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Hailing a Hotel: When Ubering Shifts the Demand Funnel, the SuperApp Answers the Call

Dorothy Creamer — Wed, 13 May 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Link examines Uber's recent announcement of its partnership with Expedia Group integrating hotel booking, and ultimately vacation rental inventory from Vrbo, directly into the Uber app. Unveiled at Uber's sixth annual GO-GET event in New York City, the partnership provides a distribution channel for Expedia's inventory of more than 700,000 hotels worldwide while advancing Uber's stated goal of becoming an "everything app." The move is a meaningful step toward the hospitality and travel superapp model IDC has predicted and carries implications for hospitality and travel providers, online travel agencies (OTAs), and the technology and solutions providers that serve them. Ubering has already become synonymous with hailing in a public transportation context, but this announcement indicates the intent of Uber's leadership for the verb to become more omnipresent – when you can "uber" your entire journey, the demand funnel if not shrinks, shifts and the most seamless experience may win.

IBM Think 2026: Concert and the Shift from Observability Platform to Orientation Workspace

Shannon Kalvar — Wed, 13 May 2026 04:00:00 GMT

IBM Think 2026, held May 4^th to May 7^th in Boston, introduced the IBM Concert platform to public preview. It combines the existing Concert, Instana, Turbonomic, SevOne, and CloudPack for AIOps under a single design paradigm, backed with the new Infragraph for shared contextual data. This consolidation moves IBM Concert towards becoming an orientation workspace, a surface where teams begin their workday already knowing what they need to do to shape the future, rather than an observability platform that generates dashboards and alerts about the world's previous state.

AWS Singapore & APAC Analyst Summit 2026: Infrastructure Innovations Shaping the Region

Mikhail Jaura, Daphne Chung, Myeong Han Kim — Tue, 12 May 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Anaplan's Strategic Positioning: Decision Infrastructure for the Enterprise

Heather Herbst — Tue, 12 May 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Anaplan is positioning itself as an enterprise decision infrastructure platform for multifunction planning. Its March 2026 product release was centered on AI-driven scenario planning and analytics that connect finance, supply chain, sales, and HR, and was presented at the global Anaplan Connect series, which I attended in San Jose on April 22, 2026.

Developers See AI Differently Than the Headlines: Perspectives on AI and Jobs from IDC’s Developer Survey

Adam Resnick — Tue, 12 May 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Presentation draws on IDC’s 2025 Modern Software Development Survey, (n = 524), to examine how developers see AI’s impact on their roles, careers, and head count expectations, with empirical findings that push back on prevailing displacement narratives. This document provides a data-centered perspective for organizations to assess developer sentiment, calibrate AI workforce strategy, anticipate role recomposition, and identify roles facing growth or contraction.

Public discourse on AI and software jobs has run ahead of what developers themselves report, leaving organizations and vendors to make consequential decisions based on assumptions rather than evidence about how AI is actually reshaping developer work, hiring needs, and career outlook.

Exostar Selected by U.S. Army to Deliver Secure Enclaves for Defense Industrial Base Suppliers

Philip D. Harris, CISSP, CCSK — Tue, 12 May 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Exostar's selection as a Verified External Service Provider on the U.S. Army's NCODE IDIQ contract reinforces its position as an Nth party supply chain risk management firm, extending its compliance and security infrastructure to small Defense Industrial Base suppliers who lack the resources to meet CMMC and NIST SP 800-171 requirements independently. Backed by CMMC Level 2 accreditation, FedRAMP Moderate Equivalent authorization, and an established DIB network, Exostar is well-positioned to scale this role — provided it can manage the operational demands of serving resource-constrained small businesses effectively.

Google Struts Gemini; Collaborative Expansion at Google Cloud Next

Wayne Kurtzman — Tue, 12 May 2026 04:00:00 GMT

At Google Cloud Next (Las Vegas, Nevada, April 22–24, 2026), Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian (or "TK" as he is called) stated, "The era of the pilot is over. The era of the agent is here." With that, Google (Nasdaq: GOOG and GOOGL) unveiled Gemini Enterprise and a wave of agentic capabilities across Google Workspace and Cloud. The event drew 32,000+ attendees and ~8 million streaming views. This document examines the key announcements, many of which are already in production, through a collaboration and AI lens.

IBM Think 2026: An AI Operating Model Takes Shape Across Agents, Security, and the Platform

Jim Mercer — Tue, 12 May 2026 04:00:00 GMT

IBM's Think 2026 conference, held on May 5 in Boston, delivered a cohesive set of announcements to support AI adoption across the enterprise. The company organized its announcements around an AI Operating Model, built on four interdependent pillars: agents, data, automation, and hybrid. The announcements from the event were intended to address the gap IBM has identified between AI investment and AI ROI, a challenge that IDC research confirms is pervasive across enterprise organizations. The announcements from IBM Think promoted a shift from an AI experimentation mentality to leveraging AI to rethink business processes, making it a competitive differentiator rather than treating it as just a technology.

IDC Market Glance: 中国Data Agent市场图谱，1Q26

Leo Li — Tue, 12 May 2026 04:00:00 GMT

报告梳理了中国Data Agent市场情况并收录代表企业，制作市场图谱以供市场参考。

IDC Market Glance: 中国边缘AI基础设施和平台，2Q26

Qijin Chen, Eric Wei — Tue, 12 May 2026 04:00:00 GMT

本IDC Market Glance报告涵盖了2026年第二季度中国边缘AI基础设施和平台市场，并展示了不同细分市场中具有代表性的活跃厂商。