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TCS and AWS: Empowering Enterprises with AI

David Tapper, Leslie Rosenberg, Jeff Newton, Stephen Elliot, Peter Marston — Sat, 13 Sep 2025 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Note provides details of TCS' Analyst Day held in New York City on July 14, 2025. The event was focused on the "future of modernization powered by agentic AI" and involved highlighting TCS' partnership with AWS, keynote speeches, customer panels, and topics spanning AI, modernization, and cloud.

IDC's Managed Cloud View 2025: Executive Summary — Global Study on Buyer Needs and Requirements for Managed Cloud Services

David Tapper — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Presentation provides an executive summary of the worldwide findings for IDC's 2025 Worldwide Managed Cloud View Survey. This survey involved polling more than 1,500 organizations, which included both IT and LOB respondents, across 6 countries and a broad range of industries, to collect information on adoption and use of managed cloud services by enterprises and organizations. Key topics covered in this executive summary focus on managed cloud services that involve sourcing strategy for public clouds, preferred asset distribution across public clouds, value and requirements of cloud management platforms, governance, continuous innovation, hybrid cloud and resiliency, and required capabilities. This IDC Market Presentation provides IDC's analysis of these results and includes strategic messages, top 10 key highlights, implications for service providers (SPs), and IDC's essential guidance for managed SPs.

"This IDC Market Presentation provides insight into the critical needs of buyers and potential buyers of managed cloud services that will help managed SPs create a robust governance structure, effectively deploy multicloud operations and matrix management, define the value that managed cloud services need to support, develop road maps for use of automation and standards, and create a new operating model that utilizes an integrated digital services supply chain that includes inventory management, all of which, ultimately, should help drive success in this highly dynamic market," said David Tapper, VP, Outsourcing and Managed Cloud Services at IDC.

Market Analysis Perspective: Japan Digital Infrastructure Strategies, 2025

Yukihisa Hode — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 04:00:00 GMT

本IDC Market Analysis Perspective（MAP）は、国内のデジタルインフラストラクチャ戦略やITインフラ市場に関する現状と将来の動向をまとめたものである。本プレゼンテーションでは、市場動向と競合分析、ユーザー企業の最新動向を分析している。また、市場予測を含めた市場に対する将来の展望について考察し、ITサプライヤーに対する提言を示している。

The 2025 Public Cloud IaaS Trust Perception Index: Measuring Customer Perceptions of Trustworthiness for Public Cloud IaaS Providers

Grace Trinidad, Frank Dickson — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey details the results of the 2025 Public Cloud IaaS Trust Perception Index. The IDC Trust Perception Index is a survey tool intended to evaluate organizations' perceived trust position relative to their marketplace peers. In this research on public cloud IaaS providers, we explore the core components critical to trust within the areas of security, privacy, compliance, and ESG. The study was conducted in English, French, German, and Spanish in 12 countries via web survey, resulting in a total of 1,020 responses from public cloud IaaS customers. Detailed study demographics and survey methodology can be found in the appendix.

Found in this IDC Survey:

The public cloud IaaS vendor with the greatest trust from their customers
Customers perceived public cloud IaaS vendor strength and weaknesses in the areas of security, privacy, compliance, and ESG
Public cloud IaaS vendors that were considered but not selected by customer respondents

Worldwide Application Protection and Availability Forecast, 2025–2029: Addressing AI Risk

Christopher Rodriguez — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC study presents the worldwide application protection and availability market forecast for the 2024–2029 period.

"Web applications and APIs are more important than ever for the digital business," said Christopher Rodriguez, research director, Application Protection and Fraud at IDC. "The protection of these applications is critical to business success and requires a fine-balanced security strategy that does not hinder the user experience in any way."

2025 Canadian Business Communications Spending Survey Results: Growth Stalls and U.S. Tariffs Drive Preference for Canadian and Non–United States Technology Providers

Praveen Datta — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey focuses on overall communications spend as well as expectations for increasing or decreasing spend on specific communications services, segmented by business size, industry, and region for Canadian enterprises. Details on spending are provided for wireline voice, UCC, WAN, internet, SD-WAN, and wireless services.

IDC Canada surveyed over 360 Canadian businesses in July 2025, across all regions, industries, and business sizes to capture business sentiment on communications spending.

Canadian business intentions on spending with United States and Canadian and non–United States technology vendors are explored in light of recent tariffs and the political climate between Canada and the United States.

This is a refresh of IDC's annual communications survey of enterprises of all size segments, across all regions and vertical markets in Canada. IDC is publishing multiple topic–focused survey documents from our annual survey to share more findings and to help our users find relevant topic-based data more easily.

There is a considerable volume of data from our annual survey beyond what is provided in this presentation and more detailed crosstabs can also be provided. We encourage you to contact your IDC account representative if you have any specific questions about a market or segment of interest.

Asia/Pacific Enterprise Cloud Architecture Preferences and Infrastructure Modernization Priorities, 2025

Pushkaraksh Shanbhag — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey presents insights from the IDC’s Asia/Pacific IT and Business Services Sourcing Survey, 2H25. The survey of 560 Asia/Pacific enterprises was designed to identify key regional trends around the sourcing of a diversity of cloud platforms, IT services, and digital infrastructure. Specifically, this report helps build understanding of trends around multicloud and hybrid cloud adoption and enterprise priorities, the state of hybrid cloud in Asia/Pacific, key requirements of enterprises on their hybrid cloud journey, vendor types of importance to enterprise cloud strategy, and infra modernization priorities of enterprises filtered by vendor types identified as most important to cloud strategy.

BMC Helix London Roadshow 2025: BMC Helix Showcases Agentic AI-Infused Portfolio to Deliver Resilience, ROI, and IT Productivity

Martina Longo, Archana Venkatraman — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Note outlines BMC Helix’s product strategy and roadmap, as well as the integration of agentic AI into its ServiceOps platform. It details how agentic AI, including HelixGPT, has the potential to transform various roles within IT operations by providing autonomous and decision-making capabilities at scale and speed.

IDC MarketScape: Asia/Pacific Unified AI Platforms 2025 Vendor Assessment

Surjyadeb Goswami, Deepika Giri, Daeil Chun, Swapnil Shende — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC study represents a vendor assessment of the unified AI platform for Asia/Pacific region through the IDC MarketScape model. This assessment discusses both quantitative and qualitative characteristics that explain success in the unified AI platform market. This IDC MarketScape covers a variety of vendors participating in the unified AI platform space. The evaluation is based on a comprehensive and rigorous framework that assesses vendors relative to the criteria and to one another and highlights the factors expected to be the most influential for success in the market in both the short term and the long term.

"Technology is evolving rapidly, with new forms of AI emerging and future applications blending generative and traditional AI. In this dynamic environment, a unified AI platform becomes essential — supporting the full life cycle of GenAI, predictive, prescriptive, and emerging models while orchestrating across data platforms, infrastructure, and governance. Designed to be open, modular, and interoperable, it adapts to every stage of the enterprise AI journey. As the ecosystem evolves, vendors from diverse backgrounds — infrastructure, cloud, software as a service (SaaS), and data platforms — are converging, creating a powerful, multidimensional foundation for enterprise AI," says Deepika Giri, associate vice president, AI & Data Research, IDC Asia/Pacific.

IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Media Production, Distribution, and Monetization Integrated Cloud Solutions 2025 Vendor Assessment

Alex Holtz — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC study evaluates vendors offering "unified" integrated cloud solutions for media production, distribution, and monetization by 2025. It highlights the challenges media companies face, such as achieving profitability, rising content costs, technological shifts, and regulatory pressures. The study emphasizes the importance of leveraging cloud infrastructure, AI, and data insights to streamline operations, enhance viewer engagement, and develop sustainable monetization models. Vendors are assessed based on their capabilities and strategies to address these evolving industry needs. Emphasis is placed on prioritizing the integration of cloud-native solutions to streamline and unify production, distribution, and monetization processes, leveraging AI and automation to enhance operational efficiency and audience engagement.

"Prioritizing the integration of cloud-native solutions to streamline and unify production, distribution, and monetization processes, leveraging AI and automation to enhance operational efficiency and audience engagement is a necessity to compete effectively especially when targeting financial objectives that are challenging in today's streaming world," stated Alex Holtz, research director, Worldwide Media and Entertainment Digital Strategies. "Setting expectations partnering with consultants, systems integrators, and technology vendors that have validated experience and the financial knowledge to develop a business plan focused on total cost of ownership, breakeven, and profitability objectives from initial concept ideation through solution deployment including road map enhancements through the introduction of AI and data insights throughout the business cycle for intelligent decisioning is paramount to success."