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IDC Market Glance: Microsoft for Industry Partner Ecosystem, 1Q26

Nadia Ballard — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Glance provides a worldwide view of the partner ecosystem supporting Microsoft’s cloud and vertical AI offerings for industry. It highlights vendors that deliver solutions and related data/AI services for some of Microsoft’s target industries, including financial services, healthcare and life sciences, energy, manufacturing, government, and retail. This presentation also includes a brief review of the company’s AI-focused partner programs and strategy.

IDC ProductScape: Worldwide Revenue Enablement Platforms, 2026

Michelle Morgan — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC ProductScape offers a comprehensive guide on the key functionalities of revenue enablement platforms featuring products from Allego, Highspot, Mindtickle, Showpad, and Seismic. The status of each functionality is categorized as fully supported, partially supported, partner provided, road map, or not supported, aiding technology purchasers in quickly identifying which vendors align with their changing requirements.

JavaOne 2026: Oracle Positions Java for an AI-Augmented Enterprise

Adam Resnick — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 04:00:00 GMT

At JavaOne 2026, Oracle released Java 26 and the Java Verified Portfolio, advancing platform investments across traditional and AI-centric arenas. On the traditional side, Java 26 advances Oracle's commitment to the non-AI enterprise workloads where Java is most deeply established. On the AI-centric side, Oracle is building out Java's interoperability with Python and other non-Java AI services while pushing to carry AI workloads directly. Against that backdrop, developer sentiment at the conference was forward-looking rather than defensive, with attendees broadly skeptical that AI explains recent technology sector layoffs and actively focused on integrating AI and agentic tools into their daily work.

SAP to Acquire Reltio to Strengthen Context Intelligence and Agentic AI Data Foundations

Robert Parker, Stewart Bond, Mickey North Rizza, Tapan Patel — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 04:00:00 GMT

SAP has announced its intent to acquire Reltio, a cloud-native data management provider known for its master data management (MDM), entity resolution, and emerging “Context Intelligence” platform. SAP is positioning the acquisition as a way to enhance its SAP Business Data Cloud (BDC) strategy by adding advanced data unification, relationship modeling, and AI-ready data capabilities.

IDC views this acquisition as a continuation of a broader shift in enterprise software: business application vendors are investing aggressively in data management technologies to support agentic AI. As AI systems increasingly rely on high-quality, contextualized, and trusted data, vendors like SAP are moving to control more of the data foundation that feeds intelligent applications. Reltio’s capabilities in analytical MDM, entity resolution, and graph-based context modeling are expected to strengthen SAP’s ability to deliver AI-driven business outcomes.

GTC 2026: Networking for NVIDIA’s AI-Ready Infrastructure ('AI Factories') – Highlighting Codesign, Scale, and Traditional Networking Differences

Paul Nicholson — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 04:00:00 GMT

NemoClaw Pushes NVIDIA Closer to Enterprise AI Execution

Arnal Dayaratna — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 04:00:00 GMT

A Year After Tariffs. How Agile Are We Now?

Eric Thompson — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Perspective provides summarized views of 10 key lessons or developments in the “year of tariffs.” Over the past year, tariffs and geopolitical tensions have reinforced an important reality for supply chain leaders: Volatility is becoming a persistent feature of the global operating environment and no longer an exception. Organizations are responding by diversifying suppliers, investing in network flexibility, strengthening procurement capabilities, and adopting more advanced planning technologies. Ultimately, the strongest supply chains appear to be those that are not simply reacting to disruption, but actively designing operating models capable of adapting to it.

“Considering the fact that we are near a full decade of persistent disruptions, acceptance of this as a pattern, and not an exception, seems prudent. Supply chain leaders are increasingly aware of the need to implement steps toward the resilient supply chain, whether through organizational or technical changes.” — Eric Thompson, research director, Worldwide Supply Chain Planning, IDC

Agents as Apps: Oracle’s Fusion Agentic Applications & Agentic Application’s Builder and Tools

Mickey North Rizza — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 04:00:00 GMT

On March 24, 2026 Oracle made several announcements:

Oracle announced a new class of enterprise applications powered by coordinated teams of specialized AI agents that are outcome-driven, proactive and reasoning based, and engineered for enterprise execution. These new agents are built on Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications and called Fusion Agentic Applications.

Oracle also announced its expansion of AI Agent Studio for Fusion Applications with Agentic Applications Builder and new Intelligent Workflow Tools. This latest release includes a new agentic applications builder as well as new capabilities that support workflow orchestration, content intelligence, contextual memory, and ROI measurement.

Building an AI-Ready Data Architecture Series: The Data Control Plane

Marlanna Harrington, Stewart Bond — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC presentation is part of a four-part series, with each installment examining one of the four critical planes of the enterprise intelligence architecture that work together to enable AI-ready data and drive business outcomes. These planes support continuous learning, delivery of insights at scale, and a strong data culture across your organization.

This report will provide a deep dive into the Data Control Plane, detailing how to take control of data through data intelligence, governance policies, and engineering practices. It addresses data cataloging, lineage tracking, quality management, and stewardship frameworks that ensure data products are trustworthy, accessible, and compliant.

Circles of Value: A Framework for IT Service Management and Enterprise Service Management Market Intersection Across Technology and Business Contexts

Snow Tempest — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Perspective supplements IDC Market Presentation: A Framework for ITSM Market Intersections: How IT Service Management Connects Functions to Deliver Value (IDC #US54415526, March 2026). In a market evolving to include AI and other transformations, vendors can differentiate and help customers by linking disciplines.

"Connecting functions can create new opportunities for ITSM and ESM practitioners and vendors," says Snow Tempest, research manager, IDC.