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Market Forecast: Worldwide Communications Platform as a Service Forecast, 2026–2030

Masarra Mohamed — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Forecast presents the worldwide revenue forecast for the communications platform-as-a-service (CPaaS) market for 2026–2030.

The CPaaS market is entering its next growth phase, moving beyond high-volume messaging into an AI-enabled engagement fabric that blends communications, context, identity, and orchestration. By 2030, the winners will be those that help enterprises automate trusted, personalized, and measurable customer journeys across every channel, while abstracting the growing complexity of fraud, compliance, network APIs, and AI operations.

Trends in Serverless Functions

Rob Tiffany — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Perspective examines the trends reshaping serverless functions in 2026 and assesses how seven cloud providers, including AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, Alibaba Cloud, IBM Cloud, and Tencent Cloud, are responding. It argues that functions have evolved from event-driven glue into a primary runtime for AI agents, identifies five defining trends (agentic functions, the end of the cold-start arms race, concurrency-driven economics, container and open-standard convergence, and GPU-backed serverless), and offers a decision framework for technology buyers.

"Serverless has quietly become the runtime of the agentic era," explains Rob Tiffany, research director, Cloud Infrastructure, IDC. "The buyers who win will match each workload to the right execution model, weigh concurrency economics over sticker price, and protect portability with open standards to navigate their next move with confidence."

市场份额：中国公有云安全软件即服务市场份额，2025

Joe Zhao — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 04:00:00 GMT

本IDC研究报告分析了2025年中国公有云安全软件即服务市场的规模、厂商份额、技术发展变化等内容。

IDC中国安全和信任产品领域高级研究经理赵义表示：”随着企业上云与云原生转型加速，轻量化、订阅制的公有云安全软件即服务正成为主流选择，头部厂商持续迭代防护能力，为企业提供覆盖多场景的按需安全防护。在云厂商占据主导且市场长尾空间充足的格局下，建议技术供应商绑定头部云生态、深耕细分长尾赛道并打造差异化安全能力，实现错位竞争突围。”

IDC Market Glance: Energy Flexibility Software Ecosystem, 2Q26

Jean-François Segalotto, Gaia Gallotti — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Glance provides the segments and subsegments of the energy flexibility software ecosystem. The proliferation of distributed energy resources, acceleration of electrification, and greater need for energy efficiency have significantly expanded and reshaped this ecosystem. Different systems and platforms serve different functions in this increasingly complex landscape, making it imperative for technology buyers to understand which solutions support which use cases.

“The energy flexibility software ecosystem is at an inflection point, moving from a patchwork of standalone pilots and narrow demand response programs to integrated platforms that can orchestrate distributed assets at industrial scale across markets, grid levels, and program types. As network congestion intensifies and affordability concerns reshape end-customer engagement with flexibility, the best-positioned vendors will be those that combine network-aware orchestration, AI-enabled and increasingly agentic optimization, and clear participant value. This will be critical in making flexibility financially tangible for households and businesses as well as operationally useful for the grid,” says Jean-François Segalotto, senior associate advisor, IDC Energy Insights.

Market Forecast: Worldwide Cloud Application Deployment Platforms Software Forecast, 2026–2030

Matthew Flug — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC presentation provides a forecast for the worldwide cloud application deployment platforms (CADPs) software market for 2026–2030, including regional and deployment-based breakdowns. It examines the key drivers and inhibitors shaping growth over the forecast period, with particular attention to the role of application platforms in enabling the development, deployment, and governance of AI-powered applications and agents. Market data is drawn from IDC’s Worldwide Semiannual Software Tracker.

“AI is fundamentally expanding what organizations require from application platforms. The need to deploy AI securely, connect proprietary data to intelligent applications, and bring agentic workloads to production at scale is creating significant opportunity for CADPs and significant pressure on vendors to deliver. Organizations that find commercial platforms insufficiently extensible or unable to meet their security requirements will increasingly consider building their own. Vendors that address these concerns directly, particularly around data integration and observable, governed agentic deployments, will be best positioned to capture the opportunity AI presents.” — Matthew Flug, research manager, Intelligent Application Modernization and Deployment Platforms, IDC

Market Forecast: Worldwide Functions as a Service Forecast, 2026–2030

Matthew Flug — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC presentation examines the worldwide functions as a service (FaaS) market from 2025 to 2030. IDC projects the market will grow from $6.0 billion in 2025 to $20.7 billion in 2030, reflecting a five-year compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 27.9%. The Americas region accounts for the majority of market revenue, representing 66.5% of total spend in 2025 and expanding its share to 68.3% by 2030. FaaS growth is being driven by the increasing adoption of FaaS platforms as an orchestration layer for AI applications and autonomous agents; the expansion of event-driven architectures across hybrid, multicloud, and edge environments; and the continued appeal of consumption-based pricing and infrastructure abstraction.

“The functions as a service (FaaS) market is undergoing a shift driven by the demands of AI applications and agents. FaaS tools are increasingly being relied on to provide an orchestration layer for AI applications and agents. Over the past year, FaaS vendors have recognized the potential use case and have been innovating to provide stateful, long-running functions to support multistep AI workflows.” — Matthew Flug, research manager, Intelligent Application Modernization and Deployment Platforms, IDC

市场份额：中国云会议市场份额，2H25：长尾市场加速

Kai Cui — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 04:00:00 GMT

本IDC研究分析了2025年云会议市场领先厂商的市场份额。

通过本报告，您可以了解2025年中国云会议市场的规模变化、增长动力和竞争格局。报告重点分析主要云会议厂商的市场份额变化，梳理公有云与私有云会议市场的结构演进，并观察AI能力、长尾付费和企业采购模式变化对中国云会议市场的影响。

中国企业通信市场助理研究总监崔凯表示：“2025年的中国云会议市场进入了更细颗粒度的商业化阶段。云会议的价值不再只体现为把人拉进同一个线上会议室，而是帮助用户把会议内容整理清楚、沉淀下来，并推动后续工作继续向前。谁能同时抓住长尾付费和AI增值，谁就更有机会在下一阶段市场竞争中保持增长。”

市场份额：中国公有云抗DDoS市场份额，2025

Joe Zhao — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 04:00:00 GMT

本IDC研究报告主要阐述了2025年中国公有云抗分布式拒绝服务（DDoS）市场的规模、厂商份额、技术发展变化等内容。

IDC中国安全和信任产品领域高级研究经理赵义表示：“2025年国内抗DDoS厂商主动出清低毛利订单、收缩政企与中长尾渠道，转向提质增效；厂商下线1.0架构，普及边缘分布式2.0一体化防护，完善代播清洗、弹性计费与AI安全能力；客户集中于出海、游戏、金融等高价值行业，运营商带宽壁垒凸显。”

Market Analysis Perspective: EMEA AI-Fueled Business Strategies, 2026

Lapo Fioretti — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Analysis Perspective provides insight into the current and future state of the Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) AI-fueled business strategies market. It includes an overview of the current market landscape, a technology buyer perspective, a market outlook, and IDC’s advice for technology suppliers/services suppliers in this market.

“AI is shifting technology discussions into the business domain, with maturity gradually increasing across EMEA. CEOs are looking beyond efficiency gains to reinvent business models, but challenges remain. Many organizations struggle to identify high-value use cases and measure ROI, often treating AI as a purely technical initiative while overlooking the need for effective change management,” said Lapo Fioretti, senior research analyst, AI-Fueled Business Strategies at IDC.

The Next Phase of Network API Monetization — Part 1: 2026 Telco Priorities and Challenges

Masarra Mohamed — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Presentation is part 1 of The Next Phase of Network API Monetization presentation series. It focuses on CAMARA and GSMA Open Gateway progress in 2026 as well as telcos' investments, drivers, priorities, and challenges in network API adoption and monetization. Combining IDC survey data, market analysis, ecosystem tracking, and strategic interpretation, this presentation provides actionable insights into where commercial momentum is forming; which API categories are gaining traction; and what operational, regulatory, and organizational barriers continue to limit scale.

Part 2 of this series focuses on enterprise adoption patterns, CPaaS and aggregator positioning, and the increasing role of APIs as the execution layer for AI-enabled systems and contextual customer engagement. It delivers strategic guidance for telecom operators, CPaaS providers, hyperscalers, vendors, enterprises, and system integrators seeking to understand how AI, orchestration, identity, and programmable network capabilities are reshaping the future role of network APIs within enterprise systems and digital ecosystems.