IT Spending Market Research Reports & Industry Analysis

IDC Canada's Digital Transformation Adoption Framework This IDC Perspective provides a framework for the adoption of digital transformation for large businesses in Canada. Canadian organizations and their technology partners can use the data presented in this document to assess the current competiti ...

AI in Healthcare: Redefining Explainability in the Context of Generative AI This IDC Perspective highlights the current landscape and investment trend by Asia/Pacific healthcare organizations in generative AI (GenAI). The report highlights prominent use cases and the potential impact of leveraging G ...

Web3 for Technology Buyers This IDC Perspective highlights what Web3 is, its foundational technology, some of the benefits of Web3, and preliminary factors executives should consider when developing their organization's Web3 strategy. Web3 is no longer something on the horizon in the future: it is n ...

Digital Enablement and the Manager's Role in Employee Experience This IDC Perspective discusses digital enablement and the role of the manager in the employee experience. A return to a balance of power between employees and employers for organizational resource design in support of OKRs is renewing ...

IDC MaturityScape Benchmark: Location and Geospatial Intelligence in North America, 2023 This IDC study highlights the results of IDC's 2023 Location and Geospatial Intelligence MaturityScape Benchmark Survey and is a supplement to IDC MaturityScape: Location and Geospatial Intelligence 1.0 (IDC #US ...

Key Findings From the IDC European Data and Intelligence Xchange 2023 This IDC Perspective summarizes key findings and discussions from the IDC European Data and Intelligence Xchange 2023, held in Malaga, Spain, on April 7 and 8, 2023. The event was held with the support of partners from Domo, Immut ...

Beyond Digital Transformation: What It Means to Be a Digital Business Becoming a digital business is a multifaceted journey that impacts all areas of the organization. Organizations must embrace modernization and the digital business era to grow and thrive in the new Latin American and global econom ...

IDC's Global CIO Advisory Board — A Conversation on Legacy Modernization This IDC Perspective summarizes the discussion shared by IDC's CIO Advisory Board members in March 2023 on legacy modernization. During the discussion, Peter Marston from IDC presented data and expert insight to the CIOs based ...

IDC PeerScape: Practices to Successfully Implement Sustainability Initiatives for Asia/Pacific Enterprises This IDC PeerScape explores three key practices of organizations in overcoming barriers in IT operations in the early stages of sustainability adoption. These are global best practices that IT ...

The Role of the Public Sector in Electric Mobility This IDC Perspective analyzes the strategic role that governments can play to scale the electric mobility market. They can support infrastructure development, issue and enforce regulations, influence standards, provide incentives, orchestrate partne ...

IDC PeerScape: Best Practices to Personalize Digital CX in Hospitality and Travel This IDC PeerScape examines several best practices for blending personalization into the digital customer experience."Hospitality and travel experiences are shifting to become digital first as guests expect and demand ...

Top 5 Technology Trends to Watch in Law Enforcement, 2Q23 This IDC Perspective discusses the developments IDC foresees being critical factors in the data-driven policing market throughout 2023. "Broadly speaking, the technology market is on the precipice of a monumental change, with next-generation ...

Generative AI: Powering the Next Generation of Codeless Integration Capabilities This IDC Perspective discusses organizational interest and plans for generative AI in the context of integration and API management and what types of capabilities either are becoming available or will likely become avai ...

The Price of Loyalty: Incentives This IDC Perspective looks at incentives including price incentives, metrics, and the cost to do business with loyalty programs. Retail loyalty programs permeate a majority of retailers that have invested in and implemented a loyalty program as a top marketing initia ...

Ecosystem ESG Teams a Key Characteristic of Leading Organizations This IDC Perspective analyzes IDC's 2023 Future of Industry Ecosystems MaturityScape Benchmark Survey data, focusing on the desire and need to work more closely with partners in support of ESG initiatives."IDC believes that major glo ...

Remote Interviewing: The Transformative Shift in Talent Acquisition This IDC Perspective discusses remote interviewing. Companies need to continue to navigate these waters. Talent acquisition vendors that can provide creative, interactive, and ethical solutions will be well positioned to excel in t ...

The Rising Digital Bar: How Leading Organizations Are Scaling Their Digital Business with Digital Business Platforms This IDC Perspective examines how leading Asia/Pacific (including Japan) (APJ) organizations leverage digital technology in business transformation. As organizations journey in their ...

Five Areas to Watch in Public Safety This IDC Market Perspective provides a discussion of developments IDC foresees as critical factors in this market throughout 2023. Public safety agencies worldwide are capitalizing on massive innovations in technology specific to their subvertical, as well as inn ...

U.S. Government Digital Sovereignty: Self-Sufficiency This IDC Perspective is the second of three U.S. federal government research documents on digital sovereignty and covers digital sovereignty — self-sufficiency. This includes strengthening and protecting U.S. national security and the digital eco ...

Why Words Matter: A Future of Work Terminology Guide This IDC Perspective looks at both vendors and end-user organizations that can benefit from understanding the main definitions that could be involved in the Future of Work (FoW) terminology. The future of work is an enterprisewide imperative drive ...

IDC PlanScape: Leveraging AI to Address the Skills Gap in Federal Agencies This IDC PlanScape provides federal agencies a framework to make strategic choices regarding the type of AI solutions they should leverage to address the skills gap in federal agencies. This IDC PlanScape highlights several s ...

Utility Customer Engagement: A Necessity in Meeting Net-Zero Goals This IDC Perspective examines how creating or enhancing digital customer engagement will help utilities in meeting net-zero targets and timelines."As utilities embark on their energy transition journey and efforts to reduce CO2 emis ...

IDC PlanScape: Value Stream Management to Focus on Business Value This IDC PlanScape focuses on why, what, who, and how an enterprise can excel in assessing and expressing its digital value. Digital value is discussed in the context of the new concepts and best practices of the value stream manageme ...

VIIZR and Salesforce: The Case for a Platform-on-Platform Approach to Trade Industry Transformation This IDC Perspective explores platform business models and how they differ from sophisticated technology platforms such as AWS and other cloud service providers' platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offerings ...

IDC PeerScape: Practices for Executing a Center of Excellence Strategy This IDC PeerScape looks at the best practices for executing on a successful center of excellence (COE) strategy and advises on how to overcome the top challenges around COEs."There are a number of challenges to executing on a s ...