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

   
  • Worldwide Intelligent CloudOps Software Market Shares, 2023: Growth and Acquisitions Accelerate

    Worldwide Intelligent CloudOps Software Market Shares, 2023: Growth and Acquisitions Accelerate This IDC study discusses 2023 vendor market shares and activity across the intelligent CloudOps software market worldwide and provides a competitive view of selected products and vendors. IDC estimated 20 ... Read More

  • Worldwide Generative AI Software Services Forecast, 2024–2028: Unlocking Exponential Growth Trajectories Through Transformative Innovations

    Worldwide Generative AI Software Services Forecast, 2024–2028: Unlocking Exponential Growth Trajectories Through Transformative Innovations This IDC study presents a forecast for the worldwide generative AI software services market for 2024–2028."Generative AI is not only evolving; it is transformi ... Read More

  • Worldwide Product Engineering and Operational Technology Services Forecast, 2024–2028

    Worldwide Product Engineering and Operational Technology Services Forecast, 2024–2028 This IDC study presents a five-year forecast for the product engineering and operational technology services market."As an uncertain business environment and inflation fears continue to linger in the context of eve ... Read More

  • Why Are Many Bank Lenders Not Using AI?

    Why Are Many Bank Lenders Not Using AI? This IDC Perspective looks at AI technology and provides insight into the levels at which banks are investing in technology solutions. Despite the potential of AI to enhance operational efficiencies and customer experiences in banking, many lenders, particular ... Read More

  • Industry Alliances and Tech Innovations: Highlights From Shoptalk Europe 2024

    Industry Alliances and Tech Innovations: Highlights From Shoptalk Europe 2024 This IDC Perspective provides IDC Retail Insights' key takeaways from Shoptalk Europe 2024, held in Barcelona, which gathered over 10,000 retail professionals to explore the future of retail. The event emphasized the criti ... Read More

  • Japan Virtual Client Computing Market Shares, 2023: Security and Experience

    Japan Virtual Client Computing Market Shares, 2023: Security and Experience This IDC document analyzes the Japan enterprise client market and Japan client virtualization market in 2023, clarifying the current situation of the market as well as summarizing the trends of leading vendors and changes in ... Read More

  • What We Saw: U.S. Consumer and Office Print Activity, 1Q24

    What We Saw: U.S. Consumer and Office Print Activity, 1Q24 This IDC Market Perspective provides an update on office and consumer printer shipment activity in the first quarter of 2024 for the United States."In 1Q24, printer and MFP shipments rebounded somewhat from a surprisingly weak fourth quarter ... Read More

  • Worldwide Wallet Methodology, 2024

    Worldwide Wallet Methodology, 2024 This IDC Market Perspective provides a detailed description of IDC's Worldwide Wallet methodology. It outlines the key inputs and approach to developing account-level technology spending estimates and explains the relationship with IDC's Worldwide ICT Spending Guid ... Read More

  • Japan Telecommunications Services Forecast, 2024–2028

    Japan Telecommunications Services Forecast, 2024–2028 This research report provides market forecasts and outlook for the Japan telecommunications services market from 2024 to 2028. In 2023, the Japan telecommunications services market saw sales growth in the enterprise WAN services market as employe ... Read More

  • European Digital Product Passport for Circular Value Chains

    European Digital Product Passport for Circular Value Chains This IDC Market Perspective presents key insights into the European digital product passport (DPP) initiative, which will be mandatory for all products in the EU by 2030. This initiative aims to enhance product life-cycle transparency and s ... Read More

  • Worldwide Hard Disk Drive 2Q24 Preliminary Shipment Results

    Worldwide Hard Disk Drive 2Q24 Preliminary Shipment Results This IDC Market Perspective provides a preliminary unit shipment range for worldwide hard disk drive (HDD) units by HDD drive class and estimated supplier market share for 2Q24."HDD demand continues to strengthen and shipments continue to b ... Read More

  • Worldwide Sales Force Productivity and Performance Software Market Shares, 2023: Demand for Seller Adeptness and Efficiency Drives Growth in 2023

    Worldwide Sales Force Productivity and Performance Software Market Shares, 2023: Demand for Seller Adeptness and Efficiency Drives Growth in 2023 This IDC study examines the worldwide sales force productivity and performance software market for the 2023 calendar year. IDC defines sales force product ... Read More

  • Worldwide Collaborative Applications Market Shares, 2023: Multimodality, AI, and Workflow Rise

    Worldwide Collaborative Applications Market Shares, 2023: Multimodality, AI, and Workflow Rise This IDC study examines the vendor revenue performance in the overall collaborative applications market for 2023.The top 5 vendors in 2023 based on worldwide revenue are Microsoft (30.1%), Google (14.7%), ... Read More

  • Generative AI Augmenting the Traditional AI and Machine Learning Life Cycle

    Generative AI Augmenting the Traditional AI and Machine Learning Life Cycle This IDC Perspective highlights the transformative impact of generative AI (GenAI) on the traditional AI and machine learning life cycle, emphasizing its role in enhancing efficiency, accelerating model development, and addr ... Read More

  • Japan IT Spending Forecast by Vertical Segment, Company Employee Size, and Company Revenue Forecast, 2024–2028

    Japan IT Spending Forecast by Vertical Segment, Company Employee Size, and Company Revenue Forecast, 2024–2028 This research report provides actual IT spending (2022, 2023) and forecasts (2024–2028) in the Japan IT market by industry sector, employee size, and annual turnover. This research report a ... Read More

  • Worldwide and U.S. IT Outsourcing Services Market Shares, 2023: Top 10 Worldwide and U.S. IT Outsourcers

    Worldwide and U.S. IT Outsourcing Services Market Shares, 2023: Top 10 Worldwide and U.S. IT Outsourcers This IDC study highlights how the landscape of IT outsourcers and managed service providers (SPs) is evolving as players are utilizing different strategies to either maintain leadership or climb ... Read More

  • Worldwide and U.S. Employee Experience Software and Services Forecast, 2024–2028

    Worldwide and U.S. Employee Experience Software and Services Forecast, 2024–2028 This IDC study provides a sizing of the employee experience software and services markets in 2023 with a 2024–2028 forecast. The EX market is poised for maturing growth over the next five years. EX transformation is fra ... Read More

  • IDC PeerScape: Practices to Modernize IT Talent and Skills Development

    IDC PeerScape: Practices to Modernize IT Talent and Skills Development This IDC PeerScape focuses on top modernization practices that organizations are adopting to help close talent or skills gaps that would otherwise hold the organization back."Modernization practices improve efficiency and produc ... Read More

  • Worldwide Generative AI Software Services Market Shares, 2023: Powering Diverse Applications with Foundation Models

    Worldwide Generative AI Software Services Market Shares, 2023: Powering Diverse Applications with Foundation Models This IDC study provides a breakdown of global generative AI software services revenue by vendor for the historical year 2023."The growth of the generative AI software services market d ... Read More

  • Intel and AMD Announce the First x86-Based Copilot+ Capable Chips as Next-Generation AI PC Race with Qualcomm Heats Up

    Intel and AMD Announce the First x86-Based Copilot+ Capable Chips as Next-Generation AI PC Race with Qualcomm Heats Up This IDC Market Note discusses new products from Intel and AMD announced at Computex for the AI PC era defined by Microsoft's Copilot+ specifications. These include 16GB RAM, 256GB ... Read More

  • Japan IT Security Forecast, 2024–2028

    Japan IT Security Forecast, 2024–2028 This document provides market size forecasts for the Japan security software market, Japan security appliance market, and Japan security services market from 2024 to 2028. COVID-19 was classified as a Class 5 infectious disease in May 2023, and the Japan economy ... Read More

  • Japan CX Software/CRM Applications Forecast, 2024–2028

    Japan CX Software/CRM Applications Forecast, 2024–2028 This IDC Market Forecast provides 2023 actual results (based on sales revenue) for the domestic customer experience (CX)-related software/cybersecurity risk management (CRM) application market and market forecasts from 2024 to 2028.Saki Ota, sen ... Read More

  • Japan Enterprise Networks Forecast, 2024—2028

    Japan Enterprise Networks Forecast, 2024—2028 This IDC study provides market estimates and future outlook for the Japan enterprise network equipment market that consists of enterprise Ethernet switches, enterprise routers, and enterprise WLAN equipment in addition to actual results for 2023 — from 2 ... Read More

  • Japan Networks Market Shares, 2023: A Market That Calls for Networks in the Digital Business Era

    Japan Networks Market Shares, 2023: A Market That Calls for Networks in the Digital Business Era This document analyzes vendor shares and vendor trends in 2023 for the Japan network equipment market, which consists of Ethernet switches, routers, and enterprise WLAN equipment, by market as a whole an ... Read More

  • Japan Enterprise/Virtual Client Computing Forecast, 2024–2028

    Japan Enterprise/Virtual Client Computing Forecast, 2024–2028 This IDC study analyzes the Japan enterprise client market and Japan client virtualization market in 2023, clarifying the current situation of the market, and making future predictions taking into account IDC's gross domestic product (GDP ... Read More

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