IT Spending Market Research Reports & Industry Analysis

The Top 9 Infrastructure and Operations Priorities for CIOs and CTOs, with Recommendations for Strategic 2024 Planning This IDC Perspective presents several key issues that have separated themselves in IDC's conversations between C-suite executives and infrastructure and operations (I&O) leaders ...

IDC PlanScape: Managed Connectivity Services as an Enabler of Enterprise Connectedness This IDC PlanScape provides business and technology leaders with a background on the role of managed connectivity services as part of the enterprise road map to becoming agile and connected. It looks at some of th ...

Future of Digital Infrastructure: GenAI Growth and the Case for XaaS Adoption This IDC Perspective covers GenAI trends that are top of mind and discusses the current GenAI investments that will drive everything-as-a-service (XaaS) adoption in 2023 with recommendations for how XaaS can help alleviate ...

The Gig Economy: Tomorrow's Workforce This IDC Perspective discusses the rise of the gig economy: tomorrow's workforce. Advance in technology mixed with demand for flexibility has fueled the rapid growth of the gig economy. Although gig work enables workers to a work-life balance and freedom for tal ...

Orchestrating the EU Data Spaces Vision in Spain The EU Data Spaces vision is shaping strategic, technical architecture, and governance principles and practices for data sharing at scale in Europe and beyond. EU member states' data officers are playing a strategic role to turn European guidelines an ...

Attributes of a Dying Procurement Organization This IDC Perspective considers some common attributes that mark procurement organizations that are challenged to stay abreast of current challenges. Procurement organizations can work to ensure they are current and relevant by assessing their current st ...

Spend Orchestration Market Grows to Meet Buyers' Needs This IDC Market Perspective discusses the capabilities of spend orchestration and enterprise procurement applications. Spend orchestration is a growing segment of the procurement application space that acts to centralize purchase requests and fo ...

CFO Future Proofing: AI Budget This IDC Perspective focuses on finance leaders' AI budget, as well as future proofing the organization, including autonomous finance, investment in AI, barriers of AI, and some evolving processes and finance use cases. In fact, the CFO and their office are vastly over ...

The SEC's Four-Day Reporting Rule Presents a Critical New Need to Define Materiality This IDC Perspective discusses SEC's four-day reporting rule that presents a critical new need to define materiality. Wall Street's top regulator, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, has adopted new cyberse ...

IDC PeerScape: Retail Intelligence Practices to Apply GenAI Across Use Cases This IDC PeerScape helps retail operational leaders consider the implications of what GenAI can offer them, especially as best practices have yet to be formed. We examine the importance of a data infrastructure and hear fro ...

India Enterprise ICT Market Analysis and Future Outlook by Segments (Hardware, Software and IT Services) Summary The India Enterprise ICT Country Intelligence Report, a new Country Intelligence Report by GlobalData, summarizes key findings from GlobalData’s ICT Customer Insight Survey carried out in ...

The Failure of Personalization: How Can Effective Contextualization Enable Enterprises to Achieve Customer Empathy@Scale This IDC Perspective discusses what it means to engage in a contextually relevant manner with customers and, crucially, scaling contextualization to achieve customer empathy thro ...

How Do Experiential Value Streams Contribute to Customer Success? This IDC Perspective discusses the importance of value creation for stakeholders in the future enterprise, such as customers, partners, employees, management, community, environment, and so forth. IDC explores the market trends and de ...

Innovation and Adaptation: TCS Analyst Day 2023 This IDC Perspective discusses Tata Consultancy Services' (TCS') 2023 Analyst Day, which covered topics ranging from new applications of generative AI to the firm's strategic partnerships and growth plans. This event showcased the wide range of service ...

Industry Ecosystems: On-Demand Augmented Expertise and Knowledge for the Digital Organization This IDC Perspective focuses on the people dimension of IDC's April 2023 Future of Industry Ecosystems MaturityScape Benchmark Survey. We explore results from this survey, as well as the potential impact of ...

Changing Perspectives on the Frontline Worker: The Impact of Technology, Skills, and Automation This IDC Perspective offers a forward-thinking approach for enterprises to recognize the importance of technology for their frontline workforce. Frontline workers often face unique technological and organ ...

IDC Assessment: UiPath Task Mining This IDC Perspective assesses the capabilities of UiPath Task Mining. In 2020, UiPath introduced Task Mining and currently offers two experiences: Assisted Task Mining and Unassisted Task Mining that are designed for different use cases. Assisted Task Mining is des ...

IDC PlanScape: Centers of Excellence This IDC PlanScape looks at the potential benefit of a COE, the elements needed for success, how to measure return on investment (ROI), steps needed to obtain support and buy-in throughout the organization, and the cultural realities that will likely make or brea ...

PTC LiveWorx 2023: Bringing Speed to Market, Efficiency, and Sustainability to Retail This IDC Perspective focuses on PTC FlexPLM in retail and CPG industries in which speed is crucial to enable retailers and brands to design and produce as close to market as possible. In May, PTC LiveWorx reconvene ...

IDC PlanScape: The Collections Function in a Digital-First World The collection function is an often-forgotten candidate for making better use of modern digital tools such as data and predictive and behavioral analytics. These digital tools will enable old-fashioned segmentation techniques to be rev ...

IDC PlanScape: Data Architecture This IDC PlanScape details the importance of data architecture."The growing volumes of available data are a blessing and a curse: More data might provide improved insights, but it might also create more noise that requires filtering," says Niel Nickolaisen, adjunct r ...

Generative AI Applications for the Edge This IDC Perspective reviews the potential uses for generative AI at the edge and provides guidance for technology buyers as they explore the potential for generative AI, as well as some recent market announcements."The convergence of generative AI and edge co ...

IDC PlanScape: Infrastructure Architecture This IDC PlanScape details the importance of infrastructure architecture."Most of the time, when people think about infrastructure, they just see boxes and lines; in its simplest form, that is a true depiction, but infrastructure needs to be the dial tone o ...

IDC PeerScape: Asia/Pacific Manufacturing Practices to Improve Shop Floor Visibility and Efficiency Through Automation and Internet of Things This IDC PeerScape outlines three essential practices that organizations should embrace to fully leverage the advantage associated with the deployment of auto ...

IDC's New Industry Framework, Definitions, and Transition Plan This IDC Market Perspective provides a detailed description of IDC's new worldwide industry taxonomy. It should be viewed as a guide to help navigate the transition from the old taxonomy to the new framework. Technology suppliers may uti ...