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2026 IDC FinTech Rankings and Real Results Program

Jerry Silva — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Now in its 23rd year, the IDC FinTech Rankings and Real Results program has not only continued to show the strength of technology investments in the financial services industry but has also demonstrated how AI is delivering real business value in those leading institutions that deploy AI enterprise-wide.

“AI has become a dominant force in technology spend across financial services, as indicated by the revenue growth among top IT providers worldwide,” said Jerry Silva, program vice president, IDC Financial Insights. “The deployment of AI across multiple operational and business environments is already creating value for financial institutions, as demonstrated by the IDC Real Results case studies.”

Consumers Against or With Retailers? A 2026 Comparison by Geographies

Ornella Urso, Ananda Chakravarty, Margot Juros, Filippo Battaini — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC presentation compares consumers and retailers across four regions (LATAM, NATAM, EMEA, and APAC), theme by theme, by placing two 2026 IDC retail studies side by side. Data is gathered from both IDC’s May 2026 Worldwide Retail Consumer Insights Survey and IDC’s 2026 Retail Technologies and Business Process Trends Survey.

Long-Term Data Retention in IDC’s Global StorageSphere

Adam Wright, Edward Burns — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Perspective analyzes the current state of long-term data retention by enterprise organizations in IDC’s Global StorageSphere. It provides a definition for long-term data retention and explores the reasons why organizations retain data long term, including the growing influence of AI and ML training as a distinct retention driver. It also examines how much data is being retained long term, the type and mix of media on which long-term retained data is being stored, where it is being stored, and the dynamics that might impact long-term data retention policies and practices by organizations in the future.

“No two organizations define long-term data retention quite the same way. Every organization draws that line based on its own mix of regulation, cost, and now, increasingly, what it thinks its data might be worth to an AI model down the road. The organizations that will manage this best are the ones that revisit this line regularly rather than setting it once and forgetting it because the reasons to keep data longer are changing faster than they have in years,” according to Adam Wright, senior research manager, IDC’s Global DataSphere and Global StorageSphere.

Salesforce Dreamforce 2026: Missionforce Turns One and What the Rest Means for Defense and National Security

Alan Webber — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Note examines Salesforce's Dreamforce 2026 event through a defense and national security lens. Salesforce marked one year of Missionforce, reporting 80% year-over-year growth in defense revenue and new NVIDIA and OpenAI capabilities for classified and air-gapped work. The event's commercial architecture, including post-trained NVIDIA models in trust-boundary design and Salesforce's new governance stack, is what Missionforce is now extending into government. Near-term value for government buyers stays concentrated in rules-based administrative work, not autonomous decisions, and a midevent outage is a reminder that resilience is as important as capability.

"The most important number out of Dreamforce was that defense grew faster than any other part of Salesforce's business this year, which tells you where government AI spending is actually heading," says Alan Webber, program vice president for National Security, Defense, and Intelligence at IDC.

The AI Software Factory: What Application Platforms Must Deliver to Build, Deploy, and Govern AI Applications and Agents

Matthew Flug — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Perspective examines what application platforms must deliver to build, deploy, run, and govern AI applications and agents. It identifies which platform capabilities carry over from conventional applications, which ones AI extends, and which ones are new across the three stages of the application life cycle: build; deploy and run; and manage, operate, and govern. The document positions the AI software factory as the layer that turns AI factory capacity into applications and agents running in production.

"AI has not changed what application platforms are for. They still exist to help teams build better applications faster. AI has changed how much work occurs after code is written, including evaluating nondeterministic outputs and governing what agents can do and on whose behalf. Vendors that compete on how quickly customers can build an agent, rather than how safely they can run one, will struggle to win production AI workloads," said Matthew Flug, research manager, Intelligent Application Modernization and Deployment Platforms, IDC.

Trends in Cloud Messaging and Integration

Rob Tiffany — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Perspective examines how Azure, AWS, Google Cloud, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, Alibaba Cloud, IBM Cloud, and Tencent Cloud are evolving their cloud messaging and integration portfolios, covering message buses, queues, notifications, data streams, data connectors, APIs, and events. It identifies six trends: agents as clients, Kafka convergence, larger and smarter events, elastic economics, cross-boundary security, and open standards. It closes with guidance that helps technology leaders match workloads to services, protect portability, govern agent access, and control costs.

“Messaging used to be part of the architecture nobody discussed until it failed. In 2026, it is where AI agents, real-time data, and hybrid governance meet,” explains Rob Tiffany, research director, Cloud Infrastructure at IDC. “Tech leaders that treat it as a strategic platform will move faster and spend less than those who leave it to chance.”

IDC MarketScape: Worldwide AI-Enabled Manufacturing ERP 2026 Vendor Assessment

Sarah Lee, Mickey North Rizza, Bo Lykkegaard — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC study presents the IDC MarketScape assessment for worldwide AI-enabled manufacturing ERP applications, evaluating 16 vendors across strategies and capabilities specific to process and discrete manufacturing. The study finds the market separating into enterprise, midmarket, and SMB segments, with environmental health and safety functionality the widest point of differentiation and evidence quality, shipping and customer validated versus road map or aspirational, as important to assess as the AI capability itself. It discusses the most important criteria for manufacturers to consider when selecting a solution.

"Manufacturers should match the market segment: enterprise, midmarket, or SMB of ERP vendors to the complexity of their plant operations, not simply their company size, or risk paying for breadth they don't need or selecting capabilities that haven't been proven in a comparable environment," said Sarah Lee, global senior research director, Manufacturing IT Strategies, IDC Manufacturing Insights.

IDC Survey: Redesigning Cloud for a New Risk Era — How Geopolitical Disruption Is Reshaping Cloud Strategy in Europe

Carla Arend — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey analyzes how the Middle East War and related datacenter incidents are reshaping cloud architecture, sourcing, and continuity strategy among European organizations. It analyzes responses from 355 IT decision-makers across Europe and shows which factors are driving a shift toward a more distributed cloud operating model. Factors analyzed include a persistent gap between near-universal pre-incident confidence and inconsistently deployed production safeguards, as well as geopolitical and physical infrastructure risks moving upstream into cloud region-selection criteria, and the extension of cloud continuity from a technical discipline into an executive governance and ecosystem-wide responsibility shared with providers and regulators.

IDC Survey: Retail Store Operations, Frictionless Retail, Loss Prevention, and Employee Engagement — Latin America

Filippo Battaini — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey analyzes findings from IDC’s 2026 Retail Technologies and Business Process Trends Survey, with a focus on physical store operations, frictionless retail, loss prevention, and employee engagement. Specifically, this presentation helps readers understand top business priorities and competitive challenges facing retailers in Latin America in 2026; identify the most urgent store operations pain points (including shrinkage, inventory accuracy, and workforce management); analyze initiatives addressing frictionless customer experience and loss prevention; map two-year technology investment plans across RFID, computer vision, mobile tools, cybersecurity, and edge computing; examine frontline workforce empowerment strategies; and assess the adoption and planned use cases of agentic AI in store operations contexts.

Live Content Translation and Localization in the Media and Entertainment Industry: 2026–2030 Market Analysis

Alex Holtz — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Perspective sizes the market for live content translation and localization in media and entertainment from 2026 to 2030. It models a $430 million opportunity in 2026 growing to $850 million to $950 million by 2030 in the conservative planning case ($1.5 billion base case), examines the challenges and opportunities, and sets out a go-to-market playbook and enterprise adoption road map for technology suppliers.

"The decisive change is economic rather than technical. A single live production can now fan out into many addressable language products without duplicating the production and transport chain for each language," said Alex Holtz, research director, Worldwide Media and Entertainment Digital Strategies at IDC.