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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.
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.
5,475 Reports from IDC
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How Autonomous AI Agents will Change People, Places, and Processes in the Future of Work in EMEA
This IDC Market Perspective explores the transformative impact of autonomous AI agents on the EMEA workforce today and tomorrow, emphasizing their potential to enhance operational efficiency, redefine job roles, and improve workplace collaboration. "IDC predicts that by 2028, 40% of top EMEA busines ... Read More
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Salesforce Agentforce: Redefining Industry Dynamics with Autonomous and Assistive AI Agents
This IDC Market Note discusses the announcement and release of Agentforce. It is a suite of autonomous as well as assistive AI agents that offers specialized, always-on support to employees and customers alike, leveraging deep business knowledge to seamlessly execute tasks tailored to their specific ... Read More
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Amazon Introduces SageMaker Unified Studio Marking the Race Toward Streamlined AI and GenAI Development
This IDC Perspective discusses Amazon streamlining data and AI workflows. In 2024, many vendors answered the call to unify their predictive and generative AI (GenAI) development capabilities into a single development environment. Amazon capped the year by announcing significant investments to unify ... Read More
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AWS re:Invent 2024: Generative AI Takes Center Stage in the Cloud Revolution
This IDC Market Perspective discusses AWS re:Invent 2024 held in Las Vegas. AWS re:Invent 2024 showcased the transformative potential of generative AI in the cloud, emphasizing AWS’ commitment to innovation through the company’s building-block approach. Key highlights included advancements in comput ... Read More
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Scaling Smart Manufacturing with Cloud
This IDC Perspective discusses the state of cloud computing in the manufacturing sector and how cloud services facilitate the integration of IoT, AI, and machine learning, supporting real-time monitoring and predictive maintenance. It also looks at how edge computing, hybrid, and multicloud environm ... Read More
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European Intelligent Process Automation Market Events, 2H24
The IDC Market Note highlights key developments in the European intelligent process automation market in 2H24, focusing on the integration of GenAI features, strategic partnerships, and vendor innovations. Major players like Appian, ServiceNow, IBM, Nintex, UiPath, Bizagi, Pegasystems, Salesforce, M ... Read More
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Adtech/Martech Pricing: Adapting to the AI Everywhere Era
This IDC Market Perspective dives deep into the rapidly shifting landscape of pricing for AI-powered promotional technologies, urging a bold departure from outdated models to embrace value-based pricing. As AI revolutionizes customer experiences, the old ways of pricing — based on simple inputs and ... Read More
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Unlocking Enterprise Innovation: Navigating the Open Model Ecosystem
This IDC Perspective highlights the rapid growth and adoption of open models in generative AI (GenAI), emphasizing their benefits such as transparency, flexibility, and cost effectiveness. This document provides insights and recommendations for organizations to effectively select and deploy open mod ... Read More
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Google Cloud Summit London: Focus on Real-Life AI Use Cases in the European Market
This IDC Market Perspective analyzes highlights from Google Cloud Summit London, held in October 2024. The summit gathered 4,000 attendees to showcase the latest advancements in Google Cloud's technology and pointing toward Google's key priorities for 2025. Focus areas of the event include generativ ... Read More
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Garanti BBVA's Perspective on Running a Data- and AI-Driven Digital Business
The financial services industry in Türkiye stands out as one of the most technologically advanced and progressive sectors in the country. Since the introduction of internet banking in 1997, the sector has built a robust legacy of technology-driven business transformation. This paper explores Garanti ... Read More
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Mitigating IT Systemic Risk
This IDC Perspective discusses the IT landscape that is shifting in significant ways. Digital transformations are introducing new vendors, the inability to retire legacy systems is increasing tech debt, and the democratization of IT and sudden explosion of AI is expanding tech footprints with little ... Read More
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Worldwide Document Imaging Scanner Forecast, 2024-2028
This IDC study provides the worldwide market forecast for document imaging scanners for the 2024–2028 period, with historical data for the 2019–2023 period."2023 was a turbulent year for the document imaging scanner market. Some geographic markets saw significant shipment declines and some segments ... Read More
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Best in Future of Trust: GCash Leads the Way in Secure and Inclusive Fintech Innovation
This IDC Perspective discusses the nomination details of the Best in Future of Trust winner from the IDC Future Enterprise Awards 2024 in Asia/Pacific, showcasing GCash's innovative approach to building digital trust and advancing cybersecurity in financial technology (fintech)."Effectively addressi ... Read More
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Confidence Scores: Transparency, Intelligence, and Business Resilience at Scale
This IDC Perspective explores the transformative potential of confidence scores, focusing on their capacity to enhance organizational resilience and operational efficiency. Confidence scores are a transformative tool designed to enhance enterprise resilience and operational efficiency through data-d ... Read More
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Top 5 Trends in Managed Edge Content Delivery Services in 2025
This IDC Perspective anticipates key trends in the managed edge and content delivery services market in 2025. These include the emergence of inference at the edge, the pivot toward a unified SASE platform as a service, the focus on compelling industry edge use cases, the impact of AI on traffic, and ... Read More
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Asia/Pacific Application Management Services Forecast, 2024–2028
This IDC study provides the revenue forecast for the APJ AM services market for the 2024–2028 period. It includes advice for AM SPs, an analysis of the key market and industry trends by the importing market, key market drivers and inhibitors, and significant market developments."AI has the potential ... Read More
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Visma Ends 2024 with Strong Organic Growth on Top of 33 Acquisitions
This IDC Market Note reviews Norway-based Visma’s full-year performance based on its reported quarterly results for fiscal year ending December 31, 2024. The document reviews key results and operational indicators of the company. Finally, the document reviews and contemplates the strategy of Visma. ... Read More
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Artificial Intelligence in Canadian Telecommunications: Episode AI — The Government Regulates Back
This IDC Market Perspective discusses the evolving legislative landscape of artificial intelligence (AI) in the Canadian telecommunications sector. It examines the stalled progress of Bill C-27, which aimed to regulate AI, consumer privacy, and data protection, and the potential implications of a sh ... Read More
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Uniphore Acquires ActionIQ and Infoworks to Enhance Data Control in Its Enterprise AI Platform
This IDC Market Note examines Uniphore's definitive agreement on December 5, 2024, to acquire ActionIQ and Infoworks, the impact of these acquisitions on Uniphore's business strategy, product offerings, and customer base, and implications for broader conversational AI, generative AI, and customer da ... Read More
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Unisys: Betting on Core Strengths to Deliver Transformational Outcomes
Unisys held an Analyst Day in India, Bangalore on January 23, 2025 and presented a wide range of updates across its technology services business in India. IDC analysts took a deep dive into two of its core verticals, Digital Workplace Services (DWS) and Cloud, Applications and Infrastructure (CAI) b ... Read More
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Private Cloud Fundamentals
This IDC Perspective explores the fundamentals of private clouds. It drills into why organizations would want or need to deploy this type of compute, storage, and networking infrastructure. Both deployment and business models are described to meet the needs of capex and opex buyers. Several datacent ... Read More
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The Automation Imperative, Extending Supply Chain Capabilities and Augmenting the Logistics Workforce
This IDC Perspective explores how automation can enhance logistics execution and supply chain intelligence to boost productivity, reduce costs, improve serviceability, and advance sustainability. With a workforce under constant strain, logistics leaders are focusing on technologies like IoT, cloud c ... Read More
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NIS2 Directive: Why and How to Make Backup and Recovery a Strategic Priority for Compliance
This IDC Perspective discusses the compliance requirements of NIS2 and how organizations should develop holistic strategies encompassing both security and data protection for adhering to the gold standard of cyber-readiness. "Evolving EMEA digital regulations demand robust cybersecurity and data res ... Read More
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Generative Physical AI, Agentic AI, Decentralized AI, Robotics, and XR Got the Spotlight at CES 2025
This IDC Market Note looks at announcements made at CES 2025, which highlighted significant advancements in AI, with NVIDIA leading the charge by showcasing generative physical AI and agentic AI capabilities. The event underscored AI's transformative potential across industries, emphasizing the need ... Read More
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Managed SPs: Adapting Business Models to Support Modernizing Mainframes with Managed Cloud Services
This IDC Market Perspective discusses different approaches that enterprises consider when using managed SPs to support modernization of mainframe environments as part of managed cloud services and the impact in modernizing mainframes on future opportunities for managed SPs and how managed SPs should ... Read More
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