FRAMINGHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--International Data Corporation (IDC) today announced the comprehensive schedule for its annual predictions presentations. Starting with a live FutureScape Webcast to be held Tuesday, October 30th at 12:00 p.m. U.S. Eastern time, IDC Chief Analyst Frank Gens will present IDC's 2019 predictions for the worldwide IT industry, "The Race to Reinvent for Multiplied Innovation." In the new digital economy, survival will depend on how well enterprises leverage powerful digital innovation platforms, engage developer and innovator communications, and embrace technologies from distributed cloud to blockchain, alongside a diversifying variety of connected things.
Following the live event on October 30th, IDC will offer more than 40 live and on-demand Web conferences through December 19th, spanning industries from health and manufacturing to energy and smart cities, and covering emerging technologies including robotics, blockchain, cloud 2.0, microservices, the Internet of Things, edge computing, and more. To register for any of these events, please visit www.idc.com/2019futurescape. The live presentations will be available for on-demand viewing following each Web conference.
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With nearly fifteen years of research tracking the evolution of the 3rd Platform era, and more than five decades of studying and analyzing the global IT industry, IDC has stood witness to a number of transformative phases in the market. The 2018 IDC predictions revealed that the IT industry's 3rd Platform was entering a radically different second chapter, defined by "multiplied innovation" business models driving a 10X increase in (highly verticalized) apps and services, and paramount to over half of the global economy being digitized by 2021. In his forthcoming report, IDC FutureScape: Worldwide IT Industry 2019 Predictions, Gens will offer more detail to this vital story, as the forces of multiplied innovation power up and digital innovation platforms and ecosystems explode, enabled by a new wave of application deployment, AI, trust, and ambient interface technologies, built on a new generation of the cloud. IDC's research will also allude to the 3rd Platform's third chapter ("autonomous innovation"), which is expected to emerge in the later stages of the current FutureScape time span.
"As we enter into the next chapter of the digital transformation (DX) journey, it is truly survival of the fittest. Enterprises must reinvent the IT organizations and IT skills they need to plug into – and to compete in – the multiplied innovation marketplace," said Frank Gens, Chief Analyst, IDC. "Our latest annual FutureScape will detail the new 'power positions' emerging in the IT vendor world, built around at least four platform 'galaxies,' that will determine which leading IT vendors will thrive and which will fade over the next five years."
To learn more about the IDC FutureScape series, a hallmark of IDC's offerings, please visit: www.idc.com/2019futurescape
For additional information about FutureScape Web conferences or accompanying reports, or to arrange a one-on-one briefing with an IDC analyst, please contact Sarah Murray at 781-378-2674 or sarah@attunecommunications.com. Reports are available to qualified members of the media. For information on purchasing reports, contact insights@idc.com; reporters should email sarah@attunecommunications.com.
About IDC FutureScape
IDC FutureScape reports are used to
shape enterprise IT strategy and planning by providing a basic framework
for evaluating IT initiatives in terms of their value to business
strategy now and in the foreseeable future. IDC's FutureScapes are
comprised of a set of decision imperatives designed to identify a range
of pending issues that CIOs and senior technology professionals will
confront within the typical three year business planning cycle. Each
decision imperative is assessed on the basis of its complexity,
organizational impact, and time frame to expected mainstream adoption.
About IDC
International Data Corporation (IDC) is the
premier global provider of market intelligence, advisory services, and
events for the information technology, telecommunications, and consumer
technology markets. With more than 1,100 analysts worldwide, IDC offers
global, regional, and local expertise on technology and industry
opportunities and trends in over 110 countries. IDC's analysis and
insight helps IT professionals, business executives, and the investment
community to make fact-based technology decisions and to achieve their
key business objectives. Founded in 1964, IDC is a wholly-owned
subsidiary of International Data Group (IDG),
the world's leading media, data and marketing services company that
activates and engages the most influential technology buyers. To learn
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