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IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Talent Acquisition for Enterprise 2026 Vendor Assessment

Abhinav Shrivastava — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC study provides an assessment of talent acquisition vendors that primarily serve enterprise buyers. The research finds enterprise buyers dividing along a suite versus standalone architecture choice, where vendors embedded in a broader HCM system are weighed against purpose-built recruiting platforms on configurability and integration depth. Agentic AI has become the dominant vocabulary across nearly every profile, though vendor maturity varies widely in governance, auditability, and human oversight. Skills-based matching and candidate fraud detection are emerging as baseline enterprise requirements rather than differentiators. Buyers are advised to weigh platform maturity against their own hiring complexity and to treat AI governance evidence as a deployment prerequisite.

"Talent acquisition has moved from a people function to becoming a strategic revenue activation function for enterprises, and the buyers in the segment do not judge talent acquisition vendors by the count of AI agents or features," said Abhinav Shrivastava, research manager, Talent Acquisition and Strategy, IDC. "The vendors that can help buyers drive hiring and talent placement efficiency, empowered by transparent and auditable AI capabilities, will define enterprise hiring for the next cycle."

What Will EMEA Services Buyers Demand from Their Partners in the AI Era?

Matthew Wilkins, Eric Samuel — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Web Conference proceeding explores:

The status of AI investments and how services spending is set to change in 2026 and 2027 across EMEA, with insights into the leading drivers and inhibitors for this spending.
The leading criteria firms across the EMEA region use to select a strategic IT services provider, and how this has evolved since 2025.
The challenges EMEA firms are encountering as they attempt to scale AI use cases.
The outcomes firms in EMEA have realized from engagements with their strategic IT services provider, as well as the leading areas of the AI focus in the short term
The views held by EMEA firms on the need to reinvent their business in the next five years, along with the factors they perceive as being most crucial to the business reinvention

This webinar presents key insights from IDC’s 2026 EMEA Services Survey and flags key considerations and recommendations for services providers and technology vendors.

Agentic Enterprise Transformation Professional Services Vendor Market Events, 2Q26–3Q26

Jennifer Thomson — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Presentation summarizes key events in the agentic enterprise transformation professional (AETP) services market in 2Q26–3Q26.

IDC Market Glance: EMEA AI-Ready Workforce, 3Q26

Leonardo Freitas, Amy Loomis, Ph.D. — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 04:00:00 GMT

The IDC Market Glance is a taxonomy document intended to visually depict a concise current-state view of the EMEA AI-ready workforce ecosystem. It groups providers into three segments (software, services, and hardware) and nine subsegments that follow the employee life cycle, including talent acquisition, core HR, AI platforms and agents, and governance. This EMEA edition keeps the worldwide structure and definitions and adjusts vendor selection to the region.

IDC Survey: Number of Installed Print Devices by Select Worldwide Countries

Phil Sargeant — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey examines the number of print devices organizations have installed in their office locations and how installation levels differ by country. Based on a June 2026 survey of 1,824 hardware decision-makers in 17 countries, this analysis compares France, Germany, the United Kingdom, the United States, Japan, and China with the worldwide total across six device types, from ink tank printers to label printers. This analysis matters to vendors, channel partners, and service providers shaping devices, supplies, and service offerings for mixed print environments.

IDC Survey: Retail Technologies and Business Processes Trends for Customer Experience and Commerce in the Luxury Sector, 2026

Ornella Urso — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey examines how luxury retailers are prioritizing investment in artificial intelligence (AI), data infrastructure, customer experience (CX), and commerce technology in 2026. It is based on responses from 105 luxury and high-end retail technology decision-makers, taken from a worldwide sample of 980 respondents to IDC's 2026 Retail Technologies and Business Processes Trends Survey. The results cover digital transformation priorities, AI execution barriers and budgets, agentic AI strategies, commerce and omni-channel investments, loyalty and personalization, store operations, supply chain, and IT architecture.

IDC Survey：2026年国内データセンター管理者調査

Mimei Ito — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 04:00:00 GMT

本調査は、国内のデータセンター（DC）管理者を対象に、DCの運用課題、AI（Artificial Intelligence）サーバーの高密度化、省エネ・電力調達、新設計画、外部DCの利用実態を調査し、DC用途区分（事業者DC、サービスプロバイダーDC、エンタープライズDC）別に把握することを目的としている。

AIインフラ配備の拡大、コンテナ／モジュール型DC導入への関心の高まりなど、DCの利用についての要件や選択肢が広がっている。「ファシリティベンダーおよびDC事業者は、DCの用途ごとの優先度（コスト、納期、脱炭素、契約の柔軟性）に合わせて、提供するサービスや製品の内容をデザインする必要がある」とIDC Japan、Software, Services, and IT Spendingのリサーチマネージャーである伊藤未明は述べている。

Accenture FY 4Q26: Bookings Recovery and Full-Year Revenue Above Guidance Point to Sustained AI Transformation Demand; OT Security Platform Now in Market

Lars Goransson — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 04:00:00 GMT

On October 1, 2026, Accenture reported results for the fourth quarter and full fiscal year 2026. Fourth-quarter revenue of $18.7 billion exceeded the top of the guided range of $17.75 billion to $18.40 billion. Full-year local currency growth of 5% was at the top of the original guidance of 2–5% and above the most recent range of 3–4%.

Market Analysis Perspective: Worldwide Next-Gen Document Services, 2026

Robert Palmer — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Analysis Perspective provides insight into the current and future state of the worldwide next-gen document services market. It includes an overview of the current market landscape, a perspective from a technology buyer, a market outlook, and IDC's advice to technology suppliers in this market.

"Print modernization, the shift to cloud print infrastructure, and the rapid emergence of the AI MFP are fueling renewed interest in managed print and document services, as customers seek to rightsize office print fleets and drive more value from their MPS engagements. MPDS remains a sizable and sustained opportunity, and vendors are responding with AI-enabled devices, cloud-delivered services, and more flexible, outcome-oriented engagement models," said Robert Palmer, research vice president, Imaging, Printing, and Document Solutions at IDC.

Talent Is the Bottleneck: Understanding Why Demand Is Not the Constraint on Services — Insights from IDC's North America Infrastructure Channels Council Pulse Survey

Danielle Ibran — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Presentation examines why talent is currently the key growth driver within services. It explores why managed services have surpassed systems integration as the channel's core business, what's fueling widespread consensus on margin and incentive restructuring, and where partners identify the best opportunities to grow alongside vendors amid increasing direct-delivery competition.

This presentation highlights infrastructure partners benefiting from strong tailwinds. The convergence of demand for cloud, managed services, and AI creates a compelling growth narrative. The main challenge isn't market interest but delivery capacity.