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    Qualys held its QSC Americas 2024 conference in San Diego from October 7-10, 2024. The company highlighted a number of products, some of which were announced last quarter, but the focus of the keynote was the risk operations center or ROC and the overall theme was “security risk is business risk”,...

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    This IDC Tech Buyer Survey Spotlight explores organizations' digital maturity, as reported in IDC's CIO Sentiment Survey, juxtaposed against the metrics that IT leaders say are being used to measure CIO success.Metrics used to evaluate CIO success are hindering progress. Many organizations are...

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    This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation looks at strategic infrastructure investment decisions. Digital infrastructure encompasses computing and storage resources deployed across public cloud, dedicated datacenters, colocation, and hosting sites, as well as edge locations. This infrastructure provides...

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    This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation draws on new data from IDC's latest Global Retail and Global Consumer Sentiment Surveys to examine the impact for retailers of shoppers, particularly younger demographics, showing a greater embrace of a range of self-service technologies as well as their new...

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    The IDC PeerScape maps three horizons that CISOs can use to navigate their career. Acknowledging the limitations of the traditional CISO role is the first step, followed by identifying key allies within the organization, and ultimately reaching the board as a full contributing member. Through this...

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Industry Insights assists business and IT leaders in making technology decisions with insightful, fact-based research and consulting services. Get industry research grounded in decades of experience from our global senior analyst team across six industries: retail, government, financial services, manufacturing, health and energy.

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    This IDC Survey is designed to provide insight into distinct challenges facing transportation and logistics teams as they become more deeply integrated into supply chain planning. Through the use of modern digital technologies, how are teams contributing to address the challenges of a modern,...

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    Margot JurosLeslie Hand

    This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation draws on new data from IDC's latest Global Retail and Global Consumer Sentiment Surveys to examine the impact for retailers of shoppers, particularly younger demographics, showing a greater embrace of a range of self-service technologies as well as their new...

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    The IFS Unleashed Conference took place in in Orlando, Florida from October 14th to the 18th with over 3,000 attendees, a significantly larger number than at the last Unleashed event two years ago. The company’s announced goal is to become “the undisputed category leader in industrial software” and...

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    This IDC Market Note summarizes the International Manufacturing Technology Show (IMTS) held in Chicago, Illinois, September 9–14, 2024. The show has traditionally been focused exclusively on niche manufacturing operational technologies, mostly mechanical, in years past. However, as technology...

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    This IDC Survey Spotlight illustrates the current thinking among EMEA financial services executives when it comes to prioritizing and funding GenAI initiatives when it comes to the experience of their customer and employees. This document contains data from IDC’s Syndicated Survey 2024: EMEA...

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