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

   
  • U.S. Business Use Tablet Forecast, 2024-2028

    U.S. Business Use Tablet Forecast, 2024-2028 This IDC study presents the five-year forecast for the U.S. business use of tablet shipments by operating system and user type (consumer, individual liable, and corporate liable). It is part of IDC's continuing research with respect to mobile devices. Fin ... Read More

  • Worldwide Enterprise Resource Management Software Forecast, 2024–2028: The Great Migration to an Intelligent Core

    Worldwide Enterprise Resource Management Software Forecast, 2024–2028: The Great Migration to an Intelligent Core This IDC study brings forward the worldwide enterprise resource management software forecast and provides a vision into 2028, including deployment models, trends, and significant market ... Read More

  • U.S. Smartwatch Market Shares, 2023: Apple Dominates in a Down Year

    U.S. Smartwatch Market Shares, 2023: Apple Dominates in a Down Year This IDC study examines the market shares of the major vendors in the U.S. smartwatch market in 2023."The macroeconomic and inflationary difficulties dampened multiple markets in the United States, including the smartwatch market," ... Read More

  • Worldwide Content Services Applications Market Shares, 2023: Transitioning to Intelligent Content Services

    Worldwide Content Services Applications Market Shares, 2023: Transitioning to Intelligent Content Services This IDC study provides estimated vendor revenue and shares for the content services applications market for 2023, as well as for the enterprise content management applications and content shar ... Read More

  • Cloud had to be a "Push" to the C-Suite, AI Is Now a "Pull," Says AWS

    Cloud had to be a "Push" to the C-Suite, AI Is Now a "Pull," Says AWS This IDC Market Perspective presents key findings from AWS' annual analyst summit held in London in April. While AI inevitably dominated the agenda, the event also featured presentations and discussions about the company's focus o ... Read More

  • Worldwide Tablet Forecast Update, 2024–2028: 1Q24

    Worldwide Tablet Forecast Update, 2024–2028: 1Q24 This IDC study presents the updated forecast data for the worldwide tablet market for the 2024–2028 period."Tablet shipments ended a long streak of market contractions in the prior quarter," states Linn Huang, research vice president, Devices and Dis ... Read More

  • Worldwide PC Forecast Update, 2024–2028: 1Q24

    Worldwide PC Forecast Update, 2024–2028: 1Q24 This IDC study presents updated forecast data for the worldwide PC market for 1Q24. "The PC market enters a critical juncture as the AI PC race kicks off in earnest," states Linn Huang, research vice president, Devices and Displays, IDC. "Unfortunately, ... Read More

  • Worldwide Datacenter Interconnection Services Forecast, 2024–2028

    Worldwide Datacenter Interconnection Services Forecast, 2024–2028 This IDC study analyses the worldwide interconnection services market. In addition to presenting key trends, the study forecasts interconnection services revenue through 2028."Demand for evolving network architecture that interconnect ... Read More

  • The Inkjet Market: Diversification and Change

    The Inkjet Market: Diversification and Change Inkjet suppliers adapting their business models to capitalize on changing customer needs are fighting back against market declines and are seeing continued success in the market despite continual market declines, said Phil Sargeant, senior program direct ... Read More

  • Worldwide Content Services Applications Forecast, 2024–2028

    Worldwide Content Services Applications Forecast, 2024–2028 This IDC study provides the market size of the worldwide content services applications market, and the ECM and CSC submarkets, in 2023 and a five-year forecast through 2028 by geographic region and deployment type. It is the companion docum ... Read More

  • Western Europe Label and Packaging Production Market Development, 2023

    Western Europe Label and Packaging Production Market Development, 2023 This IDC Market Note provides a quick overview of the industrial digital label and packaging market in Western Europe between 2019 and 2023, highlighting shipments dynamics by country, product category, and vendor shares. It also ... Read More

  • IDC PlanScape: Responsible AI Capability Design

    IDC PlanScape: Responsible AI Capability Design This IDC PlanScape explores RAI capability design, a proactive approach to ensure AI development aligns with ethical principles, user expectations, and organizational values. Investing in RAI design offers significant benefits, including consideration ... Read More

  • Worldwide Video Surveillance Camera Market Shares, 2023: Market Continues to Grow as the Competitive Space Sorts Itself Out

    Worldwide Video Surveillance Camera Market Shares, 2023: Market Continues to Grow as the Competitive Space Sorts Itself Out This IDC study discusses the dynamics driving the video surveillance camera market as well as the overall share of market for the major videocamera vendors. As noted by Mike Ju ... Read More

  • Worldwide Business Use Tablet Forecast, 2024–2028

    Worldwide Business Use Tablet Forecast, 2024–2028 This IDC study presents the five-year forecast for the worldwide business use of tablet shipments by mobile operating system and user type (consumer, individual liable, and corporate liable). It is part of IDC's continuing research with respect to mo ... Read More

  • AI at the Core: Exploring AWS's Generative AI Initiatives and Cloud Integration Strategy

    AI at the Core: Exploring AWS's Generative AI Initiatives and Cloud Integration Strategy This IDC Market Note looks at the highlights from the AWS Analyst Forum held on April 23, 2024, focusing on AWS's strategic priorities such as customer-centric innovation, sustainability initiatives, and the int ... Read More

  • Worldwide Medical Devices Key IT Deals and Initiatives Update, Q1 2024

    Worldwide Medical Devices Key IT Deals and Initiatives Update, Q1 2024 This IDC Perspective provides IDC Health Insights' overview of key IT deals, news, and digital initiatives in the worldwide medical devices market in Q1 2024. This is the seventh in a quarterly series of reports launched by IDC H ... Read More

  • Worldwide Server Market Shares, 2023: AI Cloud Buildout

    Worldwide Server Market Shares, 2023: AI Cloud Buildout This IDC study provides historical market share data (2019–2023) for the worldwide server market. The historical data illustrates top server vendor shares overall and by product (form factor). IDC has reported vendor shares in vendor revenue an ... Read More

  • Harnessing AI for Scalable Sales Management Success

    Harnessing AI for Scalable Sales Management Success This IDC Perspective highlights the challenges sales managers face, such as overwhelming workloads and complex sales processes, and emphasizes the role of AI in enhancing sales management. It discusses how AI can provide personalized training, auto ... Read More

  • Middle East, Türkiye, and Africa Industrial Internet of Things Market Trends, 2023

    Middle East, Türkiye, and Africa Industrial Internet of Things Market Trends, 2023 Fueled by economic diversification initiatives, giga projects and foreign direct investments, Industrial IoT is primed to be a game changer in the META region. Service providers that embrace open standards, AI-powered ... Read More

  • App-Centric Engineering Framework: Integrating DevOps, CloudOps, and DataOps to Orchestrate Application Success

    App-Centric Engineering Framework: Integrating DevOps, CloudOps, and DataOps to Orchestrate Application Success This IDC Market Perspective discusses the app-centric engineering framework, which integrates DevOps, CloudOps, and DataOps to orchestrate application success. Applications are the lifeblo ... Read More

  • Canadian Communications Services Forecast, 2024–2028

    Canadian Communications Services Forecast, 2024–2028 This IDC study provides the five-year forecast for the Canadian communications services sector's revenue including consumer, business, and wholesale market segments for 2024–2028. This study also provides more detailed forecasts across service seg ... Read More

  • U.S. Consumer Communications Services Forecast, 2024–2028

    U.S. Consumer Communications Services Forecast, 2024–2028 This IDC study identifies and quantifies the consumer communications services market opportunity in the United States, including an assessment of the drivers and inhibitors influencing the deployment, marketing, and pricing of fixed broadband ... Read More

  • Worldwide Solid State Drive Forecast, 2024–2028

    Worldwide Solid State Drive Forecast, 2024–2028 This IDC study presents an updated outlook for the solid state drive (SSD) market for the 2024–2028 period. SSD industry dynamics and the end-device forecast changes are aggregated, analyzed, and applied to IDC's long-term SSD forecast in terms of unit ... Read More

  • European Edge Market Forecast, 2022–2027: May 2024 Update

    European Edge Market Forecast, 2022–2027: May 2024 Update This IDC Market Forecast covers European edge spending for the 2022-2027 period, providing an update of the previously published forecast (see European Edge Market Forecast, 2022–2027, IDC #EUR251251723, October 2023) and leveraging data from ... Read More

  • Evaluating Energy Consumption of AI and GenAI Workloads in Datacenters: What Does the Future Hold?

    Evaluating Energy Consumption of AI and GenAI Workloads in Datacenters: What Does the Future Hold? This IDC Market Perspective explores the energy consumption of AI and GenAI workloads in datacenters, discusses factors leading to increasing energy use, and talks about how AI and GenAI can potentiall ... Read More

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