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IDC MarketScape: Worldwide AI-Enabled Accounts Receivable Automation Applications for the Enterprise 2026 Vendor Assessment

Kevin Permenter, Jordan Steele — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC study provides an assessment of accounts receivable (AR) automation software providers serving enterprise organizations with 1,000+ employees. This study evaluates the capabilities and strategies of vendors in the market and examines the criteria most important for technology leaders selecting an enterprise AR automation platform.

At enterprise scale, AR is evolving beyond collections automation toward a revenue-to-cash control layer that coordinates customer accounts, credit, collections, disputes, deductions, payments, cash application, intelligence, and increasingly autonomous actions across complex financial environments.

"The next phase of enterprise AR is not about generating more collection activity. It is about coordinating the decisions that determine when revenue becomes cash while giving finance the visibility and control to know why those decisions were made." — Kevin Permenter, research director, Financial Applications, IDC

IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Print Management Solutions Independent Software 2026 Vendor Assessment

Evan Hardie, Geoffrey Wilbur, Tim Greene — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC MarketScape study assesses the market for print management software solutions among the most prominent global independent software vendors and identifies their strengths and challenges. This assessment discusses both quantitative and qualitative characteristics that position vendors for success in this important market. This IDC study is based on a comprehensive framework to evaluate print management delivered within the context of an engagement.

"Print management remains a persistent challenge in 2026, and IT teams face constant pressure to optimize devices, control costs, and maintain security, even as hybrid work has simply become the baseline that print must support. What's changing is the platform underneath print itself: Microsoft's move toward driverless, IPP-based printing through Windows Ready Print and Protected Print Mode is forcing vendors to rethink device compatibility, while ARM-based and Copilot+ PCs add further disruption to users' ability to print. At the same time, agentic AI is pulling print management into a broader layer of document intelligence and workflow automation. Securing print in this environment increasingly means moving to the cloud and a SaaS billing model that offers more budgeting predictability. As the landscape evolves, buyers should seek a solution aligned with their business and technology goals," says Evan Hardie, senior research director, IDC.

IDC PeerScape: 中国泛互联网行业出海案例洞察，2026

Eric Wei — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

本IDC PeerScape报告梳理了不同出海企业为满足自身业务需求或克服特定挑战，而使用公有云产品、服务与解决方案的案例，并总结了相关经验供读者借鉴。

"中国互联网企业出海已经从'把产品卖出去'进入到'把业务运营在全球'的阶段。云厂商在这一阶段交付的不再只是资源，而是包含全球网络、弹性算力、数据合规、AI能力与本地化服务在内的能力组合，因此对于出海企业而言，选择云服务商甚至相当于选择一套全球运营的方法论。"——魏云峰，IDC中国基础架构部研究经理

LEAP 2026: AI Infrastructure Reshapes Saudi Telecom Strategy and Regulations

Ahmad Latif Ali, Tolga Yalcin — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Note examines the AI, cloud, and infrastructure announcements from LEAP 2026, held August 31–September 3 in Riyadh, which drew more than 200,000 visitors and produced nearly $15 billion in disclosed investments and agreements. It covers new hyperscaler cloud regions from Microsoft and AWS, HUMAIN’s expanding sovereign AI compute pipeline, and a fresh wave of Saudi datacenter investment, alongside the different strategic paths Saudi telecom operators, including stc, Mobily, Zain KSA, Salam, and Tawal, are taking into AI infrastructure. It also covers CST’s move to extend infrastructure-based competition to a second utility, the National Water Company, following its earlier licensing of SEC-owned Dawiyat.

“LEAP 2026 made clear that Saudi Arabia’s AI buildout is being layered onto its telecom operators’ infrastructure, and that a widening set of players, including utilities, are now being brought into that infrastructure layer alongside them,” says Tolga Yalcin, research director, IDC.

Market Analysis Perspective: Worldwide Contact Center Applications, 2026

Michelle Morgan — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Analysis Perspective provides insight into the current and future state of the contact center applications market. It includes an overview of the current market landscape, a technology buyer perspective, a market outlook, and IDC's advice for technology suppliers/service providers.

"The contact center is being asked to do two things at once right now. Agentic AI is pushing into the actual workflow — routing, resolution, even parts of the conversation itself — in a way that scripted bots never managed. At the same time, the category is stretching outward, absorbed into broader customer experience platforms that bundle in marketing, commerce, and service under one roof." — Michelle Morgan, research director, AI-Enabled Sales, Customer Service, and Contact Center Strategies, IDC

Market Analysis Perspective: Worldwide SaaS Applications and PaaS, 2026

Frank Della Rosa — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Analysis Perspective provides insight into the current and future state of the SaaS applications and PaaS market. It includes an overview of the current market landscape, a technology buyer perspective, a market outlook, and IDC's advice for technology suppliers/service providers.'

"We are watching the SaaS applications and PaaS markets stop behaving as two separate categories and start converging into a single, agent-mediated platform layer. Over the next several years, the winners will not be the suppliers with the most features but those whose platforms can orchestrate agents, applications, and data across the ecosystem faster than rivals can envelop them — what I call compound platform architecture." — Frank Della Rosa, research VP, SaaS, Platform Strategies, and Ecosystems

Market Forecast: Worldwide Accounts Payable Applications Forecast, 2026–2030

Kevin Permenter — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC study provides the five-year forecast for the accounts payable applications market and delivers insights into the drivers and inhibitors of growth.

"AP isn't just about scanning invoices anymore. In the next few years, it'll run almost touchless, freeing teams from manual entry so they can capture strategic early-payment discounts." — Kevin Permenter, research director at Financial Applications, IDC

Market Forecast: Worldwide Corporate Tax Management Applications Forecast, 2026–2030

Kevin Permenter — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC presentation examines the worldwide corporate tax management applications market for 2026–2030.

"With expanding global e-invoicing and shifting mandates, tax can't be reactive. We're entering an era of continuous compliance where real-time reporting is the standard, not the exception." — Kevin Permenter, research director, Financial Applications, IDC

Market Forecast: Worldwide Data Warehouse and Lakehouse Software Forecast, 2026–2030

Marlanna Harrington — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Forecast study provides a five-year forecast for the worldwide data warehouse and lakehouse software market and delivers insights into the drivers and inhibitors of growth.

"The data warehouse and lakehouse market is no longer only competing on where analytical data sits. Storage scale and query performance are assumed, and value is concentrating above them, in the governance and context that determine what an AI agent can safely act on. The winners will be the platforms that anchor estates they do not own outright, supply governed context in the path of the model, and give customers control over what agentic consumption costs," said Marlanna Harrington, senior research analyst, Data Platforms at IDC.

Market Forecast: Worldwide Financial Applications Forecast, 2026–2030

Kevin Permenter — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC presentation provides the five-year forecast for the financial applications market.

"We're finally moving past the dreaded month-end scramble. Within five years, continuous accounting and AI agents will turn reconciliations into a live, real-time pulse of the business." — Kevin Permenter, research director, Financial Applications, IDC