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IDC MarketScape: Asia/Pacific Sovereign AI Platform 2026 Vendor Assessment

Deepika Giri, Daeil Chun — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC study assesses technology platform vendors competing in the Asia/Pacific sovereign AI market in 2026, positioning sovereignty as an enterprise AI agenda defined by a spectrum of adoption patterns spanning the infrastructure, data, and model layers. This report underscores the importance of balancing advanced AI capabilities with more controllable and portable architectures for enterprises building durable sovereign AI strategies as AI technologies advance rapidly, regional adoption accelerates, and continuity risks (such as a provider's market exit) emerge.

"A sovereign AI strategy is not a one-size-fits-all strategy. A buyer could want to optimize the data pipeline for AI for ease of use, whereas another could demand full-stack ownership, expecting fundamentally different partners. However, every buyer, regardless of pattern, should test continuity separately from sovereignty. Residency proves a provider cannot read your data, and continuity proves you can keep running if that provider leaves," says Deepika Giri, VP on Asia/Pacific AI platforms and advisory, IDC.

IDC MarketScape: Worldwide AI-Enabled Lease Administration Applications 2026 Vendor Assessment

Brian O'Rourke — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC study provides a vendor assessment of the worldwide AI-enabled lease administration applications market through the IDC MarketScape model.

Post-pandemic shifts toward shorter, more flexible commercial leases are reshaping lease administration software demands. Emerging trends include AI-driven automated lease abstraction, expanded sublease and lessor-side administration capabilities, and portfolio strategy tools with forecasting and scenario planning. In addition, AI has a growing role across data entry, classification, risk mitigation, and reporting throughout lease administration workflows.

“Leases have changed over the past several years, and lease administration applications are changing as well,” said Brian O’Rourke, research manager, Enterprise Asset Management and Smart Facilities at IDC, “evolving from static recordkeeping to a key component in strategic AI-driven enterprise workflows.”

IDC's 2026 SaaS CSAT Awards

Tue, 15 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC presentation provides an overview of the results from IDC's SaaS CSAT Awards.This award program recognizes the leading SaaS vendors in each of the 22 application markets, based on the highest customer satisfaction scores received in IDC's SaaS and Agent Path survey.

SaaS Path is a global survey of roughly 2,845 organizations across all geographic regions and company sizes, in which customers are asked to rate their vendor on more than 30 customer satisfaction metrics.

IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Compliant e-Invoicing Solutions 2026 Vendor Assessment

Bo Lykkegaard, Kevin Permenter — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC study presents a vendor assessment of e-invoicing compliance solution providers worldwide through the IDC MarketScape model. For this study, IDC evaluated 23 vendors with operations and customers across multiple regions, focused on the needs of global, enterprise-level organizations navigating the rapid worldwide spread of e-invoicing mandates. Of the vendors evaluated, all vendors participated in a structured request-for-information process, and most supported their responses with vendor briefings and customer reference interviews. IDC also conducted desk research on the vendors and their e-invoicing offerings. Vendors were evaluated based on their current capabilities and future strategies for delivering compliant e-invoicing to enterprise customers worldwide. As reflected in the inclusion criteria, all vendors evaluated support compliant e-invoicing across multiple regions and mandated countries.

“e-Invoicing has become a legal obligation that spans the globe, and choosing a compliance vendor is no longer a software purchase but a multiyear commitment to a partner that must keep pace with regulatory change in every market you operate in,” says Bo Lykkegaard, associate vice president on European Software Research, IDC. Lykkegaard adds, “The vendors that lead are those combining genuine native coverage in a buyer’s actual markets with proven responsiveness when a mandate goes live. Headline country counts and AI road maps matter far less than what reference customers experience under real pressure.”

IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Managed Edge Services 2026 Vendor Assessment

Ghassan Abdo — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC study provides a vendor assessment of the worldwide managed edge services market using the IDC MarketScape model. The assessment evaluates eight vendors — Akamai, Cloudflare, Comcast, Fastly, Lumen, Tata Communications, Telefónica, and Tencent Cloud — across a comprehensive set of capability and strategy criteria spanning platform architecture, AI and compute readiness, security integration, pricing model, customer service delivery, vertical alignment, and go-to-market strategy.

The managed edge services market is at a strategic inflection point. What began as a market defined by content delivery performance and network proximity has evolved into a critical infrastructure category encompassing distributed AI inference, data sovereignty, application modernization, and autonomous compute governance. Enterprise demand is being reshaped by three converging imperatives: the economics of AI inference, which favor distributed edge execution over centralized cloud at scale; the tightening of data sovereignty and regulatory compliance requirements across major markets; and the accelerating cost and complexity of hyperscaler-dependent architectures, which are driving enterprises to seek more predictable, sovereign, and operationally accountable infrastructure models.

IDC's assessment finds that the vendors best positioned in this market are those that have made the architectural transition from their legacy infrastructure category — whether CDN, telecom network, or enterprise IT — toward platforms purpose built for the converged requirements of AI inference, security, programmability, distributed life-cycle management, and regulatory compliance. Competitive differentiation in this market is increasingly defined not by any single capability dimension but by the depth of platform integration across these requirements, the operational model flexibility offered to enterprise buyers, and the credibility of the vendor's innovation trajectory as the market continues to evolve rapidly toward agentic AI infrastructure, edge federation, and mobility-aware compute.

"The managed edge market has passed its inflection point. AI inference, data sovereignty, and the rising cost of centralized cloud are not future trends — they are active procurement drivers reshaping enterprise infrastructure decisions today. The vendors that will define this market over the next five years are those building platforms where security, compute, networking, and AI are not integrated as an afterthought but designed as a single architectural fabric from the ground up. For enterprise buyers, the question is no longer whether to invest in managed edge — it is which architecture, which operational model, and which vendor partner is best positioned to carry them through a period of rapid and consequential change in how and where compute happens," says Ghassan Abdo, research VP, Worldwide Telecom, IDC.

Equinix Horizon 2026: From Interconnection Fabric to AI Infrastructure Orchestrator

Andrew Buss, Matthew Eastwood, Paul Nicholson, Rick Villars, Olga Yashkova — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Integrated Signing Workflow Software 2026 Vendor Assessment

Andrew Gens — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC study represents a vendor assessment of the integrated signing workflow software market through the IDC MarketScape model. The assessment discusses both quantitative and qualitative characteristics that explain key methods for success and differentiation within the market. This IDC MarketScape covers a variety of vendors participating in the integrated signing workflow software space. The evaluation is based on a comprehensive and rigorous framework that assesses vendors relative to the criteria and to one another. It also highlights the factors expected to be the most influential for market success, both in the short term and the long term.

"The signature itself is no longer where this market is decided. Core electronic signature has become broadly available and increasingly commoditized, and IDC has seen vendors shift the competition to everything that surrounds it, from document and form generation through identity assurance to post-signature life-cycle automation. AI is the engine of that expansion, pulling document processing work that once sat outside the signing platform into the workflow itself and pushing vendors toward transactions that complete without manual intervention. Buyers are moving deliberately toward expanded AI capabilities, particularly generative and agentic capabilities, and the vendors that succeed over the next several years will be those that pair this new automation with evidence that it can be trusted." — Andrew Gens, senior research analyst, Document AI and Exchange, IDC

Opticon 2026: Optimizely Repositions from DXP to AI Marketing Platform

Roger Beharry Lall, Jordan Jewell, Gerry Murray, Tapan Patel — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Broadcom Extends VMware Private AI Cloud with Tanzu Platform AI-Ready Data Foundations and VMware AI Factory at VMware Explore 2026

Adam Reeves — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

On August 31, 2026, Broadcom expanded VMware Private AI Cloud with VMware AI Factory and new VMware Tanzu Platform AI-ready data foundations and agent governance enhancements, extending its private cloud platform-as-a-service (PaaS) stack to support agentic AI development and deployment. Broadcom also announced TrueSource by Broadcom, a new open source security portfolio. These updates mark continued progress toward Broadcom's VMware Private AI Cloud and reinforce a broader shift in developer enablement toward platform-mediated governance.

IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Dynamic Application Security Testing 2026 Vendor Assessment

Katie Norton — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC study evaluates 16 vendors in the worldwide dynamic application security testing (DAST) market. It provides a detailed assessment of each vendor's strengths, challenges, and approach to testing running applications. This research followed the IDC MarketScape methodology, incorporating in-depth vendor briefings and surveys, along with customer reference interviews to present a comprehensive view of the DAST landscape and market trends shaping vendor selection.

"Code is moving into production faster and with less scrutiny, and applications themselves are becoming more nondeterministic, making runtime testing more critical than it has been in the past," said Katie Norton, research director for Cloud Security at IDC. "This evaluation provides a consistent, side-by-side assessment of vendor strengths and challenges, helping organizations identify the DAST solution best suited to their application environment and risk priorities."