This IDC FutureScape presents the IDC Worldwide Robotics team's analysis of key drivers relating to robotics and drone technologies, and how these drivers are likely to shape the development of robotics and drones in the planning horizon of 2019 through 2024. The development and deployment of robotics (including drones) in various industries...
This IDC study provides a detailed description of IDC's Worldwide Semiannual Digital Transformation Spending Guide methodology and taxonomy. It should be used as a companion piece for IDC's Worldwide Semiannual Digital Transformation Spending Guide. Technology suppliers may utilize IDC's use-case approach and structure, as presented in this...
This IDC Financial Insights study presents the top 10 predictions for the financial services industries. Each prediction is shaped by a common set of key drivers that provides a planning tool for technology leaders and their line-of-business counterparts to use in their IT strategic planning efforts. The challenges of the industry today continue...
This IDC study provides IDC's top 10 predictions for the 2019 CIO Agenda. These predictions provide a strategic context that will enable CIOs to lead their organizations through a period of multiplied innovation and disruption over the next 5 years. They also lay out IDC's vision for the 10 most important shifts that will happen in IT organizations...
This IDC study provides the outlook of IDC Energy Insights' analyst team for the worldwide utility industry for 2019, as well as the planning horizon for the next five years. "Utilities are facing challenges in their transformation journey. They need to overcome siloed initiatives by integrating and orchestrating change across the organization....
This IDC study presents IDC's developer- and DevOps-related top 10 predictions for 2019. "Never before have there been more changes to tools, processes, and deployment environments happening in parallel. If the shift from on-premises to off-premises computing was not enough, few existing applications will become digital-native applications...
This IDC study presents our worldwide social media team of analysts' view of key drivers and outcomes relating to the evolution of social media."The tech-savvy workforce of the future is here. They are hyperconnected, social, collaborative, and they 'scale' their time with digital solutions. Businesses that struggle to meet their expectations,...
129 pages, November 2018 About this market The growing demand for smart homes and the development of smart cities is identified as one of the key trends that will gain traction in the global artificial intelligence (AI) in social media market for the next four years. AI in social media is being used in home appliances...
"Without a sharp reduction in operating costs, the 5G business case will be hard to make." Mobile network opex has been stubbornly resistant to reduction in recent years, but it is essential to the 5G business case that it falls. This report argues that no single solution will achieve...
Overview: The Extended Reality (XR) market represents the convergence of Augmented Reality (AR), Virtual Reality (VR), and Mixed Reality (MR) in which the best elements of each aspect are utilized and optimized for a given use case scenario and application. While today many apps and services within the XR universe are very...