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AWS re:Invent 2025 — The Industry Perspective: Manufacturing, Media and Entertainment, and Retail

Thu, 08 Jan 2026 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Note discusses AWS re:Invent 2025, which demonstrated the company's deep commitment to AI, data, and cloud. The event showcased AWS' many industry-specific solutions across key verticals such as public sector, financial services, manufacturing, media and entertainment, healthcare, life sciences, and retail. Central themes included agentic and generative AI, sovereign and governed deployments, and the modernization of legacy systems. AWS emphasized practical, secure, and scalable AI adoption, with real-world use cases and partnerships driving measurable operational improvements. The event highlighted a shift from AI as isolated tools to foundational, integrated platforms, positioning AWS as a catalyst for industry transformation and operational resilience.

IDC MarketScape: Europe, Middle East, and Africa AI-Enabled Workforce Management and Compliance 2025–2026 Vendor Assessment

Bo Lykkegaard — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC study assesses major AI-enabled workforce management and compliance vendors across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. It is IDC's first buyer guide for this market, and it has been created in parallel with a worldwide MarketScape for AI-enabled workforce management and compliance. The study evaluates vendors' capabilities, integration, and innovation, offering guidance for enterprises seeking resilient, flexible, and compliant workforce solutions to thrive in the evolving EMEA labor landscape.

"In EMEA, workforce management is no longer just about compliance. It can be a key source of operational agility, employee empowerment, and competitive advantage, especially in frontline industries such as retail, hospitality, transportation and logistics, and healthcare." — Bo Lykkegaard, associate VP, European software research, IDC

Market Analysis Perspective: Worldwide Intelligent Document Processing, 2025

Andrew Gens — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Analysis Perspective provides insight into the current and future state of the worldwide intelligent document processing market for 2025. It includes an overview of the current market landscape, a technology buyer perspective, a market outlook, and IDC's advice for technology suppliers in this market.

"We are firmly in the GenAI era. With the agentic future rapidly approaching, IDP challenges have shifted from addressing the processing of unstructured document use cases to extracting meaningful insights from documents, regardless of structure, and building out end-to-end automation workflows that can fuel enterprise processes with reliable and insightful data," according to Andrew Gens, research analyst, AI Software

How Aligned Are Different Levels in the Organization on Actual AI Progress in the Organization?

Shari Lava — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey Spotlight presents the results of IDC's September 2025 Future Enterprise Resiliency and Spending Survey, Wave 7. It compares the C-suite's view with the view of other levels in the organization on the adoption of AI-based agents thus far, pointing to some perception and alignment differences that are likely creating more frustration with AI progress.

IDC ProductScape: Worldwide Acute Care Electronic Health Records, 2026

Mutaz Shegewi — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC ProductScape offers a comprehensive guide on the key functionalities of acute care electronic health records (EHRs), featuring products from Altera Digital Health, CompuGroup Medical, Dedalus, Epic, InterSystems, MEDITECH, and Oracle. 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 ProductScape: Worldwide Ambulatory Care Electronic Health Records, 2026

Mutaz Shegewi — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC ProductScape offers a comprehensive guide on the key functionalities of ambulatory care electronic health records (EHRs), featuring products from AdvancedMD, athenahealth, CareCloud, eClinicalWorks, Epic, Greenway Health, InterSystems, MEDITECH, NextGen Healthcare, Oracle, TruBridge, and Veradigm. 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.

Industry Analysis Perspective: Asia/Pacific Financial Services, 2025

Jose Ignacio Diaz, Dr. Chris Marshall, Surya Narayan Saha, Nigel Wallis — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Presentation is designed to provide technology sellers, sales, marketers, and product and channel managers with foundational insight into the Asia/Pacific financial services industry in 2025. By understanding how the business side operates, sales, marketers, and product and channel managers will clearly see which areas their technology products and services can truly add value to their company.

Through this document, readers will gain a comprehensive understanding of the business components and workings of the regional banking, insurance, and capital markets sector and the sector's major players in 2025. They will have a very strong idea about the industry, the way it works, the major players, and the direction it is heading.

"Asia/Pacific's FSI is dynamic and constantly evolving to meet changing regulatory requirements, stay ahead of the competition, and exceed consumer needs and expectations. There are significant opportunities for the technology seller that is willing to make the investment and understand the regional and localized nuances of the market," says Chris Marshall, research VP, IDC Insights.

Strategic Alliances Leadership Council – Voice of the Customer – The CIO

Jeff Newton — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 05:00:00 GMT

This presentation was delivered at the Strategic Alliances Leadership Council and discussed views on the Voice of the Customer featuring the CIO.

Top Low-Code/No-Code Tool Preferences — Industries

Peter Marston — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey Spotlight provides a view on enterprise preferences across industries for low-code/no-code tools. The document contains data from IDC's Application Services Survey, which was completed in August 2025. IDC's Worldwide Intelligent Application Services practice conducted this survey to understand enterprise preferences for low-code/no-code tools. The overall goal of the survey was to identify how organizations' preferences around application development and life-cycle management are evolving and how application service providers can align their services offerings and capabilities to address varied customer needs.

"Application services providers should understand how buyer organizations across industries are approaching application development using low code/no code to better support evolving customer needs as well as maintain deeper customer relationships in an increasingly competitive environment," explained Pete Marston, research director, Worldwide Intelligent Application Services at IDC.

Top Low-Code/No-Code Tool Preferences — Regions: 2025 Survey Data

Peter Marston — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey Spotlight provides a view across regions on enterprise preferences for low-code/no-code tools. The document contains data from IDC's Application Services Survey, which was completed in August 2025. IDC's Worldwide Intelligent Application Services practice conducted this survey to understand enterprise preferences for low-code/no-code tools. The overall goal of the survey was to identify how organizations' preferences around application development and life-cycle management are evolving, and how application service providers can align their services offerings and capabilities to address varied customer needs.

"Application services providers should understand how buyer organizations across regions are approaching application development using low code/no code to better support evolving customer needs as well as maintain deeper customer relationships in an increasingly competitive environment," explained Pete Marston, research director, Worldwide Intelligent Application Services at IDC.