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On October 28, 2026, IDC Research partnered with Anthropic to connect IDC Quanta to Claude through an MCP connector, allowing customers to directly access IDC's forecasts, market data, and research within the Claude app, Cowork, and Microsoft Office plugins, generating cited analyses based on more than 15 billion data points. Reports from the same day also stated that IDC is rolling out Claude company-wide: engineers used Claude Code to cut the rebuild of an internal data warehouse from an estimated three months to three weeks, code reviews from five days to about 30 minutes, and planning sprints from three weeks to three days. There have been no subsequent independent developments so far.
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IDC connects Quanta to Claude and adopts Claude company-wide
IDC partnered with Anthropic to connect IDC Quanta to Claude through an MCP connector, enabling customers to directly access IDC's forecasts, market data, and research within the Claude app, Cowork, and the Microsoft Office add-in, generating cited analyses based on more than 15 billion data points. IDC is also rolling out Claude company-wide: engineers used Claude Code to cut the rebuild of an internal data warehouse from an estimated three months to three weeks, reduce code reviews from five days to about 30 minutes, and shorten planning sprints from three weeks to three days.