IT Spending Market Research Reports & Industry Analysis

Mars International Offers Essential Services to OEMs, Dealers, and Lessors This IDC Vendor Profile provides an overview of Mars, a remarketer of off-lease and repossessed office equipment. During IDC's recent tour of the metro New York City area to visit with major copy/print OEMs, we had the oppor ...

Why Haven't We Achieved Full Process Automation? This IDC Perspective looks at full process automation. Supply chains have long sought advancements in automation and optimization. While technologies have gotten us closer to realizing the vision, many still lag. Addressing internal roadblocks, ensuri ...

The One-Stop Shop Versus Focused Solutions: How Many Platforms Is Too Many? This IDC Perspective looks at one-stop shop versus focused solutions. It is clear that composability and, more specifically, the advent of niche/expert technology vendors offer significant opportunity to tailor-make solution ...

IDC PlanScape: Hyper-Personalized Loyalty in Hospitality and Travel This IDC PlanScape addresses how loyalty solutions must hinge upon hyper-personalization, leveraging omni-channel strategies along with guest data platforms, real-time analytics, and AI to ensure that every opportunity for guest en ...

IDC MaturityScape: Aftermarket Service Transformation 1.0 This IDC study delves into the evolution of aftermarket service transformation, detailing five maturity stages from a completely ad hoc approach with disjointed and manual processes to optimized and autonomous experiences that lead to prescri ...

IDC PlanScape: Analysis of Computer Vision Implementation in Automated and Self-Checkout Stores This IDC PlanScape report highlights the transformative impact of computer vision technology on the retail sector in Asia/Pacific, particularly in enhancing automated and self-checkout stores. It undersco ...

Top Retail Generative AI Use Cases This IDC Perspective discusses the top retail generative AI (GenAI) use cases. Over 63.8% of retailers are investing in generative AI, focusing on use cases like natural language understanding and content generation despite facing challenges such as IT complexity a ...

Digital Infrastructure for the Modern Enterprise: AXA Hong Kong and Macau’s Transformation Journey This IDC Perspective covers the digital infrastructure modernization journey undertaken by AXA Hong Kong and Macau as it sought to build an infrastructure foundation that could support its vision of "C ...

Payments as a Service and Embedded Finance Trends in Asia: Creating New Value from New Models This IDC report looks at prominent developments within the payments-as-a-service (PaaS) space in Asia/Pacific and how global developments may affect this rapidly growing space. The PaaS movement brings inte ...

Case Study: Problem Management Practice Improvements This IDC Perspective delves into enhancing problem management practices through strategic improvements in people, processes, and technology, aiming to boost technology performance and customer experience. It offers actionable recommendations such ...

Cyber-Recovery as a Service: Enhancing Cyber-Resiliency in a Scalable Fashion This IDC Perspective details the adoption rate of cyber-recovery as a service (CRaaS) as well as the benefits and challenges of adoption for Asia/Pacific (including Japan) (APJ) enterprises, examining the adoption from reg ...

CIO's Impact on Mergers and Acquisitions This IDC Perspective discusses CIOs' impact on M&A. Acquisitive companies are now looking at digital capabilities as enablers of operating leverage and recognizing emerging technologies as drivers of strategic acceleration and transformational investments ...

The Laser Market: Changing Landscapes Laser markets have faced considerable challenges over the past few years as factors such as the COVID-19 pandemic have accelerated market developments — for good or bad — in areas such as digitization, hybrid working, and the circular economy. Laser OEMs accepti ...

Worldwide Financial Applications Market Shares, 2023: Advanced Technology Reshapes Finance Competitive Landscape This IDC study examines the evolving landscape of finance and accounting that is increasingly influenced by digital technologies. This transformation necessitates the adoption of these ...

PLUNKETT'S CONSULTING INDUSTRY ALMANAC 2024 Key Findings: A complete market research report, including forecasts and market estimates, technologies analysis and developments at innovative firms within the Consulting Industry. Gain vital insights that can help shape strategy for business development ...

Cloud Can Help Enterprises Be More Sustainable When Deploying AI and GenAI Workloads This IDC Market Perspective explores the increasing energy consumption of AI and GenAI workloads. It looks into the different ways that new adopters of these technologies can reduce energy consumption and reduce the ...

India Security Spending Forecast Update, 2023–2027 This IDC forecast details the 2023–2027 market size and growth rate for the India security market. "India has always been a high-growth market, with hardware spending historically on the rise. However, since the pandemic, this growth has slowed as m ...

Quantum Benchmarking in the Era of Quantum Utility This IDC Perspective provides insight into the current status of quantum computing benchmarking and how current benchmarking tools can be leveraged by enterprise end users interested in comparing the performance of today's quantum computing systems ...

Turning the Tide: Essential Strategies for FHIR-Based Interoperability in Electronic Prior Authorization for Providers This IDC Perspective provides a road map for healthcare organizations to navigate implementing ePA solutions leveraging FHIR standards. Healthcare providers can achieve seamless dat ...

Financial Implications of Strategic Investments in Composable Commerce Technology: Rip and Replace or Embrace and Extend This IDC Perspective explores the strategic and financial ramifications of adopting composable commerce technology, focusing on the decision between "rip and replace" or "embrace ...

Sustainable Software Engineering: A Mandate for Every Organization This IDC Perspective explores sustainable software engineering (SSE) and how organizations can elevate and implement SSE practices. SSE is emerging as a crucial discipline, emphasizing energy efficiency and environmental sustainabili ...

Evaluating the Costs and ROI of Edge Computing This IDC Perspective outlines the various methods for provisioning IT service at the edge and presents strategies to understand the business value of edge investments. More and more companies are embracing edge computing, citing benefits that include fa ...

What is Black and White and Designed for Security? Meeting ROOMZ Solution This IDC Perspective highlights the evolution of meeting room solutions, focusing on the shift toward real-time management and predictive capabilities. ROOMZ, a Swiss company, stands out with its unique, sustainable e-ink tech ...

Legacy Technology: Impeding Business' Ability to Compete Effectively in the Digital World This IDC Perspective outlines the legacy aspects holding organizations back while helping outline a pathway toward a great future in the digital world. The digital world requires organizations to pivot quickly, ...

Building Digital Sovereignty into the Cloud Buyer Conversation This IDC Market Perspective considers the shifts in cloud buyer conversations that vendors are likely to have around digital sovereignty. It draws upon data leveraged in IDC's quarterly Cloud Pulse Surveys which take the pulse of cloud b ...