Category: Software & Enterprise Computing
Software & Enterprise Computing market research reports by IDC
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Best in Connected City Award Winner Profile - 2024
This IDC Perspective highlights the award-winning Smart City initiative by MTR Corporation in Hong Kong, aimed at achieving a "smart and inclusive journey." Through its "Smart ESG: Technology-enabled Social Inclusion" program, MTR has demonstrated its commitment to digital transformation and a conne ... Read More
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Cisco Live EMEA 2025: Cisco Signals Future Intentions
Cisco Live EMEA 2025 was attended by over 17,000 people, and Cisco used the opportunity to double down on their platform message. Cisco is using its strong position in networking to drive toward security, collaboration, and server segments, with AI being a common component. "Cisco's strategic pivot ... Read More
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IDC's 2024 Special Award for Digital-Native Business —Winner Profile
This IDC Perspective discusses the nomination details of the winner of the Special Award for Digital-Native Businesses (DNBs) from IDC's Future Enterprise Awards 2024 in Asia/Pacific with how AI can impact organizations moving forward."AI will eventually redefine industries in the digital-first era, ... Read More
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Impact of Data Egress on Cloud Buyers
This IDC Market Note discusses how the role of data as the foundation of a digital enterprise significantly impacts data egress costs through several mechanisms, primarily related to data management practices and operational strategies, and how cloud buyers can navigate the complex egress models and ... Read More
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AI in Finance: Where It's Being Used and Is It Delivering Value?
This IDC Perspective discusses AI in finance. AI is revolutionizing corporate finance by enhancing decision-making, risk management, and operational efficiency through technologies like machine learning and RPA. Despite significant benefits such as improved forecasting and automation, challenges lik ... Read More
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Enterprise, IT Business, and Functional Business Architects: What Are the Differences, and How Are They Steering the Technology Decisions?
This IDC Market Perspective explores the distinct roles of enterprise, IT business, and functional business architects in large corporations, emphasizing their unique perspectives and collaborative efforts in technology decision-making. It highlights the importance of understanding these roles for v ... Read More
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Japan Enterprise Applications Forecast, 2025–2029
This IDC study analyzes the actual revenue in 2024 and forecasts the market from 2025 to 2029 for the Japan enterprise applications (EA) software market, which is composed of the collaborative workspace market, customer relationship management (CRM) application market, and enterprise resource manage ... Read More
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Mitr Phol Group's AI Pivot: Transforming Operations Through Data-Driven Decision Making and Intelligent Automation
"The AI pivot in operations is moving from experimentation to real-world impact as organizations embed intelligence into core processes to enhance agility, efficiency, and resilience. Key enablers include real-time data integration, cloud architectures, digital twins, and edge intelligence, which en ... Read More
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AWS re:Invent 2024 — Value and Innovation in an Intelligent Cloud
This IDC Market Note provides a comprehensive summary of the most significant topics and announcements from AWS re:Invent 2024, held in Las Vegas, Nevada, December 2–6. AWS re:Invent 2024 announced over 3,000 products and services. Nonetheless, the protagonists were AI and GenAI. Executives from all ... Read More
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Shifting Cloud Security Strategies: Check Point and Wiz
This IDC Market Note discusses Check Point and Wiz's announced strategic partnership to address the lack of integration between cloud network security and the cloud-native application protection platform (CNAPP). Wiz has cloud network security controls, further enriching risk prioritization. Check P ... Read More
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IDC MaturityScape: AI-Fueled Organization 1.0
This IDC MaturityScape is a guide for organizations planning to evolve their use of all AI technologies, including machine learning (ML), GenAI, and autonomous agents as they strive to improve innovation and operations, as well as customer, citizen, patient, or consumer engagement.“AI is a transform ... Read More
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Backblaze's Expansion into Canada's IaaS Landscape
This IDC Market Note discusses Backblaze's expansion into Canada's IaaS landscape. Backblaze has launched a new datacenter in Toronto, enhancing Canada's cloud services market by addressing data sovereignty and compliance needs. This expansion is exclusively available in Canada through the channel p ... Read More
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Worldwide Workstation Market Shares, 2024 and 4Q24: 7.0% Rebound as the AI Era Kicks Off
This IDC study looks at worldwide workstation market shares in 2024.“The workstation market rebounded nicely in 2024,” states Linn Huang, IDC research vice president of Device and Displays. “Considering we’re only at the tip of the spear of the inbound AI era and in lieu of how important workstation ... Read More
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The Unified Content Model: Rethinking the Content Supply Chain in the Era of Agentic AI
This IDC Perspective on the Unified Content Model (UCM) 2025 updates a model originally developed in 2022, highlighting the integration of generative AI (GenAI) into a modern content management approach. The Unified Content Model orchestrates content supply chains, enhancing operational efficiency a ... Read More
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Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization Engine Simplifies the Migration and Management of VMs
This IDC Market Note examines Red Hat’s recently announced OpenShift Virtualization Engine. Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization Engine offers a solution for migrating virtual machines (VMs) from competing hypervisor platforms without the requirements of immediate containerization. It integrates with Re ... Read More
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Digital Twins: Closing the Gap Between the Virtual and the Real Worlds
This IDC Perspective focuses on the adoption of digital twins in the life science industry. It focuses on key growth predictions, global initiatives, enabling technologies, factors critical to the success of digital twin initiatives and the digital twin landscape, and provides guidance to technology ... Read More
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Taking an Integrated Approach in Securing and Safeguarding AI Use Across the Enterprise
This IDC Perspective highlights the urgent need for enterprises to adopt comprehensive frameworks to secure and safeguard AI usage across their operations. As AI integration accelerates, companies face significant risks, including data privacy issues, security vulnerabilities, and compliance challen ... Read More
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Driving Innovation: ATP and Alibaba Cloud Collaborate to Foster the Turkish Cloud Market
This IDC Market Note discusses the launch of Alibaba Cloud Edge Node Services (ENS) in Türkiye through its local partner ATP. Topics include the implications for ATP and its competitors and the changing deployment strategies of hyperscale cloud providers. IDC expects to see an acceleration of in-cou ... Read More
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Telefónica Tech: Aiming for Next-Gen IT Solutions Growth
This IDC Market Note presents IDC's view of Telefónica Tech's most recent analyst day, held in London on November 28, 2024. It concentrates on the company's growth strategy and development in specific portfolio areas: IoT, business applications, SASE, AI/data, and cloud. ... Read More
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Worldwide FaaS Market Shares, 2023: Enabling Developers on PaaS
This IDC study presents market share for the worldwide PaaS-delivered FaaS market, a capability of the serverless cloud model, for 2023. It also reports on the prior two years to provide context for how the market has evolved. In addition, it also includes a competitive analysis of the market leader ... Read More
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Automation as a Catalyst: Driving Business Agility, Speed, and Data Integrity
This IDC Perspective aims to provide CIOs, senior IT and technology executives, and other enterprise leaders with insights into how a robust automation strategy can drive businesses to new heights, unlocking new levels of operational efficiency, decision-making speed, and data reliability while also ... Read More
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Worldwide Website Software Forecast, 2025–2028
This IDC study provides a sizing of the worldwide website software market's 2023 historical data and a four-year forecast through 2028 by geographical region and deployment type. It also provides commentary on market growth and the emerging trends and provides actionable advice for technology suppli ... Read More
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IDC PlanScape: An Enterprise Skills Framework for Human-AI Collaboration
This IDC PlanScape discusses an enterprise skills framework for human-AI collaboration.“Amid AI advancements, human oversight and nuanced skills are critical,” says Gina Smith, PhD, research director, IT Skills for Digital Business, IDC. “To remain competitive, organizations must now begin to cultiv ... Read More
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Worldwide Digital Asset Management Software Forecast, 2025–2028
This IDC study provides a sizing of the worldwide digital asset management software market in CY23 and a forecast through 2028 by geographical region. It includes commentary on market growth and emerging trends and provides actionable advice for technology suppliers. This document updates the digita ... Read More
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Worldwide and U.S. Outsourced Document Services Forecast, 2025–2029
This IDC study analyzes the outsourced document services marketplace that is made up of in-house production print services, mailroom services, print sourcing and procurement services, and imaging and document archival services. This document updates Worldwide and U.S. Outsourced Document Services Fo ... Read More
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