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Kiwi companies are over-estimating how advanced they are in digital transformation according to IDC. So how can you - and your customers - move ahead?.

The International Data Corporation releases data from Worldwide Quarterly Wearable Device Tracker showing a 67.2% increase in wearables shipments.

The smartphone app market may have hit its peak, with app installations and a maturing market still growing but at a slower rate, an IDC study reports.

The worldwide semiconductor market is set to decline for a second consecutive year due to weak demand and oversupply.

Apple is racking up the wins on the detachables side of the tablet market, taking an early lead in the only growing segment of the tablet market.

Minimal growth this quarter is primarily attributed to strong smartphone saturation in developed markets, as well as a decline from Apple and Samsung.

Big data and analytics hold high potential for local service providers as companies across APAC seek to harness massive amounts of data.

IDC is forecasting skyrocketing VR hardware shipments this year, with AR ramping up in the next few years too - to a combined 110m shipments in 2020.

Spend on server, storage and Ethernet switches for deployment in cloud environments is expected to increase by 18.9% this year.

PC shipments continue to decline, with the only hopes for improvement dependent on commercial replacements and economic stability, according to IDC.

Dell, Cisco and EMC are closing the gap marginally on Hewlett Packard Enterprise's number one spot for cloud infrastructure sales.

Converged systems revenue surpasses $3.1bn in Q4 2015, with hyperconverged systems driving growth, according to IDC.

IDC says SD-WAN revenue will start to ramp up strongly this year as organisations seek to optimise their cloud strategies.

Dell and HP continue to dominate the thin client market - a market where Asia Pacific was the only region to see an increase in shipments last year.

Adaptation by vendors in the purpose-built backup appliance market is helping drive the market which remains completely dominated by EMC.

Six out of eight regional markets saw positive year-over-year unit growth in the production print space. Asia/Pacific was a key contributor to growth.

Spending on cognitive systems in APeJ is set to reach over $1.9bn in 2019, with software accounting for over 40% of spending.

Driven by a growing vendor line-up and consumer awareness, IDC forecasts global shipments of wearable devices to hit 237.1 million by 2020.

IBM saw strong server revenue growth in Q4, while the density optimised segment of the market benefitting from continuing data center buildouts.

IDC says while stabilisation of the PC market remains an elusive goal for now, there are some areas where there's money to be made.