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Agentic AI Is Rewriting PaaS Decision-Making

Adam Reeves — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Agentic AI is driving structural disruption in the PaaS market, with 80% of enterprise platform decision-makers reconsidering their portfolios as vendors converge on integrated architectures spanning development tooling, agent life-cycle management, governance, and data access. Developer enablement is a primary mechanism through which platform selection happens, with developers influencing 47% of cloud adoption and vendor selection spend. Enterprise IT leaders who govern developer toolchain adoption, assess governance depth, and require portability terms before committing will be better positioned than those who allow platform dependencies to accumulate by default.

"The worst outcome for enterprise IT is not choosing the wrong PaaS platform in the age of agentic AI. It is making no deliberate choice while dependencies accumulate by default," says Adam Reeves, research director, PaaS for Developers of Modern and Edge Applications, IDC.

Best in Future of AI Center of Excellence Winner Award Profile 2025

Deepika Giri, Shashank Nigam, Daeil Chun — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC study discusses the development and impact of AXA Hong Kong and Macau's AI Center of Excellence (CoE) that centralizes AI strategy and governance, aligning advanced initiatives with business goals to drive efficiency and innovation. By integrating scalable infrastructure, ethical oversight, and continuous talent development, the CoE embeds AI across operations and empowers employees, positioning AXA as an industry leader in responsible and impactful AI adoption.

"A truly visionary AI Center of Excellence is not just a hub for technology, it is the strategic engine that transforms business objectives into measurable innovation, ensuring every AI initiative drives real value and positions the organization ahead of the curve," says Deepika Giri, associate VP, IDC Asia/Pacific.

IDC CIO Summit Türkiye 2026: Agentic Systems and the Next Chapter for Turkish CIO Leadership

Eren Eser, Melih Murat — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Perspective summarizes the key themes and consequential implications from IDC's 17th CIO Summit Türkiye, held on May 6–7 2026 at Elite World Grand, Sapanca, Türkiye, under the banner "The Rise of Agentic Systems." The event brought together more than 400 CIOs, CTOs, and senior technology leaders to discuss AI-powered enterprise transformation. This document distills the most consequential themes, on-stage debates, and customer stories from the event.

"Türkiye now has the talent, the leadership, the case studies and, increasingly, the local infrastructure to compete at the leading edge of the agent economy. The 17th IDC CIO Summit Türkiye made clear that the Turkish CIO is ready to lead that conversation. The next move is to scale." — Eren Eser, associate research director, IDC's Global Services Insights

IDC PlanScape: AI-Enabled Carbon Management

Bjoern Stengel — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC PlanScape helps technology decision-makers understand the market for AI-enabled carbon management, identify use cases where AI delivers the most value today, evaluate vendors against IDC's research, and chart a pragmatic adoption path based on their organization's current maturity. The business case is increasingly tangible: Leading adopters report material reductions in external consulting spend on reporting and assurance, redeployment of sustainability analyst time from data wrangling to decarbonization strategy, faster close cycles for disclosure, and improved auditability of AI-derived numbers — outcomes that compound as Scope 3 and product carbon footprint (PCF) requirements expand.

"AI is changing the economics of carbon management. Tasks that once required armies of consultants — finding the right emission factors, reconciling supplier data, drafting disclosures, and modeling decarbonization pathways — are increasingly being automated. Buyers should view AI-enabled carbon management not as an incremental upgrade to their reporting stack but as the foundation for moving from disclosure to delivery on their climate commitments and realization of more advanced forms of sustainable business value," said Bjoern Stengel, lead, Global Sustainability Research and Practice at IDC.

SaaS: Post Mortem or Rebirth

Frank Della Rosa — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Despite high-profile claims of SaaS' demise and significant market volatility, the IDC Perspective argues that SaaS is undergoing structural transformation, not extinction. The rise of agentic AI is disrupting traditional SaaS models — especially seat-based pricing and workflow applications — but core enterprise platforms remain resilient due to deep integrations and data assets. The market is overestimating the speed and scale of disruption; SaaS will evolve, not disappear, as vendors adapt to new AI-driven paradigms.

"SaaS is not dead — it is being unbundled, rebundled, and redefined by agentic AI. The real question is which supplier adapts and thrives and which supplier vanishes?" says Frank Della Rosa, research vice president, SaaS, Platform Strategy and Ecosystems, IDC.

Tackling Operational Shrink, Loss, and Fraud

Filippo Battaini, Margot Juros — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Perspective explores how artificial intelligence (AI), computer vision, RFID, and edge computing are reshaping loss prevention from friction-based deterrence to intelligence-driven intervention, and offers retailers a structured approach to technology selection, deployment, and ROI justification. Retail shrink is no longer a manageable cost of doing business — it is a strategic crisis demanding a new technological response.

"Loss prevention is at an inflection point. Retailers can no longer afford to choose between security and customer experience — the most effective next-generation platforms deliver both simultaneously. The vendors gaining ground are those that fuse computer vision, RFID, and point-of-sale (POS) data into unified, real-time intervention systems, rather than deploying point solutions that address only one zone or one theft vector," says Filippo Battaini, research manager, IDC Retail Insights.

The Evolution of Distribution From Middlemen to Value Orchestrators

Vinay Gupta, Daniel-Zoe Jimenez — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Asia/Pacific distribution is moving from logistics to value orchestration. Distributors are becoming the data, financing, and orchestration layers between vendors, partners, and customers. Five forces are driving this shift: AI, marketplace seller-of-record economics, multicloud as geopolitical hedge, channel consolidation, and the move to recurring revenue. The market is consolidating into three archetypes: global broadliners, international specialists, and country champions. IDC's 2025 Asia/Pacific Partner Survey shows that 78% of the surveyed partners said they procure through distributors and 47% said they matter more than ever. Vendors designing programs from headquarters for headquarters-style distributor models will lose Asia/Pacific share.

"Asia/Pacific distribution is consolidating around three archetypes: global broadliners, international specialists, and country champions. The squeezed middle disappears. Vendors that keep designing partner programs from headquarters for distributor models that exist only in headquarters markets will lose Asia/Pacific shares," says Vinay Gupta, senior research director, IDC Asia/Pacific Channels and Ecosystem.

Build 2026 Marks Microsoft's Most Substantive Push to Orient Windows Around Agentic Development

Adam Resnick — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Microsoft Build 2026 focused heavily on agentic enablement, with announcements across the Microsoft stack targeting the development, deployment, and governance of AI agents at enterprise scale. Within this context, Windows and related hardware updates signal a coordinated push to reinforce Windows as a primary platform for agentic development. These investments emphasize OS-level agent containment, on-device AI execution, expanded Linux tooling, and purpose-built, low-friction OS experiences for developers. Microsoft's installed base and deep enterprise reach already position Windows ahead of macOS and Linux across much of the developer market. Improvements in usability and developer-centric design strengthen its case as agentic workloads scale, but shifting developer preference among Mac-centric, start-up, and AI-native segments will take time and will not be driven by capability alone.

Cisco Isovalent Launches Networking for Virtualization Platform to Capture the Virtual Machine Migration Market

Paul Nicholson — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Cisco has announced the general availability (GA) of Isovalent Networking for Virtualization (INV), providing enterprise IT teams with a supported path to migrate virtual machine (VM) workloads from existing platforms to OpenShift Virtualization and Kubernetes KubeVirt without disrupting network connectivity or security policies. For IT leaders managing infrastructure modernization, this is a meaningful addition to the Cisco portfolio: It addresses one of the most common blockers in VM-to-Kubernetes migration projects, backed by networking technology already trusted by the world's largest cloud providers. Launched at Cisco Live (June 2026), INV becomes the fourth pillar of the Isovalent Enterprise Platform and demonstrates that Cisco's networking capabilities now extend well beyond traditional hardware.

HPE 2Q26 Results: Two Years Ahead of Plan

Matthew Eastwood — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT

On June 1, 2026, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) announced record 2Q26 results. Revenue rose 40% year over year to $10.7 billion. Non-GAAP diluted EPS was $0.79, and free cash flow was about $0.9 billion. Each metric surpassed guidance. Profitability and cash generation exceeded expectations by a wide margin. Orders more than doubled, producing a record backlog and improving visibility into the second half of FY26. Based on these results, HPE raised its full-year outlook for revenue, EPS, and free cash flow and introduced an initial FY27 financial framework, signaling management's confidence in demand for networking, AI infrastructure, storage, and hybrid cloud.