Category: Technology & Media
Technology & Media market research reports by IDC
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Worldwide Document Imaging Scanner Forecast, 2024-2028
This IDC study provides the worldwide market forecast for document imaging scanners for the 2024–2028 period, with historical data for the 2019–2023 period."2023 was a turbulent year for the document imaging scanner market. Some geographic markets saw significant shipment declines and some segments ... Read More
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Best in Future of Trust: GCash Leads the Way in Secure and Inclusive Fintech Innovation
This IDC Perspective discusses the nomination details of the Best in Future of Trust winner from the IDC Future Enterprise Awards 2024 in Asia/Pacific, showcasing GCash's innovative approach to building digital trust and advancing cybersecurity in financial technology (fintech)."Effectively addressi ... 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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Confidence Scores: Transparency, Intelligence, and Business Resilience at Scale
This IDC Perspective explores the transformative potential of confidence scores, focusing on their capacity to enhance organizational resilience and operational efficiency. Confidence scores are a transformative tool designed to enhance enterprise resilience and operational efficiency through data-d ... 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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Private Cloud Fundamentals
This IDC Perspective explores the fundamentals of private clouds. It drills into why organizations would want or need to deploy this type of compute, storage, and networking infrastructure. Both deployment and business models are described to meet the needs of capex and opex buyers. Several datacent ... Read More
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Artificial Intelligence in Canadian Telecommunications: Episode AI — The Government Regulates Back
This IDC Market Perspective discusses the evolving legislative landscape of artificial intelligence (AI) in the Canadian telecommunications sector. It examines the stalled progress of Bill C-27, which aimed to regulate AI, consumer privacy, and data protection, and the potential implications of a sh ... Read More
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Uniphore Acquires ActionIQ and Infoworks to Enhance Data Control in Its Enterprise AI Platform
This IDC Market Note examines Uniphore's definitive agreement on December 5, 2024, to acquire ActionIQ and Infoworks, the impact of these acquisitions on Uniphore's business strategy, product offerings, and customer base, and implications for broader conversational AI, generative AI, and customer da ... Read More
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The Automation Imperative, Extending Supply Chain Capabilities and Augmenting the Logistics Workforce
This IDC Perspective explores how automation can enhance logistics execution and supply chain intelligence to boost productivity, reduce costs, improve serviceability, and advance sustainability. With a workforce under constant strain, logistics leaders are focusing on technologies like IoT, cloud c ... Read More
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NIS2 Directive: Why and How to Make Backup and Recovery a Strategic Priority for Compliance
This IDC Perspective discusses the compliance requirements of NIS2 and how organizations should develop holistic strategies encompassing both security and data protection for adhering to the gold standard of cyber-readiness. "Evolving EMEA digital regulations demand robust cybersecurity and data res ... Read More
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Managed SPs: Adapting Business Models to Support Modernizing Mainframes with Managed Cloud Services
This IDC Market Perspective discusses different approaches that enterprises consider when using managed SPs to support modernization of mainframe environments as part of managed cloud services and the impact in modernizing mainframes on future opportunities for managed SPs and how managed SPs should ... Read More
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Generative Physical AI, Agentic AI, Decentralized AI, Robotics, and XR Got the Spotlight at CES 2025
This IDC Market Note looks at announcements made at CES 2025, which highlighted significant advancements in AI, with NVIDIA leading the charge by showcasing generative physical AI and agentic AI capabilities. The event underscored AI's transformative potential across industries, emphasizing the need ... Read More
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TCG Lifesciences Streamlines Processes to Enhance Business Efficiency, Implement Secure Data Management Strategies, and Reduce Costs
This IDC Perspective highlights how TCG Lifesciences (TCGLS) leveraged advanced technologies to enhance operational efficiency and decision making across multiple business functions. By utilizing AI for predictive analysis in retrosynthetic route planning, ML for task automation, and data analytics ... Read More
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European Consumer and SMB Telecoms Strategies: Research Coverage and Approach
This IDC Market Perspective provides an overview of the markets covered in IDC's European Consumer Telecom Strategies research program. It analyzes various aspects of the European consumer and SMB (1–250 empl.) market, such as connections and revenues, as well as existing and new services that under ... Read More
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Investing in Product Engineering — Increase Revenue and Decrease Cost
This IDC Perspective explores the correlation between the cost of R&D, cost of goods sold, and revenue growth for almost 1,000 discrete product manufacturers across five industries. A strong correlation has been identified where higher engineering costs results in lower production costs (higher ... Read More
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Vendor Profile: ConvergentIS Provides a Glimpse into the Future of Procurement Agentic Platforms
This IDC Vendor Profile is not meant to be a primer on agentic AI; we'll spend a lot of time writing about agentic AI. But at a high level, agentic AI platforms represent an innovative approach in artificial intelligence, combining advanced technologies to create autonomous systems capable of indepe ... Read More
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Top Trends in Enterprise Connectivity for 2025
This IDC Perspective discusses top trends in enterprise connectivity for 2025.As enterprises look ahead to the coming year, 2025 will continue to be a year of evolving enterprise connectivity. “Businesses across all vertical markets are continuing to adapt to emerging technologies and see increasing ... Read More
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Telcos Accelerating Cloud-Native Deployments for Greater Scalability and Business Agility
This IDC Market Perspective provides IDC's view on telecom service provider's cloud-native network deployments strategies to enhance scalability and agility driven by the need to support 5G, edge computing, and advanced network management. Telecom service providers are accelerating their cloud-nativ ... Read More
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Top 5 Trends for Colocation Services for 2025
This IDC Market Perspective provides insights into the latest emerging datacenter technology trends that are shaping the datacenter colocation industry. New and emerging trends will change datacenter colocation facilities in terms of architecture design, cooling, storage, security, and sustainabilit ... Read More
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Top 5 Trends in the XR Market to Watch in 2025
This IDC Market Perspective examines key trends that will impact the XR market in 2025. Recent developments related to Android XR, 2D panel apps, and AI use cases will drive trends that we anticipate will shape market dynamics this year.“Android XR has the potential to shake up the XR platform race ... Read More
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Amazon Introduces Nova Foundation Models and Expands Model Choice in Amazon Bedrock
This IDC Market Note discusses how Amazon continues to innovate in GenAI, introducing a new family of frontier models addressing numerous enterprise use cases. The Nova model family includes text-only, multimodal, image-generation, and video-generation models, covering a wide range of enterprise use ... Read More
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IDC PeerScape: Practices for CAIO Success
This IDC PeerScape discusses the practices to help the new CAIOs succeed.“‘Seize the moment’ is a common exhortation. But high-impact opportunities are rare. The emergence of the CAIO position, however, is such a time. IT leaders have the chance to break new ground for innovation, deliver dramatic b ... Read More
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Do AI Agents Mark the Beginning of the End for Procurement Applications and Procurement Practitioners?
This IDC Market Perspective discusses AI agents that are revolutionizing procurement applications by automating processes, enhancing decision-making, and improving efficiency. While generative AI focuses on content creation and insights, agentic AI offers autonomous decision-making and operational e ... Read More
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