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European Imaging, Printing, and Document Solutions Survey, 2025: The Print-Digital AI Dynamic by Industry

Jacqui Hendriks — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey highlights an extract from IDC’s European Imaging, Printing, and Document Solutions (IPDS) Survey, conducted in May-June 2025 among 2,007 respondents from Czechia, France, Germany, Italy, the Nordics, Poland, Spain, and the U.K. This document highlights results by industry sector.

This survey covered topics including print service provider selection criteria and the importance of services and solutions beyond print, the shift from paper to digital, print security, device and print management, A3 MFP device utilization, demand for inkjet devices, scanning activity, and the impact and value of AI on printing and scanning.

Survey analyses are available by region, company size, industry, types of decision-maker, and types of print contract. For further information, please contact your IDC Account Manager.

IDC MarketScape: U.S. Revenue Cycle Management Service Solutions 2025–2026 Vendor Assessment

Mutaz Shegewi — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC study provides a comprehensive evaluation of revenue cycle management (RCM) service solution providers serving U.S. healthcare provider organizations. The study evaluates vendors based on their current strategic direction, capabilities, and alignment with the needs of healthcare providers within a rapidly evolving healthcare financial landscape. It examines how vendors are combining advanced automation, AI, analytics, and compliance frameworks to modernize RCM operations amid ongoing payer complexity, labor constraints, and tightening reimbursement models. The document highlights the evolution from transactional outsourcing toward integrated, technology-enabled partnerships that emphasize transparency, accountability, and outcome-based performance. The study aims to guide CIOs, CFOs, revenue cycle executives, and other IT and business leaders in selecting partners capable of advancing RCM automation, financial integrity, and margin performance in an increasingly outcomes-based healthcare economy.

"The RCM service solutions market is shifting from cost-focused outsourcing to intelligence-driven performance partnerships," said Mutaz Shegewi, senior research director at IDC Health Insights. "U.S. healthcare providers increasingly expect RCM partners to move beyond transactional execution and embed intelligence, automation, and compliance into the fabric of their operations. The partners that stand out will be those that blend deep domain expertise with advanced technology to help providers build AI-enabled revenue cycle environments that deliver results that are more measurable, transparent, impactful, and sustainable."

IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Rugged Tablet and PC 2025–2026 Vendor Assessment

Bryan Bassett — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC study uses the IDC MarketScape model to assess providers offering rugged tablets and PCs. The assessment reviews both quantitative and qualitative characteristics that define current market demands and expected buyer needs for rugged solutions. The evaluation is based on a comprehensive and rigorous framework that compares vendors and highlights the key factors expected to be the most significant for succeeding in rugged computing in the short and long term.

"Rugged tablets and PCs are engineered to meet the demanding requirements of mission-critical enterprise environments, where consistent high performance and operational reliability are essential," says Bryan Bassett, research manager, Enterprise Mobility, IDC. "Recent market trends underscore a rapid integration of advanced technologies such as AI, 5G, and edge computing in rugged devices, enabling intelligent data collection, real-time analytics, and improved connectivity for logistics and industrial automation. As mobile workforce mobilization intensifies, rugged devices are expected to play a pivotal role in supporting secure, resilient IT infrastructures and enhancing frontline business productivity."

IT for Circularity: Market Requirements and Technology Solutions

Katharina Grimme — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC Perspective examines emerging technology solutions that support companies' circular economy initiatives. As market, regulatory, and other stakeholder pressures for circularity increase, it is essential for companies worldwide to gain an understanding of technology enablers that advance circularity and sustainability goals as well as provide business value. This report provides an overview of such solutions, including examples of tech vendor offerings.

"Circularity is no longer optional — it's the key to increasing resilience, accelerating innovation, and future-proofing your business in a world of rising risks and regulatory demands," said Katharina Grimme, EMEA Sustainability lead, IDC.

Microsoft Ignite 2025: Azure Cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service Updates

Jasdeep Singh, Rob Tiffany, Dave McCarthy — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 05:00:00 GMT

The latest Microsoft Azure infrastructure announcements emphasize on deepening its commitment to building a cloud platform that addresses the growing requirements for performance optimization, confidential computing, and hybrid/sovereign cloud deployments. With new generation of custom silicon, expanded confidential computing capabilities, and significant enhancements to Azure Local and Azure Arc, Microsoft demonstrates its commitment to delivering infrastructure that balances raw performance with security guarantees and operational flexibility. These developments underscore the company's strategy of building infrastructure that spans from hyperscale datacenters to sovereign edge environments, using a consistent management plane and increasingly AI-assisted operations.

Commvault SHIFT 2025: Unifying Security, Identity, and Recovery Amid the AI Era

Philip Bues — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 05:00:00 GMT

As artificial intelligence (AI) adoption accelerates, organizations face mounting challenges: adversarial AI, data sovereignty, legacy technical debt, and the need for unified resilience across distributed, inconsistent, and compromised data. Commvault's SHIFT 2025 event introduced resilience operations (ResOps) and Commvault Cloud Unity, the latest release of the company's flagship platform, Commvault Cloud. Commvault's Unity aims to unify security, identity, and recovery, delivering clean, rapid, and enterprise-grade recovery at scale, with AI-powered automation and synthetic recovery, and will be generally available in early 2026. These announcements reflect a broader industry shift toward integrated, AI-fused resilience and governance, as organizations seek reliable, governed, and trustworthy data foundations for the AI era.

Tricentis Evolves AI and Agentic Testing at Conference

Melinda-Carol Ballou — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 05:00:00 GMT

Tricentis held its quality engineering conference Tricentis Transform in London and Nashville, Tennessee, with more than 1,200 attendees recently, and last week highlighted usage of its evolving technology by announcing the winners of its 2025 Customer Innovation Awards. At Transform, Tricentis executives made a series of key announcements as the company pushes forward with its agentic testing approach targeting coordinated execution. Tricentis announced its strategy and vision for AI-powered software quality engineering, introducing an upcoming AI workspace and expanded agentic automation capabilities across its portfolio. The initiative reflects an industry shift toward emerging autonomous code quality systems designed to address rising complexity and massive volume from generative AI, code assistants, AI and emerging agents, and accelerated software delivery. This development positions Tricentis within broader market and competitive trends emphasizing AI governance, risk mitigation, and integrated SDLC automation, setting the stage for evaluation of agentic approaches to software quality from testing automation providers, with increasing demand.

2026 Worldwide Semiconductor Market: Challenges and Opportunities

Helen Chiang — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC Presentation highlights how the 2026 semiconductor market is confronted with both opportunities and challenges impacted by geopolitical tensions. On the opportunity side, breakthroughs in 2nm process technology, the development of advanced packaging, and the evolution of optical interconnects are opening new avenues for growth. On the challenge side, international competition has triggered regulatory pressures and sanctions, while the increasing share of in-house chip design by major customers is disrupting supply chains and business models. At the same time, design complexity continues to rise, and a shortage of skilled talent poses additional risks.

This report aims to provide a comprehensive analysis of these market dynamics, helping the semiconductor supply chain stakeholders understand the turning points within the industry and establish proactive strategies in the AI era, further to better capture emerging opportunities and strengthen their competitiveness.

2026地缘政治下的半导体发展

Helen Chiang — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 05:00:00 GMT

本IDC市场看法报告显示，当今全球产业发展无一不受到地缘政治影响，其中，中美关系的变化以及各自在政策上的布局更深刻影响到半导体产业发展。美国通过禁令与关税措施企图限制中国半导体发展，中国则在近年以反倾销与关键材料出口管制等方式进行反制。与此同时，中国本土AI芯片与GPU厂商在政策支持与本地需求的双重推动下持续扩张。外部的压力与竞争进一步加速了本地能力的发展，未来中国在全球半导体产业的角色发展值得关注。

“中国自给自足的能力将持续提升，进一步促使中美两个相对独立的半导体供应链体系的加速形成。对于科技供应商而言，如何了解地缘政治形势发展，以及力求在中美竞争中保持平衡，对于未来厂商的发展将更为关键。”——IDC亚太半导体产业分析师江芳韵表示。

3Q25中国竞争力分析报告——成像与打印外设市场（历史） 3Q25 China Compete Imaging ─ HCP Market Summary (Historical)

Donna Wang — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 05:00:00 GMT

IDC市场竞争报告对喷墨、A3&A4激光市场进行了详细分析，总结了打印外设数据收集的核心洞察。该报告包含高价值的营销洞见，市场核心趋势以及厂商市场份额分析。以下是报告涵盖的主要内容。

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市场综述
产品分析
竞争分析
细分市场分析
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本报告中的数据和观点引用来自IDC《全球打印外设市场季度跟踪报告》（3Q25）