IDC's Flexible Consumption and Financing Strategies for IT Infrastructure for IT Infrastructure service analyzes the market for IT equipment, software, and services for financing from a supply-side point of view. The financial services options offered by IT manufacturers and independent financing providers as well as evolving IT buyer requirements are tracked, including circularity for IT life-cycle management. Given the pivot to AI everywhere and continued market volatility, financial services offerings have become a critical go-to-market strategy as well as a competitive differentiator during the technology sales cycle. This service forecasts the size of the global IT financing market by IT platform and provides a timely analysis of major supplier and end-user events, products, and strategies. The service also analyzes the financial and sustainability needs of end-user customers as they strive to provide the type of business value and performance metrics, demand and resource loading analysis, and transparency demanded of other business functions.
Flexible Consumption and Financing Strategies for IT Infrastructure
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Lara Greden
Senior Research Director, Infrastructure as-a-Service Solutions, Flexible Consumption, and Circular Economy
Markets and Subjects Analyzed
- IT customer financing strategies, dynamics, and practices
- IT leasing and financing market sizing and segmentation analysis
- Financing supplier, channels, and alliances analysis and trends
- Products, structures, and reporting requirements
- Evolving service offerings, requirements, and practices
- Selecting, managing, and terminating financing programs
- End-user financing decision criteria
- Vendor selection criteria
Core Research
- Global IT Leasing and Financing Forecast
- IDC FutureScape for Digital Infrastructure
- Market Analysis Perspective
- Impact of Flexible Consumption Models
- Financing Trends for Devices Including Smartphones and Media Tablets
- Updates on the Latest Vendor Announcements for as-a-Service Offers and Trends
- Circularity and IT Asset Management
In addition to the insight provided in this service, IDC may conduct research on specific topics or emerging market segments via research offerings that require additional IDC funding and client investment.
Key Questions Answered
- Do customer financing programs create differential value when providing enterprise IT products or solutions?
- How are as-a-service models and consumption models changing the procurement process?
- How do leasing and as-a-service offers help drive the circular economy?
- Will leasing and financing remain a cornerstone acquisition strategy for IT resources?
- Do customer financing programs fill a void that would be unmet and would negatively impact the sale/purchase of IT products, solutions, or resources?
- What are the financing products, pricing, positioning, and promotion strategies employed by best-in-class customer financing programs?
- What do end users like/dislike about current offerings, and what would motivate them to acquire more?
- How will global macroeconomic trends impact the IT financing market?