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Highlights and emphasizes how IDC tracks the market while also making it easier for customers to find and identify IDC Taxonomy documents.


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Khoros Engage: Lithium + Spredfast Merger Delivers on Its Promise; Unveils Ambitious Road Map
$1,500
Wayne Kurtzman

This IDC Market Note reviews announcements made at the inaugural Khoros Engage conference. The Khoros Engage conference is the first conference since the merger of Lithium and Spredfast. Over 500 enthusiastic enterprise users saw the new ...

Oct 2019 | Doc #US45584019 | Market Note | Tech Supplier

Social Media, Communities, and Collaboration: The Rise of the Social Enterprise
$4,500
Wayne Kurtzman

This IDC Perspective discusses the role of social media, communities, and collaboration in the rise of the social enterprise and provides recommendations for enterprises seeking to become a social enterprise. Social media, communities, and ...

Sep 2019 | Doc #US44662419 | IDC Perspective | Tech Buyer

Solo.io: Connecting the World's Applications with APIs and Service Mesh Across any Infrastructure with Gloo Platform
$3,500
Filippo Vanara

This IDC Vendor Profile analyzes Solo.io, a start-up that develops open source and enterprise software by helping enterprises adopt and operate innovative cloud-native technologies such as microservices, serverless, and service mesh. This ...

Sep 2019 | Doc #EUR145522019 | Vendor Profile | Tech Supplier

Nine Cultural Collaboration Accelerators
$4,500
Wayne Kurtzman

This IDC Perspective reviews the role that collaboration applications and company culture play in accelerating productivity, customer experience, and employee experience. Collaboration is the interpersonal activities that creates value when ...

Jun 2019 | Doc #US44662019 | IDC Perspective | Tech Buyer

New IDC Report Expects Asia/Pacific* Consumer Spending on Technology to Reach USD 468.8 Billion in 2019, Led by Communication and Entertainment Focused Use Cases
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SINGAPORE, May 29th, 2019 – Asia/Pacific* consumer spending on technology will reach USD 468.8 billion in 2019, an increase of 4.2% from the year, according to the inaugural release of the IDC Worldwide Semiannual Connected Consumer Spending ...

May 2019 | Doc #prAP45105919 | Research Press Release

MENA ICT Key Market Developments Update, March 19
$1,500
Jebin George, Manish Ranjan, Isaac Ngatia, Roberto Alunni, Mufasir Yousuf

This IDC Market Note assesses the potential impact of some key ICT market developments that took place in the Middle East and North Africa during March 2019.

"Recent developments and acquisitions in the open source software market ...

Apr 2019 | Doc #META45010819 | Market Note | Tech Supplier

Enterprise Connect 2019: Collaboration Takeaways from Cisco, Google, Microsoft, Slack, and Others
$1,500
Wayne Kurtzman

This IDC Market Note discusses the key takeaways from Enterprise Connect 2019. The North American communications and, more recently, collaboration conference welcomed over 6,500 people to the Gaylord Palms Resort in Orlando, Florida, from ...

Apr 2019 | Doc #US44964118 | Market Note | Tech Supplier

Supporting Maturing Open Source: Why Ongoing Support for Infrastructure Software Is Critical
$4,500
Al Gillen

This IDC Perspective presents key steps for safe using of open source software (OSS) infrastructure software. OSS is pervasively used today, sometimes beyond even where customers are aware of its use.

"The broad utilization of OSS ...

Mar 2019 | Doc #US44640319 | IDC Perspective | Tech Buyer

Content Delivery Networks in a Transforming Media Industry
$4,500
Melissa Fremeijer, Ghassan Abdo

This IDC Market Perspective analyzes and reviews the dynamic landscape of the rich media business, how the shift to IP has impacted the traditional video broadcasting market, and in what ways the rise of OTT (or online) video will continue ...

Jan 2019 | Doc #EMEA44684718 | Market Perspective | Tech Supplier

Future of Work and UC&C Players
$4,500
John Gilsenan, Oru Mohiuddin

This IDC Market Perspective looks at the UC&C vendor landscape through the lens of the Future of Work. Enterprise communication is changing in line with ongoing digital transformation, creating new ways in which people communicate at ...

Dec 2018 | Doc #EMEA44504518 | Market Perspective | Tech Supplier

The Collaboration Technology Imperative: Nurturing a Strong Collaboration Culture
$4,500
Wayne Kurtzman

This IDC Perspective provides insight and guidance for IT buyers regarding the technology, culture, best practices, and overall recommendations when deploying or upgrading enterprise collaboration applications. Forced to do more with less, ...

Dec 2018 | Doc #US44507018 | IDC Perspective | Tech Buyer

The Role of Open Source in IoT Application Development
$1,500
Stacy Crook, Al Gillen, Angela Salmeron

This IDC Perspective examines the role of open source software (OSS) in IoT application development worldwide as well as a specific view into the European environment. The document provides the reader with the current status of IoT application ...

Dec 2018 | Doc #US43303918 | IDC Perspective | Tech Buyer

Relativity Fest 2018: The Debut of Conversational Review and Other Highlights
$1,500
Ryan O’Leary

This IDC Market Note discusses Relativity's announcements and what they mean for the market going forward. From September 30 to October 3, 2018, Relativity held its annual user conference at the Hilton Chicago. The conference was attended ...

Nov 2018 | Doc #US44397018 | Market Note | Tech Supplier

Amidst Trade Tensions, U.S. and China Follow Different Paths to the 3rd Platform as New Technologies Drive Worldwide ICT Market Towards $6 Trillion in Annual Spending by 2022, According to IDC
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New technologies will drive information and communications technology (ICT) spending to more than $6 trillion by 2022 with growth accelerating through the end of the forecast period to more than 6% per year, according to the latest IDC Worldwide ...

Oct 2018 | Doc #prUS44394518 | Research Press Release

The Future of Governance, Trust, and Shareholder Value for Digital Service Platforms
$4,500
John Jackson

This IDC Market Perspective discusses the future of governance, trust, and shareholder value for digital service platforms. Digital service platforms have an opportunity today to establish a credible, a common, and an open framework for ...

Sep 2018 | Doc #US44271618 | Market Perspective | Tech Supplier

Results from IDC's Industry IT and Communications Survey — U.S. Retail Banking: Transformation Takes Center Stage Improving Experiences for Customers and Employees
$4,500
Marc DeCastro

This IDC Perspective highlights the results from IDC's 2017 Industry IT and Communications Survey — U.S. Retail Banking. While digital transformation continues to be the rallying cry for many banks looking to ...

Jul 2018 | Doc #US44071418 | IDC Perspective | Tech Buyer

Customer Experience Strategies: Designing an Omni-Channel Experience
$3,500
Mary Wardley

This IDC Perspective discusses the requirement for and current state of providing omni-channel access to customers and the process of planning that strategy. Using survey data, readers will gain an understanding of the channels currently ...

Jun 2018 | Doc #US40159216 | IDC Perspective | Tech Buyer

The Chatbot Development Landscape and Key Development Considerations
$4,500
Arnal Dayaratna

This IDC Perspective examines practices in software development for chatbots used for the customer service, HR, and compliance use cases.

"While developers enjoy an embarrassment of riches with respect to developer tools used for chatbot ...

Jun 2018 | Doc #US43976018 | IDC Perspective | Tech Buyer

Facebook F8 2018: Am I Fraught or Not
$1,500
John Jackson

This IDC Market Note discusses the Facebook F8 2018 event.

"2018's F8 fell at what Facebook hopes was a uniquely awkward time in the company's history, still in the throes of the Cambridge Analytica affair and on the heels of a strong ...

May 2018 | Doc #US43795618 | Market Note | Tech Supplier

Overview and Analysis of PC eSports in Asia/Pacific (Excluding Japan)
$4,500
Samuel Reynolds, Lewis Ward

In North America, esports is also a notable, fast-growing phenomenon, and the legacy sports industry has taken interest in it. As broadcast ratings decline in the Millennials and Generation Z demographics (the two groups encompass everyone ...

May 2018 | Doc #AP43773617 | Market Perspective | Tech Supplier


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