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Dentsu Doubles Down on Global Integration with a New CEO, After Posting 0.5% Organic Growth in 2025

Douglas Hayward — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 04:00:00 GMT

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.

IDC Survey Spotlight: Why Should I Care about Data Products?

Marlanna Harrington — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 04:00:00 GMT

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.

“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.”

Enterprise Workloads Server Infrastructure Market Overview, 2026–2029

Max Pepper — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 04:00:00 GMT

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.

HPE Complete Care Services Update

Rob Brothers, Leslie Rosenberg — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 04:00:00 GMT

On March 5^th, 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 touchpoints to minimize administrative complexities thereby allowing customers to accelerate their technology initiatives.

IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Data Modernization Services Providers for Retail and Restaurants 2026 Vendor Assessment

Margot Juros, Dorothy Creamer — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 04:00:00 GMT

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.

"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."

IDC Survey Spotlight: How Extensively Are Developers Using Generative AI Coding Assistants, and How Much of That Output Do They Trust?

Adam Resnick — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey Spotlight examines how extensively developers rely on generative AI coding assistants and how much of that output they accept without revision. Generative AI has achieved broad adoption, with 85% of developers reporting that at least some of their code is now AI generated. At the same time, developers remain firmly in the loop, reviewing and revising most AI-generated code before acceptance.

These findings suggest that AI's impact on development, while real, is more measured than the narrative that has taken hold in industry and media discussions. Most developers remain light users or nonusers of AI coding tools, and even among those who do use them, manual development remains central to most workflows and human judgment remains the final checkpoint on what ships to production. The measure of success for AI coding assistants is therefore the quality and trustworthiness of their output and the faster delivery and productivity gains that follow when developers can accept AI-generated code with confidence.

Magure's Perspective on Platformation of AI Solution Delivery

Melih Murat — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Vendor Profile provides an in-depth look at Magure's go-to-market model, a UAE-headquartered AI company, and analyzes its transition from a technology services provider to an AI platform-based solution delivery company. It further details its services, AI platform capabilities, regional go-to-market approach, and strategic partnerships.

Measuring What Matters: XLAs and the 2026 Digital Workplace

Meike Escherich — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Perspective examines how experience-level agreements (XLAs) have evolved since 2021 from experimental concepts to a mainstream practice, becoming essential for measuring and improving employee experience in AI-enabled workplaces. Standardization, advanced analytics, and AI-driven remediation have addressed early adoption barriers, making XLAs a strategic imperative for organizations seeking to boost productivity, retention, and engagement in the digital workplace.

"In 2026, vendors need to ask themselves the following: Are you helping clients measure what truly matters in their AI‑enabled workplace, or are you still just watching dashboards turn green?" says Associate Director Meike Escherich, AI-Enabled Future of Work, IDC.

RingCentral Analyst Summit 2026: Unraveling the future of AI in business communications

Jitesh Gera, Denise Lund, Wayne Kurtzman — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 04:00:00 GMT

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.

IDC Market Glance: Treasury and Risk Management Applications Worldwide, 1Q26

Kevin Permenter, Jordan Steele — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Glance provides a view of the current makeup of the treasury and risk management applications landscape, illustrates the participating vendors, and depicts the segments and structure of the market.