IDC Quanta: The intelligence fabric of the AI-enabled enterprise
Intelligence the world's leaders have trusted for 60 years, now built into how work gets done.
Why IDC Quanta
Stop searching for intelligence. IDC Quanta brings it to you.
Generic AI is fast but unreliable. Research portals are trustworthy but slow and time-consuming. IDC Quanta is the first AI intelligence platform to deliver structured, sourced, and defensible intelligence directly into the tools where your teams already work.
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Intelligence in minutes
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Intelligence you can trust
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Intelligence embedded where you work
AI INNOVATION BACKED BY DECADES OF RIGOR
Built together with 90+ customers and XX IDC analysts.
120+
Use cases
300+
AI validation dimensions
100+
Customer satisfaction score Speed-to-insight reduction
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Training on your data
PLATFORM CAPABILITIES
Not another GenAI tool. IDC Quanta is built to be different.
Works where you do
Supercharge your tools
Embed IDC intelligence into your everyday tools and workflows.
Answers directly to your inbox:
IDC intelligence delivered effortlessly to your inbox. No logins, portals, or app switching required.
Insights inside Claude AI
Maximize the value of Claude with trusted IDC outputs in a secure environment.
More integrations coming soon
Email and Claude AI are just the start, with more connectors and workflow integrations on the way.
PERSONALIZED TO YOUR WORK
Say goodbye to generic AI responses
Pair your data, plans, and business context with IDC intelligence for more personalized outcomes that get sharper with each conversation.
Your data combined with the industry standard
Securely upload documents to benchmark or vet against IDC data and research – no manual synthesis required.
Memory that deepens with every interaction
Each session deepens Quanta’s understanding of your role and priorities, so answers improve over time.
Full context in every response
Shaped by your data, competitive considerations, and business plans for more relevant insights with less effort.
ENTERPRISE-GRADE PROTECTION
Always private and secure. Never trained on your data.
Queries, documents, and outputs are secure from your first interaction with enterprise-grade security and privacy controls.
Private workspace
Every query and document lives in an isolated workspace with token-derived identity and full user separation so your inputs stay confidential.
Zero model training
Your data never trains our models, plus 90-day automatic deletion ensures it leaves without a trace.
Enterprise-ready security controls
AES-256 encryption, SOC 2 Type II certified, single sign-on, and governance controls built for enterprise deployment.
INSIGHTS WITHOUT THE FRICTION
Get the insights you need before you ask.
Stay continuously on top of your most critical questions and key market trends.
Intelligence delivered on your schedule
Set it once, then have insights automatically delivered where and when you need them with zero prompting required.
Automatic follow-on questions
IDC Quanta surfaces questions you didn’t know to ask, using context from your role and recent sessions.
Anonymized peer signals
Understand what your peers are prioritizing, informed by anonymized signals from across IDC’s client base.
STRUCTURED, CITED, SOURCED
Ground your actions in boardroom-ready intelligence.
Confidently decide and act with answers you can see, trace, and defend.
Multi-agent validation for answers you can trust
Every response is verified against IDC’s proprietary data by a multi-agent validation system, so answers hold up when it counts.
Full reasoning transparency
See the sources, scope, and assumptions behind every answer with an expandable reasoning panel.
Cited answers, increased confidence
Get traceable proof behind every insight, with section-level citations and linked sources you can share with confidence.
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Frequently Asked Questions
What you need to know about IDC Quanta.
IDC Quanta is the technology intelligence fabric of the AI-enabled enterprise. It brings the structured, sourced, and defensible intelligence IDC has produced for more than 60 years directly into the tools and workflows where your teams already work — delivered automatically, traceable to source, and embedded without requiring a separate portal or login.
A research portal requires you to stop what you’re doing, navigate to a separate interface, find what you need, and translate it into action. IDC Quanta removes those steps entirely. Intelligence arrives in your inbox, inside Claude AI, and across your existing workflows — every answer sourced and traceable back to primary IDC research.
IDC Quanta currently works directly in email and Anthropic Claude AI, with additional connectors and integrations releasing soon. IDC Quanta also supports integrations with your organization’s proprietary LLMs and tools to work across your tech stack.
IDC Quanta is not a research portal or a generative AI tool. It’s an intelligence platform embedded in your most used tech tools. In addition to the foundation of 60 years of IDC data and research, IDC Quanta offers workflow-native delivery in email, Claude AI and other applications, the ability to securely upload your own documents and synthesize them with IDC insights, an agentic multi-LLM architecture for query quality, persistent session memory, automated delivery scheduling, quantitative and interactive data tables, and fully sourced transparency – just to name a few capabilities.
IDC Quanta is built for the moments where you need credible intelligence to back decisions and drive action. Clients are using IDC Quanta to support competitive and market intelligence on demand, synthesis and context blending of research and internal documents, executive-ready content creation, seamless analyst engagement requests, industry data analysis and more.
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