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Content Creator Sentiments Toward AI, 2025

Greg Ireland — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey examines selected results from IDC's 2025 GenAI for Content Creators and Consumers Survey, fielded in July 2025. Results and analysis focus on consumer content creators and their use of and sentiments toward AI. Included are survey results focused on frequency of AI use in the content creation process, key benefits for creators of using AI, importance of AI, and how AI use is expected to change in the year ahead. Results are segmented for casual creators and creators who earn income through their content.

"It should be no surprise that content creators have embraced the use of AI as part of the creative process," said Greg Ireland, senior director, IDC's Consumer Markets and GenAI for Content Creators and Consumer research. "Survey results show strong creator appetite for AI apps that allow creators to save time, enhance creativity, generate more content, and compensate for limited creative skills."

Converged Workloads: Enabling Real-Time Enterprise Intelligence and AI Innovation

Devin Pratt — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC Perspective explores how hybrid transactional/analytical processing (HTAP), or converged workloads, is redefining enterprise data architecture. By combining transactional reliability with analytical intelligence, these environments eliminate latency between data creation and insight, enabling real-time decision-making, continuous intelligence, and the seamless use of AI within business operations.

This document examines the technologies, market dynamics, and adoption strategies driving this convergence and provides guidance for IT and data leaders modernizing their database environments to support greater agility, intelligent automation, and accelerated AI-driven innovation.

"AI and automation depend on accurate and timely data. Converged workloads transform databases from static systems of record into living systems of intelligence, where every transaction becomes an opportunity for reasoning, adaptation, and action." — Devin Pratt, research director, Data Management, IDC

European Digital Product Passport for Transparent Value Chains

Cristiano Quattrini — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC Perspective explores how the European Digital Product Passport (DPP) will redefine transparency, traceability, and compliance across the retail value chain. Mandated under the Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation, the DPP will require every product sold in the European Union to carry standardized digital data on its materials, origin, and life cycle. The report analyzes the policy, technological, and organizational implications for retailers and highlights variations in market readiness across key European countries and retail subverticals.

“The Digital Product Passport marks a turning point in European retail, transforming sustainability compliance into a data-driven engine of transparency, efficiency, and trust. Retailers that integrate DPP frameworks into their digital core will move beyond regulatory readiness to redefine customer engagement and operational excellence across the value chain.” — Cristiano Quattrini, senior associate advisor, IDC Retail Insights

Global Skills Frameworks: Structuring the IT Workforce and Managing Role Evolution

Daniel Saroff — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC Perspective discusses global frameworks — SFIA, e-CF, SFw, and KWIV — that are fundamental tools for managing the modern IT workforce by providing detailed, standardized definitions for skills and competencies. Organizations must move past relying on simple job descriptions, which are mere distillations, and implement formal processes utilizing these frameworks to provide the comprehensive documentation required for a role or position. Crucially, systematic monitoring must be applied to detect and address role drift caused by individual interpretation, ensuring the workforce capabilities remain strategically aligned and defined.

"As IT organizations mature, structure becomes strategy. Standardized skills frameworks such as SFIA and e-CF give CIOs the tools to manage talent with the same rigor they apply to technology portfolios — linking capability, accountability, and innovation across a dynamic workforce," says Daniel Saroff, group vice president for Consulting and Research at IDC.

How ITSM Vendors Are Growing by Focusing on Specific Industries and Capabilities

Snow Tempest — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Perspective discusses how ITSM vendors are driving growth by tailoring solutions and messaging to specific industries, addressing unique needs and regulations to win customers in a mature, competitive market.

"Some high-growth vendors in ITSM and ESM focus on industry-specific use cases through platforms, integrations, and partnerships," said Snow Tempest, research manager for IT Service Management at IDC.

Network Automation: Fueled by AI and Focused on Many Critical Tasks

Mark Leary — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey Spotlight offers insights into the planned role and focus of AI-powered network automation. These survey results are drawn from IDC's 2025 AI in Networking Special Report — a report driven by a worldwide survey of 500+ enterprise network executives and experts. The report covers both the impact and plans for supporting AI workloads across the network and using AI-powered networking solutions. The focus of this document is comprehensive, covering datacenters, cloud services, multicloud environments, network core and edge, and network management. While this IDC Survey Spotlight offers only a view into total responses, results are available by geographic region, select country, company size, major vertical industries, respondent's role, and the AI maturity level of the respondent's organization.

"The vast majority of network executives and experts believe network automation must be fueled by AI. And there is a growing commitment to AI to not only determine network faults and needed changes but also actually execute the necessary management actions. Given the complexity and criticality of the network infrastructure and the very real shortcomings of networking staff and tools, AI is seen as a crucial ingredient in improving network service levels and capabilities, networked resource use and protection, networking staff productivity, and value. The focal points for AI-powered network automation certainly indicate that IT organizations are moving toward a future where more precise, proactive, and protective autonomous management will be the norm — not the exception." — Mark Leary, research director, Network Observability and Automation, IDC

SAP Connect 2025: Adapt to Disruption and Deliver Value to the Customer

Sat, 06 Dec 2025 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Perspective summarizes key announcements and the consequential implications from SAP Connect 2025.

"While there are still business challenges and opportunities that sit almost exclusively within a single functional area, the reality for most businesses is that they span multiple functions. Thinking about both challenges and opportunities through the lens of an integrated, end-to-end enterprise eliminates interfunctional latency for improved responsiveness and is likely to outperform those companies that still suffer from 'silo drag,'" says Simon Ellis, GVP for Manufacturing and Supply Chain at IDC.

Sustainable Cloud: A Deep Dive Into GreenOps

Filippo Vanara — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Perspective analyzes green operations, or GreenOps, and the importance of providing data, recommendations, and insights through cloud sustainability metrics. This document is also an update of FinOps and GreenOps: Synergies Between the Two Approaches (IDC #EUR151007123, July 2023).

“IT operations play a key role in delivering and supporting cloud services. However, these are often not properly optimized, leading to unnecessary waste, costs, and unwanted GHG emissions. GreenOps, as well as FinOps, help organizations deliver efficient solutions, innovation, and business value in the cloud by removing silos and improving collaboration and data-driven decisions.” — Senior Research Analyst Filippo Vanara, IDC European CloudOps and ESG

What Are the Top 10 Programming Languages Used by Developers?

Adam Resnick — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey Spotlight examines which programming languages developers actively use in their work. Survey respondents selected from a list of popular languages and indicated their usage intensity across infrequent, moderate, and heavy categories. The key finding is that three languages, JavaScript, Python, and Java, show similar adoption rates near 70%, reflecting their versatility across different development domains. However, usage intensity patterns reveal that most developers maintain polyglot skill sets, using multiple languages infrequently rather than specializing deeply in one. These findings have important implications for how tool vendors approach multi-language support and developer experience. The first slide displays a chart of survey results, while the second slide provides analysis and strategic implications for technology suppliers developing tools for polyglot development teams.

2025 IDC中国科技市场技术热点速递——第三季度

Fri, 05 Dec 2025 05:00:00 GMT

本IDC技术买家演示文稿深入剖析了2025年第三季度中国科技市场的前沿技术趋势和行业应用，该季度技术热点涵盖人工智能、电信、物联网、机器人技术的创新以及云计算和低代码开发等多个技术热点领域。

与此同时，本季度IDC科技市场研究还探讨了这些技术如何推动政务、智慧城市、制造业、能源和医疗等行业的前沿技术转型与发展，还为首席信息官（CIO）提供了决策指南，帮助他们把握市场脉搏，制定战略规划。报告通过深入的行业洞察和实用的决策建议，为读者提供了一个全面了解中国科技市场动态和未来发展方向的窗口。