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Tracing its origins to 1964, IDC emerges as a wholly-owned subsidiary of the International Data Group (IDG, Inc.), a venerable name in the realms of tech media, data dissemination, and marketing services worldwide.
IDC's assortment of Insights lines of business fulfills a vital role by empowering both business leaders and IT luminaries, alongside their supplier counterparts, with indispensable technological insights. Comprising seasoned analysts wielding decades of industry acumen, the global research unit champions in-depth consultation and research services that address the multifaceted nexus of contemporary business and technology. The span of IDC Insights coverage is expansive, encompassing critical sectors such as Energy, Financial, Government, Health, Manufacturing, and Retail.
By meticulously distilling complex technological nuances into comprehensible insights, IDC propels the transformation of information into actionable wisdom, thus charting a course for informed decision-making across diverse sectors and industries.
5,640 Reports from IDC
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The Automation Imperative, Extending Supply Chain Capabilities and Augmenting the Logistics Workforce
This IDC Perspective explores how automation can enhance logistics execution and supply chain intelligence to boost productivity, reduce costs, improve serviceability, and advance sustainability. With a workforce under constant strain, logistics leaders are focusing on technologies like IoT, cloud c ... Read More
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NIS2 Directive: Why and How to Make Backup and Recovery a Strategic Priority for Compliance
This IDC Perspective discusses the compliance requirements of NIS2 and how organizations should develop holistic strategies encompassing both security and data protection for adhering to the gold standard of cyber-readiness. "Evolving EMEA digital regulations demand robust cybersecurity and data res ... Read More
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Generative Physical AI, Agentic AI, Decentralized AI, Robotics, and XR Got the Spotlight at CES 2025
This IDC Market Note looks at announcements made at CES 2025, which highlighted significant advancements in AI, with NVIDIA leading the charge by showcasing generative physical AI and agentic AI capabilities. The event underscored AI's transformative potential across industries, emphasizing the need ... Read More
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Managed SPs: Adapting Business Models to Support Modernizing Mainframes with Managed Cloud Services
This IDC Market Perspective discusses different approaches that enterprises consider when using managed SPs to support modernization of mainframe environments as part of managed cloud services and the impact in modernizing mainframes on future opportunities for managed SPs and how managed SPs should ... Read More
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TCG Lifesciences Streamlines Processes to Enhance Business Efficiency, Implement Secure Data Management Strategies, and Reduce Costs
This IDC Perspective highlights how TCG Lifesciences (TCGLS) leveraged advanced technologies to enhance operational efficiency and decision making across multiple business functions. By utilizing AI for predictive analysis in retrosynthetic route planning, ML for task automation, and data analytics ... Read More
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European Consumer and SMB Telecoms Strategies: Research Coverage and Approach
This IDC Market Perspective provides an overview of the markets covered in IDC's European Consumer Telecom Strategies research program. It analyzes various aspects of the European consumer and SMB (1–250 empl.) market, such as connections and revenues, as well as existing and new services that under ... Read More
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Investing in Product Engineering — Increase Revenue and Decrease Cost
This IDC Perspective explores the correlation between the cost of R&D, cost of goods sold, and revenue growth for almost 1,000 discrete product manufacturers across five industries. A strong correlation has been identified where higher engineering costs results in lower production costs (higher ... Read More
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Vendor Profile: ConvergentIS Provides a Glimpse into the Future of Procurement Agentic Platforms
This IDC Vendor Profile is not meant to be a primer on agentic AI; we'll spend a lot of time writing about agentic AI. But at a high level, agentic AI platforms represent an innovative approach in artificial intelligence, combining advanced technologies to create autonomous systems capable of indepe ... Read More
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Top Trends in Enterprise Connectivity for 2025
This IDC Perspective discusses top trends in enterprise connectivity for 2025.As enterprises look ahead to the coming year, 2025 will continue to be a year of evolving enterprise connectivity. “Businesses across all vertical markets are continuing to adapt to emerging technologies and see increasing ... Read More
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Telcos Accelerating Cloud-Native Deployments for Greater Scalability and Business Agility
This IDC Market Perspective provides IDC's view on telecom service provider's cloud-native network deployments strategies to enhance scalability and agility driven by the need to support 5G, edge computing, and advanced network management. Telecom service providers are accelerating their cloud-nativ ... Read More
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CES 2025: Five Takeaways for Industry Ecosystems
This IDC Perspective provides our top 5 key takeaways from CES 2025 related to industry ecosystems, including observation, analysis, and guidance."CES is one of the only technology events that truly brings a collective set of partners together from the private and public sectors — it is clear that t ... Read More
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Top 5 Trends for Colocation Services for 2025
This IDC Market Perspective provides insights into the latest emerging datacenter technology trends that are shaping the datacenter colocation industry. New and emerging trends will change datacenter colocation facilities in terms of architecture design, cooling, storage, security, and sustainabilit ... Read More
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Top 5 Trends in the XR Market to Watch in 2025
This IDC Market Perspective examines key trends that will impact the XR market in 2025. Recent developments related to Android XR, 2D panel apps, and AI use cases will drive trends that we anticipate will shape market dynamics this year.“Android XR has the potential to shake up the XR platform race ... Read More
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Amazon Introduces Nova Foundation Models and Expands Model Choice in Amazon Bedrock
This IDC Market Note discusses how Amazon continues to innovate in GenAI, introducing a new family of frontier models addressing numerous enterprise use cases. The Nova model family includes text-only, multimodal, image-generation, and video-generation models, covering a wide range of enterprise use ... Read More
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IDC PeerScape: Practices for CAIO Success
This IDC PeerScape discusses the practices to help the new CAIOs succeed.“‘Seize the moment’ is a common exhortation. But high-impact opportunities are rare. The emergence of the CAIO position, however, is such a time. IT leaders have the chance to break new ground for innovation, deliver dramatic b ... Read More
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Do AI Agents Mark the Beginning of the End for Procurement Applications and Procurement Practitioners?
This IDC Market Perspective discusses AI agents that are revolutionizing procurement applications by automating processes, enhancing decision-making, and improving efficiency. While generative AI focuses on content creation and insights, agentic AI offers autonomous decision-making and operational e ... Read More
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Driving IT Success with Structured Business Relationship Manager Partnership Reviews
This IDC Perspective presents a structured approach to maximizing the impact of business relationship managers (BRMs). It outlines a strategic client partnership framework that aligns IT initiatives with business goals, enabling BRMs to drive measurable value and elevate their roles from operational ... Read More
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Introducing a New Frontier in WebAssembly's Journey: Proxy-Wasm
This IDC Market Note explores the October 2024 U.S. federal government recommendation that WebAssembly (Wasm) should be embedded into service meshes to enhance data protection."WebAssembly is moving beyond the web browser due to significant advancements, which have made it a legitimate option for se ... Read More
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Namirial: Supporting the Transition to Trusted and Secure Digital Signing Workflows
This IDC Vendor Profile examines how Namirial's portfolio of transaction management and trust solutions supports the growing requirements for trusted and secure digital signing workflows across all industries. It provides an overview of the company and outlines how it has developed in the past five ... Read More
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Five Key Trends in 2025 for Enterprise Client Computing Platforms
This IDC Market Perspective discusses the five key trends in 2025 for enterprise client computing platforms. AI everywhere is the headline trend in IT, but it is only one of several key trends which continue to shape the enterprise client platform (including client virtualization) in 2025. Others in ... Read More
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IDC PeerScape: Practices for Incorporating GenAI into IT Operations
This IDC PeerScape presents best practices for effectively incorporating GenAI into ITOps, the importance of advanced data preparation, choosing the right use cases, and the need for continued human connection.“Generative AI has the potential to exponentially improve the entire ITOps workflow and re ... Read More
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Building AI-Ready Infrastructure: How John Holland Group Achieved Operational Excellence with End-To-End Observability
This IDC Perspective discusses the execution details of the Best in Future of Digital Infrastructure winner from the IDC Future Enterprise Awards 2024 in the Asia/Pacific region. John Holland Group transformed its IT infrastructure by adopting a cloud-native, AI-ready digital platform with end-to-en ... Read More
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2025 Infrastructure Software Trends: AI Capabilities Forcing Changes and Opportunities
This IDC Market Perspective highlights the infrastructure software trends of 2025. The 2025 infrastructure software landscape is set to be significantly influenced by advancements in AI capabilities, particularly in the realms of enterprise system management, AIOps, and observability. Key trends inc ... Read More
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5(G) Predictions for 2025
This IDC Market Perspective examines five predictions in the next 12 months that will shape solution and service development, commercialization efforts, and marketing of 5G networks and use cases. New technical specification releases from the 3GPP and vendor investment in R&D and partnerships wi ... Read More
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Worldwide Security Information and Event Management Forecast, 2025–2029: Continued Payment for One’s SIEMs
This IDC study provides a worldwide market forecast for the security information and event management market for the 2025-2029 period.“Overall, the SIEM market is expected to grow more than previously forecast, driven by regulatory requirements and the need for comprehensive security monitoring and ... Read More
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