https://my.idc.com/rss/2812.do IDC RSS alerts https://my.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=US53472426&utm_medium=rss_feed&utm_source=alert&utm_campaign=rss_syndication <P>This IDC study shows that dentsu saw global net revenue rise just 0.5% organically in 2025, with the Japan home territory’s healthy 6.2% growth cancelled out by declines in the Americas, EMEA, and Asia/Pacific outside Japan. A new CEO — Takeshi Sano — is looking to simplify senior management structures and drive greater synergies between Japan and the underperforming international territories. After deciding against pursuing a possible breakup in late 2025, dentsu under Sano is doubling down on global integration. However, if it cannot drive learnings and best practices between Japan and the rest of the world aggressively enough, a significant divestment may be on the cards again. </P> Market Note Fri, 13 Mar 2026 04:00:00 GMT Douglas Hayward https://my.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=US54237926&utm_medium=rss_feed&utm_source=alert&utm_campaign=rss_syndication <P>This IDC Market Note discusses how HCLTech ERS is evolving its engineering services through a chip-to-cloud strategy, integrating semiconductors, platform, software, and life-cycle capabilities. The company is focusing on business outcome-led engagements, advanced AI, custom chip design, and outcome-based pricing to drive innovation and margin growth. This transformation positions HCLTech as a full-stack partner for enterprises seeking end-to-end digital engineering solutions, though challenges remain in talent acquisition, operational complexity, and market adoption. </P><P>"As HCLTech ERS reimagines engineering from chip to cloud, the unified strategy can truly deliver business outcomes and reshape the future of enterprise innovation if the service provider acts." — Abhishek Mukherjee, research manager, Digital Engineering and Operational Technology Services, IDC</P> Market Note Fri, 13 Mar 2026 04:00:00 GMT Abhishek Mukherjee, Mukesh Dialani https://my.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=US53453326&utm_medium=rss_feed&utm_source=alert&utm_campaign=rss_syndication <P>This IDC study provides a glance at the current makeup of the accounts payable automation applications landscape, illustrates the participating vendors, and depicts the segments and structure of the market.</P> Market Presentation Fri, 13 Mar 2026 04:00:00 GMT Kevin Permenter, Jordan Steele https://my.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=US53730026&utm_medium=rss_feed&utm_source=alert&utm_campaign=rss_syndication <P>This IDC Survey Spotlight explores how organizations that adopt data products consistently demonstrate stronger, more effective collaboration across technical and business functions. Conducted in November of 2025, IDC’s Office of the CDO Survey fielded 417 manager-level and above leaders, spanning directors, VPs, and C-level executives, across both line-of-business and IT roles, about their data leadership structures, data management capabilities, AI priorities (including generative and agentic AI), governance practices, and business outcomes.</P><P>“Treating data as a product represents a structural maturity shift in how organizations align technology and business outcomes,” says Marlanna Harrington, Senior Research Analyst, Data Platforms at IDC. “As enterprises move toward agentic and generative AI, this foundation becomes essential to enable coordinated decision-making and scalable intelligence across teams.”</P> IDC Survey Spotlight Fri, 13 Mar 2026 04:00:00 GMT Marlanna Harrington https://my.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=US54283526&utm_medium=rss_feed&utm_source=alert&utm_campaign=rss_syndication <P>This IDC Survey examines how organizations are adopting agentic AI tools in application development and DevOps, with a focus on adoption maturity, priority use cases, and the role of trust and governance in deployment decisions. The research draws on results from IDC's December 2025 <I>Agentic Application Development and DevOps Survey</I> and assesses how agentic AI is being applied across the software development life cycle (SDLC).</P><P>Survey findings indicate that just over half of the organizations report using agentic AI tools regularly or as a core part of their SDLC, while many others remain in pilot, occasional, or nonuse stages. Adoption is therefore progressing, but unevenly, as organizations evaluate how agentic capabilities fit into established development workflows. The results show a strong emphasis on assistive use cases that support code quality and verification, alongside persistent concerns related to security, trust, and governance. Together, these factors shape how quickly and how deeply agentic AI is integrated into production environments.</P> IDC Survey Fri, 13 Mar 2026 04:00:00 GMT Melinda-Carol Ballou, Arnal Dayaratna, Matthew Flug, Jim Mercer, George Mironescu, Katie Norton, Adam Reeves, Adam Resnick, Michele Rosen, PhD https://my.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=lcUS54436226&utm_medium=rss_feed&utm_source=alert&utm_campaign=rss_syndication <P>Mobile World Congress 2026 brought together key players from the mobile ecosystem including operators, network equipment manufacturers, OSS/BSS vendors, systems integrators, cloud service and satellite providers to highlight current achievements and innovations as an amuse-bouche for the second act of 5G and a preview the industry’s 6G era. While 5G definitely played second fiddle to AI in the booth accoutrement count, behind the scenes, executives leaned into the complementary, co-dependent relationship between the two technologies as critical to achieving scale and commercial success for both.</P> IDC Link Fri, 13 Mar 2026 04:00:00 GMT Jason Leigh https://my.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=lcUS54437026&utm_medium=rss_feed&utm_source=alert&utm_campaign=rss_syndication <P>The RingCentral Analyst Summit 2026 showcased RingCentral’s renewed strategy and capabilities it is counting on to win in the commoditized UC&C market. With a clear approach to build a verticals-oriented agentic AI platform for customer-focused business communications, the company is expected to create sustainable market differentiation for the times to come. </P> IDC Link Fri, 13 Mar 2026 04:00:00 GMT Jitesh Gera, Denise Lund, Wayne Kurtzman https://my.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=US53450226&utm_medium=rss_feed&utm_source=alert&utm_campaign=rss_syndication <P>This IDC Market Presentation looks at the major market trends that are impacting the server market, at both an overall level and a workload level. This presentation looks at the server market in terms of CPU type, product server type, deployment and location, and accelerator trends. Many of these trends interconnect, especially with the impact of AI and data analytics–related workloads, for which nonstandard technologies are heavily used in supporting.</P> Market Presentation Thu, 12 Mar 2026 04:00:00 GMT Max Pepper https://my.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=lcUS54433426&utm_medium=rss_feed&utm_source=alert&utm_campaign=rss_syndication <P>On March 5, HPE announced a refocused services offer, Complete Care Service, which delivers a unified, proactive service that enables customers to adopt advanced technologies, such as AI infrastructure, faster with greater success. The offering has brought together many of HPE's existing service capabilities into one streamlined offer to reduce redundancies and consolidate touch points to minimize administrative complexities, thereby allowing customers to accelerate their technology initiatives.</P> IDC Link Thu, 12 Mar 2026 04:00:00 GMT Rob Brothers, Leslie Rosenberg https://my.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=US53010625&utm_medium=rss_feed&utm_source=alert&utm_campaign=rss_syndication <P>This IDC study examines the key strategies and capabilities of global services providers that have a significant focus on the specific needs of retailers and restaurants for data modernization. This assessment evaluates services providers' strengths, including breadth of data modernization offerings and depth of industry-specific frameworks and accelerators, understanding of and demonstrated expertise in solving the specific challenges inherent in running retail and restaurant operations and, ultimately, enabling providers to meet the fast-evolving business needs of this segment. In addition, this study evaluates services providers' strategic partner ecosystem, commitment to and demonstrated excellence in innovation and AI, and the level of customer support, employee training, and retention strategies.</P><P>"Retail and restaurant operations are facing a perfect storm of challenges in today's landscape from current macroeconomic and geopolitical uncertainties to shifting customer demands, supply chain volatility, and the increasing competitive pressure to apply AI and automation across the enterprise to drive efficiency, revenues, and next-level customer experiences," according to Margot Juros, research director, and Dorothy Creamer, senior research manager, IDC Retail Insights. "Data modernization, enabling clean, accessible, and real-time, AI-ready data is the key to successfully overcome these challenges and compete effectively in a swiftly evolving environment."</P> IDC MarketScape Thu, 12 Mar 2026 04:00:00 GMT Margot Juros, Dorothy Creamer