Category: Design & Development
Design & Development market research reports by IDC
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Tools and Guidance for Adherence to Compliance Standards
This IDC Perspective discusses best practices for implementing adherence to compliance standards and provides an overview of the types of tools that support these efforts. Compliance standards are regulations, guidelines, or policies that organizations must follow to ensure legal, ethical, and opera ... Read More
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GDC 2025 Postmortem: XR and 3D Software Development Tool, Platform, and Game Highlights
This IDC Market Note assesses some key XR-related news made and trends highlighted at the Game Developers Conference (GDC), which was held in mid-March."From Unity Technologies' 6.1 update news to Meta's sobering assessment of how the Quest user base changed in 2024, GDC 2025 didn't disappoint on th ... Read More
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IDC PlanScape: IT Product Management
Technology departments are in the business of delivering a range of technology services — communications, transaction processing, analytics, data, and so forth. By treating the major technology services as products — each with a set of desired outcomes, knowledge of customer needs, and life-cycle ma ... Read More
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Capturing Developer Mindshare: An Assessment Tool for Evaluation, Planning, Strategy, and Implementation
This IDC Market Perspective outlines a five-level maturity model for cultivating developer mindshare. In addition, a detailed spreadsheet is provided for assessing an enterprise's developer mindshare efforts, planning next steps, and evaluating results. Combined, these resources provide a framework ... Read More
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IDC PlanScape: DevSecOps Tools Choice
This IDC PlanScape explains what CIOs, chief information security officers (CISOs), and other leaders should consider when evaluating their options to provide guidance on navigating the complex set of factors surrounding DevSecOps tool selection. It breaks the decision-making process into distinct c ... Read More
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Salesforce Agentforce 2dx: Redefining AI Agent Development for the Enterprise
This IDC Market Note explores the significance of Salesforce’s Agentforce 2dx announcements at the annual Salesforce TDX conference within the broader landscape of AI technologies.“The release of Agentforce 2dx marks significant progress in the evolution of agentic AI developer technologies because ... Read More
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Modernization and Transformation: A Multitude of Software Pathways to Embrace
This IDC Perspective is an aid for the IT buyer on the many journeys organizations are making to modernize and transform their organizations in this new AI world.Organizations are moving quickly along the AI journey, including making more and faster decisions to migrate from on-premises applications ... Read More
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No-Code Development with AI and Data Intelligence: Smardaten's Approach to Digital Innovation
This IDC Market Note examines Smardaten's data-driven, enterprise-class no-code platform. In addition to lowering reliance on IT and allowing speedier application deployment and process automation, the platform offers seamless data unification and real-time accessibility without the need for sophist ... Read More
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Worldwide Functions as a Service Forecast, 2025–2028
This IDC study provides the worldwide functions as a service (FaaS) market forecast for 2024 to 2028. It also presents regional forecasts and a discussion of significant market developments and leading market participants. “The FaaS market is forecast to grow from $3.2 billion in 2023 to $13.4 billi ... Read More
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Japan DevOps Software Forecast, 2025–2029
This IDC study summarizes the Japan development operations (DevOps) software market's performance in 2024, and market forecast for 2025–2029 based on information collected through interviews and surveys conducted up to the end of January 2025.In 2024, many companies budgeted for projects aimed at us ... Read More
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IDC Future Enterprise CIO/CDO of 2024: A CIO's Journey Toward Building a Resilient Digital Ecosystem Platform
This IDC Perspective emphasizes the transformative role of technology, particularly AI, in reshaping organizational functions and strategies. It highlights the evolving responsibilities of CIOs in driving business transformation, fostering innovation, and aligning technology with strategic prioritie ... Read More
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Automation as a Catalyst: Driving Business Agility, Speed, and Data Integrity
This IDC Perspective aims to provide CIOs, senior IT and technology executives, and other enterprise leaders with insights into how a robust automation strategy can drive businesses to new heights, unlocking new levels of operational efficiency, decision-making speed, and data reliability while also ... Read More
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To Manage the Coming Exponential Growth of AI and Applications, Organizations Need a Strategic Pivot in Software Engineering
This IDC Market Note provides a view on organizations' software engineering readiness and likely strategic considerations as they aim to leverage software as a foundational capability in a digital and AI world. It is based on research findings that highlight how an organization's software engineerin ... Read More
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A Maturity Model for Cultivating Developer Mindshare
This IDC Market Note outlines a five-level maturity model that organizations can use to assess and improve their efforts to capture developer mindshare. This maturity model serves as a starting point for understanding where an enterprise has solid footing in developer communities, where it has gaps, ... Read More
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Unearthing New FinOps Requirements and Advancing the Market at FinOps X 2024 Barcelona
Unearthing New FinOps Requirements and Advancing the Market at FinOps X 2024 Barcelona This IDC Market Perspective discusses the FinOps X 2024 event in Barcelona, which highlighted the growing importance of FinOps in managing cloud costs and aligning cloud investments with business strategies. Key t ... Read More
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Lessons Learned from Global Project Management Offices
Lessons Learned from Global Project Management Offices This IDC Perspective will provide lessons learned in designing a project management office (PMO) that meets customer needs. No matter whether a project management office is newly formed or mature, or whether it is well received or struggling wi ... Read More
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Open Mainframe Project Zowe Gets No-Cost Enterprise Support from Broadcom
Open Mainframe Project Zowe Gets No-Cost Enterprise Support from Broadcom This IDC Market Note explores the implications of Broadcom’s recent announcement that it is offering free enterprise support for the Zowe open source project. “Broadcom’s no-cost enterprise support for the Zowe open source pro ... Read More
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IBM Qiskit Functions Catalog: Enhancing Quantum Development
IBM Qiskit Functions Catalog: Enhancing Quantum Development This IDC Market Perspective discusses the Qiskit Functions Catalog, which was announced by IBM on September 16, 2024, and aims to simplify quantum computing development by providing predefined tools that abstract technical complexities. Di ... Read More
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From Silos to Synergy: Enhancing Business Value with Developer-Security Collaboration
From Silos to Synergy: Enhancing Business Value with Developer-Security Collaboration IDC’s eighth CISO summit in Cascais, Portugal, focused on the evolving role of CISOs and emphasized the integration of security into business processes. Key topics included establishing comprehensive cybersecurity ... Read More
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Building the Talent Pipelines for Application Modernization Success
Building the Talent Pipelines for Application Modernization Success This IDC Perspective discusses the critical skills required for application modernization, highlighting the challenges European companies face, such as technical difficulties and a lack of internal expertise. It emphasizes the need ... Read More
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Highlights from GitHub Universe 2024
Highlights from GitHub Universe 2024 This IDC Market Note provides analysis of the key announcements from GitHub Universe 2024. Highlights include multimodel support for GitHub Copilot, enhancements to GitHub Models, GitHub Spark for creating micro apps with natural language, new capabilities for Co ... Read More
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Microsoft Industry Analyst Event Showcases Customers' Innovative AI Use Cases
Microsoft Industry Analyst Event Showcases Customers' Innovative AI Use Cases This IDC Perspective highlights Microsoft's Industry Analyst Event that the company hosted on October 2, 2024, which showcased innovative AI use cases across healthcare, manufacturing, and retail. Key highlights included A ... Read More
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Value-Driven DevOps and App Engineering in the AI Everywhere Era: Key Insights from IDC's 2024 UKI DevOps Summit
Value-Driven DevOps and App Engineering in the AI Everywhere Era: Key Insights from IDC's 2024 UKI DevOps Summit This IDC Market Perspective introduces the main discussion themes at IDC's 2024 UKI DevOps Summit that took place in London on October 1, 2024. The event, titled "Value-Driven DevOps and ... Read More
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IDC FutureScape: Worldwide Developer and DevOps 2025 Predictions
IDC FutureScape: Worldwide Developer and DevOps 2025 Predictions This IDC study presents IDC's top 10 predictions for developers and DevOps for 2025 and beyond."The emerging wave of generative AI (GenAI)/ML is sweeping through the industry, significantly influencing developers and DevOps profession ... Read More
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IDC FutureScape: Worldwide Future of Industry Ecosystems 2025 Predictions
IDC FutureScape: Worldwide Future of Industry Ecosystems 2025 Predictions This IDC study provides IDC's 2025 top 10 predictions for future of industry ecosystems."For the next five years and beyond, we expect ecosystems to continue playing a critical, strategic role for organizations in every indust ... Read More
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