IT Spending Market Research Reports & Industry Analysis

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 ...

This IDC Perspective discusses the details of execution of the Best in Future of Connectedness from the IDC Future Enterprise Awards 2024 in the Asia/Pacific region. The document discusses National University of Singapore's (NUS) transformation toward ubiquitous connectivity to deliver stable and se ...

This IDC Perspective provides a GenAI policy responding to client needs for a best practice GenAI governance policy to leverage. It responds to increasing client demand for GenAI policy guidance, leveraging research and real-world insights to accelerate policy implementation. The document emphasizes ...

This IDC Perspective emphasizes the critical importance of cyber-resilience in today’s digital landscape. With increasing cyber-risks and the adoption of AI, organizations must prioritize cyber-resilience to mitigate threats and ensure operational continuity. The document highlights the need for com ...

The IDC Perspective explores the transformative potential and recommends specific processes to leverage AI in IT government sourcing and procurement, highlighting its ability to enhance efficiency, productivity, and decision-making. With several government and commercial examples, the document under ...

This IDC PlanScape presents a comprehensive guide for CIOs to develop and implement strategic planning in the digital enterprise. It enables organizations to navigate market turbulence, adapt rapidly to changing conditions, and orchestrate complex IT environments to deliver dynamic capabilities. In ...

This IDC PeerScape presents lessons learned and best practices for successfully incorporating new technology or innovations into the flow of work.“All organizations that want to keep pace with the speed of change will have to routinely test and introduce new technology into their organizations,” sai ...

This IDC Perspective discusses how CEOs are looking for digital leaders that bring differentiation and leadership in terms of strategy, ROI, and risk.The expectations of the next generation of digital leadership are high. CEOs and boards are keen to see value-based impacts through disruptive strateg ...

This IDC Perspective explores the transformative impact of agentic AI on the future of work, highlighting regional differences in adoption and its implications on work cultures, operational efficiency, and business strategies. It emphasizes the need for organizations to navigate change management, u ...

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.“Leading organizations in the media industry start their AI journeys by establishing an effective strategy initially focused on people’s re ...

This IDC Perspective discusses NIS2 compliance requirements, the challenges for businesses, the importance of business continuity, incident management measures, and seeking independent expert support to ensure a streamlined and value-added digital business. It leverages insights from IDC's cloud dat ...

This IDC Perspective explores the increasing complexity of third-party risk management (TPRM) in financial services and how AI-driven automation is addressing inefficiencies caused by manual processes and fragmented data integration. The integration of agentic AI into third-party risk management is ...

This IDC Perspective examines IDC’s 2025 Tech Marketing Spending Benchmark Survey, which provides evidence-based quantitative insight for marketing planning, performance, and productivity management and transformation into the next era’s marketing powerhouse. “As AI rapidly reshapes the marketing la ...

This IDC Perspective explores the growing role of decision intelligence in supply chain planning and a non-exhaustive list of vendors noted in IDC's Market Glance that have focused in this space. A growing list of vendors has been developing advanced decision intelligence capabilities to the point t ...

This IDC Perspective explores the European Clean Industry Deal and its implications for industrial competitiveness and decarbonization. It highlights the financial incentives, regulatory support, and digital solutions that aim to make green investments more attractive and feasible for energy-intensi ...

This IDC Perspective looks at AI bringing new and improved business performance expectations and opportunities. AI isn't just the shiny new technology object but rather an opportunity to leverage more technology than in years past. While organizations have long been improving businesses with new lin ...

This IDC Perspective is an aid for the IT buyer on the many journeys organizations are making to modernize and transform their organizations in this new AI world.Organizations are moving quickly along the AI journey, including making more and faster decisions to migrate from on-premises applications ...

This IDC PlanScape provides a methodology for assessing the benefits and derived value expected and achieved with AI-infused enterprise applications. As organizations embrace AI-infused capabilities in their enterprise applications, their differentiating value must be captured. The value can come in ...

This IDC Perspective aims to explore the anticipated developments and trends that are expected to shape the landscape of procurement solutions in the coming years. The procurement application landscape in 2025 is poised for significant transformation driven by technological advancements such as AI, ...

This IDC PeerScape presents best practices for adopting and implementing a WAAP solution as the foundation of a strong, unified application security strategy.“A strong application protection strategy is a key component powering an organization’s online presence,” said Christopher Rodriguez, research ...

This IDC Perspective addresses practices that can help in making the case for technology modernization. Making the case for modernization has a number of challenges as the need for modernization is not always obvious and the benefits can be difficult to quantify. Yet the current environment — marked ...

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 utilize this approach and structure as inspiration as they evaluat ...

This IDC Market Note discusses Ivalua's annual Ivalua NOW conference in Paris, which showcased the company's ambitious vision for the future of procurement applications and emphasized the transformative role of AI. Founder David Khuat-Duy's new role as chief AI officer highlights its commitment to A ...

This IDC PlanScape presents a comprehensive guide for CIOs to unlock IT value in M&A deals. It enables organizations to maximize synergies, reduce risks, and drive successful integrations through strategic IT leadership and effective integration practices. However, the current context also bring ...