Category: Software & Enterprise Computing
Software & Enterprise Computing market research reports by IDC
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Google Cloud Next 2025: Strong Stack — Now the Test of Execution in Asia/Pacific
This IDC Market Note provides an insightful overview of the Google Cloud Next 2025 event held at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, Nevada on April 8–10, 2025. Google showcased its AI-native cloud stack, emphasizing modular, open architectures, and AI automations. Despite robust offerings, execution remains ... Read More
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Worldwide IDC Global DataSphere Forecast Update, 2025–2029: Regional Analysis
This IDC study presents a regional analysis of the 2025 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 and cloud/noncloud."As digital ecosystems evolve, re ... Read More
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Japan Telecommunications Services Forecast, 2025–2029
This IDC study provides market forecasts and outlook for the Japan telecommunications services market from 2025 to 2029. The Japan telecommunications service market in 2024 was expected to see an increase in traffic because of increased cloud connections and expanding investment in Internet of Thing ... Read More
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How AI Agents will Impact Next-Generation Partner Business Models
This IDC Market Perspective focuses on how deploying AI agents within their own services offerings will impact the business models of IT services organizations' and the offerings they provide to end customers."Agentic AI will significantly disrupt the existing business models and financial models of ... Read More
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Google Cloud Next '25: Agents Accelerating an AI-Native Future
This IDC Market Perspective focuses on the rich array of software-related data and AI announcements from Google Cloud Next '25, the event's theme of an agentic AI-driven future, and the implications for Google's strategy and market positioning. Google Cloud Next '25 was held at Mandalay Bay in Las V ... Read More
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Reconsidering Organizations' Fundamental Approaches to Observability in 2025
The IDC Perspective on solution selection criteria in observability and AIOps explores the rapid digital transformation driven by COVID-19, leading to work models with increased automation and spatial/temporal disassociation. This shift necessitates effective tools to manage the growing complexity o ... Read More
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IDC's Global CIO Advisory Board — An Overview of SAP's Recent Strategy and Product Announcements
This IDC Perspective summarizes IDC's Global CIO Advisory Board discussion on SAP's latest strategy and product announcements."SAP latest strategy unifies AI, applications, and data to enhance app functionality, operational performance, and efficiency. By standardizing the IT core, organizations can ... Read More
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Schneider Electric's Acquisition of Motivair Strengthens Its Portfolio for AI Datacenters
This IDC Market Note discusses Schneider Electric's acquisition of Motivair Corporation, which marks a strategic expansion as it enhances Schneider Electric's portfolio. Expanding Schneider Electric's liquid cooling portfolio adds value on its own, but its more significant differentiation is as a si ... Read More
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Enterprise Application Customers: Navigating the Challenges of Tariffs, Regulations, and Costs with AI
This IDC Market Perspective looks at how enterprise applications customers are navigating the complexities of tariffs, regulations, costs, inflation, and IT spending. According to IDC's April 2025 Future Enterprise Resiliency and Spending Survey, Wave 3, 40.2% will aggressively seek to renegotiate e ... Read More
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IDC MaturityScape Benchmark: AI-Fueled Retail 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."Retailers have been focusing on AI for a long time, but exponential transformation has just begun," says Ananda Chakravarty, VP research, ... Read More
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Adobe MAX London 2025: Accelerating Creative Enterprise with AI, Collaboration, and Content Integrity
This IDC Market Note discusses the announcements and strategic implications from Adobe MAX London 2025 that are most relevant to enterprise B2B buyers investing in creative technology and content supply chain modernization. ... Read More
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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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Safeguarding Critical Data Assets: An Overview of Data Security Posture Management
DSPM is an emerging cybersecurity category designed to provide visibility into an organization's data security. It discovers sensitive data across cloud environments, assesses and monitors security posture, and detects risks before they escalate into data breaches and compliance violations. This IDC ... 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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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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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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Japan IT Security Product Market Share, 1H24: The Growing SaaS Security Market
This IDC study analyzes vendor share and vendor trends in the Japan information security product market in 1H24. Also, in this period, the Japan information security product market saw growth in both the security software and security appliance markets as companies and organizations are asked to str ... 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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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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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 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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