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.
5,957 Reports from IDC
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Asia/Pacific (Excluding Japan) Whole Cloud Services Forecast, 2025–2028
This IDC study consolidates information from various IDC forecasts and trackers related to cloud computing. It maintains consistent definitions with those forecasts to offer insights into the extent to which major IT sectors are impacted by cloud technology in various forms. Additionally, the report ... Read More
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How S3NS Is Positioning on the Sovereignty Market: Key Insights from the S3NS Summit 2025
This IDC Market Note provides a snapshot of the S3NS Summit 2025 and highlights S3NS' strategic positioning in the sovereign cloud market. This joint venture by Google Cloud and Thales aims to expand beyond France by leveraging SecNumCloud standards to attract European interest and fuel S3NS' growth ... Read More
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Cloud Observability — The Need for Resilience
This IDC Perspective discusses how cloud observability solutions represent the next generation of cloud (infrastructure and applications) monitoring systems that can continuously and comprehensive measure the digital infrastructure of organizations and help deliver consistent service, swift problem ... Read More
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Cloud Repatriation Trends in India: What Should CIOs and CTOs Consider?
This IDC perspective discusses the cloud repatriation drivers and trends in India. The report discusses the growing adoption of public cloud platforms and its associate challenges. The document takes a deep dive into the benefits of dedicated cloud and the key drivers for India organizations repatri ... Read More
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Redington Gulf FZE Leverages Hexalytics' Capabilities for Data- and AI-Driven Transformation
The demand for AI in the Middle East has been growing, driven by government initiatives and organizational goals to improve operational efficiency, support informed decision-making, and enhance customer experiences. While many organizations are investing in the AI features of packaged solutions, the ... Read More
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Beyond Recruitment: The Shifting Focus of AI Talent Strategy in European Enterprises
The AI & Data Exchange conference in Vienna highlighted strategic approaches to AI talent management, emphasizing the need for a dynamic framework. Organizations face decisions about building, buying, or partnering for AI talent, with retention being a major concern. Successful strategies involv ... Read More
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HCLTech: Positioning for the AI Era
This IDC Market Perspective provides IDC's views, learnings, perspectives, and advice after attending HCLTech's Financial Services Analyst Day held May 13, 2025, in New York City. It encapsulates several keynote and presentation sessions in which IDC heard from multiple speakers. The event started w ... Read More
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Scaling AI Responsibly: Business, Data, and Talent Strategies from the Vienna AI and Data Exchange
This IDC Market Note summarizes insights from the 2025 IDC AI and Data Xchange Summit in Vienna. It reflects the region's evolving AI maturity, with participants emphasizing responsible scaling, AI governance, use-case alignment, and readiness of data infrastructure. It also covers emerging themes s ... Read More
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IDC PlanScape: BYOD Programs for Large Enterprises
This IDC PlanScape provides BYOD decision imperatives organizations must work through in four key areas: understanding worker populations, creating BYOD policies, evaluating technology, and evaluating services solutions. In addition, we provide guidance on which key stakeholders in the organization ... Read More
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Architecting Autonomous Networks: The Role of Cloud-Native Transformation of the Core
This IDC study emphasizes the importance of cloud-native architecture for communications SPs and technologies that facilitate automation. Mobile core handles multiple tasks such as data routing, subscriber management, authentication, policy management, among others. The core is largely centralized a ... Read More
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Pioneering Innovation with GenAI-Infused Software Development: Best Practices, Strategic Polices, and Regulations in Asia/Pacific (Singapore, Southeast Asia, and India)
This IDC Perspective explores the transformative impact of generative AI (GenAI) on software development in Asia/Pacific, emphasizing best practices, strategic policies, and regulations. It highlights GenAI's role in accelerating the software development life cycle (SDLC), enhancing productivity, an ... Read More
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IDC PlanScape: Disaster Recovery Maturity
This IDC PlanScape describes how to apply the maturity model by honestly assessing the capabilities and developing a road map and improvement plan based on that model.According to Gerald Johnston, adjunct research advisor for IDC's IT Executive Programs (IEP), "A poor IT response to a single event c ... Read More
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Worldwide Hard Disk Drive Forecast, 2025–2029
This IDC study presents an update to Worldwide Hard Disk Drive Forecast Update, 2024–2028 (IDC #US52746924, December 2024). It integrates IDC's current IT hardware and consumer electronics products forecasts through 2029 as well as updated HDD and SSD technology transition assumptions. This forecast ... Read More
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Roland Doubles Down with New "X" Models
This IDC Market Note highlights some of the news and insights from the recent Roland DG event where the company unveiled a new XG-series large format eco-solvent inkjet printer-cutter. ... Read More
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Catalysts of Change: The Strategic Role of Organizational Development Consultants in Finance and Digital Transformation
This IDC Perspective discusses how the organizational development (OD) consultants play a crucial role in finance and digital transformation by aligning people, culture, and processes with enterprise objectives. They facilitate change management, upskill teams, and redesign workflows to ensure succe ... Read More
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Smart Aging: The Rise of AI-Driven Elderly Care Ecosystem
This IDC study underscores the imperative for healthcare providers, particularly aged care centers across Asia/Pacific, to proactively plan and implement new models of elderly care by harnessing the power of clinical data and AI. In addition to showcasing leading vendors and their innovative solutio ... Read More
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IDC's Global CIO Advisory Board — The Evolving CIO-CEO Relationship in an AI World
This IDC Perspective summarizes IDC's Global CIO Advisory Board discussion on the evolving CIO-CEO relationship in an AI world. Teodora Siman, research manager at IDC, began by sharing data and insights from IDC's 2025 Worldwide CEO Survey. Following her presentation, Mukund Devanathan, CIO at SI Gr ... Read More
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Rethinking the IT Organization: Structure, Delivery Methodology, and Leadership
This IDC Perspective explores the factors that influence the decision around the most appropriate organizational structure for the IT function, including the skills and capabilities of the IT team, the broader enterprise culture, and the evolving leadership paradigms shaping how IT departments are m ... Read More
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Integrated UC–CE Solutions Present Meaningful Growth Opportunities
This IDC Market Perspective discusses how integrated unified communications (UC) and customer engagement (CE) solutions can create new revenue growth and marketing appeal for UC&C vendors. The integrated UC–CE market segment is rapidly growing and presents four key opportunities for vendors — ma ... Read More
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IDC PlanScape: IT Crisis Management
This IDC PlanScape aims to equip CIOs, CEOs, and technology leaders with the essential knowledge and practical guidance to enhance their leadership and improve their IT organizations' capabilities in managing and overcoming IT crises, as well as leveraging technology to enable the enterprise to navi ... Read More
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Conga Connect 2025: Strategic Transformation in Revenue Lifecycle Management
This IDC Market Note details Conga Connect 2025, held May 5–7 in Orlando, which brought together over 500 business and IT professionals to explore the evolving landscape of Revenue Lifecycle Management (RLM). The event highlighted Conga's strategic pivot toward AI-native capabilities, showcasing how ... Read More
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Oracle Apps and Industry Analyst Summit: Infrastructure and Architecture as the Foundation of Customer Experience
This IDC Market Note focuses on the announcements and themes surrounding Oracle's customer experience (CX) suite highlighted at the Apps and Industry Analyst Summit. The company emphasized on the evolution of its CX suite as a cloud-native, AI-infused platform built on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (O ... Read More
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Data Classification Taxonomy: It Is All About the Data
This IDC Market Perspective discusses the critical importance of data classification and protection in the context of digital transformation and AI advancements. It highlights IDC's data classification taxonomy, which categorizes data into public, internal, sensitive, and secret, emphasizing the nee ... Read More
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The Emergence of MicroClouds
This IDC Perspective explores MicroClouds as an emerging paradigm in cloud computing that brings private cloud capabilities to the edge. By deploying small-scale, self-contained cloud environments close to data sources, organizations can achieve reduced latency, enhanced privacy, bandwidth optimizat ... Read More
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Coleg y Cymoedd Case Study: Creating Customized Virtual Reality Training Content with Facilitate
This IDC Perspective traces the path that the team at Coleg y Cymoedd took to create bespoke virtual reality (VR) training content for their learners with Facilitate. It examines the organization's needs and requirements, how Facilitate's platform fits those needs, and the benefits the team received ... Read More
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