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OpenAI’s $110 Billion Capital Raise Aligns Capital with Compute Control

Arnal Dayaratna — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 04:00:00 GMT

IDC ProductScape: Worldwide AI-Enabled Field Service Management Applications, 2026

Aly Pinder — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 04:00:00 GMT

The IDC ProductScape offers a comprehensive guide on the key functionalities of field service management, featuring products from Atheer, IBM, IFS, KloudGin, Microsoft, Nomadia, Oracle, OverIT, Praxedo, PTC, Salesforce, SAP, ServiceNow, ServicePower, Solvares Group, Syncron, Tavant, Zinier, and Zuper. 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.

IDC Survey Spotlight: Is Agentic AI Reshaping Enterprise Demand for Data Management and Integration?

Stewart Bond — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey Spotlight draws on findings from the IDC Syndicated Survey 2025: November 2025 Office of the Chief Data Officer Survey, examining how the adoption of agentic AI is reshaping enterprise data management priorities. Organizations with AI agents in production are elevating data management from an operational support function to a strategic investment area, with an increased focus on governance, integration, reliability, and trust. Agent adopters are expanding beyond structured data to activate more internal content and analytical assets, driving demand for unified platforms, semantic integration, and knowledge-centric architectures.

"Agentic AI is fundamentally changing the role of data management in the enterprise," said Stewart Bond, vice president, Data Intelligence and Integration Software Research, IDC. "Organizations moving agents into production quickly realize that success depends not just on model performance but on trusted, well-governed, and seamlessly integrated data ecosystems that span structured, unstructured, and external sources."

IDC's 2026 AI Terms Glossary

David Schubmehl, Philip Carter, Karen Massey — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Perspective provides a detailed glossary of AI terms found in IDC's AI research. It is a companion document to IDC's AI core software taxonomy. It includes a comprehensive set of AI terms and definitions for readers to become familiar with IDC's and industry's AI terminology.

"IDC's AI glossary is an effort by IDC to provide readers with detailed information about industry's and IDC's AI terminology and provides assistance to those reviewing and reading the AI core software taxonomy," said David Schubmehl, research VP for AI and Automation research at IDC. "We at IDC hope that readers of IDC research will find the glossary and accompanying definitions useful and helpful."

Namirial: Pursuing AI-Driven Digital Transaction Management Opportunity

Jacqui Hendriks — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Vendor Profile is an update to a published profile in February 2025 (Namirial: Supporting the Transition to Trusted and Secure Digital Signing Workflows, IDC #EUR152793425, February 2025) and reflects advancements in the company through organic growth, new funding, and acquisitions that are helping to shape Namirial's future.

The Financial Systems Architect: Engineering Trust in the Autonomous Enterprise

Kevin Permenter — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Perspective discusses the emergence and importance of the financial systems architect (FSA) role to organizations. To mitigate fiduciary risk in an autonomous era, enterprises are formalizing the FSA role. This function bridges the gap between financial logic and agentic orchestration, replacing traditional statistical sampling with 100%-automated validation. The FSA is the essential prerequisite for achieving an auditable, zero-latency finance office.

"As finance transitions from human-led workflows to autonomous agentic ecosystems, the definition of controllership must evolve. The financial systems architect is no longer a luxury; it is the fiduciary fail-safe that ensures AI-driven decisions remain transparent, auditable, and aligned with enterprise integrity in an increasingly volatile market," said Kevin Permenter, senior research director, Financial Applications and Agents.

Worldwide Edge Enterprise Workloads Infrastructure Market Forecast, 2026-2029

Max Pepper — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC study provides an overview of the market size and forecast for global spending on enterprise infrastructure (servers and storage systems) for workloads running at the edge. Suppliers of edge-focused server and storage systems, cloud service providers that offer infrastructure services for the edge, and enterprises that plan their edge-based IT infrastructure spend can leverage this document toward their planning.

"AI investment continues to rapidly shape the edge infrastructure market," said Senior Research Analyst Max Pepper, IDC Enterprise and Emerging Workloads. "As companies continue to develop edge LLMs, this is rapidly opening up the potential to use edge infrastructure to support AI applications, especially regarding intelligent video surveillance and unstructured data analysis. That said, with data sovereignty still a key concern, it'll be critical for edge AI solution providers to make sure zero trust standards are still a crucial consideration when supporting edge workloads."

Key Considerations for Leveraging AI Agents in Network Management

Brandon Butler — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 05:00:00 GMT

This presentation highlights how agentic AI is emerging as the next phase of AI-powered networking, outlining the technological shifts enabling this transition and how agentic capabilities are being applied across campus and branch operations. It summarizes the benefits, challenges, and security considerations supported by IDC survey insights and concludes with practical guidance for enterprises on how to consider leveraging agentic AI in network management.

Market Analysis Perspective: EMEA Partnering Ecosystems, 2026

Andreas Storz, Stuart Wilson — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Analysis Perspective provides insight into the current and future state of EMEA partnering ecosystems. It includes an overview of the current partner landscape, partner perspectives on technology buyers, insights on vendor strategy and engagement dynamics, and IDC's advice for technology vendors.

Aikido Introduces Continuous Autonomous Penetration Testing with Aikido Infinite

Katie Norton — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 05:00:00 GMT

Aikido Infinite extends Aikido's AI-driven penetration testing capability from on-demand assessments to a continuous, release-aligned model embedded in the software life cycle. The launch reflects a broader inflection point in which AI agent capabilities are enabling application security functions that were previously constrained by the availability of human expertise.