New Research

• Fitbit's New Wearables Bet Big on First-Time Owners and Low Prices

  Mar 2019 | IDC Link | Doc # lcUS44922519

  By: Ramon T. LlamasResearch Director, Mobile Devices and AR/VR

  On March 6, Fitbit announced four new wearable devices: its entry-level smartwatch, the Fitbit Versa Lite Edition; two fitness bands, the Inspire and Inspire HR; and the kid-friendly Fitbit Ace 2. Alongside its other smartwatches and fitnes...

• AI Software Platform and Framework Adoption Trends

  Mar 2019 | IDC Survey | Doc # US44168819

  By: David SchubmehlResearch Director, Cognitive/Artificial Intelligence Systems, Carrie SolingerSr. Research Analyst, Cognitive Systems and Content Analytics Research

  This IDC Survey describes the adoption and use of artificial intelligence (AI)/machine learning frameworks, general-purpose commercial AI software platforms, and conversational AI platforms by organizations developing or customizing AI appl...

• Platform-as-a-Service Distribution of Spending by Service Type

  Mar 2019 | IDC Survey Spotlight | Doc # US44905819

  By: Larry CarvalhoResearch Director, Platform as a Service

  This IDC Survey Spotlight highlights distribution of spending by type of service on platform-as-a-service (PaaS) solutions by users surveyed. Public cloud vendors have made it very simple to build an application development environment from...

• Amazon Outposts: An On-Premise as-a-Service Hardware Solution — If I Have Prime, Do I Get Free Two-Day Shipping?

  Mar 2019 | Market Note | Doc # US44896319

  By: Rob BrothersProgram Vice President, Software and Hardware Support and Deployment Services, Susan G. MiddletonResearch Director, Technology Financing Strategies, Deepak MohanResearch Director, Infrastructure Systems, Platforms and Technologies Group, Richard L. VillarsResearch Vice President, Datacenter & Cloud

  This IDC Market Note reviews the November 2018 AWS Outposts announcement and reviews the market opportunities and challenges of this new model."AWS' Outposts announcement signaled that AWS is ready to expand into the traditional infrastruct...

• IDC PeerScape: Software Practices to Accelerate Adoption of Open Source Software

  Mar 2019 | IDC PeerScape | Doc # US44877019

  By: Al GillenGroup Vice President, Software Development and Open Source

  This IDC PeerScape presents five valuable practices for organizations considering leveraging OSS technology, OSS development practices, and community engagement as a key dimension for future evolution of their internal applications and solu...

• IDC’s 2019 Datacenter Operational Survey: Key Findings and Implications for Multitenant and Colocation Datacenter Providers

  Mar 2019 | IDC Survey | Doc # US44906019

  By: Jennifer CookeResearch Director, Cloud to Edge Datacenter Trends, Courtney MunroeGroup Vice President of Worldwide Telecommunications Research

  This IDC Survey provides insights into United States–based organizations requirements and the challenges they face in creating datacenter resources that are drivers of (instead of bottlenecks to) innovation. This data and analysis help mult...

• IDC MaturityScape: The Future of Work 1.0

  Mar 2019 | IDC MaturityScape | Doc # US44752519

  By: Holly MuscolinoResearch Vice President, Content and Process Strategies and the Future of Work, Jan AlexaResearch Manager, Roberta BiglianiVice President, IDC Energy Insights, IDC Government Insights and IDC Health Insights, Keith KmetzProgram Vice President, Imaging, Printing & Document Solutions, Angela SalmeronResearch Manager, European Future of Work, Avinav TrigunaitResearch Director

  This IDC study describes the organizational characteristics at five levels of future of work maturity, from a completely ad hoc approach with limited awareness to one in which a future of work strategy is woven into the organization's cultu...

• Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) Refactoring Approaches

  Mar 2019 | IDC Survey Spotlight | Doc # US44897419

  By: Larry CarvalhoResearch Director, Platform as a Service

  This IDC Survey Spotlight highlights different approaches taken by enterprises to refactor existing applications from a user survey. Cloud adoption paths taken by customers show that cloud-native technologies are playing a leading role in d...

• Worldwide Consumer Robots Device Forecast, 2019-2023

  Mar 2019 | Market Forecast | Doc # US44881819

  By: Tom MainelliGroup Vice President, Devices & AR/VR

  This IDC study provides market sizing of the worldwide consumer robot market for 2018. It also presents the worldwide forecast for 2019–2023."Today's consumer robots still typically perform one task well, and that task is most often a respe...

• The Promise of Intelligent Infrastructure: When AI Meets People and Process

  Mar 2019 | Event Proceeding | Doc # DR2019_T1_ME

  By: Matthew EastwoodSenior Vice President, Enterprise, Datacenter, Cloud Infrastructure and Developers

  These event proceedings were presented at the IDC Directions conferences in Santa Clara and Boston in March 2019.Our industry focuses a great deal of attention on technology and its business benefits. In our digitally transformed world, eve...