IDC
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.
5,062 Reports from IDC
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Worldwide O&G Industry Quarterly Update: January-March 2024
Worldwide O&G Industry Quarterly Update: January-March 2024 This IDC Market Perspective provides an overview of the O&G industry in 1Q24. It covers M&As, agreements, reorganizations, and major business developments; upstream, midstream, and downstream deals; global LNG contracts; EPC deals; ... Read More
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BC/DR for Cloud-First/Hybrid Cloud Environments
BC/DR for Cloud-First/Hybrid Cloud Environments This IDC Perspective discusses business continuity (BC) and disaster recovery (DR) for cloud-first and hybrid cloud environments.Migrating systems, data, and workflows to the cloud remains a primary component of digital transformation and infrastructur ... Read More
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IDC PlanScape: Business Impact Assessment to Prepare for Business and Security Disruptions
IDC PlanScape: Business Impact Assessment to Prepare for Business and Security Disruptions This IDC PlanScape discusses the business impact assessment (BIA), which provides the foundation for companies to build a resilient organization that can withstand the most likely disruptions to the most criti ... Read More
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U.S. Smart Earwear Market Shares, 2023: Apple Still in Control
U.S. Smart Earwear Market Shares, 2023: Apple Still in Control This IDC study discusses the U.S. smart earwear market shares for 2023."Smart earwear continues to be the engine of the wearables market in the United States, and where smart earwear goes, so does the market," says Ramon T. Llamas, resea ... Read More
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Preference for Flexible Consumption of Dedicated GenAI Infrastructure
Preference for Flexible Consumption of Dedicated GenAI Infrastructure This IDC Market Note draws from recent IDC survey data covering trends for acquiring on-premises, dedicated IT infrastructure for GenAI in as-a-service (XaaS), flexible consumption models. GenAI workloads are being deployed acros ... Read More
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Worldwide Hearables Market Shares, 2023: Apple's Market Share Dips Below 30%
Worldwide Hearables Market Shares, 2023: Apple's Market Share Dips Below 30% This IDC study provides a brief overview of the worldwide hearables market in 2023."Hearables remain far and away the most popular wearable devices and the primary drivers of the wearables market. While not as popular as sm ... Read More
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IDC PlanScape: Dark Data Discovery
IDC PlanScape: Dark Data Discovery This IDC PlanScape discusses dark data discovery."As the three V's of big data — volume, velocity, and variety — have increased, so have the three U's of dark data — unclassified, unused, and unknown. The time has come to implement file analysis software to bring d ... Read More
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When, and When Not, to Adopt Passkeys as an Enterprise Authentication Solution
When, and When Not, to Adopt Passkeys as an Enterprise Authentication Solution This IDC Perspective offers a balanced assessment of passkeys within the enterprise. Passkeys are an innovative solution that compared with passwords, are more secure and more user-friendly in some ways. However, passkeys ... Read More
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Utilities Asset Operations Quarterly Update: January–March 2024
Utilities Asset Operations Quarterly Update: January–March 2024 This IDC Market Perspective provides an overview of utilities' asset operations in 1Q24. It covers M&As, agreements, reorganizations, and major business developments; new financial deals; major renewables infrastructure projects; ma ... Read More
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Managed Public Cloud Services: Industry Benchmarks and Investment Directions
Managed Public Cloud Services: Industry Benchmarks and Investment Directions This IDC Market Perspective provides insight into 33 key industry benchmark metrics for managed SPs that compete in the managed public cloud services marketplace. Managed SPs can utilize these metrics to assess how well pos ... Read More
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IDC MaturityScape: Digital Supply Chain Resiliency 2.0
IDC MaturityScape: Digital Supply Chain Resiliency 2.0 This IDC study describes the IDC MaturityScape for digital supply chain resiliency. It provides a framework for executive leadership and IT and supply chain managers to identify the stages, critical measures, outcomes, and actions required for o ... Read More
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Developing an IT Skill Road Map for Digital Success: The Part One Playbook
Developing an IT Skill Road Map for Digital Success: The Part One Playbook Unlocking digital success hinges on strategic IT skill development, yet many companies lag in aligning learning with technological transformation, said Leonardo Freitas, research manager, European Skills and Cloud Strategies. ... Read More
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IDC PlanScape: Chief AI Officer Role
IDC PlanScape: Chief AI Officer Role This IDC PlanScape highlights the chief AI officer role in business processes."A typical candidate for the CAIO role is someone with a proven track record of leading successful innovation programs and with a clear understanding of AI," says David Weldon, adjunct ... Read More
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The Importance of IoT in Sustainability for Industrial Operations
The Importance of IoT in Sustainability for Industrial Operations This IDC Perspective emphasizes the critical role of IoT in enhancing sustainability within industrial operations and highlights the urgent need for organizations to adopt sustainable practices driven by ESG goals. It outlines the ch ... Read More
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SAS Insight 2024 Industry Analyst Conference: AI, Innovation, and an Eye Toward Ecosystem Expansion
SAS Insight 2024 Industry Analyst Conference: AI, Innovation, and an Eye Toward Ecosystem Expansion The IDC Market Note discusses SAS' strategic focus on AI, innovation, and ecosystem expansion, which was highlighted during the company's Insight 2024 industry analyst conference. SAS aims to be the l ... Read More
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Worldwide Virtual Reality Headset Market Shares, 2023: Sony Erodes Meta's Leadership
Worldwide Virtual Reality Headset Market Shares, 2023: Sony Erodes Meta's Leadership This IDC study provides a brief overview of the worldwide virtual reality headset market in 2023."2023 marked the second consecutive year of decline for the worldwide virtual reality market," says Ramon T. Llamas, r ... Read More
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The Pulse of IT in the European Healthcare Market: Key Deals and Initiatives, January–March 2024
The Pulse of IT in the European Healthcare Market: Key Deals and Initiatives, January–March 2024 This IDC Perspective looks at key developments and news in the European healthcare market in 1Q24."In the first quarter of 2024, healthcare organizations across Europe are skillfully charting a course th ... Read More
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Worldwide Augmented Reality Headset Market Shares, 2023: XREAL Tops the List for Volume and Value
Worldwide Augmented Reality Headset Market Shares, 2023: XREAL Tops the List for Volume and Value Standalone AR headsets reached 84,800 units shipped in 2023, down 16.1% from the 101,061 units shipped in 2022. Similarly, total value declined 31.0% from $254.1 million in 2022 to arrive at $175.3 mill ... Read More
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One NTT DATA: Leveraging Disruption to Ignite Tomorrow, Today
One NTT DATA: Leveraging Disruption to Ignite Tomorrow, Today This IDC Market Note features the NTT DATA Analyst Day held in Singapore in March 2024. NTT DATA leaders revealed the formation of NTT DATA as one company outside of Japan and highlighted its unique capabilities and value proposition. The ... Read More
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EMEA Utilities Industry Quarterly Update: January-March 2024
EMEA Utilities Industry Quarterly Update: January-March 2024 This IDC Market Perspective provides an overview of the utilities industry in 1Q24, covering M&As, agreements, reorganizations, and major business developments; new financing deals; major renewables infrastructure projects; major green ... Read More
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HCLTech Noida Campus Tour: "Supercharging Progress" with Innovation
HCLTech Noida Campus Tour: "Supercharging Progress" with Innovation This IDC Market Note highlights a detailed tour of HCLTech's Noida Campus conducted on April 4, 2024 that showcased the company's robust commitment to integrating advanced cybersecurity with AI across several key facilities. The tou ... Read More
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Edge-Optimized Digital Infrastructure Building Blocks for Future Enterprise Innovation
Edge-Optimized Digital Infrastructure Building Blocks for Future Enterprise Innovation This IDC Perspective explores how the evolution of edge computing and edge-native applications is helping transform enterprise digital infrastructure priorities to help organizations fully harness the business val ... Read More
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Utilities Smart Customer Operations Quarterly Update: January-March 2024
Utilities Smart Customer Operations Quarterly Update: January-March 2024 This IDC Market Perspective analyzes worldwide smart customer operations in the energy sector. It outlines mergers and acquisitions, agreements, reorganizations, and major business developments; customer care and billing events ... Read More
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IDC PlanScape: High-Value FinOps Practices
IDC PlanScape: High-Value FinOps Practices This IDC PlanScape discusses various practices that enterprises can embrace in pursuit of true cloud cost optimization and explains how to categorize practices based on the value they deliver. As you'll learn, some cost-cutting steps may be less obvious to ... Read More
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IDC PlanScape: Analysis on the Total Cost of Digital to Reduce Overall Spend
IDC PlanScape: Analysis on the Total Cost of Digital to Reduce Overall Spend This IDC PlanScape outlines the steps that an enterprise can take to make the total cost of digital transparent and, by using specialization, help management get rid of digital siloes and create a more efficient and special ... Read More
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