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.
6,041 Reports from IDC
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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D-Wave: Redefining Blockchain with Quantum Computing
This IDC Market Note discusses the evolving landscape of quantum computing, emphasizing the need for diverse real-world applications beyond simulation-heavy use cases. D-Wave Quantum, Inc. demonstrated quantum hashing for blockchain, showcasing enhanced security and efficiency. By replacing classica ... Read More
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AVEVA World 2025: Accelerating Radical Collaboration
This IDC Market Note discusses AVEVA World 2025."Much of the focus of AVEVA World 2025 was on industrial AI, to be expected as manufacturing and energy organization continue to digitally transform," said Jeff Hojlo, research vice president, IDC Manufacturing Insights, Industry Ecosystems, and Busine ... Read More
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How Technology Transforms Industrial Operations' Workforces and Workflows
This IDC Perspective analyzes both the impact of emerging technologies on the necessary skills and the impact to key worker functions in industrial operations. As the rate of technological advancement accelerates, organizations are struggling to keep up with strategies around hiring, talent developm ... Read More
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Japan IT Spending Forecast by Vertical Segment, Company Employee Size, and Company Revenue Forecast, 2025–2029
This IDC study presents the actual IT spending (for 2023 and 2024) and forecasts (from 2025 to 2029) in the Japan IT market, categorized by industry sector, company size (number of employees), and annual revenue scale. This study also analyzes IT spending by dividing the industries into 21 categorie ... Read More
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NACHA Smarter Faster Payments 2025: Faster Is Key, But Don't Forget About Tried and True
This IDC Perspective discusses the annual NACHA Smarter Faster Payments conference that highlighted the transformative role of payments beyond transactional revenue, emphasizing their impact on deposits, products, innovation, and relationships. Key themes included the rise of instant payments, the e ... Read More
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How Tariff Threats Are Impacting the European Print Services Market
This IDC Market Note looks at how the threat of tariffs is already impacting the print services market in Europe. ... Read More
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Worldwide Edge Enterprise Infrastructure Forecast, 2025–2028
This IDC study presents the worldwide edge enterprise infrastructure forecast for 2025–2028. Shipment and revenue data is provided by major region and by provider type (e.g., service provider, managed services provider, and nonservice providers). Edge IT is the deployment of IT resources at peripher ... Read More
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Canva Create 2025 Expands Visual and Creative Use Cases
This IDC Market Note provides key takeaways from Canva's Create 2025 conference held in Hollywood Park in Los Angeles on April 10, 2025. Canva's Create 2025 conference unveiled Visual Suite 2.0 to enhance creative collaboration across enterprises. New features including Visual Suite 2.0, Canva Sheet ... Read More
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RSAC Conference 2025: Agentic AI and a Continued Move Toward Integration Emerge as Key Themes
This IDC Market Perspective provides an overview of key trends, announcements, and other IDC insights from RSAC Conference 2025, held from April 28 to May 1 in San Francisco, California. This document highlights key trends identified at RSAC across cybersecurity product and service market segments, ... Read More
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Anaplan Unveils Enhanced GTM Planning Suite and Champions Shift to Continuous Planning at Connect
This IDC Market Note discusses Anaplan's Connect event. The event showcased significant product innovations and strategic updates, emphasizing a $500 million investment in AI-driven business planning. Key launches included applications for segmentation, scoring, merchandise financial planning, and i ... Read More
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Batch Release Digitalization in Life Sciences: Enhancing Quality, Productivity, and Compliance
This IDC Perspective examines the improvements batch release digitalization brings to life sciences manufacturers, driving operational efficiency, quality, and compliance. It highlights the transformative impact of digital technologies on the batch release process and offers actionable guidance for ... Read More
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Paving the Way With AI: The Oil and Gas Industry's Energy Transition Journey — 2025 View
This IDC Perspective looks at the energy transition state of worldwide O&G companies, highlighting how they are adopting AI to boost business processes and asset operations in line with their larger net zero goals. It outlines O&G companies' net zero ambitions, commitments, and timelines, th ... Read More
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Infor 2025 Analyst Summit: Integrating AI and Process Intelligence for Industry-Specific Transformation
This IDC Perspective presents a reflection on Infor's strategic direction as discussed during the April 2025 Analyst Summit. It examines Infor's industry-focused approach to integrating AI and process intelligence within its cloud enterprise resource planning (ERP) solutions, marking a transition fr ... Read More
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IDC PlanScape: Product Excellence to Propel Digital Business for Government Agencies
This IDC PlanScape focuses on one component of government IT's array of challenges to help agencies achieve product excellence in government digital business."The new differentiating capability of a government agency enterprise is how good you are at building and delivering digital products and serv ... Read More
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Japan 3rd Platform Forecast by Vertical Segment and Company Size, 2025–2029
This IDC study classifies Japan industries into 21 industry sectors, including 17 business categories and four non-business categories — central government, local governments, education, and consumers — and reports the actual (2024) and forecast (2025–2029) 3rd Platform spending in each sector. This ... Read More
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Infor Innovation Summit 2025 — Maximizing Value Through Accelerated Innovation for Sustainable Success: Asia/Pacific (Including Japan) Perspective
This IDC report provides insights and an overview of the Infor Innovation Summit held in New York City on April 9 and 10, 2025, with emphasis on the Asia/Pacific (including Japan) (APJ) perspective. The event showcased Infor's strategic direction, industry focus, customer successes, and latest produ ... Read More
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