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IDC MarketScape: Latin America Public Cloud Infrastructure as a Service 2025 Vendor Assessment

Pietro Delai — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC study provides an assessment of Latin America public cloud infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) providers through the IDC MarketScape model.

"Cloud adoption in Latin America is intense, and announcement of new datacenters is trite. AI is a huge driver to consume IaaS resources at scale," says Pietro Delai, research director, Datacenter and Cloud Infrastructure for Latin America. "Another driver for local cloud solutions was intensified by geopolitical pressure that moved many countries to data sovereignty requirements within their territory, which could reshape the cloud landscape in the region."

IDC MarketScape: Middle East and Africa Hybrid Multicloud Management Platforms Vendor Assessment, 2025

Jebin George, George Ayad, Harish Dunakhe — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC study utilizes the IDC MarketScape model to assess vendors in the hybrid multicloud management software market in the Middle East and Africa.

"As organizations in the Middle East and Africa expand across public, private, sovereign, and edge environments, hybrid multicloud management platforms are becoming essential to unify operations and ensure governance. Enterprises should prioritize platforms with built-in AI and robust compliance capabilities to manage complexity, reduce operational overhead, and deliver consistent, secure performance across increasingly distributed cloud environments." — Jebin George, senior research manager for cloud, IDC Middle East and Africa

IDC MarketScape: Worldwide AI-Enabled PSA ERP Applications 2025–2026 Vendor Assessment

Mickey North Rizza — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC study provides a thorough assessment of market-leading AI-enabled PSA ERP applications and discusses the criteria that are most important for companies to consider when selecting a solution.

"Organizations are embracing AI quickly; however, AI-enabled PSA ERP functionality is just beginning to become AI enabled. As AI becomes more engrained in the services project life cycle and financial aspects, it will immediately help reduce manual and semi-manual workflows, improve time of insights to action, and help deliver improved business performance for services-focused business or as part of the product and additional services businesses," said Mickey North Rizza, IDC Group VP, Enterprise Software.

IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Analytical Databases 2025–2026 Vendor Assessment

Devin Pratt — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 05:00:00 GMT

The IDC study evaluates worldwide analytical database software platforms for 2025, highlighting how advances in storage and compute architectures are transforming enterprise analytics. Vendors evaluated include AWS, Broadcom, Cloudera, Couchbase, Google, IBM, InterSystems, Microsoft, OpenText, Oracle, SAP, SingleStore, Snowflake, and Teradata. The market is shifting beyond traditional columnar systems toward cloud-native, lakehouse, and distributed query architectures that separate storage and compute to improve elasticity, performance, and cost control.

As organizations modernize data infrastructure and accelerate AI adoption, analytical databases are emerging as the intelligent, high-performance foundation for real-time analytics and data-driven decisioning. Vendors are embedding AI-driven optimization, vector processing, and automation to enhance scalability, accelerate insights, and prepare for agentic AI workloads. The market's growth signals a new phase where analytics, AI, and storage innovation converge to enable faster and more intelligent enterprise decisions.

"Analytics is the engine of enterprise intelligence, and analytical databases are evolving to make it faster, smarter, and more adaptive," said Devin Pratt, research director, Data Management Software at IDC. "As organizations advance their analytics strategies and incorporate AI and agentic AI, leadership will belong to databases that seamlessly unite storage, compute, and automation to turn data into trusted, real-time decisions."

IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Application and Platform Marketplaces 2025 Vendor Assessment

Nadia Ballard, Frank Della Rosa — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 05:00:00 GMT

The IDC study presents the 2025 IDC MarketScape for worldwide application and platform marketplaces. it highlights the shift of SaaS marketplaces, from static catalogs to operational procurement and agentic AI–powered integration hubs. It evaluates the leading vendors — Adobe, AVEVA, Oracle, Salesforce, SAP, and Siemens — on their strategy and capabilities, governance frameworks, in-app discovery, and buyer–seller enablement, emphasizing the impact of embedded AI, procurement automation, and governance maturity on buyer experience, implementation speed, and ROI.

"The different characteristics of the marketplaces profiled in this IDC MarketScape demonstrate how closely application and platform vendors are listening to their user base and adapting their marketplace strategies to meet buyers' needs while adopting the latest developments, such as agentic AI," said Nadia Ballard, senior research manager, Industry Cloud and SaaS, IDC.

"As AI agents reshape SaaS marketplaces, the true differentiator is not catalog size but how deeply intelligence is woven into the marketplace operational workflows and governance," said Frank Della Rosa, research vice president, SaaS, Business Platforms, and Industry Cloud, IDC.

SAP Earnings 3Q25: Growth Continues

Mickey North Rizza, Robert Parker, Daniel-Zoe Jimenez, Bo Lykkegaard — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 05:00:00 GMT

SAP recently announced its 3Q25 results. All results discussed in the document will be non-IFRS and growth rates and percentage points are non-IFRS, year over year at constant currencies, unless otherwise specified. The 3Q25 financials show cloud and software revenue was up 12% to €8,016 million. Cloud revenue grew steadily, up 27% to €5,290 million. Total revenue was up 11% to €9,076 million. The current cloud backlog was up 27% to €18.8 billion. Non-IFRS operating profit was up 19% to €2,566 million.

Schneider Electric Innovation Summit 2025: Electrification and AI Convergence Drives the New Industrial Era

Olga Yashkova, Natalya Yezhkova — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC Link summarizes the key learnings from Schneider Electric's North America Innovation Summit 2025 that took place on November 18-19 in Las Vegas, NV. This event highlighted the company's strategic focus on integrating electrification, automation, and digital transformation to address the quickly progressing demands of datacenters and other industries.

Braze Forge 2025: Highlighting Full-Stack Infrastructure for Agentic Marketing

Gerry Murray, Roger Beharry Lall — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC Perspective analyzes the Braze Forge 2025 conference held September 29–October 1, 2025, in Las Vegas. Braze Forge 2025 demonstrated the company's commitment to transforming customer engagement through AI integration and platform innovation. Announcements at the event addressed every aspect of the modern marketing technology stack, from data activation and personalization to channel optimization and workflow automation.

"The breadth and depth of innovation showcased at Forge 2025 reinforces Braze's position as a leader in customer engagement technology," said Gerry Murray, director, IDC's Enterprise Marketing Apps and Agents service. "Braze is providing the foundation for brands to build more meaningful, responsive, and profitable customer relationships with a fully integrated stack for agentic marketing."

IDC MarketScape: Middle East, Türkiye, and Africa AI-Enabled Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Applications 2025 Vendor Assessment

Uzair Mujtaba, Harish Dunakhe, Arif Sultan Shiekh — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC study thoroughly assesses leading AI-enabled ERP applications in the META region and surfaces the most important criteria for companies to consider when selecting a solution.

“As AI transforms ERP from a system of record into an enterprise-wide decision enabler, the META region stands at a crossroads: Will organizations embrace AI-driven automation and predictive intelligence as a necessity, or risk falling behind in the race for digital transformation? The future of business agility, compliance, and innovation now hinges on how deeply AI is embedded into the workflows that power tomorrow’s enterprises.” — Senior Research Manager Uzair Mujtaba, Software and Cloud, IDC META

IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Hyperscaler Marketplaces 2025 Vendor Assessment

Nadia Ballard, Frank Della Rosa — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 05:00:00 GMT

The IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Hyperscaler Marketplaces 2025 Vendor Assessment highlights how cloud marketplaces are revolutionizing procurement, enabling organizations to drive greater business value, optimize costs, and accelerate innovation. This document evaluates leading vendors such as Amazon, Google, Huawei, Microsoft, and Vultr on their capabilities, strategies, and AI-driven advancements, emphasizing the growing importance of agentic AI, partner ecosystems, and integrated procurement in maximizing ROI and operational efficiency across industries.

"The cloud SP vendors profiled in this IDC MarketScape continue to invest in their respective marketplaces, expanding the range of products and services offered but also improving the user experience for buyers that increasingly include line-of-business and procurement roles, in addition to the traditional IT buyers," said Nadia Ballard, senior research manager, Industry Cloud and SaaS, IDC.

"Cloud marketplaces are no longer just procurement tools — they are strategic growth engines, accelerating innovation, business agility, and AI-driven transformation across every industry," said Frank Della Rosa, research vice president, SaaS, Business Platforms, and Industry Cloud, IDC.