Category: Technology & Media
Technology & Media market research reports by IDC
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State of FinOps Survey, 2025
This IDC Market Note discusses the FinOps Foundation’s latest annual State of FinOps Survey released on February 20, 2025. Companies continue to grow and expand FinOps staffing and scope. IDC found that most enterprises operate in hybrid mode while spending heavily on public cloud and SaaS. FinOps t ... Read More
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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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Ivalua NOW 2025: Ivalua "WOW" Might Be More Appropriate
This IDC Market Note discusses Ivalua's annual Ivalua NOW conference in Paris, which showcased the company's ambitious vision for the future of procurement applications and emphasized the transformative role of AI. Founder David Khuat-Duy's new role as chief AI officer highlights its commitment to A ... Read More
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PFU Introduces Significant Enhancements in Scanner Software Update
This IDC Market Note highlights some of the new features that PFU is providing in the recently released update to its PaperStream scanning software. End users benefit from the software being so much easier to use, the organizations benefit from higher quality and greater productivity, and dealers be ... Read More
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Collaboration in the Intelligent Age: Takeaways from the WEF Annual Meeting 2025 in Davos for Content and Knowledge Management Services Providers in EMEA
This IDC Market Note examines emerging trends, expectations, and attitudes toward AI-enabled content management services in EMEA. These were discussed during the World Economic Forum (WEF) Annual Meeting 2025 that took place in January in Davos with the theme "Collaboration for the Intelligent Age." ... Read More
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Retail Technology Adoption in EMEA: Trends and Insights
This IDC Perspective discusses the ongoing transformation of the retail landscape in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA), driven by advanced technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), the Internet of Things (IoT), blockchain, and augmented/virtual reality (AR/VR). In mature markets su ... Read More
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Mapping GenAI Use Cases and Impact in Performance
This IDC Market Perspective looks at the impact of generative AI on HR, focusing on key use cases and future developments. As its role expands beyond simple HR process automation, organizations are exploring its impact on talent management, core HR, and employee experience; its effect on key HR metr ... Read More
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The Human Factor at Work in the Digital Business and AI Era
This IDC Market Perspective shares insights on how organizations can enhance the human element in the Digital Business and AI Era. There are five key pillars to consider for improving the human factor within an organization: the role of technology, wellbeing practices, the establishment of culture a ... Read More
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IDC PlanScape: Unlocking IT Value in M&A Deals
This IDC PlanScape presents a comprehensive guide for CIOs to unlock IT value in M&A deals. It enables organizations to maximize synergies, reduce risks, and drive successful integrations through strategic IT leadership and effective integration practices. However, the current context also bring ... Read More
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How to Deal with the Shortage of Skills Needed for Digital Sovereignty
Digital sovereignty is becoming crucial as nations and organizations aim to secure data, comply with regulations, and reduce their reliance on foreign technology. The success of these initiatives hinges on addressing skill gaps in cybersecurity, data governance, and cloud management. Upskilling and ... Read More
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The Impact of Agentic AI on the Financial Services Industry
This IDC Perspective examines selected areas in which agentic AI can impact financial services organizations. Agentic AI builds on the capabilities of GenAI and LLMs but adds additional abilities (e.g., planning and executing actions autonomously to reach objectives). These agents can use tools to s ... Read More
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IDC PlanScape: Healthcare Data Platforms for Providers
This IDC PlanScape serves as a guide for senior IT leaders and professionals within healthcare provider organizations on healthcare data platform technology initiatives. It aims to empower CIOs and their direct reports, senior IT directors, IT architects, and IT buyers across various business areas ... 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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Six Lessons from NRF 2025: Everything I Need to Know About Hospitality and Travel Digital Strategies I Learned from a 90s Movie
This IDC Perspective reflects upon the major themes and trends presented at the National Retail Federation's Big Show and Expo 2025 (NRF 2025) and how they apply to hospitality and travel organizations. With the rapid growth of AI, particularly agentic AI, hospitality and travel organizations will n ... Read More
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When Modernizing, Apply Architectural Principles to Build Resiliency for Critical Applications
This IDC Perspective provides a comprehensive road map for CIOs to architect resilient IT environments by aligning technology investments with business goals while balancing cost and performance. In the modern digital era, resilience has become a cornerstone of effective IT strategy. Organizations f ... Read More
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Worldwide Hard Disk Drive Market Shares, 2024: A Year of Massive Growth Spurred by Rising Cloud and OEM Demand
This IDC study reviews the worldwide HDD vendor market shares for 2024."Worldwide HDD industry revenue rebounded sharply in 2024 due to strong demand from cloud service providers coupled with growth from enterprise OEMs as inventories normalized from the elevated levels seen during the latter part o ... Read More
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Enabling Secure Mobility Through 5G Network Slices
This Market Note explores how 5G network slicing can help organizations protect their mobile workforce by isolating corporate traffic and embedding security directly into the network. "5G network slicing allows telcos to provide in-built security offerings to enterprises and transform mobile workfor ... Read More
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Asia/Pacific (Excluding Japan and China) Identity and Access Management Market Shares, 1H24: Identifying Growth and Disruption in the Identity Ecosystem
In 1H24, IAM solutions were no longer just a cybersecurity requirement but a core pillar of business transformation. Organizations are leveraging AI, automation, and identity risk analytics to enhance cybersecurity resilience, streamline access governance, and drive compliance alignment. As the IAM ... 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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IDC PlanScape: Industry Clouds
This IDC PlanScape discusses how industry clouds offer a specialized model for deploying cloud services, integrating industry-specific functions, applications, and data into a single ecosystem. They provide significant benefits such as improved productivity, collaboration, and analytics — especially ... Read More
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KPMG Scouts a Middle Route to AI-Enabled Organizational Transformation Guidance
This IDC Market Note provides an analysis of executive presentations made at KPMG annual analyst summit at the KPMG Lakehouse in Lake Nona, Florida, February 11–13, 2025. The event presented KPMG’s latest digital-human integrated approaches to its consulting and client engagement practices and demon ... Read More
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Introducing IDC's Worldwide Education and EdTech Digital Strategies Program: A Fresh Global Analysis of Technology Investments and Outcomes in K–12 and Higher Education
This IDC Perspective provides an introduction to IDC's Worldwide Education and EdTech Digital Strategies Program. It offers a comprehensive analysis of technology investments and outcomes in K–12 and higher education. This document highlights how institutions are leveraging emerging technologies lik ... Read More
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Events in European Predictive, Advanced, and Visual Analytics and Machine Learning, 2H24
This IDC Market Note details key moves in the analytics and business intelligence market in Europe between June and December 2024, focusing on tech vendor investments, mergers, and acquisitions. It also includes market moves outside of these areas that illustrate broader market trends. ... Read More
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Planning for GenAI Inferencing Impact on Infrastructure Investment Decisions
This IDC Perspective explores the experience of organizations that have moved multiple GenAI POCs into production and provides infrastructure tech buyers with important insights about the cost, performance, and security trade-offs that must be balanced to optimize GenAI inferencing infrastructure in ... Read More
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Utilities Digital Strategies to Succeed in the Energy Transition
This IDC Perspective explores digital strategies for utilities to succeed in the energy transition. This document examines investments in three key areas: operations, clean energy, and customer engagement. The utilities industry will need to continue to invest in digital strategies to reduce their r ... Read More
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