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.
This IDC Survey focuses on digital experience technologies and user preferences to deliver multichannel customer experiences. Buyer interest in headless content management systems to support dynamic web and mobile apps is on the rise. IDC's ...
This Market Perspective outlines five of the key trends IDC believes will drive the enterprise networking market in 2021 and beyond.
"2021 will be a dynamic year in the enterprise networking market," says Brandon Butler, senior research ...
On February 25, 2021 HP Inc. announced revenue growth of 7% to $15.6B for calendar 2020Q4 (its fiscal 2021Q1). Both Printing and Personal Systems groups delivered 7% revenue growth for the quarter citing remote work and learning as continued ...
This IDC study defines and provides a framework for analyzing the installed base of storage capacity, the amount of the installed base of storage capacity that is utilized, and the portion of the installed base that is available for storing ...
On March 1, 2021, Broadcom Software delivered its new Symantec Web Protection Suite offering. The strength of the suite approach is that it provides flexibility and choice to organizations. Security can be applied by an on-premises appliance, ...
This IDC Market Perspective provides insights into five key trends impacting the carrier networks infrastructure market in 2021 and beyond.
"Carrier networks are in a state of transition. The consumer and business demand on these networks ...
Manufacturing around the world is undergoing operational transformation to take advantage of modern technologies both at the edge and at the cloud, bringing together unique insights to help improve efficiencies. Bringing together the manufacturing ...
This IDC Market Glance provides a glance at the landscape of vendors playing in various segments of the IoT application development and deployment market. It includes vendors that offer IoT-specific software suites, as well as vendors that ...
This IDC Market Note discusses five significant announcements made in early 2021, four of which are specific to the database technology markets and one is more general. These announcements point to maturation and consolidation of IT (in ...
This IDC Market Perspective features the branch of one, an emerging new architecture that has been precipitated by the impacts stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic.
"While enterprises may have rushed into decisions of how to rapidly ...
Dynatrace held its annual user conference as a virtual event during the week of February 8–12, 2021. The event drew an estimated online attendance of 25,000 versus 2,500 physical attendees the previous year. During the event, the company ...
This IDC Survey presents the results of IDC's European IoT Decision-Maker Survey 2020, focusing on some key differences across European vertical markets. This survey assesses the current and planned deployment of IoT projects, including ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight examines the European sample (n = 962) of IDC's Energy Insights Utilities Consumer Survey, which surveyed 1,359 energy customers from around the world. The survey was carried out in July 2020 and covered ...
This IDC Market Glance provides a snapshot of the current data-driven policing landscape globally, including the definitions of the major segments of the market, the structure of the market, and the vendors within each segment.
This IDC study provides IDC's future enterprise use cases for the future of customer and consumer as it seeks to support business strategy and success. This taxonomy is organized to mime strategic priorities that serve to define how line-of-business ...
This IDC study provides details of IDC's worldwide multicloud data management and protection taxonomy. The data protection market is highly dynamic, driven by new application workload deployments and cloud capabilities. The majority of IT ...
The COVID-19 crisis has resulted in enterprises reassessing their technology priorities as they react to constantly changing environmental conditions and try to chart a course of action to resilience and recovery. This IDC Spotlight analyzes ...
This Market Note focuses on IDC's viewpoints on the path ahead for the healthcare organizations in India. As these organizations have firm plan to increase their IT spend in 2021, it is essential to channelize these investments, technologies ...
One of the leading inhibitors of Industry 4.0 progression is the heterogeneous legacy technology landscape in industrial operations and the challenge of aggregating and managing operational data. By partnering to enable a hybrid cloud architecture, ...
This IDC study provides a 2021–2025 forecast for the worldwide system and service management software market.
According to Tim Grieser, research vice president, Enterprise System Management Software at IDC, "The system and service ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight presents customer experience (CX) in Egypt during the COVID-19 pandemic. The recent pandemic has highlighted the needs and deficiencies of many organizations. It has also revealed a high level of agility and a new ...
This IDC Market Forecast describes the size and growth of IT professionals' employment by role and region for 2019–2024. The document includes our forecast across 41 different job roles and an analysis of some of the key factors influencing ...
This IDC Survey presents results from the German segment of IDC's European Internet of Things (IoT) Decision-Maker Survey. This survey assesses current and planned deployments of IoT projects, including benefits and challenges, impact of ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight shares the top artificial intelligence (AI) use cases currently being used by small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) within three European countries, namely the U.K., Germany, and France. It also highlights planned ...
This IDC Market Note captures IDC's observations and point of view on IBM and Palantir's partnership offering Palantir for IBM Cloud Pak for Data, announced on February 8, 2021, and to release in 1Q21. It covers ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight discusses whether analytics should be embedded in business applications. As organizations strive to become more data driven, they have to ensure that all business users have access to contextual analytics within ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight presents select findings from IDC's IT Infrastructure for Storage Survey. The survey was conducted in October 2020 and includes responses from over 600 IT and line-of-business (LOB) personnel responsible ...
This IDC Market Presentation examines the latest IDC Quarterly Smart Home Device Tracker for the Western Europe smart home market. In this tracker, IDC follows more than 55 smart home makes in 16 countries, providing detailed shipment volumes, ...
"Internet of Things (IoT) in the Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) (APEJ) markets continues to grow steadily as government, municipalities, enterprises, and industries take advantage of extensive fiber and 4G LTE coverage and the anticipated ...
This IDC Market Presentation highlights select results from IDC's 2020 CloudShare ISV Survey for Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) (APEJ) and some key differences in strategies and attitudes between ISVs in the region and ...
This IDC Presentation looks at the progress and priorities of Asia/Pacific oil and gas (O&G) companies within their industrial operational transformations, focusing on Industry 4.0 initiatives. It provides an analysis of the results ...
This IDC Market Glance provides a graphical view of open source software projects associated with key system infrastructure software and application development and deployment software technologies. It includes representative open source ...
The news that Lectra is acquiring its long-time competitor comes at a time when the industries it serves — namely those that involve sewn products, including apparel, furniture, and automotive seating — are struggling due to shutdowns, economic ...
This IDC Market Note summarizes the RISE with SAP announcement and provides analyst-related reactions.
This IDC Market Perspective provides an overview of the evolution of Ricoh's service lines, its rapid reaction to the business impact of COVID-19, and the development of a customer engagement model including the launch of print devices that ...
This IDC study presents IDC's first global forecast of CO2 emissions savings from cloud computing.
"IDC has been tracking the server market and quantifying compute power for nearly all of its 50+ years," says John Gantz, ...
This IDC study provides a 2021–2025 forecast for the worldwide IT automation and configuration management software market.
According to Tim Grieser, research vice president, Enterprise System Management Software, "The worldwide IT ...
This IDC study provides a 2021–2025 forecast for the worldwide IT operations management software market.
According to Tim Grieser, research vice president, Enterprise System Management Software at IDC, "The worldwide IT operations ...
This IDC study presents a five-year forecast for the APEJ manufacturing IT applications industry as of September 2020. It reviews and analyzes market context, including both drivers and inhibitors of IT application growth. It also highlights ...
HP Inc. has launched a new partner initiative called HP Amplify Impact. The program — one of the first of its kind — provides access to a broad range of resources aimed at helping channel partners establish long-term, measurable goals for ...
This IDC Market Glance provides a segmentation of technology solutions and technology and services providers being deployed and adopted by organizations to drive enterprise intelligence.
This IDC study analyzes vendor market shares and vendor trends in 2019 in the network virtualization and automation platform market, which is a major component of the Japan network virtualization and automation market. VMware and Cisco Systems ...
This IDC study provides an analysis of the Japan unified communications and collaboration workspace market share based on vendor revenue performance in 2019. IDC classifies the market into four major solution segments — the IP telephony ...
Red Hat's acceleration of the move positioning CentOS Linux as an upstream community distribution that is a precursor for subsequent Red Hat Enterprise Linux releases, not surprisingly, has ruffled some feathers in the CentOS community. ...
Oracle announced new features in marketing, sales, and service applications within Oracle CX that extend the use of AI and automation and improve integration between CX products that will help enterprise customers improve personalization ...
This IDC Survey examines CIO priorities and views on digital transformation (DX) and associated challenges across the Middle East, Turkey, and Africa (META) region. One of its aims is to provide a greater understanding of the strategic and ...
This IDC Taxonomy provides a comprehensive overview of the definitions used for measuring telecom services markets across the globe. The top-level methodology used to research these markets is also outlined in the study. The taxonomy summaries ...
This IDC Vendor Profile focuses on Germany-headquartered company MEHRWERK GmbH, founded in 2008. In 2018, MEHRWERK introduced an innovative process mining software tool based on the Qlik platform to offer comprehensive process mining capabilities ...
On February 4, 2021, Microsoft announced the launch of Microsoft Viva, an employee experience platform (EXP) that brings together a variety of tools and features for employee engagement (EX), learning, well-being, and knowledge discovery ...
This IDC Market Perspective provides an overview of the potential impact on the digital market of the Trade and Cooperation Agreement between the U.K. and Europe. The key elements of the deal and their effects on ICT spending are discussed, ...
This IDC Market Perspective provides insight into five key trends that will impact the worldwide unified communications and collaboration (UC&C) market in 2021 and beyond.
"The importance of UC&C solutions, supported on robust ...
This IDC Market Presentation provides an overview of the European grocery subvertical in 2021 and examines how grocery retailers in Europe are transforming their operations to respond to the opportunities emerging from the post-pandemic ...
This IDC Market Perspective provides a framework of three sustainability pillars for the IT industry: Technology Vendor Performance, Technology as an Enabler, and Technology for Good. Using this framework, this document quantifies over 200 ...
This IDC Market Note examines how purpose and corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives can improve the employee experience. While CSR typically represents a normatively driven, non-standardized approach to sustainability, programs ...
More than 1,000 senior executives from influential technology vendors, telecommunication operators, and IT service providers in Saudi Arabia participated in the IDC Directions virtual event held in early 2021. This event provided participants ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight illustrates hurdles in organizations' artificial intelligence (AI) adoption plans. The document contains the India data from IDC’s 2020 AI Strategy Buyer View Survey. The report provides a view on the multiple ...
This IDC study provides an update to IDC's worldwide IoT market outlook, according to IDC's December 2020 Worldwide Internet of Things Spending Guide. It also updates Worldwide Internet of Things Forecast, 2020–2024 ...
This IDC Web Conference unveils five critical pillars that must be considered if business growth in Sub-Saharan Africa is to be achieved in 2021. Relevance, affordability, accessibility, security, and trustworthiness are strategic imperatives ...
This IDC Web Conference discusses the key trends IDC's Worldwide Channels and Alliances team is seeing in software and infrastructure channels, as well as in strategic alliances as we move toward recovery. The team also reviews its 2020 ...
The Turkey CIO Perspectives on DX: January 2021 View survey was conducted in December 2020. The document addresses the results of IDC’s survey of CIOs across vertical markets in Turkey on the priorities and challenges of digital transformation ...
This IDC Survey presents results from the Customer Experience section of IDC's European Software Survey, completed in November 2020 (N = 763). It focuses on journey management across verticals, analyzing European organizations' top journey ...
This IDC Market Forecast discusses the European fixed business voice services market for 2019 to 2024. It examines the transition from TDM to IP voice services and from on-premises voice platforms to hosted services. IDC data products, such ...
This IDC Market Perspective updates and expands analysis originally presented in Analyzing Intel's 2020 Industry Analyst Summit; Considering Patrick Gelsinger's Return as CEO in 2021 (IDC ...
This IDC study presents the Japan AI software platform market share based on the 2019 revenue performance. "Enterprise users are entering a new phase of continuous development and operation of AI applications utilizing AI software platforms. ...
With accelerated digital transformation initiatives, unprecedented growth in remote and distributed work models, and increased cloud adoption, the attack surface is expanding at an unprecedented pace. The simultaneous expansion of the threat ...
This IDC Market Share discusses trends and vendor dynamics in the system and service management software market in Western Europe.
"Despite the COVID-19 pandemic's unprecedent impact on the economy, the SSM market remained resilient ...
This IDC Survey details results from IDC's 2020 U.S. Smart Home Survey, which was fielded in July. The survey asked respondents questions regarding consumer adoption of and attitudes toward a variety of ...
This IDC Market Note reviews partner-focused announcements and updates presented during AWS re:Invent 2020. AWS launched several new SaaS programs, new competencies, and new features in AWS Marketplace, especially the ability to list and ...
This IDC Market Presentation discusses examples and analyzes the use cases and opportunities for digital twins and digital thread in support of building and infrastructure operation. Building information modeling (BIM) is a vital set of ...
This IDC Market Presentation highlights how digital twins of products and assets are used extensively during the design and engineering phase and during the operations phase of assets in industries such as oil and gas and energy. Essentially, ...
This IDC study analyzes the Internet of Things (IoT) spending and forecasts growth from 2020 to 2024 in the IoT market from the perspective of the four technology groups — hardware (HW), connectivity, software (SW), and services; and 11 ...
This IDC Market Perspective examines the reasons behind the rapid consolidation taking place in the European market of specialist cloud-native application services providers by major vendors.
"Major services players are now turning ...
This IDC Market Perspective provides insight into buyer expectations of the value in using multicloud management capabilities as part of managed cloud services as well as a framework of required investments that managed SPs need to make ...
This IDC Market Note examines Swiss Post Solutions' (SPS') continuing ability to leverage a robust outsourced services line and highlights its recent acquisition of Kodak's Document Management Business that expands its Asia/Pacific presence.
...This IDC Market Perspective assesses the key strategies of cloud providers in the telecommunications sector. The first wave of the establishment of the telecom cloud is well underway. Over the past five years, most tier 1 operators have ...
This IDC Survey provides an overview of the results from a 2020 U.S. survey of enterprises involving their use of managed services for infrastructure involving datacenters, networks, and endpoint devices (e.g., PCs, laptops, smartphones/tablets). ...
This IDC study analyzes the U.S. mobile consumer and business services market outlook for the 2021–2025 period.
"2020 was an unusual year, to say the least, with the COVID-19 pandemic slowing growth in subscribers in 1H20, but the ...
This IDC Market Note provides an overview of the recently launched VMware Cloud Foundation v4.2. VMware announced VMware Cloud Foundation 4.2, featuring updates to help customers further improve the storage, networking, management, and security ...
The ecosystem consisting of C3.ai, Shell, Baker Hughes, and Microsoft that makes up the Open AI Energy Initiative (OAI) brings together a powerful combination of partners that provide AI tools to not only today's energy industry but also ...
This IDC Market Glance identifies three segments of technology to support whole-person care: services, data, and workflow. There are subcategories that differentiate the role that data and workflow play. "It is heartening to see both government ...
This IDC study provides market forecasts for the Japan private cloud market, taking into account the impact of and outlook for the COVID-19 pandemic as of the end of August 2020, based on the information collected by the end of August 2020.
The ...
Kicking off 2021 with an acquisition of the Swiss software provider Assentis, Smart Communications increases its footprint as the largest SaaS-based customer communications software provider and expands its offering to financial services ...
The People's Bank of China (PBOC) and China Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission (CBIRC) introduced new regulations over the sale of online deposit products, signaling increased scrutiny over bank–fintech collaboration in China. The ...
This IDC Survey Snapshot highlights data gleaned from IDC's 2021 Professional Services for Enterprise Private Cellular/5G/Mobile Networks Study. IDC surveyed 500 enterprises globally to understand their readiness and ...
This IDC study provides a comprehensive overview and definitions for IDC's enterprise storage systems research, outlining market segmentations and measurement methodologies for the storage industry including classification by technology, ...
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to take hold around the world, driving higher employee engagement is a key priority for CHROs, irrespective of geography or industry. In this spirit, the agreement between Workday and Peakon, for the latter's ...
Juniper Networks reported its financial results for 4Q20 on January 28, 2021. Juniper also posted its results for its fiscal year ending December 31, 2020.
Juniper's quarterly net revenue was approximately $1.22 billion, up 1% y/y ...
This IDC Market Perspective provides a detailed definition of managed edge services, scope its key parameters, and underline its market development, key players, and emerging use cases. This document forms the basis for further qualitative ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight discusses the last-mile strategies that help shave costs and delight the consumer.
Historic surges in ecommerce demand are putting pressure on logistics operations to focus on the last mile, which is the most ...
SAP has reported its final quarter in 2020. Real progress is evident as revenue moves from on premises to cloud at an accelerated pace.
For simplicity's sake, all numbers quoted in this document are non-IFRS, and the percentage change ...
The $1.2 billion acquisition price for process mining vendor Signavio will be a cost-effective investment if SAP's newly announced Business Process Intelligence (BPI) business unit plays out the way SAP envisions. Process mining collects ...
This IDC study describes the size and growth of IT professionals by role and region for 2019–2024.The document includes our forecast across 41 different job roles and an analysis of some of the key factors influencing IT professional employment ...
This IDC Market Presentation and the accompanying data file were presented to clients of IDC's Enabling Technologies: Artificial Intelligence Edge Processor Architectures and Enabling Technologies: Processors and Architectures research programs ...
At this year's NRF Big Show, Walmart, Home Depot, Macy's, Lowe's, Sally Beauty, and others discussed COVID-19's impact on omni-channel and how the shift to ecommerce and the burgeoning expectations among consumers for greater omni-channel ...
This IDC Market Presentation describes the latest update of IDC's Best Practice Partner Engagement Framework, which is a market intelligence asset that consolidates IDC's insights on partner programs and partner engagement strategies. It ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight looks at, by specific major countries, what technology customers are investing in for MEC compute and storage infrastructure, and whether that may tie into expected latency requirements for their MEC solutions. ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight provides analysis of the results of IDC's survey of 300 buyers of data as a service in November 2020 about important issues that influence the purchase of external data.
"IDC's survey data shows that 71% of ...
This IDC Market Note summarizes noteworthy developments in the European AI systems marketplace in 4Q20 as selected by IDC's European AI practice members.
"Sentiment toward AI technology spending improved significantly in the final ...
This IDC Market Note highlights the introduction of Google Cloud Sentiment Analysis for COVID-19 vaccination strategies by Google Cloud Platform. At its Public Sector Summit in December 2020, Google Cloud Platform highlighted its ongoing ...
The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated digital transformation across the Middle East, Turkey, and Africa (META). It has spurred unprecedented demand for contactless services, cloud solutions, and collaboration applications as governments ...