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 looks at the journey of the South Eastern Health and Social Care Trust in Northern Ireland as it modernizes its workplace. From addressing the mobility needs of its frontline clinicians to enabling remote working in ...
This IDC Perspective analyzes how the transformation enabled by events in 2020 made data-driven factories the central element of manufacturers' business strategies. It also provides insight into how companies are tackling these issues.
"Manufacturers ...
This IDC Perspective analyzes how bp embarked on a subsurface knowledge mining project. bp intended to capitalize on the wealth of subsurface data it built over the years to boost the operational efficiency of its upstream business. The ...
With the COVID-19 pandemic, resiliency has become a business priority. But traditional approaches struggle to integrate business resiliency with new digital realities. IDC presents a digital resiliency framework to help CEOs, CIOs, and other ...
This IDC Perspective identifies six crucial questions that IT executives should ask vendors claiming to offer cybersecurity solutions that incorporate machine learning technology. These questions are intended to identify the data and algorithms ...
This IDC Perspective discusses the state-of-the-art Future of Intelligence in Latin America and the role played by artificial intelligence in defining organizations able to harness the power of their data-driven culture, employee data literacy, ...
This IDC Perspective captures several key announcements made at Amazon Web Services (AWS) re:Invent 2020 that are critical for the public sector, including remarks made by Andy Jassy, CEO of Amazon Web Services, and Sandy Carter, vice president ...
This IDC Perspective focuses on Italian utility Italgas' innovative usage of augmented reality (AR) in field service. Setting out on the innovation path it knew from its recent past, Italgas successfully implemented AR in its field operations. ...
This IDC Perspective discusses key characteristics of the recent SolarWinds attack. While the investigation of the hack continues, this document highlights three most important implications of the hack on every organization’s cyber practices.
...This IDC Perspective examines how the global market for political disinformation is growing rapidly while leaving chaos, mistrust, and revolutionary rumblings in its wake. The motive is money for some disinformation creators, while others ...
This IDC Perspective (video) provides IT leadership insights and challenges from IDC's IT Executive Program (IEP) clients and prospects from January 4 to February 16, 2021. Many leaders believe that as the COVID-19 vaccine is rolled out, ...
IDC estimates that the current spend in Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) (APEJ) on Internet of Things (IoT)–driven manufacturing applications is around US$11.1 billion. Data will be crucial to ensure that organizations can recognize and realize ...
This IDC Perspective identifies 10 major trends that we believe will impact life science companies in 2021.
"The industry has responded rapidly to the COVID-19 pandemic by driving an exponential growth in digitally disruptive technologies ...
This IDC Market Perspective provides IDC Health Insights' review of key IT deals, news, and digital initiatives in European life sciences and pharma in Q4 2020. In the unfolding COVID-19 scenario, it is critical for European life sciences ...
This IDC Perspective addresses the challenge of inflexible work environments in organizations and their detriment to productivity, worker creativity, and ultimately business value. This study defines intelligent digital workspaces as a framework ...
This IDC Perspective focuses on the approach to asset assessment and asset digitization that companies can develop with the support of the right services company. Having domain-experienced and reliable technology partners is critical for ...
This IDC Perspective looks at the continuing impact on, and implications for, the supply chain as a consequence of global disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
"2020 was a challenging year for global supply chains, and we learned ...
This IDC Perspective provides insight into the steps necessary to transform asset life-cycle management processes and technologies. Asset life-cycle management is an enterprise effort with many dependencies — yet today it is executed in ...
This IDC Perspective provides an overview of the architecture and ecosystem of Internet of Things (IoT) platforms in use in the mining industry. This study also identifies key horizontal IoT platform providers and a host of use cases that ...
This IDC Perspective (video) provides IT leadership insights and challenges from IDC's IT Executive Program (IEP) clients and prospects for the period from December 5 to December 21, 2020. As the economic changes brought about by the COVID-19 ...
The COVID-19 pandemic has upped the ante for conversational artificial intelligence (AI). No longer a nice-to-have experiment, it is now a necessary part of the many channels of how companies interact with their customers, and increasingly ...
This IDC Perspective discusses the steps for moving employees back to the office, which is and will be complex organizational change initiative, not simply a senior management directive to return to the physical workplace. Because the COVID-19 ...
This IDC Perspective discusses IT-OT integration and its impact on O&G companies. European oil players that have already accomplished IT- OT integration have started to realize the business value the integrated business model brings ...
Pacific Basin's transformation journey is motivated by its aspiration to become a more agile, intelligent, and automated enterprise. These goals are driven by the company's need to grow faster, distance itself from competition, and build ...
This IDC Perspective looks at the future of customers and consumers from the view of one of the four business outcomes of the model — applied intelligence. Applied intelligence is enabled by customer data, AI and analytics for contextual ...
This IDC Perspective covers the emerging subject of digital resiliency, including its definition and highlighting three examples of enterprises that previously made the kinds of investments in digital innovation that allowed them to be resilient ...
This IDC Perspective discusses the IT-OT integration and its impact on enterprises. European industrial players that have already accomplished IT-OT integration have started to realize the business value the integrated business model brings ...
This IDC Perspective looks at key developments and news in the European healthcare provider industry in 3Q20.
"The third quarter of 2020 saw a rise in investments toward the definition of new digital front-door engagement tools for ...
随着人们日益关注互联技术及其对工业生产率的影响，企业将着眼于可使其解密制造资产运营数据的投资。中国政府出台了多项举措和政策改革，还有多种激励措施，也使制造商积极投资于以工业IoT为核心的数字化战略。
“在过去几年中，具有IIoT能力的供应商取得了飞跃式的发展，尤其是当组织考虑利用企业数据来帮助确定流程差距和解决方案差距时，这一点尤其明显。除此之外，企业数据还可以为维持收入创造新的可行方案。”——IDC亚太地区制造洞察研究经理Sampath Kumar Venkataswamy表示。
...This IDC Perspective highlights the winners of the second edition of IDC Europe and Central Asia Smart City Award invested in technology. These solutions could deliver value against tangible business and policy goals in the specific context ...
This IDC Perspective introduces the concept of joint ventures between IT and lines of business (LOBs), describes the concept, and explains why it is important, who the key stakeholders are, and how CIOs can leverage and support LOB IT efforts. ...
This IDC Perspective explores the applications-related complexities that enterprises face in their cloud adoption journey. Digital transformation and modernization of IT are strategic business objectives that are underpinned by a multicloud ...
This IDC Perspective provides an overview of issues identified in a comparative assessment between the Australian, Canadian, Chilean, and South African mining, equipment, technology, and services (METS) sectors.
“All four regions analysed ...
This IDC Perspective discusses customer-360 data platforms that focus payers on the data architecture, data management, workflow of ingestion, mapping, cleansing, codifying, and verifying data and the activation of the data for applications, ...
This IDC Perspective, written for government CIOs and senior IT leaders, discusses IT partner networks. Instead of the traditional approach of stitching together separate and often siloed digital projects to fulfill a digital response and/or ...
This IDC Perspective discusses the benefits of partnerships that can be greatly expanded by creating ecosystems that combine new business models, digital technologies, information, and stakeholder organizations and individuals in new ways ...
This IDC Perspective recommends that senior government technology procurement executives adopt the principles of Agile procurement to speed the procurement process, respond to constituent requirements, and provide flexibility in a rapidly ...
This IDC study presents the contextual awareness framework that serves as the vision of how organizations should think about data as it relates to contextual awareness, and how technology should be used to harness data for contextualized ...
This IDC Perspective is one in a series of IDC studies that examine collaborative work management and project and portfolio management (PPM) solutions and provide both vendor analysis and customer reference context for technology adoption ...
This IDC Perspective looks at key developments and news in the European hospital industry in 3Q20.
"The third quarter of 2020 saw increased investments in IT capabilities and digital solutions that can support hospital workforce and ...
This IDC Perspective discusses the value of video telemetry in non-security applications. Video surveillance is evolving from a purely safety- and security-focused technology to a business focus. Video data is becoming useful in helping ...
This IDC Perspective looks at how to avert the unintended consequences of IT metrics.
Poorly designed KPIs and metrics for IT services actually damage the line-of-business (LOB) view of IT's capabilities, perceptions, and deliverables. ...
This IDC Perspective reviews the challenges that organizations face as they transition to the new work experience and presents a framework for addressing those challenges. As organizations accelerate and expand digital transformation (DX) ...
This IDC Perspective discusses meaningful IT service management (ITSM) metrics that "make a difference" and capture the essence of critical success factors for determining IT operations' contribution to the enterprise's business outcomes. ...
This IDC Perspective addresses outdated savings strategies that are disconnected with agency program and business needs; these strategies are starting to backfire across most vertical industries including government. Progressive innovation ...
This IDC Perspective takes a look at WekaIO and its WekaFS parallel file system platform, discussing both its technical differentiators and its go-to-market strategy. The unstructured storage market is undergoing significant change right ...
This IDC Perspective discusses the need to convey the power of IT to support and change the enterprise. IT's strength and survival are highly dependent upon IT's customer vision captured within the IT service portfolio. The service portfolio ...
This IDC study provides an analysis of the global and Korea Smart Cities in the digital transformation (DX) age, which discusses the response and development of Korea's Smart Cities based on the trends of Smart Cities globally. In addition, ...
This IDC Perspective introduces the concept of digital transformation "levers" that can help ensure uptake and use of digitally enabled products, services, and experiences. The levers are strategies and tactics that harness emerging and ...
This report details an IDC interview with Mrs. Gülsün Akhisaroglu, the global IT director of Hayat Holding. She shared her valuable experience with developing and deploying an AI-powered predictive quality solution in a paper-production ...
The Indonesia banking industry continues to progress digital transformation by adopting 3rd Platform technologies as well as cognitive, Internet of Things (IoT), and digital core banking. This IDC research identifies the top 5 technology ...
This IDC Perspective discusses about Canadian government testing recovery in 2021 in a move toward a digital government. For Canadian governments, crisis brought action, while recovery will be centered on the reimagination of government ...
This IDC Perspective looks into key drivers of and current challenges around data exchange and sharing in manufacturing ecosystems. Sharing and exchanging data in an ecosystem can help manufacturers to improve customer experience, product ...
This IDC Perspective provides insights into D-Wave's quantum annealing offerings. During an in-depth telephone interview, D-Wave provided deeper context for its quantum annealing strategy and its forward-looking quantum road map. D-Wave's ...
This IDC Perspective discusses IDC's European Healthcare Executive Digital Forum, held on November 27, 2020, as a virtual event. It summarizes key takeaways from keynotes and breakout sessions during the event.
"Priming the future ...
This IDC Perspective provides insights into Intel's quantum computing program. During an in-depth telephone interview, Intel strongly clarified and provided deeper context for its quantum computing strategy and its forward-looking quantum ...
This IDC Perspective discusses the concept of lifelong learning for individuals and businesses and its relevance in a fast-changing world of work. The ability of employees to become lifelong learners is crucial for future success. While ...
This IDC Perspective discusses the power of AI/ML-powered marketing solutions for transforming customer experiences and supporting superior business outcomes. This document spotlights how Adobe Sensei incorporates into Adobe Experience Cloud, ...
This IDC Perspective provides insights into Rigetti's quantum computing program and offerings. During an in-depth telephone interview, Rigetti provided deeper context for its quantum computing strategy and its forward-looking quantum road ...
This IDC Perspective discusses how data is working in Canadian marketplace. Customers are up for grabs. Industries are quickly realizing the value of customer engagement as competitive differentiation. There is a big difference from aspiring ...
This IDC Perspective provides insights into IBM's quantum computing program and offerings. During an in-depth telephone interview, IBM strongly clarified and provided deeper context for its quantum computing strategy and its forward-looking ...
This IDC Perspective provides insights into IonQ's quantum computing program. IonQ's quantum computing strategy and forward-looking quantum road map focuses on developing error-free quantum technology that can be used to achieve quantum ...
This IDC Perspective predicts that the next 10 years will determine how demand for wellbeing products and services will change, and the degree to which individuals and organizations will be free and empowered to choose when, where, and how ...
This IDC Perspective looks at how the Belgian government harnessed the expertise of integrator DXC and PDF technology company iText to completely overhaul its records management system.
"The public sector is grappling with antiquated ...
This IDC Perspective looks at IT organizations' need to rethink the capabilities of enterprise SDS. Software-defined storage (SDS) is one of the fastest-growing segments of the enterprise storage systems market, attracting greenfield customers ...
This IDC Perspective delves into hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) architecture and how it can enable a hybrid cloud architecture that can provide a single, consistent view of both on-premises and public clouds.
"Software vendors ...
This IDC Perspective summarizes key takeaways from IDC's European Manufacturing Executive Digital Forum 2020, which took place on November 24, 2020. It summarizes the highlights of our partner and CXO community presentations from the perspective ...
This IDC Perspective covers the definition of the feature store, its value to businesses, and associated challenges. While early in the life cycle, this capability will support the growth and adoption of ML technology and enable companies ...
This IDC Perspective looks at data in action in the Canadian marketplace. The initial focus of this study was to assess the role that data plays in industry disruption. What we found is that Big Data and analytics, on its own, does not drive ...
This IDC Perspective points to a current challenge of retailers trying to mature their analytics capabilities that is often overlooked. Improving analytics isn't just about adding analytics teams and people, but it's about improving access ...
This IDC Perspective provides an excellent example of a major multinational information and media company that began its OSS journey around 12 years ago originally (in 2008) and has progressed to consistent organizational process and automation ...
This IDC TechBrief discusses the adoption and integration of digital technologies into mental health care plans. Digitally enabled mental health technologies can greatly support access to mental health care, enable care continuity, and improve ...
This IDC TechBrief helps healthcare provider IT leaders and buyers come quickly up to speed on enterprise imaging. Medical images and imaging-related data can serve as a valuable source of clinical insight but will pose more challenges than ...
This IDC TechBrief examines what options are available for upstream oil and gas companies with regard to land management software.
"There is a balance of functionality, cost, best practices, and business philosophy that will be balanced ...
This IDC Perspective discusses the critical role of the IT organization in achieving sustainability goals and includes data from an April 2020 study to show what organizations are doing, who drives strategy, and what barriers exist in the ...
This IDC Perspective looks at adopting DevOps approaches for quality execution and faster deployments. IDC sees organizations seeking to establish effective strategies for coordinated change and quality management as part of their DevOps ...
This IDC Perspective highlights interesting news in the state and local government space with regard to data, analytics, AI, digital trust, regulations, security, and privacy.
"The growth of data and analytics work in state and local ...
This IDC Perspective provides a view into how manufacturers have adapted to the challenges imposed by COVID-19, the investments still needed, and why the industry needs to embrace the future of work to succeed in the short term and long ...
This IDC Perspective discusses COVID-19's effect on AI spend in the Canadian healthcare system. Process- and workflow-specific AI solutions drive monetarily quantifiable benefits right now by utilizing the existing healthcare IT infrastructure. ...
This IDC Perspective highlights key differentiators of retail merchandise operations management solutions and points to a significant gap between what retailers perceive as important capabilities in these systems and how satisfied they are ...
This IDC Perspective examines how government agencies approach security as part of their ongoing edge computing efforts.
When computing moves to the edge, traditional security concerns still apply, but new concerns emerge related to ...
This IDC Perspective summarizes several of the top considerations that merchants should have when evaluating digital commerce application providers, as there are many different ways to approach the digital commerce application evaluation ...
This IDC TechBrief provides a snapshot of the current status of continuous integration (CI)/continuous delivery and deployment (CD) platforms adoption in retail as well their benefits, critical success factors, risks, and investments. IDC ...
This IDC Perspective discusses the advantages of deploying an embedded subscriber identity module (eSIM) for use in the enterprise.
"The eSIM-equipped devices will help businesses manage their mobile accounts more efficiently and ...
This IDC Perspective considers the emergence of "open core" open source software development, along with the drivers causing this divergence from pure open source development, and the likelihood of it continuing to gather momentum in the ...
This IDC Perspective analyzes how apparel, footwear, and homeware retailer N Brown Group PLC upgraded its legacy retail commerce platform by leveraging a strategic partnership with IT services and consulting firm TCS. The program, which ...
This IDC Perspective extends the artificial intelligence (AI) automation framework by looking at business intelligence tasks and activities and analyzes them within the context of IDC's AI-based automation framework and looks at usage patterns ...
This IDC Perspective provides analyst insights on the growing importance of eCOAs, especially in the post-COVID-19 world. Despite the world being hit by a horrific pandemic, the pharma and biotech industry has risen to the occasion and leveraged ...
This IDC Perspective video series episode explores how students and their families are adjusting to the new normal of hybrid, remote, and increased virtual education options in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Watch as IDC President, Crawford ...
This IDC Perspective video series episode reviews the impact COVID-19 had on industry's focus on digital transformation and ongoing recovery efforts and areas of focus. Watch as IDC President, Crawford Del Prete; Chief Research Officer, ...
This IDC TechBrief addresses how enterprises should embark on their edge computing strategy from the perspective of an application platform.
Network optimization has caught up with compute and storage innovation, enabling a variety ...
This IDC Perspective examines key considerations related to the modernization of legacy applications by quantifying the progress of legacy application modernization in the application development landscape. The document also provides technology ...
IDC research has found that modernizing enterprise applications, especially those that support core business processes, is a top priority for enterprises in Asia/Pacific. This IDC Perspective discusses the motivation behind enterprises to ...
This IDC Perspective is a guide to the concept and application of adaptive planning in pursuit of IT organizational resilience. Adaptive planning has been developed and applied by ecologists and urban planners who focus on ecosystem and ...
This IDC Perspective delves into the nuances of source code escrow arrangements. Source code escrow agreements are useful for mitigating risk. Nevertheless, in practice, their indiscriminate use has reduced their effectiveness, often providing ...
This IDC Perspective discusses the question of when a multimodel DBMS is the right choice, and when a fit-for-purpose DBMS is preferred. It includes analysis of the requirements for each, now and in the future, as well as current trends ...
In October 2020, the UK Information Commissioner's Office fined British Airways £20 million and Marriott Hotels £18.4 million for failing to keep personal data secure in 2018. These amounts represent a significant reduction from the £99 ...
This IDC Perspective video series episode explores how retailers can close their digital transformation gaps and capitalize on changing customer expectations as the major holiday shopping season approaches. Watch as IDC President, Crawford ...
This IDC Perspective discusses how COVID-19 has driven investment in contract life-cycle management and the importance and benefits of implementing contract life-cycle management tools. This document also discusses the common implementation ...
This IDC Perspective outlines major workplace trends, provides representative software vendor offerings in response to COVID-19, and makes recommendations for organizations with respect to workplace management applications. Organizations ...