Social Business Team

Takashi Manabe

Senior Research Director, Software/Service Solutions, Data & Analytics, IDC Japan

Lewis Ward

Research Director, XR, Gaming, and Interactive 3D Software

Alejandro Florean

Vice President Consulting & Strategic Solutions, Latin America

Yoko Ono

Research Manager, Software & Services, Research, IDC Japan

Wayne Kurtzman

Research Vice President, Social, Communities and Collaboration

New Research


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    Despite a vigilant global consensus, Latin American CEOs and C-suites, usually resilient executives, are more optimistic; many of these business leaders believe it is essential to focus on being competitive and resilient to manage external ...
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    This IDC study focuses on the recent announcements, many AI focused, from Google, Microsoft, Slack and Zoom, including the analysis of the Google and Microsoft developer conferences, with a focus on collaboration applications. "Any sufficie...
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    Meta unveiled a new VR game subscription service, Meta Quest+, on Monday, June 26. While we believe the service will help lift engagement among Quest 2 and Quest 3 subscribers in late 2023, we doubt it'll attract a high share of Quest users...
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    This IDC Survey primarily summarizes findings from IDC's 3Q22 survey of U.S. gamers as it relates to PC/Mac and home console gamer accessory and peripheral purchases. Demographics of PC and console accessory/peripheral buyers are examined t...
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    League of Legends' (LoL's) North America League Championship Series (LCS) 2023 Summer season wrapped up its first week of competition last Friday in Los Angeles. The important esports tournament was delayed by two weeks and was nearly cance...
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    Over 19,000 people attended the Cisco Live event in Las Vegas, Nevada, June 4–8, 2023. Cisco focused on the future of work with pillars in security, AI, manageability, and sustainability. Cisco is actively reimagining collaboration, work an...
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    This IDC Perspective examines three video games that appear to have especially robust creator economies in 2023: Roblox, Minecraft, and Fortnite. More specially, it contrasts how the creator economies of Roblox Corp.'s Roblox Studio, Micros...
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    This IDC Survey highlights collaboration-related insights from IDC's Worldwide Monthly Technology Investment Monitor. The survey looked at the planned IT investments of 888 IT leaders in North America, Asia/Pacific (AP), and Western Europe ...
  • By:  Wayne Kurtzman Loading

    This IDC Survey Spotlight includes a portion of the global data with insights for the enterprise and technology vendors. The use of AI has become among the top priorities of businesses seeking new ways to drive productivity. A recent IDC's ...
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    This IDC study forecasts home video game console hardware, software, and services market through 2027 worldwide. 7th-, 8th-, 9th-, and 10th-gen consoles are considered in grouped categories. Packaged game discs/cards are broken out from dig...

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