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 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 Market Note discusses QA's offerings and initiatives, focusing on its programs to reskill the wider workforce and expanding the tech talent pool through apprenticeships.
This IDC Market Note is part of our Women in Tech research series. It discusses AWS' initiatives around diversity and inclusion in Europe, focusing on its programs through the talent life cycle to attract and retain women in technical roles.
...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 Market Perspective profiles Equinix, which is the global datacenter and interconnection leader.
"Equinix is well positioned to remain a leader in the colocation and interconnection sector. It has a strong global footprint ...
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 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 Market Perspective examines the influence of artificial intelligence on the achievement of sustainable and social goals as well as its related ethical and fairness challenges. The document highlights the use cases of AI in Europe ...
This IDC Market Note captures IDC's observations and discussions on the key ML/AI software–, tools–, and solutions–related announcements at AWS re:Invent 2020. It covers Amazon SageMaker Clarify, Amazon SageMaker Data Wrangler, Amazon SageMaker ...
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 the key trends and vendors in Europe driving workplace transformation and the Future of Work through UC&C tools. Collaboration that facilitates Future of Work best practices is no longer linked to the use ...
This IDC Market Note includes imaging, printing, and document solutions news for November and December 2020.
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 Market Perspective provides a focus on value in network analytics. When examining network analytics solutions, it is easy to be drawn to leading-edge capabilities (e.g., packet telemetry, synthetic transactions, cloud visibility, ...
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 ...
The IDC Market Perspective presents an overview of telecommunications service provider's capital expenditure worldwide and discusses in brief the regional factors influencing the overall telecommunications service provider industry capex.
"The ...
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 Market Perspective summarizes three major battlegrounds that have emerged in the increasingly competitive market among UCaaS providers with Direct Routing for Microsoft Teams solutions. IDC provides recommendations for each category ...
This IDC Market Note provides IDC's perspective on Nokia's Digital Operations Center solution for addressing the service provisioning, activation, and assurance functions relative to digital services enablement.
"One of the greatest ...
This IDC Vendor Profile examines Pixel Titan, a provider of software solutions that automate the discovery of data relationships, facilitating the monetization of that data to multiple parties. It describes the challenges organizations face ...
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 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 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 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 Market Note summarizes the key highlights from Splunk's virtual.conf20 event held in October. At this annual summit, the vendor showcased its engineering capabilities, business road map, and its own cloud and digital business model ...
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 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 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 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 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 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 Market Perspective provides insight on enterprise application spending in 2021. Enterprise application vendors are sitting on a gold mine for 2021 if they have paid attention and moved to a modern, modular, and transformational ...
This IDC Market Perspective video series episode examines the results from IDC's groundbreaking survey on virtual meetings and conferences in the COVID-19 era and what the results mean for technology vendors and sponsors. Watch as IDC President, ...
This video is the first in IDC's "Candid Conversations on Moving from Crisis to Recovery" series, where IDC's executives and senior research leaders explore the ways technology supports business recovery and resiliency, especially in response ...
This IDC Market Perspective examines the growing importance of cloud-native databases in the data management software market. It includes an explanation of "cloud native" versus "born in the cloud," looks at the evolution of cloud-native ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 Market Perspective video series episode reviews the transformational technologies and policies supporting safer return-to-work initiatives. Watch as IDC President, Crawford Del Prete; Chief Research Officer, Meredith Whalen; and ...
This IDC Market Perspective video series episode explores the challenges small and midsize businesses (SMBs) are facing in this economic downturn and what these businesses need to survive. Watch as IDC President, Crawford Del Prete; Chief ...
This IDC Market Perspective video series episode investigates the critical roles cloud platforms are playing in enterprises' crisis response and recovery efforts. Watch as IDC President, Crawford Del Prete; Chief Research Officer, Meredith ...
This IDC Market Perspective video series episode explores the biggest takeaways and surprises from IDC FutureScape: Worldwide IT Industry 2021 Predictions (IDC #US46942020, ...
This IDC Market Perspective video series episode explores China's governmental and corporate response to the COVID-19 pandemic and China's progress along the five stages of enterprise recovery. Watch as IDC President, Crawford Del Prete; ...
This IDC Market Perspective analyzes the emerging approaches to accelerating datacenter compute around key workloads such as AI, security, media encoding, and cryptocurrency mining as well as long-established elements such as data compression ...
This IDC Market Note covers the key lessons learned and future priorities that will drive CIOs agenda in 2021 and beyond. It summarizes key takeaways from the CIO Advisory Roundtable held in November 2020 and moderated by IDC, capturing ...
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 ...
This IDC Perspective explores selecting digital focus areas, overcoming challenges to demonstrating digital business value, and introducing as well as using new digital metrics. IDC's COVID-19 Impact on IT Spending Survey, ...
This IDC Market Perspective discusses how a holistic approach to use of a digital infrastructure ecosystem accelerates digitally driven enterprises' use of innovative technologies. In the future of digital infrastructure, digitally driven ...
This IDC Market Perspective outlines major workplace trends and recommendations for workplace management application vendors now, in the near term, and post-pandemic. Organizations are stepping back to look at their overall workplace strategies, ...
This IDC Perspective examines the value of Direct Routing to a business' unified communications and collaboration (UC&C) goals, helping IT buyers incorporate Direct Routing for Teams into their buying decision. Direct Routing for Teams ...
This IDC Perspective examines the evolving relationship between OEMs and industrial operators, the digital twin technologies and approaches that offer the opportunity to aid in mutual value creation, and strategic considerations for each ...
This IDC Perspective summarizes key takeaways from IDC's European Manufacturing Executive Digital Forum 2020, which took place on November 24, 2020. The key theme of the IDC European Manufacturing Executive Digital Forum 2020 was about the ...
This IDC Perspective discusses how conversational AI–based chatbots and enterprise digital assistants can support the finance and procurement operations in reducing the cost of labor, boosting productivity and improving operational efficiencies ...
This IDC Perspective highlights technology investment priorities that over-the-top (OTT) video service providers ought to consider as new user experiences emerge. We believe that a key facet of OTT video service transformation includes an ...
This IDC Perspective looks at the criteria that enterprises should consider when evaluating IT savings, and it provides guidance on the appropriate areas to consider when looking to make a change.
"Enterprise customers have made it ...
This IDC Vendor Profile is part of a series of six profiles looking at the strategies and investments being made by major Europe-focused enterprise application vendors in the European IPA market. This report focuses on enterprise software ...
This IDC Perspective provides insights into the current trends in IoT data integration. As the Internet of Things continues to grow and expand, questions about how best to harness the data that flows from sensors and collectors at the edge ...
This IDC Perspective focuses on Spanish gas distribution system operator Madrileña Red de Gas and the successful cloud transformation it carried out as part of a wider strategy to become more efficient and customer centric. It highlights ...
This IDC Market Note provides highlights from Dropbox's first virtual Industry Analyst day held on November 18, 2020. In addition to highlighting new capabilities in its core content sharing and collaboration solution, the company unveiled ...
This IDC Market Note discusses Dropbox's announcements during its first Digital Industry Analyst Day, held on November 18, 2020.
"Dropbox's bold move to become Virtual First from June 2021 will certainly be watched by the industry ...
"Many communications SPs face the increasing pressure from network commoditization (also known as the dreaded ‘dumb pipe’ scenario), threatening their potential ROI from 5G. New use cases, such as autonomous driving and vertical industry ...
This IDC Perspective provides a current view of, and IT buyer recommendations and executive snapshot for, deploying SD-WAN architecture in support of a UC&C workload, as vendors continue to build stronger integrations between their SD-WAN ...
This IDC Perspective analyzes a recent digital transformation to illustrate key factors of success. Using Denmark-based Grundfos as a case study, both the technical and nontechnical aspects of the implementation are described.
"Grundfos ...
This IDC TechBrief discusses the value and benefits of using mobile application security testing tools and products. It indicates the benefits, risks, current adoption, and critical success factors associated with this technology combination.
"If ...
This IDC Market Note provides our perspective concerning how Wipro enables its customers to address the complex operations and monetization challenges that are becoming a key part of all 5G/MEC deployments.
"Operational readiness for ...
This IDC Market Note presents the key takeaways from IDC analysts who virtually attended Hyland's CommunityLIVE event held October 7–9, 2020. During the event, Hyland shared with IDC how it is executing on its transition to the cloud, launching ...
This IDC Perspective is the CIO's guide to the future of connectedness, which will be a source of exponential challenge as CIOs move from pandemic response to enabling a robust next normal that allows access to everything, everywhere, anytime, ...
This IDC Market Note discusses the Canadian implications of Element AI agreeing to be acquired by ServiceNow.
ServiceNow's acquisition of Element AI combines process and workflow expertise with AI development skill sets in a way that ...
This IDC Perspective is the CIO's guide to the future of industry ecosystems. It is designed to help CIOs lead with an eye to the digital disruptions that are occurring in every industry. This document discusses approaches that companies ...
This IDC Perspective discusses IDC's European Future of Work Summit, held on November 10, 2020, as a virtual event. It summarizes key takeaways from keynotes and breakout sessions during the event.
"The Future of Work is a paradigm ...
The 2020 New Zealand CIO Summit provided insight into how the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the way businesses are leveraging their digital road maps to create opportunities for growth. Overarching themes of trust, empathy, organisational ...
This IDC Market Note presents the key takeaways from several IDC analysts who virtually attended Capgemini's Global Analyst and Advisor Summit 2020 held October 14 and 15. During the event, Capgemini shared with IDC how it is strategically ...
On October 5, 2020, the Royal Malaysian Customs Department (RMCD) together with IBM Malaysia and A.P. Moller, announced that the RMCD will be adopting the TradeLens blockchain platform in Malaysia. In this IDC Market Note, we will discuss ...
This IDC Market Note provides highlights of the SAP Customer Experience LIVE conference, including highlights of the key announcements and customer successes featured during the conference.
"SAP continues to deliver value to existing ...
This Market Note examines the decision of MemSQL to rebrand as SingleStore. It considers the market background of the company and product and the factors that have led to this move.
"In the volatile IT world of the 21st century, versatility ...
This IDC Market Note presents the key takeaways from several IDC analysts who virtually attended the Citrix Workspace Summit on October 23, 2020. During the event, Citrix shared insight with IDC into the Citrix Workspace platform functionality ...
This IDC Perspective discusses knowledge management in distributed environments. Knowledge management is the discipline of creating, organizing, recording, sorting, distributing, and using the information created by an organization as it ...
This IDC Perspective discusses how COVID-19 gave urgency to the need to identify individuals at the highest risk of a poor outcome if infected. Blue Shield of California, in collaboration with the data-science-as-a-service provider Cogitativo, ...
This IDC Perspective details three IT skill development use cases and the usage of Coursera to solve these use cases. To unlock this value, organizations often turn to the L&D function to help properly skill the IT organization. And ...
This IDC Perspective offers CMOs, their management teams, and their C-suite colleagues a window into the results of IDC's 2020 Tech Marketing Benchmark Survey. A 55-page extended study with details on this survey (now in its 18th ...
"Progress' acquisition of Chef is consistent with its strategy of executing accretive acquisitions that are complementary to its core business operations," said Arnal Dayaratna, research director, Software Development at IDC. "With its high ...
This IDC Perspective focuses on the enterprise shift to digital product development. It is designed to help IT and line-of-business executives understand the additional considerations that digitally enabling products and services entail. ...
This IDC Perspective provides an overview of the current IoT analytics landscape, which increasingly requires analytic functionality to be deployed both at the edge and in the cloud. The document provides information on common challenges ...
This IDC Perspective is an introduction to design thinking, a design process that is a widely and successfully used outside of IT. It is intended for CIOs who are looking for tools to help improve chances for success with the ...
This IDC Perspective is an introduction to the use of business-enabling APIs to create new product and service revenue opportunities, grow customer bases, and rapidly scale product development capabilities. It is designed to help CIOs and ...