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5,156 Reports from IDC
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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IDC's Top 100 Worldwide Outsourcing-Managed Services Deals of 2021–2023 Update
IDC's Top 100 Worldwide Outsourcing-Managed Services Deals of 2021–2023 Update This IDC Market Perspective provides an overview analysis of the top 100 worldwide outsourcing-managed services deals in 2023 as well as trending analysis of these deals for 2021–2023."There are fundamental shifts in ente ... Read More
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IDC's Global CIO Advisory Board: Build or Buy for GenAI
IDC's Global CIO Advisory Board: Build or Buy for GenAI This IDC Perspective summarizes IDC's Global CIO Advisory Board discussion on GenAI implementation strategies. Philip Carter, group vice president, Worldwide Thought Leadership Research at IDC, and Rick Villars, group vice president, Worldwide ... Read More
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IDC MarketScape Criteria: Worldwide Cloud Managed Print and Document Services Hardcopy 2024 Vendor Assessment
IDC MarketScape Criteria: Worldwide Cloud Managed Print and Document Services Hardcopy 2024 Vendor Assessment This IDC Market Perspective provides a description of the market definitions and assessment criteria for IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Cloud MPDS Hardcopy 2024 Vendor Assessment (forthcoming)." ... Read More
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Oracle Hospitality Summit 2024: As Hospitality Shifts to the Cloud, Oracle Seizes Innovation and Integration Momentum for a Unified Hospitality Platform
Oracle Hospitality Summit 2024: As Hospitality Shifts to the Cloud, Oracle Seizes Innovation and Integration Momentum for a Unified Hospitality Platform This IDC Perspective highlights the key announcements and top trends discussed during the 2024 Oracle Hospitality Summit which was held on April 8– ... Read More
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Worldwide IDC Global DataSphere Forecast, 2024–2028: AI Everywhere, But Upsurge in Data Will Take Time
Worldwide IDC Global DataSphere Forecast, 2024–2028: AI Everywhere, But Upsurge in Data Will Take Time This IDC study presents a five-year forecast for the worldwide IDC Global DataSphere, which is a measure of how much data is created, captured, replicated, and consumed each year. It is forecast by ... Read More
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The Rising Value of Co-Creation Activities in Optimizing Vendor-Carrier Relationships Within Complex Ecosystems
The Rising Value of Co-Creation Activities in Optimizing Vendor-Carrier Relationships Within Complex Ecosystems This IDC Market Perspective analyzes the engagement model between technology vendors Cisco and Dell and telecom operators with a focus on co-creation activities. It explores how technology ... Read More
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The Importance of Smart Meter Data Exchange Standards in Opening up the Grid's Edge
The Importance of Smart Meter Data Exchange Standards in Opening up the Grid's Edge This IDC Perspective discusses the critical role of open, interoperable smart meter data exchange standards such as DLMS/COSEM in supporting the energy transition and enabling advanced grid-edge applications. With mo ... Read More
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IDC PeerScape: Practices to Increase Trust in AI
IDC PeerScape: Practices to Increase Trust in AI This IDC PeerScape discusses practices to improve trust in AI and GenAI usage. "Trustworthy AI development and use consider not only the accuracy rate and potential use cases for AI technologies but also the downstream effects of AI and GenAI technolo ... Read More
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NRF 2024 Big Show: Top 5 Retail Supply Chain Takeaways
NRF 2024 Big Show: Top 5 Retail Supply Chain Takeaways This IDC Perspective distills five key supply chain takeaways from the NRF 2024 Big Show, reflecting the retail industry's current priorities and innovations. These focus on:ReturnsProduct life-cycle managementTracking and tracingVisibility acro ... Read More
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Worldwide and U.S. IT Outsourcing Services Forecast, 2024–2028
Worldwide and U.S. IT Outsourcing Services Forecast, 2024–2028 This IDC study provides IDC's forecast and spending for the worldwide and U.S. IT outsourcing services market for the 2024–2028 period. This study also updates the previous forecast published in Worldwide and U.S. IT Outsourcing Service ... Read More
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Contact Center Modernization: Crucial in the Age of Instant Gratification
Contact Center Modernization: Crucial in the Age of Instant Gratification This IDC Market Perspective discusses the need for modernizing contact centers in today's fast-paced world where customer expectations for instant gratification are high. The integration of advanced technologies, unification/a ... Read More
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Huawei's "All Intelligence" Strategy for an AI-Driven Future — Highlights from the Huawei Analyst Summit 2024
Huawei's "All Intelligence" Strategy for an AI-Driven Future — Highlights from the Huawei Analyst Summit 2024 This IDC Market Note presents highlights from the Huawei Analyst Summit 2024 (HAS 2024) took place in Shenzhen, China on April 17–19, 2024. The summit included keynote presentations from Hua ... Read More
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IDC PlanScape: Data as a Product
IDC PlanScape: Data as a Product This IDC PlanScape on data as a product emphasizes the growing complexity of data landscapes and the necessity for organizations to effectively utilize data assets for improved business outcomes. It advocates for treating data as a product to enhance accessibility, m ... Read More
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The Sustainability Regulations 101 View
The Sustainability Regulations 101 View This IDC Market Perspective explores the evolving landscape of sustainability regulations, highlighting the pivotal role of policies and laws in driving sustainable operations within organizations. It differentiates between mandatory and voluntary measures, em ... Read More
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Highlights, Insights, and Recommendations from Adobe Summit 2024
Highlights, Insights, and Recommendations from Adobe Summit 2024 This IDC Perspective is a collaborative effort that highlights many of the key announcements, topics, and themes from Adobe's 2024 Summit event. "As expected, the primary topic at Adobe's 2024 Summit was GenAI," said Alan Webber, progr ... Read More
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Understanding Partner Developments and Opportunities: Highlights From IDC's 1Q24 Partner Advisory Board Session
Understanding Partner Developments and Opportunities: Highlights From IDC's 1Q24 Partner Advisory Board Session This IDC Market Perspective summarizes a discussion among partners that joined IDC's quarterly Partner Advisory Board in February 2024. During the discussion, partners from EMEA representi ... Read More
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Payers Must Build Their Member-360 Data Platform and Data Factory Now!
Payers Must Build Their Member-360 Data Platform and Data Factory Now! This IDC Perspective discusses how payers are now required to build a member-360 data platform and data factory. Instead of silos, when all of this is merged into a longitudinal (member-360) patient record, this data becomes a ce ... Read More
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Managed Hybrid Cloud Services Buyer Needs and Requirements
Managed Hybrid Cloud Services Buyer Needs and Requirements This IDC Market Perspective provides insight into the value enterprises place on using private and public clouds as part of hybrid cloud engagements and as part of using managed cloud services. This document also provides a strategy for mana ... Read More
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Payer AI Addresses Cost of Care, Too!
Payer AI Addresses Cost of Care, Too! This IDC Perspective takes a look at artificial intelligence for payer cost of care. In the past decade, health insurance companies have been looking to artificial intelligence and machine learning to identify at-risk individuals and reduce rising costs in the h ... Read More
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From Diagnostics to Surgery: How AI and Automation Are Changing the Future of Healthcare
From Diagnostics to Surgery: How AI and Automation Are Changing the Future of Healthcare This IDC Market Perspective gives an overview of how the healthcare sector in Asia/Pacific is leveraging AI and automation to address challenges, such as accessibility, cost, and efficiency. With a 60% increase ... Read More
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