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IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Life Sciences R&D Strategic Consulting Services 2026 Vendor Assessment

Nimita Limaye — Wed, 20 May 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Health Insights study is a refresher of the life sciences R&D IDC MarketScape, which has a specific focus on strategic consulting in the life sciences R&D space. This document seeks to compare major service providers with each other based on criteria that should be important to life sciences companies when considering the selection of a strategic consulting partner to help provide guidance for strategic, operational, and tactical transformation issues within the R&D space. The IDC MarketScape assessment of strategic consulting outsourcing in life sciences R&D was previously performed in 2011, 2014, 2016, 2018, 2021, and 2023.

"The life sciences strategic consulting market is undergoing a fundamental reset — driven by the convergence of agentic AI, mounting execution pressure, and a sharply more demanding buyer. Organizations are seeking business transformation partners that can close the AI-to-value gap, navigate regulatory complexity, and align their commercial models to client outcomes. The firms that can bridge a blend of scientific depth, digital fluency, organizational change capability, and a willingness to share risk will define the next era of strategic consulting," said Dr. Nimita Limaye, research VP, Life Sciences R&D Strategy and Technology, IDC Health Insights.

CIO Peer Perspective — Agentic AI's Impact on the Services Industry

Teodora Snoddy, Jennifer Hamel — Tue, 19 May 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Today, many service providers are offering agentic AI platforms to their customers. To explore the impact of this shift, Jennifer Hamel, senior research director at IDC, shared the latest data and insights in conversation with our CIO Research Advisory Board. It became clear in the discussion that providers have work to do to improve clarity regarding their services and gain the confidence of CIOs. The primary challenge is not technology; it is trust.

"As service providers fundamentally rethink how they deliver, they are moving toward product disciplines, new commercial models, and a real focus on demonstrable outcomes. It is taking a bit longer for CIOs to rethink how they will engage with service providers in an agentic AI world," says Jennifer Hamel, senior research director, IDC.

Cisco FY 3Q26: Record Revenue, AI Infrastructure Surge, and Campus Refresh Drive Double-Digit Growth

Chris Barnard, Brandon Butler — Tue, 19 May 2026 04:00:00 GMT

On May 13, 2026, Cisco announced earnings for its fiscal third quarter of 2026, which generally coincided with the first calendar quarter of 2026. Cisco delivered a record fiscal third quarter, with double-digit top- and bottom-line growth that exceeded the high end of guidance, fueled by broad-based demand across AI infrastructure and campus networking.

IDC PeerScape: Best Practices for Enterprise Asset Management in Utilities

John Villali — Tue, 19 May 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Preparing Data for Safe AI Enablement

Jennifer Glenn, Ryan O’Leary — Tue, 19 May 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Perspective emphasizes that the reliability and competitiveness of AI initiatives hinge on the quality, governance, and protection of enterprise data. Organizations must rigorously curate, secure, and continuously monitor data to ensure it is AI-ready, minimizing risks and ensuring compliance. Robust governance frameworks, cross-functional collaboration, and proactive oversight are essential to maintain trusted data foundations, enabling effective, transparent, and resilient AI deployment across the enterprise.

"AI is only as trustworthy as the data it consumes," says Jennifer Glenn, research director for Information and Data Security. "Without secure, curated data, every AI-driven decision becomes a potential risk."

From Access to Execution: CyberArk Becomes Idira

Emanuel Figueroa, Katie Norton — Mon, 18 May 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Across enterprise environments, identity now spans human users, machine workloads, and autonomous agents operating across distributed systems.

Organizations have been securing identity as if access were the control point. Authenticate the user, assign permissions, enforce policy, and assume the system behaves. That model held for a time. It does not hold consistently anymore.

Identity security is entering a different phase. The perimeter has not disappeared; it has expanded across millions of identities, many of them nonhuman, interacting with systems that do not pause for validation. Access still happens. Control, increasingly, does not.

Palo Alto Networks' introduction of Idira signals a structural shift. Identity is moving away from fragmented IAM, PAM, and governance tools toward a unified layer that operates during execution. Not after access. Not alongside it. Inside it.

This reframes the problem. Identity is no longer about who gets in. It is about whether control can follow what happens next.

Tanium Introduces Atlas: An Autonomous IT Operating System

Michelle Abraham, Philip D. Harris, CISSP, CCSK, Grace Trinidad — Mon, 18 May 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Tanium Atlas is an autonomous operating system embedded in the Tanium platform that allows individual IT and security operators to achieve outcomes previously requiring fully expert teams. Powered by real-time telemetry from over 36 million endpoints and an ensemble of AI models, Atlas dynamically generates its interface per user context, proactively surfaces insights through ambient agents, and governs autonomous actions by risk level. Tanium Atlas is currently in private preview for U.S., EU, and U.K. cloud and FedRAMP customers.

Early Efforts to Win on the Agentic Web and Key Points of Failure

Gerry Murray — Fri, 15 May 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Perspective explores the rise of the agentic web, which is emerging as a machine-to-machine internet layer where AI buyer agents autonomously discover, evaluate, and transact on behalf of humans. It details seven macrotrends reshaping buyer discovery, outlines five essential CMO capability initiatives, and provides a readiness diagnostic. The document argues that marketing must lead this transformation with IT, CISO, legal, and so forth to ensure they build structured, trusted, and agent-accessible presence that will dominate the next era of digital commerce.

"There are two ways to win on the agentic web. The most effective way is the brands' influence is strong enough that buyers mention your products in most of their requests to agents. That captures intent. Failing that, deals go to the brand with the first matching offer. That means your tech stack is your brand. Unfortunately, today's tech stacks are architected around a database marketing model that does not apply on the agentic web, which is all about intent-based marketing," Gerry Murray, research director, Enterprise Marketing Apps and Agents at IDC

Red Hat Summit 2026 — A Focus on Sovereignty

Dave McCarthy — Fri, 15 May 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Red Hat Summit 2026 signaled a transition from experimental AI to sovereign AI, as the company unveiled a series of architectural advancements designed to decouple the cloud control plane from global hyperscaler infrastructure. Red Hat has fundamentally reframed digital sovereignty, elevating it from a localized compliance requirement into a global strategic imperative for operational independence.

The event focused on three pillars: the general availability of Red Hat Confirmed Sovereign Support, deep technical integrations with NVIDIA and IBM for "Sovereign-by-Design" AI stacks, and the expansion of OpenShift Virtualization as a viable exit ramp for VMware customers. By introducing agentic AI capabilities within Red Hat AI 3.4, the company is betting that the next wave of automation will require a unified, private operating model that spans from air-gapped datacenters to global public clouds. Ultimately, Red Hat is positioning its open source foundation as a credible path to digital autonomy amid geopolitical shifts and increasing regulatory scrutiny.

ServiceNow Puts Governance at the Center of Its Agentic Platform

Adam Reeves — Fri, 15 May 2026 04:00:00 GMT

At Knowledge 2026 in May 2026, ServiceNow announced a broad set of platform updates spanning developer tooling, AI experience, data intelligence, and agent governance. The announcements address leading barriers to enterprise AI adoption and reflect a competitive environment in which vendors increasingly win or lose developer influence based on how well they support AI-native development without sacrificing operational control. By prioritizing integrating autonomous agents and governance guardrails directly into the workflow, the company aims to shift AI's role in the enterprise from generating recommendations to completing work autonomously.