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Robotics

Autonomous Mobile Robots are Driving Productivity and Enabling Flexible Automation

Jan 10,2019 / By / No Comment

This past holiday season, more robots than ever were involved in the handling and shipping of your ecommerce orders and the movement of packages from fulfillment centers to your doorstep.  The past several years have seen a significant uptick in interest in robots, but 2018 saw an evolution from interest and pilot programs to full on deployment and value generation.  In fact, two vendors of autonomous mobile robots (AMR’s) made some news with the volume of units that their robots supported in the fulfillment process. 

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Finance

IDC MarketScape Provides an Assessment of the Worldwide Digital Transformation Service Providers for Insurance

Dec 20,2018 / By / No Comment
Assessment of the Worldwide Digital Transformation Service Providers for Insurance

IDC Financial Insights’ latest insurance research uses the IDC MarketScape model to present a 2018-2019 assessment of 13 vendor companies servicing the insurance organizations across the globe in their digital transformation (DX) initiatives. This research is a quantitative and qualitative assessment of a vendor’s ability to enable insurance organizations to succeed in their DX initiatives and help anticipate its ascendancy. The evaluation is based on a standardized and comprehensive framework and a set of parameters expected to be most conducive to success in providing DX services in the short and long term. The general market’s perception and technology buyers’ perception of vendors’ current capabilities as well as their attitudes to innovation to help insurance carriers and intermediaries thrive in an extremely challenging marketplace are key components of this evaluation.

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Top 10 Worldwide Smart Cities and Communities 2019 Predictions

Dec 11,2018 / By / No Comment
IDC - Smart Cities 2019 Predictions

This IDC FutureScape provides the top 10 predictions that will impact stakeholders in the urban ecosystem as regional and local government agencies look to modernize and transform IT systems, operational systems, and business processes. These predictions are designed to provide the strategic context to enable government leaders — from mayors and city managers to council members, CIOs, and innovation officers — to transform their organizations through the application of technology to real business challenges. This document encapsulates the IDC Smart Cities and Communities team’s collective understanding of major urban transitions and their impact on municipalities, counties, states, and regional organizations.

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Top 10 Worldwide Retail 2019 Predictions

Dec 5,2018 / By / No Comment
IDC Retail 2019 Predictions

This IDC FutureScape provides retail IT executives across the globe with actionable insights and analysis for likely future technology and business scenarios. The intended readers of this IDC FutureScape include but are not limited to members of the executive, business, and IT leadership of retail organizations worldwide.

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Top 10 Worldwide CMO 2019 Predictions

Nov 26,2018 / By / No Comment
IDC Worldwide CMO 2019 Predictions

As unbelievable as it sounds after the past decade, this year, CMOs are facing more change than ever. The following three trends will have the most impact on the success for CMOs for the next five years:

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Cloud

Evaluating Enterprise Content Management Maturity

May 24,2018 / By / No Comment
Evaluating Content Management Maturity

To help organizations evaluate current content management infrastructure and capabilities and identify the steps they need to take to advance to the next stage of maturity, IDC developed the IDC MaturityScape for managing enterprise content. IDC has also established a benchmark study on content management maturity to offer a systematic and rigorous approach for organizations to assess their content management competency and maturity. This article provides a high level summary of key findings.

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Finance

Insurers Are Beginning to Embrace Open APIs To Tune In To The Evolving Digital Ecosystem

Jan 26,2018 / By / No Comment
Insurers to Embrace Open APIs

The ‘Open Banking Revolution’, triggered by the second Payment Services Directive (PSD2), will see new, API-connected services brought to European consumers around the traditional core financial services, creating a more holistic banking experience. It is not just the regulation that is pushing banks to deliver customer-centric products and services. It is also the changing customer attitudes in the way they engage with their banks. It won’t be surprising if insurers are faced with a similar regulation or challenged by competitors influenced by the disruptions in banking sector.

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