Category: Software & Services
Software & Services market research reports by IDC
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No-Code Development with AI and Data Intelligence: Smardaten's Approach to Digital Innovation
This IDC Market Note examines Smardaten's data-driven, enterprise-class no-code platform. In addition to lowering reliance on IT and allowing speedier application deployment and process automation, the platform offers seamless data unification and real-time accessibility without the need for sophist ... Read More
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Worldwide Functions as a Service Forecast, 2025–2028
This IDC study provides the worldwide functions as a service (FaaS) market forecast for 2024 to 2028. It also presents regional forecasts and a discussion of significant market developments and leading market participants. “The FaaS market is forecast to grow from $3.2 billion in 2023 to $13.4 billi ... Read More
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Asia/Pacific Refocuses on Hybrid Architectures
This Market Perspective looks into the main drivers of hybrid cloud across the Asia/Pacific markets, and provides technology vendors with information on how best to position themselves favorably with technology buyers looking to either repatriate workloads from the public cloud or deploy new workloa ... Read More
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Japan DevOps Software Forecast, 2025–2029
This IDC study summarizes the Japan development operations (DevOps) software market's performance in 2024, and market forecast for 2025–2029 based on information collected through interviews and surveys conducted up to the end of January 2025.In 2024, many companies budgeted for projects aimed at us ... Read More
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Navigating the Regulatory Landscape of Application Modernization
Organizations face a major challenge: adapting their applications to new European regulations. From data protection (the GDPR) and cybersecurity (NIS2, DORA, CRA) to artificial intelligence (the AI Act), these requirements are forcing far-reaching changes. This IDC Market Perspective explains their ... Read More
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Asia/Pacific (Excluding Japan and China) Software-Defined WAN Infrastructure Forecast, 2025–2029
This IDC study provides a market forecast that includes historical SD-WAN infrastructure market for 2024–2029 across APEJC."SD-WAN complements the need for enterprises to have a policy-based, centralized, underlay agnostic network required to power the dynamic connectivity requirements of their day- ... Read More
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European Enterprise Communications Services, 2025: Scope and Definitions
This IDC Market Perspective provides an overview of the market segments covered in IDC's European Enterprise Communications Services CIS. This CIS analyzes the connectivity and communications services markets, detailing changing requirements, trends, and competitive dynamics while providing actionab ... Read More
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DNS Protection: Principal Considerations for Enterprise and Service Providers
This IDC Market Note aims to dispel confusion about DNS security through an overview of DNS protection strategies and solutions available for enterprises and service providers. DNS is of critical importance for any organization looking to deliver an optimal online user experience, to the public, for ... Read More
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Worldwide Competitive Deployment-Centric and Container Platforms Market Shares, 2024: The Rise of Full-Stack Platforms
This IDC study reports the market share of the worldwide competitive deployment-centric and container platforms market for the year 2023 and the two prior years. It includes both on-premises and public cloud deployment types, depicting most of the growth in the public cloud portion of the market. It ... 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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IDC PeerScape: Practices for Implementing a New IT Service Management Installation
This IDC PeerScape presents best practices for a new or replacement IT service management software installation, from goal setting to implementation to data management to staff guidance.“In a time of product discontinuations and new available features, organizations have the opportunity to plan upda ... Read More
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Enterprise, IT Business, and Functional Business Architects: What Are the Differences, and How Are They Steering the Technology Decisions?
This IDC Market Perspective explores the distinct roles of enterprise, IT business, and functional business architects in large corporations, emphasizing their unique perspectives and collaborative efforts in technology decision-making. It highlights the importance of understanding these roles for v ... Read More
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Japan Enterprise Applications Forecast, 2025–2029
This IDC study analyzes the actual revenue in 2024 and forecasts the market from 2025 to 2029 for the Japan enterprise applications (EA) software market, which is composed of the collaborative workspace market, customer relationship management (CRM) application market, and enterprise resource manage ... 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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Automation as a Catalyst: Driving Business Agility, Speed, and Data Integrity
This IDC Perspective aims to provide CIOs, senior IT and technology executives, and other enterprise leaders with insights into how a robust automation strategy can drive businesses to new heights, unlocking new levels of operational efficiency, decision-making speed, and data reliability while also ... Read More
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Worldwide Digital Asset Management Software Forecast, 2025–2028
This IDC study provides a sizing of the worldwide digital asset management software market in CY23 and a forecast through 2028 by geographical region. It includes commentary on market growth and emerging trends and provides actionable advice for technology suppliers. This document updates the digita ... Read More
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AI and Cloud Continue to Drive Microsoft Results in 2Q25
This IDC Market Note discusses how cloud and AI continue to drive Microsoft results in 2Q25. Microsoft continued to move forward on its path of increasing revenue and growth into its second quarter of 2025, with revenue of $69.6 billion increasing 12% over the last year. “Microsoft continues to make ... Read More
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IDC Future Enterprise Awards: Special Award for Smart Cities — Best in Citizen Well-Being Award Winner Profile 2025
This IDC Perspective highlights Kaohsiung City government's award-winning smart city project in Taiwan. The Department of Substance Abuse Control and Prevention (DSACP) formed the Kaohsiung AI Technology Drug Prevention Team, which utilizes AI, big data, and location-based services (LBS) to identify ... Read More
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Open Systems: Striving Toward Unified SASE
This IDC Vendor Profile analyzes Open Systems, a company competing in the managed SD-WAN/SASE market segment. It reviews key opportunities for Open Systems’ unified SASE platform to compete in this highly competitive marketplace. This document assesses Open System’s market footprint, growth potentia ... Read More
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To Manage the Coming Exponential Growth of AI and Applications, Organizations Need a Strategic Pivot in Software Engineering
This IDC Market Note provides a view on organizations' software engineering readiness and likely strategic considerations as they aim to leverage software as a foundational capability in a digital and AI world. It is based on research findings that highlight how an organization's software engineerin ... Read More
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A Maturity Model for Cultivating Developer Mindshare
This IDC Market Note outlines a five-level maturity model that organizations can use to assess and improve their efforts to capture developer mindshare. This maturity model serves as a starting point for understanding where an enterprise has solid footing in developer communities, where it has gaps, ... Read More
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Google Introduces GenAI in Workspace at No Extra Cost
This IDC Market Note discusses Google's move to include Gemini into its Workplace bundles for businesses and enterprises, sparing its customers from having to pay extra for AI. This move will not only drive strong value for its customers, but it will also democratize AI by expanding access to more u ... Read More
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Google Cloud Summit London: Focus on Real-Life AI Use Cases in the European Market
This IDC Market Perspective analyzes highlights from Google Cloud Summit London, held in October 2024. The summit gathered 4,000 attendees to showcase the latest advancements in Google Cloud's technology and pointing toward Google's key priorities for 2025. Focus areas of the event include generativ ... Read More
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European Intelligent Process Automation Market Events, 2H24
The IDC Market Note highlights key developments in the European intelligent process automation market in 2H24, focusing on the integration of GenAI features, strategic partnerships, and vendor innovations. Major players like Appian, ServiceNow, IBM, Nintex, UiPath, Bizagi, Pegasystems, Salesforce, M ... Read More
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Top 5 Trends in Managed Edge Content Delivery Services in 2025
This IDC Perspective anticipates key trends in the managed edge and content delivery services market in 2025. These include the emergence of inference at the edge, the pivot toward a unified SASE platform as a service, the focus on compelling industry edge use cases, the impact of AI on traffic, and ... Read More
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