This IDC Perspective discusses digital resilience as a requirement for an organization to achieve digital trust in DX. Digital resilience is a strategic prescription of preventive, proactive, and reactive measures that involve people, processes, and technology to ensure data security, integrity, and availability for organizational success."Given...
This IDC Perspective covers the current state of AI deployments and provides actionable guidance to businesses on the need to create an AI strategy. The document also discusses an approach to effectively realize an AI strategy and create sustainable competitive advantage or smoothly wipe out competition."For many organizations, the rapid rise...
This IDC Perspective presents IDC's AI-based automation evolution framework. To help wade through the hyperbole associated with AI, IDC has developed a framework that allows for the evaluation of the evolving nature of the human-machine relationship and the application of AI at different level of automation scope: from tasks and activities...
This IDC Perspective discusses how second-generation retail price optimization takes shape. Retail digital transformation initiatives risk erosion of margin, price image, and customer satisfaction scores if they miss the mark on pricing. While first-generation price optimization efforts by and large failed recent results, current conditions...
This IDC Market Perspective looks at Amazon Web Services' (AWS') re:Invent 2018 event, which was held November 26-30, 2018, in Las Vegas. The event attracted over 50,000 attendees, hosted over 2,100 sessions, and featured the announcement of over 140 new and enhanced products and services. This document focuses on the key announcements within...
This IDC Perspective describes salient metrics for IT transformation in relation to the predictions in IDC FutureScape: Worldwide CIO Agenda 2019 Predictions (IDC #US44390218, October 2018), IDC's predictions for CIOs' challenges over the next several years.These metrics underscore the importance of each prediction and provide CIOs with tangible...
KEY FINDINGS Artificial Intelligence is defined as the engineering and science of making intelligent computer systems with almost natural intelligence and can perform tasks directly without any human intervention.Artificial Intelligence as a Service (AIaaS) is the third party offering of artificial intelligence (AI) outsourcing...
Optimal Synergy Between Leading-edge Computational Science and Therapeutics Development The impressive advances in life sciences research and development (R&D) befallen in the past two-three years are playing a leading role in the transformation of the healthcare industry.A myriad of new developments in the fields of gene...
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...