Category: Software & Enterprise Computing
Software & Enterprise Computing market research reports by IDC
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How Technology Transforms Industrial Operations' Workforces and Workflows
This IDC Perspective analyzes both the impact of emerging technologies on the necessary skills and the impact to key worker functions in industrial operations. As the rate of technological advancement accelerates, organizations are struggling to keep up with strategies around hiring, talent developm ... Read More
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Anaplan Unveils Enhanced GTM Planning Suite and Champions Shift to Continuous Planning at Connect
This IDC Market Note discusses Anaplan's Connect event. The event showcased significant product innovations and strategic updates, emphasizing a $500 million investment in AI-driven business planning. Key launches included applications for segmentation, scoring, merchandise financial planning, and i ... Read More
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RSAC Conference 2025: Agentic AI and a Continued Move Toward Integration Emerge as Key Themes
This IDC Market Perspective provides an overview of key trends, announcements, and other IDC insights from RSAC Conference 2025, held from April 28 to May 1 in San Francisco, California. This document highlights key trends identified at RSAC across cybersecurity product and service market segments, ... Read More
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Worldwide Edge Enterprise Infrastructure Forecast, 2025–2028
This IDC study presents the worldwide edge enterprise infrastructure forecast for 2025–2028. Shipment and revenue data is provided by major region and by provider type (e.g., service provider, managed services provider, and nonservice providers). Edge IT is the deployment of IT resources at peripher ... Read More
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Canva Create 2025 Expands Visual and Creative Use Cases
This IDC Market Note provides key takeaways from Canva's Create 2025 conference held in Hollywood Park in Los Angeles on April 10, 2025. Canva's Create 2025 conference unveiled Visual Suite 2.0 to enhance creative collaboration across enterprises. New features including Visual Suite 2.0, Canva Sheet ... Read More
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Paving the Way With AI: The Oil and Gas Industry's Energy Transition Journey — 2025 View
This IDC Perspective looks at the energy transition state of worldwide O&G companies, highlighting how they are adopting AI to boost business processes and asset operations in line with their larger net zero goals. It outlines O&G companies' net zero ambitions, commitments, and timelines, th ... Read More
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Infor 2025 Analyst Summit: Integrating AI and Process Intelligence for Industry-Specific Transformation
This IDC Perspective presents a reflection on Infor's strategic direction as discussed during the April 2025 Analyst Summit. It examines Infor's industry-focused approach to integrating AI and process intelligence within its cloud enterprise resource planning (ERP) solutions, marking a transition fr ... Read More
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Japan 3rd Platform Forecast by Vertical Segment and Company Size, 2025–2029
This IDC study classifies Japan industries into 21 industry sectors, including 17 business categories and four non-business categories — central government, local governments, education, and consumers — and reports the actual (2024) and forecast (2025–2029) 3rd Platform spending in each sector. This ... Read More
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IDC PlanScape: Product Excellence to Propel Digital Business for Government Agencies
This IDC PlanScape focuses on one component of government IT's array of challenges to help agencies achieve product excellence in government digital business."The new differentiating capability of a government agency enterprise is how good you are at building and delivering digital products and serv ... Read More
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Key Announcements from RSAC 2025 for DevSecOps and Software Supply Chain Security
This IDC Perspective summarizes key product announcements and market developments from RSA Conference 2025, with a focus on application security. The event featured a surge of innovation across areas including securing AI agents and applications, modernizing application security testing, strengtheni ... Read More
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Pivoting Toward Cloud and Software Delivery Strategic Autonomy: The Geopolitical Environment Creates the Premise for New Strategic Road Maps in Europe
This IDC Market Perspective discusses initiatives taking shape in Europe regarding technology self-reliance within the software infrastructure, cloud, and software delivery space in the context of geopolitical changes that affect U.S.-Europe relations. It introduces considerations around investment ... Read More
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Infor Innovation Summit 2025 — Maximizing Value Through Accelerated Innovation for Sustainable Success: Asia/Pacific (Including Japan) Perspective
This IDC report provides insights and an overview of the Infor Innovation Summit held in New York City on April 9 and 10, 2025, with emphasis on the Asia/Pacific (including Japan) (APJ) perspective. The event showcased Infor's strategic direction, industry focus, customer successes, and latest produ ... Read More
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Japan Data Platform, Logistics, and Operations Forecast, 2025–2029
In this IDC study, we define the Japan data platform, logistics, and operations market as a competitive market and classify it into four categories: data protection, data security, data management systems, and other data governance. Based on revenue performance and market trends up to 2024, we forec ... Read More
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SAP 1Q25: Continued Cloud Growth, Plus Data and AI, Is Enabling Businesses and the Future of Work
This IDC Market Note discusses SAP’s recent announcement of its 1Q25 results, and this document is a review of the earnings announced along with guidance.“SAP continues to achieve growth in cloud and has a solid data and AI strategy,” said Mickey North Rizza, group vice president, Enterprise Softwar ... Read More
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Agents as Apps: An Opportunity for Greater Innovation, More Revenue, and Increased Market Share
This IDC Market Perspective looks at the opportunity for enterprise application vendors and their partners to completely rethink their products and markets and gain more market share. AI agents will double the TAM for enterprise software vendors. With the threat of tariffs, geopolitical strife, and ... Read More
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Cybersecurity in EMEA Retail: AI's Role in Enhancing Cyberattack and Fraud Protection in Retail
This IDC Perspective discusses how cybersecurity in EMEA retail is being fundamentally reshaped by the integration of AI to address evolving digital threats. As retailers in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa accelerate their digital transformation efforts — adopting technologies such as omni-chann ... Read More
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Is Open Source Adding to AI Coolness or Complexity? European Companies' Approach to Open Source in AI
This IDC Market Perspective explores the growing role of open-source technologies in AI development, highlighting their benefits and challenges. European companies are increasingly adopting open-source AI for its flexibility, customization, and collaborative nature, with large firms and tech-forward ... Read More
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Windows Protected Print: A Comprehensive Look at the Impact of Microsoft's Efforts to Modernize Office Printing
This IDC Market Perspective examines Microsoft's efforts to modernize office printing through Windows Protected Print (WPP) and Universal Print. It highlights the need for secure, efficient printing in today's digital landscape, addressing challenges with legacy systems. With WPP, Microsoft has intr ... Read More
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First Learnings in Applying GenAI to Value Stream Management
This IDC Perspective discusses the current state of value stream management (VSM) and AI intersection (primarily in the form of large language models [LLMs]) and how organizations can plan and prepare to leverage AI and VSM in the future. Value stream maps represent detailed “pictures” of business a ... Read More
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Agents as Apps Will Dramatically Expand the Addressable Market for Enterprise Applications
This IDC Market Perspective discusses how agents as apps will dramatically expand the addressable market for enterprise applications. As vendors' software portfolios increasingly morph into AI agents, or agents as apps, software vendors will have a growing opportunity to also sell those agents to th ... Read More
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Syncron Announces a Strategic Partnership with CPQ Finland: SLM Capabilities Expand in the Nordics
This IDC Market Note highlights the announcement that Syncron will engage in a strategic partnership with CPQ Finland, enabling manufacturers and aftermarket service firms to optimize and strategically enhance their businesses. ... Read More
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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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Why Industry 4.0 Needs Dedicated Cloud Infrastructure
This IDC Perspective explores why the Industry 4.0 digital transformation of the industrial world requires dedicated, private cloud infrastructure. While public cloud services offer broad reach and cost benefits, the unique requirements of industrial environments make private cloud solutions necessa ... Read More
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Zendesk's Outcome-Based Pricing for AI Agents: A Shift Toward Resolution-Centric Customer Service
This IDC Market Note discusses Zendesk's August 2024 launch of the company's outcome-based pricing model, which charges customers only when Zendesk's AI agents fully resolve inquiries autonomously, emphasizing value and pricing transparency. At the 2025 Relate Conference, Zendesk introduced the Zend ... 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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