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ANZ Digital Ecosystem Survey 2024: Changes in Sourcing, Budgets, Selection Criteria and Satisfaction

Linus Lai — Fri, 28 Jun 2024 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey uncovers shifts in sourcing priorities toward outsourced infrastructure, data, applications, and security services. Budgets are increasing, with the net difference between increasing and decreasing budgets 62% higher than last year. Analytics/data science and application development and modernisation are the most likely candidates for insourcing in this year's results. The area in which changes to SPs are most likely to happen are in hybrid cloud managed services (migration, transformation, and consulting) as they seek better technical capabilities or as contracts are up for renewal. The importance of data governance and management capabilities in SP evaluation is a new entry thanks to the expansion of GenAI. As organisations move from proof of concepts to production, concerns about jeopardising the control of data and intellectual property assets have led to delays. As a result, more effort needs to be put in place for data security, privacy, and trust and AI systems' use of private data. IDC has combined all 440 enterprise responses into one report format with country and segment analyses where appropriate. This is the third report that provides a deep dive into the IT ecosystem of Australia and New Zealand and provides an in-depth analysis of changes in IT SPs' mindshare and sourcing preferences.

Asia/Pacific (Excluding Japan) Datacenter Deployment Model and Spend Forecast, 2024–2028

Mikhail Jaura, William Lee — Fri, 28 Jun 2024 04:00:00 GMT

This APEJ Datacenter Deployment Model and Spend Forecast for 2024–2028 highlights significant growth driven by digital transformation (DX) and generative AI (GenAI), with a projected increase in DC capacity to meet the demands of cloud services, AI applications, and remote work. However, challenges, such as power scarcity and supply chain disruptions, pose inhibitors to this growth. The key developments include the adoption of NVIDIA's Blackwell platform and liquid cooling technologies, indicating a shift toward more efficient and sustainable DC operations.

"Digital transformation and GenAI are reshaping datacenters, driving unprecedented growth and technological advancements in the Asia/Pacific region," says Mikhail Jaura, senior research analyst, Cloud and Datacenter services, IDC Asia/Pacific.

Bridging Strategy and Execution, 2024 — How Strategy and Consulting Practice Enhances Engineering Engagements

Abhishek Mukherjee — Fri, 28 Jun 2024 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Presentation showcases insights on the technology buyer behavior while opting for product engineering, life-cycle management, and operational technology services and how strategy consulting and advisory practice harness abridging the gap between business needs and engineering solution (see Importance of Partnership Ecosystem for Engineering Service Providers, #US51625824, June 2024). This presentation features data points from IDC's 2023 Worldwide Services Path Survey.

"It is imperative for engineering service providers to focus on connecting the business goal with the engineering problem. Building a robust strategy and consulting practice enables engineering service providers not only to abridge the gap but also ensure a faster turnaround in closing engineering services deals, thus adding significant value to the engineering outcome," said Abhishek Mukherjee, research manager, Digital Engineering and Operational Technology Services at IDC.

European Managed Services Market Shares, 2023: Single-Digit Growth Underscores Regained Momentum

Francesca Ciarletta — Fri, 28 Jun 2024 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Share analyzes the European (Western Europe and Central and Eastern Europe) managed services market in 2023.

"The managed services market in Europe showed resiliency in 2023, despite discretionary spending being challenged by an uncertain economic environment, which lead to an upper single digit growth," said Francesca Ciarletta, research manager, European Managed Cloud Services.

IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Business Consulting Services 2024 Vendor Assessment

Bill Latshaw — Fri, 28 Jun 2024 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC study assesses the vendor performance of business consulting services providers worldwide. Business consulting providers are all well accustomed to partnering with their clients and have developed a great many techniques, training designs, points of view, and practices for working with their clients. Where partnering becomes difficult for clients and providers is in managing this partnership as the phases and dynamics of projects change. Providers and clients must communicate about the reasoning, manner, and approach of their partnership for the best results. At times, partnership requires collaboration and others more direct provider control to succeed. As conditions shift and partnering styles change, the best business consultancies are clear and compassionate in moving to new ways of working.

"Choosing a business consulting provider partner to collaborate with to produce transformational outcomes is not easy. When determining the best provider, consider the time and energy your workforce will need to spend focusing on the business transformation, opposed to other fruitful endeavors, so that you have a true understanding of the importance of partnering with a provider that understands and can meet your current and future needs, not just the provider's cost. When choosing the most appropriate provider for your project, determine whether the provider has the right level of capabilities and experience for your needs and if they have the type of collaboration and appropriate level of directness to produce your desired outcomes." — Bill Latshaw, research director, Worldwide Business Consulting Services at IDC

IDC PlanScape: Emerging Trends Shaping Datacenter Colocation

Courtney Munroe, Avinash Naga — Fri, 28 Jun 2024 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC PlanScape provides an overview of benefits, emerging trends, usage of AI, and its impact on colocation datacenters.

"Emerging trends such as GenAI and edge computing are reshaping the colocation landscape. While AI applications are increasing power demands, they also create new opportunities for colocation datacenter providers, such as optimizing resource utilization, enhancing energy efficiency, and strengthening security and compliance within datacenters," according to Avinash Naga, research manager of Cloud Communications and Datacenter Services at IDC.

Japan IT Services Forecast by Vertical Segment, 2024–2028

Takuya Uemura — Fri, 28 Jun 2024 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Forecast covers the overview and trends of the Japan IT services market. It analyzes user companies by 18 industry segments (subcategories), as well as IT services spending by 6 industry segments (main categories), and 3 service segments (subcategories). We predict the market size and growth rate for each market segment from 2024 to 2028. Moreover, the report adds IDC recommendations for service vendors. IDC expects the market to remain strong during the forecast period from 2024 to 2028, supported by active demand from domestic companies seeking to digitalize their businesses in both the modernization of existing systems and systems for creating new digital innovations.

Takuya Uemura, group manager of Software and Services at IDC Japan, said, "Japan companies are modernizing their existing systems and increasing investments in new systems that will create digital innovation in order to digitalize their businesses across the board. At the same time, spending on traditional IT continues to decline. IT service vendors are not only busy responding to increased demand, but they also need to actively transform their business portfolios to adapt to these market changes."

This is the English translation of the Japanese document number JPJ50709924.

The Criticality of Engineering Data in the Operations Digital Thread

Jonathan Lang — Fri, 28 Jun 2024 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Perspective explores the importance of engineering data and operations data exchange across both roles. As enterprises move to expand the use of AI and advanced analytics capabilities supporting digital twins, a cross-functional data exchange capability is increasingly required to take advantage of new technology capabilities.

"Ask anyone in either role and they will bemoan the challenges of getting necessary data from the other team," says Jonathan Lang, research director, Worldwide IT/OT Convergence Strategies at IDC. "Despite these teams managing interdependent processes along the internal value chain, the systems and data meaningful to each remain hidden in many cases."

Worldwide Business Consulting Services Client Value Survey, 2024

Bill Latshaw — Fri, 28 Jun 2024 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey examines the results of IDC's 2024 Worldwide Business Consulting Services Client Value Survey. IDC's Worldwide Business Consulting Services program conducted a survey in April 2024. The goal of the survey was to get an updated view on business priorities, industry and regional trends, and consulting characteristics best associated with successful business consulting engagements and executive-level opinions of business consulting providers worldwide.

中国数据中心即服务市场评估，2024

Lee Zhang — Fri, 28 Jun 2024 04:00:00 GMT

本IDC看法针对中国数据中心即服务市场的发展现状进行了调研，明确了最终用户对于DCaaS方案的技术需求，阐述了市场中各技术服务提供商的服务方案和优势，并对未来中国数据中心即服务市场发展趋势等内容给出了具体的观点和建议。

“近年来，数据和AI驱动企业业务发展的趋势愈发明显，企业对于数据中心作为IT基础设施支撑底座的重要性更加明确，数据中心即服务逐渐成为企业扩展IT基础设施的新形态。”——IDC中国负责云基础架构研究的高级研究经理张犁表示。