Category: Internet of Things IoT
Internet of Things IoT market research reports by IDC
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Artificial Intelligence for Commerce Strategy: Evolution from Symbolic Logic Workflows to Agentic AI
This IDC Perspective provides IT buyers with a high-level summary of the evolution of AI as well as concrete recommendations for easing resistance to agentic AI adoption across their organizations. AI's role in digital commerce is rapidly evolving, moving beyond traditional automation into agentic A ... Read More
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Emerging Trends in the IoT Cellular Connectivity Market for 2025
This IDC Market Perspective examines the key trends that will impact on the IoT cellular connectivity market in 2025."2025 will redefine IoT connectivity with eSIM, 5G RedCap, and satellite networks, transforming global coverage and unlocking new opportunities for enterprises worldwide," says Pahul ... Read More
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AI Agent Use Case: Mortgage Prequalification
This IDC Perspective discusses the use case of AI agents in mortgage prequalification. Just as institutions were working through the introduction of generative AI into their technology and business environments, along come AI agents and agentic AI to add complexity to the planning and investment pro ... Read More
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Top 5 Trends for Enterprise Mobile Devices in 2025
This IDC Market Perspective examines the key trends that will impact the enterprise mobile device market in 2025. As businesses head into 2025, the important lessons learned around mobile AI, corporate-liable devices, and mobile device as a service will drive the trends that we expect to see in this ... Read More
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IDC’s Global CIO Advisory Board — Navigating Agentic AI: Current Approach and Strategies
This IDC Perspective summarizes IDC’s Global CIO Advisory Board session, which took place in January 2025, on current approach and strategies for agentic AI.“As CIOs prepare for the adoption and scaling of agentic AI, and business leaders articulate the outcomes, tech vendors are expected to further ... Read More
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Consumer GenAI and Social Media Integration
This IDC Market Perspective looks at how social media has been a key contributor to the growth of the consumer generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) market. Meta AI reaches hundreds of millions of consumers through Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, and WhatsApp, and xAI’s Grok is key component of ... Read More
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Understanding Partner Developments and Opportunities: Highlights from IDC's 1Q25 Partner Advisory Board Session
This IDC Market Perspective summarizes discussions among participants at IDC's quarterly Partner Advisory Board session in February 2025. During the discussions, partners from EMEA, representing a variety of vendors, shared insights into customer trends and buying behaviors as well as the market dyn ... Read More
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IDC PlanScape: An Agentic AI Guide for Smart Cities
This IDC PlanScape examines how different types of AI agents, working separately or as a fleet of AI agents, can be effectively deployed in state and local government contexts across areas such as citizen service delivery, case management, 311 services, legislative processes, and policy development ... Read More
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AI-Powered Retail — Central Retail Corporation's Approach to Personalization, Efficiency, and Growth
This IDC case study explores how Central Retail Corporation (CRC) is using AI and digital partnerships to scale innovation while maintaining operational efficiency. By implementing an AI-powered customer data platform, hyper-personalization strategies, and application programming interface (API)–dri ... Read More
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The Current State of the Decentralized Physical Infrastructure Networks Industry
This IDC Market Perspective discusses the current state of the decentralized physical infrastructure networks (DePINs) industry. The decentralized physical infrastructure networks industry is rapidly evolving, leveraging blockchain and cryptocurrency to create decentralized, community-run networks f ... 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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Best in Connected City Award Winner Profile - 2024
This IDC Perspective highlights the award-winning Smart City initiative by MTR Corporation in Hong Kong, aimed at achieving a "smart and inclusive journey." Through its "Smart ESG: Technology-enabled Social Inclusion" program, MTR has demonstrated its commitment to digital transformation and a conne ... Read More
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Cisco Live EMEA 2025: Cisco Signals Future Intentions
Cisco Live EMEA 2025 was attended by over 17,000 people, and Cisco used the opportunity to double down on their platform message. Cisco is using its strong position in networking to drive toward security, collaboration, and server segments, with AI being a common component. "Cisco's strategic pivot ... Read More
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IDC's 2024 Special Award for Digital-Native Business —Winner Profile
This IDC Perspective discusses the nomination details of the winner of the Special Award for Digital-Native Businesses (DNBs) from IDC's Future Enterprise Awards 2024 in Asia/Pacific with how AI can impact organizations moving forward."AI will eventually redefine industries in the digital-first era, ... Read More
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IDC Future Enterprise Awards: Special Award for Smart Cities — Best in Digital Policies Award Winner Profile 2024
This IDC Perspective highlights the Taoyuan City Government's initiative in developing an AI environmental pollution recognition system using machine learning and deep learning technologies. Comprising seven subsystems and three Internet of Things (IoT) platforms, the system effectively monitors and ... Read More
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Impact of Data Egress on Cloud Buyers
This IDC Market Note discusses how the role of data as the foundation of a digital enterprise significantly impacts data egress costs through several mechanisms, primarily related to data management practices and operational strategies, and how cloud buyers can navigate the complex egress models and ... Read More
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AI in Finance: Where It's Being Used and Is It Delivering Value?
This IDC Perspective discusses AI in finance. AI is revolutionizing corporate finance by enhancing decision-making, risk management, and operational efficiency through technologies like machine learning and RPA. Despite significant benefits such as improved forecasting and automation, challenges lik ... Read More
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Mitr Phol Group's AI Pivot: Transforming Operations Through Data-Driven Decision Making and Intelligent Automation
"The AI pivot in operations is moving from experimentation to real-world impact as organizations embed intelligence into core processes to enhance agility, efficiency, and resilience. Key enablers include real-time data integration, cloud architectures, digital twins, and edge intelligence, which en ... Read More
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Sprinklr '25 Winter SQuAD: Finding a Firm Footing for Growth with a Refreshed Strategy and Continued Investments for an Intelligent Core
This IDC Market Note discusses Sprinklr's quarterly analyst digest held on January 30, 2025. This was the first time, newly appointed CEO, Rory Read, addressed the analyst community and laid out his plans for a refreshed growth strategy. The company has set itself an ambitious growth plan and Read's ... Read More
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IDC MaturityScape: AI-Fueled Organization 1.0
This IDC MaturityScape is a guide for organizations planning to evolve their use of all AI technologies, including machine learning (ML), GenAI, and autonomous agents as they strive to improve innovation and operations, as well as customer, citizen, patient, or consumer engagement.“AI is a transform ... Read More
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Worldwide Workstation Market Shares, 2024 and 4Q24: 7.0% Rebound as the AI Era Kicks Off
This IDC study looks at worldwide workstation market shares in 2024.“The workstation market rebounded nicely in 2024,” states Linn Huang, IDC research vice president of Device and Displays. “Considering we’re only at the tip of the spear of the inbound AI era and in lieu of how important workstation ... Read More
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The Unified Content Model: Rethinking the Content Supply Chain in the Era of Agentic AI
This IDC Perspective on the Unified Content Model (UCM) 2025 updates a model originally developed in 2022, highlighting the integration of generative AI (GenAI) into a modern content management approach. The Unified Content Model orchestrates content supply chains, enhancing operational efficiency a ... Read More
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Digital Twins: Closing the Gap Between the Virtual and the Real Worlds
This IDC Perspective focuses on the adoption of digital twins in the life science industry. It focuses on key growth predictions, global initiatives, enabling technologies, factors critical to the success of digital twin initiatives and the digital twin landscape, and provides guidance to technology ... Read More
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Taking an Integrated Approach in Securing and Safeguarding AI Use Across the Enterprise
This IDC Perspective highlights the urgent need for enterprises to adopt comprehensive frameworks to secure and safeguard AI usage across their operations. As AI integration accelerates, companies face significant risks, including data privacy issues, security vulnerabilities, and compliance challen ... Read More
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Worldwide FaaS Market Shares, 2023: Enabling Developers on PaaS
This IDC study presents market share for the worldwide PaaS-delivered FaaS market, a capability of the serverless cloud model, for 2023. It also reports on the prior two years to provide context for how the market has evolved. In addition, it also includes a competitive analysis of the market leader ... Read More
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