Top Enterprise Connectivity Investments to Accelerate Operational Efficiency

This IDC Perspective analyzes data from IDC's June 2023 Future of Connectedness Survey and Wave 8 of IDC's recurring Future Enterprise Resiliency and Spending Survey, looking at top operational metrics enterprises use to assess performance from connectivity initiatives and the strategic investments that help ensure those metrics are met. Evolving digital business demands put increased pressure on enterprise networking and IT staff to manage change, especially as businesses look to avoid future technology silos caused by disparate networks and multicloud environments. These dynamics are driving enterprises to focus connectivity investments on technologies that help drive measurable business outcomes."The road map to the agile connected enterprise (R.A.C.E.) has become a journey of network transformation, reducing legacy technology bottlenecks, addressing scale and resiliency with long-term economics in mind, and ensuring secure data movement," noted Paul Hughes, research director, Future of Connectedness at IDC. "Enterprises are making investments in connectivity that are aligned to operational metrics, driving growth in key services and solution areas that ensure quantifiable improvement in those metrics."