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IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Analytical Databases 2025–2026 Vendor Assessment

Devin Pratt — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 05:00:00 GMT

The IDC study evaluates worldwide analytical database software platforms for 2025, highlighting how advances in storage and compute architectures are transforming enterprise analytics. Vendors evaluated include AWS, Broadcom, Cloudera, Couchbase, Google, IBM, InterSystems, Microsoft, OpenText, Oracle, SAP, SingleStore, Snowflake, and Teradata. The market is shifting beyond traditional columnar systems toward cloud-native, lakehouse, and distributed query architectures that separate storage and compute to improve elasticity, performance, and cost control.

As organizations modernize data infrastructure and accelerate AI adoption, analytical databases are emerging as the intelligent, high-performance foundation for real-time analytics and data-driven decisioning. Vendors are embedding AI-driven optimization, vector processing, and automation to enhance scalability, accelerate insights, and prepare for agentic AI workloads. The market's growth signals a new phase where analytics, AI, and storage innovation converge to enable faster and more intelligent enterprise decisions.

"Analytics is the engine of enterprise intelligence, and analytical databases are evolving to make it faster, smarter, and more adaptive," said Devin Pratt, research director, Data Management Software at IDC. "As organizations advance their analytics strategies and incorporate AI and agentic AI, leadership will belong to databases that seamlessly unite storage, compute, and automation to turn data into trusted, real-time decisions."

Schneider Electric Innovation Summit 2025: Electrification and AI Convergence Drives the New Industrial Era

Olga Yashkova, Natalya Yezhkova — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC Link summarizes the key learnings from Schneider Electric's North America Innovation Summit 2025 that took place on November 18-19 in Las Vegas, NV. This event highlighted the company's strategic focus on integrating electrification, automation, and digital transformation to address the quickly progressing demands of datacenters and other industries.

Braze Forge 2025: Highlighting Full-Stack Infrastructure for Agentic Marketing

Gerry Murray, Roger Beharry Lall — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC Perspective analyzes the Braze Forge 2025 conference held September 29–October 1, 2025, in Las Vegas. Braze Forge 2025 demonstrated the company's commitment to transforming customer engagement through AI integration and platform innovation. Announcements at the event addressed every aspect of the modern marketing technology stack, from data activation and personalization to channel optimization and workflow automation.

"The breadth and depth of innovation showcased at Forge 2025 reinforces Braze's position as a leader in customer engagement technology," said Gerry Murray, director, IDC's Enterprise Marketing Apps and Agents service. "Braze is providing the foundation for brands to build more meaningful, responsive, and profitable customer relationships with a fully integrated stack for agentic marketing."

IBM Quantum Developer Conference 2025: Accelerating the Path to Quantum Advantage

Heather West, PhD — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 05:00:00 GMT

IBM Quantum announced several quantum hardware and software innovations at its 2025 Quantum Developer Conference, including the 120-qubit Nighthawk processor, advanced error correction techniques, and Qiskit enhancements for hybrid quantum-classical workflows. These milestones mark steady progress toward quantum advantage and fault-tolerant quantum computing, providing enterprises with a clear roadmap through 2029 and accelerating the transition from proofs of concept to real-world applications.

IDC MarketScape: Middle East, Türkiye, and Africa AI-Enabled Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Applications 2025 Vendor Assessment

Uzair Mujtaba, Harish Dunakhe, Arif Sultan Shiekh — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC study thoroughly assesses leading AI-enabled ERP applications in the META region and surfaces the most important criteria for companies to consider when selecting a solution.

“As AI transforms ERP from a system of record into an enterprise-wide decision enabler, the META region stands at a crossroads: Will organizations embrace AI-driven automation and predictive intelligence as a necessity, or risk falling behind in the race for digital transformation? The future of business agility, compliance, and innovation now hinges on how deeply AI is embedded into the workflows that power tomorrow’s enterprises.” — Senior Research Manager Uzair Mujtaba, Software and Cloud, IDC META

IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Hyperscaler Marketplaces 2025 Vendor Assessment

Nadia Ballard, Frank Della Rosa — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 05:00:00 GMT

The IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Hyperscaler Marketplaces 2025 Vendor Assessment highlights how cloud marketplaces are revolutionizing procurement, enabling organizations to drive greater business value, optimize costs, and accelerate innovation. This document evaluates leading vendors such as Amazon, Google, Huawei, Microsoft, and Vultr on their capabilities, strategies, and AI-driven advancements, emphasizing the growing importance of agentic AI, partner ecosystems, and integrated procurement in maximizing ROI and operational efficiency across industries.

"The cloud SP vendors profiled in this IDC MarketScape continue to invest in their respective marketplaces, expanding the range of products and services offered but also improving the user experience for buyers that increasingly include line-of-business and procurement roles, in addition to the traditional IT buyers," said Nadia Ballard, senior research manager, Industry Cloud and SaaS, IDC.

"Cloud marketplaces are no longer just procurement tools — they are strategic growth engines, accelerating innovation, business agility, and AI-driven transformation across every industry," said Frank Della Rosa, research vice president, SaaS, Business Platforms, and Industry Cloud, IDC.

IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Manufacturing Asset Performance Management 2025–2026 Vendor Assessment

Sarah Lee, Wai Yee Lee, Gunjan Bassi — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC study evaluates vendors in worldwide manufacturing asset performance management (APM) for 2025–2026, highlighting how digital transformation, AI, and automation are reshaping manufacturing operations. It assesses vendor capabilities, innovation, and strategic alignment with industry needs, providing guidance for technology buyers on selecting APM solutions that drive operational efficiency, reliability, and resilience across distributed, asset-intensive manufacturing environments. The study emphasizes the importance of domain expertise, integration, and continuous improvement for sustainable business outcomes.

"In a world where manufacturing complexity and digital transformation converge, true competitive edge lies not in assets, but in how intelligently they are managed. Will your organization harness the power of data, AI, and integration to unlock resilience and growth, or risk falling behind in an era defined by operational agility and strategic innovation?" said Sarah Lee, research director, Manufacturing Insights, IDC.

IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Utilities Asset Performance Management 2025–2026 Vendor Assessment

John Villali — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC study evaluates asset performance management (APM) providers by qualitatively and quantitatively assessing their capabilities and strategies regarding their offerings in the power and utilities industry. With the worldwide perspective, this IDC MarketScape aims to support power and utility organizations in choosing their partners, which aligns with their asset management, asset performance, and asset life-cycle strategies. This IDC MarketScape provides context for power and utilities companies evaluating vendors in this area, examines vendors' comparative success in the marketplace, and looks at how vendor offerings are evolving. The evaluation is based on a comprehensive and rigorous framework that assesses APM vendors relative to the criteria and highlights the most influential factors for success in this market, both in the short and long term.

"A modernized and data-driven approach to asset performance management is now a strategic imperative for utilities. An advanced APM solution can enable utility and power companies to bridge reliability, sustainability, and digital strategies to ensure resilient and efficient operations," said John Villali, senior research director, IDC Energy Insights.

Smartsheet Unveils Intelligent Work Management Strategy at ENGAGE 2025

Wayne Kurtzman, Melinda-Carol Ballou — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 05:00:00 GMT

Smartsheet held its 9th annual Smartsheet ENGAGE conference in Seattle, Washington from November 3-6, 2025. Several thousand customers attended the event that highlighted a customer-centric vision with agentic AI as a core enabler. Expanded capabilities include Smartsheet positioning as an intelligent work management platform with AI driven orchestration to unite human expertise with digital agents; increased scale, security, interoperability and governance, and emphasis on business value outcomes (risk reduction, revenue growth, cost savings, specific productivity gains) rather than generic productivity metrics. Key standards and accessibility support underscored Smartsheet's focus on enterprise requirements. Effective keynotes by new CEO Rajeev Singh, recently hired Chief Product Officer Pratima Arora, and relatively new CTO Officer Cynthia Tee coupled with targeted functionality, business and pricing models addressing customer requests allowed the new Smartsheet leadership team to set the tone for the year ahead.

UKG Aspire 2025: Frontline Data in Action

Zachary Chertok — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 05:00:00 GMT

UKG Aspire was held at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, NV November 3-6, 2025. Aspire launched UKG's future with agentic AI, bringing to life insights-driven workforce planning, placement, forecasting, and management for frontline mid-market, enterprise, and global organizations. Key announcements and releases included several new AI Agents as well as the release of the Workforce Intelligence Hub to serve as a command center for workforce and labor data and insights. UKG expanded its foray into talent acquisition and management with the introduction of Rapid Hire and Dynamic Labor Management as well as enhanced employee support and rapid deployment enablement leveraging Bryte AI.