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.
5,776 Reports from IDC
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Vendor Profile: ConvergentIS Provides a Glimpse into the Future of Procurement Agentic Platforms
This IDC Vendor Profile is not meant to be a primer on agentic AI; we'll spend a lot of time writing about agentic AI. But at a high level, agentic AI platforms represent an innovative approach in artificial intelligence, combining advanced technologies to create autonomous systems capable of indepe ... Read More
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Telcos Accelerating Cloud-Native Deployments for Greater Scalability and Business Agility
This IDC Market Perspective provides IDC's view on telecom service provider's cloud-native network deployments strategies to enhance scalability and agility driven by the need to support 5G, edge computing, and advanced network management. Telecom service providers are accelerating their cloud-nativ ... Read More
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Top Trends in Enterprise Connectivity for 2025
This IDC Perspective discusses top trends in enterprise connectivity for 2025.As enterprises look ahead to the coming year, 2025 will continue to be a year of evolving enterprise connectivity. “Businesses across all vertical markets are continuing to adapt to emerging technologies and see increasing ... Read More
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CES 2025: Five Takeaways for Industry Ecosystems
This IDC Perspective provides our top 5 key takeaways from CES 2025 related to industry ecosystems, including observation, analysis, and guidance."CES is one of the only technology events that truly brings a collective set of partners together from the private and public sectors — it is clear that t ... Read More
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Top 5 Trends for Colocation Services for 2025
This IDC Market Perspective provides insights into the latest emerging datacenter technology trends that are shaping the datacenter colocation industry. New and emerging trends will change datacenter colocation facilities in terms of architecture design, cooling, storage, security, and sustainabilit ... Read More
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Top 5 Trends in the XR Market to Watch in 2025
This IDC Market Perspective examines key trends that will impact the XR market in 2025. Recent developments related to Android XR, 2D panel apps, and AI use cases will drive trends that we anticipate will shape market dynamics this year.“Android XR has the potential to shake up the XR platform race ... Read More
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Amazon Introduces Nova Foundation Models and Expands Model Choice in Amazon Bedrock
This IDC Market Note discusses how Amazon continues to innovate in GenAI, introducing a new family of frontier models addressing numerous enterprise use cases. The Nova model family includes text-only, multimodal, image-generation, and video-generation models, covering a wide range of enterprise use ... Read More
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IDC PeerScape: Practices for CAIO Success
This IDC PeerScape discusses the practices to help the new CAIOs succeed.“‘Seize the moment’ is a common exhortation. But high-impact opportunities are rare. The emergence of the CAIO position, however, is such a time. IT leaders have the chance to break new ground for innovation, deliver dramatic b ... Read More
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Do AI Agents Mark the Beginning of the End for Procurement Applications and Procurement Practitioners?
This IDC Market Perspective discusses AI agents that are revolutionizing procurement applications by automating processes, enhancing decision-making, and improving efficiency. While generative AI focuses on content creation and insights, agentic AI offers autonomous decision-making and operational e ... Read More
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Driving IT Success with Structured Business Relationship Manager Partnership Reviews
This IDC Perspective presents a structured approach to maximizing the impact of business relationship managers (BRMs). It outlines a strategic client partnership framework that aligns IT initiatives with business goals, enabling BRMs to drive measurable value and elevate their roles from operational ... Read More
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Introducing a New Frontier in WebAssembly's Journey: Proxy-Wasm
This IDC Market Note explores the October 2024 U.S. federal government recommendation that WebAssembly (Wasm) should be embedded into service meshes to enhance data protection."WebAssembly is moving beyond the web browser due to significant advancements, which have made it a legitimate option for se ... Read More
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Namirial: Supporting the Transition to Trusted and Secure Digital Signing Workflows
This IDC Vendor Profile examines how Namirial's portfolio of transaction management and trust solutions supports the growing requirements for trusted and secure digital signing workflows across all industries. It provides an overview of the company and outlines how it has developed in the past five ... Read More
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Five Key Trends in 2025 for Enterprise Client Computing Platforms
This IDC Market Perspective discusses the five key trends in 2025 for enterprise client computing platforms. AI everywhere is the headline trend in IT, but it is only one of several key trends which continue to shape the enterprise client platform (including client virtualization) in 2025. Others in ... Read More
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IDC PeerScape: Practices for Incorporating GenAI into IT Operations
This IDC PeerScape presents best practices for effectively incorporating GenAI into ITOps, the importance of advanced data preparation, choosing the right use cases, and the need for continued human connection.“Generative AI has the potential to exponentially improve the entire ITOps workflow and re ... Read More
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Building AI-Ready Infrastructure: How John Holland Group Achieved Operational Excellence with End-To-End Observability
This IDC Perspective discusses the execution details of the Best in Future of Digital Infrastructure winner from the IDC Future Enterprise Awards 2024 in the Asia/Pacific region. John Holland Group transformed its IT infrastructure by adopting a cloud-native, AI-ready digital platform with end-to-en ... Read More
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2025 Infrastructure Software Trends: AI Capabilities Forcing Changes and Opportunities
This IDC Market Perspective highlights the infrastructure software trends of 2025. The 2025 infrastructure software landscape is set to be significantly influenced by advancements in AI capabilities, particularly in the realms of enterprise system management, AIOps, and observability. Key trends inc ... Read More
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Worldwide Security Information and Event Management Forecast, 2025–2029: Continued Payment for One’s SIEMs
This IDC study provides a worldwide market forecast for the security information and event management market for the 2025-2029 period.“Overall, the SIEM market is expected to grow more than previously forecast, driven by regulatory requirements and the need for comprehensive security monitoring and ... Read More
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5(G) Predictions for 2025
This IDC Market Perspective examines five predictions in the next 12 months that will shape solution and service development, commercialization efforts, and marketing of 5G networks and use cases. New technical specification releases from the 3GPP and vendor investment in R&D and partnerships wi ... Read More
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Streaming and Real-Time Data in IDC’s Global DataSphere
This IDC Market Perspective provides a definition of streaming data, real-time data, and ultra-real-time data and provides an estimate of the volume of data created in IDC’s Global DataSphere in 2024 that fall into these subsegments. “Businesses are increasingly relying on streaming and real-time da ... Read More
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IT's Role in HR Transformation
The IDC Market Perspective examines how HR's move from manual processes to data-driven automation is fueled by closer collaboration with IT. It highlights HR’s top priorities, like talent acquisition and service delivery, and stresses the importance of a user-friendly employee experience."Think of A ... Read More
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Securing Closed Source and SaaS Apps in the Enterprise Software Supply Chain
This IDC Perspective offers guidance on why software supply chain security protections must extend to closed source and SaaS applications as well as open source code. Third-party closed source applications and SaaS apps often feature prominently alongside open source code in enterprise software supp ... Read More
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Okta Turns the Page at Oktane24
This IDC Market Note discusses Okta as an inarguable force for good in the identity security industry. Operating with pretty much a sole focus for 16 years, the company is ready for the next phase, the next chapter — turn the page. It’s trying to do the right things to allow more cloud security tech ... Read More
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EU's Digital Operational Resilience Act Takes Effect: Financial Organizations Still Navigating Compliance
Since January 17, 2025, the EU financial sector must comply with the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA), a harmonized regulatory framework aimed at ensuring organizations can withstand, respond to, and recover from cyberthreats and IT disruptions. This IDC Market Note examines the level of co ... Read More
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Worldwide Satellite Direct-to-Cellular Revenue Forecast, 2025–2029
This IDC study analyzes the worldwide satellite direct-to-cellular revenue market outlook for 2025–2029. In this study, IDC has calculated revenue for D2C services at the retail level. This includes all retail revenue from satellite operator D2C services and those that will launch during the forecas ... Read More
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IDC PeerScape: Peer Insights for Modernization of Legacy Applications and Cloud Migration
This IDC PeerScape discusses peer insights for modernization of legacy applications and cloud migration.According to Gerald Johnston, adjunct research advisor, IDC's IT Executive Programs (IEP), "The best modernization outcomes start with the up-front analysis to focus on critical functions, busines ... Read More
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