IT Spending Market Research Reports & Industry Analysis

This IDC report provides insights and an overview of the Infor Innovation Summit held in New York City on April 9 and 10, 2025, with emphasis on the Asia/Pacific (including Japan) (APJ) perspective. The event showcased Infor's strategic direction, industry focus, customer successes, and latest produ ...

This IDC Perspective summarizes IDC's Global CIO Advisory Board discussion on SAP's latest strategy and product announcements."SAP latest strategy unifies AI, applications, and data to enhance app functionality, operational performance, and efficiency. By standardizing the IT core, organizations can ...

The IDC Perspective on solution selection criteria in observability and AIOps explores the rapid digital transformation driven by COVID-19, leading to work models with increased automation and spatial/temporal disassociation. This shift necessitates effective tools to manage the growing complexity o ...

This IDC study presents the results of IDC's 2025 AI-Fueled Organization MaturityScape Benchmark Survey to help guide organizations on their AI maturity journey."Retailers have been focusing on AI for a long time, but exponential transformation has just begun," says Ananda Chakravarty, VP research, ...

This IDC Perspective presents that after CMS mandates for payers and providers emerged in response to "surprise billing" and obfuscation of medical pricing, now there is an "executive order." This order is speciously rationalized and ignores the fact that this concept is an expensive proposition of ...

Retail marketplaces that embed contextual intelligence into their digital infrastructure are redefining how value is created and perceived. As customer expectations shift toward immediacy, personalization, and trust, contextual experience becomes the new currency of differentiation. To meet these ex ...

This IDC study updates the latest scenario in the communications platform–as-a-service market.“CPaaS is poised to be the cornerstone of enterprise communication strategies, helping businesses deliver more personalized, efficient, and scalable communication solutions. CPaaS companies are leveraging m ...

This IDC Perspective emphasizes the critical need for CFOs to implement an AI oversight framework in finance, highlighting its role in ensuring financial integrity, regulatory compliance, and operational resilience. It outlines steps for establishing governance structures, assigning roles, and manag ...

It Spending In Oil And Gas Industry Market 2025-2029 The it spending in oil and gas industry market is forecasted to grow by USD 5612.2 mn during 2024-2029, accelerating at a CAGR of 4.6% during the forecast period. The report on the it spending in oil and gas industry market provides a holistic ana ...

This IDC Perspective discusses best practices for implementing adherence to compliance standards and provides an overview of the types of tools that support these efforts. Compliance standards are regulations, guidelines, or policies that organizations must follow to ensure legal, ethical, and opera ...

This IDC Perspective dissects a key use case that applies agentic AI to enable automation, multilevel agents, orchestration agents, and a key focus on product discovery and search through online retail channels critical to business needs. The next generation of solutions will leverage the advantages ...

This IDC Perspective takes a look at top connectivity challenges, timelines for connectivity transformation, top areas for investment growth, and the impact of AI. Higher levels of automation and intelligence across the manufacturing floor are driving the need for faster, more reliable, and secure c ...

This IDC study presents the results of IDC's AI-Fueled Organization MaturityScape Benchmark Survey to help guide organizations on their AI maturity journey."Leading discrete manufacturing organizations start their AI journeys by establishing an effective strategy and vision that drives how they orga ...

This IDC PeerScape examines best practices for moving from a project to a product mindset toward the goal of creating more flexibility, continuous iterative improvements, reduced cycle time, greater user satisfaction, and potentially lower costs in the process. "Organizations looking for a way to ad ...

This IDC Perspective discusses how, in an era of trade volatility, tariffs have become significant disruptors for CFOs, impacting costs, margins, and supply chains. Finance leaders must adopt proactive strategies, leveraging technology for agile forecasting, scenario planning, and compliance. AI and ...

This IDC Perspective details NAB 2025 insights and observations. NAB 2025 showcased the media industry's adaptation to technological advancements in cloud services, AI, and data analytics amid financial pressures. Key insights included the shift from siloed operations to unified distribution strateg ...

This IDC study presents the results of IDC's AI-Fueled Organization MaturityScape Benchmark Survey for process manufacturing to help guide organizations on their AI maturity journey."Forward-thinking process manufacturing organizations start their AI journeys by establishing an effective strategy an ...

This IDC Market Note discusses the most relevant digital accessibility regulations impacting the EMEA region, including insights about and impacts on customers and employees."Digital accessibility and the broader DEI mandate is among the most discussed aspects in organizations across the globe. With ...

8x8’s third analyst summit showcased its transformation into an outcome-based communication solutions provider. The company emphasizes customer success based on a pragmatic approach to AI adoption and a flexible CX platform. Key product announcements at the summit included 8x8 JourneyIQ, contact cen ...

Technology departments are in the business of delivering a range of technology services — communications, transaction processing, analytics, data, and so forth. By treating the major technology services as products — each with a set of desired outcomes, knowledge of customer needs, and life-cycle ma ...

This IDC Perspective highlights the need for dedicated third-party data protection services to ensure business continuity, compliance, and security of Microsoft Entra ID and why organizations should prioritize backing up Entra ID objects. Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure Active Directory) is a cri ...

This IDC Perspective provides a comprehensive overview of how companies can transform their approach to tax data, shifting from a focus solely on compliance to actively using tax insights for strategic decision-making and the identification of valuable revenue growth opportunities across various bus ...

This IDC Perspective equips CFOs to combat market uncertainty, particularly rising tariffs, using a strategic battle card framework. It outlines phased actions, emphasizes financial resilience, supply chain agility, and proactive communication, illustrated with a generic manufacturing example, to na ...

This IDC Perspective discusses how Flock Safety offers a shift from monolithic technologies to integrated platforms. Flock Safety is disrupting the public safety technology market by expanding to a comprehensive platform, challenging established players like Axon and Motorola. The company's software ...

This IDC Market Perspective details Canadian communications service provider capex spending for 2024–2025. Canadian communication service providers total capex investments will fall for a third year in a row in 2025, nearing spending levels last seen in 2020 when capex spending was hampered by COVID ...