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Worldwide IT Leasing and Financing Forecast, 2024–2028: Risk Management Strategies Accompany AI Everywhere in Outlook for Top 25 Countries

Lara Greden — Fri, 28 Jun 2024 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC study provides guidance and revised forecasts for IT leasing, financing, and flexible consumption providers as they navigate the next stages of digital transformation in the AI era.

"In the AI pivot, enterprises are challenged to invest amid an economic climate characterized by macroeconomic, technical, and business uncertainties," says Lara Greden, senior research director, IDC's Flexible Consumption and Financing Strategies for IT Infrastructure. "To manage the various sources of risk, IDC forecasts 2024 and 2025 to have increased demand for leasing and financing as enterprises invest to refresh IT infrastructure and deliver GenAI use cases that drive business growth."

Software Monetization Trends, 2024

Mark Thomason — Thu, 27 Jun 2024 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation focuses on the drivers and trends in software monetization, incorporating survey data and analyst insights.

Overall, the success, performance, and flexibility of the technology-driven as-a-service model continue to drive adoption of the recurring revenue model. The future will see more value-based hybrid pricing models (subscription + usage) and the rise of product as a service (connected physical products sold as a service), increasingly sold over marketplaces. This drives the need for comprehensive monetization platforms to leverage the data for AI-driven pricing/profit models, automation, and efficient sales-customer communications.

Worldwide Monthly Technology Investment Monitor, April 2024: GenAI Plans/Budgets, Current Levels of GenAI POCs and Production Rollouts, AI Platforms, and AI-Ready Infrastructure

Rick Villars, Mary Johnston Turner, Neil Ward-Dutton — Tue, 25 Jun 2024 04:00:00 GMT

The dramatic increase in the awareness of generative AI (GenAI) promises to drastically reduce the time and costs associated with use cases inked to automation and intelligence. Companies are now beginning to assess early proofs of concept (POCs) and production rollouts begun in 2023 and prioritizing workforce improvements. As organizations become more experienced with GenAI, they are coming to recognize it as a major new corporate workload that requires dedicated infrastructure and partner strategies to support adoption and deployment.

This survey provides key findings from IDC's 2024 Future Enterprise Resiliency and Spending (FERS) Survey, Wave 4, which focuses on issues related to GenAI adoption and its implications for IT investment, the emergence of Gen AI as a strategic workload, success rate assessments of early POC/production rollouts, and partnering decisions. It is the second of four (quarterly) IDC documents based on GenAI-centric FERS Surveys that will investigate the implications of GenAI across regions, technologies, and industries. This survey of 889 respondents in North America, Asia/Pacific, and Western Europe was conducted in April 2024 while IT leaders were executing initial GenAI plans and making longer-term strategic choices.

The Issues Companies Face When Considering a Consumption Pricing Model

Mark Thomason — Mon, 03 Jun 2024 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey Spotlight leverages results from IDC's SaaSPath Survey over six years (2019–2024) to show trends in responses. SaaSPath is IDC's premiere SaaS application global benchmarking web survey, which was fielded in March 2024 and returned 2,862 respondents across 12 countries. SaaSPath covers 23 enterprise SaaS applications and looks at the mind and journey of buyers and their preferences around pricing, packaging, and purchasing channels; provides analysis of how companies are approaching and utilizing the cloud for these applications; and presents detailed vendor rating and comparisons across all major vendors. Survey topics include adoption of specific cloud workloads, maturity, drivers for cloud adoption, spending decisions, and questions about cloud marketplaces.

The data shown in this IDC Survey Spotlight focuses on the segment of 125 respondents that use a subscription management/billing application and examines the issues companies face when considering a consumption pricing model.

What the Supreme Court's CFPB Ruling Means for Lenders

Raymond Pucci — Sun, 02 Jun 2024 04:00:00 GMT

As discussed in a recent article from Bloomberg Law, a long-awaited U.S. Supreme Court decision has just ruled that the current funding method of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is constitutional. The ruling overturns a lower court's 2022 decision that the creation of the CFPB violated the Constitution's separation of powers provision, thereby clearing the way for the agency to continue its regulatory and enforcement authority on financial markets, especially in lending and credit, with significant impact on consumers, small businesses, and financial services providers.

IDC Market Glance: Office of the CFO for Estimating and Pricing, 2Q24

Heather Herbst — Wed, 15 May 2024 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Glance provides vendors that offer capabilities to support the estimating and pricing capabilities within the Offer/Order-to-Cash Operational Value Stream. Estimating and pricing has a significant impact on the cash flow of an organization, but often the technology solutions for the capabilities are not invested in; we wanted to highlight the different capabilities to the technology vendors that offer them.

Worldwide Monthly Technology Investment Monitor, March 2024: Economic/IT Spending Expectations for 2024, Digital Infrastructure, Accelerated Computing, and Future of Work

Rick Villars, Mary Johnston Turner, Anu Mehta — Wed, 15 May 2024 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey presents IDC's Worldwide Monthly Technology Investment Monitor for March 2024.

IT leaders' concerns about economic disruptions restricting technology investment plans in 2024 are lower than in 2023, but the leaders are still cautious. The biggest change is a strong intention to increase investments in areas related to generative AI (GenAI). In March 2024, IDC connected with IT leaders around the world to gain an insight into how they continue to navigate disruptions and prioritize technology investments, with a focus on their digital infrastructure investments, plans for accessing accelerated computing capacity, and prioritizing workforce improvements.

In IDC's 2024 Future Enterprise Resiliency and Spending Survey, Wave 3, IDC asked 887 IT decision-makers in North America, Asia/Pacific, and Western Europe to indicate how concerns about inflation, recession skills shortages, GenAI, and other developments are affecting technology investments for the next year.

IDC: Indian Smartphone Market Grew by 11% YoY in 1Q24 to 34 Million Units

Tue, 14 May 2024 04:00:00 GMT

INDIA, 14 May 2024 – According to the International Data Corporation ’s (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker , India’s smartphone market shipped 34 million smartphones in 1Q24, with 11.5% growth YoY (year-over-year), making it the third consecutive quarter of growth in shipments.

Economic Outlook and Dedicated Infrastructure: Flexible Consumption Preferences for GenAI, 2Q24

Lara Greden — Wed, 08 May 2024 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey provides key findings from IDC's 2024 Future Enterprise Resiliency and Spending (FERS) Survey, Wave 2, which includes IT spending expectations for GenAI in 2024. This survey of 896 respondents in North America, Asia/Pacific, and Western Europe was conducted in February 2024. The findings presented here focus on flexible consumption and financing for dedicated IT infrastructure for GenAI.

Preference for OEM Vendors and Partners When Selecting an As-a-Service/Flexible Consumption Provider for IT Infrastructure

Lara Greden — Thu, 25 Apr 2024 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey Spotlight answers the following question: When evaluating flexible as-a-service (XaaS) consumption models for IT infrastructure, do companies prefer to work with the OEM directly or a partner?

In 1Q24 (January 2024), IDC conducted a survey of 600 IT decision-makers to understand their view of as-a-service offers for IT infrastructure, including Dell APEX, HPE GreenLake, Pure Storage Evergreen, Leonvo TruScale, Google Anthos, Cisco Plus, NetApp KeyStone, and AWS Outposts. They represented a cross-section of industry verticals from the following countries: Australia, Brazil, Germany, India, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

IDC shares survey data and guidance for as-a-service infrastructure providers.