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IDC MarketScape: European IT Training Services 2025 Vendor Assessment

Leonardo Freitas — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC MarketScape offers a comprehensive evaluation of the European IT training services market in 2025, driven by rapid digital transformation, persistent skills shortages, and the growing need for continuous workforce upskilling. The assessment spans providers with broad and specialized portfolios relevant to organizations pursuing modernization, compliance, and operational excellence. Today, both the breadth of training coverage and its direct applicability to emerging roles are critical for enterprise success — driven by the essential need to balance convenience, scale, and technical depth as organizations respond to the accelerated pace of technology adoption and regulatory demands

"2025 marks a new threshold in IT training; the pace of change means companies must embed strategic, ongoing upskilling into their core business models. Success will be defined by the ability to harness adaptive learning platforms, advanced analytics, and experiential content to keep talent future ready," said Leonardo Freitas, research manager and European Skills Practice lead.

IDC MarketScape: U.S. Value-Based Care Strategic Consulting Services 2025-2026 Vendor Assessment

Jennifer Eaton — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC MarketScape evaluates the U.S. value-based care (VBC) strategic consulting services market. The current value-based care advisory and consulting services market is both mature and rapidly evolving, driven by an increased industry focus on cost efficiency, quality outcomes, and regulatory compliance within alternative payment models. A broad array of vendors, from specialized healthcare consultancies to large, multidisciplinary firms, now compete to support payers, providers, and hybrid payvider organizations in their journey from traditional fee for service to VBC arrangements.

"An emerging theme in this market is the shift from one-size-fits-all advisory work toward tailored, iterative engagements that reflect the unique risk tolerance, capabilities, and motivations of individual healthcare organizations. Vendors that can meet this need are poised to emerge as effective and impactful partners." — Jennifer Eaton, research director, Value-Based Healthcare IT Transformation Strategies

IDC MarketScape: Worldwide AI-Enabled PSA Applications 2025-2026 Vendor Assessment

Mickey North Rizza — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC study provides a thorough assessment of market-leading AI-enabled PSA applications and discusses the criteria that are most important for companies to consider when selecting a solution.

"Organizations are embracing AI quickly; however, vendor solutions with AI-enabled PSA functionality are at the early stages of AI utilization, and 2026 appears to be the year AI will be operationalized. Organizations continue to tell IDC how important AI-enabled processes are to them as they move throughout the services project life cycle. AI-enabled PSA systems bring more efficient and errorless processes; improve visibility into profit margins, change order impact, and resource constraints; and enhance project accounting," said Mickey North Rizza, IDC Group VP, Enterprise Software.

IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Global Trade Management for Retailers and Importers 2025-2026 Vendor Assessment

Jordan K. Speer — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC study provides an evaluation of global trade management (GTM) solutions and spotlights the imperative for retailers and importers to adopt GTM technology that delivers automation, real-time intelligence, and end-to-end integration across compliance, logistics, and finance. For technology buyers, IDC advises a holistic evaluation of GTM solutions, considering connectivity, real-time trade content, automation, analytics and AI capabilities, and alignment with business strategy and operational complexity, as global trade management platforms not only mitigate compliance risks and disruptions but also unlock new opportunities for cost savings, supplier diversification, and intelligent sourcing. Indeed, GTM is becoming a strategic enabler for retailers and importers to navigate global trade challenges, drive operational efficiency, and sustain profitability in a rapidly evolving market. The vendors assessed herein offer a range of solutions to meet diverse needs, but success will depend on selecting technology that integrates with broader supply chain operations and supports agile, data-driven decision-making.

"Global trade is complex and fragmented, and GTM software aims to bring automation, visibility, and control — and even new opportunity — to every layer of cross-border operations, not only to avoid disruptions that slow, halt, or confiscate merchandise or levy fines but also to enable organizations to make faster, data-driven decisions around sourcing and landed costs through real-time duty, tariff, and trade agreement evaluations," said Jordan K. Speer, research director, Retail Product Sourcing, Fulfillment, and Sustainability Strategies at IDC. "In a world where tariffs shift overnight and supply chains face constant disruption, automated global trade management is required to keep product moving swiftly and efficiently to market."

IDC MarketScape: 中国智能体开发平台2025年厂商评估

Yanxia Lu — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 05:00:00 GMT

本IDC研究报告系统评估了中国智能体开发平台市场的主要厂商，涵盖了平台的核心功能、市场格局、发展趋势及技术买家的选型建议。2025年，智能体平台在关键企业中已实现初步落地，公有云厂商、行业解决方案商及新兴创企各自发挥优势，推动多智能体和复杂智能体的技术突破。报告详细分析了部分主要厂商的产品能力、行业覆盖、技术创新与挑战。智能体平台的构建、运营、评测、知识库管理、低代码开发等能力成为企业选型的关键考量。未来一年，行业将聚焦多智能体协同、复杂场景落地和企业级应用的深度融合，推动智能体平台向更高水平发展。

IDC中国人工智能研究总监卢言霞表示：“在生成式AI与多智能体技术融合的推动下，智能体开发平台不仅重塑了企业的数字化架构，更成为驱动业务流程自动化、知识管理智能化和行业创新的关键引擎。厂商间的技术迭代与生态协同，将决定未来智能体平台在复杂场景落地和企业级应用中的核心价值。”

IT for Circularity: Market Requirements and Technology Solutions

Katharina Grimme — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC Perspective examines emerging technology solutions that support companies' circular economy initiatives. As market, regulatory, and other stakeholder pressures for circularity increase, it is essential for companies worldwide to gain an understanding of technology enablers that advance circularity and sustainability goals as well as provide business value. This report provides an overview of such solutions, including examples of tech vendor offerings.

"Circularity is no longer optional — it's the key to increasing resilience, accelerating innovation, and future-proofing your business in a world of rising risks and regulatory demands," said Katharina Grimme, EMEA Sustainability lead, IDC.

Microsoft Ignite 2025: Azure Cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service Updates

Jasdeep Singh, Rob Tiffany, Dave McCarthy — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 05:00:00 GMT

The latest Microsoft Azure infrastructure announcements emphasize on deepening its commitment to building a cloud platform that addresses the growing requirements for performance optimization, confidential computing, and hybrid/sovereign cloud deployments. With new generation of custom silicon, expanded confidential computing capabilities, and significant enhancements to Azure Local and Azure Arc, Microsoft demonstrates its commitment to delivering infrastructure that balances raw performance with security guarantees and operational flexibility. These developments underscore the company's strategy of building infrastructure that spans from hyperscale datacenters to sovereign edge environments, using a consistent management plane and increasingly AI-assisted operations.

The European eSignature Landscape, 2025: Market Dynamics, Legislation, and Key Market Players

Jacqui Hendriks — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Presentation examines developments in the European esignature market, its adjacent markets, legislation, and competitive forces impacting the market. It reviews the activities of high-profile Europe-headquartered esignature market players.

IDC's European eSignature research is designed to monitor market dynamics and provide esignature market players, trust service providers, content management software and service providers, and partners with an up-to-date market overview. It supports market players in understanding European market forces that create both challenges and opportunities in an increasingly digital business environment.

Tricentis Evolves AI and Agentic Testing at Conference

Melinda-Carol Ballou — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 05:00:00 GMT

Tricentis held its quality engineering conference Tricentis Transform in London and Nashville, Tennessee, with more than 1,200 attendees recently, and last week highlighted usage of its evolving technology by announcing the winners of its 2025 Customer Innovation Awards. At Transform, Tricentis executives made a series of key announcements as the company pushes forward with its agentic testing approach targeting coordinated execution. Tricentis announced its strategy and vision for AI-powered software quality engineering, introducing an upcoming AI workspace and expanded agentic automation capabilities across its portfolio. The initiative reflects an industry shift toward emerging autonomous code quality systems designed to address rising complexity and massive volume from generative AI, code assistants, AI and emerging agents, and accelerated software delivery. This development positions Tricentis within broader market and competitive trends emphasizing AI governance, risk mitigation, and integrated SDLC automation, setting the stage for evaluation of agentic approaches to software quality from testing automation providers, with increasing demand.

How Are Life Sciences Organizations Utilizing GenAI for Supply Chain Optimization?

Nino Giguashvili — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 05:00:00 GMT

The IDC Survey Spotlight examines how life sciences organizations worldwide leverage generative AI (GenAI) to optimize supply chain operations.

The data presented in this study derives from a sample of pharmaceutical, biotech, and medical device organizations from the Americas, Europe, and Asia/Pacific regions that participated in IDC's Industry AI and Cloud Path Survey, 2025. The survey was conducted in August 2025 among organizations from multiple industries worldwide.