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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5,062 Reports from IDC

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

    U.S. SMB Communications Services Forecast, 2024–2028 This IDC study analyzes and forecasts the revenue for the U.S. small and medium-sized business communications services market. The study provides IDC's definitions of SMB and telecom voice and data categories, and it presents a detailed forecast, ... Read More

  • Worldwide Electric Vehicle Forecast, 2024–2028

    Worldwide Electric Vehicle Forecast, 2024–2028 This IDC study provides a five-year forecast for the electric vehicle market for the 2024–2028 period."With increasing competition among automakers, EV customers will soon have the choice among a range of EVs at various price points. However, there is s ... Read More

  • IDC's Global CIO Advisory Board: Enterprise Architecture in the Age of AI

    IDC's Global CIO Advisory Board: Enterprise Architecture in the Age of AI This IDC Perspective summarizes IDC's Global CIO Advisory Board discussion on enterprise architecture management (EAM) in the age of AI everywhere. The speaker was the CIO of a leading chemical manufacturer in Germany.Accordin ... Read More

  • Hybrid and Multicloud Interoperability Building Blocks for Future Enterprise Innovation

    Hybrid and Multicloud Interoperability Building Blocks for Future Enterprise Innovation This IDC Perspective explores critical technologies and related investments that enterprises should be making to improve digital business outcomes by simplifying and automating many aspects of hybrid and multiclo ... Read More

  • CIO Development of an Impactful Sustainability Strategy

    CIO Development of an Impactful Sustainability Strategy This IDC Perspective provides insights and methods for defining what the organizational strategy will be. Social and regulatory forces are converging in ways that support organizations of every sector to revisit strategies and focus investment ... Read More

  • Worldwide SD-WAN Infrastructure Market Shares, 2023: Cloud, Security, and AIOps Continue to Drive Growth

    Worldwide SD-WAN Infrastructure Market Shares, 2023: Cloud, Security, and AIOps Continue to Drive Growth This IDC study provides a view of worldwide SD-WAN infrastructure market shares by vendor, covering both hardware and software revenue."As organizations across the globe look to compete — and thr ... Read More

  • Gender Parity, AI, and Empathetic Commerce: VTEX DAY 2024

    Gender Parity, AI, and Empathetic Commerce: VTEX DAY 2024 This IDC Market Note discusses highlights of VTEX DAY 2024.VTEX DAY 2024 served as a springboard for a critical discussion — the future of leadership in a rapidly evolving tech landscape. While the event showcased advancements in AI and omni- ... Read More

  • Worldwide Communications Platform as a Service Forecast, 2024–2028

    Worldwide Communications Platform as a Service Forecast, 2024–2028 This IDC study presents the forecast of worldwide revenue for the CPaaS market for 2024–2028. "The CPaaS market is significantly growing with vendors offering more API-based offerings integrated with generative AI (GenAI) to improve ... Read More

  • Worldwide Services Market Shares, 2023: Market Remains Steady Despite Economic Uncertainties

    Worldwide Services Market Shares, 2023: Market Remains Steady Despite Economic Uncertainties This IDC study presents market shares for the worldwide business and IT services market for 2023 broken down into macromarkets (i.e., project-oriented services, managed services, and support services) and mi ... Read More

  • Leveraging the Benefits of GenAI in Enterprise Applications

    Leveraging the Benefits of GenAI in Enterprise Applications This IDC Perspective discusses how organizations are leveraging the benefits of GenAI in enterprise applications. Growth in investment from organizations trying GenAI is staggering. IDC's Future Spending and Resiliency Survey finds that the ... Read More

  • IDC PlanScape: Digital Assistants for Business Automation in Asia/Pacific (Excluding Japan)

    IDC PlanScape: Digital Assistants for Business Automation in Asia/Pacific (Excluding Japan) The research content discusses the importance of digital assistants in business automation, particularly in the Asia/Pacific region. It highlights how these AI-powered tools enhance efficiency, customer exper ... Read More

  • Industry Applications of Emerging Technologies in EMEA

    Industry Applications of Emerging Technologies in EMEA This IDC Market Perspective explores the transformative impact of emerging technologies across various industries in the EMEA region, highlighting adoption maturity, industry-specific applications, and investment strategies. It emphasizes the im ... Read More

  • CIO Leadership of an Actionable Sustainability Road Map

    CIO Leadership of an Actionable Sustainability Road Map This IDC Perspective provides key takeaways and recommended actions to develop and lead the road map that enables the sustainability strategy. With a great sustainability strategy comes a great sustainability commitment. In this realm, future C ... Read More

  • Worldwide Smartphone Market Shares, 2023: Revenues Grow, Shipments Drop

    Worldwide Smartphone Market Shares, 2023: Revenues Grow, Shipments Drop This IDC study discusses the worldwide smartphone market for 2023."The slight rebound in 2023 could be a precursor of a better day ahead for 2024 as demand starts to return in many markets slowly," said Anthony Scarsella, resear ... Read More

  • Worldwide and U.S. Hosted Application Management Services Forecast, 2024–2028

    Worldwide and U.S. Hosted Application Management Services Forecast, 2024–2028 This IDC study presents forecasts of spending (customer expenditures) for the hosted application management (HAM) services market for the 2023–2028 period. This IDC document includes advice to providers of HAM services, an ... Read More

  • ESG Compliance Must be at the Core of Managed Print Service Offerings

    ESG Compliance Must be at the Core of Managed Print Service Offerings This IDC Market Note looks at how sustainability/CSR initiatives are evolving from nice-to-have differentiators to becoming critical factors in ensuring ESG compliance. Managed print services contracts must therefore be constructe ... Read More

  • How Dürr Group Accelerates Its Cloud Journey with NetApp ONTAP, BlueXP, Tiering, and Its Backup and Recovery Services

    How Dürr Group Accelerates Its Cloud Journey with NetApp ONTAP, BlueXP, Tiering, and Its Backup and Recovery Services This IDC Perspective assesses German manufacturing company Dürr Group's hybrid cloud transformation journey. "Data infrastructure integration with public cloud is paramount for hybri ... Read More

  • Worldwide Enterprise WLAN Forecast, 2024–2028

    Worldwide Enterprise WLAN Forecast, 2024–2028 This IDC study analyzes the key trends affecting the enterprise wireless local area network (WLAN) market. This study provides the worldwide revenue forecast for both the enterprise and the consumer WLAN markets. It segments the forecast into the followi ... Read More

  • The Critical Importance of Connectivity in Delivering Experience-Orchestrated Applications

    The Critical Importance of Connectivity in Delivering Experience-Orchestrated Applications This IDC Perspective provides an overview of the importance of connectivity in powering an effective experience-orchestrated (X-O) business. It emphasizes the need for organizations to evolve from siloed digit ... Read More

  • Worldwide and U.S. Custom Application Development Services Forecast, 2024–2028

    Worldwide and U.S. Custom Application Development Services Forecast, 2024–2028 This IDC study presents forecasts of spending (customer expenditures) for the custom application development (CAD) services market for 2024-2028. This IDC research study includes advice to CAD services providers, an analy ... Read More

  • Emerging ISVs in Asia/Pacific (Excluding Japan) Transforming the Enterprise Software Landscape: AWS as Their Strategic GenAI Enabler

    Emerging ISVs in Asia/Pacific (Excluding Japan) Transforming the Enterprise Software Landscape: AWS as Their Strategic GenAI Enabler This IDC Perspective offers an in-depth analysis of emerging ISVs' considerations as they advance toward the next phase of the era of AI everywhere and are focused on ... Read More

  • Confluent Makes Further Strides with Tableflow and Confluent Cloud for Apache Flink

    Confluent Makes Further Strides with Tableflow and Confluent Cloud for Apache Flink This IDC Market Note analyzes news from Confluent, the commercial company that shepherds the open source real-time data streaming platform Kafka. Confluent has announced technology that can help to unify operational ... Read More

  • Worldwide and U.S. Application Management Services Forecast, 2024–2028

    Worldwide and U.S. Application Management Services Forecast, 2024–2028 This IDC study presents forecasts of spending (customer expenditures) for the application management (AM) services market for 2024–2028. The research contained in this forecast includes advice to AM service providers, an analysis ... Read More

  • Google Cloud Next 2024: Expanding GenAI's Utility and the Launch of the GenAI-Powered Agent

    Google Cloud Next 2024: Expanding GenAI's Utility and the Launch of the GenAI-Powered Agent This IDC Market Note investigates and analyzes the key AI announcements and themes from the Google Cloud Next 2024 event, hosted in Las Vegas, Nevada, April 9–12, specifically the expansion of Google Cloud's ... Read More

  • Google Cloud Next '24: IaaS Networking Advancing to Serve Heightened Intelligence, Integration, and Security Challenges

    Google Cloud Next '24: IaaS Networking Advancing to Serve Heightened Intelligence, Integration, and Security Challenges This IDC Market Note examines the movements of Google's IaaS networking services highlighted at the recently concluded Google Cloud Next 2024, held in Las Vegas. Further analysis o ... Read More

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