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IDC Market Glance: Storage and Compute Infrastructure Software Platforms Core and Adjacent Markets, 1Q26

Shahin Hashim — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Glance provides a comprehensive overview of the evolving datacenter technologies and services landscape in the Middle East, Türkiye, and Africa, focusing on building resilient and sustainable facilities. It addresses how organizations are navigating the growing demands for AI-driven and digital infrastructure while balancing power, space, and environmental responsibility. The document highlights key technologies and vendors in areas such as alternative energy, critical infrastructure (including liquid cooling), energy management, and standards and reporting frameworks.

IDC Market Glance: Talent Acquisition Technologies and Services, 1Q26

Abhinav Shrivastava — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Glance provides a structured view of the technology and services ecosystem that supports the end-to-end recruiting life cycle, from attraction and sourcing through applicant tracking, assessments, screening/verification, and execution services such as RPO and staffing. This IDC Market Glance organizes the market into segments and subsegments to help buyers compare the competitive landscape, understand how key capabilities are evolving (automation, analytics, and risk controls), and prioritize vendor selection and consolidation decisions based on operational outcomes such as speed to hire, short list quality, and candidate experience.

"As talent acquisition becomes increasingly AI driven, trust, identity, and auditability are not optional but foundational," said Abhinav Shrivastava, research manager, Talent Acquisition and Strategy at IDC. "Organizations that prioritize integrated, secure, and transparent talent acquisition (TA) solutions will be best positioned to attract top talent, lower the risk of talent shortage, and drive business value in a rapidly evolving market."

2026 Top 10 Tech Trends in Higher Education: Emerging Tech Trends and Challenges Impacting the Industry

Matthew Leger — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Presentation outlines the top 10 tech trends impacting the higher education industry in 2026.

The presentation is split into two sections: The first section covers the top 10 tech trends to watch; the second section highlights the leading challenges facing higher education institutions that will significantly influence the trajectory of these trends over the next 12–18 months.

From Technology Provider to Orchestrator of Autonomy: The CIO's Framework for Industrializing Agent Vetting

Serge Findling — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 05:00:00 GMT

By 2027, G2000 enterprises will experience a 10x surge in agent deployments and a 1,000x increase in token/call volumes, transforming agent vetting from an emerging practice into a mission-critical CIO responsibility. Without formal vetting frameworks, up to 20% of G1000 organizations will face lawsuits, substantial fines, and CIO dismissals by 2030 due to inadequate agent governance. Yet only 35% of CIOs will successfully implement agent life-cycle management by 2029.

This IDC Perspective provides a five-pillar framework, 90-day implementation road map, and strategic guidance to help CIOs capture the 20% competitive advantage in innovation, speed, and service excellence.

"The agent vetting framework represents the essential first step for CIOs to evolve from technology providers to orchestrators of autonomy — balancing innovation velocity with governance rigor in an era where autonomous entities outnumber human decision-makers," says Serge Findling, adjunct research advisor with IDC's IT Executive Programs (IEP).

IDC Survey: Asia/Pacific Cloud Modernization

Daphne Chung — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC presentation uses selected data related to cloud modernization drivers and trends in Asia/Pacific from the 2025 IDC Future Enterprise Resiliency and Spending Survey, Wave 8.

Konica Minolta Europe's Video Solution Services: Focused on Delivering Core Business Value

Jacqui Hendriks — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC Vendor Profile explores the development of Konica Minolta Europe's Video Solution Services (VSS) business. IDC last wrote about this business in 2023, highlighting how video surveillance has evolved to become an important enabling technology of physical security. While Konica Minolta's global business has experienced divestment and repositioning of its market focus, VSS continues to thrive as a focused growth business in Europe and other regions.

Should Procurement Application Consumers Build or Buy?

Patrick Reymann — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Perspective explores the renewed build-or-buy debate for procurement applications in light of agentic AI and low-code platforms such as Claude Cowork, the Claude Cowork Legal Plug-in, OpenClaw, and Microsoft Power Apps with Copilot. It argues that although these tools make it easier to prototype and tailor procurement workflows, building is only the simplest step in a much larger journey. Operating a production-grade system still demands rigorous security, compliance, uptime, mobile-ready UX, and real-time support, all of which commercial suites have spent years hardening. The piece suggests a hybrid approach: buy a stable, well-governed platform for core records, workflows, and integrations, then selectively build on top where the organization's procurement processes are genuinely distinctive or fast-changing. Ultimately, the key question is not whether something can be built, but which parts of the lifecycle the organization is prepared to own versus delegate to a vendor.

"AI may make it easier to build procurement tools, but it does not make them easier to run; the real decision is which responsibilities you will own and which you will offload to a platform," says Patrick Reymann, research director, Procurement and Enterprise Applications, IDC.

Zoho Analyst & Customer Conference 2026Zoho Analyst and Customer Conference 2026

Kevin Permenter — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 05:00:00 GMT

Zoho convened customers, partners, analysts, and developers to present its vision for a unified cloud platform designed to simplify business operations through embedded AI, integrated workflows, and regionally controlled infrastructure. Sessions emphasized reducing application fragmentation, lowering implementation complexity, and improving operational visibility. The event targeted midmarket and enterprise organizations, with particular relevance for finance leaders seeking to modernize systems while maintaining cost discipline and governance.

ZohoDay 2026 — CX Functionality Gains Traction as Zoho Surpasses 1 Million Customers

Roger Beharry Lall, Oru Mohiuddin, Wayne Kurtzman — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 05:00:00 GMT

ZohoDay 2026, held on the company's 30th anniversary, celebrated Zoho's growth to over 1 million customers and 150 million users. The event showcased Zoho's continued expansion to new geographies and segments as well as the platform's evolution to support increasing AI functionality. The company candidly discussed how it is addressing broad industry trends such as AI disruption, SaaS economics, and application sprawl. Zoho's portfolio now spans more than 60 applications across multiple functional domains. Although customer experience (CX) was just one element of the broader strategic narrative, it featured prominently in customer case studies and executive panels. Across sessions, discussions emphasized data consolidation, user expansion, and measurable value creation, reinforcing Zoho's unique and differentiated positioning as a long-term technology vendor.

IDC Survey Spotlight: Which Vendors Show Strong Partner Momentum in Each EMEA Subregion Based on the Share of Non‑Affiliated Partners Selecting Them as a Top 3 Vendor to Engage With Next?

Stuart Wilson — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey Spotlight features partner‑momentum insights across EMEA for AWS, Broadcom, Cisco, Dell, Google, HPE, IBM, Microsoft, and Oracle, providing strategic visibility into emerging partner interest and helping vendors understand where ecosystem pull may support targeted regional engagement.