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Market Analysis Perspective: Worldwide XR Headset and Wearables, 2026

Bryan Bassett, Francisco Jeronimo, Ramon T. Llamas — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Analysis Perspective provides insight into the current and future state of the XR headset and wearables market. It includes an overview of the current market landscape, a tech leader perspective, a market outlook, and IDC's advice for technology suppliers/service providers.

"The worldwide XR headset market is heading for certain growth in the years ahead. With several key platforms emerging in Apple's visionOS, Google's Android XR, and Meta, the market is taking important steps forward in its development to offer similar experiences across different devices. Meanwhile, companies operating outside of these platforms will guard their installed bases with specific solutions. The end result: a more diverse and robust ecosystem for work and for play. Meanwhile, AI is slowly making its way into the worldwide wearables market in meaningful ways by understanding context and user behavior to make informed suggestions. In addition, the greater diversity in products — namely rings and glasses — provides greater choice and more AI-driven experiences. The end result: an evolving market that connects users with actionable information. — Ramon T Llamas, research director, Mobile Devices and AR/VR, IDC

Market Forecast: European Wholesale Telecom Services Forecast, 2026-2030

Jan Hein Bakkers — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Forecast study provides the five-year forecast for the European wholesale telecom services market and delivers insights into the drivers and inhibitors of growth.

“AI is redefining connectivity requirements of wholesale buyers and their end-customers. AI, automation and APIs will be key building blocks in the Wholesale 2.0 era,” said Jan Hein Bakkers, senior research director, Telecom at IDC.

Agentic Orchestration Checks In: The Opportunity for Media Networks Has Arrived for Financial Services

Alex Holtz, Dorothy Creamer — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Perspective explores how agentic orchestration and the rise of financial media networks are reshaping advertising as margin compression and credit tightening drive card issuers, payment networks, and fintech wallets toward first-party data monetization. With the emergence of programmatic access to authenticated transaction data, operators such as Chase, American Express, Mastercard, and PayPal are pioneering closed-loop, high-intent advertising surfaces. The document details the architectural, operational, and measurement challenges and opportunities as financial media networks formalize, offering a blueprint for stakeholders to capture non-endemic brand demand and sustainable growth.

"As margin compression pushes card issuers and payment networks to rethink their revenue mix, financial services emerges as the fastest-growing frontier for commerce media," says Alex Holtz, research director, Worldwide Commerce Media and Advertising Strategies, IDC. "The closed-loop infrastructure that transformed retail, and then travel, is now redefining how brands reach authenticated, high-spend audiences through banks, card networks, and fintech wallets. The question isn't if this shift will happen — it is who will own the loop, and how quickly they will build before the market consolidates."

Fighting Fire with Fire: Retailers Arm Themselves with AI to Supercharge Defenses Against AI-Fueled Cybercrime

Margot Juros, Cristiano Quattrini — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Perspective examines how artificial intelligence is reshaping the cybercrime and fraud landscape confronting retailers, making attacks faster to design, cheaper to execute, and harder to distinguish from legitimate customer or employee behavior. The report looks at three converging risks — a surge in AI-enabled breaches, the acceleration of existing fraud and cyberattack patterns across omni-channel retail, and new vulnerabilities introduced by AI agents, chatbots, and GenAI-powered tools — and shows how retailers are countering with AI/ML, GenAI, and agentic AI defenses of their own. The document offers guidance on building a unified security control plane, governing AI agents before they touch transactional systems, and modernizing employee and customer protection programs against AI-enabled social engineering.

“Retailers face a growing incidence of cybersecurity threats, as AI changes the economics of retail cybercrime — attacks are faster to launch, cheaper to run, and harder to tell apart from legitimate customer or employee behavior,” said Margot Juros, Research Director, and Cristiano Quattrini, Senior Associate Advisor, IDC Retail Insights. “Retailers that fight fire with fire, addressing the problem with AI/ML, GenAI, and agentic-fueled defenses, are best positioned to contain these threats quickly and navigate the next wave of AI-driven fraud and cybersecurity with confidence.”

Tech Buyer Survey Spotlight: How Are Vertical Sectors Addressing IT/Connectivity and Related Cost Impacts?

Paul Hughes — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This Tech Buyer Survey Spotlight examines how enterprises view the impact of tariffs and economic shifts on the cost of IT services, and how tech-specific tariffs or currency changes will most affect budgets. Over 60% will simply increase their IT budget to address increased costs; however, that percentage differs significantly by vertical market.

The data in this Spotlight comes from IDC’s 2026 Future Enterprise Resiliency and Spending Survey Wave 4, with 1,835 respondents across 27 countries and 15 vertical industries.

IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Transportation Management Systems 2026 Vendor Assessment

Simon Ellis, Reid Paquin — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC study analyzes software providers in the market today that support transportation management processes in planning, execution, visibility, optimization, and procurement. Global transportation is a fragmented market that transportation management systems (TMSs) software aims to synchronize into, and across, the supply chain. Automating processes and integrated analytics help organizations improve productivity and drive consistency by enabling practitioners to make more informed and timely decisions across the operational landscape.

"Constantly changing global trade complexities and the persistent, unpredictable disruption of transportation networks require that companies employ a fit-for-purpose TMS application," says Simon Ellis, group VP for Manufacturing and Supply Chain, IDC. "In this IDC MarketScape, we see a group of very strong vendors offering capabilities to make global multimodal shipping an integrated part of their broader supply chain. Advanced TMS capabilities allow clients to derive a competitive advantage versus many who still view it as a basic support function."

Evaluating Business Office Operations and Services Vendors for the Media Industry 2026

Alex Holtz — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Perspective examines how media companies are converging production, distribution, monetization, media orchestration, and business operations data into a single agentic orchestration layer that surfaces variance in real time and routes corrective action back to back-office ERP systems. It assesses where agentic AI use cases in media stand in 2026, the human-in-the-loop governance that separates durable vendor deployments from stalled pilots, and the road map toward ERP convergence and cross-pillar autonomous orchestration by 2030. This document also profiles the ERP incumbents and media-native and AI-native specialists — including SAP, Oracle, Microsoft, Workday, Salesforce, Mediagenix, TwelveLabs, AWS, Dalet, and Vizrt — building this agentic layer and offers guidance for technology leaders on sequencing data, governance, and vendor selection decisions.

“The media companies that win the next five years won’t be the ones running the most AI pilots — they’ll be the ones whose agents see the whole business cycle and act on it in the same breath. When a production delay, a distribution cost spike, and a monetization shortfall all speak the same language to the same ERP, media stops reconciling its plan after the fact and starts steering it in real time,” said Alex Holtz, research director, Worldwide Media and Entertainment Digital Strategies, IDC.

IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Trade Finance Systems 2026 Vendor Assessment

Maria Adele Di Comite — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC study presents the assessment of 12 vendors for 2026 that provide trade finance solutions to the corporate banking sector: Adria B&T, Aurionpro, BT Systems, CGI, China Systems, Finastra, ICSFS, Infosys Finacle, Intellect Design Arena, Newgen, Oracle, and Surecomp. This research is a quantitative and qualitative assessment of the features of different solutions, along with other characteristics that define vendors' ability to support trade finance activities, streamline bank and corporate operations, and facilitate interactions with the ecosystem. The evaluation is based on a standardized, comprehensive framework and a set of parameters identified as most conducive to success in providing trade finance services in the short and long term. This year's assessment places particular emphasis on the extent to which vendors have moved AI, generative AI, and agentic AI capabilities from road map ambition into production use, alongside their readiness to support the accelerating shift toward electronically recognized trade documents. Evaluation also considers features to support risk management and regulatory compliance evaluations, as well as the ability to address emerging needs in a challenging and fast-evolving market, in times of uncertainty.

"In 2026, trade finance vendors are facing three key challenges: proving that their AI claims hold up under customer scrutiny, preparing for a trade ecosystem that is steadily shifting from paper to electronically recognized documents, and proving they have strong governance to meet tightening regulatory requirements and support advanced risk management. Across this assessment, vendors show meaningful progress on each of these fronts, though the pace and depth of progress vary across the vendor landscape," said Maria Adele Di Comite, senior research director, IDC Financial Insights.

IDC PeerScape: Practices to Overcome DevSecOps Challenges

Nick Kirtley — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC PeerScape examines practices to overcome DevSecOps challenges.

"DevSecOps has been well established for quite some time within the industry, yet implementing it effectively is still a challenge. Overcoming that requires good cooperation and adherence to best practices," says Nick Kirtley, adjunct research advisor, IDC's IT Executive Programs (IEP).

Global Retail Trends 2026 Across APAC, EMEA, LATAM, NATAM: Key Findings from the Global Retail Survey 2026

Ornella Urso, Ananda Chakravarty, Margot Juros, Filippo Battaini — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC study presents key findings from IDC’s 2026 Global Retail Survey, examining retailer priorities, challenges, and technology investment across APAC, EMEA, LATAM, and NATAM. It finds that AI has moved past the pilot stage: in every region surveyed, more than half of retailers report they have already deployed AI and agentic AI rather than merely planning to do so.

The study identifies talent and data readiness as the main constraints on execution and points to inventory management as the leading operational challenge worldwide.