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Asia/Pacific National Government Priorities: Data-Driven Services and Programs

Louise Francis, Ravikant Sharma — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC Tech Buyer presentation examines how Asia/Pacific governments are accelerating their transformation into data-driven organizations to meet rapidly evolving citizen expectations, leverage emerging technologies, and address ongoing fiscal pressures. Leveraging recent IDC surveys across Asia/Pacific government agencies, IDC predictions, and use cases highlights the strategic investments being made in modernizing data architectures, consolidating fragmented data sources, and embedding robust governance frameworks to bridge the data readiness gap.

IDC FutureScape: Worldwide Agentic Artificial Intelligence 2026 Predictions — Asia/Pacific (Excluding Japan) Implications — Positioning for Success — Opportunities for Tech Sales and Marketing Leaders

Deepika Giri, Swapnil Shende — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC FutureScape Persona presents the top 10 predictions for the agentic AI industry for the next five years in the Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) (APEJ) region and highlights the key challenges and opportunities for technology sales and marketing leaders. This IDC Market Presentation discusses the impact of the IDC FutureScape: Worldwide Agentic AI 2026 Predictions: Asia/Pacific (Excluding Japan) Implications (IDC #AP52923825, December 2025) on APEJ and contains regional perspectives and implications with IT impacts.

IDC FutureScape: Worldwide Agentic Artificial Intelligence 2026 Predictions: Asia/Pacific (Excluding Japan) Implications

Deepika Giri, Swapnil Shende — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 05:00:00 GMT

The IDC study provides IDC's top 10 predictions for Agentic AI in 2026 and beyond for the Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) (APEJ) region. This document explores the pivotal transformation underway as agentic AI becomes foundational to enterprise strategy and operations across APEJ. While enthusiasm for enterprise AI agents remains high, the rapid evolution of agentic technologies introduces escalating risks and complex deployment requirements. The document details how leading CEOs are increasingly relying on agentic AI for strategic guidance, positioning these systems as trusted voices in the boardroom and catalysts for new operating models. However, the shift brings significant challenges, including legal exposure, leadership accountability, failed customization, and productivity setbacks stemming from poor data readiness. These dynamics are set to fundamentally reshape roles, cost frameworks, and IT strategies throughout the region.

IDC FutureScape: Worldwide Banking and Payments 2026 Predictions — Asia/Pacific (Excluding Japan) Implications

Michael Sek Pheng Yeo — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC Presentation discusses the Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) (APEJ) localization of IDC FutureScape: Worldwide Banking and Payments 2026 Predictions (IDC Financial Insights #, October 2025). The financial services landscape continues to undergo transformative shifts as emerging technologies, such as agentic AI and GenAI, continue to penetrate and drive new transformation strategies in banking and payments in the APEJ region. With the continuing application of agentic and GenAI into all levels of technology in the financial services sphere, financial services institutions (FSIs) must master the implications of AI implementations from the potential new business models that will emerge to the new regulatory and compliance requirements that will become mandatory, This document presents predictions that technology leaders in banking and payments should digest to prepare themselves for the next wave of transformation in APEJ.

IDC FutureScape: Worldwide Developer and DevOps 2026 Predictions — Asia/Pacific (Excluding Japan) Implications

Dhiraj Pramod Badgujar — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC FutureScape delves into the top 10 predictions and Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) (APEJ) implications for developers and development operations (DevOps) in 2025 and beyond.

APEJ organizations are rapidly transitioning to agentic AI and autonomous software development processes, resulting in enormous increases in speed, automation, and scalability. Strong governance, sovereign AI alignment, and platform engineering foundation will be critical in managing risk and unlocking regional innovation.

IDC FutureScape: Worldwide Digital Infrastructure 2026 Predictions — Asia/Pacific (Excluding Japan) Implications

Simon Piff — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC presentation provides the top 10 digital infrastructure predictions for 2026 as they relate to the Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) (APEJ) region.

IDC FutureScape: Worldwide Enterprise Connectivity 2026 Predictions — Asia/Pacific (Excluding Japan) Implications

Swathi Arunaa, Nikhil Batra, Dr. William Lee — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC FutureScape for Asia/Pacific enterprise connectivity provides a forward-looking view into the enterprise road map to becoming an agile, connected, and AI-fueled enterprise and offers IDC's predictions for key trends between 2026 and 2029.

"As enterprises across Asia/Pacific accelerate their shift toward AI-enabled enterprise, the role of networking becomes even more central to how they compete and scale," says Nikhil Batra, senior research director, Telecom and Enterprise Connectivity Strategies, IDC. "This year's predictions are a reflection of how Asia/Pacific organizations are balancing innovation with the realities of digital infrastructure, regulatory environments, and geopolitics. Over the next few years, the ability to integrate AI across cloud, edge, and network domains, and to align internal teams and external partners around this shift, will shape progress toward an adaptive and resilient enterprise."

IDC FutureScape: Worldwide Healthcare Industry 2026 Predictions — Asia/Pacific (Excluding Japan) Implications

Manoj Vallikkat, Mutaz Shegewi, Louise Francis — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC FutureScape highlights that Asia/Pacific healthcare is moving rapidly from AI experimentation to enterprise-scale adoption between 2026 and 2031, fundamentally transforming care delivery. Agentic AI systems will continue to evolve, intelligently support decisions, optimize workflows, and enhance experiences through autonomous and collaborative engagement. Success relies on coordinated governance, strong ethics, interoperability, and a commitment to responsible innovation to achieve patient-centered outcomes.

“Asia/Pacific healthcare providers are entering a new era in which trusted, unified data platforms and multimodal analytics form the backbone for autonomous agents and advanced care delivery. As technology accelerates, success will depend on staying tuned to evolving healthtech trends, not just optimizing workloads, but truly transforming how care is accessed, delivered, and experienced,” says Manoj Vallikkat, senior research manager, IDC Health Insights.

IDC FutureScape: Worldwide Insurance 2026 Predictions: Asia/Pacific (Excluding Japan) Implications

Surya Narayan Saha — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC FutureScape outlines IDC Financial Insights' worldwide insurance predictions for 2025, tailored specifically to the Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan; APEJ) region. Each prediction is designed to support insurers' five-year strategic planning by highlighting expected timelines, investment requirements, and implementation complexity. IDC further adapts the global outlook to reflect regional priorities, illustrating how APEJ insurers are leveraging advanced technologies, modern capabilities, and innovative operating models to strengthen competitiveness, enhance delivery, and unlock new revenue opportunities.

"Asia Pacific's insurance sector is entering a defining phase where technology will separate leaders from followers. Insurers that invest in data-driven platforms, intelligent automation, and AI-enabled decisioning will be the ones to shape new growth models and customer experiences in the region's next decade," said Research Manager Surya Narayan Saha, IDC Financial Insights.

IDC PeerScape: Practices to Lead Successful AI Transformation in Canada

Sreenivas Duvvuri Venkata, Jason Bremner — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC PeerScape elaborates on five key practices that resonate among client conversations. They touch upon governance and risk management, human centricity and change management, domain expertise for greater contextualization, approach toward build or buy choices for AI solutions, and the importance of collaborating and not just contracting. These practices were recommended to peers by the executives that IDC interacted with to ensure AI project's success. IDC guidance drawn from learnings in this document are intended to help Canadian companies further progress to reach new levels of AI maturity as they increasingly become digital businesses.

"The advent of AI, GenAI, and agentic AI has brought about several paradigms of change in the Canadian business landscape. There is greater interest than ever in the transformational potential of technology. Across IT and business units, this interest is increasingly being matched by investment in driving adoption and even disruption with AI," says Sreenivas Duvvuri Venkata, research analyst, Enterprise Services at IDC. "As buyers continue to experiment and operationalize AI, learnings from their experiences form a valuable foundation for the collective advancement of Canadian businesses."