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    Gerry Murray

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    Worldwide spending on Telecom Services and Pay TV Services reached $1,509 billion in 2023, an increase of 2.1% over 2022, according to the IDC Worldwide Semiannual Telecom Services Tracker.

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    Jan Burian

    IDC Innovators are emerging vendors with revenues of less than $100 million that have demonstrated either a groundbreaking business model, innovative new technology, or both. This IDC Innovators study profiles the companies Sight Machine, CaPow, and GLYNT, which have developed significant solutions...

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    BMC Software continues to expand its observability capabilities. BMC released BMC Helix for observability and AIOps in 2020. BMC will now acquire full-stack monitoring and observability vendor Netreo. By combining BMC Helix and Netreo IT lifecycle monitoring, BMC can break down observability silos...

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    Structured Database/Data Management workloads continued to drive the largest share of enterprise IT infrastructure spending in the second half of 2023, according to the IDC Worldwide Semiannual Enterprise Infrastructure Tracker: Workloads.

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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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  • The Role of Generative AI in the Factory Floor

    Lorenzo Veronesi

    This IDC Market Presentation discusses perspective across the manufacturing industry on the status of their generative AI (GenAI) projects and strategies for the factory floor. It also analyzes key use cases and capabilities manufacturers are targeting.

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  • Utilities Asset Operations Quarterly Update: January–March 2024

    Gaia Gallotti

    This IDC Market Perspective provides an overview of utilities' asset operations in 1Q24. It covers M&As, agreements, reorganizations, and major business developments; new financial deals; major renewables infrastructure projects; major green hydrogen projects; smart meter and smart grid...

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  • IDC Future of Operations 2023 Survey Findings: Asia/Pacific Utilities Industry — Part 2

    Rakesh Patni

    In this IDC Survey, we encapsulate the findings of the IDC Future of Operations 2023 Survey for the Asia/Pacific utilities sector, revealing a tentative move toward cloud-based operational data management, with over 70% of utilities holding less than half their operational data in the cloud....

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  • IDC Market Glance: Omni-Channel Retail POS and Payments Software, 2Q24

    Margot Juros

    This IDC Market Glance presents a high-level overview of vendors that enable retail transactions/payments across store, ecommerce, and mobile channels as well as for omni-channel commerce applications, such as BOPIS/click and collect, curbside pickup, and endless aisles. The ability to offer...

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    Eric Thompson

    This IDC study describes the IDC MaturityScape for digital supply chain resiliency. It provides a framework for executive leadership and IT and supply chain managers to identify the stages, critical measures, outcomes, and actions required for organizations to evaluate and evolve their digital...

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