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.
5,735 Reports from IDC
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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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Tariff Disruption: Strategic Financial Leadership in an Era of Trade Volatility
This IDC Perspective discusses how, in an era of trade volatility, tariffs have become significant disruptors for CFOs, impacting costs, margins, and supply chains. Finance leaders must adopt proactive strategies, leveraging technology for agile forecasting, scenario planning, and compliance. AI and ... 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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Konica Minolta Adds White to AccurioPresses
This IDC Market Note highlights some of the advantages Konica Minolta‘s (KM’s) new AccurioPress production printing solutions offer. The new generation of KM’s AccurioPress adds a fifth color to Konica Minolta’s focus on quality and automation. ... Read More
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Speak Smarter, Connect Better: Generational Strategies for Modern Marketing and Consumer Communication
This IDC Market Perspective draws on findings from our Consumer Brand Sentiment Survey to examine generational differences in platform engagement and brand sentiment. The Social Security Administration's potential move to X underscores a broader marketing fact: your message is only as strong as your ... 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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Digital Commerce Strategy: An Executive Look at VTEX's Withdrawal from the MACH Alliance and Industry Reaction
This IDC Market Perspective provides an executive summary to inform the vendors of digital commerce software about the rationale behind this strategic choice, the market reaction to the decision, and provide a summary of the defense from the MACH Alliance. VTEX, a digital commerce platform provider, ... 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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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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Employee Metrics That Matter for the Services Industry, 2025
This IDC Market Perspective provides an overview of employee metrics that matter for the services industry. Staying ahead of the competition requires service providers to create a thriving employee culture and instill a sense of corporate citizenship. With greater uncertainty across the business lan ... Read More
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Worldwide Used Smartphone Forecast, 2025–2029
This IDC study provides a five-year forecast of the worldwide used smartphone market."For some, the thought of purchasing a used or refurbished smartphone would be out of the question, yet on both a regional and worldwide level, the market continues to grow," said Ramon T. Llamas, research director ... Read More
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Worldwide Content Delivery Networks Forecast, 2025–2029
This IDC study provides our forecast for the worldwide content delivery networks market for the 2025–2029 period."Facing margin pressure and lower growth in the traditional video streaming segment, CDN providers are seeking opportunities in edge compute augmented with continued focus on security. Th ... 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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GDC 2025 Postmortem: XR and 3D Software Development Tool, Platform, and Game Highlights
This IDC Market Note assesses some key XR-related news made and trends highlighted at the Game Developers Conference (GDC), which was held in mid-March."From Unity Technologies' 6.1 update news to Meta's sobering assessment of how the Quest user base changed in 2024, GDC 2025 didn't disappoint on th ... Read More
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GDC 2025 Postmortem: UGC and Virtual Creator Economy Trends
This IDC Market Note assesses key UGC and creator economy news and trends that were highlighted at March's Game Developers Conference (GDC) in California."UGC game platforms and virtual creator economies are an increasingly important part of the gaming landscape. Roblox, Second Life, and Eggy Party ... Read More
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Print Vendors Must Develop Stronger Channel Program Support to Ease Transformation
This IDC Market Perspective explores feedback from channel partners on the ability of print vendors to provide support for a transforming market. Transformation was just one of eight criteria on which channel partners were asked to rate their vendor partners as part of IDC's 2024 Western European Pr ... 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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Creating an IT Strategy — An Example
This IDC Perspective provides a comprehensive example of an IT strategy. It is designed to guide organizations in creating an effective, well-structured IT strategy. Building on previous guidance, this document offers an example of how to apply the IT Strategy Framework and associated template using ... 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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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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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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