Category: Internet Applications
Internet Applications market research reports by IDC
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Worldwide Enterprise-Class WLAN Market Shares, 2024: Amid a Market Reset, Vendors and Enterprises Look Toward AI, Security, and Wi-Fi 7
This IDC study reviews 2024 vendor revenue and shipments in the wireless local area network (WLAN) infrastructure market (excluding WLAN NICs) and shows the market's changes from 2023. Year-over-year and quarter-over-quarter changes are also shown."Despite annualized declining revenue in enterprise ... Read More
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Confluent's Current 2025 Bengaluru Event Highlights GenAI, Tableflow, and Flink Enhancements
This IDC Market Note discusses Confluent's Current 2025 event, held in Bengaluru on March 19, 2025. Key technology highlights included the general availability of Tableflow, which offers the ability to easily convert Apache Kafka data and associated schemas to Apache Iceberg and Delta tables, the in ... Read More
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IDC MaturityScape Benchmark: AI-Fueled Energy Organization Worldwide, 2025
This IDC MaturityScape Benchmark provides a framework through which energy organizations can transform in terms of their approach to AI adoption and deployment in their journey to become AI-fueled organizations."Energy organizations, as a whole, lag behind other industries in their AI maturity journ ... Read More
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Telecom Operators Supporting AI as a Service to Drive Business Transformation
This IDC Market Note looks into the scope for AIaaS in helping telecom companies transform their business. Telecom operators are increasingly supporting AI as a service to drive business transformation by leveraging their robust infrastructure and technological expertise. By offering scalable, custo ... Read More
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Amdocs Global Services and Studios Portfolio Evolves to Capture New Vertical Industry Opportunities
This IDC Market Note reviews Amdocs Global Services' portfolio announcements shared during 2025's Mobile World Congress. Amdocs is expanding its Global Services portfolio to reach new verticals and bring new offers to telco clients, leveraging digital, AI, cloud, and quality engineering to address c ... Read More
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Saudi Arabia Becomes Home to Groq’s Largest AI Inference Deployment in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa
Groq has launched the EMEA region's largest AI inference deployment in Dammam, Saudi Arabia, in partnership with Aramco Digital. This facility, equipped with 19,000 LPUs, supports Saudi Arabia's Vision 2030 by enhancing local AI infrastructure, reducing latency, and ensuring digital sovereignty. The ... Read More
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Worldwide Content Delivery Networks Market Shares, 2024: Shifting Competitive Landscape Due to Security Services and Edge Compute
This IDC study provides the 2024 shares of the worldwide commercial CDN vendors. The document covers the market shares of key CDN providers and the "other" category. It includes information about revenue for key segments in the CDN market — namely, over-the-top (OTT) video, web, email and data, onli ... Read More
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Why AI-Enabled Flexible Work Models Work and Return-to-Office Mandates Don't
This IDC Market Perspective highlights how mandated return-to-office policies are ineffective, damaging productivity, engagement, and talent retention. Flexible work models — supported by AI — offer a much better alternative by enhancing productivity, collaboration, and employee satisfaction."Despit ... Read More
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NAB 2025 Insights and Observations
This IDC Perspective details NAB 2025 insights and observations. NAB 2025 showcased the media industry's adaptation to technological advancements in cloud services, AI, and data analytics amid financial pressures. Key insights included the shift from siloed operations to unified distribution strateg ... Read More
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Generative AI's Impact on Data Generation and Storage
This IDC Market Perspective provides an analysis of generative AI's (GenAI's) impact on data generation and storage. While GenAI drives new forms of content creation, much of the resulting data is ephemeral, cached, or selectively retained. This document explores how different formats, workflows, an ... Read More
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Netcracker's Role in Accelerating Telecom Digital Transformation in the Middle East, Türkiye, and Africa
This IDC Vendor Profile focuses on Netcracker's technology capabilities and track record in BSS and OSS transformation across the META region. It provides an overview of the company, highlights its cloud-native and hybrid telco solutions leveraging recent technological developments and addressing te ... Read More
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Microsoft's $1.5 Billion Investment in the UAE's G42: Delivering AI Value on a Global Scale
This IDC Market Note emphasizes the UAE's transformation into a global innovation hub, fueled by economic resilience, strategic diversification, and impactful partnerships such as the one between Microsoft and G42 (an Abu Dhabi–based technology holding company founded in 2018, dedicated to advancing ... Read More
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IDC MaturityScape Benchmark: AI-Fueled Professional Services Organization Worldwide, 2025
This IDC study presents the results of IDC’s MaturityScape Benchmark AI Survey to help guide professional services organizations on their AI maturity journey.“It’s no surprise to see professional services firms, which are at the heart of knowledge management and eager for the possibility of AI augme ... Read More
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Network APIs' Growing Potential
This IDC Market Note provides an overview of key instruments, drivers, and most recent developments in the network API realm, including interesting announcements during MWC25."The network API market is still in early stages, but with the technology already in place, operators, API aggregators and ot ... Read More
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IDC MaturityScape Benchmark: AI-Fueled Process Manufacturing Organization Worldwide, 2025
This IDC study presents the results of IDC's AI-Fueled Organization MaturityScape Benchmark Survey for process manufacturing to help guide organizations on their AI maturity journey."Forward-thinking process manufacturing organizations start their AI journeys by establishing an effective strategy an ... Read More
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Cloud Migration Plans: Australia and New Zealand Public Cloud Services 2025
This IDC report highlights that cloud adoption in Australia and New Zealand (ANZ) is evolving from basic lift-and-shift migrations to more sophisticated, data-driven, and cloud-native strategies. Organisations are balancing the strengths of on-premises infrastructure for sensitive or performance-cri ... Read More
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DXC Technology: Embedding AI at the Core of IT Service Delivery
This IDC Market Note describes the top themes discussed by DXC Technology’s leadership and the impressions of IDC analysts who participated in the DXC Technology executive connect with the Consulting and Engineering Services team in India, Bangalore on March 26, 2025. IDC analysts took a deep dive i ... Read More
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IDC PeerScape: Practices to Develop AI Security Policies
This IDC PeerScape, which is based on interviews with CIOs and CISOs from global organizations representing diverse industries and geographies, offers guidance on how IT leaders can help their organizations develop security policies that address the unique challenges posed by AI.“AI may still feel n ... Read More
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Leading Through Change: Preparing Corporate Finance for the Agentic AI Era
This IDC Perspective explores the transformative impact of agentic AI on corporate finance, emphasizing its potential to automate routine tasks while reshaping roles within finance teams. It highlights the importance of AI governance, regulatory compliance, and workforce upskilling to mitigate risks ... Read More
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8x8: Transformed, Revitalized, and on the Offense
8x8’s third analyst summit showcased its transformation into an outcome-based communication solutions provider. The company emphasizes customer success based on a pragmatic approach to AI adoption and a flexible CX platform. Key product announcements at the summit included 8x8 JourneyIQ, contact cen ... Read More
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The Digital Accessibility Regulation Landscape: From the European Accessibility Act to International Regulations and the Impact on EMEA Companies
This IDC Market Note discusses the most relevant digital accessibility regulations impacting the EMEA region, including insights about and impacts on customers and employees."Digital accessibility and the broader DEI mandate is among the most discussed aspects in organizations across the globe. With ... Read More
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HP Amplify: New Large Format Latex Printer and Software, AI, and Robot Tech for Print
This IDC Market Note highlights some of the new large format printer products and services HP Inc. announced at the recent Amplify event. The new products include the HP Latex R530, a new hybrid flatbed/roll-to-roll large format printer that should compete with UV hybrid printers. ... Read More
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Unifying Creativity and Productivity: Key Takeaways from Canva Create 2025
This IDC Market Note presents key highlights from Canva Create 2025. The event showcased Canva's evolution from a design tool to an enterprise-ready productivity platform, integrating design, data, AI, and interactive content. Key launches included Visual Suite 2.0, Canva Sheets, and AI-driven tools ... Read More
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End-User Computing Strategies in an AI-Driven Market
This IDC Market Note proposes that the vendors of enterprise client computing systems, which span the gambit of end-user computing solutions from automation to observability and virtualization, will face new and distinct challenges in each of the three stages of agentic transformation. These stages ... Read More
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Microsoft Entra ID Backup and Recovery Strategy: The Whys and Hows
This IDC Perspective highlights the need for dedicated third-party data protection services to ensure business continuity, compliance, and security of Microsoft Entra ID and why organizations should prioritize backing up Entra ID objects. Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure Active Directory) is a cri ... Read More
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