Social Business Team

Takashi Manabe

Group Director, Software/Service Solutions, Data & Analytics, IDC Japan

Lewis Ward

Research Director, Gaming and VR/AR

Alejandro Florean

Vice President Consulting & Strategic Solutions, Latin America

Mary Wardley

Program Vice President, Customer Care and CRM

Yoko Ono

Research Manager, Software & Services, Research, IDC Japan

Wayne Kurtzman

Research Vice President, Social, Communities and Collaboration

New Research


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    This IDC Market Note assesses the virtual reality-, mixed reality-, and GenAI-related news that broke at the Game Developers Conference 2024, which was held in San Francisco, California, in March.
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    Google Cloud Next 2024 was held in Las Vegas from April 9 to 11, 2024. Key themes included security, a focus on how Google Cloud and Google Workspace quickly generate time to value, and a focus on the multimodality abilities of Google Works...
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    This IDC study introduces IDC's new industry definitions and provides a detailed description of IDC's security products segmentation methodology and taxonomy. It should be used as a companion piece for IDC's Worldwide Security Spending Guid...
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    This IDC Market Note assesses three prominent themes that emerged at last month's Game Developers Conference (GDC): the distinctive updates unveiled by the leading commercial game engine suppliers, the upleveling of creator economy tools, a...
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    This IDC Market Perspective assesses the performance of Meta's Quest 3 VR headset in 4Q23 and puts it in the context of the broader VR and AR market by highlighting its hardware and software positioning in 2024 relative to Quest 2, PlayStat...
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    This IDC study provides a view into mobile in-app and in-game advertising dynamics through 2028. It assesses related market trends and technological advancements, and it offers advice to technology suppliers. It also discusses the impact th...
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    This IDC study sizes and assesses the mobile and handheld console gaming marketplace worldwide through 2028. The forecast includes four regional breakouts: North America, Western Europe, Asia/Pacific (AP), and the rest of the world (ROW). M...
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    This IDC Perspective discusses Zoho's annual analyst event in 2024, focused on the company's long-term growth strategy and corporate culture. The company's approach includes investing in local education, targeting rural communities for busi...
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    This IDC study provides a detailed description of IDC's Worldwide Big Data and Analytics (BDA) Spending Guide methodology and taxonomy. It should be used as a companion piece for IDC's Worldwide BDA Spending Guide and all of IDC's worldwide...
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    Last Tuesday, Sensor Tower announced it had acquired its chief rival, Data.ai, for an undisclosed sum. The surprise announcement appears to have been driven by a reputational hit that Data.ai took in 2021 when the SEC announced Data.ai had ...

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