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Google Bets on Artificial Intelligence and Multi-Device Compatibility with Android XR

Ramon T. Llamas — Fri, 13 Dec 2024 05:00:00 GMT

On Thursday, December 12, Google announced the launch of its Android XR with partners Qualcomm and Samsung. The announcement fulfills the promise that Google, Samsung, and Qualcomm jointly announced in 2023, leveraging the technological capabilities each brings. Powered by its Gemini AI and offering operability across glasses and headsets, Android XR aims to democratize XR for the masses. Its first step: build its application library by porting over current ones from the Play Store, offering tools to developers to turn their current Android apps into 3D Android apps, and giving developers additional tools to create new 3D applications from scratch. In addition, Samsung provided a quick glimpse at its XR Headset code-named Project Moohan. Video demonstrations show wearers using Gemini to search for information and running different Google services like YouTube and Google Maps. IDC sees this announcement as a means to helping developers and hardware vendors get more out of Google's own platform generally, and in relation to the XR market specifically, the announcement heralds increased competition and stepped-up innovation among the major platform players.

IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Product Information Management Applications for Commerce 2024–2025 Vendor Assessment

Heather Hershey — Fri, 13 Dec 2024 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC study comprehensively evaluates leading product information management (PIM) solutions for multichannel digital commerce. As the demand for accurate, engaging product content intensifies across B2B and B2C sectors, businesses must adopt advanced PIM systems to meet customer expectations, improve operational efficiency, and drive revenue. This assessment equips technology buyers with the critical insights necessary to identify the best-fit PIM solutions, considering scalability, flexibility, and integration capabilities, among other factors.

The document evaluates 19 vendors, analyzing their ability to deliver robust PIM capabilities such as content syndication, AI-driven analytics, and seamless integration with commerce systems. It also offers actionable guidance for buyers, focusing on scalability, data quality, and global market readiness. By reading this document, buyers gain a strategic framework to navigate the evolving PIM landscape and select a solution that enhances product storytelling, optimizes digital reach, and sustains competitive differentiation.

"Product information management has become a cornerstone of digital commerce, enabling brands to deliver the rich, accurate, and engaging product content that modern buyers demand," says Heather Hershey, director, Digital Commerce Strategy at IDC. "As digital channels proliferate and customer expectations rise, the PIM market continues to evolve, integrating advanced technologies such as AI to support seamless content syndication, personalization, and global scalability. Organizations that invest in robust PIM solutions are better equipped to optimize their digital presence, enhance customer trust, and drive revenue growth across both B2B and B2C ecosystems."

Nokia's SONiC-Enhanced Switching Platform: Powering Next-Generation Data Center Fabric Solution

Ajeet Das — Fri, 13 Dec 2024 05:00:00 GMT

As data centers evolve to handle more complex and diverse workloads, the need for flexible, scalable, and efficient networking solutions becomes paramount. Nokia's commitment to integrating SONiC with its Data Center Switching portfolio provides unmatched flexibility and enables data centers to choose the best solution for their specific needs. Nokia's recent announcement of a five-year expansion of its multi-year agreement to supply Microsoft Azure with datacenter routers and switches further strengthens the large SONiC community and ecosystem for open-source networking infrastructure.

Alianza Acquisition Provides Solid Innovation and Migration Path for Metaswitch Customers

John Byrne — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 05:00:00 GMT

Alianza will acquire the former Metaswitch assets from Microsoft, including voice and communications software services and employees. Metaswitch's products will augment Alianza's broad portfolio of cloud communications offerings and provide a solution for Metaswitch customers facing the prospect of end-of-life decisions on many Metaswitch products.

Bridging the Experience Fulfilment Gap, 2024: Unified Intelligent Experience Orchestration

Sudhir Rajagopal — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation explores how a multilayered approach with intelligence at the core of the customer experience (CX) tech stack can bring the vision of unified experiences closer to reality. The IDC Tech Buyer Presentation also discusses the construct for an intelligent unified experience orchestration that goes beyond a single customer journey and takes an enterprisewide point of view to fulfil customer outcomes while delivering value parity through a cross enterprise CX transformation.

Despite advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities in customer experience technologies, organizations face a trio of challenges to delivering a seamless end-to-end unified customer experience. This stems from complexities in the customer experience technology stack — both within and across layers of the tech stack, an experience fulfilment gap, and competing priorities for CX technology investments.

DXで先行する企業の8割ではデータ活用が浸透しているが、遅行企業は2割に留まる～国内企業のデータ活用と管理の現状調査結果を発表～

Thu, 12 Dec 2024 05:00:00 GMT

Japan, 2024年12月12日 - IT専門調査会社 IDC Japan 株式会社（所在地：東京都千代田区九段北1‐13‐5、代表取締役社長：村橋俊介、Tel代表：03-6897-3812）は、国内ITバイヤー（エンドユーザー）企業のデータ活用とデータ管理の現状についての調査結果を発表しました。これによると、デジタルトランスフォーメーション（DX）／デジタルビジネス（DB）の進展度合い（先行／遅行）とその取り組みの成果の水準（良好／不良）でデータ活用の状況には明らかな差があることが分かりました。

Digital Engineering and Operational Technology Services Case Studies Report, Part 6: AI and GenAI in Product Engineering Services

Abhishek Mukherjee, Mukesh Dialani — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation showcases 18 real-life product engineering services customer case studies where a service provider has leveraged AI/GenAI in their services delivery. Engineering services providers have provided all case studies, and each case study has four components: customer description, business challenges, solution overview, and the value delivered. These examples reflect how engineering services providers can partner with enterprises to augment and accelerate their core business activity including product design, engineering, life-cycle management, operations, and customer management functions.

Employee Experience, Workforce Performance, and Business Success

Thu, 12 Dec 2024 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation represents a compilation of research from the IDC workplace solutions team. It explores the role of employee productivity and employee experience in driving business success, with a specific focus on the role of artificial intelligence.

IDC MarketScape: U.S. Enterprise Medical Imaging 2024–2025 Vendor Assessment

Mutaz Shegewi — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC MarketScape evaluates vendors delivering U.S. enterprise medical imaging solutions for providers by assessing their strategies and capabilities. These solutions transcend traditional medical imaging systems by enabling seamless data sharing, intelligent automation, and operational scalability. Enterprise medical imaging platforms address critical healthcare initiatives such as precision diagnostics, value-based care, remote collaboration, and AI-powered imaging analytics to shift the focus from managing medical images to transforming how healthcare providers work with them to enhance clinical outcomes and operational efficiency.

"Enterprise medical imaging is being redefined by a transformative level of innovation that is happening now and will impact the future of U.S. healthcare," says Mutaz Shegewi, senior research director, IDC Health Insights. "The cloud, for example, is delivering enterprise medical imaging resiliency and scalability in unprecedented ways while AI is paving the way for more diagnostic precision and automated workflows to be infused, and this is all just the beginning. The future promises medical imaging ecosystems that are smarter, more connected, and fully integrated across care teams, modalities, entities, healthcare systems, and even vast geographies when combined with teleradiology, thanks to enterprise medical imaging. Providers who advance their enterprise medical imaging strategies through the right solutions will not just keep up but lead the charge into an era where medical imaging is the foundation of faster decisions, better care, and improved patient outcomes."

IDC: Global Semiconductor Market to Grow by 15% in 2025, Driven by AI

Thu, 12 Dec 2024 05:00:00 GMT

IDC: Global Semiconductor Market to Grow by 15% in 2025, Driven by AI and HPC Demand. AI and High-Performance Computing (HPC) will drive growth in advanced chips, 2nm technology, and packaging, reshaping the semiconductor industry in 2025.