IT Spending Market Research Reports & Industry Analysis

IDC Market Note: Smart Cities Connect, 2022 This IDC Market Note investigates the relevant news, announcements, and themes from the 2022 Smart Cities Connect (SCC) event held in Columbus, Ohio, as part of IDC's role to better understand and track the future of Smart City initiatives undertaken by mu ...

How Edge Computing Aligns Connectedness and Trust This IDC Perspective discusses how secure, scalable access anywhere and anytime is one of the goals and outcomes of the connected enterprise. As enterprises adopt the edge to enhance application performance and improve business agility, trusted conne ...

IDC's Worldwide Security Spending Guide Taxonomy, 2022: Release V1, 2022 This IDC study provides a detailed description of IDC's security products segmentation methodology and taxonomy. It should be used as a companion piece for IDC's Worldwide Security Spending Guide data deliverables. Technology s ...

Managed Services: Enabling IT in Meeting Buyer 5G Needs This IDC Market Perspective provides insight into enterprises' needs and expectations of managed SPs in using managed services to support IT environments required to provision 5G capabilities. This document provides details of market maturity a ...

IDC MaturityScape Benchmark: Future of Customer Experience in the United States, 2022 This IDC study presents an analysis of the results of IDC's 2022 Future of Customer Experience Benchmark Survey and should be used as a supplement to IDC MaturityScape: Future of Customers and Consumers 1.0 (IDC #U ...

IDC's Worldwide Public Cloud Services Spending Guide Taxonomy, 2022: Release V1, 2022 This IDC study provides a detailed description of IDC's methodology and taxonomy for the segmentation of public cloud services by industry and company size, which is consistent across IDC's worldwide vertical resea ...

Key Topics from the IDC Manufacturing Summit's Advisory Board Kick-Off 2022 This IDC Perspective summarizes key topics from our teams' conversations with the IDC Advisory Board members to kick off preparations for the IDC European Manufacturing Summit 2022."Our conversations with our valued advisory ...

The European Road Map to Self-Sovereign Identity This IDC Perspective analyzes the technological and policy changes that are opening up new opportunities to deliver on the promise of an easy-to-use digital identity solution with high security and privacy standards for trusted inclusive access to dig ...

Where Does RISE with SAP Fit in the ERP Modernization Landscape? Key Takeaways From IDC's CIO Advisory Board This IDC Perspective highlights how SAP is using its RISE with SAP service to help customers on their modernization journeys. It also presents five ERP modernization scenario archetypes, iden ...

IDC Perspective: Engaging Tech Buyers on Sustainable Enterprise Value: A Strategic Perspective for Tech Marketers and Sales Leaders Digital enterprises face new challenges and new opportunities. Their success depends on a variety of internal and external stakeholders' continued support. Systematic m ...

Practical Tips for Planning and Relationship Discussions This IDC Perspective discusses a clear need for the identification and implementation of new approaches and technology to improve business processes. Current economic conditions and future uncertainty, however, have made the task even more cha ...

IDC PlanScape: Data-Driven Operations This IDC PlanScape lays out the Why, What, Who, and How of DDO in a way that will hopefully help a range of organizations create a plan uniquely suited to their circumstances and goals."After 38 years spent working at the intersection of digital technology and o ...

Sales Acceleration: Latin America 2022 Tech Buying Behavior and Budgets This market perspective summarizes the most important enterprise tech buyer behavior and budget trends in Latin America for 2022, using an analysis of primary and secondary information sources.This report analyzes the businesses ...

Intelligent Document Processing Demonstrates How AI Can Make a Practical Difference to Business Right Now This IDC Perspective explores how document AI technologies are revolutionizing the automated document processing landscape. Organizations have used automated document processing technology for d ...

Canada, 2022: A Post-Pandemic Budget This IDC Market Perspective provides a snapshot of the ICT component of the 2022 Canadian federal budget.Canada is an established leader in technology, research, and innovation. The sectors generate C$100 billion annually and employs over 700,000 workers. There a ...

IDC's Worldwide ICT Spending Guide by Industry and Company Size Taxonomy, 2022: Release V1, 2022 This IDC study provides a detailed description of IDC's worldwide vertical industry and company size methodology and taxonomy. It is intended as a companion for IDC's Worldwide ICT Spending Guide by Indu ...

IDC's Worldwide Small and Medium Business Spending Guide Taxonomy, 2022 This IDC study provides a detailed description of IDC's worldwide company size methodology and taxonomy. This document should be used as a companion piece for IDC's Worldwide Small and Medium Business Spending Guide and all of I ...

Implications of the "Great Resignation" for Enterprise Service Management Initiatives This IDC Perspective discusses the underlying demographics of the "Great Resignation" that has greatly accelerated the trends that initially drove the increasing automation of enterprise service management and IT s ...

The Future of Digital Infrastructure: Considerations for Post-Pandemic Workload Deployment Optimization This IDC Perspective presents a high-level overview of the public cloud services landscape and offers prescriptive advice for IT buyers. As the COVID-19 pandemic shows signs of widespread easing ...

IDC PeerScape: Lessons Learned from Digital Forensics Implementations This IDC PeerScape culls best practice advice from digital forensics practitioners wrestling with challenges related to the volume, variety, and velocity of data involved in criminal investigations today. "Secure, interoperable, ...

IDC Perspective: Redefining Value for the Digital-First World: Introducing the IDC Future Enterprise Value Framework This IDC Perspective introduces the IDC future enterprise value framework. Rapid changes in personal, business, and societal priorities have altered how enterprise value is perceived ...

Analysis of Sustainability Management Solutions This IDC Perspective outlines the development of a new kind of ESG-linked services known as sustainability management solutions. These solutions offer a whole suite of capabilities that enable organizations to use them as a base to develop their sustai ...

Remote Service Without Losing Customer Engagement and the Human Experience This IDC Perspective explores how a shift in the service experience to be more remote can provide different types of value to customers. This document also highlights how digital transformation initiatives can help organizati ...

Content Services Core to the Future of Work This IDC Perspective discusses the role of content services technologies and how they are a key component to the "space" pillar of the IDC's Future of Work framework. It examines how content services are shifting to the cloud to support hybrid work models ...

Controlling Data in the Future of Operations This IDC Perspective connects the importance of intelligence about data to enable future enterprise operations, enabling integration of operational technology (OT), IT, and partner data to drive resilient decisions in a digital-first world."As IT and oper ...