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IDC Market Glance: Digital Business AI Services in Japan, 3Q26

Akira Sugawara — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

本調査レポートは、「Digital Business AI Services」に関して、国内における主要ベンダーのマップを提供するものである。Digital Business AI Services市場を「AI business services」「Digital engineering」「AI IT services」「Technology providers with AI services offerings」の4つのセグメントに分類し、各セグメントおよびサブセグメントの定義を提供している。

IDC Survey Spotlight: How Should Managed Service Providers Optimize the Value of Hyperscaler Partnerships in Provisioning Managed Services, Particularly with the Increased Use of AI and Agentic AI?

David Tapper — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey Spotlight highlights the results from the following question posed to 820 respondents and firms with 1,000+ employees across multiple countries and industries, as part of IDC's 2026 Worldwide Managed Services Survey: "Partnerships between managed service providers and public cloud providers: Which two of the following best reflect the value your organization would expect when using partnerships between managed service providers and public cloud providers/hyperscalers (e.g., AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure)?" This IDC Survey Spotlight then highlights the investments that managed service providers (SPs) need to pursue to optimize their partnerships with not just hyperscaler partners but all service provider partners including AI model providers and tool providers, such as implementing robust governance that uses an autonomous operations management platform; incorporating standardized IP-based, proprietary platforms; and providing integration across the partnership ecosystem.

IDC Survey Spotlight: Is Implementation Services Spending Shrinking Relative to Application Software Spending?

Jason Bremner — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey Spotlight examines how spending on external services to implement enterprise applications has changed over time. We looked at a series of surveys on IT professional services from 2016 to 2025 to determine the trend in average services-to-application software spending ratio over that time period. The document leverages data collected from respondents in North America, Asia/Pacific, and Western Europe.

IDC Survey Spotlight: What Are Organizations Doing About Rising AI Skills and Talent Shortages?

Gina Smith, PhD — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey Spotlight explores how 924 global IT and business leaders are responding to AI skills and talentshortages. The data is drawn from the IDC's recent Future Enterprise Resiliency and Spending Survey (FERS), Wave 4.

IDC Survey Spotlight: What Key Investments Must Managed Service Providers Pursue to Mitigate Challenges That Organizations Face in Utilizing Not Just Cloud Capabilities But Cloud with AI?

David Tapper — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey Spotlight highlights the results from the following question posed to 820 respondents and firms with 1,000+ employees across multiple countries and industries, as part of IDC's 2026 Worldwide Managed Services Survey: "Top cloud challenges: Which two of the following are the most significant cloud challenges your organization faces that managed service providers need to address?" This IDC Survey Spotlight then highlights the investments that managed service providers (SPs) need to pursue to mitigate the challenges organizations face in not only using cloud but also using cloud with AI, including implementing a sovereign risk committee with compliance engineering, integrating AI and IoT with managed services, and creating a robust FinOps practice.

IDC Survey Spotlight: Where Are Manufacturers Prioritizing OT Investment Dollars in the Next Years?

Lorenzo Veronesi — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey Spotlight provides insight from the manufacturing sample of the IDC's IT/OT Integration Survey 2026, July 2026. This Survey Spotlight highlights where discrete and process manufacturers' investment strategies converge and where differences emerge.

IDC Survey: AI MFP Survey Results — MPDS Customer Perception and Adoption Plans for AI MFP

Robert Palmer — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey presents findings from IDC’s U.S. AI MFP Survey, conducted in May 2026, examining customer perceptions and adoption plans for AI-infused multifunction printers (MFPs). The presentation covers factors driving AI technology selection, current AI adoption levels in print and document workflows, and the capabilities and integration requirements organizations expect from AI MFPs.

The presentation further examines how organizations evaluate AI MFP performance, including success metrics, deployment model preferences, and product line expectations, providing MFP vendors and technology suppliers with a data-grounded view of where the U.S. market currently stands and what will shape purchasing decisions in AI-capable print infrastructure going forward.

Market Analysis Perspective: Worldwide IT Skills for Digital Business, 2026

Gina Smith, PhD — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Analysis Perspective provides insight into the current and future state of the IT skills for digital business market. It includes an overview of the current market landscape, a tech leader perspective, a market outlook, and IDC's advice for technology suppliers.

"In 2026, the IT skills business is showing steady growth, fierce competition, and rapid transformation. The half-life of skills keeps shrinking as AI and other fast-emerging technologies rewrite what workers need to know. That churn is pushing training demand higher across all sectors and regions." — Gina Smith, senior research director, Applications

Evaluating Business Office Operations and Services Vendors for the Media Industry 2026

Alex Holtz — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Perspective examines how media companies are converging production, distribution, monetization, media orchestration, and business operations data into a single agentic orchestration layer that surfaces variance in real time and routes corrective action back to back-office ERP systems. It assesses where agentic AI use cases in media stand in 2026, the human-in-the-loop governance that separates durable vendor deployments from stalled pilots, and the road map toward ERP convergence and cross-pillar autonomous orchestration by 2030. This document also profiles the ERP incumbents and media-native and AI-native specialists — including SAP, Oracle, Microsoft, Workday, Salesforce, Mediagenix, TwelveLabs, AWS, Dalet, and Vizrt — building this agentic layer and offers guidance for technology leaders on sequencing data, governance, and vendor selection decisions.

“The media companies that win the next five years won’t be the ones running the most AI pilots — they’ll be the ones whose agents see the whole business cycle and act on it in the same breath. When a production delay, a distribution cost spike, and a monetization shortfall all speak the same language to the same ERP, media stops reconciling its plan after the fact and starts steering it in real time,” said Alex Holtz, research director, Worldwide Media and Entertainment Digital Strategies, IDC.

IDC MarketScape: Japan Sustainability Programs and Services Hardcopy 2026 Vendor Assessment

Eiji Ishida — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMT

本調査レポートは、国内オフィスプリント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、サステナビリティ視点で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。

「ITバイヤーには、自社サステナビリティ目標をブレイクダウンし、オフィスプリント環境に求めるサステナビリティ目標を設定することが求められる。さらに、プリント機器に求める環境性能を決めるだけでなく、サステナビリティ活動をどの程度ベンダーに委託するのか、つまりマネージドプリントサービスとしてサステナビリティに関する報告と改善活動を委託するのかといった視点での検討も重要である。こうした点を踏まえて、サステナビリティ戦略および能力を評価し、ベンダー選定を行うべきである」と、IDC Japan、Infrastructure, Imaging, and Devicesのシニアリサーチディレクターである石田英次は分析している。