Remove 2024 Remove Programming Remove Unified Communications
article thumbnail

Evaluating the relative cost of edge computing

CIO Business Intelligence

IDC’s Worldwide Edge Spending Guide (February 2024) finds that worldwide spending on edge computing will reach $232 billion this year, an increase of more than 15% over 2023. IDC EdgeView 2024, n = 800 The hard costs of edge computing In many ways, this is the easy part. Continued growth is expected over the next several years.

article thumbnail

The transformation of shared services

CIO Business Intelligence

In the Asia/Pacific region, for example, companies are facing challenges in shared services implementation ranging from inaccuracies in outcomes to prolonged request completion times (IDC Survey: Shared Services Automation for Business Optimization, March 2024). Contact us today to learn more.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Video conferencing trends for 2021

Spearline Testing

Video conferencing has become a core facet of the year 2020, enabling organizations to communicate, family and friends to stay connected, and even for medical practitioners to assess their patients. By 2024 , research projects that the video conferencing industry will be worth US$20 billion. The Spearline solution.

Video 136
article thumbnail

Making your enterprise architecture framework work for you

CIO Business Intelligence

The results of this company’s enterprise architecture journey are detailed in IDC PeerScape: Practices for Enterprise Architecture Frameworks (September 2024). Schwartz is an adjunct research advisor with IDC’s IT Executive Programs (IEP), focusing on IT business, digital business, disaster recovery, and data management.

article thumbnail

Can you have too many security tools?

CIO Business Intelligence

These issues, detailed in IDC’s Tackling Tool Sprawl (March 2024), include: IT staff productivity losses: The more tools there are, the less time is dedicated to fully and properly using each one. She often writes about cybersecurity, disaster recovery, storage, unified communications, and wireless technology.

Tools 124
article thumbnail

Sustainability: Real progress but also thorny challenges ahead

CIO Business Intelligence

IDC’s Sustainability Readiness Index Survey (August 2024) found that 32% of businesses have created strategic road maps, while 26% have begun embedding sustainability into their operations and 20% say that sustainability has become the “new normal.” There is no denying that environmental sustainability is top of mind for many companies today.

article thumbnail

Competition is stiff, but retailers know what it takes to compete

CIO Business Intelligence

Challenge: Consumers want to shop on their own terms Recent research shows that 77% of consumers today buy through a mix of digital and physical shopping, while just 17% buy only online or only in physical stores (IDC Retail Insights: Consumer Sentiment Survey, 2024 — Findings and Implications, July 2024). IDC, June 2024).

Retail 64