IDC’s recent research highlights that although cloud solutions adoption aligns with the healthcare industry's need to be flexible, collaborative, data-driven, and patient-centered, healthcare providers are still reluctant to adopt them. On this edition of the Podcast, Carla Arend and Silvia Piai sit down to discuss the mitigating factors slowing adoption and what's in store down the line.

For more on these topics, check out the following pieces of research!

https://uk.idc.com/forms/Cloud-Adoption-Different-Pattern-Europe (Free)

https://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=EMEA44168018

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IDC EMEA's Group Vice President, Thomas Meyer, sits down with Miles to discuss some findings from the IDC CIO Summit 2018. The theme of this year’s summit was around “The European CIO of 2019: The Orchestrator of the Digital Native Enterprise” with workshops, panels and debates focusing on how European Organizations will execute on their respective roadmaps and landmark use cases to becoming “Digital-Native Enterprise” where disruptive innovation is “business as usual”.

Highlights of the IDC CIO Summit 2018: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iPt8O47m-g

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In this episode IDC's Tom Seal sits down with Miles to discuss Robotic Process Automation (RPA), why it's so attractive to business, what the benefits are, and what's driving current adoption strategies.

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5G seemed to be a year or two away; but recent reports show that 5G might be arriving by the end of 2018! So what does the 5G roll out have in store for the world of telecoms and what will be on offer at the beginning? John Delaney, AVP of Mobility Research, and Marta Pinto, Senior Research Analyst for Telecoms and Networks, sit down with Miles to discuss what 5G technology will be available and whether you should be an early adopter.

Find out more about 5G with this IDC Blog - http://blog-idcuk.com/three-uks-5g-strategy-2/

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IDC EMEA's Chief Analyst, Philip Carter, sits down with Miles to discuss some findings from the IDC Digital Summit 2018, what the rest of the year may hold, and what is coming up as IDC looks towards 2019.

Highlights of the IDC Digital Summit 2018 - https://youtu.be/0-JrOYofpd4

The Internet of Things is a key innovation accelerator for modern businesses, and presents a significant opportunity for companies which deploy it. However, IoT is an end to end solution, meaning many different technologies and services must be combined together. The vertical specialisation required by most IoT solutions today means that no single company can offer an entire IoT packaged solution, and that customers wanting to take advantage of IoT solutions must tap into an IoT ecosystem – a network of companies which supply the different elements of IoT solutions, from sensors, to connectivity, to devices, to analytics programs.

In this IDC TechTalk podcast, we discuss the key dynamics of the IoT ecosystem, including industry context and examples, and recommendations to vendors on how to tap into this ecosystem for IoT success.

With security product environments becoming increasingly complicated through the incremental deployment of point solutions, security professionals cannot establish their holistic security posture. To release security professionals from ‘swivel-chair syndrome’, the buyer is striking back: IDC research indicates that security vendor selection strategies focus on how well new solutions fit in with existing environments, beyond cost and technical effectiveness. In this podcast, join Dominic Trott to understand what unified security means, why it is important, and what business benefits that can be achieved as a result.

Personalization is a new way for retailers to do business with an individualized value proposition at the core, merging physical and digital experiences. Commerce is everywhere; when given an engagement input and a source of data at the same time, consumers are constantly connected with products and services that can fulfill needs that they haven't consciously expressed yet. New searching experiences are empowering faster, more accurate, and engaging product findability, while at the same time, products find customers through contextual discovery experiences. Retailers can no longer rely just on segment-based approaches to customer engagement. They need to reach individuals effectively and efficiently while increasing their omni-channel profitability and innovation objectives. To do so, an agile and unified CX architecture need to be executed across segments.

In this Podcast, Andrea Sangalli, Research Associate Director IDC Retail Insights, and Ornella Urso, Research Analyst at IDC Retail Insights, sits down with Miles Dawson to discuss how retailers can digitally transform (DX) customer experience.

In this podcast Internet of Things takes center stage. A journey that starting with an overview of the main IoT use cases and drivers across industries will lead us to discover IoT data sources and current European companies IoT data usage maturity.

Andrea Siviero sits down with Miles Dawson to guide you through this journey, highlighting some of the key findings across Industries the IDC European IoT Practice is exploring in 2018.

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In this Podcast, we discuss one of the biggest buzz words in the industry today: digital transformation. Is it hype or is it real?

Jan van Vonno talks about how the IDC research has shifted, how organizations have matured, and where organizations get stuck on their digital journey.

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