IDC

International Data Corporation (IDC) stands as a preeminent global purveyor of market intelligence, advisory solutions, and impactful events tailored to the information technology, telecommunications, and consumer technology sectors. Housing a cadre of over 1,300 analysts spanning the globe, IDC's repository of expertise extends across global, regional, and local domains, proffering keen insights into technology landscapes and industry trends that span over 110 countries. This formidable wealth of analysis and perspective serves as a lodestar for IT professionals, corporate executives, and investment entities, enabling them to navigate technology choices grounded in empirical evidence and to attain pivotal business goals.

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.
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5,156 Reports from IDC

   
  • AI-Driven Software Development: How AI Is Enhancing Developer Efficiency Featuring Amazon Q Case Studies

    AI-Driven Software Development: How AI Is Enhancing Developer Efficiency Featuring Amazon Q Case Studies The IDC Perspective explores how AI, particularly GenAI, is revolutionizing software development by enhancing developer efficiency and productivity. It highlights the challenges of traditional wo ... Read More

  • EMEA Leaders in the Age of AI Everywhere: The Role of Employees in Successful AI Implementations

    EMEA Leaders in the Age of AI Everywhere: The Role of Employees in Successful AI Implementations This IDC Perspective, part of the "EMEA Leaders in the Age of AI Everywhere" series, focuses on the People pillar of IDC's Organizational Road Map to AI Implementation. It draws upon insights gathered fr ... Read More

  • EMEA Server Forecast, 2023–2028: Years of Steady Growth Expected After the Storm

    EMEA Server Forecast, 2023–2028: Years of Steady Growth Expected After the Storm This IDC Market Forecast provides historical data (2022–2023) and forecast data (2024–2028) for the EMEA server market. Forecast and historical data illustrate IT buyer consumption of server hardware segmented by produc ... Read More

  • To What Extent Can Threat Actors Benefit from Generative AI?

    To What Extent Can Threat Actors Benefit from Generative AI? This IDC Perspective explores the potential and present use of AI as a resource for bad actors in cybersecurity, identifies the main types of risks raised by AI-powered attacks, and explains what enterprises should do in response. From th ... Read More

  • Buyer Case Study — Future Proofing TVS Sundaram Clayton's Manufacturing Landscape Using Private 5G Connectivity

    Buyer Case Study — Future Proofing TVS Sundaram Clayton's Manufacturing Landscape Using Private 5G Connectivity The IDC Perspective delves into TVS Sundaram Clayton's utilization of private 5G networks to fortify the company's manufacturing infrastructure, improving connectivity to bolster digital ... Read More

  • Future Proof Academic Research with Secure Research Computing in the Cloud

    Future Proof Academic Research with Secure Research Computing in the Cloud This IDC Perspective highlights the role of cloud computing in building secure research environments and offers guidance to higher education IT leaders in how to successfully implement these advanced capabilities to achieve s ... Read More

  • The Importance of Centralized Data in Achieving Operational Excellence and Resilience

    The Importance of Centralized Data in Achieving Operational Excellence and Resilience This IDC Perspective highlights the criticality of operational data management for organizations to achieve success in their digital transformation initiatives. Being data driven is increasingly becoming a competit ... Read More

  • Assistants, Advisors, and Agents: Defining Support Systems for New Work Models

    Assistants, Advisors, and Agents: Defining Support Systems for New Work Models This IDC Perspective defines and clarifies the roles of AI-enabled assistants, advisors, agents, and copilots, highlighting their distinct capabilities and business impacts. It emphasizes the importance of understanding t ... Read More

  • Navigating Cyberthreats: Strategies to Enhance Supply Chain Resilience

    Navigating Cyberthreats: Strategies to Enhance Supply Chain Resilience This IDC Perspective delves into the state of supply chain cybersecurity within the Asia/Pacific region, a crucial hub for global manufacturing and logistics. It explores the region's rapid digital transformation driven by advanc ... Read More

  • 5G as a Driver for Sustainability: Efficiencies and Monetization

    5G as a Driver for Sustainability: Efficiencies and Monetization This IDC Market Perspective examines how 5G technology aids operators in achieving sustainability goals. It underscores the role of 5G in enhancing CSPs' market competitiveness through sustainable practices and strategic partnerships. ... Read More

  • How Can We Make 5G Greener?

    How Can We Make 5G Greener? This IDC Market Perspective explores strategies to make 5G networks more environmentally sustainable, focusing on reducing carbon emissions and energy consumption. It highlights the commitments of telecom operators to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050, emphasizing the imp ... Read More

  • The Growing Use of Cloud in Utilities

    The Growing Use of Cloud in Utilities This IDC Perspective examines results from IDC's August 2024 Industry TechPath Survey and highlights some of the trends and areas throughout utility organizations that are seeing increased investment and adoption of cloud technologies and applications. "Utilitie ... Read More

  • Worldwide Datacenter Colocation Services Forecast, 2024–2028

    Worldwide Datacenter Colocation Services Forecast, 2024–2028 This IDC study examines the worldwide datacenter colocation services market for 2024–2028."Organizations are investing in high-performance computing and building generative AI-powered applications, leading to increase in need for high-dens ... Read More

  • Worldwide Carrier Multi-Access Edge Cloud Software Forecast, 2024–2028

    Worldwide Carrier Multi-Access Edge Cloud Software Forecast, 2024–2028 This IDC study examines the worldwide carrier multi-access edge cloud (MEC) software market for the 2024–2028 period. IDC expects the spending on software (i.e., virtual network functions [VNFs] and NFVI) at the carrier edge clou ... Read More

  • European Wholesale Telecoms Services Market Forecast, 2024–2028

    European Wholesale Telecoms Services Market Forecast, 2024–2028 This IDC Market Forecast analyzes the market for wholesale telecoms services in Europe, including data, infrastructure, voice and messaging, roaming, and mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) services. Revenue forecasts are broken down ... Read More

  • Evaluating Enterprise Technical Health

    Evaluating Enterprise Technical Health This IDC Perspective delves into strategies for improving technical health and managing technical debt. It highlights the importance of recognizing and quantifying debt and communicating the status of the overall enterprise in terms of technical health. By adop ... Read More

  • Canon Analyst Day Event Outlines IMS Division Strategy in EMEA

    Canon Analyst Day Event Outlines IMS Division Strategy in EMEA This IDC Market Perspective highlights the Canon Information Management Solutions (IMS) Analyst Briefing, held on May 2, 2024. The event emphasized Canon's distinct identity and strategy in the IMS market in EMEA. Its IMS business, gener ... Read More

  • Sustainability and the Circular Economy: Implications for Asia/Pacific Public Sector

    Sustainability and the Circular Economy: Implications for Asia/Pacific Public Sector This IDC report explores the current focus on sustainability and circularity by the public sector organizations in Asia/Pacific. This report, by taking a deep dive into the organizational readiness maturity, their s ... Read More

  • How Can Geospatial Data and AI Be Leveraged to Support Climate Change Adaptation in Cities and the Built Environment?

    How Can Geospatial Data and AI Be Leveraged to Support Climate Change Adaptation in Cities and the Built Environment? The IDC Perspective explores how leveraging geospatial data and AI can aid city authorities, developers, and asset owners adapt to climate change by integrating nature-based solution ... Read More

  • The Future of Wealth Management Is Generative

    The Future of Wealth Management Is Generative This IDC Perspective provides a thoughtful and timely consideration of the many potential applications of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) within the wealth management industry, exploring the technology's potential to disrupt traditional busine ... Read More

  • Vendor Profile: Cloudera

    Vendor Profile: Cloudera This IDC Vendor Profile looks at data platform and analytics company Cloudera, founded in 2008 to serve demand for open source data processing framework Hadoop. It looks at key moments in Cloudera's history, including its IPO in 2017, its merger with Hortonworks a year later ... Read More

  • Authentic Intelligence: The Gateway to Intelligent But Empathetic Customer Experiences

    Authentic Intelligence: The Gateway to Intelligent But Empathetic Customer Experiences This IDC Perspective discusses authentic intelligence as the gateway to intelligent but empathetic customer experiences. The importance of intelligent authentic experiences grows amid the rapid adoption of AI and ... Read More

  • California Passes First of Its Kind "AI Catastrophe" Bill Despite Industry Pushback

    California Passes First of Its Kind "AI Catastrophe" Bill Despite Industry Pushback This IDC Market Note shares an overview of California's first "AI catastrophe" bill. California's SB 1047 bill, designed to regulate AI to prevent risks like mass casualties or significant cyberattacks, requires safe ... Read More

  • Worldwide Server Infrastructure Workloads by Operating System Environment Forecast, 2024–2028: Linux Growth Persists Despite Market Concerns as AI Demand Skyrockets

    Worldwide Server Infrastructure Workloads by Operating System Environment Forecast, 2024–2028: Linux Growth Persists Despite Market Concerns as AI Demand Skyrockets This IDC study provides an overview of the market size and forecast from 2024 to 2028 for global spending on enterprise servers by serv ... Read More

  • 5G Monetization Enablers: Product Catalog/CPQ

    5G Monetization Enablers: Product Catalog/CPQ This IDC Market Perspective highlights the critical role of granular product catalog and configure price quote (CPQ) capabilities in enabling effective monetization strategies for telecommunications companies. It underscores the necessity for telcos to i ... Read More

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