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  • Capitalizing on the Future of Enterprise Application Technology: The Digital World and AI Change the Business, 2024

    Mickey North Rizza

    This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation reviews the overall technology trends in enterprise software and the new era of experience-orchestrated business. It also emphasizes three industry perspectives of financial services, manufacturing, and retail and how the trends have reshaped their perspective to...

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  • Future of Copilots, 2024: The Evolution of Copilots in Enterprises

    Maureen FlemingDavid SchubmehlMegha Kumar,  and others

    This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation lays out IDC's scenario of how copilots will evolve over the next few years as functionality is added. This presentation outlines five key stages of progress and how copilots expand capabilities with each stage.

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  • IDC MarketScape: Worldwide SaaS and Cloud-Enabled Medium-Sized Business ERP Applications 2024 Vendor Assessment

    Mickey North RizzaKatie Evans

    This IDC study provides a thorough assessment of SaaS and cloud-enabled medium-sized ERP applications and discusses the criteria that are most important for companies to consider when selecting a solution. "The digital world has reshaped the medium-sized businesses' focus on moving to the cloud to...

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  • IDC Security Forum 2024, Japan (Day 1):IoT特有の課題に応えるセキュリティソリューションの市場動向

    Yoriyuki Yamashita

    本Conference Proceeding: Tech BuyerはIDC Japan、Infrastructure & Devicesのリサーチマネージャーである山下 頼行による講演の内容をプレゼンテーションスライドと音声ファイルによって提供するものである。IoT(Internet of Things)のセキュリティにおいては、多くの場合で機器の処理能力が低くセキュリティソフトウェアの実行が難しいことや、オープンな空間に設置し物理的なすり替えや操作の危険性がある機器の真正性の確保が容易でないことなど、独自の課題がある。こうした課題に対処するため、クラウド側で暗号化処理を代行する、S...

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  • IDC Security Forum 2024, Japan (Day 1):SD-WAN/SASEの最新動向と実践へのアプローチ

    Takahiro Mizukami

    本Conference Proceeding: Tech BuyerはIDC Japan、Infrastructure & Devicesのシニアマーケットアナリストである水上 貴博による講演の内容をプレゼンテーションスライドと音声ファイルによって提供するものである。クラウド活用とハイブリッドワークの浸透に伴い、企業のネットワーク環境は急速に変化している。これまで運用してきた企業ネットワークに課題を感じる企業は、その対応策としてSD-WANやSASE(Secure Access Service...

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IDC Industry Insights

Industry Insights assists business and IT leaders in making technology decisions with insightful, fact-based research and consulting services. Get industry research grounded in decades of experience from our global senior analyst team across six industries: retail, government, financial services, manufacturing, health and energy.

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  • Drive Growth and Sustainability by Transforming Waste to Profit With the Power of Remanufacturing Software

    Gunjan Bassi

    This IDC Perspective explores the pivotal role of remanufacturing software in enhancing supply chain management and as a cornerstone of sustainability initiatives within the manufacturing sector. Remanufacturing reuses existing raw materials, minimizes waste, and promotes energy efficiency,...

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  • Future of Industry Ecosystems Survey, 2023–2024: Key Findings — Life Sciences Industry

    Jeffrey HojloNimita Limaye

    This IDC Survey examines the results of our third annual global survey that was fielded in May and June 2023 to 1,288 executives across 5 regions and 11 countries. The goal was to determine executive and business leader sentiment on industry ecosystems, maturity of current approach, and future...

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  • Industry Analysis Perspective: Asia/Pacific Electric Utilities, 2024

    Rakesh Patni

    This IDC Market Presentation is designed to provide technology vendors' sales, marketing, and product and channel managers with foundational insight into the electric utilities industry in Asia/Pacific in 2024. By understanding the market dynamics and industry composition in specific countries,...

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  • Overall, Cloud Providers Are Most Strategic GenAI Partners for Government

    Adelaide O'Brien

    This IDC Survey Spotlight examines results from IDC's March 2024 Future Enterprise Resiliency and Spending Survey, Wave 3, which provides global government agency responses to the types of GenAI vendors governments will partner with and the attributes that drive AI/GenAI deployment in public...

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  • The Emergence of GenAI Use Cases: Industry Knowledge and Expertise Become Imperative (Retail)

    Leslie HandLynne Dunbrack

    These event proceedings were presented at the IDC Directions conferences in San Jose in April 2024.Generative AI (GenAI) is having a profound impact across all industries. Nearly two out of five technology buyers report that generative AI has already disrupted their business (19.1%) or will have a...

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