IT Spending Market Research Reports & Industry Analysis

The What, Where, How, and Why of Financial Data Management in Today's Capital Markets This IDC Perspective explores the financial data management themes of data governance, data quality, and data security in the context of evolving data infrastructure and architecture choices and market dynamics. Te ...

2024 Hannover Messe: Main Sustainability Takeaways for Manufacturers This IDC Perspective outlines key sustainability themes from Hannover Messe, the world's largest industrial automation fair, with more than 4,000 exhibitors showcasing their vision and cutting-edge solutions to drive sustainable ma ...

EU AI Act: Summary of Potential Impacts on Digital Commerce, Experience Software, and CX Process Design This IDC Perspective provides a comprehensive overview of the EU AI Act, detailing its phased implementation, compliance requirements, and penalties for noncompliance. Scheduled to take effect in ...

IDC PeerScape: Practices to Empower Industry Ecosystems This IDC PeerScape discusses three challenges and associated best practices intended to guide organizations of any size while they expand their ecosystems as part of becoming a digital-first organization."The move to more open, extended, pan-in ...

IDC PlanScape: Strategic Portfolio Definition, Management, and Balancing This IDC PlanScape proposes and discusses ways in which organizations can define IT portfolios aligned with strategy and manage these portfolios in a more holistic way in response to changes in priorities or any other internal ...

IDC PlanScape: Foundational Models for Successful GenAI Adoption in National Government This IDC PlanScape focuses on ways national government agencies can better ensure the success of deploying GenAI by adhering to a responsible artificial intelligence (AI) policy, ensuring that employees have appr ...

2024 UCC Buyers’ Perspective Digital Technology Investment Plans are Strong Amid Trying Macro Conditions As the pandemic fades there are questions about the sustainability of remote and hybrid work, how to modify office real estate to support remote work and better employee engagement. IT decision m ...

How to Make the Workspace Earn the Commute: Cisco's Office Redesign Experience This IDC Perspective discusses how Cisco has optimized its global office spaces to support hybrid work, focusing on collaboration, employee health, sustainability, and digitizing the real estate platform. By redesigning o ...

Channels and Alliances Predictions in Latin America for 2024 and Beyond This IDC Market Perspective discusses IDC’s top predictions about the market and technology forces that will shape IT channels and alliances in 2024 and beyond in Latin America."Investing in stronger vendor or partner relationsh ...

CIO Development of an Impactful Sustainability Strategy This IDC Perspective provides insights and methods for defining what the organizational strategy will be. Social and regulatory forces are converging in ways that support organizations of every sector to revisit strategies and focus investment ...

IDC PlanScape: Digital Assistants for Business Automation in Asia/Pacific (Excluding Japan) The research content discusses the importance of digital assistants in business automation, particularly in the Asia/Pacific region. It highlights how these AI-powered tools enhance efficiency, customer exper ...

CIO Leadership of an Actionable Sustainability Road Map This IDC Perspective provides key takeaways and recommended actions to develop and lead the road map that enables the sustainability strategy. With a great sustainability strategy comes a great sustainability commitment. In this realm, future C ...

The Critical Importance of Connectivity in Delivering Experience-Orchestrated Applications This IDC Perspective provides an overview of the importance of connectivity in powering an effective experience-orchestrated (X-O) business. It emphasizes the need for organizations to evolve from siloed digit ...

The Sustainability Regulations 101 View This IDC Market Perspective explores the evolving landscape of sustainability regulations, highlighting the pivotal role of policies and laws in driving sustainable operations within organizations. It differentiates between mandatory and voluntary measures, em ...

IDC PlanScape: Data as a Product This IDC PlanScape on data as a product emphasizes the growing complexity of data landscapes and the necessity for organizations to effectively utilize data assets for improved business outcomes. It advocates for treating data as a product to enhance accessibility, m ...

Payers Must Build Their Member-360 Data Platform and Data Factory Now! This IDC Perspective discusses how payers are now required to build a member-360 data platform and data factory. Instead of silos, when all of this is merged into a longitudinal (member-360) patient record, this data becomes a ce ...

IDC PeerScape: Peer Insights to Build a Data Lakehouse This IDC PeerScape provides peer insights to build a data lakehouse."For many organizations, the time is now to move on from legacy data warehouses and data lakes. Building a data lakehouse is not without challenges, but organizations that do so ...

IDC PlanScape: Business Impact Assessment to Prepare for Business and Security Disruptions This IDC PlanScape discusses the business impact assessment (BIA), which provides the foundation for companies to build a resilient organization that can withstand the most likely disruptions to the most criti ...

When, and When Not, to Adopt Passkeys as an Enterprise Authentication Solution This IDC Perspective offers a balanced assessment of passkeys within the enterprise. Passkeys are an innovative solution that compared with passwords, are more secure and more user-friendly in some ways. However, passkeys ...

Edge-Optimized Digital Infrastructure Building Blocks for Future Enterprise Innovation This IDC Perspective explores how the evolution of edge computing and edge-native applications is helping transform enterprise digital infrastructure priorities to help organizations fully harness the business val ...

IDC PlanScape: High-Value FinOps Practices This IDC PlanScape discusses various practices that enterprises can embrace in pursuit of true cloud cost optimization and explains how to categorize practices based on the value they deliver. As you'll learn, some cost-cutting steps may be less obvious to ...

IDC PlanScape: Analysis on the Total Cost of Digital to Reduce Overall Spend This IDC PlanScape outlines the steps that an enterprise can take to make the total cost of digital transparent and, by using specialization, help management get rid of digital siloes and create a more efficient and special ...

Cybersecurity - Thematic Intelligence Summary The cybersecurity industry faces a challenge that is anything but business as usual. The prospect of offensive attacks using artificial intelligence (AI) is prompting increases in cybersecurity budgets as organizations try to understand the impact of gen ...

Generating Health Innovation: Insights from HIMSS 2024 This IDC Perspective offers key takeaways and insights gleaned from the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) annual conference, which took place March 11–15, 2024, in Orlando, Florida. HIMSS 2024 showcased significant ad ...

1 Billion New Logical Applications: More Background This IDC Market Note publishes a forecast for the number of total logical applications periodically, with this update extending the previously published forecast from 2025 to 2028. "The industry's use of modern application development techniques, i ...