IT Spending Market Research Reports & Industry Analysis

Enterprise Tech Ecosystem Series: Ferrero International 2024 Summary Ferrero is a family-owned sweet-packaged food company. The company’s products are sold under more than 35 brand names, including Nutella, Kinder, Ferrero Rocher, Tic-Tac, Thorntons, Raisinets, Frosted Mother’s Cookies, Murray Sugar ...

Generative AI in Finance: What Is It and How Can It Be Applied? This IDC Perspective explores the application of generative AI in the office of the CFO, emphasizing the importance of understanding the various types of AI, their risks, and limitations. It highlights the potential of generative AI to ...

Post-Quantum Cryptography for Financial Services and Payments Needs to Start Now This IDC Perspective discusses the need for post-quantum cryptography for financial services and payments. Financial services institutions use both RSA-2048 and AES-256 encryption based on the strengths of each standard ...

Consumers as Corporate IT Buyers and Technology Decision-Makers: Appreciate the Millennials, Prepare for Gen Z This IDC Market Perspective looks at characteristics of millennial consumers in light of increased millennial presence among corporate IT buyers and technology decision-makers. "There are o ...

IDC PeerScape: Practices to Augment and Support Frontline Workers in the Future of Work The IDC PeerScape highlights best practices that support and augment frontline workers across Europe. It emphasizes the importance of providing appropriate digital devices, leveraging automation, and using techno ...

IDC PlanScape: Digital Engineering to Improve IT and OT Collaboration This IDC PlanScape discusses a set of practical considerations for developing a digital engineering organization. IT and operations have traditionally been isolated business units in industrial organizations. As technology capabi ...

Global IT Spending in Railways Competitive Landscape Professional Research Report 2024 Research Summary IT spending in railways involves the allocation of financial resources towards information technology solutions and systems to modernize and improve various aspects of railway operations. This inc ...

Vendors to Watch for Real-World Evidence, Data, Platforms, Technologies, and Consulting Services This IDC Perspective reviews vendors to watch in the real-world evidence (RWE), data, platforms, technologies, and consulting and provides guidance to technology buyers."As the importance of RWD/RWE cont ...

Smart Policies for People-Centric European Cities and Communities: 2024 Update This IDC Perspective provides an overview of eight macro policy areas that European city and community leaders should consider integrating into their smart city policies to drive a people-centric approach to technological ...

IDC PeerScape: Peer Insights for Cost Justification in Enterprise Architecture This IDC PeerScape describes the way enterprise architects can defend projects with cost in mind. It explains, through the eyes of experienced leaders, how enterprise architects can move their organizations forward techno ...

Nacha Event Highlights U.S. Payment Trends This IDC Perspective discusses some of the key takeaways from the Nacha event, which was held this year in Miami Beach. The Nacha event, "Smarter Faster Payments," highlighted key U.S. payment trends, including the slow but growing adoption of real-time set ...

Forces Affecting Retailers Call for Modernized Workforce Optimization and Task Automation This IDC Perspective highlights the urgent need for technology strategies that attract and retain employees and that automate routine tasks to free up associates to provide better customer service. Retailers fa ...

Zycus Horizon 2024: AI Is the New UI This IDC Market Note discusses Zycus Horizon 2024 that was held from May 15 to 17 in Miami, Florida. Zycus Horizon 2024 showcased its AI-driven advancements in spend management at its user conference, emphasizing the integration of its Merlin AI engine across its ...

IDC PlanScape: Data Tech Debt This IDC PlanScape provides insights into how rogue data and data sprawl contribute to an organization's tech debt and the negative effect it can have on overall tech debt leverage. The intent is to provide tools and guidance to IT leaders as they strive to communicate ...

A Deeper Look at VOC 2.0 and Unstructured Data This IDC Perspective highlights the potential improvements in VOC implementations, emphasizing the importance of real-time personalized customer experiences. VOC practitioners are encouraged to leverage unstructured data alongside structured data to gai ...

IDC PeerScape: Peer Insights to Adopt Experience-Orchestrated Applications This IDC PeerScape describes three practices to help organizations address these challenges, accelerating adoption and improving value realization for X-O applications."X-O applications can deliver a seamless experience, even ...

Skills for the AI/Generative AI Era in Latin America This IDC Perspective explores the challenges and opportunities in Latin America’s workforce that is marked by skill shortages and AI’s transformative influence. It underscores the need for collaboration to develop clear AI strategies, invest in wo ...

People-Centric Innovation in Cities and Communities: The Case of Leeuwarden Municipality This IDC Perspective analyzes the approach to technology innovation of the Leeuwarden municipality in the Netherlands' Friesland region. "Leeuwarden adopted a bottom-up approach to innovation that looks at the r ...

KPIs and Metrics That Need to Be Assessed During Finance Transformation This IDC Perspective discusses KPIs and metrics that need to be assessed during finance transformation. It is more and more essential for BI tools and metrics/KPI dashboards to be implemented in the office of the CFO. BI tools ...

IDC PeerScape: Practices to Improve Team Management in Centers of Excellence This IDC PeerScape explores several examples of how successful organizations developed centers of excellence that met or exceeded expectations and how they addressed the challenges surrounding COEs. It examines how each org ...

Identity and Access Management Market by Type, Offerings, Solution, Service, Deployment Mode, Verticals (BFSI, Travel & Hospitality, Healthcare, Retail & E-Commerce, Education, IT & ITES, Government & Defense) & Region - Global Forecast to 2029 The Global Identity and Access Management market size i ...

The Cigna Group - Digital transformation strategies Summary This report provides insight into Cigna Group's tech activities, including its digital transformation strategies, its innovation programs, its technology initiatives, its estimated ICT budget, and its major ICT contracts. The Cigna Group (C ...

IDC PeerScape: Practices to Improve Workforce Experience with Unified Platform Strategies in Hospitality and Travel This IDC PeerScape looks at how leading hospitality and travel brands have successfully applied unified platform strategies to achieve business objectives while engaging and empowering ...

IDC PlanScape: Managed Digital Identity Services This IDC PlanScape focuses specifically on managed digital identity services. It discusses the why, what, and how of instituting a managed digital identity service for the enterprise."This IDC study looks at important aspects and process plans for man ...

IDC PlanScape: NIS 2 Compliance Readiness This IDC PlanScape offers actionable tips on how enterprises can prepare for NIS 2 compliance and which steps they should be taking now to ensure they are as ready as possible to comply with NIS 2 when it takes full effect."NIS 2 represents much more than a ...