rsshardware

Building Outcome-Based Pricing Models for Financial Applications: Strategies and Best Practices

Tiffany McCormick, Kevin Permenter — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Perspective examines outcome-based pricing models in financial software, emphasizing alignment of vendor compensation with customer success via micro-KPIs. It outlines strategies for metric selection, technology integration, and flexible pricing to enhance efficiency and customer loyalty.

"Where it makes sense, shift from selling software features to delivering measurable financial outcomes. Outcome-based pricing aligns vendor success with customer value, transforming partnerships in the financial software industry." — Kevin Permenter, research director, Financial Applications, IDC

European Emerging Technologies Radar and Investment Plans: A Deep Dive into IDC’s 2025 Emerging Technology Survey Results

Lapo Fioretti — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey investigates the latest trends in the European emerging technologies market, assessing adoption rates and plans across organizations, investments, drivers and barriers to adoption, and the key personas involved in the decision-making process around emerging technologies. The study is based on IDC's Emerging Technologies Survey, September 2025, carried out among 370 European organizations.

The 2025 edition of IDC’s Emerging Tech Radar distills survey responses from hundreds of European enterprises into a single, actionable view of the region’s innovation landscape. Forty-four emerging technologies are mapped across seven thematic clusters: emerging AI, connectivity, augmented experiences, security and payments, computing, autonomous systems, and advanced materials.

HP Nio and the Future of Industrial Print: AI-Driven Transformation in Label and Packaging Production

Roberto Alunni — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Note explores how the launch of HP Nio marks a strategic shift toward the use of AI within the industrial print ecosystem. The report explains what HP Nio is and outlines IDC’s opinion on how it will impact the market.

Industry Buyers Handbook: Americas Financial Services, 2025

Marc DeCastro, Jose Ignacio Diaz, Nigel Wallis — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Industry Buyers Handbook aims to help technology vendors understand the areas of technology investments of financial organizations in the Americas. Vendors can use this IDC Industry Buyers Handbook to:

Align the company's proposition to the buyer's tech priorities as they relate to domain processes
Position their technology offering and innovation capabilities to respond to the buyer's business transformation objectives

Vendor executives in areas including marketing, sales, and product strategy can leverage the insights in this Industry Buyers Handbook to inform and formulate their approaches to buyers in the Americas financial services organizations. The insights are largely based on IDC survey data, as well as senior IDC analysts' knowledge, research, and conversations with key industry players.

"As they navigate the evolving competitive landscape, financial services organizations in the Americas are investing in solutions to increase efficiency, improve customer and employee experiences, root out bad actors, ensure compliance with increasing regulatory requirements, and secure new revenue opportunities," says Marc DeCastro, research director, IDC Financial Insights.

Industry Buyers Handbook: European Governments, 2025

Remi Letemple, Jose Ignacio Diaz, Nigel Wallis — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Industry Buyers Handbook aims to help technology vendors understand the areas of technology investments of European governments. Vendors can use IDC Industry Buyers Handbook to:

Align the company's proposition to the buyer's tech priorities as they relate to domain processes.
Position the technology offering and innovation capabilities to respond to the buyer's business transformation objectives.

Technology vendor executives in areas including marketing, sales, and product strategy can leverage insights from this Industry Buyers Handbook to inform and formulate their approach with buyers within the European public sector industry. The insight provided in this Industry Buyers Handbook not only is largely based on IDC survey data but also leverages senior IDC analysts' knowledge, IDC research, and ongoing conversations with key industry players.

"When every priority is critical — from AI to citizen experience to cybersecurity to sustainability — governments face the challenge of navigating complexity without a clear road map. In this environment, clarity, focus, and strategic alignment are not just helpful — they're essential," says Remi Letemple, Worldwide lead for Industry Insights Program, IDC Government Insights.

Worldwide Macro and Geopolitical Impact on Sustainability Among ICT Users

Vladimir Kroa — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey presents a consolidated view of four months of survey data that IDC collected from May to August 2025, examining organizations' sustainability strategies and related IT spend in the context of various geopolitical and macroeconomic influences. The analysis helps IT vendors understand the current sentiment and focus areas of their most critical buyer audiences. It dissects responses by various topic areas and technology segments (e.g., sustainability software and sustainable IT infrastructure, including various subsegments).

How Have Changes in the Geopolitical Landscape Impacted Organizational Sustainability and Sustainability Software Spend?

Amy Cravens — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey Spotlight highlights the results of IDC's 2025 Macro Impacts on Sustainability Survey. The survey reveals that geopolitical events are accelerating — not hindering — organizational ESG commitments. Amid global geopolitical shifts, organizations are doubling down on sustainability and sustainability software investments, recognizing the critical role these tools play in managing long-term risk and securing market access. Growth in spending is concentrated in areas like data management, ESG reporting, carbon accounting, supplier sustainability, and emerging AI-driven solutions that accelerate progress toward sustainability goals

IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Enterprise Wireless LAN 2025 Vendor Assessment

Brandon Butler, Len Padilla — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC study provides a quantitative and qualitative assessment of vendors in the worldwide enterprise WLAN market. The research assesses the strategies and capabilities of 14 enterprise-class WLAN vendors that have qualified for inclusion in this study, based on annualized revenue and geographic presence. This study also includes 4 "vendors to watch" that did not qualify as full participants but represent innovative players in the market.

"WLAN is a cornerstone of organizations' access-layer campus and branch connectivity strategy, powering a range of employee, customer, and guest digital experiences while enabling secure, reliable, and efficient connectivity for organizations' mission-critical applications and services. Meanwhile, new standards and unlicensed spectrum, AI-powered networking, and platform-based approaches make the WLAN market dynamic, competitive, and innovative. This document is meant to provide enterprises with a qualitative assessment of vendors in the WLAN market to aid their journeys in finding a WLAN partner for accelerating their digital and network transformation goals," says Brandon Butler, senior research manager, IDC's Enterprise Networks, and Len Padilla, senior research director, IDC's European Networking and Life-Cycle Services.

Market Analysis Perspective: Worldwide Intelligent Cloud and Edge Operations with FinOps, 2025

Jevin Jensen — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Analysis Perspective provides insight into the current and future state of the intelligent cloud and edge operations with FinOps for 2025. It includes an overview of the current market landscape, technology buyer perspective, a market outlook, and IDC's advice for technology suppliers in this market.

U.S. Business Wireline Telecommunications Services Forecast, 2025–2029

Denise Lund, Avinash Naga, Courtney Munroe — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC presentation analyzes the U.S. business wireline telecommunications services market. In addition to presenting key trends, the presentation forecasts business wireline voice and data services revenue through 2029.

"U.S. business wireline telecom services revenue will continue to decline by 2029," said Denise Lund, research vice president, Worldwide Telecom and Unified Communications at IDC. "But together, the IP voice and broadband segments will keep the five-year CAGR for the market above water for providers that adapt and lean into the growth areas tied to business needs of the future."