IDC Research Types
Analyst
Analyst Profile
Provides complete background information on an IDC analyst. Each profile provides a biography, a notable quotation, a frequently asked question relevant to the particular analyst's focus, and a list of research authored by that analyst.
Team Profile
Lists the analyst members of a topical team. Outlines general areas of coverage and any specialties.
Briefs
Flash
Provides rapid IDC insight and analysis about a significant industry event or conference, merger or acquisition, product announcement, or other fast-breaking news affecting the IT market.
Forecast Update
Provides a short, quick look at an updated forecast and the changed assumptions behind the update. It updates a market forecast published in the same calendar year, identifies changed and key forecast assumptions, and highlights actions for participants to consider in light of the changes.
IDC Insight
Provides coverage and analysis of an industry event, new product or service, or a company announcement or development.
Update
Provides brief overview coverage of what is happening in a market.
Vendor Profiles
Provides a concise, hard-hitting profile of an emerging vendor. A profile will highlight new players and technologies and the potential paradigm shifts or disruptions a vendor represents.
Daily Graphics
Daily Graphic
Illustrates IDC's keen analysis of major market trends in downloadable PowerPoints. Available as a free download the day it appears, an IDC Daily Graphic provides valuable material for speeches and strategic planning.
Event Proceedings
Event Proceeding
Provides published slides, audio, and other materials from IDC and Insights Web conferences, briefings, forums, or other events.
Events
Conference
Delivers dependable, relevant, and high-impact data and insight to help organizations make sound business and technology decisions. eBusiness executives, IT professionals, IT suppliers, and services suppliers benefit from the strategic insight and networking opportunities IDC conferences offer. Generally, all presentation slides are available online, and for most conferences, streaming audio of key discussions is available as well.
Web Conference
Focuses on significant trends and paradigm shifts. Each Web conference will provide attendees with leading-edge market information that will enable them to make smart business decisions. For those unable to attend in person or those wishing to review the content presented, these synchronized multimedia presentations are available online.
IDC DecisionScapes
IDC FutureScape
Serves as a framework for IT/tech professionals' IT strategy and planning for the next one to three years. It lists IDC's top 10 worldwide technology trends for the coming one to three years in a given research area and includes related drivers, projected IT/business strategy impact, and guidance.
IDC MarketScape
Helps IT/tech professionals develop a short list of suitable suppliers when selecting a vendor. Provides an unbiased assessment of tech suppliers in terms of offerings, strategy, capabilities, and other important factors in a given technology area.
IDC MaturityScape
Describes five stages of "maturity" or capability for a particular technology area, helps IT/tech professionals understand where their organizations fit within those stages, and provides guidance on key components for planning successful improvements to a tech initiative.
IDC MaturityScape Benchmark
Helps IT/tech professionals to benchmark their maturity against peers, develop a business case for a tech initiative, and build consensus about where critical IT investments should be made. Presents quantitative research results that show the market distribution for a given tech initiative across the five stages of maturity presented in the related IDC MaturityScape. Shows the results and components of particularly successful initiatives.
IDC PeerScape
Gives IT/tech professionals insight into best practices (and practices to avoid) by providing specific use case examples implemented by peers. Identifies practices that have the most impact on the success of a tech or business initiative, and provides actionable guidance for each practice.
IDC PlanScape
Helps IT/tech professionals to justify and plan a business and/or technology investment or opportunity by exploring why, what, who, and how (these are also the main section headings). Presents key players, critical success factors, risks, and actions to consider for a designated technology and/or business management area.
IDC TechScape
Helps IT/tech professionals with developing IT strategic plans and evaluating emerging technologies in terms of their risk to the business. Shows the adoption curve and risk levels over time for a specific emerging technology. Sorts technologies into three "adoption model" categories (transformational, incremental, opportunistic) to help tech leaders determine the potential impact for their organization.
IDC Links
IDC Link
Provides timely context and insight around important market trends and events in a short opinion piece. IDC Links provide IDC's point of view on:
- Financial announcements
- Product announcements
- Mergers and acquisitions or divestitures
- Events
- Response to news
Insights-only Research
Best Practices
Correlates the use of specific practices and superior performance as indicated by an analysis of the benchmarking database. Highlights any significant differences between industries. Conclusions provide a set of process priorities for improving a business case and advice on how to overcome change management issues.
Business Strategy
Helps buyers to assess their business strategies and/or associated business processes, especially as they relate to the use of technology.
Methods and Practices
Provides a step-by-step description of a method or methods that can be applied. As appropriate, the report may compare the benefits and drawbacks of several methods.
Perspective
Presents an article written by an Insights analyst on a topic of special interest to a target audience. This information has generally already appeared in an industry publication and is repackaged for display on the Insights Web site.
Vendor Assessment
Helps buyers select the right IT supplier. The report helps buyers understand the various providers of a technology by providing analysis on market landscape, vendor profiles, vendor market share, and vendor assessments.
Pivot Tables
Pivot Table
Presents an interactive spreadsheet tool for analyzing trends and activities in a specific market segment. These tables are available only through an annual subscription service.
Predictions
Top 10 Predictions
Provides bold, well-conceived market predictions grounded in solid methodologies, primary research, and analyst experience. Lays out a clear road map to understanding major market opportunities and trends.
Presentations
IDC Presentation
Provides the latest, select CIS forecast data, primary research survey findings, and critical IDC analyst opinion in a succinct, easy-to-digest PowerPoint format.
IDC Survey
Presents a hypothesis about what is happening in the market backed by the results of a demand-side or supply-side survey. The focus is on interpreting and analyzing the survey results and providing a strong point of view along with actionable advice.
IDC Survey Spotlight
Answers a timely question and provides a strong opinion backed by IDC survey data. This is a quick nugget of information that is presented in two concise PowerPoint slides.
Insights Presentation
Provides an easy-to-use format to post on the Web presentations that were previously delivered at public forums (such as conferences and events) or for internal client meetings and client presentations. It may not come as part of a consulting/custom engagement.
Market Analysis Perspective
Delivers a concise current state view of a market and insight into the impact of future trends. Business executives, product managers, and MI/AR professionals can use this information when looking to understand buyers' perspectives and market impacts.
Press Releases
Press Release
Announces significant corporate news, such as key hirings or promotions, performance milestones, event highlights, or speaking engagements.
Product Information
Fact Sheet
Describes a research product. Usually details the major areas of coverage and deliverables, and outlines key questions and competitive market conditions that the research will address. Includes links to all published research for a research product.
Studies
Competitive Analysis
Provides a detailed accounting and review of a vendor's programs, processes, products, service, satisfaction, and/or strategy in a target market. This knowledge helps clients reduce their risk of losing market share or enhance their position over the competition.
Customer Needs and Strategies
Focuses on the important decisions that business and IT professionals make every day.
Industry Developments and Models
Provides a detailed assessment of a specific target market's expansion pattern. This analysis helps clients develop and deploy the right mix of value-add products, programs, or services to support their sales and/or partnering efforts.
Market Analysis
Provides an in-depth examination of the dynamics and future of a single market or a group of related markets. The Market Analysis is where we will typically present our forecasts and assumptions, using a key forecast assumptions table.
Market Forecast
Provides the future of a single market or a group of related markets. It presents a new or updated market forecast, including key drivers and assumptions used in the forecast.
Market Share
Provides data on market size, regional allocations, and platform splits as well as a summary of vendor shares for the most recently completed period (year, quarter).
Special Study
Provides a onetime study produced by a research group that is not published as a deliverable under a subscription service.
Survey
Provides a study and interpretation of the results of a demand- or supply-side survey.
Taxonomy
Highlights and emphasizes how IDC tracks the market while also making it easier for customers to find and identify IDC Taxonomy documents.
Technology Assessment
Provides an analysis of the intricacies of an emerging or established technology or the technologies contained within a specific product.
Vendor Needs and Strategies
Provides an in-depth analysis of a company, a small group of companies, a division of a company focused on a particular market, or a best practice that the company exemplifies.
Verizon and Vodafone’s almost identical announcements of Carrier Multi-access edge cloud (MEC) offerings in alliance with AWS that combines their respective 5G wireless low-latency access with the distributed multi-cloud application management ...
Siemens is strengthening its Industrial Edge portfolio by adding the ability to deploy and manage container-based apps at the edge. This approach enables its manufacturing customers to analyze data locally in order to react more flexibly ...
In the first quarter of the company's 2020 fiscal year, Cisco announced revenue growth, increased its gross margin, and made additional share repurchases. However, the company's guidance for a revenue decline in the second quarter due to ...
When most companies start with a free videoconferencing solution to establish themselves in the market, 8x8 (NYSE: EGHT) is going the other way. Already an established vendor in the global voice, video, collaboration, and contact center ...
This document reviews Cisco Partner Summit 2019, held November 4-6, 2019, in Las Vegas. The focus of this IDC Link will be on network life-cycle services and the interplay between Cisco and other providers of these services. (Please see ...
Xerox has entered into agreements with Fujifilm that significantly changes the course of the near 60-year relationship between the parties. Xerox is selling its stake in Fuji Xerox Co. Ltd. (FX) and Xerox International Partners (XIP).
...Digital Realty Trust and Interxion announced they have entered into an agreement to combine their businesses, greatly expanding Digital Realty's presence in key European locations and accelerating competition with Equinix in the interconnection ...
held its first major analyst event since its major reorganization of its various operating companies was announced on July 1, 2019. The quantity of high-level executives that took the time to come to the event highlights how important it ...
The positive vibe around Zoom and all its recent success was certainly present at the Zoomtopia 2019 event, not just about some of the new features/enhancements announced for its staple video collaboration offering, Zoom Meetings, but also ...
Schneider Electric and Iceotope have been working on a hybrid liquid cooling solution for several years to tackle thermal disruption and improve operational efficiency. The addition of partner Avnet — a trusted systems integrator — will ...
This IDC Link discusses the synergies, benefits, and client impact of Genpact's new strategic partnership with Celonis, a process mining technology company. The partnership between Genpact and Celonis is a large-scale test of the assumption ...
On September 26, 2019, Accenture reported its FY 4Q19 and full year results, including $11.1 billion in quarterly revenue (see the accounting note), a 5% YoY increase in U.S. dollar and 7.2% in local currency. For FY19, net revenue was $43.2 ...
At VMware's annual VMworld conference, the VMware Global Support Services team invested significant resources in customer outreach and engagement. The team highlighted the latest expanded capabilities of Skyline, VMware's proactive support ...
On August 29, 2019, Dell Technologies released its 2Q20 financial results and held a conference call with analysts. The company reported that first-quarter consolidated non-GAAP revenue increased 1% to $23.5 billion over 2Q19 driven primarily ...
On August 27, 2019, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) held a quarterly earnings call and disclosed its 3Q19 financial results. The company reported that third-quarter GAAP revenue decreased 7% YoY to $7.2 billion. When tier 1 hyperscale sales ...
HP Inc.'s print business was down 5.3% year over year in 3Q19 to $4.9 billion as announced in its latest quarterly earnings. Supplies, which is 64% of the business unit's revenue was down 7%, while hardware, the remaining 36% of the company's ...
Cisco continued its recent earnings streak of solid revenue growth in the company's fourth fiscal quarter, with revenue increasing 6% year over year (y/y) to $13.43 billion and GAAP income of $2.2 billion. But weakness in the company's Chinese ...
PaperCut, a leading print management software company, announced its newest version (19.1) of PaperCut MF and PaperCut NG, adding several new capabilities including Print Deploy, a feature that automates print queue deployment. With this ...
RPA software vendor Blue Prism has appointed a new COO: Eric Verniaut, formerly an executive with SAP. In IDC's view this is a "coming of age" moment for Blue Prism as it grows into a significant industry player, and also a sign of the increasing ...
This IDC Link discusses eBay's announcement of its Managed Delivery fulfillment service for sellers, which will be launched in the United States in 2020.
On August 1, 2019, Verizon released its 2Q19 earnings, which exceeded Wall Street expectations. The company recorded strong wireless metrics growth, which was slightly ahead of main rival AT&T, and continues to forge ahead with the implementation ...
To recap, Zoom's cloud-based platform delivers videoconferencing and audioconferencing, chat messaging, webinars, and now telephony with Zoom Phone across mobile, desktop, and room systems. With popular Zoom Video, companies can leverage ...
On July 16, Arrow Electronics announced that it is exiting the ITAD business for PCs and mobile devices effective immediately and will be exiting the enterprise ITAD and datacenter decommissioning business by the end of the year. Arrow cited ...
Publicis Groupe has completed the $3.95 billion purchase of technology and marketing data provider Epsilon, first announced in April 2019. The move will significantly strengthen Publicis in technology and data, more specifically in onboarding, ...
Capgemini's €3.6 billion acquisition of Altran is a highly strategic boost for the European IT services market. It means that Capgemini, a European HQ'd firm, is destined to become the worldwide leader in engineering and embedded software ...
Once again HPE Pointnext services were front and center at HPE Discover in Las Vegas, Nevada, with the highlight on HPE GreenLake flexible consumption. This IDC Link discusses announcements made in support of HPE Pointnext and the services ...
On June 27, 2019, Accenture its FY 3Q19 results, including $11.1 billion in quarterly revenue (see the accounting note), a 4% YoY increase in U.S. dollars and 8.4% in local currency. The earnings call was led by David Rowland, Accenture's ...
In early June, Cisco welcomed almost 30,000 customers and partners to San Diego for its annual Cisco Live U.S. conference, where the company announced a series of enhancements to its network management products. These included a vision for ...
This IDC Link summarizes IDC's opinion on EY's NextWave Data Science Challenge and the presentation of its winners, held at the EY wavespace in New York City on June 14, 2019. At the event, the company awarded the global champions of a student-focused ...
In mid-June 2019, IDC spent two days at the CogX 2019 Festival of AI and Emerging Technology in central London. Key takeaways included the importance of trust, the need to recalibrate an organizations' culture to make the best use of AI, ...
As Cisco invests more heavily in software and subscription services, Cisco Customer Experience (CX) is one of the key bets of CEO Chuck Robbins. To drive growth in subscription offerings, (on-time) renewals, and professional services, Cisco ...
On June 4, 2019, Salesforce announced its FY 1Q20 earnings. Earnings were strong with total revenue of $3.74 billion for the quarter, a 24% year-over-year increase from FY 1Q19. Salesforce increased its second-quarter revenue guidance from ...
VMware revenue for 1Q20 was $2.27 billion, an increase of 13% year over year (y/y). SaaS comprised greater than 12% of total revenues, with 35% growth y/y. License revenue for the first quarter was $869 million, an increase of 12% y/y. Some ...
Service providers have steadily implemented software-defined networking (SDN) and network functions virtualization (NFV) platforms over the past few years. This has facilitated the demand from enterprises to rationalize the WAN with a more ...
On May 28, Workday announced its first quarter results for FY20. In the earnings call, Workday reported significant growth across product lines, adding several new customers, with HCM, Financial Management, and Adaptive Insights recording ...
On May 30, 2019, Dell Technologies released its 1Q20 financial results and held a conference call with investors. This was its second quarterly earnings call since reentering the public markets in late December. Dell Technologies maintains ...
On May 23, 2019 , DXC announced its FY 4Q19 quarterly results, including $5.280 billion in quarterly revenue, a YoY decline of 5.4% (1% in constant currency) on a comparative basis and an increase of 2% (1.7% in constant currency) sequentially. ...
On May 23, 2019, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) held a quarterly earning call and disclosed its 2Q19 financial results. HPE reports financial results for three primary business units: Intelligent Edge, Hybrid IT, and Financial Services. ...
Cisco once again impressed investors with strong quarterly earnings for the third quarter of its 2019 fiscal year. Revenue growth has been consistently positive for six quarters as the company continues to execute on key initiatives, including ...
IDC spent a day at talking to Adobe customers and executives and to the company's key provider partners. Three key lessons emerged: It's about driving innovation at scale, it's about people and culture, and digital should go mainstream.
...Red Hat's annual conference, Red Hat Summit, took place the week of May 6, 2019, in Boston and focused on the launch of the company's flagship product, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 (RHEL 8), along with an equally important launch of the company's ...
Dell Technologies held its annual Dell Technologies World user conference in Las Vegas from April 29 to May 2. This IDC Link provides a summary and analysis of the announcements as well as a review of Dell Technologies' business strategy.
...The Huawei Analyst Summit 2019 was held April 16–18, 2019, in Shenzhen, China. The event highlighted Huawei's strategy of how it will enable its customers though its investments in innovation that challenge current limitations and enhance ...
Chef, the configuration automation company, significantly shifted its business model by announcing that all existing product code will be open sourced under the Apache 2.0 license. At the same time, a new, integrated paid distribution called ...
On March 28, 2019, Accenture reported its FY 2Q19 results, including $10.5 billion in quarterly revenue (see accounting note later), a 5% YoY increase in U.S. dollar, and 9% in local currency. The earnings call was led by David Rowland, ...
On March 5, 2019, Salesforce announced the availability of myTrailhead, a commercial version of its learning and skills platform, Trailhead, that it has used to great success with its own employee, customer, and partner communities.
CGI, the fifth-largest IT services provider in the Nordics and the second largest in Sweden, intends to acquire Acando, which has 2,100 employees and operations mainly in Sweden, Norway, and Germany.
The acquisition will complement ...
On February 22, 2019, Sopra Steria announced its 2018 results. Total revenue reached €4,095.3 million, an increase of 6.9%, corresponding to 4.9% organic growth (constant scope, constant currency). 4Q18 reached 5.5% organic growth. Sopra ...
IT services major Atos announced its 4Q18 and FY18 results on February 21. Atos delivered topline growth at constant exchange rates of 4.2%, pushing revenues to €12.3 billion, including 1.2% organic growth. Operating margins, however, declined ...
On February 12–14, 2019, Microsoft hosted about 30 industry analysts from around the world in Seattle. The analyst forum highlighted was marked with a product and strategy discussion covering the broad portfolio of Microsoft Business Applications ...
Deutsche Telekom (DT) announced its 4Q18 and 2018 annual results on February 21, 2019. Total revenue reached €75.7 billion, an increase of 0.9% over 2017. The results included details for T-Systems, DT's Systems Solutions division. T-Systems' ...
On February 14, Capgemini announced its 4Q and full financial year results for the year ending December 2018. In 4Q18, revenues reached €3.5 billion, up by 7.8% in constant currency year over year. For calendar 2018, group revenue grew by ...
After spending a few days with the Cisco Collaboration leadership team led by Amy Chang, it is clear that the team is focused on the pillars of collaboration that leverage the Cisco security and with new features that help people work better ...
On February 13, Equinix announced its fourth quarter and full calendar year 2018 results. This announcement marks the 64th consecutive quarter of revenue growth. Revenues topped $5.1 billion in 2018, up 9% in constant currency year over ...
This IDC Link discusses the announcement made at IBM's Think 2019 event held in San Francisco, February 11–14. This document specifically discusses strategic comments surrounding IBM Services — Global Business Services (GBS), Global Technology ...
On February 13th, NetApp announced financial results for its third fiscal quarter ending January 25, 2019. The company reported revenue of roughly $1.56 billion for the period, a 1.6% increase against the year-previous quarter and in the ...
On February 12, 2019, Lenovo introduced a consumption-based IT model called TruScale, a subscription-based offering that allows customers to use and pay for datacenter hardware and services — on-premise or at a colocation facility — without ...
Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise (ALE) held its annual analyst conference named Connex19 from February 3 to 5, where it outlined its achievements from the previous year and laid out the company's future road map. The company has a multifaceted ...
Cognizant announced its 4Q 2018 and full 2018 results on February 6, 2019. Global revenue reached $16,125 million in 2018, a growth of 8.9% in dollars and 8.5% in constant currency. 4Q saw 8.8% growth in constant currency, while currency ...
On Friday February 8, 2019, private investment group KKCG announced the purchase of majority stakes in information security firm AEC and software house Cleverlance Enterprise Solutions. If approved by the Czech government's anti-monopoly ...
HCL reported its 3Q FY19 results on January 29, 2019, including results for the full calendar year 2018.
Wipro announced its FY 3Q results on January 18, 2019. Global revenue reached $2,047 million, for growth of 1.8% over the previous quarter. Wipro only publishes sequential growth, but IDC calculates this to represent year-over-year growth ...
On January 23, AppDynamics, a Cisco company, made four announcements pertaining to its vision for the Central Nervous System for IT, the Cognition Engine, serverless support for AWS Lambda, and the Cisco ACI integration. These announcements ...
Digital strategy consultancy Globant has bought Avanxo, a 300-strong Latin American cloud professional services provider (SP) with expertise in the Salesforce, AWS, Google, and Informatica platforms. The deal strengthens its on-the-ground ...
For the first time in a decade, Google announced a price increase on its G Suite offerings. Since that time, customers have seen over a dozen new products as well as artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning capabilities grow across ...
Israeli start-up TechSee announced $16 million in Series B funding this month, expanding its delivery of artificial intelligence and augmented reality in support delivery. While the specific technology at use in TechSee's solution is not ...
On December 20, 2018, Accenture reported its FY 1Q19 results, including $10.6 billion in quarterly revenue, a 7% YoY increase in USD and a 9.5% YoY increase in local currency.
On November 30, 2018, Wipro held its Analyst Day in Boston, Massachusetts, to discuss its big bets for 2019. This IDC Link discusses the vision and strategy along with the investments that Wipro is making to help customers reinvent business ...
AWS re:Invent 2018 confirmed AWS' commitment to deepen its portfolio with new offerings spanning compute, storage, database, networking, security, IoT, and machine learning (ML). With an intent to put AI into developers' hands, AWS announced ...
Altice has sold 49.99% of its fiber optic assets in French very low and medium density areas and will receive €1.8 billion to decrease its debt. The new company, SFR FTTH, a wholesale provider, already connects 1 million and will pass at ...
This IDC Link discusses the announcements, observations, and partner sentiments from Cisco's Annual Partner Summit held in Las Vegas, Nevada, November 12–15, 2018. This event, with 2,000 attendees, covered a lot of ground, but our focus ...
Fujitsu Forum 2018 was held November 6-7 in Munich, Germany. At the event, Fujitsu demonstrated practical, real-world, industry-specific, digital transformation solutions and the business outcomes and value that its customers are receiving. ...
Oracle's purchase of Talari is driven by the vision that cloud-hosted real-time communications (RTC) application sessions need not just the security and management provided by session border controllers but also the predictability, availability, ...
On November 6, 2018, DXC reported its FY 2Q 2019 quarterly results, including $5.013 billion in quarterly revenue, a YoY decline of 8.1% on a comparative basis (without the U.S. Public Sector organization) and 5.1% sequentially. Revenues ...
TCS Interactive has bought W12 Studios, a digital design house based in London, England — its first acquisition in this space. W12 strengthens TCS' connection to the CMO and CEO space and should form the basis of a global network of design ...
On November 6, Twilio reported its 3Q18 earnings. The company recorded another impressive quarter of growth with revenue of $168 million, up 68% over 3Q17 and up 14% sequentially over 2Q18. GAAP net loss from operations was $25 million, ...
The United Kingdom–based business consultancy PA Consulting said on October 31, 2018, that it has acquired Essential Design, a Boston-based product design house, six months after buying the United Kingdom–based design specialist Sparkler. ...
Over the past five years, there have been significant advancements in proactive and predictive solutions — faster networks, easier access to data, and the compute power necessary for complex processing — that have made artificial intelligence ...
Publicis.Sapient has announced plans to buy Xebia France, a Paris-based "agile engineering and technology leader" with 170 staff specializing in new technology areas such as cloud, DevOps, IoT, and Agile. The tuck-in acquisition looks like ...
On October 23, 2018, Verizon its 3Q18 earnings results. The company reported total revenue of $32.6 billion, an increase of 2.8% over 3Q17 revenue. The healthy and surprising performance drove a spike of Verizon's stock price. Excluding ...
The Telecom Infra Project (TIP) initiative, launched by Facebook in 2016, recently completed its second annual U.K. innovation awards process. This culminated in an event hosted by BT on October 12 in which six finalists presented to a panel ...
Facebook Flow is the first leadership summit by Workplace by Facebook, Facebook's enterprise collaboration offering. Held at the Hotel Nia near the Facebook campus in Menlo Park, California, on October 9, 2018, it spotlighted the growth ...
BT Global Services (GS) held a business briefing for investors and financial and industry analysts in London on September 19.
5G officially arrives with the October 1, 2018, launch of Verizon's 5G Home service, a 5G residential fixed wireless access (FWA) service that allows consumers the first taste of what the technology can offer and provides the basis for real-world ...
Beginning mid-2Q18, Cisco made a series of senior executive adjustments — some left for new opportunities, some resigned, and some replaced. With Cisco's revenue returning to growth mode and positioning itself to capture software, services, ...
On September 27, 2018, Accenture reported its FY 4Q18 results, including $10.1 billion in quarterly net revenue (i.e., before reimbursements), an 11% YoY increase in both USD and local currency. For FY18, net revenues were $39.6 billion, ...
IDC's ongoing research underscores the growing importance of having an as-a-service and consumption-based IT procurement model. Demand for these models continues to grow because customers like the simplicity, flexibility, and agility that ...
This IDC Link summarizes IDC's opinion on information and strategy discussed at the CenturyLink 2018 Global Analyst Forum, held September 12 and 13, 2018. The discussions covered strategies and products across small and medium-sized businesses ...
Slack held the first of this year's three Frontiers conferences in San Francisco, California, on September 5–6, 2018. Announcements may be broken up across upcoming events in New York and London, but the top takeaways were still significant ...
Coupa acquires DCR Workforce, adding more contingent workforce and services procurement breadth to its platform. Business spend management is clearly a vision Coupa is delivering on.
IDC's research underscores the growing importance of as-a-service and consumption-based IT procurement models and the impact of these models on the acquisition of personnel devices, such as laptops and desktops. Demand for these models continues ...
As the business of providing product engineering and operation technology services becomes mainstream, the market will witness increased M&A activity. Start-ups or established niche product, technology, services, or consulting companies ...
While the Google Cloud Next '18 event (the company's cloud computing user conference and expo), focused mainly on Google's IaaS and cloud-based artificial intelligence capabilities, the event also highlighted Google's opportunities to establish ...
The Google Cloud team held its third-annual customer conference in San Francisco, attended by over 23,000 attendees. This research will focus on one of the conference themes; that of modern application development, deployment, management, ...
Telia, the largest communication service provider in Sweden, has acquired Bonnier Broadcasting, from Bonnier AB, an established publisher and media company in Sweden.
This is the first European media acquisition by a telecom provider, ...
Cisco brought out top executives for its annual Marketing Velocity event in Barcelona and their key message was about how central partners are to Cisco's overall business, but that partners need to transform themselves by focusing on areas ...
On June 20–21, 2018, Equinix held a summit for financial and industry analysts in New York City. The event highlighted the strong growth and positive outlook for one of the leading and innovative colocation providers. A few key highlights: ...
This IDC Link summarizes IDC's opinion on the information and strategy presented to analysts at the Sprint Business Analyst Day held June 13, 2018. The discussions covered wireless and wireline services, although the focus of this document ...
AT&T’s sale of its datacenter business is a good outcome for the company that sold its managed cloud infrastructure business to IBM in 2015. The company will enter a strategic partnership with Brookfield Infrastructure Partners to deliver ...
On June 11–12, Cisco Systems held its annual customer event, Cisco Live, in conjunction with its analyst event, C-Scape, to share its vision and strategy. In addition to product announcements, CEO Chuck Robbins also announced new senior ...