IT Spending Market Research Reports & Industry Analysis

IDC's Future of Operations Framework This IDC Perspective discusses the Future of Operations Framework and the research behind it. In the past year, IDC has introduced the concept of data-driven operations and produced a rich body of research to support it. This document shows how all of this resear ...

As a Service Adoption Drives Change for Digital Infrastructure and FinOps Teams This IDC Perspective covers the impact of the continued growth of SaaS and IaaS on IT operations and finance and the move toward digital business. IT automation is essential as enterprises report they are concerned about ...

Developing Third-Party Service Contracts This IDC Perspective provides an overview of key issues in developing third-party service contracts in light of a predicted rise in contract IT labor."Enterprises increasingly rely on external IT labor either to manage defined projects or to augment the exist ...

Buyer Case Study: Infosys and Prysmian Group Come Together for an Innovative and Sustainable Solution for Overhead Conductor Management This IDC Perspective describes how Prysmian Group's innovative E3X coating deployment was facilitated by Infosys Advanced Engineering Group through an advanced robo ...

Employee Turnover: Understanding the Who, the Why, and How to Minimize This IDC Perspective discusses the topic of workforce turnover and how it is playing out across company size and business sector. The results shared came from IDC's 2022 survey of HR decision makers."Every organization has a pote ...

Innovation Trends at NRF 2023 Highlight How Digital Dependency Must Drive Digital Differentiation This IDC Perspective discusses key takeaways from NRF 2023. With a welcome fervor for innovation also comes concerns that the pace of technological advancements will be too great for brands. Throughout ...

Data Intelligence in the Future of Intelligence This IDC Perspective describes how intelligence about data is required to lay the foundation for building enterprise intelligence in the context of IDC's Future of Intelligence framework. It positions how data intelligence can be leveraged in the synth ...

IDC PlanScape: Planning for Industry Ecosystems This IDC PlanScape is a guide for organizations across all industries planning to evolve their linear value chain approach to a multifaceted, dynamic industry ecosystem strategy. Increasingly, organizations are realizing the benefit of developing new b ...

Future of Digital Innovation — To Be a Viable Digital Business, It's Important to Differentiate Between Digital Transformation and Digital Innovation This IDC Perspective defines and discusses digital transformation, digital innovation, and digital business. It includes the importance of understandi ...

IDC Perspective: Is Defense in Depth Dead? This IDC Perspective details the fundamental concepts behind defense in depth and how it has drastically evolved to cater to our current environment. The document also touches on the core components of zero trust and its common use cases and technological b ...

The Office of the CFO Requires Digital Transformation — First Steps for Success This IDC Perspective shares information on how to be successful and speed up the digital transformation for the office of the CFO. If you create foundational elements, it can help speed up the transformation and reduce c ...

ESG and the Impact on Trust Perceptions This IDC Perspective explores ESG as a trust determinant in the IDC Trust Index, gauging the impact of positive and negative ESG performance on overall trust ratings and evaluating how ESG aligns with IDC's Trust Framework. The emerging class of ESG management ...

Is the Metaverse Virtually a Reality for Life Science R&D? This IDC Perspective reviews the significant potential of the metaverse and how it could transform the life science industry. It covers key use cases, analyzes the vendor landscape, reviews implementation challenges, and provides guidance to ...

European Consumer Telecom Strategies: Scope and Definitions, 2023 This IDC Perspective provides an overview of the markets covered in IDC's European Consumer Telecom Strategies research program, and it analyzes various aspects of consumer strategies including but not limited to connections and exist ...

Global Big Data IT Spending in Financial Market Growth (Status and Outlook) 2023-2029 The financial services are among the most data-driven industries. Financial services institutions operate within regulatory environments that require firms to store and analyze several years of transactional data. ...

Operationalizing Sustainability in the End-to-End Retail Supply Chain This IDC Perspective details how supply chain constraints, labor shortages, shifts in consumer demand, increasingly high costs of fulfillment, and rising macroeconomic concerns (around inflation, geopolitics, energy consumption, ...

Technology and Services Vendors: Guidance When Selling into the Office of the CFO This IDC Perspective covers areas for the vendors to prepare for their sales discussions with the CFO and the office of the CFO. CFOs are pulled into more technology discussion not only for their team but for other are ...

Emerging AI/ML Feature Store Technology Bolsters Enterprise Intelligence Initiatives This IDC Perspective describes the benefits of feature store technology to drive improved enterprise intelligence. Organizations that invest in enterprise intelligence will find that they are more digitally resilien ...

Data Complexity and the Value of Surprisal The complexity of data is an important concept to understand, as it points to a source of value in data and helps explain why organizations are structured the way they are in order to extract this value from increasingly complex data. Bearing this in mind, ...

Deep Automation: CIO Lessons Learned During a Large-Scale Manufacturing Project This IDC Perspective provides insights into a new dimension of automation that is emerging: deep automation. With deep automation, you can automate almost anything that is highly "teachable," using language. That means A ...

CES 2023: Leveraging Industry Ecosystems to Solve Complex Problems This IDC Perspective provides our observations and key takeaways related to industry ecosystems from the digital version of CES 2023."CES continues to be a place for ecosystem participants to gather, form new ventures, and innovate ...

Mature Digital Innovators Achieve More Business Outcomes This IDC Perspective document describes how we built the maturity scale and shares our findings that correlate business outcomes with digital innovation maturity. "Digital capabilities that differentiate or disrupt — the kinds of capabilities ...

IDC PeerScape: Digital Platform Practices in the China Manufacturing Industry This IDC PeerScape cites and introduces many common challenges facing enterprises in industries, such as large-scale traditional equipment manufacturing and iron and steel smelting, in the construction of informatization s ...

IDC MaturityScape Benchmark: Future of Connectedness in Asia/Pacific, 2022 This IDC study presents the Asia/Pacific results of IDC's 2022 Future of Connectedness MaturityScape Benchmark Survey and should be viewed as a supplement to IDC MaturityScape: Future of Connectedness 1.0 (IDC #US48895522, Ma ...

Winners' Tales: Getting Ready for the Future of Work This IDC Perspective takes a closer look at how organizations shifted their business models and/or workflows by leveraging future-ready technologies, one of the nine digital agenda items characterizing the future enterprise. The three case studies ...