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AI-Powered IT Vendor Rationalization: Why, When, How?

Dr. Ron Babin — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Perspective explains that as IT portfolios grow in complexity — driven by SaaS sprawl, cloud proliferation, and decentralized procurement — vendor rationalization has become a strategic imperative for CIOs. This document addresses three questions: Why to rationalize, when to act, and how to execute? The document presents a phased framework anchored in AI-powered discovery, the 4R decision model, TCO modeling, and continuous governance — transforming rationalization from a periodic exercise into a living capability that reduces costs, mitigates risk, and builds a resilient IT supply chain.

"Managing a bloated IT vendor portfolio is not just a cost problem — it is a risk, governance, and innovation problem. CIOs who pursue AI-powered rationalization as a continuous discipline will build leaner portfolios and redirect savings toward the investments that differentiate their business," says Dr. Ron Babin, adjunct research advisor for IDC's IT Executive Programs (IEP).

Egypt and Morocco Cloud Trends, 2026

George Ayad — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Presentation examines how cloud adoption is evolving in Egypt and Morocco as AI reshapes enterprise infrastructure priorities, modernization strategies, and provider selection. Drawing on IDC’s 2025 Worldwide Cloud Survey, executive interviews, and local market analysis, the report explores how these two North African markets differ in terms of cloud maturity, deployment models, modernization pathways, and cloud-based AI adoption. It also highlights the policies, localized data residency regulations, infrastructure investments, skills, and governance factors influencing growth across the region. Finally, it provides technology vendors, service providers, and enterprise buyers with a clear view of where demand is accelerating, what barriers still constrain value realization, and how AI is changing the next phase of cloud investment in two of North Africa’s most important growth markets.

IDC Cloud Pulse, 1Q26: Executive Summary

Rob Tiffany — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Presentation is an executive summary of IDC’s 1Q26 Cloud Pulse Survey findings. It covers cloud buyer priorities, cloud strategy, AI spending and deployment, and agentic AI adoption.

IDC Survey: Building Resilient Cloud and AI Strategies — The Critical Role of Skills in Europe's AI and Cloud Transformation

George Ayad — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey examines how skills are shaping organizations' ability to align cloud and AI strategies across Europe. The findings show that skills shortages are no longer a secondary workforce issue: they are already affecting cloud value realization, AI-cloud alignment, modernization progress, and business outcomes. The research highlights that the most acute gaps are concentrated in AI and data analytics, agentic AI skills, and cloud security, while organizations are responding through modernization, upskilling, and more capability-led provider choices. The findings are based on IDC's Cloud Survey conducted in late 2025, surveying over 1,000 European organizations.

Market Forecast：国内クラウド向けITサービス市場予測、2026年～2030年

Tatsuhiro Soga — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT

本調査レポートは、国内クラウド向けITサービス市場について、ベンダーおよびユーザー動向を調査し、包括的にまとめたものである。IDCではITサービス市場およびクラウドサービス市場の動向を整理し、「クラウド向けITサービス」の市場定義を策定し、同定義に基づき、需要サイド方法論を用いて、企業／公共機関／団体／個人における同サービス支出額から市場規模の算出、予測を行っている。

「国内企業のAI（Artificial Intelligence）利用目的が「効率化」から「価値創造」へシフトするにつれ、AIエージェントの稼働基盤としてクラウドの重要性はいっそう高まるであろう。その際に「ITサービスベンダーは、複数のAIエージェントや既存システムを連携させるクラウドアーキテクチャの設計力に加え、AIエージェントのガバナンス設計能力、その稼働基盤を健全に維持するための包括的なクラウドマネージドサービスを提供するケイパビリティが求められる」と、IDC Japan、Software, Services, and IT Spendingのリサーチアナリストである曽我龍宏は述べている。

The Most Immediate Challenges to Measuring Value and Team Augmentation in Agentic Software Delivery

George Mironescu — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Perspective addresses three considerations dominating market discussions on how to capture, compare, and evidence the value of agentic software delivery.

"Before any value discussion, agentic software delivery is first a costing discussion. Token economics has broken the budgeting models software engineering leaders have relied on, calling for new approaches on the buyer side or new tooling to instrument, automate, and optimize token consumption — or both," says George Mironescu, associate research director, Software Development and Delivery, IDC.

Twilio Reframes CPaaS as Conversation Infrastructure for the Agentic Era at SIGNAL 2026

Masarra Mohamed — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Note analyzes Twilio's public platform announcements at SIGNAL 2026, held in San Francisco on May 6–7, 2026. At this event, the company introduced a new conversation layer for the Twilio Platform and positioned itself as communications infrastructure for the agentic AI era. It examines the general availability of Conversation Orchestrator, Conversation Memory, and Conversation Intelligence; the open source Agent Connect toolkit; the reimagined Twilio Console; expanded channels and reliability features; and an identity agenda anchored by the Stytch acquisition.

"Twilio's SIGNAL 2026 announcements suggest the communications market is entering a new phase. As AI agents reshape customer engagement, the real battleground goes beyond LLM models to awareness, orchestration, memory, trust, and continuity. This marks a turning point toward connective tissue ownership between humans and agents in the agentic era," said Masarra Mohamed, Senior Research Analyst at IDC.

Agentic AI Implications for Enterprise IaaS Network Services Strategies

Taranvir Singh — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Perspective highlights how Agentic AI is transforming enterprise networking and shifting the role of the network from simple data transport to an intelligent, policy-driven fabric. As AI agents drive dynamic, distributed workflows, enterprises are consolidating around IaaS network services by cloud service providers for high-performance connectivity, efficient application networking, and integrated security and governance. Success in agentic AI deployments depends on programmatic networking architectures, agent-aware functionalities, and strategic partnerships with providers offering specialized AI networking expertise and production-ready solutions.

“Networking is foundational to agentic AI. Its pervasive presence across AI agent interactions positions it as an important enabler of end-to-end connectivity, security, and governance,” says Taranvir Singh, research manager, Cloud Networking Services, IDC. “For AI agents to operate at production scale, the network must function as an intelligent policy fabric, not just an underlying transport layer.”

IDC Survey: European Cloud Print Management Adoption

Jacqui Hendriks — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey presents findings from IDC's European Imaging, Printing, and Document Solutions (IPDS) Survey, conducted in April 2026 among 2,057 respondents across Europe. The document explores the current state of cloud-based device and print management adoption, highlighting the continued dominance of hybrid deployment models, the barriers, and the factors driving some organizations to return to on-premises infrastructure.

The survey also examines the role of changing business requirements, unmet expectations, and security concerns in cloud print deployment outcomes, with data available for analysis by country/region, company size, and industry.

IDC's Worldwide Cloud Platform as a Service Taxonomy, 2026

Adam Reeves — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC study provides a detailed description of IDC's cloud platform as a service market. IDC defines the cloud PaaS market as 100% of the revenue of IT capability in the application development and deployment (AD&D) primary software market when it is composed and delivered as a cloud service.

PaaS is segmented into seven secondary markets including application platforms, data management, artificial intelligence core, application development, and integration and orchestration.

These secondary markets are combinations of existing AD&D functional software markets that reflect the most prevalent combinations of integrated functionality based on customer use cases and the most typical supplier offerings, in addition to other market factors such as the primary problem being solved by the service.

"The cloud platform as a service taxonomy describes the fast-growing PaaS, which grew by greater than 32% to reach $162 billion in revenue in 2024," said Adam Reeves, research director, Platform as a Service for Developers of Modern and Edge Applications at IDC. "The taxonomy defines the seven secondary markets that drive market growth, including artificial intelligence, application development, and data management."