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Industry Buyers Handbook: Asia/Pacific Utilities, 2025

Heriberto Roman, Jean-François Segalotto, Nigel Wallis — Sun, 14 Sep 2025 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Presentation Industry Buyers Handbook aims to help technology vendors understand the areas of technology investments of the Asia/Pacific (AP) utilities industry. Vendors can use this 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
Develop a compelling narrative that resonates with the buyer's requirements

Technology vendor executives in areas including marketing, sales, and product strategy can leverage the insight from this Handbook to inform and formulate their approach with buyers within the utilities sector. The insights provided in this Handbook are largely based on IDC survey data and also leverage senior IDC analysts' knowledge, IDC research, and ongoing conversations with key industry players.

"Asia/Pacific utilities are accelerating digital and ESG transformation, prioritizing operational resilience, workforce modernization, and customer experience — driven by shifting regulatory landscapes and market liberalization across the region," says Jean-François Segalotto, senior associate advisor, IDC Energy Insights.

Semiconductor and the AI Revolution: A Defining Moment

Helen Chiang — Sun, 14 Sep 2025 04:00:00 GMT

The IDC Market Presentation highlights the unprecedented challenges and opportunities for semiconductor market. Geopolitical and tariff issues have brought great impact and uncertainties to the semiconductor market, causing panic in the supply chain. At the same time, AI and edge computing have brought new development opportunities to integrated circuit (IC) design, advanced processes, advanced packaging, and downstream applications. This report discusses opportunities and trends in the semiconductor market, especially on major advanced process and advanced packaging companies and countries from the perspective of the semiconductor supply chain to help build a strategy for this market.

Western Europe Hardcopy Page Volume Market Forecast, 2025–2029

Phil Sargeant — Sun, 14 Sep 2025 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Forecast quantifies the Western Europe hardcopy (printers plus multifunction) page volumes, analyzing issues, trends, and product advances. It contains IDC's review and forecast of the Western Europe page volume market for the home and office segments from 2025 to 2029. Data for 2024 is recorded and data for 2025 to 2029 is forecast.

"Page volumes have been in decline for several years and will continue to contract as demand for the printed page weakens. Factors behind the decline include the impact of digitization and AI as well as the hybrid office working culture that has led to less office footfall over recent years, which in turn has led to reduced page volumes," said Phil Sargeant, senior program director, IDC Imaging, Printing, and Document Solutions.

What We Saw — 2Q25: Trends and Developments in Wide Format and Production Print

Tim Greene — Sun, 14 Sep 2025 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Presentation highlights some of the major developments and new products in the production and large format digital printing markets from the second quarter and first half of 2025. This presentation includes some data on shipments, new products, and financial results, as well as important strategic developments from the quarter.

Worldwide Hard Disk Drive Quarterly Update: 2Q25 Summary and Updated Four-Quarter Outlook

Edward Burns — Sun, 14 Sep 2025 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Presentation, which was given on August 25, 2025, summarizes the hard disk drive (HDD) market results for CY 2Q25. Significant market dynamics, trends, and events are summarized and evaluated in this presentation. Numerous HDD market metrics are tracked, and rolling four-quarter trends are provided. In addition, an update to the four-quarter worldwide HDD forecast outlook is included in the presentation content.

IDC Production and Large Format Print Survey, 2025: A Look at Print Volumes and Profitability

Tim Greene — Sat, 13 Sep 2025 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Presentation illustrates the results of a new survey of 265 United States–based print service providers where we ask about revenue change over the past 12 months, print volume growth over the past 12 months, expectations for print volume change over the next 12 months, and the changes in profitability. These results are indicative of the strength in the U.S. print service provider market.

Brother's New Value Print Program Plus Simplifies MPS Entry for Dealers

Robert Palmer — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Note highlights Brother's recent introduction of the Value Print Program Plus (VPP+) for dealers. Specifically, Brother has enhanced the program by providing free access to a cloud-based device monitoring and management platform called 3manager. Brother has worked to integrate its products directly with 3manager to provide a platform that simplifies entry into managed print services (MPS).

INBOUND 2025 Highlights: HubSpot's Hybrid Human-AI Vision and Data-Driven Advantage

Roger Beharry Lall, Michelle Morgan — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 04:00:00 GMT

HubSpot's INBOUND 2025 announcements helped bolster the company's position as an AI-first CRM for midmarket organizations. The event highlighted over 200 updates focused on unifying data architecture, boosting productivity, and enabling autonomous AI teams. Key launches included the Data Hub for consolidated, clean CRM data; Breeze agents for marketing, sales, and service automation; and new tools to assess and improve AI-generated search visibility. HubSpot also introduced the Loop Marketing framework, a four-stage playbook — Express, Tailor, Amplify, and Evolve — tailored for an AI-driven landscape. Its hybrid pricing model and human-AI team concept aim to broaden adoption, while its context-rich, integrated platform challenges point-solution vendors and consumer LLM tools. Despite pressure from enterprise competitors, HubSpot's data-driven approach, ROI focus, and near-CDP functionality create meaningful differentiation, though attention to privacy, SKU management, and product complexity remains critical for sustained adoption.

Market Analysis Perspective: Worldwide Semiconductor Supply Chain — Foundry Market, 2025

Galen Zeng — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 04:00:00 GMT

This Market Analysis Perspective presents an in-depth analysis on the wafer foundry industry's market dynamics.

"The wafer foundry sector plays a pivotal role within the semiconductor supply chain. Throughout 2024, despite persistent challenges from geopolitical risks and supply chain diversification pressures, the sustained expansion of AI and high-performance computing (HPC) application demand has emerged as the primary driver fueling the robust recovery of the wafer foundry industry. This momentum is projected to extend into 2025, with advanced process nodes optimized for AI applications continuing to attract significant investment and strategic focus. Industry forecasts indicate that the wafer foundry market will achieve strong growth of 21.8% in 2025," says Galen Zeng, senior research manager, IDC Asia/Pacific.

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.