IDC
Tracing its origins to 1964, IDC emerges as a wholly-owned subsidiary of the International Data Group (IDG, Inc.), a venerable name in the realms of tech media, data dissemination, and marketing services worldwide.
IDC's assortment of Insights lines of business fulfills a vital role by empowering both business leaders and IT luminaries, alongside their supplier counterparts, with indispensable technological insights. Comprising seasoned analysts wielding decades of industry acumen, the global research unit champions in-depth consultation and research services that address the multifaceted nexus of contemporary business and technology. The span of IDC Insights coverage is expansive, encompassing critical sectors such as Energy, Financial, Government, Health, Manufacturing, and Retail.
By meticulously distilling complex technological nuances into comprehensible insights, IDC propels the transformation of information into actionable wisdom, thus charting a course for informed decision-making across diverse sectors and industries.
5,957 Reports from IDC
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IDC PeerScape: Practices for Implementing Electric Vehicle Charge Point Management Systems at Scale
"As utilities, cities, and fleets scale EV charging infrastructure, the role of EV charging management systems becomes mission critical. These platforms provide the intelligence layer needed to coordinate charging across assets, minimize energy costs, and integrate with broader operational and energ ... Read More
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Leveraging GenAI in Healthcare: How Fujita Health University Hospital Transformed Clinical Workflows by Leveraging Amazon Bedrock
This IDC Perspective showcases the GenAI case study from Fujita Health University in Japan. The initiative focuses on reducing physicians' administrative burden by automating the generation of hospital discharge summaries. By implementing this solution, FHU achieved a 90% reduction in the time requi ... Read More
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IDC MaturityScape Benchmark: AI-Fueled Organization in Asia/Pacific, 2025
This IDC study presents the results of IDC's MaturityScape Benchmark AI Survey to help guide organizations on their AI maturity journey. "Asia/Pacific organizations need to approach AI adoption with a clear road map that connects business priorities with scalable technology decisions. Given the rapi ... Read More
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IDC PeerScape: Practices to Modernize Communication and Collaboration for Business Agility and Enhanced Business Outcomes
This IDC PeerScape report emphasizes the need for organizations to adopt flexible, AI-driven, and hybrid unified communications and collaboration (UC&C) solutions to support modern work environments. It outlines three key practices: selecting technologies that enable hybrid work, adopting AI-pow ... Read More
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Key Sustainability Trends and Developments, 2025
This IDC Market Perspective provides an overview of key developments in corporate sustainability and ESG in EMEA. Between geopolitical and macroeconomic volatility and ESG pushback on the one hand and the visible urgency for climate action on the other, topics around risk mitigation and resilience c ... Read More
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IDC PeerScape: SAP Modernization — Practices to Migrate and Optimize SAP Processes
Insights in this document were gathered during reference interviews as part of the IDC MarketScape: European SAP Modernization Services 2024 Vendor Assessment (IDC #EUR151806724), which evaluated service providers based in Europe. While vendors vary in terms of their capabilities and strengths (as h ... Read More
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Google Cloud Next 2025: Furthering the Vision for an Agentic, Experience-Orchestrated Future
This IDC Market Perspective discusses how Google Cloud Next 2025 reinforced Google's AI-native strategy, emphasizing agentic orchestration as the future of business applications. Key innovations include the Customer Engagement Suite, which builds on Google's Vertex AI platform and leverages Gemini f ... Read More
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IDC PlanScape: Tabletop Recovery Exercises
This IDC PlanScape provides CIOs, CISOs, and business leaders with a structured approach to launching or evolving their tabletop recovery exercise programs, covering why these exercises matter, what makes them successful, who needs to be involved, and how to use them as a lever for strategic improve ... Read More
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Asia/Pacific Channel Pulse: Distributors, VARs, and GSIs 2025
This IDC Market Perspective analyzes the evolving roles of distributors, VARs, and global systems integrators (GSIs) in the Asia/Pacific technology channel landscape. Amid economic volatility and shifting enterprise buying patterns, partners are accelerating their shift toward value-led services, ve ... Read More
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Global Systems Integrator Partnerships in Asia/Pacific: Navigating Local Nuance, Delivering Global Intent
This Market Perspective examines the strategic role of global systems integrators (GSIs) in Asia/Pacific and the growing disconnect between global partnership intent and local execution. Although GSIs are often viewed as multipliers for scale and transformation, meaningful traction in the region is ... Read More
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European 5G RedCap IoT Connectivity Market Forecast, 2025–2029
This IDC Market Forecast offers a comprehensive analysis of 5G reduced capability (RedCap), detailing its emergence as the critical "missing middle" in cellular IoT connectivity. It provides a five-year forecast for RedCap connections and spending in Europe, examines the market context that necessit ... Read More
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European eSIM Device Market Forecast, 2025–2029
This IDC Forecast provides analysis and forecasts for eSIM shipments and installed base in both the consumer and IoT markets. It includes forecasts of devices by eSIM specification."The European eSIM market is entering a pivotal phase of rapid acceleration, propelled by surging consumer awareness fr ... Read More
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European Telecom Services Forecast, 2025–2029
This IDC Market Forecast provides an update to IDC's European Telecom Services Forecast, 2023–2028 (May 2024). It comprises a forecast of the value of the overall European telecom services market (including fixed and mobile voice and data services and pay TV services).Additionally, the report focuse ... Read More
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Telecom Network API Hackathons and Incubators
This IDC Market Perspective examines how telecom operators are engaging with the developer ecosystem by means of hackathons and incubator programs to create awareness of their network APIs and capabilities and accelerate ways to jointly build innovative network API-based B2B(2C) solutions and servic ... Read More
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Google Cloud’s Partnering Strategy — Building the Ecosystem for Agentic AI in EMEA
Google Cloud is doubling down on its identity as a platform and ecosystem company. At Next 25, the company made it clear that its future growth hinges on deep, flexible, and scalable partnerships. In the era of agentic AI and cloud 4.0, Google’s success will depend on how well it can co-innovate wit ... Read More
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IDC PeerScape: Practices to Successfully Modernize B2B Middleware
This IDC PeerScape highlights best practices provided in the IDC MarketScape for worldwide business-to-business middleware from December 2024. It highlights the collective learnings to provide best practices to companies looking to add or replace B2B technologies.According to Shari Lava, senior dire ... Read More
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The Future of Enterprise Connectivity in Retail — Key Investment Areas to Accelerate Efficiency and Time to Revenue
This IDC Perspective takes a look at top connectivity challenges, timelines for connectivity transformation, top areas for investment growth, and the impact of AI. Retailers face the onslaught of internal and external pressures to deliver a high-value experience to customers in physical stores and o ... Read More
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From Administrative Drain to Clinical Gain: The Case for Agentic AI in Prior Authorization for Healthcare Providers
This IDC Perspective explores how healthcare providers can radically streamline one of their most burdensome administrative processes, prior authorization (PA), through agentic AI. The document details the operational inefficiencies of legacy PA workflows, examines why traditional automation has fai ... Read More
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No, CLM Is Not Dead
This IDC Perspective challenges the notion that contract life-cycle management (CLM) is obsolete due to advancements in generative AI (GenAI). It argues that while GenAI offers capabilities such as data extraction and contract summarization, it lacks the tailored legal expertise, compliance, and str ... Read More
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Vendor M&A and Impact on the Cybersecurity Channel
This IDC Market Note highlights the often-overlooked impact of cybersecurity acquisitions on channel partners, emphasizing the need for clear communication and support to mitigate partner churn and ensure successful integration. By addressing concerns such as partner seniority, market penetration, p ... Read More
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Australia and New Zealand Industry and Company Size IT Spending Forecast, 2025–2029
This IDC study shows that the IT spending forecast for Australia and New Zealand (ANZ) from 2025 to 2029 highlights significant growth, driven by digital transformation (DX), AI, cloud computing, and cybersecurity investments. Australia's market is bolstered by economic recovery and strategic techno ... Read More
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Transforming the Software Development Life Cycle with Agentic AI
This IDC Market Perspective explores the transformative impact of agentic AI on the software development life cycle (SDLC), highlighting its potential to enhance operational efficiency, governance, and agility. As AI adoption accelerates, agentic AI is becoming a central force in transforming softwa ... Read More
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F5's Strategic Vision for Application Delivery and Security in the AI Era
This IDC Market Note discusses key themes and takeaways from F5 AppWorld, held in London, May 2025. The main themes highlighted include: F5's evolution to the App Delivery and Security Platform, AI Gateway, and strategic acquisitions and partnerships. It also addresses key considerations for F5 as i ... Read More
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Empowering Autonomous Commerce: How PayPal's MCP Server and Agent Toolkit Are Transforming AI-Driven Workflows
This IDC Market Perspective discusses how PayPal's Model Context Protocol (MCP) server and agentic toolkit are transforming AI-driven workflows. "PayPal's launch of the MCP server and Agent Toolkit signals a transformative leap from traditional, generative AI to a new era of agentic commerce — where ... Read More
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Quantum Computing + AI: Unlocking the Next Frontier of Enterprise Innovation
This IDC Perspective explores the key opportunities and hurdles in integrating AI with quantum computing, and vice versa, to inform stakeholders on navigating this complex, evolving landscape. The convergence of artificial intelligence (AI) and quantum computing represents one of the most transforma ... Read More
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