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IDC ProductScape: Worldwide Point-of-Sale (POS) Software Vendors in Grocery and Food Store Retail 2026

Filippo Battaini — Tue, 19 May 2026 04:00:00 GMT

The IDC ProductScape offers a comprehensive guide on the key functionality of point-of-sale software solutions for grocery and food store retail, featuring products from Diebold Nixdorf, Flooid, GK Software, LS Retail, NCR Voyix, and Toshiba. The status of each functionality is categorized as Fully Supported, Partially Supported, Partner Provided, Roadmap, or Not Supported, which is intended to aid technology purchasers in quickly identifying which vendors align with their changing requirements.

From Access to Execution: CyberArk Becomes Idira

Emanuel Figueroa, Katie Norton — Mon, 18 May 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Across enterprise environments, identity now spans human users, machine workloads, and autonomous agents operating across distributed systems.

Organizations have been securing identity as if access were the control point. Authenticate the user, assign permissions, enforce policy, and assume the system behaves. That model held for a time. It does not hold consistently anymore.

Identity security is entering a different phase. The perimeter has not disappeared; it has expanded across millions of identities, many of them nonhuman, interacting with systems that do not pause for validation. Access still happens. Control, increasingly, does not.

Palo Alto Networks' introduction of Idira signals a structural shift. Identity is moving away from fragmented IAM, PAM, and governance tools toward a unified layer that operates during execution. Not after access. Not alongside it. Inside it.

This reframes the problem. Identity is no longer about who gets in. It is about whether control can follow what happens next.

IDC PeerScape: 数据要素服务最佳实践案例，2026

Leo Li — Mon, 18 May 2026 04:00:00 GMT

本IDC PeerScape报告分析了当前数据要素市场的发展情况以及面临的挑战，并基于IDC调研数据给出相关发展建议和战略方向，同时给出行业最佳实践以供市场参考。

IDC数据分析与数据智能体领域高级研究分析师李浩然表示："数据要素概念的提出和发展已有两年时间，在此过程中其内含和外延在不断调整变化，且受到AI影响极大。在数据要素整体概念下，一部分厂商专注于政府、数据集团、机构的可信数据空间建设，实现数据流通共享；另一部分厂商以高质量数据集为产品特色，提供数据底座建设、数据治理服务来为企业内部AI训推提供支持。从市场空间来看，当前整体市场依然会保持30%以上的增速。"

IDC Survey: Content Maturity and AI Readiness

Amy Machado — Mon, 18 May 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey study assesses the current state of content solutions across industries and functions. It analyzes maturity levels, key challenges/benefits/metrics, and investment priorities, as well as AI and agentic AI adoption.

It aims to understand how companies are using their content applications today and their priorities for future investments. The analysis covers the evolution of content-centric workflows, the centralization of content, AI and GenAI capabilities that resonate, primary reasons for investing in content applications, and the benefits gained from those investments.

Lumen Acquires Alkira to Facilitate Flexible Network and Cloud Access and Delivery for the AI-Fueled Enterprise

Paul Hughes, Peter Chahal — Mon, 18 May 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Lumen's announced acquisition of Alkira aims to create a more seamless connection between the carrier network and multi-cloud environments. With the expectation of increased control, flexibility and adaptability at a time when network traffic only continues to grow, IDC expects that the integration of the physical with the "programmable" will increase Lumen's nimbleness in delivering connectivity that its customers demand.

Reframing Treasury: From Cash Management to Liquidity Risk Control

Kevin Permenter — Mon, 18 May 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Perspective examines the strategic shift underway in treasury management as organizations move beyond cash visibility toward a more comprehensive focus on liquidity risk, financial resilience, and real-time decision support.

Treasury management systems have traditionally focused on cash visibility and transaction execution. Today, finance leaders are placing greater emphasis on understanding liquidity exposure, managing financial risk, and maintaining resilience in volatile conditions. As a result, treasury is evolving from a monitoring function into a decision-support discipline that helps organizations anticipate liquidity needs, assess risk, and respond more quickly to changing financial environments.

"Treasury used to answer where cash is. Now it needs to answer how exposed that cash is when conditions change." — Senior Research Director Kevin Permenter, Financial Applications, IDC

Sage Taps Its Partners to Extend Its AI Strategy

Andreas Storz — Mon, 18 May 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Note examines partnering-focused developments from Sage's March 2026 Industry Analyst Summit in Atlanta, covering the launch of Sage AI Developer Solutions for partner AI development and the new Sage Embedded Services offering.

Takeaways: Zoom Perspectives Analyst Event 2026

Wayne Kurtzman, Zachary Chertok, Oru Mohiuddin, Michelle Morgan — Mon, 18 May 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Perspective highlights the takeaways from Zoom Perspectives Analyst Event 2026. Zoom is seeking to establish itself as an AI-first, unified collaboration and business platform that moves beyond meetings to encompass the entire flow of work — from conversation to completion. The company is pursuing the interface between human, AI, and agentic work, integrating all three into a value-add workspace. It is already seeing success, growing across enterprise sizes and verticals, including in highly regulated industries.

The growing portfolio across productivity, communications, and physical spaces is a compelling narrative — particularly given Zoom's openness to integrating with whichever applications and productivity suites organizations already use. IDC sees Zoom as well positioned to continue expanding platform value through targeted acquisitions and homegrown products addressing an array of needs and vertical-specific use cases, all anchored by a platform that users already know and trust. In short, Zoom still strives to be the company with products that "just work." The company is being intelligently aggressive in its approach to help organizations work faster and better — preserving the simplicity and familiarity of its platform while adding meaningful AI-powered capabilities at every layer of the work experience.

"Zoom is making communications and collaboration enhanced AI more accessible," according to Wayne Kurtzman, research vice president, Collaboration, Communities, and Conferencing, IDC. "Zoom is refreshing the Workplace product with more robust AI, agents, and other offerings that make it easier for businesses to leverage AI across the enterprise, yet still within a familiar platform. That platform just does a lot more than even one year ago."

Tanium Introduces Atlas: An Autonomous IT Operating System

Michelle Abraham, Philip D. Harris, CISSP, CCSK, Grace Trinidad — Mon, 18 May 2026 04:00:00 GMT

中国AI增强的企业级ERP市场份额，2025：AI增强驱动下的中国ERP市场格局

Wenting Xu — Mon, 18 May 2026 04:00:00 GMT

本IDC研究报告聚焦于中国AI增强的（AI-enabled）ERP市场的最新发展与市场份额格局。随着生成式AI、大模型及自动化技术的加速落地，AI已成为ERP厂商产品创新和差异化的核心驱动力。报告系统梳理了主流厂商的市场表现、AI集成能力、行业渗透率及典型应用场景，量化分析了各厂商在不同行业和企业规模下的市场份额变化。

IDC企业应用高级研究经理徐文婷表示："AI-enabled ERP市场正在加速发展，生成式AI和智能体技术使传统ERP系统更加智能化和自适应。企业通过集成AI功能，实现了更高效的财务、生产和供应链管理，提升了决策能力和运营灵活性。主要ERP厂商积极推动AI技术的应用，助力企业加速数字化转型。与此同时，随着技术的普及，安全和合规性问题也成为关注焦点，要求更强的数据保护措施。未来，AI-enabled ERP将成为企业核心竞争力的关键组成部分。"