Brian Wood

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IDC MarketScape: Worldwide SAP Implementation Services 2025 Vendor Assessment

2 months ago | idc.com | Brian Wood

target audience: TECH BUYER Publication date: Feb 2025 - Document type: IDC MarketScape - Doc Document number: # US51272524 Content Table of Contents (30 pages) Get More When you purchase this document, the purchase price can be applied to the cost of an annual subscription, giving you access to more research for your investment.
How to build a search engine to disrupt Google

Jan 23, 2025 | searchengineland.com | Brian Wood

We are at a uniquely and historically weak moment for Google. The quality of their results has even non-SEOs complaining, against a backdrop of being found illegally maintaining a monopoly and losing market share. It’s more possible than ever for another search engine* to replace Google. But there’s a reason that no one has been able to supplant Google thus far (monopolistic advantages aside): no one has really tried to make a search engine meaningfully different from Google.
McKinsey Global Analyst Summit, 2024 - Key Takeaways

Jan 10, 2025 | idc.com | Bill Latshaw |Brian Wood |Jason Bremner |Laurie Buczek |Ananda Chakravarty |Mukesh Dialani | +7 more

This IDC Market Perspective details key takeaways from the 2024 McKinsey Global Analyst Summit. The event highlighted McKinsey's focus on growth, data literacy, operational excellence, sustainability, and AI integration. The key takeaways include McKinsey's strategic shift toward combining strategy with execution, leveraging AI for sustainable transformation, and maintaining a technology-agnostic consulting approach.
How Will Organizations in EMEA Invest in AI?

Nov 14, 2024 | idc.com | Brian Wood

target audience: TECH SUPPLIER Publication date: Nov 2024 - Document type: IDC Survey Spotlight - Doc Document number: # US52708523 Content 2 slides Get More When you purchase this document, the purchase price can be applied to the cost of an annual subscription, giving you access to more research for your investment. Related Links Web Rights Referencing Documents Do you have questions about this document or available subscriptions?
IDC FutureScape: Worldwide Services 2025 Predictions

Oct 28, 2024 | idc.com | Gard Little |Jennifer Hamel |Dan Versace |Gina Smith |Brian Wood |Mukesh Dialani | +5 more

This IDC study provides IDC's top 10 predictions for services for 2025 and beyond. "AI and GenAI feature prominently across many of our services predictions, but buyers and strategic planners will also find it useful to review our predictions on corporate sustainability, Global Capability Centers, experience-level agreements, and outcome-based pricing," says Gard Little, research VP, Global Services Markets and Trends at IDC.
Salesforce Dreamforce 2024: Highlights and Insights

Oct 11, 2024 | idc.com | Alan Webber |Amy Cravens |Heather Hershey |Ritu Jyoti |Wayne Kurtzman |Brian Wood | +5 more

This IDC Market Perspective highlights the announcements at Salesforce's Dreamforce, held in San Francisco, California, from September 17 to 19, 2024. The event was well attended with 45,000+ onsite. "Salesforce is striving to maintain its leadership roles in CRM technology innovation and specifically in AI as demonstrated by the launch of Agentforce at Dreamforce," according to Alan Webber, program vice president, Digital Platforms at IDC.
GenAI's Impact on IDC's Services Markets

Sep 24, 2024 | idc.com | Gard Little |Bill Latshaw |Brian Wood |Peter Marston |Leslie Rosenberg |David Tapper | +8 more

This IDC Market Perspective addresses the impacts of AI and GenAI on IDC's services markets, allowing service providers to understand the opportunities and challenges in delivering services in the current environment. "AI and generative AI will have different impacts on individual services markets, both adding spending for some services and reducing spending for others," said Gard Little, research vice president, Global Services Markets and Trends at IDC.
Worldwide Systems Integration Services Forecast, 2024-2028

Aug 1, 2024 | idc.com | Brian Wood

target audience: TECH SUPPLIER Publication date: Aug 2024 - Document type: Market Presentation - Doc Document number: # US52442424 Content 15 slides Get More When you purchase this document, the purchase price can be applied to the cost of an annual subscription, giving you access to more research for your investment. Related Links Web Rights Referencing Documents Do you have questions about this document or available subscriptions?