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.
Oracle announced new features in marketing, sales, and service applications within Oracle CX that extend the use of AI and automation and improve integration between CX products that will help enterprise customers improve personalization ...
During its earnings call on February 10, Equinix reported an 8% increase in revenue from 2019 to 2020 to almost $6 billion. Equinix's continued positive results reflect the critical and expanded role of datacenters and cloud resources for ...
On February 4, 2021, Microsoft announced the launch of Microsoft Viva, an employee experience platform (EXP) that brings together a variety of tools and features for employee engagement (EX), learning, well-being, and knowledge discovery ...
Kicking off 2021 with an acquisition of the Swiss software provider Assentis, Smart Communications increases its footprint as the largest SaaS-based customer communications software provider and expands its offering to financial services ...
SAP has reported its final quarter in 2020. Real progress is evident as revenue moves from on premises to cloud at an accelerated pace.
For simplicity's sake, all numbers quoted in this document are non-IFRS, and the percentage change ...
The virtual chapter of NRF's Big Show reinforces that successful brands put a hyperfocus on consumer demands for three big Cs: convenience, customization, and care. Driven by the effects of another big "C" – COVID-19 – the most resilient ...
On January 27, 2021, three months after its acquisition of Optimizely and six months from incorporating Idio under the Episerver brand, Episerver announced it was rebranding the company to Optimizely. The rebranding is part of an effort ...
After several days of rumors in the business and technology press, Atos confirmed on January 7 that it has made a friendly offer to purchase DXC, which also confirmed the move on the same day. But neither confirmed the specifics of the offer, ...
A strategic partnership between Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Verily, an Alphabet company, and Microsoft Corp. was established today. Terra is a secure, scalable, open source platform that was developed by Verily and the Broad Institute ...
On December 17, 2020, Accenture reported its FY 1Q21 results, including $11.8 billion in quarterly revenue, a 4% YoY increase in U.S. dollar (USD) and 2% in local currency. The earnings call was led by Accenture's Chief Executive Officer ...
On December 10, Adobe announced FY 4Q20 and full FY20 earnings. Earnings this quarter were strong, with total revenue of $3.42 billion, a 14% year-over-year (Y/Y) increase from FY 4Q19. For the full FY20, Adobe earned $12.87 billion, a 15% ...
Engineering giant Jacobs has bought a majority stake in veteran United Kingdom–based management consultancy PA Consulting. The combination of PA's business consulting acumen and Jacobs' immense capabilities in engineering services potentially ...
The modern data estate for any organization involved in digital transformation is getting more diverse, distributed, and dynamic, especially as we have seen an acceleration in the move to the cloud, driven by the COVID-19 global pandemic. ...
On December 1, 2020, Salesforce announced its FY 3Q21 earnings. Earnings this quarter were strong, with total revenue of $5.42 billion for the quarter, a 20% year-over-year (YoY) increase from FY 3Q20. This was the second time the company ...
Entrust née Entrust Datacard is packaging its 25+ years of cryptographic security expertise into five defined services for helping organizations develop, review, and modernize crypto and PKI infrastructures. As encryption usage expands, ...
In a joint press event at Elisa's flagship store in Helsinki, Nokia and Qualcomm joined the mobile operator to live demo record breaking 5G speeds, on November 17, 2020. When launched commercially, Elisa will be able to offer top speeds ...
In mid-November, Adobe announced its intention to acquire work management and project and portfolio management (PPM) provider Workfront for $1.5 billion. The acquisition will augment its Adobe Experience Cloud and broadly adopted Adobe Creative ...
Schneider Electric and Planon are extending their smart building IT/OT partnership. Over the past 18 months, the two vendors have piloted Planon Connect for Building Advisor, an integration between Planon Universe and Schneider Electric's ...
Khoros, the platform built from the merger of Lithium communities and Spredfast social media management and marketing, announced an array of new and useful features in its autumn 2020 release. These are designed to help brands improve human ...
WPP is merging two of its key agencies: the relatively young design and innovation agency, AKQA, and the venerable creative powerhouse, Grey. The combination should help WPP offer more joined-up services to its clients and compete better ...
Adobe presented its annual creativity conference, Adobe MAX 2020, entirely online in a virtual setting, with live sessions taking place over three days starting on October 20. Even under the unusual circumstances introduced by the COVID-19 ...
The Citrix business model transition clearly accelerated in the third quarter; the company will finish with 85–90% of total bookings coming from subscription bookings in the fourth quarter. The company raised the midpoint of its revenue ...
Recently, Salesforce launched its Digital 360 and the Customer 360 Audiences, a customer data platform (CDP), providing the technology enablers for cross-functional customer experience (CX) use cases. With a single customer view shared across ...
Amazon Web Services (AWS) Summit Online ASEAN re:Cap showcases how cloud-based services can help organizations accelerate their journey in becoming empathetic enterprises. Specifically, in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning ...
Vertiv and Honeywell announced a collaboration that will leverage Vertiv's intelligent datacenter technologies and Honeywell's smart building and facility management expertise to build more sustainable and resilient facilities.
The ...
On October 14, HP introduced a new category of MFP solutions specifically designed for the healthcare industry. Codeveloped with healthcare providers and partners, the HP Healthcare Edition addresses critical healthcare areas of need including ...
In a year of accelerated digital transformation, Google announced the advancing of its vision refreshing G Suite as Google Workspace: a highly integrated workspace with "everything you need to get anything done, now in one place." IDC believes ...
Twilio, the messaging and email API company, announced its intention to acquire Segment, a customer data management platform (CDP) provider. The combination would bring together Twilio's massively scalable cross-channel messaging and Segment's ...
Industry 4.0 initiatives have been largely experimental for most industrial enterprises for the past several years. The challenges of integrating IT and OT systems and processes have proven more challenging than participants anticipated. ...
On October 1, 2020, SAP announced its intention to acquire the European omnichannel marketing platform provider Emarsys. The deal is expected to close in 4Q20. Emarsys serves a customer base concentrated in Germany, SMB, retail, and travel. ...
During VMworld 2020, held virtually September 29-October 1, VMware highlighted a breadth of product, solution, and partnership announcements surrounding its portfolio. One of the many capabilities highlighted was the release of VMware Success ...
With an eye toward remote workers and pandemic area IT workspace management, Microsoft introduced improvements in Microsoft Endpoint Manager (MEM), the vendors unified endpoint management (UEM) product, at its Ignite 2020 virtual event, ...
On September 24, 2020, Accenture reported its FY 4Q20 and full year results, including $10.8 billion in quarterly revenue, a 2% YoY decrease in U.S. dollars (USD) and 1% in local currency. For FY20, net revenue was $44.3 billion, an increase ...
Pivoting its annual analyst summit and customer event to a virtual experience, Box hosted its first ever BoxWorks Digital 2020 on September 17, 2020. The digital event highlighted newly released features, extended partnerships, and remote ...
On September 15, Adobe announced its 3QFY20 earnings. Earnings this quarter were strong, with total revenue of $3.23 billion for the quarter, a 14% year-over-year increase from 3QFY19. "Adobe delivered the best Q3 in our history in a challenging ...
With its acquisition of Optimizely, as with its acquisitions of Idio and Insite in 2019, Episerver substantially increases the value proposition that the company offers to enterprise brands. The Optimizely acquisition adds AI-based experimentantion ...
AVEVA announced at its AVEVA World Digital event the acquisition of OSIsoft. As one of the only standalone industrial data historians for capturing and analyzing streaming operational data, virtually the entire industrial technology ecosystem ...
The COVID-19 pandemic has challenged banking and other industries to improve customer experience while coping with the challenge of rapid digital transformation. The "next normal" phase of the crisis will require firms to prioritize strategies ...
U.K. security distributor Ignition Technology has launched a security-as-a-service (SECaaS) platform called Catalyst Insights to meet the needs of SME customers. Its "born in the cloud" attributes position it well to meet SME expectations ...
In the past six months there has been strong momentum in the converging security and networking markets. Digital transformation means operating in a hyperconnected, multicloud environment, and next-generation networks must combine new tools ...
Google released a series of collaboration, communications, and security features to G Suite at the Google Cloud Next conference. In a normal year, 30,000 executives, developers, and IT leaders would attend the conference, which is now virtual ...
Recent moves by Italian health IT company Dedalus confirm the company's strategy to establish itself as a key player for the healthcare software business across acute and primary care. Through a number of recent acquisition agreements, the ...
As companies accelerate their digital transformation (DX) initiatives, it is increasingly critical to build a holistic data model that encompasses information from business, customer, marketing, supply chain, engineering/R&D, production, ...
SAP SAPPHIRE NOW Reimagined covered a lot of ground — from strategy to innovation to product road maps to platform architecture. Despite the slow start with an outsourced digital platform preventing attendees from joining live, SAPPHIRE ...
At IDC we increasingly see intelligent process automation (IPA) products and services being critical for enterprise resilience — triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic, but actually driving a new imperative into the boardroom for business continuity ...
On June 25, 2020, Accenture reported its FY 3Q20 results, including $11.0 billion in quarterly revenue, a 1% YoY decrease in U.S. dollars and 1.3% increase in local currency. The earnings call was led by Julie Sweet, Accenture's CEO, and ...
IBM's recent announcement of Watson Works demonstrates increased momentum of technology vendors seeking to address the health and safety needs of employees returning to the workplace. By bundling, integrating, and extending core Watson, ...
The global pandemic crisis of COVID-19 has forced many businesses to forcefully adopt what is now being described as the “new normal”. Organizations in India were anyways slowly marching towards the “new normal” but COVID-19 brought the ...
Micro Focus recently held the company's first-ever virtual North American customer conference (Micro Focus Universe), which ran from May 19 to 21. Given the COVID-19 restrictions affecting travel and social distancing, Micro Focus had to ...
On May 28, 2020, Salesforce announced its FY 1Q21 earnings. Earnings this quarter were strong, with total revenue of $4.87 billion for the quarter, a 30% year-over-year (YoY) increase from FY 1Q20.
On May 7, Cognizant announced its 1Q20 results, which showed revenue up 3.5% in constant currency to $4.2 billion, but down sequentially, from $4.3 billion in the previous quarter. Adjusted income from operations fell 2.7% to $640 million, ...
Christian Klein, newly appointed singular SAP CEO, kicked off the earnings call with a look at 1Q20. The first quarter of 2020 financials reported included (all numbers in non-IFRS):
- Revenue: Non-IFRS cloud revenue was ...
On April 10, 2020, in a rare show of united front against a novel common adversary, Google and Apple announced a joint partnership with the intent of providing an anonymous contact tracing capability for COVID-19 infections. The unique proposal ...
On April 3, PwC announced the availability of Check-In, a precision platform designed to improve confidence by providing a real-time view of workforce productivity and risk exposure.
COVID-19 will be the historical inflection point when digitally transformed organizations proved their value. For example, industry analyst meetings with vendors will not always be virtual only, but they also won't go back to the status ...
COVID-19 and the social distancing economy present unique challenges at every level of our personal and professional lives. When buyers stop buying, the challenges are especially daunting for marketers. The OCED estimates that consumer spending ...
Growth in global IT spending is expected to reduce by 1.3%, compared with the estimated growth rate of 5.1% by the end of 2020, because of the "pessimistic scenario" that resulted from the COVID-19 outbreak. Most impact is expected to be ...
The news that Amazon will sell the Amazon Go Just Walk Out technology to other retailers came in advance of widespread retail store closures due to COVID-19 governmental guidance. Ironically, there never has been a time when eliminating ...
Google Cloud's Global Mobile Edge Cloud (GMEC) strategy reflects a recognition of several key communication service provider (CSP) industry insights including 5G's potential as a platform for enterprise innovation and digital transformation ...
This IDC Link discusses Aon's March 9 acquisition of rival Willis Towers Watson (WTW). IDC's take focuses on the HCM product and consulting/services side of the business and the effect of the merger here. We suspect that, as Aon did with ...
Canon's imageRUNNER ADVANCE DX is the company's next-generation office-targeted MFPs. This flagship lineup is positioned to support customers' digital transformation (DX) initiatives via a set of enhanced capabilities to digitize, manage, ...
2019 was an important year for EPAM, with 26% growth in constant currency and a 13% GAAP operating margin equivalent to a 17% non-GAAP operating margin. More importantly, the year saw EPAM preparing the ways for taking itself closer to the ...
This IDC Link discusses the impact and practices around telecommuting as examined in a recent study by Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute published in the February issue of Journal of Vocational Behavior.
Globant is a fast-growing and strongly differentiated player in the digital services space, with 26% growth in 2019, putting it on course for a possible $800 million run rate in 2020. The challenge for the company will be to keep its successful ...
On February 25, Salesforce announced FY 4Q20 and end-of-year earnings. Earnings were very strong, with total revenue of $4.85 billion for the quarter, a 34% year-over-year increase from FY 4Q19. Salesforce's 2020 fiscal year revenue was ...
Abidali Neemuchwala, the CEO of Wipro, a leading India-headquartered IT Services firm with US $ 8.5 Billion in revenue and more than 160,000 employees, recently announced his plans to step down from the helm to take time off for his family. ...
Capgemini grew total revenue 5.3% in constant currency during 2019, with the digital strategy and consulting unit Capgemini Invent leading the charge with 15.1% growth. In 2020, Capgemini Invent will need to build its capabilities in order ...
Cognizant reported constant currency growth of 5.2% for calendar year 2019, its first set of annual results presided over by CEO Brian Humphries. The company has a credible strategy to protect its legacy business and growth in the digital ...
At CenturyLink's Annual Analyst and Consultant Forum, held January 28 and 29 in Marco Island, Florida, the company discussed its ongoing transformation from telecom provider to technology company, across operations, technology, and its workforce ...
Publicis Groupe unveiled full-year 2019 revenue up 9.3% in headline terms (down 2.3% organically) to almost €10 billion, after consolidating data specialist Epsilon in 2H19. To return to organic growth in 2020, Publicis is betting on creativity, ...
Co-CEOs Christian Klein and Jennifer Morgan ushered in 2020 by closing out 2019 with results that met their targets and guidance, while also setting a new trajectory and pace for 2020.
IDC believes network virtualization and the multiaccess edge compute (MEC) provide communication service providers with a very attractive opportunity to significantly improve the value of their network and to monetize it more meaningfully ...
At its annual Analyst and Consultant Forum, from January 28 to 29, CenturyLink unveiled numerous high-profile updates to its security portfolio and strategy. Chief among these announcements include updates to its DDoS mitigation service, ...
TCS' revenue growth moderated during calendar year 2019 (CY19), although the IT services giant still managed a decent 9.6% growth by IDC's calculation. Looking forward, the company has the capability to combine creativity with industrial-grade ...
Wipro saw good growth in its digital revenue during calendar 2019, with digital ending the year at 40% of calendar fourth-quarter revenue and about 38% of the calendar year. But to maintain this momentum, Wipro must continue to invest in ...
Citrix announced its fourth-quarter FY19 results on January 22, 2020.
The China-US trade war has been ongoing through nearly a year and a half and has exerted negative impact on both countries and the global economy – with even greater negative impact on global enterprises with business operations in both ...
On December 19, 2019, Accenture reported its FY 1Q20 results, including $11.4 billion in quarterly revenue, a 7% YoY increase in U.S. dollars and 9% in local currency. The earnings call was led by Julie Sweet, Accenture's CEO, and KC McClure, ...
Juniper's NXTWORK EMEA event for customers, partners, and analysts took place in London from December 3 to 4, 2019. The theme of the event was "game changers" — people (or companies) that challenge the status quo, innovate, and take advantage ...
On December 3, Salesforce announced FY 3Q20 earnings. Earnings this quarter were strong, with total revenue of $4.5 billion for the quarter, a 34% year-over-year increase from FY 3Q19. "We're now on track to double our revenue in five years," ...
Nokia is under pressure after cutting its profit outlook during its 3Q19 earnings call and pausing its dividend payout for the next six months. During its annual Global Analyst Forum, the vendor shared how it intends to move forward from ...
iCIMS, a market leader in global recruitment, brought together clients, partners, and analysts at its iNFLUENCE conference held November 18-20. Founder Colin Day and his leadership team detailed iCIMS' talent acquisition (TA) best-of-breed ...
This IDC Link looks at the VMworld 2019 Europe event, at which VMware revealed important enhancements to Workspace ONE, addressing employee experience and the Future of Work.
This IDC Link explores Microsoft's recent announcement touting the results of its four-day workweek experiment in Japan as part of a growing trend of workforce transformation initiatives around work culture, workforce, and workspace.
Seismic has acquired Percolate for an undisclosed sum. The acquisition provides San Diego–based Seismic with stronger marketing software assets that Percolate describes as "the leading content marketing platform for the enterprise." Combining ...
In IDC's annual FutureScape predictions (see IDC FutureScape: Worldwide IT Industry 2020 Predictions, IDC #US45599219, October 2019), we predicted that there will ...
Business Technology Platform, Cloud Data Fabric, and Intelligent Automation were among the most frequently discussed topics during the executive talks and analyst sessions at SAP TechEd 2019 in Barcelona, surpassing S/4 HANA, the usual suspect. ...
Smartsheet placed a spotlight on new technology features and customer stories at its third annual ENGAGE customer conference held September 30 – October 3, 2019, in Seattle, Washington. As a SaaS platform for managing and automating collaborative ...
Box, with a mission to power how the world works together, held its annual BoxWorks conference October 2-4, 2019, at San Francisco's Moscone Center. The company's focus was one platform for secure content management, collaboration and workflow, ...
At Pier 48 in San Francisco, Dropbox held its inaugural Work In Progress user event on September 25, 2019. Keynotes and breakouts were aligned to its announcement of the new Dropbox Spaces — a smart workspace designed to improve focus, organization, ...
On September 23, 2019, two years after Neopost announced it was rebranding its 2012 acquisition of GMC Software as Quadient, Neopost retires its own name in favor of elevating the Quadient brand and focusing the entire company on helping ...
This IDC Link discusses the synergies, benefits, and client impact of Genpact's new strategic partnership with Celonis, a process mining technology company. The partnership between Genpact and Celonis is a large-scale test of the assumption ...
On September 26, 2019, Accenture reported its FY 4Q19 and full year results, including $11.1 billion in quarterly revenue (see the accounting note), a 5% YoY increase in U.S. dollar and 7.2% in local currency. For FY19, net revenue was $43.2 ...
Telecommunications company Chorus New Zealand released its 2019 full-year results on August 26, 2019.
Chorus reported net profit after tax of NZD53 million for FY19, down from NZD85 million in FY18. The decline in earnings is a result ...
On August 19, 2019, Business Roundtable announced that it had changed its Statement on the Purpose of a Corporation from one that had endorsed shareholder primacy to one that considered all stakeholders, including employees, customers, and ...
On , IDC offers three steps that any technology company and its executive leadership team can take immediately to move the needle for increased female participation and set the stage for a future workforce that is inclusive of all.
Salesforce has announced that it plans to acquire field services solution provider ClickSoftware for approximately $1.35 billion. This is a significant uplift on the $438 million that private equity firm Francisco Partners paid for ClickSoftware ...