’s 2025 analyst event that showcased its strategic initiatives and technological advancements, emphasizing AI integration, alliance strategies, and innovative platforms like Velocity and KPMG Clara. The event highlighted KPMG’s commitment to intelligent econ ... Read More
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New Relic Launched 20+ New AI-Powered Innovations to Strength Its Leadership in the Observability Space
This IDC Market Perspective analyzes the latest announcements by New Relic. This document focuses on the vendor’s new AI capabilities, strategy, and investments for 2025 and beyond. “AI-driven observability transforms complexity into clarity, enabling real-time insights, automated anomaly detection, ... Read More
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Managed SPs: How Governance Is Central to Provisioning Managed Cloud Services in a Multicloud World
This IDC Market Perspective discusses how governance is central to provisioning managed cloud services in a multicloud world. Factors that are driving managed SPs to incorporate a robust governance structure in supporting enterprise use of managed cloud services involve the need for managed SPs to d ... Read More
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EMEA Emerging Technology Disruptions, 2025-2030
The IDC Market Perspective provides insights into certain emerging technologies (i.e., intelligent wearables, quantum computing, satellite internet, advanced battery technologies, nuclear power, and central bank digital currencies), their potential impacts, and the opportunities they present for the ... Read More
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Search in the Age of AI: Navigating from SEO to GEO
This IDC Perspective delves into the search landscape that is transforming due to AI advancements, shifting from traditional SEO to generative engine optimization (GEO). This change requires businesses to optimize content for AI-driven search results, focusing on clarity, authority, and AI-friendly ... Read More
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EMEA Infrastructure Scope and Definitions, 2025
This IDC Market Perspective provides a comprehensive overview of the scope and definitions for IDC's EMEA Digital Infrastructure Strategies research, outlining market segmentations and measurement methodologies across servers, external storage systems, and networking infrastructure, including classi ... Read More
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Canadian Communications Service Provider Capex Spending, 2024–2025: Capital Intensity Keeps Falling
This IDC Market Perspective details Canadian communications service provider capex spending for 2024–2025. Canadian communication service providers total capex investments will fall for a third year in a row in 2025, nearing spending levels last seen in 2020 when capex spending was hampered by COVID ... Read More
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Leading the Future of Connectedness: How the National University of Singapore Sets the Standard for Seamless Experiences
This IDC Perspective discusses the details of execution of the Best in Future of Connectedness from the IDC Future Enterprise Awards 2024 in the Asia/Pacific region. The document discusses National University of Singapore's (NUS) transformation toward ubiquitous connectivity to deliver stable and se ... Read More
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Raising the Bar: Hong Kong’s Upcoming Cybersecurity Law Sets a New Compliance Benchmark
On March 19, 2025, Hong Kong introduced a new cybersecurity law aimed at strengthening the protection of critical infrastructure across key sectors. The legislation mandates annual security risk assessments, independent audits, and rapid incident reporting within two hours. Covering the banking, ene ... Read More
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Infosys Analyst and Advisor Meet, U.S. Edition, 2025 — Enterprise AI Growth in the United States
This IDC Market Perspective describes the most enlightening impressions of the several IDC analysts who participated in the Infosys’ Analyst and Advisor Meet 2025 rather than being a comprehensive account of everything Infosys is doing, in the hope that readers will want to engage with the analysts ... Read More
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C3 AI Highlights New Agentic AI Platform Capabilities
This IDC Market Note discusses C3 AI’s 2025 Transform conference held from March 18 to 20 in Boca Raton, Florida. It showcased the company’s advancements in agentic AI, emphasizing the company’s full-stack approach and innovative orchestration capabilities for unlocking business value with AI. Key t ... Read More
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Worldwide Hard Disk Drive 1Q25 Preliminary Shipment Results
This IDC Market Perspective provides a preliminary unit shipment range for worldwide hard disk drive (HDD) units by HDD drive class and estimated supplier market share for 1Q25.“HDD shipments appear poised to be down in the 1Q25 period as a combination of supply chain issues, seasonality, and lumpy ... Read More
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Japan Datacenter Facility Forecast, 2025–2029: Investment and Spending
This IDC study estimates and forecasts the market size, primarily focusing on the new construction/expansion and maintenance/update markets in the Japan DC facility market. The DC facility market covered in this study includes buildings, electrical facilities, and cooling systems. The DCs covered in ... Read More
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Japan WAN Services Market Shares, 2024: Innovating for Future Growth Beyond Market Maturity
This IDC study provides vendor shares for the Japan WAN services market in 2024. We estimate the market share by type of closed line.“Companies are being forced to respond to a variety of requirements, such as employees returning to the office, increased traffic due to expanded use of the cloud and ... Read More
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Critical Guidance on the Impact of AI Adoption on Life Science Investment Strategy: Bio-IT 2025
This IDC Market Note summarizes key observations and industry implications resulting from the Bio-IT World Conference & Expo 2025, and the associated Cambridge Venture, Innovation, & Partnering (VIP) forum, on the impact of AI adoption on life science investment strategy. ... Read More
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