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How Organizations Modernize Applicant Tracking System Strategy Across Regions and Company Sizes?

Abhinav Shrivastava — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey Spotlight analyzes global applicant tracking system (ATS) adoption trends, highlighting best-of-breed dominance in EMEA and APAC, and suite-based HCM preference in North America. It highlights shifting talent acquisition strategies toward continuous, skills-based approaches and identifies significant market opportunities among organizations still using in-house or no ATS solutions.

IDC FutureScape: Worldwide Data and Analytics 2026 Predictions — Asia/Pacific (Excluding Japan) Implications

Deepika Giri, Swapnil Shende — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC FutureScape presentation discusses the implications of IDC FutureScape: Worldwide Data and Analytics 2026 Predictions (IDC #US53860225, October 2025) in Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) (APEJ). Considering the current trends in technology and key market drivers, each prediction is outlined with a timeline projection, an assessment of cost and/or complexity, and its potential organizational impact in APEJ. The report offers a forward-looking perspective on regional trends, IT and business implications, and guidance for technology buyers to help them better understand the evolving marketplace.

IDC PeerScape: Best Practices for Data Integration

Stewart Bond — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC PeerScape explores best practices derived from in-depth interviews with organizations implementing modern data integration software platforms across industries including financial services, manufacturing, life sciences, and public sector.

The research identifies five recurring challenges and corresponding practices that have proven critical for success in developing, deploying, and scaling data integration initiatives.

"Modern data integration isn't just about connecting systems, it's about connecting people, processes, and purpose," said Stewart Bond, research vice president, Data Intelligence and Integration Software, IDC. "Organizations that achieved the greatest success treated integration as a managed business capability, not a technical project. A disciplined, incremental approach consistently delivered trusted data at scale and accelerated time to value."

North American Private Wireless Network Usage by Size of Organization

Paul Hughes — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC Tech Buyer Survey Spotlight highlights data from IDC's North America Network Survey, with 411 respondents with either influence or decision-making capabilities from across 16 industries.

Nearly one-fourth of North American businesses over 100 employees are currently using a private wireless network to support their connectivity needs. Enterprises with 1,000–4,999 employees have the largest share of usage, at 31%. Over 50% of businesses are either evaluating usage or planning to invest in private wireless within the next two years.

The Future of Movement Data: Market, Technology, and Competitive Landscape

Lynne Schneider — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC Perspective explores the movement data ecosystem, key drivers, and future opportunities and challenges. Movement and geolocation data are rapidly transforming industries by enabling granular, real-time insights for retail, logistics, urban planning, and security. Driven by advances in data aggregation, AI analytics, and global coverage, the market is consolidating and innovating, yet faces challenges in data quality, privacy, and usability. Success will depend on technical excellence, ecosystem partnerships, and privacy-first solutions to unlock sustainable value for both enterprises and public sector organizations.

"Movement data is reshaping industries — yet its true power lies in how we balance innovation, privacy, and trust to unlock actionable intelligence for all." — Lynne Schneider, research director, Data Collaboration and Monetization, Location and Geospatial Intelligence, IDC

Adoption of Retail Technologies in Europe — Trends and Insights

Margot Juros, Cristiano Quattrini — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation summarizes key findings from IDC's Retail Technologies and Business Processes Trends Survey, 2025.

Its different chapters cover business pressures and digital maturity, measuring outcomes and setting investment priorities, and the implementation of AI and generative AI — from ambition to execution. It also explores customer experience and omni-channel strategies, store and supply chain transformation, and the need to build secure and agile infrastructure.

"European retailers are moving beyond the foundations of digital transformation toward a new phase defined by intelligence, integration, and customer-centric agility. The convergence of AI, cloud, and data-driven architectures is enabling a more adaptive and predictive retail model — one capable of balancing operational efficiency with innovation at scale. Those retailers that successfully unify their technology strategy with business execution will set the pace for a more resilient and insight-led retail future." — Cristiano Quattrini, senior associate advisor, IDC Retail Insights

Advancing Autonomous Network Evolution Through an Integrated Approach

Swathi Arunaa, Nikhil Batra — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC Perspective highlights the need for communication SPs to adopt integrated, data-driven strategies for advancing autonomous network evolution. As communications SPs face rising complexity, operational costs, and customer expectations, leveraging AI and automation is essential. The report emphasizes the importance of an integrated, data-driven approach that transforms complexity into opportunity for communication SPs.

"Communications SPs, vendors, and standard bodies continue to emphasize improving automation capabilities. However, progress is often hindered by data silos and the complexities of multivendor and multidomain integration. The priority now is to adopt an integrated approach to build the right foundations in a manner that shifts the use cases from pilot to production and accelerates future automation use cases to realize autonomy," says Swathi Arunaa, senior research analyst, telecom and Internet of Things (IoT), IDC Asia/Pacific.

IDC MarketScape: Asia/Pacific Managed SD-WAN/SASE Services 2025–2026 Vendor Assessment

Nikhil Batra, Sakshi Grover — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC study presents an assessment of 10 communications SPs that provide managed SD-WAN and SASE services in the Asia/Pacific region. The assessment is based on their current capabilities, go-to-market (GTM) strategies, growth, innovation, and plans for delivering managed software-defined WAN (SD-WAN) and secure access service edge (SASE) services. This is an evolution of the IDC MarketScape: Asia/Pacific Managed SD-WAN/SASE Services 2024–2025 Vendor Assessment in 2024, and the second comprehensive analysis by IDC in a rapidly evolving market. It provides insights into enterprises deciding on the adoption of managed SASE services in Asia/Pacific.

“The Asia/Pacific region has witnessed a significant shift in software-defined networking, moving from SD-WAN to a more comprehensive range of SASE framework-based solutions. This evolution is driven by the increasing demand from enterprises for flexible, reliable, and secure networking solutions. To this end, communications SPs are offering a broader range of services, including SASE framework–driven solutions that combine networking and security capabilities. However, not all offerings are created equal, and various service providers are positioning themselves in different ways to stand out in a highly competitive market,” says Nikhil Batra, senior research director, IDC Asia/Pacific Telecom Practice.

IDC MarketScape: Worldwide AI-Enabled Contact Center Workforce Engagement Management 2025–2026 Vendor Assessment

Lou Reinemann — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC MarketScape assesses global vendors in AI-enabled contact center workforce engagement management for 2025–2026, highlighting rapid innovation driven by AI, platform consolidation, and evolving pricing models. The report evaluates 17 vendors based on capabilities, strategy, and market impact, offering technology buyers insights into vendor strengths, challenges, and suitability for digital transformation, operational efficiency, and enhanced agent and customer experiences in modern contact centers.

"AI is redefining contact center workforce engagement tools and processes. Vendors in this space are bringing innovations to market that offer significant productivity improvements for contact center agents and supervisors," says Lou Reinemann, research director for IDC.

IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Intelligent Document Processing Software 2025–2026 Vendor Assessment

Andrew Gens, Amy Machado — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC study represents a vendor assessment of the intelligent document processing (IDP) market across structured, unstructured, and semistructured documents/content through the IDC MarketScape model. The assessment discusses both quantitative and qualitative characteristics that explain key methods for success and differentiation within the market. This IDC MarketScape covers a variety of vendors participating in the IDP space. The evaluation is based on a comprehensive and rigorous framework that assesses vendors relative to the criteria and to one another. It also highlights the factors expected to be the most influential for market success, both in the short term and the long term.

"We are firmly in the GenAI era, with the agentic future rapidly approaching, and IDC has seen a significant evolution in the capabilities and strategies offered by IDP software vendors. Challenges have shifted from addressing the processing of unstructured document use cases to extracting meaningful insights from documents, regardless of structure, and building out end-to-end automation workflows that can fuel enterprise processes with reliable and insightful data. Driven by the ongoing development of new and more sophisticated multimodal generative AI models, the evaluated vendors have been rapidly extending their existing offerings or launching entirely new IDP software products to capitalize on these models' capabilities. With the emergence of so many swiftly advancing AI technologies, many customers are having to race to keep up." — Andrew Gens, senior research analyst, Computer Vision AI Tools and Technologies, IDC