# How IDC uses Beautiful

**hours if not days** time given back to each analyst on deck production

As published on [beautiful.ai](https://www.beautiful.ai/customers/idc), August 2025. Captured by usedby on 2026-10-03.

- Company: [IDC](https://www.usedby.ai/companies/idc.md)
- Tool: [Beautiful](https://www.usedby.ai/tools/beautiful.md)
- Industry: [Data & Analytics](https://www.usedby.ai/companies/industry/data-analytics.md)
- Teams: Research, Analysts

## What the story says

IDC's analysts use Beautiful.ai's Smart Slides and AI slide generation to build presentations with consistent design instead of assembling decks manually in PowerPoint. This reduces time spent on formatting and helps them turn data into insights faster.

Summary written by usedby from the source page, in English. The figures are those of Beautiful and IDC, not ours.

> Using Beautiful.ai in our production process, the time to production of a deck has been going down,” Hugh noted. “We've probably given hours if not days back to the analyst.

> Better quality, stories, and speed all come together—we can't do what Beautiful.ai does in any other way.
>
> Hugh Ujhazy, VP of Research Technical operations

> Using Beautiful.ai in our production process, the time to production of a deck has been going down. We've probably given hours if not days back to the analyst.
>
> Hugh Ujhazy, VP of Research Technical Operations

## What usedby checked

We compared the story with its live page on 2026-10-03.

- Checked: the figure hours if not days is on the page; its label is our wording.
- Checked: the passage quoted above is copied word for word from the page, near the name of IDC.
- Checked: the publication date is read from the page’s own metadata, never guessed.
- Checked: IDC uses Beautiful. Confirmed line. Latest check across sources: 2026-10-03.
- Not checked: the result itself. We quote it; we did not measure it.

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