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IDC MarketScape: Worldwide AI-Enabled Midsize Business Enterprise Resource Planning Applications 2025 Vendor Assessment

Mickey North Rizza, Katie Evans — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC study provides a thorough assessment of market-leading AI-enabled midsize business ERP applications and discusses the most important criteria companies should consider when selecting a solution.

"Organizations need AI-enabled ERP technologies to reduce manual and semi-manual workflows, improve time to insights and action, and ultimately deliver top business performance. AI-enabled ERP technology enables the organization to immediately pivot around disruptions as they deliver quality services and performance." — Mickey North Rizza, IDC Group VP, Enterprise Software

IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Enterprise Community Applications 2025 Vendor Assessment

Wayne Kurtzman — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC study assess the leading vendors for enterprise community applications market. It discusses the key consideration criteria when companies seek to create their communities. The failure of organizations to provide a well-moderated community will result in others running your brand community, and in some cases, a company can lose its voice on the very product it creates. These platforms are dynamic spaces, enhanced with AI, and should now be viewed more like physical places than purely virtual ones. Integrating enterprise community applications with core IT systems (e.g., marketing tech, collaboration tools, and CRM) generates a trove of valuable first-party data that drives engagement, a positive experience, and business growth.

"Companies that fail to provide a well-moderated community will have one appointed for them without charge," according to Wayne Kurtzman, research vice president, Collaboration, Community and Conferencing practice, IDC. "Those companies will miss the opportunity to grow fans in real time. They will also miss out on a growing cache of dynamic first-party data signals that support brand ideation and identify both successes and concerns across the enterprise that tie to company success. In a very social era where two-thirds of the workforce relies on communities to get their work done (source: IDC's Annual Collaboration Survey, July 2025; n = 563), failure to engage your base is a failure to leverage people who care about your product."

IDC FutureScape: Worldwide CFO Tech Agenda 2026 Predictions

Heather Herbst, Kevin Permenter, Charles Aladesuru — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC FutureScape provides IDC's top 10 CFO Tech Agenda 2026 predictions. The CFO of the future will be a technology strategist as much as a financial steward. As AI, ESG, risk, and data governance become central to enterprise performance, CFOs will increasingly set the agenda for technology investments across functions. Their decisions will define vendor viability, platform relevance, and enterprisewide architecture. No longer the end user, the CFO is now the architect of trust, agility, and return on innovation.

"In the next decade, technology vendors won't just sell to finance — they'll be shaped by it. The CFO's priorities will determine which platforms survive and scale across the enterprise." — Heather Herbst, research director, Worldwide CFO Buyer Insights

IDC FutureScape: Worldwide Hospitality, Dining, and Travel 2026 Predictions

Dorothy Creamer, Stephanie Krishnan — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC FutureScape outlines the top 10 predictions for worldwide hospitality, dining, and travel for 2026.

"Hospitality and travel industries have weathered great challenges in recent years. Nimble competitors leaned into digital-native applications and strategies, while legacy brands were forced to evolve," says Dorothy Creamer, senior research manager, Hospitality and Travel Digital Transformation Strategies at IDC. "The next five years will be marked by how effectively brands can adapt to the AI wave. Not all problems must be solved by AI, but the benefits of layering capabilities throughout operations should be thoughtfully applied and evaluated to best gauge the ROAI."

IDC FutureScape: Worldwide Utilities 2026 Predictions

Gaia Gallotti, John Villali, Angela Salmeron, Jean-François Segalotto — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC FutureScape provides the outlook of IDC Energy Insights' analyst team for the worldwide utility industry for 2026 and for the next five years.

"With clean energy on the cusp of surpassing coal and AI transforming grid operations, bold investments in modernization and large-scale projects will unlock resilient, affordable, and sustainable growth — while strengthening global energy security and sovereignty," said Gaia Gallotti, research director, IDC Energy Insights.

IDC PeerScape: 中国金融行业智能体最佳实践案例分析之保险与资管篇

Siri Si, Eric Gao, Lianfeng Wu, Finn Li — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 04:00:00 GMT

本IDC PeerScape提供了金融行业智能体最佳实践案例洞察（保险及资管篇）。IDC认为，未来，智能体形态更多元，其将从单一功能代理向自主协作智能体集群演进，形成更复杂的“AI大脑”，赋能内部生产力的提升及外部业务运营效率，即从辅助环节深入至核心业务决策（如核保、理赔、投资决策以及精准营销），并横向拓展到更多金融子领域。同时，人机协同的作业模式也将持续深化，企业经营更加强调“专家经验+AI能力”的结合，人机协同成为主流模式。

“智能体带来的最大变化，就是从简单的工具变成了能感知、决策、行动、以及记忆的‘业务伙伴’，保险及资管行业在智能体方向的实践探索也正从‘概念验证’步入‘垂直场景创新应用’的阶段，并已形成了可度量的业务闭环。这些探索不仅提升了效率和体验，更在深刻地重塑金融服务的形态和业态。未来随着AI Agent能力深化和其在业务场景中的价值凸显，正驱动其业务模式从‘订阅制’向‘结果服务制’转型。”——IDC金融行业研究经理思二勋表示。

IDC FutureScape: Worldwide Developer and DevOps 2026 Predictions

Sat, 25 Oct 2025 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC FutureScape presents IDC's top 10 developer and DevOps predictions for 2026.

"The emerging wave of AI and agentic AI technologies is profoundly influencing developers and DevOps professionals. As we navigate the disruption this has created, it's evident that developers and DevOps professionals are facing an unprecedented amount of change," said Jim Mercer, program vice president, Software Development, DevOps, and DevSecOps, IDC. "The coming years are poised to be the most transformational in the history of application development and deployment."

IDC FutureScape: Worldwide Manufacturing 2026 Predictions

Sat, 25 Oct 2025 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC FutureScape for manufacturing for 2026 explores IT, digital transformation, AI, workforce dynamics, and other key trends over the next five years, drawing on IDC Manufacturing Insights' global expertise.

"Over the next five years, the manufacturing sector will undergo extraordinary change, driven by rapid adoption of cloud platforms and applications that enable a true digital thread. Concurrently, there is organized generative and agentic AI experimentation happening as organizations make the pivot to operationalize this technology," said Jeffrey Hojlo, research vice president, Industry Ecosystems, Business Networks, and Manufacturing Insights, IDC.

Dentsu Stands at a Crossroads as It Considers the Fate of Its International Business

Douglas Hayward — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Note shares an overview of where Dentsu stands as it considers the fate of its international business. Dentsu announced its 1H25 results on August 14, 2025. Net revenue was flat (0.2% decline) in organic terms at ¥562 billion ($3.8 billion), versus a 1.8% organic decline in 1H24. Japan grew 5.3% in 1H25: The issue is the continued decline of the business outside Japan. Dentsu is clearly at a critical turning point, where a momentous decision must be made about the future of the non-Japanese business.

IDC AI & Automation Forum 2025, Japan：AIエージェントが加速する自動化とオペレーションの変革

Takuya Uemura — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 04:00:00 GMT

本Conference Proceeding: Tech Buyerは、IDC Japan、Software & Servicesのシニアリサーチマネージャーである植村卓弥による講演の内容をプレゼンテーションスライドと音声ファイルによって提供するものである。

AI（Artificial Intelligence）は2025年に本格的導入段階を迎え、多くの国内企業が実験・試行からAIの現実の業務への適用範囲の拡大と広範な自動化を進めようとしている。IDCでは、AIエージェント技術や、マルチエージェント間のシステムとしての「エージェンティックAI」の急速な発展がこうした領域拡大を支え、多くの企業・組織でAIユースケースの飛躍的な拡大をもたらすとみている。本講演では、AIエージェントやエージェンティックAIの発展に向けたテクノロジースタックの変化、特に、「自動化」やアプリケーションへの影響、あるいは働き方とプロセスに与える影響について、最新のIDC調査から俯瞰的に考察する。