Category: Software & Enterprise Computing
Software & Enterprise Computing market research reports by IDC
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Raising the Bar: Hong Kong’s Upcoming Cybersecurity Law Sets a New Compliance Benchmark
On March 19, 2025, Hong Kong introduced a new cybersecurity law aimed at strengthening the protection of critical infrastructure across key sectors. The legislation mandates annual security risk assessments, independent audits, and rapid incident reporting within two hours. Covering the banking, ene ... Read More
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Canadian Communications Service Provider Capex Spending, 2024–2025: Capital Intensity Keeps Falling
This IDC Market Perspective details Canadian communications service provider capex spending for 2024–2025. Canadian communication service providers total capex investments will fall for a third year in a row in 2025, nearing spending levels last seen in 2020 when capex spending was hampered by COVID ... Read More
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C3 AI Highlights New Agentic AI Platform Capabilities
This IDC Market Note discusses C3 AI’s 2025 Transform conference held from March 18 to 20 in Boca Raton, Florida. It showcased the company’s advancements in agentic AI, emphasizing the company’s full-stack approach and innovative orchestration capabilities for unlocking business value with AI. Key t ... Read More
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Infosys Analyst and Advisor Meet, U.S. Edition, 2025 — Enterprise AI Growth in the United States
This IDC Market Perspective describes the most enlightening impressions of the several IDC analysts who participated in the Infosys’ Analyst and Advisor Meet 2025 rather than being a comprehensive account of everything Infosys is doing, in the hope that readers will want to engage with the analysts ... Read More
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Critical Guidance on the Impact of AI Adoption on Life Science Investment Strategy: Bio-IT 2025
This IDC Market Note summarizes key observations and industry implications resulting from the Bio-IT World Conference & Expo 2025, and the associated Cambridge Venture, Innovation, & Partnering (VIP) forum, on the impact of AI adoption on life science investment strategy. ... Read More
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Guardrails by Design: Contractual Keys to Responsible AI
This IDC Perspective highlights the critical importance of incorporating specific contractual clauses when adopting AI solutions. By emphasizing data governance, ethical considerations, security, transparency, and oversight, these clauses provide a framework for responsible AI adoption for businesse ... Read More
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Key Takeaways from Hannover Messe 2025
This IDC Market Note highlights the key trends emerging from the Hannover Messe 2025 conference, which took place from March 31 to April 4, 2025, particularly in relation to manufacturing operations software.Hannover Messe again demonstrated this year why it is considered the world's most important ... Read More
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GenAI Policy Template for End-User Technology Leaders
This IDC Perspective provides a GenAI policy responding to client needs for a best practice GenAI governance policy to leverage. It responds to increasing client demand for GenAI policy guidance, leveraging research and real-world insights to accelerate policy implementation. The document emphasizes ... Read More
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Retail Technology Show London 2025: Trends and Technologies Transforming Retail Operations
Retail Technology Show London 2025 highlighted how data analytics, AI, and RFID technologies are transforming retail operations. Retailers focusing on these integrated technologies will gain a competitive advantage through enhanced operational efficiency, loss prevention capabilities, and personaliz ... Read More
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Cyber-Resilience — Turning Every Crisis into an Opportunity to Emerge Stronger
This IDC Perspective emphasizes the critical importance of cyber-resilience in today’s digital landscape. With increasing cyber-risks and the adoption of AI, organizations must prioritize cyber-resilience to mitigate threats and ensure operational continuity. The document highlights the need for com ... Read More
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IDC PeerScape: Lessons Learned for Integrating New Tech and Innovations into the Flow of Work
This IDC PeerScape presents lessons learned and best practices for successfully incorporating new technology or innovations into the flow of work.“All organizations that want to keep pace with the speed of change will have to routinely test and introduce new technology into their organizations,” sai ... Read More
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IDC Perspective: AI Residual Risk Transfer — A New Frontier for P&C Insurers
This IDC Perspective explores the growing importance of insurance-backed solutions for managing AI-related risks. According to IDC’s latest FutureScape: Worldwide Insurance 2025 Top 10 Predictions, by 2028, 90% of AI vendors and 50% of G2000 companies using self-developed AI are expected to rely on ... Read More
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HP Amplify Conference 2025: Taking AI to the Edge and Driving the Future of Work
This IDC Market Perspective discusses the HP Amplify Conference 2025 in Nashville, Tennessee, that showcased HP Inc.’s strategic vision, emphasizing AI integration across its product portfolio. Key initiatives discussed included AI transformation, supply chain regionalization, and evolving customer ... Read More
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Consumption-Based Pricing in the AI Era
This IDC Market Perspective explores best practices, key hurdles, and strategies to help businesses implement consumption-based pricing (CBP) effectively in the AI era. Consumption-based pricing is becoming essential in the AI era, offering flexibility and cost control. This model aligns spending wi ... Read More
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How Government Agencies Can Leverage AI Processes to Improve IT Sourcing and Procurement
The IDC Perspective explores the transformative potential and recommends specific processes to leverage AI in IT government sourcing and procurement, highlighting its ability to enhance efficiency, productivity, and decision-making. With several government and commercial examples, the document under ... Read More
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The Evolving Impact of Agentic AI on the Future of Work: Regional Comparisons 2025
This IDC Perspective explores the transformative impact of agentic AI on the future of work, highlighting regional differences in adoption and its implications on work cultures, operational efficiency, and business strategies. It emphasizes the need for organizations to navigate change management, u ... Read More
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How to Prepare for AI Compliance Regulations Starting Now
This IDC Perspective offers guidance on how enterprises can meet the AI regulatory challenge. The landscape surrounding AI compliance remains fluid and complex due largely to the fact that many regulations specific to AI remain in draft form and because different jurisdictions are adopting varying r ... Read More
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RingCentral Is Taking a Holistic Approach to Drive Customer Success with AI
This IDC Market Note summarizes key takeaways from RingCentral's 2025 Analyst Summit, which highlighted its AI-driven customer experience innovations, including the launch of AI Receptionist. The event showcased RingCentral's vision to become an AI-powered platform to drive meaningful EX and CX. The ... Read More
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Fujitsu 2030: Targeting Revenue Growth Through Net Positive Innovations
The IDC Market Perspective discusses Fujitsu's European Analyst Day, highlighting Fujitsu's strategic shift toward becoming a globally driven business services leader, emphasizing its 2030 vision of trust, innovation, and sustainability. Key strategies include the Uvance solution portfolio, moderniz ... Read More
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The Next-Generation Digital Leader
This IDC Perspective discusses how CEOs are looking for digital leaders that bring differentiation and leadership in terms of strategy, ROI, and risk.The expectations of the next generation of digital leadership are high. CEOs and boards are keen to see value-based impacts through disruptive strateg ... Read More
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Worldwide DRAM Demand and Supply Forecast, 4Q24–4Q25 and 2025–2029
This IDC study presents an outlook on the DRAM market for 2025–2029. The DRAM industry dynamics and the application forecast changes are aggregated, analyzed, and applied to the long-term DRAM forecasts in terms of units, revenue, and content per system for each application segment.“AI demand will l ... Read More
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Empowering AI Innovation: The Role of Vector Technologies
This IDC Market Perspective discusses how vector databases are transforming AI by enabling applications like semantic search, recommendation systems, and fraud detection. This document explores two key approaches: native vector databases, purpose-built for large-scale AI workloads, and integrated ve ... Read More
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Top 5 Trends in Security Information and Event Management Systems
This IDC Perspective explores five key security information and event management (SIEM) trends for 2025 and provides strategic and tactical guidance for CIOs, CISOs, and CTOs to maximize their security investments. As cyberthreats evolve, security information and event management solutions are becom ... Read More
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Oracle's 3Q25 Earnings Demonstrate Solid Progress Despite Slowed Growth
This IDC Market Note explores Oracle's FY 3Q25 financial results and the impact on key areas of the company's business. Oracle's FY 3Q25 earnings highlight the company's strategic focus on expanding cloud infrastructure, database innovation, and healthcare solutions. Key financials include a 63% inc ... Read More
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IDC MaturityScape Benchmark: AI-Fueled Media and Entertainment Worldwide, 2025
This IDC study presents the results of IDC’s 2025 AI-Fueled Organization MaturityScape Benchmark Survey to help guide organizations on their AI maturity journey.“Leading organizations in the media industry start their AI journeys by establishing an effective strategy initially focused on people’s re ... Read More
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