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Leveraging Decision Intelligence to Drive Student Success: A Case Study of Western Governors University

Matthew Leger, Ravikant Sharma — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Perspective examines how Western Governors University (WGU) is implementing decision intelligence (DI) in partnership with Aera Technology to support personalized student interventions at scale. The initial use case focuses on improving assessment readiness and course completion through faculty-facing recommendations generated from integrated student data. The case study details WGU's implementation approach, early outcomes, governance model, and plans to expand DI across additional stages of the student journey, offering practical considerations for other institutions exploring similar efforts.

"At a time when much of higher education's focus is on generative AI and agentic AI, WGU's adoption of decision intelligence — borrowed from the supply chain industry — illustrates an alternative approach to improving student outcomes through structured, outcome-driven interventions," said Matthew Leger, senior research manager for IDC's Worldwide Education and EdTech Digital Strategies research program.

Strategic Choices and Pathways on AWS for Enterprises Navigating VMware by Broadcom’s New Era

Pushkaraksh Shanbhag — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Perspective assesses the impact of the licensing model changes and product portfolio simplification at VMware by Broadcom and explores various technology options available to customers. The document further explores the multiple choices available to customers to migrate and modernize their VMware workloads on AWS, including the two newest offerings — Amazon Elastic VMware Service and AWS Transform for VMware.

The VMware offerings landscape has undergone significant transformation since its acquisition by Broadcom, with product offerings consolidated into integrated subscription-based bundles; and standalone options and perpetual licenses retired. Although the changes simplify procurement and pricing, they also have a material impact on customers’ infrastructure strategy and financial commitments. Enterprises now face critical decisions: continue with VMware’s bundled road map, explore migration to public cloud/alternative platforms, or employ fit-for-purpose workload-specific options. Solutions such as Amazon EVS and AWS Transform for VMware offer enterprises useful cloud migration options for their VMware estate, depending on where they are in their infrastructure journey and whether they want to take a graduated approach moving their VMware workloads to cloud as-is, or are keen to embark on a radical, cloud-native transformation journey.

MongoDB.local India 2025: Accelerating Data Innovation at Scale

Surjyadeb Goswami — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC study highlights MongoDB.local India 2025, which covered two key cities in India — Bengaluru and Delhi, with Mumbai planned for September 2025, as part of the company’s global 21-city tour. The event brought together thousands of developers, architects, and C-suite leaders, highlighting India’s growing prominence as a global AI and data hub. MongoDB showcased how its platform enables enterprises to shift from legacy systems to scalable, AI-native architectures. Key themes included generative AI adoption, real-time edge computing, and data modernization. The event also witnessed some of the new feature announcements, such as MongoDB 8.0 that demonstrates MongoDB’s focus on powering intelligent applications. The event also emphasized developer upskilling through partnerships with All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), ICT Academy, and SmartBridge, targeting over 500,000 students across India.

“The industry stands at a strategic inflection point — not just adopting technology, but driving innovation where real-time data, AI-enablement, and secure, open architectures converge. As organizations prioritize agility, resilience, and intelligence at scale, platforms that empower rapid development and deployment of next-gen applications will define the digital enterprise of the future,” says Surjyadeb Goswami, research director at IDC.

Hyland CommunityLIVE 2025: Fast Innovation to Realize the Agentic Road Map

Amy Machado, Andrew Gens — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 04:00:00 GMT

Hyland held its annual CommunityLIVE event in Las Vegas, Nevada, from August 25 to 29. The conference brought together Hyland users, developers, and executives to present the vision of the company and commitment to its innovation strategy to build a modern and federated data foundation for AI and agentic content management. This was the first CommunityLIVE following the Hyland rebrand earlier in 2025.

IDC Market Glance: Enterprise Intelligence Services, 3Q25

Jennifer Hamel, Reid Sherard — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Glance provides an overview of the enterprise intelligence services market landscape. It describes the segments and structure of the market and provides an illustrative list of participating vendors.

Worldwide IDC Global DataSphere IoT Device Installed Base and Data Generated Forecast, 2025–2029

Carlos Gonzalez, Adam Wright — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC presentation provides a forecast of the installed base of the number of IoT "things" that are connected, as well as the data generated each year created by these things. This presentation also categorizes the devices and the data across several categories, including computer vision cameras, consumer/connected homes, industrial/commercial, medical, and navigation/automotive/transportation. The Market Definition section includes definitions of the categories and the devices in each category.

"IoT data is the essential building block for AI solutions. As such, AI initiatives will drive an increase in IT/OT integration, data gathering processes, and hardware upgrades to support the data needs of the next wave of technology," said Carlos González, research manager for Industrial Internet of Things and Intelligence Strategies, IDC.

IBM and AMD Partnership Accelerates the Path Toward Quantum-Accelerated Supercomputing and Quantum Advantage

Heather West, PhD — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 04:00:00 GMT

The IBM Quantum and AMD partnership reflects a strategic shift toward hybrid quantum-classical computing, signaling growing momentum in the pursuit of quantum advantage. Rather than focusing solely on hardware innovation, the collaboration emphasizes system-level integration — combining quantum capabilities with classical high-performance computing (HPC) and AI acceleration. This approach aligns with emerging enterprise needs, where complex workloads increasingly demand new computational models. By codeveloping scalable, open source platforms, IBM and AMD are helping define a more interoperable and application-ready quantum ecosystem. IDC views this as a meaningful step in transitioning quantum computing from experimental research into enterprise-relevant infrastructure.

Worldwide Global DataSphere Structured and Unstructured Data Forecast, 2025–2029

Adam Wright — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC presentation provides a forecast of structured and unstructured data in IDC's Global DataSphere for 2025–2029. Various dynamics and trends impacting the mix of structured and unstructured data are highlighted and discussed, and definitions of structured and unstructured data are included in the Market Definition section.

"The balance between structured and unstructured data is shifting," says Adam Wright, research manager for IDC's Global DataSphere and Global StorageSphere research. "Organizations increasingly rely on structured data to drive automation, AI, and real-time decision-making. Unstructured data continues to flood the digital world, but the faster rise of structured data reflects a growing emphasis on systems that capture, organize, and operationalize data."

中国大数据平台市场份额，2024: 全面为AI转型

Leo Li — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 04:00:00 GMT

本IDC研究分析了中国大数据平台市场规模，并按照公有云、本地部署维度以及金融子市场来呈现代表厂商份额情况，同时分析了当前市场环境并提出了相关建议。

数据智能市场发展趋势分析

Leo Li — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 04:00:00 GMT

本IDC看法对数据智能市场进行持续追踪，并更新了市场图谱以供行业参考。2025年，企业更加关注如何利用AI来重塑原有数据中台、数据库以及数据开发流程，并思考如何为AI训推提供优质数据。为此，技术供应商也在加速产品创新和产品融合。