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Jenzabar Annual Meeting 2026: Charting the Path to Jenzabar One Web with Confidence

Matthew Leger — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Jenzabar held its 25th annual customer meeting (JAM 2026) at the Gaylord Texan in Dallas from May 27th to the 30th, drawing more than 1,200 higher education customers. Throughout the event, the company put customer confidence, collaboration, and trust at the center of its message, depicting the move to Jenzabar One Web — the company's cloud-based, modular enterprise resource planning and student information system — as a journey focused on addressing each institution's unique needs, challenges, and opportunities. What stood out to IDC was how closely the agenda tracked the challenges documented in the 2024 IDC MarketScape for North American higher education SaaS and cloud-enabled Student Information Systems (Doc #). Jenzabar provided concrete updates and strategic priorities to address each of the following key challenges: buggy releases, performance issues, limited change management support, and difficulty with migrating large on-premises systems to the cloud.

AVEVA World 2026: Building a Data Ecosystem of Innovation

Jonathan Lang — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT

AVEVA World 2026 highlighted the company’s continued ambitions to simultaneously build an agnostic data platform for ecosystem collaboration while competing in the coveted analytics and decision-support domain. This vision is grounded in the radical assumption that if a company solves customer problems, financial success is a natural byproduct.

IDC Future Enterprise Awards: Special Award for AI Innovation — Best in AI Everywhere Winner Profile 2025

Deepika Giri, Shashank Nigam, Daeil Chun — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC study discusses DANA Indonesia's AI-ready platform, which unifies enterprise data and scalable infrastructure to embed AI across business functions, supported by robust governance and security. Through model as a service (MaaS) and internal education, DANA achieves agile model management, broad AI literacy, and measurable improvements in productivity, costs, and customer service.

"In the race to harness AI, it's not the algorithms alone that set leaders apart; it's the disciplined mastery of enterprise data, talent, and culture that transforms technology into lasting competitive advantage," says Deepika Giri, associate VP, IDC Asia/Pacific.

IDC PeerScape: Practices for Navigating the Early Stages of Enterprise Adoption in Quantum Computing

Heather West, PhD — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC PeerScape draws on interviews conducted during the Going Mainstream: Enterprise Pathways to Quantum Adoption session at IDC Directions 2026 with Marna Kagele, technical fellow at Boeing, and Lucus Haugen, director of data science at AT&T. Their experiences surface three practices essential to building a sustainable quantum initiative:

The following are the three best practices uncovered through this document:

Quantum's developmental maturity challenges early investment decisions. Organizations must find ways to justify quantum investment before the technology can deliver production-scale results. Boeing and AT&T both found that anchoring early investment to specific, well-understood operational problems and creating organizational structures that allow quantum to be evaluated on longer timelines than traditional technologies were critical to building sustained momentum.
Classical infrastructure creates unexpected bottlenecks in quantum workflows. As quantum workflows scale in complexity, the classical infrastructure surrounding them often becomes the primary constraint rather than the quantum hardware itself. Data preparation, computational overhead, and competition for classical resources with AI and other initiatives all emerge as significant challenges that organizations must plan for proactively.
Quantum success requires expertise that is difficult to assemble. Building a capable quantum team is one of the most frequently cited barriers to quantum adoption. Boeing and AT&T both found that the most effective teams are not those built around quantum specialists alone but those that balance deep domain expertise with quantum knowledge and treat quantum software tools as an extension of existing engineering and data science capabilities.

"What Boeing and AT&T demonstrate is that you do not need to wait for fault-tolerant quantum systems to begin making meaningful progress. The work starts now, with the problems you already have and the teams you already have in place," said Heather West, PhD, senior research manager, Quantum Computing, IDC.

Tech Buyer Survey Spotlight: Where Do Energy Retailers and Water Suppliers Stand on the Path to Cloud Rationalization?

Gaia Gallotti — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey Spotlight examines a portion of IDC’s 2026 Energy and Utilities Industry-Specific Tech and Innovation Survey, which is a landmark study covering utilities worldwide. It ran between February and March 2026.

The survey covered 800 respondents, of whom 531 are utilities respondents from the following countries: Australia, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, India, Italy, KSA, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, Norway, the Philippines, Poland, Portugal, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, UAE, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

This study extrapolates and analyzes select data for 260 energy retailers and suppliers and water suppliers.

This Tech Buyer Survey Spotlight examines where energy retailers, suppliers, and water utilities stand on the journey to cloud rationalization — and what the imperative to adopt AI means for the urgency of completing it.

Tech Buyer Survey Spotlight: Where Do Power Generators and T&D Operators Stand on the Path to Cloud Rationalization?

Gaia Gallotti — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This study extrapolates and analyzes select data for 147 power generation companies and 277 transmission and distribution (T&D) operators worldwide.

This Tech Buyer Survey Spotlight examines where power generation companies and T&D operators stand on the journey to cloud rationalization, and why the pace of completion is now being driven as much by the imperative to adopt AI at scale as by IT modernization priorities alone.

Tech Buyer Survey Spotlight: Which Regions Are Leading on Utility Cloud Rationalization?

Gaia Gallotti — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This study extrapolates and analyzes select data for 259 utilities across Europe (including Turkey), 107 utilities across the United States and Canada, 98 utilities across Asia/Pacific (AP), and 67 utilities across the rest of the world.

This Tech Buyer Survey Spotlight examines where utilities stand on the journey to cloud rationalization by region, and why the pace of completion is now being driven as much by the imperative to adopt AI at scale as by IT modernization priorities alone.

Tech Buyer Survey Spotlight: Why Does IIoT Stall at the IT-OT Divide?

Gunjan Bassi — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Tech Buyer Survey Spotlight explores who holds decision authority over IoT projects and contrasts that with the operational barriers stalling Industrial IoT (IIoT) progress at the IT-OT divide. The data presented is from IDC's November 2025 Internet of Things Survey (syndicated).

The AI Opportunity: Improved Process Value for Sustained Success

Mickey North Rizza — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC study discusses how AI offers vast opportunities, transforming organizations quickly. Many misunderstand it, seeing it as a threat rather than a tool for sustained economic value. This IDC perspective uncovers hidden AI opportunities for building sustained value and a successful road map.

"AI is changing businesses overnight, but only when the organization focuses on the process rather than just the outcome. Goals are important, but processes enhanced with AI will forever transform our organizations," says Mickey North Rizza, Group Vice President Enterprise Software and Agents. "Processes enhanced with AI lead to more sustainable success and improved performance."

The Domain Is the Root of Trust: DNS-Based Agent Authentication

Frank Dickson, Christopher Rodriguez, Grace Trinidad — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Perspective explores DigiCert's approach to AI agent authentication using DNS as the enforcement layer, drawing parallels to established email authentication standards like DMARC. By leveraging DNS infrastructure, organizations can control agent access and enforce policies without new endpoint software. The model promises scalable, preemptive security but requires disciplined management of DNS records and careful policy configuration to avoid gaps. Enterprises are advised to treat agent identity as a workload issue and prioritize DNS-based controls for near-term AI governance.

"The agent inventory problem is the new shadow IT problem, except the blast radius is larger and the audit trail is thinner. DNS-based policy enforcement is one of the few controls that can scale as fast as the agents themselves," said Frank Dickson, group vice president, Security and Trust at IDC.