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.
5,994 Reports from IDC
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How AI Agents will Impact Next-Generation Partner Business Models
This IDC Market Perspective focuses on how deploying AI agents within their own services offerings will impact the business models of IT services organizations' and the offerings they provide to end customers."Agentic AI will significantly disrupt the existing business models and financial models of ... Read More
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Google Cloud Next '25: Agents Accelerating an AI-Native Future
This IDC Market Perspective focuses on the rich array of software-related data and AI announcements from Google Cloud Next '25, the event's theme of an agentic AI-driven future, and the implications for Google's strategy and market positioning. Google Cloud Next '25 was held at Mandalay Bay in Las V ... Read More
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Reconsidering Organizations' Fundamental Approaches to Observability in 2025
The IDC Perspective on solution selection criteria in observability and AIOps explores the rapid digital transformation driven by COVID-19, leading to work models with increased automation and spatial/temporal disassociation. This shift necessitates effective tools to manage the growing complexity o ... Read More
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IDC's Global CIO Advisory Board — An Overview of SAP's Recent Strategy and Product Announcements
This IDC Perspective summarizes IDC's Global CIO Advisory Board discussion on SAP's latest strategy and product announcements."SAP latest strategy unifies AI, applications, and data to enhance app functionality, operational performance, and efficiency. By standardizing the IT core, organizations can ... Read More
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Schneider Electric's Acquisition of Motivair Strengthens Its Portfolio for AI Datacenters
This IDC Market Note discusses Schneider Electric's acquisition of Motivair Corporation, which marks a strategic expansion as it enhances Schneider Electric's portfolio. Expanding Schneider Electric's liquid cooling portfolio adds value on its own, but its more significant differentiation is as a si ... Read More
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The Presidential Price Transparency Executive Order Is Irrelevant and Speciously Justified
This IDC Perspective presents that after CMS mandates for payers and providers emerged in response to "surprise billing" and obfuscation of medical pricing, now there is an "executive order." This order is speciously rationalized and ignores the fact that this concept is an expensive proposition of ... Read More
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Enterprise Application Customers: Navigating the Challenges of Tariffs, Regulations, and Costs with AI
This IDC Market Perspective looks at how enterprise applications customers are navigating the complexities of tariffs, regulations, costs, inflation, and IT spending. According to IDC's April 2025 Future Enterprise Resiliency and Spending Survey, Wave 3, 40.2% will aggressively seek to renegotiate e ... Read More
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IDC MaturityScape Benchmark: AI-Fueled Retail Organization Worldwide, 2025
This IDC study presents the results of IDC's 2025 AI-Fueled Organization MaturityScape Benchmark Survey to help guide organizations on their AI maturity journey."Retailers have been focusing on AI for a long time, but exponential transformation has just begun," says Ananda Chakravarty, VP research, ... Read More
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Adobe MAX London 2025: Accelerating Creative Enterprise with AI, Collaboration, and Content Integrity
This IDC Market Note discusses the announcements and strategic implications from Adobe MAX London 2025 that are most relevant to enterprise B2B buyers investing in creative technology and content supply chain modernization. ... Read More
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Aptiv and ServiceNow Partnership: Scaling Intelligence at the Edge
This IDC Market Note analyzes the strategic partnership between Aptiv and ServiceNow and its impact on the automotive and manufacturing sectors as they shift to digital operations and AI-powered edge platforms. ... Read More
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Safeguarding Critical Data Assets: An Overview of Data Security Posture Management
DSPM is an emerging cybersecurity category designed to provide visibility into an organization's data security. It discovers sensitive data across cloud environments, assesses and monitors security posture, and detects risks before they escalate into data breaches and compliance violations. This IDC ... Read More
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NaaS: Market Trends 2025
This IDC Perspective examines the key trends that drive the adoption of NaaS. The journey toward digital transformation demands a virtualized, automated, scalable, and flexible network architecture and consumption model. NaaS provides the technological and commercial ingredients to achieve these goa ... Read More
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How Do Retail Marketplaces Enable Contextual Customer Experiences
Retail marketplaces that embed contextual intelligence into their digital infrastructure are redefining how value is created and perceived. As customer expectations shift toward immediacy, personalization, and trust, contextual experience becomes the new currency of differentiation. To meet these ex ... Read More
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KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025: Main Takeaways from CNCF's Largest Event Yet
This IDC Market Note serves as a debrief on CNCF's KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025 held in London from April 1 to 4, 2025. It provides inputs on the most notable areas of activity from the exhibitor floor; foundation-, end user–, and vendor-organized meetings and roundtables; foundation project ... Read More
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Katun’s European Arivia Print Hardware Strategy
This IDC Market Note presents a summary of Katun’s European strategy for its Arivia hardware brand in Europe. The vendor gave IDC an update to its European operations and explained how it envisages growth in the forthcoming years. ... Read More
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Japan IT Security Product Market Share, 1H24: The Growing SaaS Security Market
This IDC study analyzes vendor share and vendor trends in the Japan information security product market in 1H24. Also, in this period, the Japan information security product market saw growth in both the security software and security appliance markets as companies and organizations are asked to str ... Read More
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Bringing AI to Data: Oracle's Vision for Unified, AI-Embedded Databases at the 2025 Analyst Summit
This IDC Market Note discusses the Oracle Database Analyst Summit 2025, which highlights Oracle's strategy to integrate AI directly into its databases, offering a unified platform that simplifies data management and enhances AI capabilities. By embedding AI within the database, Oracle reduces data m ... Read More
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Microsoft's 3Q25 Robust Growth Driven by the Company's AI and Cloud Operations Amid Uncertain Business Environment Underscore Commitment to Innovation Across the Technology Stack
This IDC Market Note discusses how cloud and AI continue to drive Microsoft's results in 3Q25 despite the uncertainty that has emerged since the beginning of the year. Microsoft's 3Q25 results highlight the continued demand for the company's AI and cloud offerings amid global uncertainty. With a rev ... Read More
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The Telecom Billing Transformation Landscape in the Age of AI
Billing is a priority investment area for a significant portion of EMEA MNOs across the 2024–2026 period, reflecting a broader shift toward converged IT platforms that support capabilities like billing across diverse service lines and customer profiles. Billing systems play a dual role: managing rev ... Read More
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IDC PlanScape: Communications Platform as a Service for Empowering Businesses
This IDC study updates the latest scenario in the communications platform–as-a-service market.“CPaaS is poised to be the cornerstone of enterprise communication strategies, helping businesses deliver more personalized, efficient, and scalable communication solutions. CPaaS companies are leveraging m ... Read More
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Japan Sustainability/ESG Services Forecast, 2025–2029
This IDC study analyzes the overview and trends of the Japan sustainability services market, which is an extract of IT services from the services market defined by IDC and summarizes the results by service segment (business strategy, operations/business model, finance/accounting, human capital manag ... Read More
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Adobe Summit 2025: Agentic Experience Orchestration
This IDC Perspective summarizes Adobe's many product and partnership announcements at its Adobe Summit 2025 conference. "Adobe has embraced AI for many years, and its aggressive implementation of GenAI and agentic AI across its product lines builds on a long history of AI and machine learning develo ... Read More
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IDC MaturityScape Benchmark: AI-Fueled Financial Services Organization Worldwide, 2025
This IDC study presents the results of IDC's MaturityScape Benchmark AI Survey to help guide organizations on their AI maturity journey."Financial services institutions enjoy a leadership position in their adoption and maturity of AI in areas like risk and fraud exactly because of the regulated and ... Read More
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Worldwide IDC Global DataSphere Forecast, 2025–2029
This IDC study presents a five-year forecast for the worldwide IDC Global DataSphere, which is a measure of how much data is created, captured, replicated, and consumed each year. It is forecast by several segments including consumer/enterprise, region, data type, location (core, edge, endpoint), an ... Read More
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AI Oversight Framework: Financial GRC Requirement for AI Adoption
This IDC Perspective emphasizes the critical need for CFOs to implement an AI oversight framework in finance, highlighting its role in ensuring financial integrity, regulatory compliance, and operational resilience. It outlines steps for establishing governance structures, assigning roles, and manag ... Read More
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