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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5,156 Reports from IDC

   
  • IDC FutureScape: Worldwide Future Consumer 2025 Predictions

    IDC FutureScape: Worldwide Future Consumer 2025 Predictions This IDC study contains IDC's top 10 future consumer predictions for 2025–2030. "The consumer market remains vibrant as established digital services, such as video and social media, continue to reshape the landscape and emerging and evolvi ... Read More

  • IDC FutureScape: Worldwide Supply Chain 2025 Predictions

    IDC FutureScape: Worldwide Supply Chain 2025 Predictions This IDC study provides the 2025 top 10 predictions for supply chain.According to Travis Eide, research director, Transportation, Logistics, and Global Trade at IDC, "Supply chains continue to experience the ebb and flow of supply chain conti ... Read More

  • IDC FutureScape: Worldwide Intelligent ERP 2025 Predictions

    IDC FutureScape: Worldwide Intelligent ERP 2025 Predictions This IDC study presents the top 10 predictions and key drivers for intelligent ERP/enterprise applications over the next five years. The AI everywhere digital world is upon us. Organizations continue to embrace its innovation along with di ... Read More

  • IDC FutureScape: Worldwide Utilities 2025 Predictions

    IDC FutureScape: Worldwide Utilities 2025 Predictions This IDC FutureScape provides the outlook of IDC's Energy Insights analyst team for the worldwide utility industry for 2025, as well as the planning horizon for the next five years."The next phase of the energy transition will push utilities even ... Read More

  • IDC FutureScape: Worldwide Retail 2025 Predictions

    IDC FutureScape: Worldwide Retail 2025 Predictions This IDC study presents the top 10 predictions for the retail market for 2025. Leslie Hand, Group Vice President, IDC Retail Insights and IDC Financial Insights, emphasized, "Retailers are not investing in small step changes to their portfolios — th ... Read More

  • IDC FutureScape: Worldwide Future of Work 2025 Predictions

    IDC FutureScape: Worldwide Future of Work 2025 Predictions This IDC study provides IT and business leaders with insights into key trends around work transformation trends over the next five years. It includes predictions across the three pillars of work augmentation, work culture, and the dynamics ... Read More

  • IDC FutureScape: Worldwide Services 2025 Predictions

    IDC FutureScape: Worldwide Services 2025 Predictions This IDC study provides IDC's top 10 predictions for services for 2025 and beyond."AI and GenAI feature prominently across many of our services predictions, but buyers and strategic planners will also find it useful to review our predictions on co ... Read More

  • Western Europe MFP Forecast Update, 2024-2028

    Western Europe MFP Forecast Update, 2024-2028 This IDC Market Forecast study quantifies the Western European MFP market in detail, analyzing details issues, trends, and product advances. This report contains IDC's review and forecast of the Western European MFP market 2024-2028."MFP shipments contin ... Read More

  • IDC FutureScape: Worldwide Digital Business and AI Transformation 2025 Predictions

    IDC FutureScape: Worldwide Digital Business and AI Transformation 2025 Predictions This IDC study provides guidance for organizations to mature as digital businesses and transform their AI capabilities in the next five years. It also lays out IDC's vision for the 10 most important shifts that will o ... Read More

  • IDC FutureScape: Worldwide Oil and Gas 2025 Predictions

    IDC FutureScape: Worldwide Oil and Gas 2025 Predictions This IDC FutureScape presents the top 10 predictions and key drivers for the oil and gas industry for the next five years. It highlights the midterm and long-term challenges that enterprise business, technology, and IT teams face as they define ... Read More

  • IDC FutureScape: Worldwide B2B Sales Leadership 2025 Predictions

    IDC FutureScape: Worldwide B2B Sales Leadership 2025 Predictions This IDC study provides the 2025 top 10 predictions for B2B sales leadership."The future of sales technology brings with it opportunities to blend human intuition with technological innovation," says Michelle Morgan, research manager, ... Read More

  • Australia and New Zealand Industry and Company Size IT Spending Forecast, 2024–2028

    Australia and New Zealand Industry and Company Size IT Spending Forecast, 2024–2028 The Australia and New Zealand (ANZ) IT market is projected to grow significantly from US$75.7 billion in 2023 to US$106.4 billion by 2028, driven by digital transformation (DX), economic recovery, and advanced techno ... Read More

  • The Impact of GenAI on the IT Partner Ecosystem in Latin America

    The Impact of GenAI on the IT Partner Ecosystem in Latin America This IDC Perspective explores the transformative impact of GenAI on Latin America's IT partner ecosystem and highlights opportunities for innovation and strategic growth. It emphasizes the importance of training, certification, and str ... Read More

  • What We Saw: U.S. Consumer and Office Print Activity, 2Q24

    What We Saw: U.S. Consumer and Office Print Activity, 2Q24 This IDC Market Perspective provides an update on office and consumer printer shipment activity in the second quarter of 2024 for the United States.“In 2Q24, printer and MFP shipments underperformed, as inkjet shipments in particular declin ... Read More

  • IDC FutureScape: Worldwide Intelligent Content Services and Knowledge Management 2025 Predictions

    IDC FutureScape: Worldwide Intelligent Content Services and Knowledge Management 2025 Predictions This IDC study contains IDC analysts' intelligent content services and knowledge management worldwide outlook for 2025 and the planning horizon for the next five years. The outlook is presented through ... Read More

  • IDC FutureScape: Worldwide Smart, Sustainable Cities and Communities 2025 Predictions

    IDC FutureScape: Worldwide Smart, Sustainable Cities and Communities 2025 Predictions This IDC study provides IDC's top 10 predictions for Smart, Sustainable Cities and Communities."Smart Cities and Communities globally are innovating at new levels, in some cases, leading the adoption of GenAI to ac ... Read More

  • IDC FutureScape: Worldwide Retail Banking 2025 Predictions

    IDC FutureScape: Worldwide Retail Banking 2025 Predictions This IDC study provides the 2025 top 10 predictions for retail banking. By understanding these emerging trends, retail banking businesses can better position themselves to capitalize on new opportunities, mitigate risks, and deliver enhance ... Read More

  • Understanding Partner Developments and Opportunities: Highlights from IDC's 3Q24 Partner Advisory Board Session

    Understanding Partner Developments and Opportunities: Highlights from IDC's 3Q24 Partner Advisory Board Session This Market Perspective summarizes discussions among partners who joined IDC's quarterly Partner Advisory Board in September 2024. During the discussions, partners from EMEA representing a ... Read More

  • IDC PeerScape: Cybersecurity Practices to Mitigate Diverse Network- and Data-Related Threats

    IDC PeerScape: Cybersecurity Practices to Mitigate Diverse Network- and Data-Related Threats This IDC PeerScape highlights key measures and best practices to mitigate cybersecurity risks, especially in critical sectors such as healthcare, national infrastructure, and the media. It stresses the impor ... Read More

  • IDC PeerScape: CISO Practices to Enhance Capabilities and Increase Influence Beyond Security

    IDC PeerScape: CISO Practices to Enhance Capabilities and Increase Influence Beyond Security The IDC PeerScape maps three horizons that CISOs can use to navigate their career. Acknowledging the limitations of the traditional CISO role is the first step, followed by identifying key allies within the ... Read More

  • Paving the Way for Integrated Ecosystem Solutions for Industrial Operations

    Paving the Way for Integrated Ecosystem Solutions for Industrial Operations This IDC Perspective lays out a model for technology vendor ecosystem solution development and buyer adoption. For years, technology providers have shifted their marketing message from offering technologies to offering solut ... Read More

  • IDC PeerScape: Modernization Practices for Talent and Learning Management Systems

    IDC PeerScape: Modernization Practices for Talent and Learning Management Systems This IDC PeerScape looks at how some organizations have developed strategies and practices that achieve top results with TMS and LMS.The benefits of talent management and learning management systems depend on the quali ... Read More

  • IMTS 2024: An Exhibition of IT/OT Convergence and Industrial Ecosystems

    IMTS 2024: An Exhibition of IT/OT Convergence and Industrial Ecosystems This IDC Market Note summarizes the International Manufacturing Technology Show (IMTS) held in Chicago, Illinois, September 9–14, 2024. The show has traditionally been focused exclusively on niche manufacturing operational techn ... Read More

  • SAP NOW Southeast Asia 2024: AI and Sustainability Business Transformation

    SAP NOW Southeast Asia 2024: AI and Sustainability Business Transformation This IDC Market Note highlights the news and insights from the recently concluded SAP NOW Southeast Asia 2024 event in Singapore. The document focuses on SAP announcements in relation to how the vendor is leveraging AI to enh ... Read More

  • Esri User Conference 2024: Mapping Out the Future

    Esri User Conference 2024: Mapping Out the Future This IDC Market Note delves into the many announcements and case studies from the 2024 Esri User Conference in San Diego, California, July 15–19. The 2024 Esri User Conference highlighted the transformative impact of GIS technology, emphasizing a str ... Read More

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