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Tech Buyer Survey Spotlight: Where Do Energy Retailers and Water Suppliers Stand on the Path to Cloud Rationalization?

Gaia Gallotti — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey Spotlight examines a portion of IDC’s 2026 Energy and Utilities Industry-Specific Tech and Innovation Survey, which is a landmark study covering utilities worldwide. It ran between February and March 2026.

The survey covered 800 respondents, of whom 531 are utilities respondents from the following countries: Australia, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, India, Italy, KSA, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, Norway, the Philippines, Poland, Portugal, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, UAE, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

This study extrapolates and analyzes select data for 260 energy retailers and suppliers and water suppliers.

This Tech Buyer Survey Spotlight examines where energy retailers, suppliers, and water utilities stand on the journey to cloud rationalization — and what the imperative to adopt AI means for the urgency of completing it.

Tech Buyer Survey Spotlight: Where Do Power Generators and T&D Operators Stand on the Path to Cloud Rationalization?

Gaia Gallotti — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This study extrapolates and analyzes select data for 147 power generation companies and 277 transmission and distribution (T&D) operators worldwide.

This Tech Buyer Survey Spotlight examines where power generation companies and T&D operators stand on the journey to cloud rationalization, and why the pace of completion is now being driven as much by the imperative to adopt AI at scale as by IT modernization priorities alone.

Tech Buyer Survey Spotlight: Which Regions Are Leading on Utility Cloud Rationalization?

Gaia Gallotti — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This study extrapolates and analyzes select data for 259 utilities across Europe (including Turkey), 107 utilities across the United States and Canada, 98 utilities across Asia/Pacific (AP), and 67 utilities across the rest of the world.

This Tech Buyer Survey Spotlight examines where utilities stand on the journey to cloud rationalization by region, and why the pace of completion is now being driven as much by the imperative to adopt AI at scale as by IT modernization priorities alone.

IDC Survey Spotlight: Are Enterprises Ready to Back Sovereign Cloud Ambition With Real Budget Commitments?

Rahiel Nasir — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey Spotlight highlights data from IDC's Digital Sovereignty Survey 2025, conducted among 955 decision-makers, regarding sovereign cloud budget allocations, priorities, and barriers to implementation. The document specifically examines the gap between enterprise ambition and actual spending on sovereign cloud solutions, exploring how organizations are currently allocating their public cloud budgets across the three pillars of sovereign cloud — namely, data, technical, and operational sovereignty. It also investigates the key cost drivers enterprises anticipate when implementing sovereign cloud solutions (including specialist skills and talent, compliance process redesign, and governance tooling) and what this means for vendors and providers looking to build sustainable sovereign cloud portfolios in an increasingly complex geopolitical landscape.

IDC PlanScape: Cloud Governance Operationalization

Gerald Johnston — Fri, 29 May 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Many organizations have learned that without a cloud strategy that informs the governance model, the initial speed and flexibility of cloud can quickly give way to rising costs, operational challenges, and increased risk. This is particularly evident when multiple teams independently provision development, test, production, and recovery environments or when modernization efforts defer key architectural decisions — resulting in greater long-term complexity and expense.

This IDC PlanScape discusses cloud governance operationalization across organizations.

“Effective cloud governance is not about slowing innovation — it is about making the right way the easy way. By standardizing service offerings, embedding controls into delivery pipelines, and aligning cross-functional accountability, organizations can scale cloud adoption without sacrificing visibility, security, or cost discipline,” said Gerald Johnston, adjunct research advisor, IDC’s IT Executive Programs (IEP).

IDC Survey: How Energy Retailers and Suppliers and Water Utilities Are Directing Their IT Investment — Insights from IDC's 2026 Energy and Utilities Industry-Specific Tech and Innovation Survey

Gaia Gallotti — Fri, 29 May 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey examines a portion of IDC's 2026 Energy and Utilities Industry-Specific Tech and Innovation Survey. IDC's 2026 Energy and Utilities Industry-Specific Tech and Innovation Survey is a landmark study covering utilities around the world. It was run from February to March 2026.

The survey covered 800 respondents, of whom 513 are utilities respondents from the following countries: Australia, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, India, Italy, KSA, Mexico, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, Norway, the Philippines, Poland, Portugal, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, the UAE, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

This study extrapolates and analyzes select data for 169 energy retailers and suppliers and 91 water suppliers around the world.

This presentation covers the IT investment direction of the survey, analyzing data such as:

2026 external IT spending breakdown (%)
Budget ownership by domain
Expected change in 2026 IT spending (nominal)
Approach to digital innovation under current market conditions
Reasons for slowing, pausing, or deferring innovation
Differences and similarities between energy retailers and suppliers and water suppliers

Industry Market Forecast: Asia/Pacific Manufacturing, 2026

Stefanie Naujoks, Jonathan Lang, Nigel Wallis, Heriberto Roman — Fri, 29 May 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Presentation provides tech vendor product managers and market intelligence leads with an overview of manufacturing digital transformation (DX) spending, insights into the Asia/Pacific manufacturing market context, and highlights how manufacturing organizations are investing in industry-specific DX use cases in the region during 2026.

By looking at the size of the Asia/Pacific market and the top growing use cases, technology vendor executives can better evaluate:

Areas for investment in products or services development
Sales and marketing campaign prioritization
Market penetration

Used in combination with the other industry intelligence reports, this document can help technology vendors gain a competitive advantage in the Asia/Pacific region.

"Digital transformation in the Asia/Pacific manufacturing sector is now defined by selective acceleration. Investment is concentrating where automation, intelligence, and resilience converge into measurable economic outcomes. Vendors that align tightly with production realities such as cost pressure, workforce constraints, and operational volatility will outperform those leading with generalized, abstract platform narratives," says Stephanie Krishnan, Research VP, IDC Manufacturing Insights.

SaaS and Agent Path: Executive Summary, 2026

Nadia Ballard, Mickey North Rizza, Eric Newmark, Frank Della Rosa — Fri, 29 May 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Presentation provides an executive summary of the worldwide findings from IDC's 2026 SaaS and Agent Path program.

IDC's 2026 SaaS and Agent Path Survey polled 2,845 respondents across 5 continents and 12 countries to collect information on SaaS adoption, the SaaS buyer's journey, the value of generative AI (GenAI) and agentic AI in SaaS applications, and SaaS vendor preferences and ratings.

Coverage includes application adoption, deployment models, budget plans and replacement cycle timing, purchasing preferences and attitudes toward SaaS buying channels, pricing options, SaaS-based AI, vendor ratings, spend, and advocacy scores for 22 functional application markets, including accounts payable; accounts receivable; collaborative application; contract life-cycle management (CLM); core HR; asset life-cycle management (ALM); employee experience; ERP; facility management; finance; learning experience management (LXM); payroll; procurement; product life-cycle management/computer-aided design (PLM/CAD); professional services automation (PSA); supply chain management (SCM); subscription management; talent acquisition; talent management; tax; travel and expense; and treasury and risk management.

NTTデータ先端技術、「INTELLILINK Private AI スタートパック」で機密データの検証環境を提供

Yukihisa Hode — Wed, 27 May 2026 04:00:00 GMT

本調査レポートは、NTTデータ先端技術が2026年3月に提供を開始したサブスクリプション型オンプレミスAIサービス「INTELLILINK Private AI スタートパック」を取り上げ、同ソリューションの国内AIインフラ市場におけるポジショニングや市場展開戦略を分析する。IDCは、プライベート環境において組織内データを活用したAI検証を促進することで、国内企業におけるAIインフラ投資の加速に寄与するとみている。

中国智能体开发平台市场份额, 2025

Zhenya Sun, Yanxia Lu — Wed, 27 May 2026 04:00:00 GMT

本IDC研究提供了2025年中国智能体开发平台市场的市场份额数据，2025年是中国智能体开发平台市场规模化落地的关键一年。供给侧围绕Agent DevOps与全生命周期运营完成了一轮密集的产品迭代，头部厂商相继发布覆盖开发、编排、测试、发布、运维的完整平台形态，自然语言驱动的智能体构建、企业级长记忆等能力进入主流产品矩阵，产品成熟度不断提升。叠加国务院《关于深入实施“人工智能+”行动的意见》与工信部《“人工智能+制造”专项行动实施意见》等政策牵引，市场整体进入供给成熟、需求明确、商业路径初步清晰的规模化运营阶段。

2025年，中国智能体开发平台市场的竞争焦点从Agent开发与编排向全生命周期运营迁移。头部厂商围绕Agent开发、测试、发布、运维等能力完成了一次集体产品升级，平台能力从开发编排向测试评估、运行托管、运维治理与闭环迭代延伸。伴随企业内部Agent数量增多，自建、平台、开源以及直连大模型四类Agent并存的治理问题开始浮现，平台厂商的能力边界也从开发工具进一步扩展到智能体的纳管与协同。进入下一阶段，竞争关键在于能否把Agent嵌入企业业务流程与组织流程，并在规模化运行条件下沉淀出可持续的商业模型。