IDC Research Types
Analyst
Analyst Profile
Provides complete background information on an IDC analyst. Each profile provides a biography, a notable quotation, a frequently asked question relevant to the particular analyst's focus, and a list of research authored by that analyst.
Team Profile
Lists the analyst members of a topical team. Outlines general areas of coverage and any specialties.
Briefs
Flash
Provides rapid IDC insight and analysis about a significant industry event or conference, merger or acquisition, product announcement, or other fast-breaking news affecting the IT market.
Forecast Update
Provides a short, quick look at an updated forecast and the changed assumptions behind the update. It updates a market forecast published in the same calendar year, identifies changed and key forecast assumptions, and highlights actions for participants to consider in light of the changes.
IDC Insight
Provides coverage and analysis of an industry event, new product or service, or a company announcement or development.
Update
Provides brief overview coverage of what is happening in a market.
Vendor Profiles
Provides a concise, hard-hitting profile of an emerging vendor. A profile will highlight new players and technologies and the potential paradigm shifts or disruptions a vendor represents.
Daily Graphics
Daily Graphic
Illustrates IDC's keen analysis of major market trends in downloadable PowerPoints. Available as a free download the day it appears, an IDC Daily Graphic provides valuable material for speeches and strategic planning.
Event Proceedings
Event Proceeding
Provides published slides, audio, and other materials from IDC and Insights Web conferences, briefings, forums, or other events.
Events
Conference
Delivers dependable, relevant, and high-impact data and insight to help organizations make sound business and technology decisions. eBusiness executives, IT professionals, IT suppliers, and services suppliers benefit from the strategic insight and networking opportunities IDC conferences offer. Generally, all presentation slides are available online, and for most conferences, streaming audio of key discussions is available as well.
Web Conference
Focuses on significant trends and paradigm shifts. Each Web conference will provide attendees with leading-edge market information that will enable them to make smart business decisions. For those unable to attend in person or those wishing to review the content presented, these synchronized multimedia presentations are available online.
IDC DecisionScapes
IDC FutureScape
Serves as a framework for IT/tech professionals' IT strategy and planning for the next one to three years. It lists IDC's top 10 worldwide technology trends for the coming one to three years in a given research area and includes related drivers, projected IT/business strategy impact, and guidance.
IDC MarketScape
Helps IT/tech professionals develop a short list of suitable suppliers when selecting a vendor. Provides an unbiased assessment of tech suppliers in terms of offerings, strategy, capabilities, and other important factors in a given technology area.
IDC MaturityScape
Describes five stages of "maturity" or capability for a particular technology area, helps IT/tech professionals understand where their organizations fit within those stages, and provides guidance on key components for planning successful improvements to a tech initiative.
IDC MaturityScape Benchmark
Helps IT/tech professionals to benchmark their maturity against peers, develop a business case for a tech initiative, and build consensus about where critical IT investments should be made. Presents quantitative research results that show the market distribution for a given tech initiative across the five stages of maturity presented in the related IDC MaturityScape. Shows the results and components of particularly successful initiatives.
IDC PeerScape
Gives IT/tech professionals insight into best practices (and practices to avoid) by providing specific use case examples implemented by peers. Identifies practices that have the most impact on the success of a tech or business initiative, and provides actionable guidance for each practice.
IDC PlanScape
Helps IT/tech professionals to justify and plan a business and/or technology investment or opportunity by exploring why, what, who, and how (these are also the main section headings). Presents key players, critical success factors, risks, and actions to consider for a designated technology and/or business management area.
IDC TechScape
Helps IT/tech professionals with developing IT strategic plans and evaluating emerging technologies in terms of their risk to the business. Shows the adoption curve and risk levels over time for a specific emerging technology. Sorts technologies into three "adoption model" categories (transformational, incremental, opportunistic) to help tech leaders determine the potential impact for their organization.
IDC Links
IDC Link
Provides timely context and insight around important market trends and events in a short opinion piece. IDC Links provide IDC's point of view on:
- Financial announcements
- Product announcements
- Mergers and acquisitions or divestitures
- Events
- Response to news
Insights-only Research
Best Practices
Correlates the use of specific practices and superior performance as indicated by an analysis of the benchmarking database. Highlights any significant differences between industries. Conclusions provide a set of process priorities for improving a business case and advice on how to overcome change management issues.
Business Strategy
Helps buyers to assess their business strategies and/or associated business processes, especially as they relate to the use of technology.
Methods and Practices
Provides a step-by-step description of a method or methods that can be applied. As appropriate, the report may compare the benefits and drawbacks of several methods.
Perspective
Presents an article written by an Insights analyst on a topic of special interest to a target audience. This information has generally already appeared in an industry publication and is repackaged for display on the Insights Web site.
Vendor Assessment
Helps buyers select the right IT supplier. The report helps buyers understand the various providers of a technology by providing analysis on market landscape, vendor profiles, vendor market share, and vendor assessments.
Pivot Tables
Pivot Table
Presents an interactive spreadsheet tool for analyzing trends and activities in a specific market segment. These tables are available only through an annual subscription service.
Predictions
Top 10 Predictions
Provides bold, well-conceived market predictions grounded in solid methodologies, primary research, and analyst experience. Lays out a clear road map to understanding major market opportunities and trends.
Presentations
IDC Presentation
Provides the latest, select CIS forecast data, primary research survey findings, and critical IDC analyst opinion in a succinct, easy-to-digest PowerPoint format.
IDC Survey
Presents a hypothesis about what is happening in the market backed by the results of a demand-side or supply-side survey. The focus is on interpreting and analyzing the survey results and providing a strong point of view along with actionable advice.
IDC Survey Spotlight
Answers a timely question and provides a strong opinion backed by IDC survey data. This is a quick nugget of information that is presented in two concise PowerPoint slides.
Insights Presentation
Provides an easy-to-use format to post on the Web presentations that were previously delivered at public forums (such as conferences and events) or for internal client meetings and client presentations. It may not come as part of a consulting/custom engagement.
Market Analysis Perspective
Delivers a concise current state view of a market and insight into the impact of future trends. Business executives, product managers, and MI/AR professionals can use this information when looking to understand buyers' perspectives and market impacts.
Press Releases
Press Release
Announces significant corporate news, such as key hirings or promotions, performance milestones, event highlights, or speaking engagements.
Product Information
Fact Sheet
Describes a research product. Usually details the major areas of coverage and deliverables, and outlines key questions and competitive market conditions that the research will address. Includes links to all published research for a research product.
Studies
Competitive Analysis
Provides a detailed accounting and review of a vendor's programs, processes, products, service, satisfaction, and/or strategy in a target market. This knowledge helps clients reduce their risk of losing market share or enhance their position over the competition.
Customer Needs and Strategies
Focuses on the important decisions that business and IT professionals make every day.
Industry Developments and Models
Provides a detailed assessment of a specific target market's expansion pattern. This analysis helps clients develop and deploy the right mix of value-add products, programs, or services to support their sales and/or partnering efforts.
Market Analysis
Provides an in-depth examination of the dynamics and future of a single market or a group of related markets. The Market Analysis is where we will typically present our forecasts and assumptions, using a key forecast assumptions table.
Market Forecast
Provides the future of a single market or a group of related markets. It presents a new or updated market forecast, including key drivers and assumptions used in the forecast.
Market Share
Provides data on market size, regional allocations, and platform splits as well as a summary of vendor shares for the most recently completed period (year, quarter).
Special Study
Provides a onetime study produced by a research group that is not published as a deliverable under a subscription service.
Survey
Provides a study and interpretation of the results of a demand- or supply-side survey.
Taxonomy
Highlights and emphasizes how IDC tracks the market while also making it easier for customers to find and identify IDC Taxonomy documents.
Technology Assessment
Provides an analysis of the intricacies of an emerging or established technology or the technologies contained within a specific product.
Vendor Needs and Strategies
Provides an in-depth analysis of a company, a small group of companies, a division of a company focused on a particular market, or a best practice that the company exemplifies.
This IDC Perspective reflects the interviews IDC had with government executives over the past quarter and the public sector achievements of 2019.
A new way of government continues to emerge in Canada. The shift toward speed, flexibility, ...
This IDC Perspective addresses the key tactical challenge of developing an agile sourcing strategy. Spend for new and emerging technologies is quickly outpacing the spend for legacy technologies. In fact, the spend for legacy technologies ...
IDC Innovators are emerging vendors with revenue
This IDC study provides a 2019–2023 forecast for the worldwide IP PBX market (pure IP and hybrid IP) by lines/seats or licenses shipped and manufacturers' revenue.
"IDC survey data indicates that, for many organizations, IP telephony ...
This IDC Perspective provides an analysis of the cloud marketplace as a digital procurement enablement platform and explores the AWS Marketplace, one of the most feature-rich and progressive cloud marketplaces in the industry.
"A confluence ...
This IDC Perspective provides the framework for a compelling and coherent innovation approach for the IT organization. The crux of a successful IT innovation strategy is understanding and defining how new ideas will be created or discovered, ...
This IDC Perspective, written for CIOs and senior technology executives, lays out a plan for leading the IT transformation that is essential for the digital transformation of a business. This document also provides an approach that reinforces ...
This IDC Market Note collates inputs from IDC analysts regarding Microsoft's announcements at its recently held event in ExCel London on October 1 and 2, 2019. At the event, Microsoft not only demonstrated that its innovations are closely ...
This IDC Perspective offers a framework for systematic IT innovation in the enterprise. CIOs need to invest time and resources to create tools, starting with an innovation model framework that defines key parameters in innovation efforts, ...
This IDC Perspective highlights the transformative solutions for U.S. federal and global public sector customers presented at the 2019 Unisys Global Analyst and Advisor Conference on November 11–12. Unisys' vision, enhancing people's lives ...
本調査レポートは、国内IoTエッジインフラストラクチャ市場における、エッジヘビー（IoT利用における主要なコンピュート処理をIoTエッジインフラストラクチャにおいて行うこと）の動向を調査したものである。エッジヘビーによるIoT利用を実践しているユーザーを取材し、エッジヘビーを採用した背景、エッジヘビーの効果、今後の課題点や取り組みを調査した。
IDC Japan エンタープライズインフラストラクチャのリサーチマネージャーである下河邊 雅行は「IoTエッジインフラにおけるエッジヘビーは、今後ますます増大する。IoTテクノロジーバイヤーは、常にIoT関連の最新技術動向に関心を持ち、自社にとって最適な製品を最適な価格で調達する目利き力を養う必要がある」と分析している。
...This IDC Perspective discusses the impact of 5G wireless communication on robotics and manufacturing. It covers the current status of 5G development and commercial deployment, key differentiating capabilities of 5G as compared with previous ...
This IDC Perspective looks at key developments and news regarding European digital hospitals in 3Q19. It highlights major ICT deals signed and major initiatives put in place. Hospital technology vendors and service providers should examine ...
本調査レポートではIDCが2019年5月に行った2,473人の全世界のAIの導入戦略に関する意思決定者とインフルエンサーを対象にAIの適用および動向について調査を行い、調査結果に基づく一部に関して国内と世界を比較するという観点から得られた知見を示す。
「国内は世界と比較してAI導入プロジェクトの成否に差が認められた。その原因は組織のビジョン、人員、プロセス、技術、データに関連する。DXを実現するに当たりAIシステムの導入を進めているITバイヤーは、複数の観点において足並みが揃ったAIの導入戦略の再考と具体的な実践が求められる」とIDC ...
This IDC Perspective analyzes the position of European banks in the financial services industry and their relationships with consumers. It leverages data from an IDC consumer survey conducted in 2019 among 4,000 EU residents with active ...
This IDC Market Forecast assesses the European enterprise video communications market for 2018-2023 and provides insight into the underlying forces impacting this market in the forecast period.
"IDC expects the enterprise video communications ...
This IDC Perspective provides our review and analysis of Inforum 2019, held in New Orleans, based on executive and customer presentations as well as discussions. A team of IDC analysts recently attended the event, which is Infor's annual ...
This IDC Perspective discusses the Google Cloud management and governance portfolio with the goal of providing enterprise IT buyers with a strategic framework for assessing how to best incorporate Google Cloud's management and governance ...
This IDC Perspective discusses how online shopping and an explosion in grocery fulfillment options have put a microscope on grocery operators' ability to digitally transform to both defend their regional and national market positions and ...
This IDC Perspective provides an overview of the IoT-enabled asset performance management (APM) market and provides guidance on how to approach the buying decision in this emerging space.
"When a new technology solution emerges with ...
This IDC Perspective provides an overview of the discussion IDC recently had with Ducati's CTO Konstantin Kostenarov regarding the company's purchase and deployment of NetApp HCI in support of the company's race day operations.
"Hyperconverged ...
Enterprise business requirements are getting increasingly complex in today’s digital era. Customers, both internal and external, expect their requirements to be addressed quickly while maintaining a high level of user experience. This adoption ...
This IDC Perspective offers CMOs and their management teams and C-suite colleagues a window into the results of IDC's 2019 Tech Marketing Benchmark Survey. A 56-page extended study with details on this survey (now in its 17th year) ...
This IDC Market Note discusses Poly (formerly Polycom), which held its Poly Analyst Day 2019 on October 14 at its headquarters in San Jose, California. Poly's management team updated the analyst community regarding its corporate vision, ...
IDC Innovators are emerging vendors with revenue <$100 million that have demonstrated either a groundbreaking business model or an innovative new technology — or both. This IDC Innovators study profiles Bragi, Nuheara, and Waverly Labs ...
This IDC Perspective describes common concerns CIOs express as they contemplate making the move from traditional on-prem IT architectures to cloud computing models. The document shows that these concerns are generally offset by the benefits ...
This report is part of the continuing coverage of provider selection in Digital Transformation Strategy and Consulting Services in the Asia/Pacific region. This IDC Perspective offers a look at how business objectives translate into expectations ...
This IDC Perspective discusses SAP's leadership change and its impact on both SAP customers and the enterprise software market. Bill McDermott had a very successful tenure as CEO, but the timing is good for a change and the executives now ...
This IDC Perspective provides insights and examples of how NiSource, a large Midwest natural gas and electric utility, is approaching DX.
"Digital transformation efforts have become a high priority for many utilities. Electric, gas, ...
This IDC Perspective discusses unified engineering on an energy megaproject in a suppressed commodity price environment. Asset owners no longer have margin for error on project costs, and this technology should address several costly errors ...
This IDC Perspective looks at the launch of the IBM Sterling Supply Chain Suite.
"The launch of the IBM Sterling Supply Chain Suite brings a credible offering to the market with the legacy capabilities of the IBM Sterling brand and ...
This IDC Perspective provides a broad overview of recent developments in enterprise storage, identifying and explaining trends that will impact market evolution for the next several years. Even as growth in the overall enterprise storage ...
This IDC Perspective discusses FinovateFall 2019, with a focus on the companies whose solutions are geared toward retail banking products and services. FinovateFall is a great way to get a glimpse into solutions that are beyond the incubator ...
This IDC Perspective reviews new technology developments in enterprise storage and discusses Hitachi's NVMe strategy, as well as highlights the evolution and capabilities of their new NVMe-based system. Hitachi NEXT 2019 represented the ...
IDC Innovators are emerging vendors with revenue <$100 million that have demonstrated either a groundbreaking business model or an innovative new technology — or both. This IDC Innovators study profiles three emerging vendors in disaggregated ...
This IDC Government Insights Perspective presents Smart City developments in Europe during July–September 2019. It covers major ICT contracts, projects, pilots, product announcements, and business activities. The document organizes European ...
Siemens held its annual analyst and media conference at the New York Marriott at the Brooklyn Bridge on September 4–6, 2019. Based on the theme "Xcelerate Your Digital Future," Siemens presented its strategies around Mendix, MindSphere, ...
This IDC Market Perspective provides IDC Health Insights' review of key Q3 2019 IT deals, news, and digital initiatives in the European life sciences industry. In the evolving industry environment in Europe, it is critical for life sciences ...
This IDC Market Note examines the RingCentral/Avaya strategic partnership announced on October 3, 2019, and evaluates the benefits and challenges of the partnership for Avaya, RingCentral, and Avaya's channel partners.
This IDC Market Perspective highlights key insights gained at the Zoomtopia 2019 User Conference. The conference reinforced how Zoom is leveraging its technology ecosystem partnerships and channel partners to gain and maintain a competitive ...
This IDC Perspective looks at Oracle OpenWorld 2019 event.
"OpenWorld 2019 brought practitioners, customers, and theoreticians (and novices) together for a robust and thought-provoking technology discussion. Oracle has some interesting ...
This IDC Perspective provides a current overview of the IoT connectivity management landscape, including a discussion of key market trends and profiles of 18 companies that offer connectivity management solutions.
"As IoT deployments ...
本調査レポートでは、ストレージネットワーキングインフラの主要コンポーネントであり、エンタープライズストレージシステムのFC-SAN環境やFICON-SAN環境で利用されるファイバーチャネル（FC）スイッチの国内市場実績と予測を取り上げる。
国内エンタープライズストレージシステム市場では、ストレージインフラの支出モデルの変化やSoftware-Defined Storage、ハイパーコンバージドインフラストラクチャなどの台頭に伴い、ストレージネットワーキングインフラに対する支出が大きく変動している。IDC ...
This IDC Perspective discusses the importance of automated document ingestion practices. Current financial challenges in the oil patch require a greater focus on operational efficiencies, and automating the substantial amount of document ...
This IDC Perspective provides a step-by-step guide for CIOs who seek to develop and enhance their effectiveness in communicating about cybersecurity to senior executives and boards of directors. This study provides time- and experience-tested ...
This IDC Market Note collates input from IDC analysts from the Enterprise Communications, Networking, and Infrastructure Services teams to provide our view on how NTT Ltd. is planning to execute its growth strategy in its core areas. NTT ...
This IDC Perspective summarizes key takeaways from Oracle OpenWorld 2019 for technology buyers, including discussion around new product releases, future product road maps, and Oracle's overall strategy.
"Oracle OpenWorld 2019 delivered ...
This IDC Perspective discusses supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems that have operated relatively unchanged during the decades they have been used as a key tool to help manage and control operational processes in manufacturing, ...
This IDC study presents the Japan customer relationship management (CRM) applications market performance in 2018 (revenue-based) and the market forecast from 2019 to 2023. For the purpose of analyzing and forecasting the market, IDC classifies ...
Today's business decisions are increasingly enabled by data, and few business leaders need to justify the case for analytics or data-driven insights. However, when it comes to actual implementations, which is how data-driven insights are ...
This IDC Perspective features start-ups in the region that possess the traits of a Future Small and Medium-Sized Business (SMB). Disruption in the region generally comes from start-ups and unicorns and can be seen as the best examples SMBs ...
This IDC Perspective provides a definition of data monetization and data as a service that is useful to organizations that seek to participate in the data-as-a-service marketplace. It distinguishes between internal and external application ...
This IDC Perspective provides enterprise cloud management software buyers with an overview of strategies and management and governance portfolios of top three Russian public cloud vendors. In addition to providing basic access and visibility ...
This IDC Perspective examines the power of video in the future workplace and how video accelerates workplace transformation from different angles: work culture, the workspace, and workforce.
"A well-functioning and cost-effective communications ...
This IDC Perspective discusses about some of the interesting cybersecurity use cases where distributed ledger technology (blockchain) is being utilized.
"Blockchain adoption is slowly but surely gaining traction in various industries, ...
This IDC perspective provides an overview of LTTS' capabilities in the engineering services domain that can help organizations to embark on a DX journey. The report also covers LTTS' key services, along with IDC's point of view on the regional ...
This IDC study examines market shares of the top networking equipment vendors in Canada. It updates the previous study (see Canadian Networking Equipment Market Shares, 2017: Incumbents Lose Share ...
This IDC Perspective provides CIOs, CPOs, and line-of-business leaders with an overview of IDC's Agile Technology Sourcing practice. The practice is designed to enhance the maturity level of the organization's technology sourcing practice ...
This IDC Perspective provides feedback from Fortune 2000 organizations on the key lessons learned through transforming their application delivery models to DevOps. Throughout 2018, IDC conducted nearly three dozen in-depth telephone interviews ...
This IDC Vendor Profile examines Avaya Holdings Corp. (NYSE: AVYA), a global player in the worldwide unified communications and collaboration market, with a focus on Avaya cloud offerings. Data and information for this profile has been gleaned ...
IDC Innovators are emerging vendors with revenue <$100 million that have demonstrated either a groundbreaking business model or an innovative new technology — or both. This IDC Innovators study profiles Chisel AI, Finaeo, League, PolicyMe, ...
The IDC Market Forecast study examines the European UC&C market, with breakdowns for the various technologies and services that constitute this market, namely UC applications and IP telephony equipment, contact center software and infrastructure, ...
This IDC Perspective identifies lessons that IT executives can draw from six high-profile security breaches. These lessons reinforce recognized best practices in the cybersecurity field and set the foundation for a strong cybersecurity program. ...
HKT has demonstrated that it is possible to curtail fixed line voice churn by introducing multimedia Rich Communications Services in such a way that it does not substitute fixed wireless, while also growing the overall ARPUs. "HKT has also ...
This IDC Perspective presents an overview of the key takeaways from the recent SAP Industries Analyst Base Camp (IABC) in Newton Square, Pennsylvania. During the annual event, SAP executives presented the company's mission via keynotes, ...
This IDC Perspective is based on IDC's 2019 Worldwide Industry CloudPath Survey of 101 U.S. federal government responders and summarizes agency requirements, drivers and types of clouds deployed, benefits expected, ...
This IDC Perspective details the journey of POS systems in the Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) (APEJ) retail context. POS systems will undergo a parallel evolution with traditional supply chain transformation, from a margin-driven linear ...
This IDC Perspective reports the worldwide results from IDC's 2019 Industrial Talent Management Survey, focused on the growing skills gap and the actions being taken in response.
"While talent is a top focus for every company ...
This IDC Perspective examines the data-driven transformation in the manufacturing industry. Manufacturers across all industries can leverage their existing and future investments in manufacturing execution system (MES) applications to add ...
This IDC Perspective discusses the value an IT solution provider can offer an organization in addressing various IT-related challenges. In addition, this document examines insights on how to associate value with the use of an outside resource ...
In this report, IDC Financial Insights discusses how Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) (APEJ) is embracing artificial intelligence (AI) and the many technologies that come under its ambit. Several early adopters of AI have emerged from the ...
This IDC Market Perspective summarizes and updates the trends around the software-as-a-service (SaaS) market in Latin America. This report includes the evolution and dynamics in Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Chile, Colombia, and Peru.
"Cloud ...
This IDC Perspective provides an update on Canada's Innovation Superclusters Initiative. It has been a year and a half since the federal government announced the five superclusters that would receive funding of C$1 billion to create the ...
This IDC Perspective follows the transformation of the IT department in Ferrovial from its early stages and provides insights into some of its results so far. It addresses Ferrovial's move from product silos to becoming internal customers' ...
This IDC Perspective discusses the barriers to retailers' adoption of AI solutions and the associated challenges with implementation, and it aims to shed light on what is holding retail back from deeper AI investment today. Retailers can ...
This IDC Perspective looks at the emerging role of artificial intelligence in the supply chain.
"When asked about the importance of AI to the supply chain, we see a significant difference between how companies view it today versus ...
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 ...
This IDC Perspective examines how enterprise mobile device enrollment programs can help organizations deploy corporate-liable devices across their organization. This document provides insight into why these programs are of benefit to large ...
This IDC Perspective identifies and details the shift from software delivered as on-premise applications to SaaS to discover the opportunity for monetization tools and services associated with business model changes.
"The success and ...
This IDC Perspective, which is the 50th notable news, is a regular quarterly review of notable news in the life sciences. It is intended to highlight signposts of both progress in ongoing industry trends and ongoing indications of industry ...
This IDC Perspective discusses practical use cases of artificial intelligence and presents a framework for retailers to understand different strategic outcomes of AI implementations depending on both the intent of the use cases and their ...
IDC Innovators are emerging vendors with revenue <$100 million that have demonstrated either a groundbreaking business model or an innovative new technology — or both. This IDC Innovators study profiles Divvy, Fyle, Pleo, and XpenseOne ...
This IDC report discusses a problem faced by many financial services institutions (FSIs) as they make data core to their digital transformation (DX) strategies: data is not in a form ready to be used for various digital transformation initiatives. ...
This IDC Perspective focuses on the potential applications of 5G in the healthcare sector. It is the fourth in a series of short reports looking at 5G in vertical applications.
"Applications of 5G in healthcare have a key role to ...
This IDC Perspective presents the findings of the 2019 IDC Financial Insights FinTech Rankings. The annual IDC Financial Insights FinTech Rankings program serves the needs of financial institutions worldwide by presenting current and historical ...
This IDC Perspective provides guidance for managing IT's internal user services and help desk staff in multiple locations in geographically diverse companies. This may include help desk technicians stationed at various physical locations ...
This IDC Perspective outlines the challenges organizations face in managing edge infrastructure and the key factors to consider before deploying edge IT.
"Developing a sound edge strategy requires planning for the ongoing and longer-term ...
This IDC TechBrief provides IT and service executives with an executive snapshot of warranty and service contract management applications and its impact on how manufacturers can execute of service while delivering enhanced customer experiences.
"Warranty ...
This IDC Perspective examines the approaches taken to secure workloads in the cloud. Looking to gain insight into how security professionals were approaching security in platform-as-a-service (PaaS) and infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) ...
This IDC Perspective identifies low-code/no-code mobile apps as a driver of the future of work. This document discusses organizations' workflow priorities for mobilization and characterizes the workspace as one where nontechnical app developers ...
This IDC Perspective provides Microsoft information and IDC's view on the retirement date for Microsoft Skype for Business Online, as well as the impending migration of those users to the next-gen Microsoft Teams solution.
"Not much ...
This IDC Perspective discusses persistent storage for containers, why they are needed, and the advanced data management services they consume. Enterprises are increasingly adopting cloud-native solutions for scale, agility, and access to ...
This IDC Perspective details how retailers are fully awake to the opportunity to transform the store into a multifaceted digital-physical service hub, tailored to each location and the location's consumers' needs. The shopper journey will ...
This IDC Perspective examines the approaches taken to securing workloads in the cloud. Looking to gain insight into how security professionals were approaching security in platform-as-a-service (PaaS) and infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) ...
This IDC Perspective investigates how digital transformation impacts mobility (also transportation) hubs — such as major bus, metro and train stations, and airports — that provide the physical and digital infrastructure and services that ...
IDC Innovators are emerging vendors with revenue <$100 million that have demonstrated either a groundbreaking business model or an innovative new technology — or both. This IDC Innovators study profiles Help Lightning, Librestream, Scope ...
This IDC Perspective outlines the challenges that organizations face and provides a discussion around the approach that can be taken to meet those challenges.
Financial institutions and other organizations face new fraud challenges ...
This IDC Perspective examines the approaches taken to secure workloads in the cloud. Looking to gain insight into how security professionals were approaching security in platform-as-a-service (PaaS) and infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) ...
This IDC discusses micro-mobility vehicles (also called personal mobility devices or PMDs) and their impact on city living in Europe. PMDs such as bicycles, scooters, and mopeds are changing how people move in European cities. They can increase ...
This IDC Perspective looks at the inevitable evolution of supply chain capabilities linked to multi-enterprise networks.
"Businesses need to be more connected and more resilient — networks enable both and must be supported by network-centric ...