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IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Trade Finance Systems 2026 Vendor Assessment

Maria Adele Di Comite — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC study presents the assessment of 12 vendors for 2026 that provide trade finance solutions to the corporate banking sector: Adria B&T, Aurionpro, BT Systems, CGI, China Systems, Finastra, ICSFS, Infosys Finacle, Intellect Design Arena, Newgen, Oracle, and Surecomp. This research is a quantitative and qualitative assessment of the features of different solutions, along with other characteristics that define vendors' ability to support trade finance activities, streamline bank and corporate operations, and facilitate interactions with the ecosystem. The evaluation is based on a standardized, comprehensive framework and a set of parameters identified as most conducive to success in providing trade finance services in the short and long term. This year's assessment places particular emphasis on the extent to which vendors have moved AI, generative AI, and agentic AI capabilities from road map ambition into production use, alongside their readiness to support the accelerating shift toward electronically recognized trade documents. Evaluation also considers features to support risk management and regulatory compliance evaluations, as well as the ability to address emerging needs in a challenging and fast-evolving market, in times of uncertainty.

"In 2026, trade finance vendors are facing three key challenges: proving that their AI claims hold up under customer scrutiny, preparing for a trade ecosystem that is steadily shifting from paper to electronically recognized documents, and proving they have strong governance to meet tightening regulatory requirements and support advanced risk management. Across this assessment, vendors show meaningful progress on each of these fronts, though the pace and depth of progress vary across the vendor landscape," said Maria Adele Di Comite, senior research director, IDC Financial Insights.

Autonomous Telecom Operations: Oracle Digital Business Experience

Chris Silberberg, Peter Chahal — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Note discusses how telecom operators that are pursuing autonomous operations too often confine their ambition to the network. Yet the same principles — faster execution and greater personalization — apply across the customer and commercial life cycle. This document also examines how Oracle Digital Business Experience, Oracle Communications' packaged solution spanning marketing, sales, and service, contributes to telecom operators seeking to develop autonomy across their businesses.

IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Innovation Management Software 2026 Vendor Assessment

Jeffrey Hojlo — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC study analyzes vendors in the innovation management software segment and discusses what criteria are most important for companies to consider when selecting a vendor.

"Yes, AI can help you come up with new ideas for new or extended products, assets, processes, and operations, but cannot (unless embedded within your innovation workflow) structure new initiatives that are aligned with your business strategy, resources, and processes as innovation management platforms can. Human involvement in this process — from inside and outside the company — to verify and validate that any innovation, whether new or expanding on existing products, services, or processes, remains essential," said Jeff Hojlo, research vice president, Engineering and Product Innovation Strategies.

IDC Survey Spotlight: How Should Managed SPs Optimize the Value of All Service Providers Used for Agentic AI That Are Also Used as Partners to Support Managed Services?

David Tapper — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey Spotlight highlights the results from the following question posed to 820 respondents and firms with over 1,000 employees across multiple countries and industries, as part of IDC’s 2026 Worldwide Managed Services Survey: “Provider preference for agentic AI platforms and capabilities. Which type of provider or operating model would be your organization’s primary preference for round-the-clock (24 x 7) management of agentic AI capabilities over the next 12–24 months?” This IDC Survey Spotlight then highlights the investments that managed SPs need to pursue to optimize the value of partnerships with all service providers that support agentic AI and are also utilized to support the provisioning of managed services with these capabilities. These investments include implementing critical governance structures, establishing key architectural structures, and building strategic organizational and operational structures.

KoçSistem: Leveraging Proprietary Platforms, Managed Services, and Strategic Alliances to Grow Its Footprint Across the Gulf

Eren Eser, Eric Samuel — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Vendor Profile analyzes KoçSistem, a Türkiye-headquartered technology services company expanding into the Gulf and the wider Middle East. The document examines KoçSistem's history, strategy, vision, service offerings, intellectual property, partnerships, and delivery model, as well as the opportunities and challenges the company faces as it scales beyond its home market. It is relevant to buyers of cloud, managed services, cybersecurity, data and AI, and IoT services in the Middle East and Africa; to technology vendors evaluating regional alliances; and to other stakeholders following the entry of Türkiye-based providers into Gulf markets.

EBAday 2026: Five Key Takeaways Impacting the Banking Industry — "The New Payment Landscape: Navigating Change in 2026 and Beyond"

Maria Adele Di Comite — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Note summarizes five key takeaways from EBAday 2026, held June 16–17, 2026, at the Bella Center in Copenhagen. It covers agentic AI's shift from experimentation to production; the maturing instant payments landscape under the G20 cross-border road map; regulatory reform under PSD3, PSR, and FIDA and the related debate over European payments sovereignty; fraud mitigation through collective, GDPR-compliant data sharing; and the buildout of digital assets, stablecoins, and the digital euro. These five topics are the ones IDC found most significant across a broader two-day agenda that also covered embedded finance, correspondent banking, liquidity management, and ISO 20022, alongside the event's Fintech Zone; this document does not attempt exhaustive coverage of the full conference. Dedicated panels added texture on execution: agentic payments' real-world volume is still two to three years out, OCT Inst cross-border rails already reach roughly 30% of the market according to EBA CLEARING's committed banks, and collective, GDPR-compliant data sharing emerged as banks' preferred fraud defense.

"EBAday 2026 made clear that European payments leaders have moved past debating whether AI, instant rails, and digital assets belong in mainstream banking. The conversation now is entirely about pace, governance, and who moves first with confidence." — Maria Adele Di Comite, senior research director, IDC Financial Insights Corporate and Retail Banking

IDC Market Glance: 中国AI营销市场概览，2Q26

Lizzie Li, Wenting Xu — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMT

迈入AI大模型普及阶段，中国营销市场正在完成从数字化向智能化的深度转型。大模型打通数据、市场洞察、内容生产、媒介投放、用户运营、营销触达全链路，在降低营销成本的同事，提升了营销的效率和成果。与此同时，消费者信息获取方式持续变革，AI对话交互催生全新流量阵地，品牌竞争延伸至 AI 知识资产布局。本IDC Market Glance报告涵盖了2026年第二季度中国AI营销市场，并展示了不同细分市场中具有代表性的活跃厂商。

Market Share: Worldwide Server Operating System Environments Shares, 2025 — The Top 2 Vendors Widened Their Combined Share

Shahin Hashim — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC presentation examines the 2025 market shares of the leading vendors in the server operating system environments market.

"Two vendors now account for nearly 90% of worldwide revenue from server operating system environments. Even as community and cloud provider OSE instances continue to expand, revenue in this market has moved beyond typical competitive dynamics into a structure defined by installed base and platform lock-in, where incumbency itself has become the primary competitive advantage." — Shahin Hashim, associate research director, Storage and Data Management, Enterprise Infrastructure at IDC

NVIDIA's Jetson Orin Nano 2: Real Compute Gains for Physical AI, but the Manufacturing Case Rests on the Ecosystem Around It

Sarah Lee — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMT

On August 25, 2026, NVIDIA announced Jetson Orin Nano 2, the newest entry-level module in its Jetson robotics computer line, positioned to bring frontier-class generative AI performance to compact edge devices such as robots, delivery and inspection drones, and vision AI systems. The module packs 78 trillion operations per second of AI compute, 8GB of memory, and an 8-core Arm CPU, delivering roughly two times the inference performance of the prior Jetson Orin Nano Super in the same compact form factor while consuming 40% less power at equivalent performance.

Xerocon US 2026: Xero Pushes Accounting into Action

Kevin Permenter — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMT

On August 19 and 20, Xero hosted Xerocon US 2026 at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver, Colorado. The two-day event brought together over 1,200 accounting and bookkeeping professionals, Xero leaders, and technology partners to discuss Xero's product direction and the changing role of AI in small business finance. Xerocon US 2026 showed a Xero that is becoming more ambitious about its role in the financial lives of small businesses, bringing accounting, payments, payroll, financial intelligence, and AI-driven workflows closer together while expanding JAX from an AI assistant that answers questions into an agentic layer that can increasingly identify issues, recommend next steps, and help execute financial work.

The bigger story is not any single AI feature, but Xero's attempt to turn the accounting platform from a system that primarily records what happened into one that helps businesses understand what is happening and decide what to do next, a shift supported by embedded payroll and payments, analytics and industry benchmarking, and integrations that make Xero's financial context available through environments such as Microsoft 365, Claude, and ChatGPT.