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

   
  • Vodafone's Approach to GenAI

    Vodafone's Approach to GenAI This IDC Market Note examines Vodafone's strategic approach to leveraging GenAI, which focuses on enhancing operational efficiency, and customer experience. The company emphasizes ethical AI deployment, customer-centric solutions, and partnerships with solution providers ... Read More

  • Delivering Customer Value Through Ecosystem Innovation

    Delivering Customer Value Through Ecosystem Innovation This IDC Market Perspective emphasizes the importance of redefining customer value delivery through ecosystem innovation in the digital and AI-everywhere era. IDC's research highlights the urgency for companies to not only optimize internal proc ... Read More

  • NTT DATA's Launch of Edge AI Platform for Industrial Use Cases

    NTT DATA's Launch of Edge AI Platform for Industrial Use Cases This IDC Market Note highlights the launch of NTT DATA's Edge AI Platform designed for industrial IT/OT environments to enhance decision-making through better analytics by integrating disparate data systems. The platform, offered as a ma ... Read More

  • Customer Engineering Services Case Study: Augmented Reality for Distributed Field Service Workers

    Customer Engineering Services Case Study: Augmented Reality for Distributed Field Service Workers This IDC Perspective examines how CES leadership determined and executed a set of foundational requirements in the selection, deployment, and application of an augmented reality (AR) training and remote ... Read More

  • Worldwide Public Cloud Platform as a Service Market Shares, 2023: The Rush to AI

    Worldwide Public Cloud Platform as a Service Market Shares, 2023: The Rush to AI This IDC study reports on the prior two years, in addition to the year 2023, to provide context for how the market has evolved. It also provides a competitive analysis of the worldwide public cloud PaaS market players a ... Read More

  • European Intelligent Process Automation Market Events, H1 2024

    European Intelligent Process Automation Market Events, H1 2024 This IDC Market Note details key developments in the intelligent process automation software market in Europe between January and June 2024, with a particular focus on product announcements and strategic partnerships. In 1H24, market act ... Read More

  • What's Important to Your Channel Partners?

    What's Important to Your Channel Partners? This IDC Market Perspective takes a look at IDC's 2023 EMEA Partner Survey and highlights results that are particularly relevant to print vendors' channel partners preparing to respond to customers' evolving business requirements. This includes partner ecos ... Read More

  • IDC PeerScape: Practices for Planning and Optimizing Cybersecurity Team Structure

    IDC PeerScape: Practices for Planning and Optimizing Cybersecurity Team Structure This IDC PeerScape offers guidance on how to approach cybersecurity team structure. Drawing on perspectives from enterprise cybersecurity across diverse sectors, it identifies best practices for managing team structure ... Read More

  • Worldwide Consumer Digital Life Protection Software Forecast, 2024–2028: A Noisy Environment Demands Differentiation

    Worldwide Consumer Digital Life Protection Software Forecast, 2024–2028: A Noisy Environment Demands Differentiation This IDC study provides a forecast for the worldwide consumer digital life protection software market for 2024–2028."In an era where digital threats are escalating, consumer digital ... Read More

  • Nutanix Making a Major Push in 2024 with Its Flagship Global Event .NEXT in Barcelona, Spain

    Nutanix Making a Major Push in 2024 with Its Flagship Global Event .NEXT in Barcelona, Spain This IDC Market Perspective highlights some of the announcements by Nutanix at its annual global .NEXT event on May 21 to 23, 2024, at the Fira Barcelona in Spain. During the event, the company announced the ... Read More

  • Canadian Communications Service Provider Capex Spending, 2023–2024 — Lowest Capital Intensity in 14 Years

    Canadian Communications Service Provider Capex Spending, 2023–2024 — Lowest Capital Intensity in 14 Years This IDC Market Perspective updates IDC Canada's previous 2023 capital expenditures (capex) report and provides our 2024 capex budget forecasts for Canada's major communications service provider ... Read More

  • Benetton Group's Journey Toward a Holistic Approach to Customer Experience

    Benetton Group's Journey Toward a Holistic Approach to Customer Experience This IDC Perspective delves into Benetton Group's transformative journey in customer experience, highlighting its shift toward an omni-channel, seamless interaction model for customers and employees through POS technology har ... Read More

  • People Versus Process Versus Technology: Finding and Fixing the Root Cause of Cybersecurity Shortcomings

    People Versus Process Versus Technology: Finding and Fixing the Root Cause of Cybersecurity Shortcomings This IDC Perspective discusses strategies to assess the root causes of cybersecurity failures from an organizational perspective. Measured in terms of data like the average frequency and cost of ... Read More

  • Japan Hyperconverged Systems Forecast, 2024–2028

    Japan Hyperconverged Systems Forecast, 2024–2028 This IDC research report provides spending forecasts for the Japan hyperconverged systems market by employee size, industry sector, and region from 2024 to 2028.Yukihisa Hode, research manager, Infrastructure and Devices, IDC Japan, contends, "In futu ... Read More

  • European HCM Applications Forecast, 2023-2028

    European HCM Applications Forecast, 2023-2028 This IDC Market Forecast provides an analysis and sizing of the European HCM and payroll management applications market for 2021–2023 and forecasts growth for the 2024–2028 period. The study segments the combined HCM and payroll management applications m ... Read More

  • Saudi Arabia Public Cloud Market Forecast, 2023-2028

    Saudi Arabia Public Cloud Market Forecast, 2023-2028 This IDC public cloud spending report provides an overview of the cloud services market in Saudi Arabia, including its growth forecast. It delves into key drivers and inhibitors of cloud adoption and includes advice that CSPs can use to better ser ... Read More

  • Semiconductor Manufacturing Services: 2023 Asia/Pacific Top 10 Fabless Market: Vendor Ranking and Insight

    Semiconductor Manufacturing Services: 2023 Asia/Pacific Top 10 Fabless Market: Vendor Ranking and Insight According to Galen Zeng, senior research manager, IDC, "The fabless market in the Asia/Pacific region has a well-established industry foundation and remains resilient albeit geopolitical influen ... Read More

  • Cloud as a Platform for Next-Generation Public Services: A Perspective from ARIA, the Lombardy Regional Agency for Innovation and Procurement

    Cloud as a Platform for Next-Generation Public Services: A Perspective from ARIA, the Lombardy Regional Agency for Innovation and Procurement This IDC Perspective discusses the lessons learned from the hybrid multicloud transformation orchestrated by ARIA, the Lombardy Regional Agency for Innovation ... Read More

  • Infoblox Leverages Domain Name System for Detection and Response and Threat Intelligence

    Infoblox Leverages Domain Name System for Detection and Response and Threat Intelligence This IDC Market Perspective focuses on how Infoblox leverages the domain name system (DNS) to enhance cybersecurity through detection and response and threat intelligence. By utilizing DNS, Infoblox provides vis ... Read More

  • Impact of AI on Infrastructure with Managed Services

    Impact of AI on Infrastructure with Managed Services This IDC Market Perspective provides insight into buyer expectations of the value of AI when used with managed services for infrastructure technologies (e.g., compute, storage, network, endpoint) along with critical challenges. This document also ... Read More

  • Improving Experiential Value and Empathetic Customer Outcomes Through an Experience-Orchestrated Business

    Improving Experiential Value and Empathetic Customer Outcomes Through an Experience-Orchestrated Business This IDC Perspective discusses how the experience-orchestrated (X-O) business framework can enable organizations to deliver value-based experiential outcomes for customers. Organizations are inc ... Read More

  • IDC PeerScape: Peer Insights to Implement Edge Computing

    IDC PeerScape: Peer Insights to Implement Edge Computing This IDC PeerScape discusses peer insights to implement edge computing."In the digital economy, latency can hamstring a company's ability to compete. Customers won't tolerate it, and employees find it demoralizing. Edge computing architectures ... Read More

  • What Google's Newest Approach to Cookie Deprecation Means for Advertisers

    What Google's Newest Approach to Cookie Deprecation Means for Advertisers This IDC Perspective discusses Google's newest approach to the deprecation of cookies. Google's recent decision to shift focus from deprecating third-party cookies to empowering user choice marks a significant turning point in ... Read More

  • The Acquisition of Datacentrix by Convergence Partners: Implications for the IT Services Market in South Africa

    The Acquisition of Datacentrix by Convergence Partners: Implications for the IT Services Market in South Africa This IDC Market Note provides IDC's key opinions and impressions of Datacentrix's acquisition by Convergence Partners in July 2024. "Through this acquisition, Datacentrix has an opportunit ... Read More

  • Worldwide Team Collaboration Applications Forecast, 2024–2028: Beyond Messaging to AI-Enhanced Multimodality

    Worldwide Team Collaboration Applications Forecast, 2024–2028: Beyond Messaging to AI-Enhanced Multimodality This IDC study looks at the impact that team collaboration applications will continue to have across the workforce, and with a company's partners and customers. Leading enterprises have move ... Read More

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