Social Business Team

Takashi Manabe

Group Director, Software/Service Solutions, Data & Analytics, IDC Japan

Lewis Ward

Research Director, Gaming and VR/AR

Alejandro Florean

Vice President Consulting & Strategic Solutions, Latin America

Mary Wardley

Program Vice President, Customer Care and CRM

Yoko Ono

Research Manager, Software & Services, Research, IDC Japan

Wayne Kurtzman

Research Vice President, Social, Communities and Collaboration

New Research


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    This IDC study offers an overview of the competitive dynamics in the home video game console market through 2023 from a hardware bundle, packaged game, and digital game and subscription service spending standpoint. It offers insights and ad...
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    本調査レポートは、デジタルエンジニアリング(産業領域におけるエンジニアリング活動のデジタル化)に関する国内ベンダー動向を調査したものである。「産業とITが高度に融合したサービスを展開したり、その市場機会を的確に捉えるには、それを可能にする産業とIT双方の人材を確保し、これらの人材が密に議論したり協力したりすることによってソリューションを構築する体制が不可欠である。国内においてITベンダーとOT(Operational Technology)ベンダーの協業が、提携やPOC(Pr...
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    On Monday, Meta Platforms announced important changes to its mixed reality (MR) strategy, including a more "open" approach to its OS and related development tools, and that ASUS and Lenovo are making MR headsets that will use Meta's rebrand...
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    This IDC Market Note assesses the virtual reality-, mixed reality-, and GenAI-related news that broke at the Game Developers Conference 2024, which was held in San Francisco, California, in March.
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    This IDC study introduces IDC's new industry definitions and provides a detailed description of IDC's security products segmentation methodology and taxonomy. It should be used as a companion piece for IDC's Worldwide Security Spending Guid...
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    Google Cloud Next 2024 was held in Las Vegas from April 9 to 11, 2024. Key themes included security, a focus on how Google Cloud and Google Workspace quickly generate time to value, and a focus on the multimodality abilities of Google Works...
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    This IDC Market Note assesses three prominent themes that emerged at last month's Game Developers Conference (GDC): the distinctive updates unveiled by the leading commercial game engine suppliers, the upleveling of creator economy tools, a...
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    This IDC Market Perspective assesses the performance of Meta's Quest 3 VR headset in 4Q23 and puts it in the context of the broader VR and AR market by highlighting its hardware and software positioning in 2024 relative to Quest 2, PlayStat...
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    This IDC study provides a view into mobile in-app and in-game advertising dynamics through 2028. It assesses related market trends and technological advancements, and it offers advice to technology suppliers. It also discusses the impact th...
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    This IDC study sizes and assesses the mobile and handheld console gaming marketplace worldwide through 2028. The forecast includes four regional breakouts: North America, Western Europe, Asia/Pacific (AP), and the rest of the world (ROW). M...

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