# Anthropic — IDC brings Quanta into Claude and adopts Claude across the company

- Company: Anthropic (anthropic.com)
- Announced: 2026-10-28
- Category: partnership-acquisition
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: announcements
- Source: https://claude.com/resources/articles/idc-brings-quanta-into-claude-and-adopts-claude-across-the-company
- Record: https://forck.live/items/28863-idc-brings-quanta-into-claude-and-adopts-claude-across-the-company
- Subject: Claude

IDC worked with Anthropic to bring IDC Quanta into Claude, giving IDC customers access to its forecasts, market data and research through a connector available today. Applying market research has traditionally meant reading long reports to reach an answer such as a vendor shortlist or competitive brief; now a customer describes the market, strategy or purchase they are working on and the IDC Quanta MCP connector for Claude returns finished analysis built on IDC's data. IDC Quanta works in the Claude app on desktop and mobile, Cowork, and the Microsoft Office add-ins, and each answer cites the IDC document or dataset it came from. IDC says the connector gives Claude the same data and definitions an IDC analyst works from, so a market share or growth rate matches what IDC would publish. IDC has also rolled Claude out across the company, where engineers, product, marketing and sales teams use it daily; engineering rebuilt an internal data repository in three weeks instead of an estimated three months. IDC Quanta customers who use Claude can add the connector from within Claude, and others can contact IDC or book a demo.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://claude.com/resources/articles/idc-brings-quanta-into-claude-and-adopts-claude-across-the-company:

> IDC Research (IDC), a global leader in technology intelligence for more than 60 years, worked with Anthropic to bring IDC Quanta into Claude, available to IDC customers today. IDC Quanta gives customers access to IDC’s trusted and validated forecasts, market data, research, and more, and now, they can ask questions in Claude to get answers enriched with IDC’s insights in minutes. IDC has also rolled Claude out across the company, where teams use it every day.
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> Applying market research has traditionally meant reading through long reports to get to the answers a customer needs, such as a vendor shortlist or a competitive brief. Now, an IDC customer describes the market, strategy, or purchase they're working on, and the IDC Quanta MCP connector for Claude returns finished analysis built on IDC's trusted forecasts and data.
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> What customers can do with IDC Quanta in Claude
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> IDC Quanta, an AI-powered technology intelligence platform that helps customers do better work, faster, with credible, verified intelligence from IDC’s proprietary data and research. In Claude, IDC Quanta enables customers to benchmark performance, size markets, choose vendors, and shape strategy.

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