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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.
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5,062 Reports from IDC
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GDC 2024 Postmortem: Engine Updates, Creator Economy Upleveling, and Mounting Trust and Safety Challenges
GDC 2024 Postmortem: Engine Updates, Creator Economy Upleveling, and Mounting Trust and Safety Challenges This IDC Market Note assesses three prominent themes that emerged at last month's Game Developers Conference (GDC): the distinctive updates unveiled by the leading commercial game engine supplie ... Read More
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Can AI Help Your Legal Department Now?
Can AI Help Your Legal Department Now? This IDC Perspective looks at how AI can help legal organizations to improve operations and prepare for future advancements. Generative AI (GenAI) is not yet ready for widespread adoption in legal departments, but traditional AI and machine learning offer tangi ... Read More
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AI Transformation of Services — Engagement Models and Employee Impact
AI Transformation of Services — Engagement Models and Employee Impact This IDC Perspective discusses AI transformation of services and related engagement models and employee impact. The proliferation of AI has surged through multiple aspects of business operations. From IT operations and management ... Read More
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Latest Regulations Impacting Value-Based Care for Providers, Payers, and Patients
Latest Regulations Impacting Value-Based Care for Providers, Payers, and Patients This IDC Perspective explores the evolution of value-based care in the U.S. healthcare system and highlights the challenges and opportunities presented by policy changes, technology advancements, and the need for impro ... Read More
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IaaS Service Mesh Technology and Market Assessment
IaaS Service Mesh Technology and Market Assessment This IDC study delves into the market, technology, applications, and major providers of IaaS service mesh solutions. The study includes demand-side research into service mesh use and approaches, along with profiles of five public cloud providers: AW ... Read More
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Meta Quest 3's Market Reception: Not Selling as well as Quest 2 But Its VR Pass-Through Is Second Only to Apple Vision Pro
Meta Quest 3's Market Reception: Not Selling as well as Quest 2 But Its VR Pass-Through Is Second Only to Apple Vision Pro This IDC Market Perspective assesses the performance of Meta's Quest 3 VR headset in 4Q23 and puts it in the context of the broader VR and AR market by highlighting its hardware ... Read More
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IDC's Digital Advertising Market Model Overview, 2024
IDC's Digital Advertising Market Model Overview, 2024 This IDC Perspective discusses the Digital Advertising Market Model (DAMM), which is an IDC offering that is focused on the digital advertising market. Its purpose is to provide a custom digital advertising market model that allows media companie ... Read More
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Best Practices for Planning, Developing, and Managing Enterprise Security Policies
Best Practices for Planning, Developing, and Managing Enterprise Security Policies This IDC Perspective walks businesses through the steps necessary for establishing a successful security policy strategy. Security policies should provide the foundation for meaningful action in mitigating cybersecuri ... Read More
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IDC PlanScape: Enterprise Tech Debt Leverage
IDC PlanScape: Enterprise Tech Debt Leverage This IDC PlanScape provides a detailed explanation of how to calculate enterprise tech debt leverage (ETDL) to establish a common language for discussing tech debt with the executive team and the board. Without such measurement and common language, tech d ... Read More
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Copilots, Concierges, and Super Agents: The Coming of Autonomous Marketing for Autonomous Markets in the Intelligent Economy
Copilots, Concierges, and Super Agents: The Coming of Autonomous Marketing for Autonomous Markets in the Intelligent Economy This IDC Market Perspective introduces the concept of AI-powered super agents running on next-gen, AI-powered smartphones. They will enable consumers to programmatically contr ... Read More
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U.S. Printer and MFP Market Shares, 2023: Economic Uncertainty Weakens Demand Following Supply Chain Recovery
U.S. Printer and MFP Market Shares, 2023: Economic Uncertainty Weakens Demand Following Supply Chain Recovery This IDC study provides vendor market shares for the printer and MFP market for 2023."Print vendors faced a year of mixed blessings in 2023. The year began with pent-up demand as vendors wer ... Read More
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IDC PlanScape: Visual Reporting to Simplify IT Portfolio Management
IDC PlanScape: Visual Reporting to Simplify IT Portfolio Management This IDC PlanScape describes methods and formats that IT leaders can use to more easily gather and communicate the portfolio of technology projects, their status, and dependencies."One of the most effective ways to build credibilit ... Read More
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The Strategic Unveiling of NTT DATA, 2024
The Strategic Unveiling of NTT DATA, 2024 This IDC Market Perspective provides IDC's views, learnings, perspectives, and advice after attending NTT DATA's Analyst Day held January 17–18 in Plano, Texas. It encapsulates several sessions in which IDC heard from multiple speakers. The event started wit ... Read More
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Expanding the Range of Video Surveillance: Applying Hyperspectral Imaging to Detect Hidden Threats
Expanding the Range of Video Surveillance: Applying Hyperspectral Imaging to Detect Hidden Threats This IDC Market Perspective examines the state of the market, reviews the offerings of several market players, and examines the prospects for a wider adoption of hyperspectral imaging, which is traditi ... Read More
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Oracle Life Sciences Connect: Scaling Intelligence Across the Development Life Cycle
Oracle Life Sciences Connect: Scaling Intelligence Across the Development Life Cycle This IDC Market Note summarizes the key findings for life science organizations from Oracle's Life Sciences Connect event, which took place on March 13, 2024, at Boston. Please Note: Extended description available u ... Read More
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Industry Ecosystem Convergence for Innovation Acceleration
Industry Ecosystem Convergence for Innovation Acceleration This IDC Perspective focuses on the innovation dimension of the IDC's Future of Industry Ecosystems MaturityScape framework. In 2023, we fielded an Industry Ecosystem MaturityScape Benchmark (a survey based on our maturity curve) and found t ... Read More
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IDC PeerScape: Practices for Securing AI Models and Applications
IDC PeerScape: Practices for Securing AI Models and Applications This IDC PeerScape describes the best practices for securing AI models and applications."Cybersecurity vendors are securing their AI applications and models by protecting APIs, monitoring model inputs and outputs, and proactively look ... Read More
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Are We Going in Circles? What's Next in Sustainable Operations?
Are We Going in Circles? What's Next in Sustainable Operations? This IDC Perspective looks at three broad areas of opportunity to operationalize sustainability and then focuses in on reverse logistics, which offers opportunities to find gains in resource efficiency, consumer relationship and insight ... Read More
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Worldwide DRAM Market Shares, 2023: Struggle for Survival
Worldwide DRAM Market Shares, 2023: Struggle for Survival This IDC study examines the market share for the worldwide DRAM market for 2023 and reviews the forces and dynamics that influenced the market."The DRAM market revenue decreased 35.7% in 2023. Demand collapsed. Inventory glut became uncontrol ... Read More
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Key European AI Market Events, 1H23
Key European AI Market Events, 1H23 This IDC Market Note details key moves in the European artificial intelligence (AI) market between January 2023 and June 2023. It focuses on technology investments, mergers and acquisitions (M&As), and other important market moves. Please Note: Extended descri ... Read More
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Highlights from DISTRIBUTECH International 2024
Highlights from DISTRIBUTECH International 2024 This IDC Market Note highlights some of the key topics and themes coming out of the DISTRIBUTECH International 2024 conference. "Key topics such as the energy transition, advanced and distributed energy resource management, EV charging infrastructure, ... Read More
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How AI Delivers Better Management Consulting Services
How AI Delivers Better Management Consulting Services This IDC Perspective assesses the impact of AI on the business consulting profession and provides guidance for those who engage or contract with consultants. AI is changing how organizations work, particularly knowledge-intense enterprises. This ... Read More
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HP Inc.'s Future Ready Strategy: European Synchronization
HP Inc.'s Future Ready Strategy: European Synchronization This IDC Market Perspective reviews HP Inc.'s "Future Ready" strategy, including its activities to date, financial performance for FY23 and 1Q24, and go-to-market strategy via its Amplify partners, with a highlight on acquired European partne ... Read More
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Oracle CloudWorld London, 2024: Focus on Customer Success, AI, and Cloud Flexibility
Oracle CloudWorld London, 2024: Focus on Customer Success, AI, and Cloud Flexibility This IDC Market Perspective highlights and analyzes key announcements made at the recent Oracle CloudWorld EMEA conference in London. At the conference, Oracle made multiple announcements, showcased customer cases, ... Read More
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IDC PeerScape: Practices to Enforce AI Accuracy and Usage
IDC PeerScape: Practices to Enforce AI Accuracy and Usage This IDC PeerScape discusses practices to enforce AI accuracy and usage."Cybersecurity vendors know their customers need the responses from GenAI assistants to be timely and accurate in order to improve security operations workflows," said Mi ... Read More
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