Category: Internet of Things IoT
Internet of Things IoT market research reports by IDC
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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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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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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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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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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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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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IDC MaturityScape Benchmark: AI-Fueled Hospitality and Travel 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."Organizations that are struggling to be AI survivors in the hospitality and travel sector will find it increasingly difficult to catch up, ... Read More
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The Future of Business Consulting Services in an Agentic AI World
This IDC Market Perspective discusses the future of business consulting services in an agentic AI world that is poised for significant transformation. Initially, AI, like the early days of ELIZA, created an illusion of human interaction, but today's agentic AI is designed to take over tasks from hum ... Read More
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IDC MaturityScape Benchmark: AI-Fueled Life Sciences Organization Worldwide, 2025
This IDC study presents the results of IDC's MaturityScape Benchmark AI Survey to help guide life sciences organizations on their AI maturity journey."It's a race, a race to the top, and AI will be the differentiator. The life sciences industry is the industry that will be the most disrupted by AI. ... Read More
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CEQUENS Vendor Profile: An Emerging Major Player in the CPaaS Segment
This IDC Vendor Profile offers an overview of CEQUENS, a major customer experience platform providing service in the Middle East, Asia, and Europe. ... Read More
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Win-Win Product Discovery — A Retail Agentic AI Use Case
This IDC Perspective dissects a key use case that applies agentic AI to enable automation, multilevel agents, orchestration agents, and a key focus on product discovery and search through online retail channels critical to business needs. The next generation of solutions will leverage the advantages ... Read More
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Impact of 2025 U.S. Tariffs and Export Restrictions on the HPC and AI Infrastructure Markets
This IDC Market Note highlights the impact of recent U.S. tariffs on the HPC and AI infrastructure markets. The 2025 U.S. tariffs are exerting significant pressure on the HPC and AI infrastructure markets. Vendors across the ecosystem are encountering increased costs, supply chain disruptions, and p ... Read More
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The Agentic AI "Standards" Race Is On
This IDC Perspective examines some of the emerging agentic AI integration protocols."Individual AI agents have value in the enterprise, but agentic AI has the potential to unleash transformative benefits to organizations," said Nancy Gohring, senior research director, AI at IDC. "However, without te ... Read More
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IDC MaturityScape Benchmark: AI-Fueled Healthcare Organization Worldwide, 2025
This IDC study presents the results of IDC's 2025 MaturityScape Benchmark AI Survey to help guide organizations on their AI maturity journey."Healthcare continues to grapple with AI maturity as enhanced focus is placed on strategy, people, and technology as the driving forces behind an AI-fueled org ... Read More
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Appian World 2025: AI in Process
Appian World 2025, held on April 27-30 in Denver, Colorado, delivered a stage on which the company did two main things. First, it showcased new and upcoming platform capabilities focused on GenAI and AI agents, to demonstrate how it can keep up with its key business automation platform competitors. ... Read More
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AiHPC Innovation's Private AI Journey: Balancing Performance, Compliance, and Control
This IDC Perspective explores AiHPC Innovation's (AiHPC) strategic deployment of private AI infrastructure in partnership with Equinix to support high-performance, regulated workloads in healthcare and research. It examines the motivations behind AiHPC's infrastructure decisions, technical architect ... Read More
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AI Planning and Orchestration Systems: AI21 Labs Introduces a New Approach to AI Accuracy
This IDC Market Note highlights AI21 Labs' introduction of a novel approach to agent orchestration and planning to enhance the accuracy and reliability of generative and agentic AI systems. This approach addresses the nondeterministic nature of large language and reasoning models through offline sim ... Read More
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Secure Access Service Edge (SASE): Network and Security Convergence for the Hyper-Distributed Enterprise
This IDC Market Perspective on SASE provides IDC's taxonomy for our forthcoming SASE research and outlines the industry dynamics that have led to the shaping of this important market. "The rise and mainstream adoption of SASE is a seminal moment for tangible convergence of network and security techn ... Read More
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IDC PeerScape: Best Practices in Adopting Decision Intelligence
This IDC PeerScape offers advice to IT and business executives on how they can ensure success in the adoption of decision intelligence solutions."Decision intelligence is a new practice within organizations. It is largely leveraged for routine decisions that can be automated. As with any aspect of a ... Read More
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The Future of Enterprise Connectivity in Manufacturing — Key Investment Areas to Advance AI-Driven Operations
This IDC Perspective takes a look at top connectivity challenges, timelines for connectivity transformation, top areas for investment growth, and the impact of AI. Higher levels of automation and intelligence across the manufacturing floor are driving the need for faster, more reliable, and secure c ... Read More
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