Category: Internet Applications
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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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Pivoting Toward Cloud and Software Delivery Strategic Autonomy: The Geopolitical Environment Creates the Premise for New Strategic Road Maps in Europe
This IDC Market Perspective discusses initiatives taking shape in Europe regarding technology self-reliance within the software infrastructure, cloud, and software delivery space in the context of geopolitical changes that affect U.S.-Europe relations. It introduces considerations around investment ... 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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SAP 1Q25: Continued Cloud Growth, Plus Data and AI, Is Enabling Businesses and the Future of Work
This IDC Market Note discusses SAP’s recent announcement of its 1Q25 results, and this document is a review of the earnings announced along with guidance.“SAP continues to achieve growth in cloud and has a solid data and AI strategy,” said Mickey North Rizza, group vice president, Enterprise Softwar ... Read More
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Google Cloud Next 2025: Strong Stack — Now the Test of Execution in Asia/Pacific
This IDC Market Note provides an insightful overview of the Google Cloud Next 2025 event held at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, Nevada on April 8–10, 2025. Google showcased its AI-native cloud stack, emphasizing modular, open architectures, and AI automations. Despite robust offerings, execution remains ... Read More
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Is Open Source Adding to AI Coolness or Complexity? European Companies' Approach to Open Source in AI
This IDC Market Perspective explores the growing role of open-source technologies in AI development, highlighting their benefits and challenges. European companies are increasingly adopting open-source AI for its flexibility, customization, and collaborative nature, with large firms and tech-forward ... Read More
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Why Industry 4.0 Needs Dedicated Cloud Infrastructure
This IDC Perspective explores why the Industry 4.0 digital transformation of the industrial world requires dedicated, private cloud infrastructure. While public cloud services offer broad reach and cost benefits, the unique requirements of industrial environments make private cloud solutions necessa ... Read More
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Japan Telecommunications Services Forecast, 2025–2029
This IDC study provides market forecasts and outlook for the Japan telecommunications services market from 2025 to 2029. The Japan telecommunications service market in 2024 was expected to see an increase in traffic because of increased cloud connections and expanding investment in Internet of Thing ... Read More
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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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Worldwide IDC Global DataSphere Forecast Update, 2025–2029: Regional Analysis
This IDC study presents a regional analysis of the 2025 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 and cloud/noncloud."As digital ecosystems evolve, re ... 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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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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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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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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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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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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