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IDC Survey Spotlight: How Are Enterprises Altering IT Resilience Priorities Across Regions in a Period of Elevated Geopolitical and Energy Risks?

Rick Villars — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey Spotlight explores how sustained uncertainty is influencing the IT architecture and sourcing strategies of 1,009 organizations worldwide, based on IDC’s Future Enterprise Resiliency and Spending Survey (FERS Survey) Wave 2, fielded in March 2026, several weeks after initial disruption signals from the war in the Middle East emerged. It examines how decision-makers are reassessing priorities across regions, highlighting differences in how organizations approach cloud resilience, infrastructure, energy access, supply chains, and operational risk based on varying regional conditions and exposures.

IDC Survey Spotlight: How Are IT Investment Priorities Varying Across Regions in the Currently Volatile Geopolitical Environment?

Rick Villars — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey Spotlight explores how organizations are adjusting IT investment priorities across regions in response to sustained uncertainty, based on IDC's Future Enterprise Resiliency and Spending Survey Wave 2, fielded in March 2026 among 1,009 decision-makers worldwide. It examines how investment focus is shifting across cybersecurity, AI, cloud resilience, and supply chain strategies, highlighting regional variation in how organizations allocate resources to address evolving operational, infrastructure, and regulatory risk conditions.

IDC Survey: Worldwide Technology Buyer and Spending Outlook, March 2026

Rick Villars — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey presents results from IDC’s 2026 Future Enterprise Resiliency and Spending (FERS) Survey, Wave 1, which examines how IT leaders are adjusting technology investment strategies as they move into the execution of 2026 plans under evolving macroeconomic and geopolitical conditions. The study analyzes shifts in economic outlook, recession expectations, and risks to IT spending, including the impact of the Middle East War on planning assumptions and investment priorities.

The research also evaluates how enterprises are translating AI investments into measurable business outcomes and identifies the key execution, data, and governance factors constraining scalable AI adoption. In addition, it assesses how organizations are re-prioritizing investments across data, infrastructure, platforms, and workforce capabilities to support resilient, outcome-driven AI deployment.

This survey of 903 respondents includes IT leaders across North America, Western Europe, and Asia/Pacific and was conducted from mid-February to early March 2026, during a period of heightened geopolitical uncertainty.

IDC Survey: The State of AI’s Impact on Pricing Models for Custom Application Development Services, 2025

Peter Marston — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey presentation leverages data from IDC’s AI-Powered Services Pricing Model Survey, conducted in November 2025. The survey examined buyer expectations for the pricing of engagements with external vendors that incorporate AI in their delivery of custom application development services, among others. The survey covered a range of topics to provide greater understanding of:

Importance of pricing models in AI-powered services vendor selection
Evolving expectations of premium versus discounted pricing for AI-powered services compared with traditional services
Drivers influencing pricing expectations
Pricing expectations across different types of AI
Preferred pricing models, benefits, and inhibitors related to purchasing AI-powered services

This document explores aggregated AI-powered services pricing expectation trends, derived from data across respondents who were using or planning to use AI-powered services in custom application development services.

The North America sample size of 503 respondents (in total) included participants from the United States and Canada, from a variety of industries and organization sizes ranging from 500 employees to 10,000+ employees. Of the 503 total respondents, 399 was the sample size related to using (or planning to use) custom application development services.

Anthropic's OpenClaw Decision Reveals the Cost Pressures Emerging in Agentic AI

Arnal Dayaratna — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Anthropic's decision to begin removing third-party agentic harnesses from the included limits of Claude Pro and Claude Team subscriptions signals that agentic AI economics are forcing a reckoning with flat-rate pricing. Persistent agent systems generate token consumption at volumes and with unpredictability that subscription models were not designed to handle, leading to metered pricing as the predictable result. The removal of third-party harnesses from bundled subscription limits has important implications for how developers build agent workflows and how enterprises evaluate, budget for, and procure agentic AI platforms.

IDC Survey Spotlight: How Are Leasing Volumes Trending for IT Assets?

Lara Greden — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey Spotlight examines how leasing volumes of IT assets are trending. IDC expects that through 2026 and into the next budget year, organizations will evaluate procurement strategies with a bent toward leasing as an effective budgetary tool. IDC also sees a trend of organizations expanding their relationships with existing IT leasing providers, looking to address additional CapEx-intensive areas of the business, such as material handling equipment (MHE) and healthcare equipment, to name a few.

IDC Survey Spotlight: What Is Driving the Demand for Buying GPUs in the Secondary Market?

Lara Greden — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey Spotlight explains that the primary fair market value of used GPU servers lies in their components, namely the GPUs and memory components. IT leaders are pursuing GPU components on secondary markets, especially due to supply constraints reducing the availability of new GPUs and due to being priced out of buying new ones. Not all workloads require the latest GPUs; therefore, as Blackwell units come to market, IDC expects AI training will shift to Blackwell while the older models will be repurposed for less demanding tasks or inference workloads. All of this upside for used GPUs is counterbalanced by concern over failure rates. Because they tend to experience 80–90% utilization rates over the first two to three years of life, integrity can be impacted. IDC will continue to monitor this space.

Worldwide Technology Buyer and Spending Outlook, February 2026: Banners

Rick Villars, Sudhir Rajagopal — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Pivot Table presents results from IDC's 2026 Future Enterprise Resiliency and Spending (FERS) Survey, Wave 1, which focuses on issues related to IT leaders' economic outlook and overall IT spending outlook for 2026, key focus areas for enhancing AI capabilities and AI data readiness, and IT leaders' assessment of tech vendors' AI marketing efforts.

It is first in a series of IT buyer outlook FERS Surveys across regions, technologies, and industries developed during 2026. This survey of 903 respondents in North America, Western Europe, and Asia/Pacific regions connected with IT leaders as they were starting to execute their 2026 plans from mid-February to early March. The survey was in the field at the time of the outbreak of the Middle East War. 679 respondents completed the survey prior to the outbreak of the war, so assessments of risk to IT spending plans may have been affected by this change. IDC will provide deeper analysis of this change where relevant. In detail:

Region and country: Results by region (Worldwide, North America, Western Europe, Asia/Pacific) and for countries with sample sizes over 100 (Canada, China, and the United States)
Size and role: Results by company size (500+ to 10,000+) and by respondent role (IT, LOB, and C-level)
Industry: Results by vertical for all verticals with sample sizes of 70+ selected aggregations of related verticals
Digital business: Results by level of shift to digital business and by percentage of 2026 spending allocated to innovation (high, medium, low)

Data Sourcing and Pricing in the Age of AI: How Pricing, Rights, and Governance Are Shifting as AI Increases Data Demand and Scrutiny

Lynne Schneider — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Perspective explores how AI is driving structural renegotiation of data pricing, governance, and monetization. Enterprises are distinguishing between training rights, retrieval access, and live connectivity models, each with distinct economic implications. Development-stage monetization, attribution debates, and governance instrumentation are reshaping contracts and negotiation dynamics. As AI industrializes, disciplined data economics — grounded in architectural clarity and life-cycle oversight — will become a defining competitive capability.

“AI is forcing structural renegotiation of data durability, value attribution, architectural control, and risk allocation across the AI life cycle.” — Lynne Schneider, research director, Data Collaboration and Monetization, IDC

HCLTech ERS Repositions with AI-Powered Chip-to-Cloud Engineering and a Focus on Business Outcomes

Abhishek Mukherjee, Mukesh Dialani — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Note discusses how HCLTech ERS is evolving its engineering services through a chip-to-cloud strategy, integrating semiconductors, platform, software, and life-cycle capabilities. The company is focusing on business outcome-led engagements, advanced AI, custom chip design, and outcome-based pricing to drive innovation and margin growth. This transformation positions HCLTech as a full-stack partner for enterprises seeking end-to-end digital engineering solutions, though challenges remain in talent acquisition, operational complexity, and market adoption.

"As HCLTech ERS reimagines engineering from chip to cloud, the unified strategy can truly deliver business outcomes and reshape the future of enterprise innovation if the service provider acts." — Abhishek Mukherjee, research manager, Digital Engineering and Operational Technology Services, IDC