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.
5,828 Reports from IDC
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IDC PeerScape: Peer Insights to Implement a Hybrid Work Environment
IDC PeerScape: Peer Insights to Implement a Hybrid Work Environment This IDC PeerScape explores how savvy IT leaders are enabling workplace strategies, using technology to make in-office work the high point of the workweek, not an obligation to be endured. Strategies include increasing Wi-Fi bandwi ... Read More
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South Africa Public Cloud Services Market Shares, 2023: Microsoft, AWS, and Google Lead the Pack in an Increasingly Competitive Market
South Africa Public Cloud Services Market Shares, 2023: Microsoft, AWS, and Google Lead the Pack in an Increasingly Competitive Market This IDC Market Share study presents market changes and public cloud vendor shares in South Africa in 2023. It analyzes key market developments and offers recommenda ... Read More
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Worldwide PC Forecast Update, 2024–2028: 2Q24
Worldwide PC Forecast Update, 2024–2028: 2Q24 This IDC study presents updated forecast data for the worldwide PC market for 2Q24. "Outside of China, the PC market is starting to show signs of life," states Linn Huang, research vice president of Devices and Displays, IDC. "We're starting to see comme ... Read More
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Worldwide DevSecOps Software Tools Forecast, 2024–2028
Worldwide DevSecOps Software Tools Forecast, 2024–2028 This growth is driven by the increasing complexity of software supply chains and the transformative impact of generative AI (GenAI) on application security and rising regulatory compliance requirements. This document highlights the significant ... Read More
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Share Customer Digital Twins for Ecosystem Excellence
Share Customer Digital Twins for Ecosystem Excellence This IDC Perspective explores the phenomenon that is digital twins, under the lens of the customer and ecosystems. Customer digital twins in concert with related product and process data can provide additional value to organizations' digital twi ... Read More
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European Unified Communications and Collaboration Forecast, 2023-2028
European Unified Communications and Collaboration Forecast, 2023-2028 The IDC Market Forecast examines the European UC&C market, with breakdowns for the various technologies and services that constitute this market: UC applications and IP telephony equipment, videoconferencing and telepresence e ... Read More
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Democratization of Enterprise Software and Workload Automation with HCLSoftware Workload Automation Suite
Democratization of Enterprise Software and Workload Automation with HCLSoftware Workload Automation Suite This IDC Perspective delineates the state of automation of enterprise software estates, workloads, and processes in Asia/Pacific organizations in a digital plus world with the rising trend of cl ... Read More
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EMEA Server Market Shares, 2023: AI Cloud Buildout Pressuring the Traditional Server Market
EMEA Server Market Shares, 2023: AI Cloud Buildout Pressuring the Traditional Server Market This IDC Market Share study provides historical market share data (2019–2023) for the EMEA server market. For the second time, the Middle East, Turkey, and Africa are included in this study. We are seeing gro ... Read More
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IDC IT Strategy Framework
IDC IT Strategy Framework This IDC Perspective emphasizes the critical role of CIOs in aligning IT strategy with business goals, especially given the varied backgrounds of many CIOs. It outlines a six-stage framework to guide the development of a business-aligned IT strategy, starting with understan ... Read More
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IDC's Global CIO Advisory Board: Strategic Vendor Management in the Age of AI Everywhere — Focus on Evolution in the ERP Space
IDC's Global CIO Advisory Board: Strategic Vendor Management in the Age of AI Everywhere — Focus on Evolution in the ERP Space This IDC Perspective summarizes IDC's Global CIO Advisory Board discussion on strategic vendor management in the age of AI."Much like other business areas, AI will disrupt t ... Read More
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The Role of Additive Manufacturing in Driving Sustainable Production in Asia/Pacific Manufacturing
The Role of Additive Manufacturing in Driving Sustainable Production in Asia/Pacific Manufacturing This IDC Perspective discusses the benefits additive manufacturing (AM) offers to manufacturers in driving sustainable practices. In the face of supply shortages and sustainability compliance requireme ... Read More
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What Data Will Fuel Your Generative AI Plans?
What Data Will Fuel Your Generative AI Plans? This IDC Perspective discusses how enterprises are increasingly leveraging internal and external data to bolster their generative AI (GenAI) initiatives, transitioning from relying on public models to crafting more customized applications tailored to the ... Read More
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Third-Party Risk: Aftermath of CrowdStrike Agent Content Update IT Outage
Third-Party Risk: Aftermath of CrowdStrike Agent Content Update IT Outage This IDC Perspective discusses the aftermath of the CrowdStrike agent content update IT outage. Organizations around the world are struggling in the aftermath of the Microsoft and CrowdStrike disruptions as these combined even ... Read More
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Worldwide Threat Intelligence Market Shares, 2023: AI-Powered Innovations for Comprehensive Threat Intelligence
Worldwide Threat Intelligence Market Shares, 2023: AI-Powered Innovations for Comprehensive Threat Intelligence This IDC study presents the worldwide threat intelligence market shares for 2023."2023 has marked a pivotal year for the threat intelligence market, driven by advancements in AI and the i ... Read More
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IDC PlanScape: Application Criticality Assessment
IDC PlanScape: Application Criticality Assessment This IDC PlanScape provides a framework for assessing application criticality in preparation for a modernization effort. When developing applications in-house, modernize the development environment as well. According to Gerald Johnston, IDC adjunct r ... Read More
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Worldwide Treasury and Risk Management Applications Market Shares, 2023: Treasury Management an Evolving Tool for Growth
Worldwide Treasury and Risk Management Applications Market Shares, 2023: Treasury Management an Evolving Tool for Growth This IDC study examines the market shares of the leading vendors in the treasury and risk management applications market."The adoption of a treasury management system is a game ch ... Read More
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Digital Sovereignty and Data Spaces: The Evolving Data Sharing Landscape
Digital Sovereignty and Data Spaces: The Evolving Data Sharing Landscape "The European Union's data spaces vision is charting a path to share data in a trusted manner at scale. Senior business and IT leaders globally should observe the best practices emerging from data spaces initiatives and their d ... Read More
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European Telco Diversification Beyond Connectivity on the Micro and Small Business Markets
European Telco Diversification Beyond Connectivity on the Micro and Small Business Markets This IDC Market Perspective focuses on European telcos' strategies and propositions to reach and retain SMBs with IT products and services offered beyond connectivity and devices. These IT products and service ... Read More
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IDC MaturityScape Benchmark: Digital SMB/Midmarket in Asia/Pacific (Including Japan), 2024
IDC MaturityScape Benchmark: Digital SMB/Midmarket in Asia/Pacific (Including Japan), 2024 This IDC study is an update to the 2021 maturity assessment benchmark for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) (fewer than 500 employees). This year the study has been expanded to include the midmarket seg ... Read More
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A Targeted Approach to Pursuing European Enterprise Opportunities
A Targeted Approach to Pursuing European Enterprise Opportunities This IDC Market Note focuses on an extract from IDC's 2024 European Imaging, Printing, and Document Solutions (IPDS) Survey to highlight behaviors and preferences among large or enterprise companies and to identify print service provi ... Read More
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Pricing and Packaging Strategies for Generative AI
Pricing and Packaging Strategies for Generative AI This IDC Market Perspective provides an in-depth analysis of pricing and packaging strategies for generative AI (GenAI) software offerings, including foundation models as a service, automation workflows, and GenAI applications. It emphasizes the imp ... Read More
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IDC PeerScape: Practices for Enterprise Architecture Frameworks
IDC PeerScape: Practices for Enterprise Architecture Frameworks This IDC PeerScape helps IT and business leaders understand how to choose and implement an enterprise architecture framework, adapt the framework to the organization's needs, make decisions that affect how the framework is administered ... Read More
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Reliance Jio: Disrupting India's Telecom Industry to Enable a Digital Society
Reliance Jio: Disrupting India's Telecom Industry to Enable a Digital Society This IDC Vendor Profile offers an overview of one of the major players in worldwide communications services and digital infrastructure services. Reliance Jio is the largest telecommunications service provider in India by r ... Read More
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2024 IDC FinTech Rankings: Trends and Analysis of the Most Influential Global Fintechs
2024 IDC FinTech Rankings: Trends and Analysis of the Most Influential Global Fintechs This IDC Perspective presents the findings of the 2024 IDC FinTech Rankings. The annual program serves the needs of financial institutions worldwide by presenting current and historical trends in performance by th ... Read More
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IBM Consulting Outlines Ecosystem and Alliances Strategy
IBM Consulting Outlines Ecosystem and Alliances Strategy This IDC Market Note outlines IBM Consulting's strategic alliances with Adobe, Microsoft, Salesforce, and SAP presented during IBM's Strategic Partner Analyst Day on July 11. IBM Consulting has significantly increased its activities with key a ... Read More
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