Category: Technology & Media
Technology & Media market research reports by IDC
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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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How Tariff Threats Are Impacting the European Print Services Market
This IDC Market Note looks at how the threat of tariffs is already impacting the print services market in Europe. ... 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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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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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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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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Preparing for the Quantum Threat to Print
This IDC Market Note looks at market and supplier readiness for post-quantum cryptography (PQC) implementations. ... 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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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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The Inkjet Market: Consumer Versus Commercial
This IDC Market Perspective discusses the changing landscape of the inkjet market in terms of trends within consumer and commercial segments. It aims to help suppliers align their portfolios with developments in the market and manage their offerings in a market that is in decline."Inkjet markets are ... 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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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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The Presidential Price Transparency Executive Order Is Irrelevant and Speciously Justified
This IDC Perspective presents that after CMS mandates for payers and providers emerged in response to "surprise billing" and obfuscation of medical pricing, now there is an "executive order." This order is speciously rationalized and ignores the fact that this concept is an expensive proposition of ... 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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