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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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The Impact of the MTN Nigeria and Airtel Nigeria Network Sharing Agreement on the Telecoms Market in Nigeria
This IDC Market Note highlights the recent network sharing agreement between MTN Nigeria and Airtel Nigeria and provides IDC's analysis regarding its impact on the telecom services market as well as the telecom infrastructure providers like IHS and ATC. ... Read More
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Unifying Creativity and Productivity: Key Takeaways from Canva Create 2025
This IDC Market Note presents key highlights from Canva Create 2025. The event showcased Canva's evolution from a design tool to an enterprise-ready productivity platform, integrating design, data, AI, and interactive content. Key launches included Visual Suite 2.0, Canva Sheets, and AI-driven tools ... Read More
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End-User Computing Strategies in an AI-Driven Market
This IDC Market Note proposes that the vendors of enterprise client computing systems, which span the gambit of end-user computing solutions from automation to observability and virtualization, will face new and distinct challenges in each of the three stages of agentic transformation. These stages ... Read More
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IDC PlanScape: IT Product Management
Technology departments are in the business of delivering a range of technology services — communications, transaction processing, analytics, data, and so forth. By treating the major technology services as products — each with a set of desired outcomes, knowledge of customer needs, and life-cycle ma ... Read More
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One B2B: Deutsche Telekom’s Joint Approach to the Business Market
This IDC Market Note provides IDC’s key takeaways from Deutsche Telekom’s One B2B Sourcing Advisor and Analyst Event, which was held in Bonn, Germany on February 17th and 18th 2025. This event featured all of DT’s B2B-focused units in Europe, including T-Systems, T-Business Germany, and T-Business E ... Read More
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Microsoft Entra ID Backup and Recovery Strategy: The Whys and Hows
This IDC Perspective highlights the need for dedicated third-party data protection services to ensure business continuity, compliance, and security of Microsoft Entra ID and why organizations should prioritize backing up Entra ID objects. Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure Active Directory) is a cri ... Read More
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AI-Powered T&E: Navigating Global Complexity with Intelligent Automation
This IDC Market Perspective explores how agentic AI revolutionizes global travel and expense management. It details AI’s capabilities in automating processes, enhancing compliance, optimizing costs, and improving employee experience across international operations. The document also advises T&E ... Read More
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Beyond Borders and Uncertainty: Agentic AI for Resilient Global Treasury
This IDC Market Perspective explores how agentic AI in treasury can help businesses navigate the increasing complexities of global finance, moving beyond traditional methods. It highlights AI’s ability to automate tasks, learn from data, and provide proactive insights for enhanced cash flow, FX risk ... Read More
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India IT Services Market Forecast, 2025–2029
This IDC study forecasts the market size and growth for the India IT services market from 2025 to 2029, and presents its performance during 2023 and 2024. It also tackles the strategic balance required to address the shifting needs of large enterprises and unlock the opportunities presented by the u ... Read More
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Kaseya + Datto Connect Local: Rewiring MSP Growth in Asia/Pacific
This IDC Market Note provides an overview of the Kaseya + Datto Connect Local 2025 events held in Singapore, with a focus on partner enablement and managed services transformation in the Asia/Pacific region. The event highlighted Kaseya’s evolving strategy to support managed services providers (MSPs ... Read More
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IDC PeerScape: Practices for AI Vendor Partnerships
This IDC PeerScape examines how leading organizations best work with AI vendors, what criteria they use to select a partner, how they measure success, and what gains they have realized.“To achieve success, organizations should truly view an AI vendor as a full partner, not just as a service provider ... Read More
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Beamery: Using AI and Skills Data to Deliver Workforce Transformation
This IDC Vendor Profile highlights Beamery's AI-powered talent management platform. The document details the company's history, product line, strategy, and road map, based on discussions with the company's top management. The document also includes an overview of the company's financials, key custom ... Read More
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Navigating the Tariff Terrain: A CFO's Guide to Strategic Resilience — A Resource for Finance Leaders Facing Global Economic Uncertainty
This IDC Perspective equips CFOs to combat market uncertainty, particularly rising tariffs, using a strategic battle card framework. It outlines phased actions, emphasizes financial resilience, supply chain agility, and proactive communication, illustrated with a generic manufacturing example, to na ... Read More
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Tax as a Growth Engine: Identifying Opportunities in Compliance Data
This IDC Perspective provides a comprehensive overview of how companies can transform their approach to tax data, shifting from a focus solely on compliance to actively using tax insights for strategic decision-making and the identification of valuable revenue growth opportunities across various bus ... Read More
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Adobe Summit 2025: AI Takes Center Stage for Customer Experience Orchestration
This IDC Market Note discusses Adobe Summit 2025, which highlights launch of new AI agents and generative AI capabilities to augment and automate data, content, marketing, and customer journey workflows to drive unique, relevant, and personalized customer experiences. Adobe Summit 2025 introduced in ... Read More
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GDC 2025 Postmortem: Engine, Development Tool, and AI-Related Highlights
This IDC Market Note assesses some of the key video game engine, development tool, and AI-related news that was made or highlighted at the Game Developers Conference (GDC), which wrapped up in San Francisco on March 21."The engine-related news at GDC was incremental compared to the step function imp ... Read More
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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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