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IDC Market Glance: European Services, 3Q26

Matthew Wilkins — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Glance is a taxonomy document intended to visually depict a concise current-state view of the European services market.

It provides an overview of the European business, IT, and engineering services provider landscape, segmented into three primary markets (project-oriented services, managed services, and support services), based on IDC’s services taxonomy. It shows the top 3–5 vendors by share of market revenue, as per IDC’s Semiannual Services Tracker, as well as other significant vendors in the space.

Fujitsu’s July 2026 Executive Analyst Day: Executing on the Fujitsu Management Vision 2035, from MONAKA Silicon to Sovereign Orchestration

Lars Goransson, Linus Lai, Andrea Siviero — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Perspective presents highlights from Fujitsu’s Executive Analyst Day 2026 held across three days (July 14–16). The event covered Management Vision 2035, Fujitsu’s AI strategy (Kozuchi, Takane, and the AI-Driven Software Development Platform), its international and Uvance business, global delivery, and its MONAKA processor and quantum computing road maps. The biggest takeaways for IDC are threefold: Fujitsu’s move to own every layer of a named Sovereign Orchestration stack from silicon to consulting; its restructuring of Uvance and global delivery around named verticals and service lines, backed by the GK Software acquisition and Wayfinders consulting; and dated proof points, chiefly a 1,024-qubit quantum system in 2026, a MONAKA CPU ship date of 2027, and firm 2030 and 2035 revenue-mix and mainframe-retirement targets against which execution can be measured well before 2035.

“Fujitsu is betting that owning the stack from silicon to consulting will matter more than its services breadth as enterprise AI moves from pilots to production,” said Linus Lai, group vice president at IDC. “The strategy is coherent; the open question is whether execution and investments in its international businesses will keep pace with the targets Fujitsu has set for itself.”

IDC MarketScape: Japan Cloud Professional Services 2026 Vendor Assessment

Masaru Muramatsu, Tatsuhiro Soga — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

本調査レポートは、国内クラウドプロフェッショナルサービス市場における主要ベンダーに対して、IDC MarketScapeモデルに基づいて「戦略」および「能力」の評価を行い、その分析結果を報告するものである。また、ITバイヤーが、クラウドプロフェッショナルサービスベンダーを選定する際に留意すべき事項を提示している。

「クラウドプロフェッショナルサービスに対する需要は、従来の既存システムのクラウド移行支援を中心としたものから、データ・AI活用をはじめとするクラウドサービスの高度利用を通じたビジネス価値創出支援や、クラウド環境の最適化支援へと移行している。こうした市場環境の変化を背景に、ベンダー各社にはサービスポートフォリオの拡充が求められている。一方で、強化を進めるケイパビリティや事業戦略の方向性にはベンダー間で差異が見られる。ITバイヤーは、目標とするビジネス・IT成果および自社の現状能力を明確にした上で、比較すべき能力・戦略の軸を設定し、自社にとって最適なパートナーを特定することが重要になる」と、IDC Japan、Software, Services, and IT Spendingのリサーチマネージャーである村松大は分析している。

IDC Survey: SAP Infrastructure View 2026 — Executive Summary Part 3: SAP Infrastructure Dedicated (On-Premises, Managed Service Provider, and Colocation) Environment Trends

Max Pepper — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey is the third part of the executive summary of IDC’s 2026 SAP Infrastructure BuyerView Survey findings. It examines why and how organizations are running SAP compute and storage in dedicated environments like on premises through managed services providers and colocations. It also looks at deployment costs for servers and storage, including CAPEX and OPEX costs and explores the architecture and hardware choices shaping SAP-certified server installations and SAP storage systems. Finally, it looks at the factors that influence which server and storage vendors organizations choose and why they might consider changing vendors.

Market Analysis Perspective: EMEA AI-Fueled Business Strategies, 2026

Lapo Fioretti — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Analysis Perspective provides insight into the current and future state of the Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) AI-fueled business strategies market. It includes an overview of the current market landscape, a technology buyer perspective, a market outlook, and IDC's advice for technology suppliers/services suppliers in this market.

"AI is shifting technology discussions into the business domain, with maturity gradually increasing across EMEA. CEOs are looking beyond efficiency gains to reinvent business models, but challenges remain. Many organizations struggle to identify high-value use cases and measure ROI, often treating AI as a purely technical initiative while overlooking the need for effective change management," said Lapo Fioretti, senior research analyst, AI-Fueled Business Strategies at IDC.

Critical External Drivers Shaping Global IT and Business Planning, 2027

Fri, 04 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation describes the critical drivers — important external forces — that will shape the global business ecosystem and influence enterprise IT and business strategies for the next 12–24 months and beyond. The 2026 drivers were identified, developed, and reviewed by a cross-functional international analyst team at IDC. This year’s document reveals 20 interrelated critical drivers that coalesce around four major themes: AI maturity and economics, reestablishing operational foundations, shifts in geopolitical infrastructure, and systemic and emerging risk. These 20 drivers provide the foundation for the development of IDC FutureScape predictions for 2027.

European Tier 1 Service Provider Market Events, 2Q26

Matthew Wilkins — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Presentation summarizes key events in the European tier 1 service provider market in 2Q26.

IDC Survey Spotlight: What Skills Do Global Enterprises Need for Overseeing Agentic AI?

Gina Smith, PhD — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey Spotlight explores the human skills enterprises will need for working with agentic AI across North America, Asia/Pacific, and EMEA. It draws data from IDC’s 2026 Global IT Skills Survey, which examines IT skills and training preferences among global IT leaders.

IT Productivity Data and Metadata Growth, 2026–2030: Operational Data Explosion Faster than Previously Forecast

Archana Venkatraman, Adam Wright — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Perspective examines the accelerating growth of IT productivity data and metadata from now through 2030 and also assesses the impact of agentic AI on the growth forecast. Productivity data is now expected to grow at a 46.7% CAGR through 2030, ahead of last year's 45.0% forecast, as autonomous agents add a continuous, high-volume source of machine-generated data that IT teams must monitor, secure, and govern. This provides technology providers with an opportunity to help enterprises manage IT productivity data at AI scale, cost-effectively.

"A year ago, we said productivity data would define the next phase of digital operations. This shift is now underway faster than we forecast, thanks to agentic AI strategies. AI agents do not just add data but also add a continuous operational trail of decisions, tool calls, and audit records that enterprises cannot afford to leave unmanaged. The organizations investing now in purpose-built, AI-ready data management will be best positioned to capitalize on this strategic data for business outcomes such as resilience, sovereignty, and performance while also managing the data intelligently and cost-efficiently," says Archana Venkatraman, senior research director, Observability and Agentic AI Monitoring and Governance at IDC.

Market Analysis Perspective: Datacenter Facilities Builders Trends and Strategies, 2026

Mikhail Jaura, Dr. William Lee, Andrew Buss, Luis Fernandes — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Analysis Perspective provides insight into the current and future state of the datacenter facilities builders market. It draws on IDC's Semiannual Datacenter Facilities Tracker to size the worldwide facilities power capacity and construction capital spending through 2030, profile the leading owner-operators by scale and investment, and advise operators and their technology partners on where to focus capital as AI workloads reset power, cooling, and density requirements.

"Through 2030, power availability, not demand, will decide the datacenter buildout. The operators that pull ahead are those securing power and engineering for liquid cooling well before the workloads land, leaving the rest to bid for whatever megawatts remain. That advantage compounds with scale. The largest operators lock in power, capital, and land first, and every buildout cycle widens their lead over midmarket providers that cannot commit at the same size or speed," said Mikhail Jaura, senior research analyst, Cloud and Datacenters, Enterprise Infrastructure, IDC.