Category: Software & Services
Software & Services market research reports by IDC
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Visma Ends 2024 with Strong Organic Growth on Top of 33 Acquisitions
This IDC Market Note reviews Norway-based Visma’s full-year performance based on its reported quarterly results for fiscal year ending December 31, 2024. The document reviews key results and operational indicators of the company. Finally, the document reviews and contemplates the strategy of Visma. ... Read More
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Asia/Pacific Application Management Services Forecast, 2024–2028
This IDC study provides the revenue forecast for the APJ AM services market for the 2024–2028 period. It includes advice for AM SPs, an analysis of the key market and industry trends by the importing market, key market drivers and inhibitors, and significant market developments."AI has the potential ... Read More
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Unisys: Betting on Core Strengths to Deliver Transformational Outcomes
Unisys held an Analyst Day in India, Bangalore on January 23, 2025 and presented a wide range of updates across its technology services business in India. IDC analysts took a deep dive into two of its core verticals, Digital Workplace Services (DWS) and Cloud, Applications and Infrastructure (CAI) b ... Read More
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Securing Closed Source and SaaS Apps in the Enterprise Software Supply Chain
This IDC Perspective offers guidance on why software supply chain security protections must extend to closed source and SaaS applications as well as open source code. Third-party closed source applications and SaaS apps often feature prominently alongside open source code in enterprise software supp ... Read More
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IDC PeerScape: Peer Insights for Modernization of Legacy Applications and Cloud Migration
This IDC PeerScape discusses peer insights for modernization of legacy applications and cloud migration.According to Gerald Johnston, adjunct research advisor, IDC's IT Executive Programs (IEP), "The best modernization outcomes start with the up-front analysis to focus on critical functions, busines ... Read More
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IDC PeerScape: Practices to Implement and Scale Platform Engineering
This IDC PeerScape draws on interviews with IT leaders from multiple enterprises who have overseen successful platform engineering initiatives to provide guidance on how businesses may best approach the adoption of platform engineering and the implementation of an IDP. By highlighting key challenges ... Read More
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Japan Sustainability and ESG Applications Software Forecast, 2024–2028
Japan Sustainability and ESG Applications Software Forecast, 2024–2028 This IDC study analyzes the actual sales figures for the Japan environmental, social, and governance (ESG) applications market in 2023 as defined by IDC and provides market forecasts for 2024–2028."The ESG application market is e ... Read More
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Autodesk and Windover: Digital Twin and Industry Convergence for Construction Success
Autodesk and Windover: Digital Twin and Industry Convergence for Construction Success This IDC Market Note provides our review and analysis of a recent Tufts University construction site visit, specifically the use of advanced digital technology to unify data, processes, and resources for better pro ... Read More
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European Financial Applications Forecast, 2024–2028
European Financial Applications Forecast, 2024–2028 This IDC Market Forecast provides analysis and sizing of the European financial applications market for 2021–2023 and forecasts for 2023–2028. The European financial applications market managed to surpass its estimated growth for 2023, reaching $12 ... Read More
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Unearthing New FinOps Requirements and Advancing the Market at FinOps X 2024 Barcelona
Unearthing New FinOps Requirements and Advancing the Market at FinOps X 2024 Barcelona This IDC Market Perspective discusses the FinOps X 2024 event in Barcelona, which highlighted the growing importance of FinOps in managing cloud costs and aligning cloud investments with business strategies. Key t ... Read More
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Lessons Learned from Global Project Management Offices
Lessons Learned from Global Project Management Offices This IDC Perspective will provide lessons learned in designing a project management office (PMO) that meets customer needs. No matter whether a project management office is newly formed or mature, or whether it is well received or struggling wi ... Read More
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Open Mainframe Project Zowe Gets No-Cost Enterprise Support from Broadcom
Open Mainframe Project Zowe Gets No-Cost Enterprise Support from Broadcom This IDC Market Note explores the implications of Broadcom’s recent announcement that it is offering free enterprise support for the Zowe open source project. “Broadcom’s no-cost enterprise support for the Zowe open source pro ... Read More
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IDC MaturityScape: Disaster Recovery 2.0
IDC MaturityScape: Disaster Recovery 2.0 This IDC study delves into the DR capability model and its dimensions, providing a road map for organizations to follow as they advance from basic, ad hoc recovery practices to a fully integrated, proactive, and adaptive DR strategy.As Gerald Johnston, adjunc ... Read More
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Worldwide Low-Code, No-Code, and Intelligent Developer Technologies Forecast, 2024–2028
Worldwide Low-Code, No-Code, and Intelligent Developer Technologies Forecast, 2024–2028 This IDC study provides a worldwide forecast for 2023–2028 for the LCNCIDT market. It provides the market size of the worldwide LCNCIDT market in 2023 and a five-year forecast through 2028 by geographic region an ... Read More
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Worldwide Low-Code, No-Code, and Intelligent Developer Technologies Market Shares, 2023: Intelligence Drives Development Technologies
Worldwide Low-Code, No-Code, and Intelligent Developer Technologies Market Shares, 2023: Intelligence Drives Development Technologies This IDC study provides worldwide market share data for the low-code, no-code, and intelligent developer technologies market for the calendar year 2023.“Generative AI ... Read More
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Amazon Takes Charge: Breakthrough Announcements at AWS re:Invent 2024
Amazon Takes Charge: Breakthrough Announcements at AWS re:Invent 2024 This IDC Market Note reviews the announcements from the AWS re:Invent 2024 conference that are of specific relevance to the database software market. It includes announcement details and commentary.“Although there are many headlin ... Read More
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IDC PeerScape: Lessons Learned from Implementing CPaaS in Finance
IDC PeerScape: Lessons Learned from Implementing CPaaS in Finance This IDC PeerScape provides insights into how CPaaS is used in the financial sector, identifying what challenges surfaced and how these were addressed. IDC interviewed leading CPaaS vendors that have successful use cases for European ... Read More
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