IT Spending Market Research Reports & Industry Analysis

A CIO Change Leadership Strategy Framework for the Digital Era: LOB Executives This IDC Perspective describes the key imperatives, primary goals, and goal-driven strategies for influencing the CIO's peers in pursuit of digitally driven change initiatives, which is in contrast to the first document t ...

What We Learned About Retail Experiential Operations at the 2023 NRF Big Show This IDC Perspective discusses how, despite an anticipated recession and continued disruption from global events, retailers and vendors came to the 2023 NRF Big Show ready to celebrate the ways that technology has transfor ...

IDC PeerScape: Practices to Accelerate Adoption of Network Technologies Using Professional Services to Improve Connectedness This IDC PeerScape focuses on three main areas of challenges and discusses the solutions to these challenges. These areas are accurate skills and operational assessment, inab ...

A CIO Change Leadership Strategy Framework for the Digital Era: The Board of Directors This IDC Perspective focuses on working with the board and describes the specific goals and actions needed to motivate and shape engagements and outcomes, identifies challenges unique to the board, and provides ad ...

Amazon SageMaker Delivers Low-Code Machine Learning Capabilities for "Everyday" Developers This IDC Market Note considers recent updates to SageMaker, Amazon's suite of machine learning development tools. At the company's annual re:Invent conference, Amazon announced several new features for SageMak ...

Enterprise Insights for Optimizing Digital Infrastructure Ecosystem Partner Engagement This IDC Perspective provides IT buyers with a framework for evaluating and optimizing engagements with digital infrastructure ecosystem partners. Digital infrastructure and public cloud ecosystem partners provide ...

Intelligent Retail Decision Making at NRF 2023 This IDC Perspective covers the direction of intelligent retail at NRF 2023: Retail's Big Show has been a staple fixture in the retail market every year. In the past few years, artificial intelligence (AI) has become a noticeable feature at the show. Th ...

The 3D CISO: Archetypes for the Modern Chief Information Security Officer This IDC Perspective explores the evolving nature of the chief information security officer (CISO) role in EMEA. We introduce the concept of the three-dimensional (3D) CISO and explore seven emerging archetypes that organizati ...

Key Takeaways from NRF 2023 on Payments Transformation in Retail This IDC Perspective discusses key takeaways from NRF 2023 on payments transformation in retail. NRF 2023 highlighted the impact of the growing strategic importance of omni-channel payments in retail point of sale (POS) with both paym ...

IDC PeerScape: Practices for Low-Code Development This IDC PeerScape introduces some organizations from industries such as internet, manufacturing, finance, education, and pan-real estate. It also explores common challenges facing these organizations in building applications and business systems and ...

IDC PlanScape: Scaling Agile for Greater Business Benefit This IDC PlanScape frames the evolution of an enterprise from using agile to being agile using practices widely in use today, and it explains what a CIO needs to know prior to proposing enterprisewide adoption.According to Cora Carmody, adjun ...

Perspectives on App Development and Delivery Skills in Europe: Driving a Rethink in Dev and Ops Training and Reskilling Strategies This IDC Perspective provides a view on the state of the skills market for app development and delivery professionals across Europe. Topics include views on some of the ...

The Five CFO Decision Drivers for Software Investments This IDC Perspective provides guidance on the priorities of business leaders and the key focus research areas prior to approaching the CFO for IT spend. Today's economy is changing minute by minute, and CFOs are saying no more often on spend or ...

Highlights from NRF 2023: Retail's Big Show This IDC Perspective reviews key trends and technology innovations that were highlighted at NRF 2023: Retail's Big Show — held January 15–17, 2023, in New York City, which attracted over 35,000 attendees across the industry, double the number seen last yea ...

Future of Trust: Data Processing and the Consent Problem This IDC Perspective provides an overview of the shifting consent management landscape. Data is exploding, and organizations are quick to collect data but are not necessarily aware of the dangers of processing without consent. Consent is an ar ...

The SMB Recession Toolkit This IDC Perspective offers a set of five clear actions SMBs can take to combat a recession and set themselves up for long-term growth. It also provides recent survey findings regarding macroeconomic challenges at SMBs in North America and Western Europe.According to Katie ...

From Industry.O to Green.O: Intersection of Digital and Sustainable Transformation in Manufacturing — Part 1 This IDC Perspective is part of a two-report series highlighting how digital transformation and sustainability are intertwined in the manufacturing industry. This part summarizes the challeng ...

The Convergence of Media and Retail Use Cases This IDC Perspective features the convergence of media and retail use cases. The concept of home entertainment, automation, shoppable ads, and ecommerce convergence has been debated for years without resolution. The reasons are many but primarily resulti ...

IDC PlanScape: Future of Customer Experience — Implementing Customer Experience Suites Using a CX Services Partner This IDC PlanScape provides insight into the advantages of using a professional services vendor to help an organization plan and execute a business project that involves implementation ...

IDC PlanScape: Application Architecture to Support Innovation and Agility This IDC study details the importance of application architecture to support innovation and agility."Application architecture is a critical element of strategic architecture and might be the best starting point as IT leaders a ...

IDC PlanScape: Omni-Channel Payment Platforms This IDC PlanScape focuses on the relevance of an omni-channel payment platform as a relevant tool for retailers to meet consumers' channel-transparency expectations and as a powerful source of relevant data to help and support the retailer's strategy an ...

How SMBs Leverage Their Security Services Providers to Drive Outcome-Based Security This IDC Perspective discusses two SMB organizations in detail as examples of how SMBs select and leverage their security services vendors to address the most common pain points faced by many SMBs and, more important ...

Mini-Bids and Market Indexing: Strategies for Contracting Logistics Services This IDC Perspective examines strategies for contracting transportation services across global logistics networks to address shortcomings of traditional approaches that have been exposed as insufficient in the face of disru ...

IDC PeerScape: Best Practices for Developing a Successful Data Privacy Strategy This IDC PeerScape discusses best practices for developing a successful data privacy strategy."Leading organizations recognize that a strong data privacy strategy is a competitive differentiator," explains David Weldon, ...

Building a Learner-Centric, Responsive Education Institution This IDC Perspective discusses how educators are seeking to build what IDC defines as a "responsive education institution" — an education institution that is equipped with the tools, information, and human capacity to enable faculty/staff ...