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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Amazon Takes Charge: Breakthrough Announcements at AWS re:Invent 2024
Amazon Takes Charge: Breakthrough Announcements at AWS re:Invent 2024 This IDC Market Note reviews the announcements from the AWS re:Invent 2024 conference that are of specific relevance to the database software market. It includes announcement details and commentary.“Although there are many headlin ... Read More
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IDC PeerScape: Maximizing Technology ROI in National Government Sustainability Missions
IDC PeerScape: Maximizing Technology ROI in National Government Sustainability Missions This IDC PeerScape analyzes the good practices emerging from national/federal government agencies' adoption of cloud, Internet of Things (IoT), edge, AI, earth observation technologies, and digital twins to make ... Read More
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European Telecommunications Capex Forecast, 2024–2028
European Telecommunications Capex Forecast, 2024–2028 This IDC Market Forecast provides a European analysis of telecommunications capex in 2022-2028. The capex forecast is broken down by geography into France, Germany, Spain, the U.K., other Western European countries, and Central & Eastern Euro ... Read More
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AI Acceptance and Burnout: What Cybersecurity Can Learn from Healthcare
AI Acceptance and Burnout: What Cybersecurity Can Learn from Healthcare This IDC Perspective examines recent healthcare research on the association between AI use and burnout as well as what these research findings mean for cybersecurity professionals and adoption of AI. This document reviews what p ... Read More
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OutSystems Mentor: Transforming Generative AI Development at Scale
OutSystems Mentor: Transforming Generative AI Development at Scale This IDC Market Perspective explores OutSystems Mentor’s core value propositions, including the platform’s opinionated development stack, standardized workflows, natural language–driven development, and extensibility to enterprise sy ... Read More
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IDC MaturityScape Benchmark: Digital Supply Chain Resiliency in North America, 2025
IDC MaturityScape Benchmark: Digital Supply Chain Resiliency in North America, 2025 This IDC study presents the results of IDC’s 2024 Digital Supply Chain Resiliency 2.0 MaturityScape Benchmark Survey and should be viewed as a supplement to IDC MaturityScape: Digital Supply Chain Resiliency 2.0 (IDC ... Read More
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Twilio's Integration with OpenAI's Realtime API Powers Personalized, Intelligent Interactions at Scale
Twilio's Integration with OpenAI's Realtime API Powers Personalized, Intelligent Interactions at Scale This IDC Market Note shares an overview of Twilio's integration with OpenAI's Realtime APE. Twilio's integration with OpenAI's Realtime API introduces advanced speech-to-speech technology to its pl ... Read More
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European Communications-Platform-as-a-Service Forecast, 2024–2028
European Communications-Platform-as-a-Service Forecast, 2024–2028 This IDC Market Forecast assesses the European CPaaS market from 2023 to 2028 and provides insight into the underlying forces impacting the market over the forecast period."The CPaaS market will remain dynamic in the foreseeable futur ... Read More
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Leveraging AI to Augment Automated Software Quality: Assessing Emerging AI Agents and Agentic Workflow
Leveraging AI to Augment Automated Software Quality: Assessing Emerging AI Agents and Agentic Workflow This IDC Perspective discusses how leveraging AI augments automated software testing (ASQ). A primary bottleneck to the speed of software deployments, DevOps, and business velocity is software test ... Read More
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Renaissance Thinking to Support Business Innovation — Elements of Practice
Renaissance Thinking to Support Business Innovation — Elements of Practice This IDC Perspective discusses how business leaders must operate flexibly without losing sight of their strategic goals to operate in today's continuously shifting business environment. New competitors, government regulations ... Read More
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EMEA Digital Transformation Market Forecast, 2024–2028
EMEA Digital Transformation Market Forecast, 2024–2028 This IDC Market Forecast analyzes EMEA digital spending between 2023 and 2028, providing market size, forecast, and key trends supporting technology investments by sector."AI will reshape digital business models and redefine digital assets, supp ... Read More
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European Managed Network and Communications Services Forecast, 2024–2028
European Managed Network and Communications Services Forecast, 2024–2028 This IDC Market Forecast presents IDC's view of managed services in Europe for WAN, LAN, and unified communications and collaborations (UC&C) at a high level. It breaks the WAN segment down into managed services related to ... Read More
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IDC PeerScape: Lessons Learned from Implementing CPaaS in Finance
IDC PeerScape: Lessons Learned from Implementing CPaaS in Finance This IDC PeerScape provides insights into how CPaaS is used in the financial sector, identifying what challenges surfaced and how these were addressed. IDC interviewed leading CPaaS vendors that have successful use cases for European ... Read More
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Worldwide Tablet Market Shares, 3Q24: 20.9% Growth Marks Second Consecutive Quarter of Strength
Worldwide Tablet Market Shares, 3Q24: 20.9% Growth Marks Second Consecutive Quarter of Strength This IDC study provides an analysis of the worldwide tablet market for 3Q24."The global tablet market continued its strong trajectory from the preceding quarter, just in time for what is shaping up to be ... Read More
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Key Highlights from Infosys EMEA Confluence 2024
Key Highlights from Infosys EMEA Confluence 2024 This IDC Market Perspective gives feedback and observations following the Infosys Confluence 2024 conference. It showcased the company's strategic initiatives in Europe, emphasizing AI-enhanced marketing services with Infosys Aster, AI- and GenAI-driv ... Read More
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Worldwide Server Infrastructure Workloads by Virtualized Environment Forecast, 2024–2028: AI Demand Drives Major Growth in Spending Supporting Containerized Environments
Worldwide Server Infrastructure Workloads by Virtualized Environment Forecast, 2024–2028: AI Demand Drives Major Growth in Spending Supporting Containerized Environments This IDC study provides an overview of the market size and forecast from 2024 to 2028 for global spending on enterprise servers b ... Read More
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CFOs Are in the People Business: Finding Financial Success Through Employee Experience Improvement
CFOs Are in the People Business: Finding Financial Success Through Employee Experience Improvement This IDC Perspective underscores that CFOs recognize employee satisfaction is crucial for financial health, productivity, and customer satisfaction. Investing in employee well-being leads to higher eng ... Read More
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IDC Planscape: Quantum-Safe Cryptography for Government
IDC Planscape: Quantum-Safe Cryptography for Government This IDC PlanScape focuses specifically on quantum-safe cryptography solutions. It discusses the importance of quantum-safe cryptography for government organizations considering advancements in quantum computing. It highlights the potential th ... Read More
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Grimco to Acquire GSG
Grimco to Acquire GSG This IDC Market Note looks at some of the issues related to the recent announcement that Grimco is acquiring Graphic Solutions Group. ... Read More
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Broadcom Customer Pain Points Are a Problem That Services Firms Can Help Solve
Broadcom Customer Pain Points Are a Problem That Services Firms Can Help Solve This IDC Market Note discusses the Broadcom acquisition of VMware, which has led to significant changes and cost increases, causing customer distress. Many organizations are seeking help from services firms to develop str ... Read More
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Worldwide Virtual Machine Software Forecast, 2024–2028
Worldwide Virtual Machine Software Forecast, 2024–2028 This IDC study provides a top-down sizing of the virtual machine software (VMS) market in 2023 and a 2024–2028 forecast for this market. Historical and forecast revenue data is shown for the total worldwide market. Virtual machine software is a ... Read More
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Worldwide Enterprise Network Observability Forecast, 2024–2028
Worldwide Enterprise Network Observability Forecast, 2024–2028 This IDC study provides IDC's forecast for the enterprise network observability market for the 2024–2028 period."Network observability is driven by a host of industry-leading technologies and practices. Cloud connectivity, SaaS delivery ... Read More
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Twilio SIGNAL London 2024
Twilio SIGNAL London 2024 On November 20, 2024, communication-platform-as-a-service (CPaaS) provider Twilio hosted its second Twilio SIGNAL event in London, United Kingdom, bringing together its customers, partners, and developers. The agenda gave an overview of Twilio's vision, product (development ... Read More
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Worldwide Business Automation Platforms Market Shares, 2023: Good Growth Amid Technology Consolidation
Worldwide Business Automation Platforms Market Shares, 2023: Good Growth Amid Technology Consolidation This IDC study provides the worldwide market shares for worldwide business automation platforms."Investments in a specific automation technology are nearly obsolete as enterprises look for broader ... Read More
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Worldwide Virtual Event Applications Forecast, 2024–2028
Worldwide Virtual Event Applications Forecast, 2024–2028 This IDC study predicts growing momentum in the virtual event applications market, which will almost double in revenue by 2028. Treating virtual events as a relic of the pandemic era or just expanded conferencing would be to ignore the unique ... Read More

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