Industry analyst reports

Workforce AM vendors present unique and innovative features. CIAM vendors continue to offer differential capabilities for machine IAM support and enhanced capabilities to support complex CIAM and partner requirements. IAM leaders should focus on the features that differentiate vendors in this market.

This IDC Spotlight examines how organizations can use AI-enabled observability platforms to improve the monitoring and performance of their IT systems.

SRE teams are adopting observability practices; however, to scale and drive higher benefits and business results, teams must consider the opportunity to complement existing practices with AI, security and risk management, and resource optimization.

Read this research report from Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) that discusses the challenges of digital experience monitoring (DEM) and highlights the limitations of traditional DEM methods.

This report provides practical guidance for technology leaders navigating the evolution of IT spend management.

Compliance and resilience are intertwined — weak resilience increases exposure to regulatory violations and fines and undermines compliance.

We’re proud to share that IBM has been named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for API Management, for the 10th time.

Advances in technology offer organizations significant opportunities to drive growth, enhance operational efficiency, and elevate customer experience.

Forrester research highlights how organizations with a mix of modern and legacy operational systems can leverage integration platforms to revitalize their tech stack.

Observability solutions bridge visibility gaps to provide realtime visibility into environments, including cloud-native and microservicesbased architecture, and they enable organizations to take a more proactive approach to operations.

The EMA Radar™ Report named IBM® SevOne® a 2024 Value Leader, recognizing it as a top choice for large enterprises and managed service providers. Get an in-depth look at why IBM SevOne stands out, with key features and benefits that can empower your NetOps team to achieve.

Modern IT operations (ITOps) have evolved dramatically with the advent of orchestrated cloud-native services, containers, Kubernetes, complex infrastructure, serverless and the adoption of multicloud architectures.

With all its potential and complexity, artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly defining the current era, making the necessity for strategic alliances more pronounced than ever.

This IDC InfoBrief summarizes the drivers, benefits and challenges shaping AI-ready mainframe investment plans and modernization strategies that 510 worldwide mainframe decision-makers are implementing.

Service orchestration and automation platforms are essential for delivering business services through complex workloads.

Observability platforms are fundamentally changing how organizations manage system health, driven by innovations in analytics, cost optimization, and the emergence of AI observability.

Read this guide to learn how to separate the hype of AIOps from the achievable value of optimized operations, reduced toil and improved performance and availability.

IBM has been recognized as a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Process Mining Platforms—a powerful validation of our ability to help enterprises turn process data into business results.

IBM has been recognized as both a Leader and the sole Star Performer in the Everest Group Marketing Services PEAK Matrix® Assessment 2025. The marketing services landscape is rapidly evolving, as providers focus on technologies for data-driven, personalized, AI-powered customer experiences.

In this exclusive report from TechTarget’s Enterprise Strategy Group, find how leading organizations are using AI to enhance monitoring, streamline operations, and drive business outcomes.

Learn how IBM's acquisition of HashiCorp supports the application of next-generation AI operations aimed at optimizing business outcomes.

See why IBM watsonx Code Assistant is ranked a Leader in the Omdia Universe on No-Low-Pro IDE Assistants.

Learn more about strategic ALM's positive impact across utilities operations.

This report takes a look at the current state of integration and provides considerations and recommendations for today's enterprises as they navigate this complexity.

According to IBM Institute of Business Value (IBV) study, the average organization has 83 different security solutions from 29 vendors, with 52% of executives stating complexity is the biggest impediment to security operations.

The convergence of artificial intelligence (AI) transformation, quantum computing – backed threats, and explosive regulatory complexity has created a perfect storm that exposes the inadequacy of traditional governance approaches when data has become the most critical strategic asset.

IBM is positioned in the Leaders category in this 2025 IDC MarketScape for worldwide integrated solutions for identity security.

Since 2005, this report has tracked an ever expanding technology landscape and the threats that follow.

IBM is positioned in the Leaders category in the 2025 IDC MarketScape for worldwide governance, risk, and compliance software.

IBM continues to be a key player with its access management suite and offers a wide selection of authentication mechanisms.

Gain valuable insights into the customer identity and access management (CIAM) market and see how IBM stacks up against other providers.

Discover why IBM solutions are leading in the rapidly evolving market, enabling organizations to make informed decisions about their authentication strategies for customers.

Explore why an intertwining of the human spirit and AI’s capabilities is needed to ensure that companies apply AI responsibly and sustainably.

A well-defined finance transformation strategy is essential for shaping strategic objectives and roadmaps that align data, delivery models, talent, technology and process enhancements. CFOs can use this research to identify service providers that offer strategic insights and help build future-ready finance operating models.

On January 16, 2025, IBM announced its intent to acquire Applications Software Technology LLC (AST), a cloud professional services firm known for its implementation and managed services of Oracle Cloud applications and public sector expertise.

This IDC Event Proceedings report provides a snapshot of the key insights and takeaways from an IDC and IBM round table on AI governance, and the impact of quantum computing on financial services.

IBM has been recognized as a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Enterprise Storage Platforms. We believe this recognition underscores IBM’s dedication to delivering secure, intelligent and high-performance storage solutions that enable organizations to accelerate their digital transformation.

Based on ratings collected in IDC’s 2025 SaaS Path Survey, IBM placed in the highest scoring group for vendors serving the Financial Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) application market and has been awarded IDC’s 2025 SaaS Financial GRC Customer Satisfaction Award.

This Economic Validation by TechTarget's Enterprise Strategy Group explores the quantitative and qualitative benefits organizations can realize by modernizing their infrastructure with highly reliable IBM Power servers instead of alternative enterprise servers for their mission-critical applications and workloads.

Integration platform as a service enables users to integrate applications and data, automate processes, create composite services and support AI adoption.

IBM is positioned in the Leaders category in the 2025 IDC MarketScape for worldwide ESG reporting and compliance management applications.

Wondering which ESG and sustainability reporting platforms are leading the charge in 2025? Read the Verdantix "Green Quadrant: ESG & Sustainability Reporting Software 2025" to identify the solution that will meet your ESG reporting needs.

IBM has been recognized as a Market Leader by HFS Research for our role in transforming the insurance industry. As insurers face growing pressure to innovate and grow profitably, IBM is helping clients unlock new value across the entire insurance ecosystem.

Find out how to get value from a CPIP for your real estate and facilities management needs and what makes IBM stand out.

Learn why HFS ranked IBM as a market leader in this competitive analysis of professional services firms who are creating value with generative AI.

IBM announced its intent to acquire Applications Software Technology LLC (AST) to bolster IBM's capabilities in local government and K-12 education (SLED) markets.

This IDC study represents a vendor assessment of the SAP implementation services market through the IDC MarketScape model.

IDC spoke with organizations with IBM Expertise Connect engagements to assess their impact on IBM and IT performance, staff efficiency, costs, and business outcomes.

Download this report to better understand the must have capabilities for providers of public cloud IT transformation services.

Strategic portfolio management drives better business outcomes by establishing value as the thread that binds strategy and execution. Check out this report to learn more.

Download the report to learn why IDC believes that IBM Power Virtual Server for RISE with SAP can address many of the hurdles that organizations face when migrating to SAP S/4HANA.

See why Gartner recognized IBM as a Leader for its IBM OpenPages solution. IBM is helping enterprises strengthen governance, streamline risk management, and enable compliance with AI-powered insights.

Make a confident CMMS choice with Verdantix’s independent Green Quadrant 2025. The report benchmarks 19 leading providers using a rigorous, evidence-based approach that included live briefings, customer interviews, and a 102-point questionnaire—to compare capabilities and market momentum.

Download the report to learn why IBM has been named a leader in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for finance and accounting business process outsourcing.

This guide provides a snapshot of the EAP tools market and can help software engineering leaders select the best options for enhanced delivery.

ITFM tools can significantly automate the analytics required to support ITFM practices and decision making. Learn how IBM validated the market through its purchase of Apptio.