IT Spending Market Research Reports & Industry Analysis

Retail Applications of Cryptocurrency This IDC Perspective discusses the current consumer-level cryptocurrency market, examining what is driving the increasing use of cryptocurrencies in retail point-of-sale payments as well as how consumers are beginning to learn of the advantages cryptocurrencies ...

Entrust Enables 9 of 14 Domains in Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification Compliance for DoD Contractors This IDC Perspective addresses identity and access management as well as payment-enabling technology provider, Entrust, and how the company can prepare contracts on the path to Cybersecurity ...

Professional Services Enable the Future of Digital Innovation This IDC Perspective explains how professional services enable organizations to produce software-based digital innovations. While the software development function has been covered extensively by IDC elsewhere, this document discusses the ...

Remote Monitoring of Operations Comes of Age: Perspectives from the Worldwide Future of Operations Survey, 2021 This IDC Perspective looks at findings from IDC's 2021 Worldwide Future of Operations Survey. In recent years, remote operations adoption has markedly increased while the number of enablin ...

The CIO's Guide to Implementing OKRs This IDC Perspective focuses on creating effective objectives and key results (OKRs) and how to implement them into IT organizations. OKR methodology is a goal management framework that helps companies implement and execute strategies to enable business growth, c ...

IDC PlanScape: A Kaizen Framework for Digital Innovation This IDC study delivers an actionable Kaizen framework for innovation in enterprises."The Kaizen model is ideal for enterprise software leaders who hope to take their software innovation initiatives to the next level," says Gina Smith, PhD, re ...

IDC PeerScape: Practices for Using Employee Experience to Drive Business Growth This IDC PeerScape discusses best practices for using employee experience to drive business growth."Leading organizations recognize that the professional and personal lives of workers have blended in ways like never befo ...

VAST Data: A Technical Deep-Dive Look at a Compelling New Scale-Out Storage Architecture This IDC Perspective, targeted at more technical audiences, explains VAST Data's unique scale-out storage platform offering in detail. It also summarizes the technical and business benefits the vendor's Universa ...

The Future of Trust in Latin America Digital transformation and customer behavior are permanent changes, so organizations must see digitization as a trend of continuous evolution and innovation. IDC advises Latin American companies to adopt a customer-centric mindset and plan accordingly. Trust must ...

Modernizing Candidate Relationship Management This IDC Perspective discusses the modernization of candidate relationship management in talent acquisition practices and the advances vendors are making in the space to assist clients in reaching their TA goals."The candidate pool for recruiters is more ...

Creating Customer Resiliency Through Lifestyle-Based Super Apps This IDC Perspective looks at how consumer lifestyle activities are converging via super apps and examines how these apps generate customer resiliency and how organizations can develop the technology capabilities to enable a super app ...

GigaIO Vendor Profile: Ushering in the Era of Open, Truly Composable Disaggregated Infrastructure This IDC Perspective discusses how GigaIO is helping usher in the era of open, truly composable disaggregated infrastructure (CDI). Composable disaggregated infrastructure promises to enable improved IT ...

How Organizational Models Impact Digital Innovation Success This IDC Perspective explores data from IDC's September 2021 Future Enterprise Resiliency and Spending Survey, Wave 10, that shows a relationship between organizational models and the successful delivery of innovative digital products and s ...

IDC Perspective: Lessons from Australia's CIO50 Awards 2021 for the Future of CIO Leadership This IDC Perspective reviews some of the key lessons CIOs should consider in the process of executing their digital-first strategy. Specifically, it describes key lessons learnt from the second year of the p ...

IDC PeerScape: European Success in Building a Data Culture IDC interviewed some leading European companies that had seen success in building a data culture to examine the practices that helped them on their path to a data culture."Becoming a data-driven organization is an aspirational goal for many ...

Creating the Virtuous Circle of Empowerment, Agility, and Resilience This IDC Perspective discusses how exponential change and growth in the business world is a relatively recent phenomenon. Spurred early on by the internet and web, it's gaining more speed and scale driven by social, mobile, and cl ...

How and Why Kubernetes Complicates Security This IDC Perspective discusses Kubernetes security. Securing Kubernetes though is not like securing servers or applications. Kubernetes totally changes the rules of the game as applications move from monolithic to microservices based, changing applications ...

Asia/Pacific (Excluding Japan) Internet of Things Spending 1H21 Forecast Update, 2021–2025 IoT in the APEJ markets continues to grow steadily across multiple industries, including transportation, retail, manufacturing, resources, and utilities, which is driven by the increased capacity and reliabili ...

Indonesia Enterprise Resource Planning (Erp) Market Forecast 2022-2028 KEY FINDINGS The Indonesia enterprise resource planning (ERP) market is set to project a CAGR of 7.01% during the forecast period, 2022-2028. The rising adoption by government organizations and the growing influence of mobile app ...

Cybersecurity Insurance: Are You Covering Your Risk? This IDC Perspective identifies five crucial principles for IT executives about the use of cybersecurity insurance to transfer portions of an organization's cybersecurity risk to an insurance carrier. Modern cybersecurity insurance policies requir ...

The Future of IT: Never Has the IT Organization Been More Crucial to the Future of the Enterprise This IDC Perspective provides a response to The Wall Street Journal article "It's Time to Get Rid of the IT Department" published November 27, 2021, and written by Joe Peppard, principal research scient ...

European Digital Transformation Spending Forecast, 2020–2025 This IDC Market Forecast projects future spending on strategic priorities related to digital transformation in Europe. It provides an overview of the market context, and in-depth examination of key drivers and inhibitors, and essential gui ...

Becoming the Ascendant CIO This IDC Perspective aims at helping CIOs understand how they can ascend to or remain ascendant in key roles in the business leadership team. It explains why they are uniquely positioned, what traits and characteristics they need to develop, and what actions are necessary ...

IDC PeerScape: Practices in Collaborating with the Competition This IDC PeerScape discusses best practices for overcoming common barriers to collaborating with competitors. We describe two examples of companies that built alliances that solve challenges common across their sectors and that allow the ...

Retail’s Once-in-a-Generation Tech Reset Retail is experiencing a once-in-a-generation increase in IT spend due to the impacts of COVID and the change in shopping journeys for consumers. Although consumers have come back to stores, the digital increase is here to stay. Retailers must get these trans ...