IDC Europe

What will be Your Next Move on the Innovation Accelerators Chessboard?

Carla La Croce
Carla La Croce (Senior Research Analyst, European Industry Solutions, Customer Insights & Analysis)
Thomas Vavra (Associate Vice President, Software, CEMA)
Giulia Carosella
Giulia Carosella (European Digital Transformation Practice Lead)
According to the most recent IDC European Vertical Market survey, there is a positive correlation between the willingness to allocate IT budget to innovation purposes and digital transformation, suggesting that industries with higher propensity to allocate IT budget to innovation will have more digitisation processes on the priority list. So, embracing DX implies to be innovative. The smarter, widespread, and combined is the use of new technologies, the greatest the impact businesses can have.Read more

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GDPR 2.0: You Thought It Was All Over…

Duncan Brown
Duncan Brown (VP of Enterprise Research Europe)
What? You thought that GDPR was over by May 25th, and you never wanted to think about it again? Sorry folks, but we’ve just had the taster.

Firstly, the bad news. GDPR is not a one-time project. Many organisations have approached GDPR like a crash diet. Move a little more, eat a little less, reach your target weight. Typically, most of us recognise, we revert to old habits, eat that cake, lounge on the sofa.Read more

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The Final Countdown for Drug Traceability in Europe: Are You Ready?

Nino Giguashvili
Nino Giguashvili (Senior Research Analyst)
This next couple of years will be an incredibly busy time for drug manufacturers and wholesalers supplying pharmaceutical products to European markets. With the deadlines for meeting the EU's new requirements for drug traceability and data exchange standards around the corner, European pharma companies need to address compliance issues more vigorously than ever before — and soon.  Read more

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BT Consumer: The Big Theme is Convergence

John Delaney
John Delaney (Associate VP, European Telecoms)
Today BT's recently formed Consumer Division, headed by Marc Allera, announced the theme of its network and service developments for the coming five years: convergence. Moving from its currently separate fixed-line and mobile networks, Read more

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