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IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Advanced Production Planning and Scheduling 2025 Vendor Assessment

Lorenzo Veronesi — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC MarketScape analyzes software providers in the advanced planning and scheduling (APS) market serving the manufacturing industry.

APS is now tightly integrated with core business systems such as MES, ERP, supply chain, and inventory management. APS helps connect planning and execution, supporting synchronized, end-to-end decision making across the manufacturing process.

"Real-time data and AI are revolutionizing advanced planning and scheduling, enabling manufacturers to optimize resources, adapt swiftly, and thrive in complex production environments," said Lorenzo Veronesi, associate research director, IDC Manufacturing Insights.

IDC MarketScape: Canadian AI Services 2025 Vendor Assessment

Jason Bremner, Sreenivas Duvvuri Venkata — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC study represents a vendor assessment of the Canadian artificial intelligence (AI) services market through the IDC MarketScape model. This assessment discusses both quantitative and qualitative characteristics that explain success in the AI services market. This IDC MarketScape covers a variety of vendors participating in the AI services space. The evaluation is based on a comprehensive and rigorous framework that assesses vendors relative to the criteria and to one another, and it highlights the factors expected to be the most influential for success in the market in both the short term and the long term.

"AI is changing the way organizations approach technology in Canada across paradigms. More companies, today, are looking to strengthen their IT backbone to scale AI programs and derive value from their investments.AI is gaining traction as a means to address age-old concerns around productivity, in addition to remaining competitive in the global economy," says Sreenivas Duvvuri Venkata, research analyst, Enterprise Services at IDC. "Service providers are playing a critical role as a success partner for Canadian companies, acting as a sounding board for innovation, a driver of value at scale, and a no-nonsense reality check, as needed."

IDC MarketScape: U.S. Value-Based Healthcare Analytics 2025 Vendor Assessment

Jennifer Eaton — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC MarketScape evaluates the U.S. value-based healthcare analytics vendor market. The market is evolving as at-risk contracts tied to quality and cost performance mature and become more commonplace. Client needs are also evolving as a growing number of data types and sources such as SDOH become vital to support more robust analytics and AI/ML-supported workflows. Whether supporting enhanced data analytics, risk stratification, interoperability, and/or end-user efficiency, the need for value-based healthcare analytics as the foundation for sustainability and success is becoming clearer.

"The U.S. value-based healthcare technology sector has rapidly evolved from basic population health tools to sophisticated platforms that integrate real-time data, advanced analytics, and seamless care coordination. Today, technology is enabling providers and payers to move beyond retrospective cost savings and focus on proactive risk management, patient engagement, and measurable clinical outcomes, unlocking the full potential of value-based care models in an increasingly complex landscape." — Jennifer Eaton, research director, Value-Based Healthcare IT Transformation Strategies

IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Software Platforms for National Civilian Government AI-Powered Personalized Digital Experiences 2025 Vendor Assessment

Louisa Barker, Massimiliano Claps — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC MarketScape provides an assessment of worldwide software platform providers for national civilian government AI-powered personalized digital experiences. Using the IDC MarketScape model, IDC has identified important criteria for national civilian governments when selecting their digital experience software platforms and has assessed vendors against these criteria.

AI is disrupting the digital service experience software platform market. From data pipelining to website optimization and from experience journey planning to mission-specific case capabilities, vendors are infusing their solutions with AI, GenAI, and, increasingly, GenAI agents. However, as highlighted in this report, significant differences remain in the offerings vendors are bringing to market.

“To get the most out of digital service experience platforms, national governments should evaluate the breadth and depth of a vendor’s capabilities across omni-channel self-service, customer service and support, customer data management, communication and engagement, and platform capabilities. as well as its broader partner ecosystem and integration opportunities.” — Senior Research Manager Louisa Barker, IDC

Optimizing AI and Agentic Workloads: Enabling AI at Scale with Functions as a Service and WebAssembly

Matthew Flug — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Perspective discusses optimizing AI and agentic workloads — enabling AI at scale with functions as a service and WebAssembly. Organizations are scrambling to find ways to build, deploy, and manage, AI-powered applications and agents securely and efficiently. The inherent strengths of emerging technologies like functions as a service and WebAssembly make them well suited to provide solutions for specific AI and agentic use cases.

"As organizations look for secure and efficient methods to manage AI applications and agents, technologies like functions as a service and WebAssembly are emerging as scalable, cost-effective, and secure solutions for specific AI and agentic workloads. While neither will be well suited to be a ubiquitous solution to run all of an organization's AI workloads, the compute methods can help ease the AI burden on organizations and effectively democratize the ability to create AI-powered applications." — Matthew Flug, research manager, Cloud Application Deployment Platforms, IDC

Splunk .conf25: Advancing Security, Observability, and AI

Matthew Eastwood, Frank Dickson, Stephen Elliot — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 04:00:00 GMT

Splunk’s .conf25, held September 8–11 in Boston, displayed the company’s latest innovations in security, observability, and AI as part of its deeper integration with Cisco. Key announcements included (1) the Agentic SOC, designed to address talent shortages through AI-powered automation; (2) Observability Reinvented, combining Cisco telemetry with Splunk analytics to deliver actionable insights and advancing AI capabilities across the portfolio; (3) Cisco Data Fabric, a unified architecture to unlock machine data for AI with built-in resilience; and (4) the AI-Native Platform, featuring an open-source foundation model and federated search. IDC views these developments as positioning the evolution of Splunk into an AI-native data platform at the core of Cisco’s broader AI strategy.

The Benefits of Size Has Its Limits When It Comes to How Ransomware Demands Are Negotiated Down

Craig Robinson — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Tech Buyer Survey Spotlight highlights the results of IDC's recent Incident Response Services Survey. This wide-ranging global survey across a variety of organizational sizes and industries focused on buyers of incident response services. The survey question analyzed dealt with firms that had experienced a ransomware event in the last 18 months and what amount — if any — of a reduction in a ransomware payment were they able to obtain from the initial ransomware demand.

Countries surveyed were Australia (51), Canada (52), France (76), Germany (76), India (75), Japan (104), the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (51), Nordics (52), Poland (50), Singapore (51), Turkey (51), the United Arab Emirates (51), the United Kingdom (77), and the United States (301).

The Rise, Fall, and Revival of EdTech: Where to Next?

Ravikant Sharma, Matthew Leger — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Perspective analyzes the evolving edtech sector and offers data-driven insights into ecosystem transformation. It guides product and marketing leaders in navigating market shifts, identifying growth opportunities, and preparing for future trends. The report concludes with actionable recommendations to help institutions make informed, strategic decisions on effective edtech adoption and long-term competitiveness.

"Edtech has moved from pandemic-driven hype to a posthype reality in which AI is no longer a feature but core infrastructure. The winners will be those that embed AI responsibly into trusted ecosystems, prove measurable student outcomes, and deliver flexible, resilient platforms that guarantee learning continuity and enable seamless shifts between physical and digital modes. Features do not win markets anymore. Trust, transparency, and alignment with institutional goals do," says Ravi Kant Sharma, research director, IDC Asia/Pacific Government and Education Worldwide Insights.

AI Strategies and Adoption in EMEA Financial Services

Tom Zink — Sun, 14 Sep 2025 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Presentation gives a regional view for the Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) region of insights from IDC's AI Tech Buyer Survey 2025. The survey focuses on trends in generate AI (GenAI) and agentic AI strategies, organizational maturity, priority use case for AI agents, ROI expectations, key challenges, the evolving vendor ecosystem, and vendor selection criteria, as well as key functional roles required to drive agentic AI.

The data is based on primary research conducted by IDC in 1Q/2Q 2025. The survey interviewed financial institutions across Europe, including Germany, the United Kingdom, France, the Netherlands, Italy, Sweden, Spain, Denmark, Norway, Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary, and the META region including United Aarab Emirates (UAE), South Africa, Türkiye, and Saudi Arabia.

"Financial institutions are rapidly moving from playing around with GenAI towards taking the technology to the next level — agentic AI. Financial institutions generally feel well prepared, given that foundational work such as AI strategy and AI governance have been put in place, paving the way for the rapid adoption of agents in the enterprise. Key use cases are mainly IT support and helpdesk and cybersecurity." — Senior Research Director Tom Zink, IDC Financial Insights

IDC PeerScape: Peer Insights for AI-Driven Manufacturing Architecture

Robert Multhaup — Sun, 14 Sep 2025 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC PeerScape interviews two key industry leaders to examine their views on how to transform to a new AI-driven manufacturing architecture.

"Manufacturing has great potential to exploit the powers of AI. However, the transition to a new AI-driven manufacturing architecture must be carefully crafted and managed," says Bob Multhaup, adjunct research advisor, IT Executive Programs (IEP), IDC.