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 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 ...
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 Tech Buyer Presentation highlights IDC's top 10 developer- and DevOps-related predictions for the next five years in Europe. The presentation discusses the regional implications of the worldwide developer and DevOps 2021 predictions, ...
This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation is a reference guide to the role, usage, and representative vendors in the data marketplace market. Both data sellers and data buyers are very interested in the potential of data marketplaces to bring greater ...
This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation highlights the top 10 predictions and key drivers for the European cloud industry over the next five years. It analyzes the IT and business impact of each prediction in the market and provides guidance for ...
This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation highlights IDC's top 10 Future of Digital Innovation related predictions for the next five years in Europe. The presentation discusses the regional implications of the worldwide Future of Digital Innovation ...
This IDC Presentation provides an analysis of how oil and gas companies embrace digital twin as part of their technology adoption for organizationalwide digital transformation (DX).
Although the concept of digital twin is not new, ...
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 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 ...
This IDC study represents a vendor assessment of providers offering unified endpoint management (UEM) software for small and midsize businesses (SMBs) through the IDC MarketScape model. The assessment reviews both quantitative and qualitative ...
This IDC study represents a vendor assessment of providers offering unified endpoint management (UEM) software for ruggedized/IoT deployment through the IDC MarketScape model. The assessment reviews both quantitative and qualitative characteristics ...
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 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 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 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 study represents a vendor assessment of providers offering unified endpoint management (UEM) software through the IDC MarketScape model. The assessment reviews both quantitative and qualitative characteristics that define current ...
This IDC study represents a vendor assessment of providers offering unified endpoint management (UEM) software for Apple devices through the IDC MarketScape model. The assessment reviews both quantitative and qualitative characteristics ...
This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation discusses the Canadian regionalization of the IDC FutureScape: Worldwide Services 2021 Predictions (IDC #US45374020, October 2020). ...
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 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 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 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 Tech Buyer Presentation discusses the importance of creating a shared and enterprisewide digital transformation strategy and the relevance of measuring it step by step. The presentation is split in three sections. The first one ...
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 Web Conference presents a discussion by IDC's Mutaz Shegewi on the key predictions that will impact CIOs and IT professionals in the worldwide healthcare industry over the next one to five years. Senior IT leaders and line-of-business ...
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 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 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 study examines the current state of the digital infrastructure market and provides additional insights about the speed of adoption, technology potential for success, and level of market buzz so that IT and line-of-business decision ...
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 study represents a vendor assessment of Salesforce implementation services through the IDC MarketScape model. This assessment discusses both quantitative and qualitative characteristics that explain success in the Salesforce implementation ...
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 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 ...
For companies planning on digital patient engagement initiatives, it is important to closely examine the whole spectrum of use cases to spot the opportunities and the key benefits therein. This IDC PlanScape offers a comprehensive framework ...
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 study provides a visual representation of the process of technology adoption, dividing technologies into three major categories based on their impact on the organization and assessing technology relative to adoption levels within ...
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 Web Conference presents a discussion by IDC's Worldwide Smart Cities and Communities team on the key predictions that will impact CIOs and IT professionals in the Smart Cities environment over the next one to five years. This has ...
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 PlanScape provides a road map for hospitality and travel companies to leverage digital transformation strategies to drive seamless, augmented experiences in the appropriate and desired settings, where physical contact with a human ...
This IDC study provides a systematic assessment of technologies related to unified communications and collaboration in 2020. The IDC TechScape is an evaluation based on a comprehensive framework and a set of parameters that assess the factors ...
IDC Innovators are emerging vendors with revenue <$100 million that have demonstrated either a groundbreaking business model or an innovative new technology — or both. This IDC Innovators study profiles five emerging service mesh vendors: ...
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 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 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 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 ...
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 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 ...
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 Web Conference presents a discussion by IDC's Shawn McCarthy and Adelaide O'Brien offering relevant predictions that will impact national government agencies from now through 2024. Agency CIOs, program managers, and line-of-business ...
This IDC Web Conference presents a discussion by IDC's Worldwide Utilities team on the key predictions that will impact CIOs and IT professionals in the worldwide utility industry over the next one to five years. Senior IT leaders and line-of-business ...
This IDC Web Conference presents a discussion by Shari Lava on the key predictions on how SMBs will continue to transform out of necessity over the next five years. The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the impacts of the digital divide ...
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 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 ...
This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation explores solid state storage in the enterprise market and the trends affecting the market and factors influencing adoption that technology buyers should be aware of. This presentation was given at the virtual ...
This IDC MarketScape evaluates APM providers by qualitatively and quantitatively assessing their capabilities and strategies regarding their offerings across all value chain segments of the oil and gas (O&G) industry. With the worldwide ...
This IDC MarketScape assess the capabilities and strategies of APM software vendors utilised in the mining industry to optimise the operation of assets across the entire mining value chain. The software does this by recording and analysing ...
This IDC MarketScape assesses the capabilities and strategies of leading asset performance management (APM) vendors. It aims to aid utilities in deciding on their current or future APM implementations and assists vendors in deepening their ...
This IDC study assesses the capabilities and strategies of prominent asset performance management (APM) vendors. It aims to aid manufacturers in deciding on their current or future APM implementations, as well as to assist vendors in deepening ...
This IDC PlanScape provides a path for supply chain executives, CIOs, and other business leaders to better understand the growing challenges of today's supply chain for real-time, accurate inventory visibility and decision making and how ...
This IDC Web Conference presents a discussion by IDC's Gerry Murray on the key developments that will impact the skills, practices, and technology needs of chief marketing officers (CMOs) and their teams as they learn to thrive in the next ...
IDC Innovators are emerging vendors with revenue <$100 million that have demonstrated either a groundbreaking business model or an innovative new technology — or both. This IDC Innovators study profiles Curious Thing, MyInnerGenius, OutMatch, ...
This IDC study provides an assessment of the SaaS and cloud-enabled accounts receivable automation applications for midmarket and discusses the criteria that are important for companies to consider when selecting a system.
"Businesses ...
This IDC study provides an assessment of the SaaS and cloud-enabled accounts payable automation applications for enterprise and discusses the criteria that are important for companies to consider when selecting a system.
"Organizations ...
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 study provides an assessment of the SaaS and cloud-enabled AP automation applications for midmarket and discusses the criteria that are important for companies to consider when selecting a system.
"The ground underneath the ...
This IDC study provides an assessment of the SaaS and cloud-enabled accounts receivable automation applications for enterprise and discusses the criteria that are important for companies to consider when selecting a system.
"Businesses ...
This IDC Presentation discusses the Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) (APEJ) regionalization of the 2021 Worldwide Cloud Predictions. Each prediction is presented based on timeline projection, cost/complexity assessment, and organizational ...
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 study provides an assessment of the principal retail merchandise operations management solutions and discusses what criteria are most important for companies to consider when selecting a vendor.
"Modern merchandise operations ...
This IDC study provides an assessment of 14 vendors participating in digital transformation of sales and marketing processes in the life science industry. Digital transformation is occurring at a rapid pace in life science companies, including ...
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 study provides an assessment of the primary headless digital commerce application vendors. The study also discusses what criteria are most important for companies to consider when selecting a system.
"The proliferation of ...
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 PlanScape describes the need for modernization of critical workloads based on market conditions that are compelling a response, or in anticipation of a predicted event that will prevent a disruption or leverage a coming benefit ...
This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation discusses the root causes of data silos, what multicloud data management platforms can deliver, and recommended actions for IT practitioners. IDC's future of digital infrastructure predicts that, by 2023, ...
This IDC Web Conference presents a discussion by IDC Retail Insights on the 2021 top 10 technology predictions and the drivers of change for the global retail industry over the next five years. As retailers continue to manage through pandemic-driven ...