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IDC Market Glance: Master Data Management, 4Q26

Allyson Leavy — Wed, 04 Nov 2026 05:00:00 GMT

The IDC Market Glance is a taxonomy document intended to visually depict a concise current-state view of master data management.

Business executives, product managers, and market insights or analyst relations professionals can use this information to understand the structure of the overall market or ecosystem; assess market, business, and partnership opportunities; and identify where their organization fits into the competitive landscape.

IDC Market Glance content is current on the date it is published. The representative content contained in this presentation reflects a qualitative snapshot that is regularly refreshed. Company logos are illustrative only and do not reflect an exhaustive view of the market.

IDC MarketScape: Worldwide AI-Powered Service Fleet Management Applications 2026 Vendor Assessment

Aly Pinder — Wed, 04 Nov 2026 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC study uses the IDC MarketScape model to provide an assessment of technology vendors participating in service fleet management. The study also explores the emergence of AI-powered applications.

"Service fleet management is no longer about dots on a map," notes Aly Pinder, research vice president, Aftermarket Services Strategies, IDC. "Tech leaders have begun to explore AI to turn vehicles and driver data into reliable arrival times, safer drivers, and faster resolution that customers can depend on."

IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Supply Chain Planning Overall 2026 Vendor Assessment

Eric Thompson — Wed, 04 Nov 2026 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC Manufacturing Insights study uses the IDC MarketScape model to provide an assessment of providers participating in the overall worldwide supply chain planning market. The IDC MarketScape is an evaluation based on a comprehensive framework and a set of parameters that assesses providers relative to one another and to those factors expected to be most conducive to success in a given market during both the short term and the long term.

"Supply chain planning is a critical capability in a resilient supply chain across all industries. The ability to pair an accurate demand forecast to a credible supply-side plan, while optimizing necessary inventory positions, and then agreeing to a consensus plan through S&OP are all critical components in managing an efficient and effective supply chain," says Eric Thompson, research director, Worldwide Supply Chain Planning at IDC.

IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Supply Chain Planning for Process Industries 2026 Vendor Assessment

Eric Thompson — Wed, 04 Nov 2026 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC Manufacturing Insights study uses the IDC MarketScape model to provide an assessment of providers participating in the worldwide supply chain planning market for process industries. The IDC MarketScape is an evaluation based on a comprehensive framework and a set of parameters that assesses providers relative to one another and to those factors expected to be most conducive to success in a given market during both the short term and the long term.

"Supply chain planning is a critical capability in a resilient process industry supply chain. The ability to plan demand and supply, while optimizing inventory positions, and then agreeing to a consensus plan through S&OP are all critical components in managing an efficient and effective supply chain," says Eric Thompson, research director, Worldwide Supply Chain Planning at IDC.

Salesforce's 2Q27 Fiscal Results: Continued Momentum Builds the Path to Sustained Innovation

Wed, 04 Nov 2026 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Note highlights some of the key takeaways and IDC's perspective on Salesforce's 2Q27 financial results.

"As Salesforce shifts its revenue model from seats to outcomes and folds Fin's real-time customer data into agentic action, the vendors that win won't be the ones with the most agents," says Aly Pinder, research vice president, Aftermarket Services Strategies, IDC. "They'll be the ones whose agents can prove they resolved something a customer actually cared about."

Seismic Shift 2026: A Unified GTM Vision, a Product Story Still in Progress

Michelle Morgan — Wed, 04 Nov 2026 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Note examines Seismic's Shift 2026 conference, the first customer event since the company's merger with Highspot. It covers the keynote argument that enablement must move from preparation to performance, the product demonstrations and road map themes, and IDC's assessment of what the event did and did not show. IDC found a persuasive go-to-market strategy and a clear strategic direction, with detail on how the combined product set will come together still emerging this early in the integration.

"Seismic's go-to-market story is persuasive, and its case for governance before AI speed will land with regulated buyers," says Michelle Morgan, research director for Revenue, Customer Service, and Contact Center Strategies at IDC. "Product proof points are still early, and the next few quarters will show how quickly the combined Highspot and Seismic platform delivers on the story."

IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Contract Life-Cycle Management Software for Corporate Legal 2026–2027 Vendor Assessment

Ryan O'Leary, Esq. — Tue, 03 Nov 2026 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC study evaluates several vendors from the contract life-cycle management (CLM) software market, focusing on their ability to support corporate legal departments. It emphasizes the importance of deep analytics, AI functionality, customer support, customizable workflows, and integration capabilities as critical success factors. The document advises technology leaders to seek vendors that are true partners in their CLM journey, highlighting the significance of vendor support across the implementation process for successful CLM adoption.

"AI isn't replacing the contract life-cycle management platform. It's raising the bar for it. Buyers should look for vendors that pair AI with the workflows, playbooks, and support that help legal shift from reviewing routine paperwork to doing higher-value work," says Ryan O'Leary, research director, Privacy and Legal Technology, IDC.

IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Operational Databases 2026 Vendor Assessment

Devin Pratt — Tue, 03 Nov 2026 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC study evaluates worldwide operational database software platforms for 2026. Vendors evaluated include AWS, Broadcom, Cockroach Labs, Couchbase, Databricks, EnterpriseDB, Google, IBM, InterSystems, MariaDB, Microsoft, MongoDB, Oracle, Progress Software, SAP, and SingleStore. The market spans relational, nonschematic, and multimodel architectures deployed across on-premises, cloud-native, hybrid, and edge environments, and it is being reshaped by the convergence of transactional and analytical workloads and the rise of agentic AI.

As enterprises move agentic AI into production and consolidate years of accumulated database sprawl, vendors are racing to embed vector search, autonomous operations, and open interoperability as baseline capabilities rather than differentiators. Convergence of transactional and analytical processing is accelerating, deployment is standardizing on hybrid and multicloud, and open source is now nearly universal. The result is a market where transactional reliability is assumed and competitive advantage is shifting to deployment flexibility and real-time intelligence.

"The operational database has become the control point for enterprise AI, the place where agents access and act on live business data," said Devin Pratt, research director of Database Systems for Enterprise Intelligence at IDC. "Leadership will belong to the vendors that make governed, real-time context a core capability, not an add-on."

Nokia 3Q26 Earnings: AI Demand Drives Growth and Margin Gains While Cash Flow Remains Under Pressure

Ahmad Latif Ali, Alejandro Cadenas — Tue, 03 Nov 2026 05:00:00 GMT

Nokia reported its 3Q26 results on October 22, 2026, with net sales of €5,154 million, up 9% year over year (YoY) in constant currency. Comparable operating profit grew 35% to €605 million, and the comparable operating margin reached 11.7%, up 220 basis points. Comparable figures leave out onetime items such as restructuring. AI and Cloud customers now represent 12% of Nokia's revenue and are becoming an increasingly important driver of growth, investment priorities, and product development across the company. Net sales to AI and Cloud customers grew 123% to €631 million, lifting Network Infrastructure. Free cash flow was -€99 million as Nokia spent more on working capital and restructuring. Nokia kept its 2026 outlook for comparable operating profit at €2.1 billion to €2.6 billion and expects to finish above the midpoint of this range.

Reported results were less favorable than comparable metrics suggest. Operating profit declined to €196 million from €252 million a year earlier, reducing the operating margin to 3.8%. The primary driver was €357 million in restructuring charges associated with site closures and workforce reductions. Comparable gross margin declined modestly by 20 basis points to 44.6%, indicating that underlying profitability remained relatively stable. However, cash performance deteriorated, with free cash flow turning negative compared with the positive free cash flow of €429 million in 3Q25. Approximately €560 million in cash was used for working-capital increases and restructuring payments, contributing to a decline in net cash to €2,584 million from €2,776 million in 2Q26.

Basware VIP 2026 Dublin: Governed AI and Continuous Compliance Take Center Stage

Bo Lykkegaard — Mon, 02 Nov 2026 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Note reviews announcements, customer feedback, and IDC analyst impressions from Basware VIP 2026, the vendor's annual customer and analyst event held in Dublin. It draws on keynote and breakout sessions, the executive analyst session, and conversations with Basware customers.

"Basware already sits inside the invoice flow of many large companies, and that gives its AI plans a strong foundation," said Bo Lykkegaard, associate vice president, Software Research at IDC. "It has also made strong progress in compliant e-invoicing. To get to the next level, Basware must strengthen the submission side (accounts receivable) of e-invoicing."