IT Spending Market Research Reports & Industry Analysis

Lessons Learned from Implementing Conversational AI in Utilities in the GCC This IDC Perspective examines best practices for implementing conversational AI and is based on IDC's discussions with utilities companies operating in the countries that make up the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). The docum ...

Eight Areas to Consider to Be Competitive and Sustainable in 2024 This IDC Perspective discusses the key areas to consider for businesses to remain competitive and sustainable in 2024. It covers aspects like the economy, business strategies, regulations, energy, the environment and climate, governme ...

IDC MaturityScape: Contract Life-Cycle Management 1.0 This IDC study examines the IDC MaturityScape for contract life-cycle management. By embracing the CLM maturity model and its actionable recommendations, organizations can embark on a journey toward optimized contract management, ultimately achie ...

IDC PlanScape: Technology Diffusion Strategies to Accelerate Business Performance This IDC PlanScape is intended to explain the concept and mechanisms of enterprise technology diffusion, identify key elements that must be part of diffusion strategies, and outline a strategy for increasing the speed ...

Decarbonizing Engineering-Oriented Value Chains This IDC Perspective discusses the need for decarbonization in engineering-oriented value chains (EOVCs), focusing on the aerospace and defense, automotive, and machine building industries. It highlights the significance of addressing Scope 3 emissions ...

Japan IT Spending Forecast Update by Vertical Segment, Company Employee Size, and Company Revenue, 2023–2027 This IDC study presents the actual IT spending in 2021 and 2022, and the IT spending forecasts from 2023 to 2027 by industry sector, company size, and annual turnover in the Japan IT market. ...

Bank Rakyat Indonesia Wins in the 2023 IDC Future Enterprise Best in Future of Intelligence Awards This IDC Perspective discusses the nomination details of the Best in Future of Intelligence winner from the IDC Future Enterprise Awards 2023 in Asia/Pacific (including Japan) on how generative AI can ...

IDC PlanScape: Ecosystem Orchestration Platforms This IDC PlanScape examines ecosystem orchestration platforms and how they could benefit your organization."If your organization currently sells or plans to sell first- and third-party technology services (SaaS, on-premises software, XaaS) and product ...

Marketing Investment Planner for 2024: Executive Summary This IDC Perspective offers CMOs, their management teams, and their C-suite colleagues a window into the results of IDC’s 2023 Tech Marketing Benchmark Survey. A 55-page extended document with details on this survey (now in its 21st year) titl ...

Enterprise Application Evolution: Changes, Changes, and More Changes This IDC Perspective discusses the enterprise application evolution. Enterprise applications are changing daily. The business and consumer automation firestorm of digitizing the workstreams in the front and back offices is creatin ...

IDC PeerScape: CPaaS — Successes in Optimizing Healthcare Management in Europe IDC interviewed some leading CPaaS vendors that have successful use cases for European healthcare organizations and technology providers to optimize healthcare management in Europe. This IDC PeerScape provides an insight ...

IDC PeerScape: Future of Intelligence — Practices to Build Enterprise Intelligence Success Stories This IDC PeerScape presents three best practices for organizations trying to build their enterprise intelligence capabilities that align with information synthesis, insights delivery, and collective le ...

Worldwide Core IT Spending for GenAI Forecast, 2023–2027: GenAI Is Triggering Hyper-Expansion of AI Spending This IDC study presents a five-year forecast for the core IT spending for GenAI market for the 2023–2027 period."Despite IT headwinds in 2023, businesses accelerated their exploration of GenA ...

IT's Role in the Drive to Reorchestrate Data Use Cases to Personalize Employee Resource Directioning and Experiences This IDC Perspective discusses IT's role in the drive to reorchestrate data use cases to personalize employee resource directioning and experiences. The constant nature of economic, b ...

Autodesk University 2023: Construction Digital Transformation Is Upon Us This IDC Perspective discusses IDC’s recent visit to Las Vegas, Nevada, to attend Autodesk University and meet with the company’s AEC executives and customers for the latest on Autodesk’s products and industry developments.“The ...

IDC PeerScape: Best Practices for Scaling Automation with a Center of Excellence This IDC PeerScape explores the best practices that large organizations in Europe are following to build scalable and agile COEs that support automation. The document identifies three best practices that organizations c ...

The Future of Connectedness in Retail: Aligning IoT and Connectivity Investment to Top Business Outcomes This IDC Perspective takes a look at how the connectivity and implementation of IoT solutions is accelerating business outcomes for the retail industry and accelerating investment in faster, more ...

Affinidi Empowers Companies to Help Customers Reclaim Their Digital Footprint This IDC Perspective discusses Affinidi, a technology company committed to revolutionizing data ownership with its "holistic identity" approach, which offers cutting-edge solutions, such as the Affinidi Vault, Affinidi Log ...

Developer-Centric Platforms: The Evolution of Platform Engineering in Asia/Pacific This IDC Perspective offers insights into the developer-centric platforms and how platform engineering is playing an important role in boosting developers' efficiency and productivity in Asia/Pacific. It also provides ...

IDC PlanScape: Data Quality Management This IDC PlanScape discusses the importance of data quality management. The dimensions of data quality may seem simple, but data quality issues are complex. "Dirty data is often a symptom of deeper people, process, and technology issues that impact the quality ...

Platform Vendors Are Competing with Each Other to Meet the Growing Demand for CPaaS Solutions in India This IDC Market Perspective highlights current trends, various vertical-specific use cases, and other considerations for communications-platform-as-a-service (CPaaS) providers to understand and lev ...

Open Compute Project Summit 2023: As AI Workloads Advance, Enterprise Infrastructure Looks to Keep Up This IDC Market Note highlights and analyzes the themes of the keynotes at the 2023 OCP Global Summit regarding the rise of AI applications and their impact on the hardware infrastructure market, as ...

Frost Radar™: Infrastructure and Platforms as a Service, 2023 The infrastructure as a service and platform as a service (IaaS and PaaS) industry has undergone a significant evolution in the past year. Macroeconomic instability has negatively affected IT investments and cloud spend, ushering in a gro ...

HPE Customers: Digital Infrastructure Priorities Profile 2023 This IDC Perspective provides a snapshot of HPE customers’ digital infrastructure priorities and features insights as to areas where customers would like HPE to double down on product development and enhanced capabilities. IDC’s 2023 Futu ...

The IDC Enterprise Architecture Tool Buying Guide This IDC Perspective, written for CIOs and senior technology executives, introduces IDC's 2023 Enterprise Architecture Tool Buying Guide. Leading EA tools are compared with respect to their features, ability to integrate with other tools within the e ...