IDC's SaaS, Business Platforms and Ecosystems research explores the growth, current and future market opportunities, buyer behavior, and business success characteristics for the complete life cycle of SaaS business applications, digital platform business models and ecosystems, blockchain, and embedded technology strategies. This comprehensive service includes IDC's worldwide forecast and market share documents for SaaS, PaaS, and system infrastructure software revenue. This service also covers hybrid cloud and multicloud strategies by industry, covers the public cloud through an application software and services lens, analyzes market disruption, and examines new routes to market with a focus on cloud and application marketplaces. The service identifies operational strategies for building, selling, and purchasing SaaS, including optimal go-to-market and management strategies. The research tracks the next generation of intelligent SaaS applications that are data centric and infused with generative AI.
IDC also offers three separate companion services meant to be utilized alongside this CIS, called IDC's SaaSPath, IDC's Industry CloudPath, and IDC's CloudShare emerging ISV database. Industry CloudPath provides deep insight into how each industry (22 industries) is moving to the cloud, including current and future planned cloud adoption, application migration strategy and timing, drivers and inhibitors, budgets, purchasing preferences packaging and go-to-market, cloud maturity levels, extensive vendor ratings and advocacy scores, and adoption and buying intentions for 200+ industry-specific applications/workloads. SaaSPath provides global data on SaaS buyer attitudes and references, including deep vendor ratings and comparisons in 15 app categories (ERP, SCM, HCM, tax, A/R, A/P, salesforce automation, procurement, T&E, finance, T&R, PSA, EAM, digital commerce, and subscription billing). The CloudShare global ISV survey monitors native SaaS and transitioning ISV trends with a focus on application architecture, the cloud service provider relationship, ecosystems, and evolving ISV business models. For full details, contact Frank Della Rosa at fdellarosa@idc.com.