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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.

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.

Agentic AI Expansion of Dell Automation Platform Aims to Transform Infrastructure Operating Models

Mary Johnston Turner — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT

During Dell Technologies World 2026, the company announced a significant, AI-fueled expansion of the Dell Automation Platform, including the release of a unified natural language user interface and the launch of an agentic AI operations layer. These new capabilities are paired with the full integration of existing Dell AIOps observability solutions to provideIT operations teams with a unified environment to manage across the Dell infrastructure stack, via blueprint-driven automated provisioning and predictive, event-driven day two operations. The enhanced Dell Automation Platform is initially targeted at simplifying the management for validated outcomes, such as Dell Private Cloud and Dell Distributed Private Cloud (formerly NativeEdge), as well as Dell PowerStore operations, with plans to extend support in the future to Dell AI Factory.

IDC Future Enterprise Awards: Special Award for Artificial and Generative Intelligence — Best in Generative AI Transformation Winner Profile 2025

Deepika Giri, Shashank Nigam, Daeil Chun — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC study discusses how Kansai Electric Power Company's (KEPCO) generative AI (GenAI) adoption is driven by strategic evaluation, disciplined data management, and robust governance, ensuring solutions address real business needs. By investing in targeted talent development and integrating GenAI across core functions, KEPCO achieves measurable efficiency, cost savings, and industry leadership in responsible AI transformation.

"True GenAI transformation is achieved not by chasing technology trends but by rigorously aligning innovation with business needs, cultivating talent, and embedding AI across every function — KEPCO's disciplined approach turns vision into measurable impact and industry leadership," says Deepika Giri, associate VP, IDC Asia/Pacific.

Mailroom Automation: Key Trends for Tech Buyers, 2026

Robert Palmer — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation focuses on results from IDC's 2025 Mailroom Management and Services Survey. IDC conducted a United States–based survey with companies to evaluate trends in mailroom management and operations. The goal of the survey was to understand current conditions and challenges in mailroom operations, adoption trends in mailroom outsourcing and digital mail, benefits and barriers to adopting digital mailroom solutions, and ongoing trends in digital versus printed mail.

Mounting pressure to reduce costs, accelerate information processing, and support distributed workforces is driving organizations to embrace digital mailroom solutions as part of a broader initiative to automate the mailroom and drive operational excellence.

Specifically, this presentation explains why it is critically important to:

Develop a mailroom automation strategy that considers a balanced mix of print and digital communications
Consider full-scale integration, hybrid capability planning, enterprise system connectivity, and staff enablement to maximize long-term digital return on investment
Understand that there is no one-size-fits-all approach to mailroom automation, as organization size, industry compliance requirements, communication volumes, and workforce distribution demand tailored strategies that balance digital innovation with operational requirements

Signals from CONEXPO-CON/AGG 2026: Physical AI Comes to Construction, Mining, and Agriculture Fleets

Sarah Lee — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Perspective examines key observations within the manufacturing and heavy machinery sectors, focusing on robotics and industrial physical AI. Physical AI is reshaping heavy industrial machines in construction, mining, and agriculture, as demonstrated at CONEXPO-CON/AGG 2026. The industry is moving from pilot projects to operational fleets, emphasizing workforce augmentation, interoperability across mixed fleets, and unified data platforms. Success depends on ecosystem-driven strategies, robust data infrastructure, and human-centric automation, enabling organizations to address labor shortages and achieve scalable, measurable productivity gains through integrated, intelligent machine operations.

"Physical AI is not replacing workers, it's redefining machines as intelligent partners, transforming how construction, mining, and agriculture scale productivity in a shrinking workforce," says Sarah Lee, research director, IDC Manufacturing Insights.

IDC MaturityScape: FinOps 1.0

Serge Findling, Jevin Jensen — Sat, 30 May 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC MaturityScape helps CIOs, senior IT executives, FinOps executives, line-of-business (LOB) executives, and finance executives rethink their approach and maximize the business value of technology across their enterprise and its ecosystems. IDC would like to recognize the efforts and best practices put forward by the FinOps Foundation, especially its “crawl, walk, run” maturity concepts. IDC made every effort to remain compatible with these concepts while expanding these domains and adding new subdomains for enterprises to leverage via this IDC MaturityScape.

“AI is resetting technology economics, and FinOps is becoming the discipline that translates technology spending into business value,” said Serge Findling, adjunct research advisor, IDC’s IT Executive Programs (IEP).

“Nearly 90% of Global 2000 enterprises now have a FinOps practice. However, maturity, not adoption, will define competitive advantage,” said Jevin Jensen, research vice president, IDC Infrastructure and Operations. “The next phase of FinOps is about aligning technology investment with measurable business value across the ever-broadening FinOps scope of private cloud, AI, SaaS, platform as a service (PaaS), IT asset management (ITAM), and beyond.”

Dell Technologies 1Q27 Earnings: From AI Surge to Infrastructure Supercycle

Matthew Eastwood — Fri, 29 May 2026 04:00:00 GMT

On May 28, 2026, Dell Technologies reported record 1Q27 results as AI-driven demand, infrastructure modernization, and commercial PC refresh activity accelerated across the portfolio. First-quarter revenue reached $43.8 billion, up 88% year over year (YoY), while non-GAAP operating income increased to $4.2 billion (9.7% margin) and non-GAAP diluted EPS rose 214% to $4.86. Cash flow from operations reached a record $4.1 billion. Results were driven by unprecedented AI server demand, strong growth in traditional servers and storage, and continued momentum in commercial PCs despite ongoing component inflation and supply constraints.