In IDC analysts’ conversations with technology leaders, reevaluating their vendor ecosystem, controlling volatile AI costs, and proving measurable AI ROI are the same three challenges that keep coming up.
Yet depending on the organization, the outcomes could hardly be further apart. In IDC’s 2026 MaturityScape Benchmark, only 3.1% of organizations worldwide have reached the most mature stage of AI adoption. Meanwhile, 61.3% are still in the two least mature stages. That is roughly 20 organizations near the starting line for every one organization at the front.
Now, picture two technology leaders at the same table, with those same three decisions in front of them. One belongs to the 3.1%, building what the business becomes. The other belongs to the 61.3%, still managing technology. What is the difference between them? The decisions are the same for both. The difference is in how each leader navigates them, and neither has a playbook to follow.
That’s what IDC Quanta for Tech Leaders is built to solve.
Introducing IDC Quanta for Tech Leaders
Today, IDC is introducing IDC Quanta for Tech Leaders, an AI-powered technology intelligence platform with capabilities and packaging built specifically for CIOs, CTOs, Heads of AI, and other leaders driving critical technology transformation. It gives you independent, cited evidence to make each decision defensible. A new way to work with IDC intelligence, it combines decision-grade answers, vendor selection capabilities, and price benchmarking in one place, delivered inside tools you already use.
IDC Quanta responses are sourced and verified against more than 5,000 published technology leader research documents. They also draw on $500B in tracked tech market spend, and 15B+ proprietary IDC data points.
You work with IDC Quanta the way you would with a colleague, in email or with an AI assistant, like Claude. Ask, “Which vendors belong on my shortlist for an AI governance platform, and how do their prices compare to what peers are saying?” Securely add your own data or documents, and the answer comes back in the context of your situation, with citations. Time once spent searching and reconciling sources can be redirected to the strategy or investment itself.
Expanded IDC Quanta capabilities include a canvas for data exploration, a sourcing workspace, vendor shortlists you can request directly by email, and deal review that brings personalized pricing analysis into the same workflow. IDC Quanta can also turn findings into send-ready RFP responses and negotiation guides.
IDC Quanta runs in a private, secure workspace. Queries, documents, and outputs stay protected, with 90-day automatic deletion and zero model training on your data.
IDC Quanta is built to help tech leaders:
- Chart their Strategy, Faster by grounding architecture, vendor evaluations, and deal terms in independently verified market intelligence that’s sourced and cited.
- Win their Mandate, Confidently by bringing the case for urgency, opportunity, and readiness to critical technology initiatives, backed by evidence.
- Prove their Impact, Grounded in Data when they’re able to more effectively select the right technology at the right price, then keep proving that investment is paying off with real governance models.
- Work on their Terms with IDC Quanta embedded directly in existing tools like email, Claude, and more.
IDC Quanta on AWS Marketplace: A new way to buy, starting today
IDC Quanta is also now available through AWS Marketplace, removing friction from budget and procurement processes to give you a faster path to results. You can apply existing AWS budget commitments against your IDC spend, so sourcing and technology-selection work can begin without a new line item in a research or sourcing budget.
Learn more about using your existing AWS Marketplace budget to access IDC Quanta.
Who benefits most?
IDC Quanta can be used to support leaders such as:
- CIOs weighing whether a platform they’ve run for years still holds up against what’s now possible.
- Heads of AI Transformation who need to prove a roadmap to a board that’s grown skeptical after a year of AI spend without matching results.
- CTOs defending a multi-year architecture bet on internal conviction alone, the kind that doesn’t survive a board post-mortem.
- CISOs who must defend a security budget in a review without cited, analyst-backed evidence.
- Procurement teams negotiating a renewal with no independent peer-deal benchmark, and, until now, no way to fund the process without new budget.
- IT Governance leaders trying to keep a framework current against regulations that won’t stop moving, with no benchmark the audit committee will accept.
See more ways IDC Quanta can support your work – IDC Quanta Use Cases
Start building what your business becomes
Closing the distance between the leading cohort and everyone else happens one decision at a time. Each holds up better when it rests on independent, cited evidence.
The evidence already exists in IDC’s data: more than 60 years of market research and vendor intelligence, backed by technology spend data. IDC Quanta puts it inside the tools you already use, with citations attached, so you walk into the board meeting or the vendor renewal with the answer in hand, and the business can see you as the reason it can move with agility.
It’s time to start building what your business becomes.
