IT Spending Market Research Reports & Industry Analysis

IDC PlanScape: Setting Expectations to Optimize Digital Change Initiatives This IDC PlanScape helps CIOs understand why setting expectations effectively matters, what the key elements of expectation setting are, who the key players and stakeholders are, and how CIOs can become more effective in sett ...

Occupational Fraud and Scams: What the Office of the CFO Needs to Know This IDC Perspective explores occupational fraud. We cover the different schemes, prevention, and technology enhancements that can help in prevention and detection. Occupational fraud is a significant area of concern for the offi ...

Worldwide Purpose-Built Sustainability Services Forecast, 2023–2027 This IDC study provides the first forecast through analysis of the worldwide purpose-built sustainability services market by IDC-defined services lines. For more information on the definitions used for service lines, see IDC's World ...

IDC PeerScape: Cybersecurity Peer Insights for Social Engineering Training This IDC PeerScape describes three practices organizations should consider to protect themselves against social engineering attacks."Successful training programs turn a critical vulnerability — employees — into a critical lin ...

Order to Cash — Estimating and Pricing: A Little More Art Than Science — The Current Methods, Considerations, and Technology Landscape This IDC Perspective explores the estimating and pricing function and its importance to the office of the CFO. We cover current estimating and pricing methods, proc ...

Defining the Digital Business in Latin America The digital business era may be defined as the shift from digital transformation to innovating as a daily practice, as well as monetizing new products and services. To get there, companies must change their mindset to adopt data and customer-centric str ...

IDC's CIO Advisory Board: Exploring the CIO-CFO Relationship This IDC Perspective summarizes the discussion shared by IDC's Global CIO Advisory Board members on the CIO-CFO relationship. Data and insights from IDC's CEO Study and IDC's C-Suite Survey was shared by Tony Olvet, group vice president at ...

Improving the Process for Choosing a Provider — The Case Study Proposal Approach This IDC Perspective discusses improving the process of choosing a provider using the case study proposal approach.To buyers, go for it! The project work that you are engaging clients to perform for your organization wi ...

The Collections Function of the Future — A Customer-Centric Approach This IDC Perspective examines the need for lenders to adapt to a new environment with customer-centric models that are compliant and achieve high overdue-payment recovery rates."With regulations on collections evolving and impactin ...

IDC's Global CIO Advisory Board: Digital Business Strategies This IDC Perspective summarizes the discussion shared by IDC's CIO Advisory Board members in February 2023 on digital business strategies. During the discussion, Craig Powers from IDC presented data and expert insight to the CIOs based on ...

The Smart and Sustainable Roads Market in EMEA This IDC Perspectives analyzes smart and sustainable roads intended not only for the instrumentation of roads with sensors and actuators to enable intelligent traffic management use cases, but also from a wider perspective of enabling innovation through ...

Australia and New Zealand IT Spending Forecast by Vertical Segment and Company Employee Size, 2021–2026 This IDC Market Forecast discusses the ANZ's IT spending in 2021 and forecasts expenditure through 2026. It is based on IDC's Worldwide ICT Spending Guide: Enterprise and SMB by Industry, which wa ...

HPE Discover 2023: Showcasing as-a-Service Transformation This IDC Perspective discusses the events at HPE Discover 2023."HPE's transformation has been consistent, deliberate, and on point. The expansion of the HPE GreenLake portfolio and a consistent increase in assets under management, contract va ...

IDC PlanScape: Revenue Operations and Intelligence for Predictable Revenue Growth and a Seamless Customer Experience This IDC PlanScape provides a framework for how organizations can embrace revenue operations and intelligence to increase cross-departmental collaboration, drive predictable revenue, ...

Headless Applications: Understanding Definitions for Headless, Hybrid Headless, Precomposed, and Monolithic Applications — Business User Perspective This IDC Perspective will guide readers through the basic terminology and distinctions between application design concepts and technical deployments of ...

Headless Systems: Understanding Architectural Styles for Composed Systems of Modular Applications — Business User Perspective This IDC Perspective will guide readers through the basic terminology and distinctions between systems design concepts and technical deployments of monolithic, headless, and ...

The Security Service Providers' Balancing Act — Broad Opportunity Across Industries, Geographies, Cybersolutions, and Regulatory Concerns This IDC Market Perspective discusses and reflects on the results of interviews that IDC had with 20 security service providers (SPs) in the spring of 2023. This ...

IDC MaturityScape: Flexible Work 1.0 This IDC study describes the organizational characteristics at five levels of flexible work maturity, from a completely ad hoc approach with limited thought and planning related to flexible models to one in which a flexible work strategy is woven into the organiz ...

Worldwide Data Replication and Protection Software Market Shares, 2022: A Flip at the Top This IDC study details the market share results for the worldwide data replication and protection software market in 2022."The need for data replication and protection software products does not change greatly ...

HashiCorp Brings Enterprise-Ready Product Enhancements Focused on Scalability and Security This IDC Market Note explores the recent HashiCorp market activity, including the recent HashiDays event, product announcements, and the acquisition of BluBracket. "HashiCorp — well known for its multicloud De ...

Worldwide Computer Vision AI Software Tools and Technologies Market Shares, 2022: Demonstrating Continuous Progress and Growth This IDC study provides vendor market shares for the worldwide computer vision AI software tools and technologies market for 2022."As IDC continues to expand its reach and u ...

Ensuring the Security of Manufacturing Networks in an Increasingly Insecure World This IDC Perspective focuses on the rising security threats that manufacturers face as they continue to embrace digital technology. In particular, how IT/OT convergence initiatives and legacy equipment pose a security ...

Meralco's CX Transformation: Nurturing Customer Relationships and Trust While Promoting Online Journeys This IDC Perspective focuses on the Philippine power utility, Meralco, and its customer experience transformation journey, which started in 2016, but was jolted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Meralco's ...

Blue Yonder ICON: Taking the 250-Year View on Supply Chains This IDC Perspective details key takeaways from Blue Yonder ICON. This year's Blue Yonder ICON presented a vision of a revolutionized supply chain that combines abundance with sustainability by reimagining the way data is stored, accessed, ...

Top Trends in Network Observability: Heightening Intelligence, Inspection, Insights, Integration, and Innovation This IDC Perspective discusses the top trends in network observability. Onrushing digital business demands, continual technology advancements, and ever-improving IT practices are all appl ...