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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Rising Through Uncertainty: Key Takeaways from Accenture’s 33rd International Utilities and Energy Conference
This IDC Market Note presents the IDC Energy Insights team's key takeaways from Accenture’s 33rd annual International Utilities and Energy Conference, held in Washington, D.C., on May 27–29, 2025. Themes included the importance of innovation, resilience, equity, and customer engagement in the energy ... Read More
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Strategic Opportunities for PIM/PXM, DAM, and CMS/DXP Vendors in the Era of Agentic Discovery
This IDC Market Note discusses how vendors in digital experience and product data management currently face an inflection point as generative AI redefines how product information is discovered, interpreted, and acted upon in platforms like ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity. The migration from traditio ... Read More
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Cryptocurrency in Corporate Finance: The Strategic Role of Stablecoins Versus Fiat and the Future of Global Treasury
This IDC Perspective explores the strategic role of stablecoins in corporate finance, highlighting their advantages over fiat currencies in treasury operations, foreign exchange, and cross-border transactions. While stablecoins offer speed, transparency, and programmability, they are not a wholesale ... Read More
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Control Meets Agility: The Strategic Value of R2R and PL2P in One System
This IDC Perspective emphasizes the strategic importance of integrating record-to-report (R2R) and plan-to-perform (PL2P) systems for CFOs to enhance financial agility and foresight. It highlights the benefits of a unified platform that combines accurate reporting with dynamic planning, enabling fin ... Read More
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Allbound and Channel Mechanics Rebrand as Channelscaler Following Merger
"The Allbound and Channel Mechanics merger and rebranding to Channelscaler reflect a broader industry shift toward integrated and data-driven partner management platforms that can rapidly adapt to evolving ecosystem requirements. The strategic focus on AI underscores the potential of AI to transform ... Read More
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IDC PeerScape: Practices for Cybersecurity Program Management
This IDC PeerScape discusses how a company can measure its current security state and develop a road map with buy-in from key stakeholders."Building a security program to secure a company is a core CISO responsibility. What that looks like and how to achieve it are unique to each company and depend ... Read More
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The Pervasive IT Governance Playbook: Unifying Technology, Risk, and Business Strategy
This IDC Perspective presents a comprehensive framework for pervasive IT governance that unifies technology management, risk oversight, and strategic business alignment into a cohesive, adaptive system capable of thriving in today's turbulent digital environment. As digital transformation accelerate ... Read More
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Using AI to Improve Data Quality
This IDC Perspective assesses the emerging market for AI-enabled data quality tools and offers recommendations for how IT leaders should respond. Data quality is vital for any IT project, especially so for AI-based projects, which could go dramatically off the rails due to poor data quality. Leverag ... Read More
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Worldwide Tablet Forecast Update, 2025–2029: 1Q25
This IDC study presents the updated forecast data for the worldwide tablet market for the 2025–2029 period."Refresh and inventory pull-in has resulted in strong market performance in the past few cycles," states Linn Huang, research vice president, Devices and Displays, IDC. "We could be entering do ... Read More
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Agentic Commerce Infrastructure Emerges as Stripe Repositions Around Extensibility and Scale
This IDC Market Note details Stripe Sessions conference, held May 6–8, 2025. Stripe unveiled a comprehensive set of platform updates that reflect its ambition to become the transactional and financial backbone of AI-native commerce. At the core of this evolution is the Order Intents API, a capabilit ... Read More
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Coupa Inspire 2025: Essential Insights for the Modern Spend Management
This IDC Market Note shares an overview of Coupa Inspire 2025, held in Las Vegas, which showcased the future of spend management and global trade, emphasizing "autonomous trade" through AI, robust supply chains, and predictive intelligence. Key themes included autonomous spend management, AI-powered ... Read More
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SAP Sapphire 2025: Paving the Future with Your Best. Made Real. No Matter What Lies Ahead
This IDC Market Perspective details SAP Sapphire 2025. The event advanced SAP's product offerings, from its business suite to its pricing to its AI copilot Joule to the BDC to its toolkit (of SAP Signavio, LeanIX, and WalkMe) to many other elements. This paper provides reviews of some of the IDC ana ... Read More
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IDC PlanScape: Humanlike AI Agents to Drive Automation in Enterprise Customer Service and Contact Center Applications
This IDC study discusses the transformative impact of humanlike AI agents in enterprise customer service and contact centers. These AI agents, powered by advanced large language models, offer solutions to challenges like high turnover and inefficiencies in traditional human-staffed centers. They enh ... Read More
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AI and GenAI Frameworks and Accelerators in Asia/Pacific
This IDC Perspective underscores the critical role of AI and GenAI frameworks and accelerators in the Asia/Pacific region, enabling enterprises to overcome data challenges, manage complexity, and scale AI adoption responsibly. These frameworks provide essential tools for integration, governance, and ... Read More
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Navigating Volatility: How Trade Finance Software Can Mitigate Geopolitical, Tariff, and Economic Risks
This IDC Perspective explores how trade finance software is emerging as a vital tool for managing geopolitical instability, volatile tariff regimes, and macroeconomic uncertainty, enabling businesses to respond more quickly and intelligently to disruptions. Modern platforms offer capabilities such a ... Read More
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Fossil Fuel Lock-In: How Base-of-the-Pyramid Regions Can Be the Next Big Opportunity for Sustainability Services
This IDC Market Perspective discusses developing countries' critical need to avoid fossil fuel lock-in by prioritizing renewable energy infrastructure. It highlights the systemic challenges and risks associated with fossil fuel dependency and outlines strategies for emerging economies to leapfrog to ... Read More
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DBSEC: Advancing Full Life-Cycle Data Security and Governance for China's Digital Future
This IDC Vendor Profile provides an overview of Beijing DBSEC Technology Co. Ltd. (DBSEC), a leading provider of full life-cycle data security solutions in China. ... Read More
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IDC PlanScape: An Action Plan for Digital and AI Sovereignty for National Government IT Leaders
This IDC PlanScape discusses how national civilian government executives can apply digital and AI sovereignty approaches in their acquisition, implementation and operations decisions. It provides government executives with a framework to make strategic choices regar ding the type of sovereign soluti ... Read More
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Salesforce Connections 2025: The Agentic Workforce Goes Live
This IDC Market Note highlights the announcements from Salesforce Connections 2025. Salesforce Connections 2025 showcased the company's deepening investment in AI-driven enterprise automation through Agentforce, its platform for building and deploying digital agents across marketing, sales, commerce ... Read More
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Salesforce Reports First-Quarter Fiscal 2026: Enterprise AI Platform Helps Exceed Guidance
This IDC Market Note highlights some of the key takeaways and IDC's thoughts regarding Salesforce's 1Q26 financial results. ... Read More
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The Impact of AI Agents in National Civilian Government: Social Benefit Appeal Use Cases and Beyond
This IDC Perspective discusses how AI agents are attracting interest from government departments and agencies, globally. The early investigations of the applicability of AI agents span both front-end digital service experiences, and back-office mission specific tasks, such as social benefits appeal ... Read More
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Salesforce Agentforce: Redefining Partnering in the Age of Agentic AI
This IDC Market Note explores Salesforce's Agentforce strategy, its implications for partner business models, and the evolving dynamics of the AI-powered ecosystem in the UK&I and broader EMEA region. Salesforce's Agentforce strategy marks a turning point in enterprise AI. By empowering partners ... Read More
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Frontline Workers Perspective on AI: The Good, The Bad and the Ugly
The integration of AI in workplaces is transforming industries, enhancing productivity, and reshaping roles, for both office and frontline workers. But despite AI's potential, a gap exists in adoption and training between office and frontline employees, with the latter facing challenges in terms of ... Read More
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Google Leaps Ahead on AI for Enterprise Solutions: Implications for the European Telco Sector
This IDC Market Note examines Google Cloud’s evolving strategy, as highlighted by the company at the May 2025 Google Cloud Summit in Madrid. Google has positioned itself both as an AI infrastructure provider and, increasingly, as a service enabler through packaged AI and GenAI solutions.A dual-track ... Read More
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AI, Data, and Workflow in Retail: Insights from Knowledge 2025
This IDC Perspective discusses ServiceNow Knowledge 2025, held in Las Vegas, which brought onsite about 25,000 attendees comprising industry leaders, partners, and customers. This report provides an overview of the takeaways from Knowledge 2025, focusing on the implications for the retail sector. In ... Read More
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