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Acquia Engage Denver 2026: Acquia Source Charts a Clear Path Forward for the Platform

Jordan Jewell — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Note discusses Acquia Engage Denver 2026. Acquia held its North American flagship event, Acquia Engage, in Denver on April 27–28, unveiling the next evolution of Acquia Source and launching Acquia AI, a no-code agentic platform embedded directly into Source. IDC attended the event and came away impressed by the product direction and the company's governance-first approach to AI, though the central challenge remains the adoption of Source among the existing customer base today, with many customers still running legacy Drupal versions.

"Source is the clearest vision Acquia has put forward for what its platform can become, and the AI strategy is grounded in the right priorities: governance, openness, and practical automation over hype," said Jordan Jewell, senior research director, Persuasive Content and Digital Experience at IDC. "The product is heading in the right direction, and the event painted the picture for customers of Acquia's vision for the future of DXPs and what Drupal will be."

Bloomreach Brings Enterprise Personalization to Shopify Merchants with Loomi AI

Gerry Murray — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT

By bundling its full AI personalization stack – search, recommendations, promotions, and omnichannel marketing – into a no-code Shopify app at no additional cost for AI capabilities, Bloomreach simultaneously expands its addressable market by orders of magnitude and raises the competitive bar for personalization vendors who still charge separately for AI.

IDC Survey: Enterprise Infrastructure Pulse Survey, 4Q25: Storage Systems and Hyperconverged Infrastructure — Executive Summary

Ranjit Rajan, Carol Sliwa, Natalya Yezhkova — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Presentation provides a summary of the findings from IDC's 4Q25 Enterprise Infrastructure Pulse Survey of IT decision-makers with knowledge of and purchasing responsibility for their organization's storage systems and hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI). Taking the pulse of the enterprise IT market, the 4Q25 storage survey offers in-depth insight into current and future infrastructure requirements and investments. Areas of focus include spending plans, usage of flash storage, adoption of new storage technologies and architectures, hybrid cloud storage trends, HCI deployments, and AI workload storage requirements; this presentation focuses on findings related to all but the last area, which will be covered in a separate executive summary presentation.

The Enterprise Infrastructure Pulse is a quarterly survey focused on exploring trends in various IT infrastructure domains, including servers, storage and hyperconverged infrastructure, networking, data protection, and data logistics.

IDC Survey: Run, Refresh, Replace: How Power Generation Companies Are Prioritizing IT Solution Investments — Insights from IDC's 2026 Energy and Utilities Industry-Specific Tech and Innovation Survey

Gaia Gallotti — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey examines a portion of IDC's 2026 Energy and Utilities Industry-Specific Tech and Innovation Survey. This landmark study, run between February and March 2026, covers utilities worldwide.

The survey covered 800 respondents, of which 531 are utilities respondents from the following countries: Australia, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, India, Italy, KSA, Mexico, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, Norway, the Philippines, Poland, Portugal, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Türkiye, UAE, the U.K., and the U.S.

This presentation extrapolates and analyzes select data for 99 power generation companies worldwide. It focuses on IT solution investment intentions across ten core software categories relevant to power generation companies.

The analysis covers the following areas:

Investment intentions across operations and dispatch solutions, including SCADA, operational data management (ODM), generation scheduling, and energy trading and risk management (ETRM)
Investment intentions across asset management and engineering solutions, including design and digital twin platforms, enterprise asset management (EAM), and asset performance management (APM)
Investment intentions across compliance and risk solutions, including environment, health, and safety (EHS); sustainability management; and OT security
The balance between first-time investment, upgrades, and replacement activity across each solution category

Pivot Table: IDC Global DataSphere Forecast, 2026–2030

Adam Wright — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Pivot Table forecasts the worldwide volume of data generated (created/captured and replicated/consumed) each year in IDC's Global DataSphere. The Pivot Table segments data generated by created/captured and replicated/consumed, as well as by region, data type, device category, cloud status, location (endpoint, edge, and core), and data creator (consumer and enterprise).

Agentic AI Is Rewriting PaaS Decision-Making

Adam Reeves — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Agentic AI is driving structural disruption in the PaaS market, with 80% of enterprise platform decision-makers reconsidering their portfolios as vendors converge on integrated architectures spanning development tooling, agent life-cycle management, governance, and data access. Developer enablement is a primary mechanism through which platform selection happens, with developers influencing 47% of cloud adoption and vendor selection spend. Enterprise IT leaders who govern developer toolchain adoption, assess governance depth, and require portability terms before committing will be better positioned than those who allow platform dependencies to accumulate by default.

"The worst outcome for enterprise IT is not choosing the wrong PaaS platform in the age of agentic AI. It is making no deliberate choice while dependencies accumulate by default," says Adam Reeves, research director, PaaS for Developers of Modern and Edge Applications, IDC.

Best in Future of AI Center of Excellence Winner Award Profile 2025

Deepika Giri, Shashank Nigam, Daeil Chun — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC study discusses the development and impact of AXA Hong Kong and Macau's AI Center of Excellence (CoE) that centralizes AI strategy and governance, aligning advanced initiatives with business goals to drive efficiency and innovation. By integrating scalable infrastructure, ethical oversight, and continuous talent development, the CoE embeds AI across operations and empowers employees, positioning AXA as an industry leader in responsible and impactful AI adoption.

"A truly visionary AI Center of Excellence is not just a hub for technology, it is the strategic engine that transforms business objectives into measurable innovation, ensuring every AI initiative drives real value and positions the organization ahead of the curve," says Deepika Giri, associate VP, IDC Asia/Pacific.

Cultivate 2026: Eightfold AI's Transformation from Talent Intelligence to AI Operating Layer

Abhinav Shrivastava — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Note discusses Eightfold's Cultivate 2026 event, which marked a strategic shift from traditional HR systems to an AI-powered operating layer, introducing the Infinite Workforce vision where humans focus on strategy and AI agents handle execution. Key launches include a rebuilt recruiting funnel, Workforce Readiness for AI adoption measurement, and TalentForge for custom app development. The company's move to a software-plus-services model, deeper Oracle Recruiting integration, and expanded platform capabilities position Eightfold as a horizontal talent solution. However, success hinges on enterprise adoption and the continued relevance of its skills graph in an evolving AI-driven landscape.

IDC Survey Spotlight: What Are the Top Business Priorities for Content and Experience Platforms?

Jordan Jewell — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey Spotlight examines how IT and line-of-business (LOB) buyers prioritize the business goals driving their content and experience platform investments, based on results from IDC's 2025 CX Path Survey.

IDC Survey Spotlight: What's Driving APAC's Pivot Toward Resilient, Sovereign, and Analytics-Ready Data Platforms?

Deepika Giri, Shashank Nigam — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey Spotlight analyzes results from IDC's Future Enterprise Resiliency and Spending Survey (FERS Survey) Wave 2, fielded in March 2026. Highlighting drivers behind Asia/Pacific (APAC) organizations' pivot toward resilient, sovereign, and analytics-ready data platforms. Geopolitical uncertainty is prompting enterprises to prioritize cybersecurity, multi-region cloud architectures, and robust backup strategies. Investments in sovereign cloud and locally owned datacenters are rising to ensure data residency and regulatory compliance.

The survey reveals a shift from traditional analytics to mission-critical AI workloads focused on operational efficiency and resilience. APAC leaders are uniting resilient infrastructure, sovereign cloud, and analytics-ready data to build compliant, intelligent, and future-ready foundations.