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IDC MarketScape: Worldwide AI-Enabled Accounts Payable Automation Software for Midmarket 2026 Vendor Assessment

Kevin Permenter, Jordan Steele — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC study provides an assessment of accounts payable automation software providers serving midmarket organizations with 100–999 employees. The study evaluates the capabilities and strategies of vendors in the market and examines the criteria most important for technology leaders selecting an AP automation platform.

For midmarket organizations, the AP technology decision is increasingly shaped by complexity rather than transaction volume alone. As companies add entities, suppliers, systems, approval structures, and financial requirements, AP platforms must help finance absorb that complexity rather than simply automate individual tasks.

"The midmarket AP challenge is no longer simply processing more invoices. It is keeping growing business complexity from becoming growing finance complexity." — Kevin Permenter, research director, Financial Applications, IDC

IDC MarketScape: Worldwide AI-Enabled Accounts Payable Automation Software for Large Enterprise 2026 Vendor Assessment

Kevin Permenter, Jordan Steele — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC study provides an assessment of accounts payable automation software providers serving enterprise organizations with 1,000 or more employees. The study evaluates the capabilities and strategies of vendors in the market and examines the most important criteria for technology buyers selecting an enterprise AP automation platform. At enterprise scale, the AP technology decision is increasingly about orchestration rather than invoice automation alone. Organizations need platforms capable of coordinating processes, systems, data, controls, suppliers, exceptions, and emerging autonomous workflows across complex and often fragmented financial environments.

"Enterprise AP is becoming a control layer for financial operations. The leaders will be the platforms that can coordinate complexity across systems while giving finance confidence that every automated action remains visible, governed, and accountable." — Kevin Permenter, research director, Financial Applications, IDC

IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Embedded Payment Applications in Accounts Payable Workflows 2026 Vendor Assessment

Jordan Steele, Kevin Permenter — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC study assesses the vendors offering embedded payment capabilities within accounts payable (AP) and procure-to-pay (P2P) workflows. Embedded payments in AP allow organizations to initiate, authorize, process, and track supplier payments directly inside the applications finance teams already use rather than routing payments through a separate banking portal or standalone payment tool.

This assessment is one of four workflow-specific reports produced under IDC's broader worldwide embedded payment applications 2026 study. Companion reports cover accounts receivable (AR/order-to-cash), travel and expense (T&E), and treasury.

"Embedded payments have turned AP into one of the clearest proving grounds for whether a vendor's AI claims translate into production results," said Jordan Steele, research manager, Financial Applications at IDC. "Buyers are no longer asking whether a platform can pay a supplier. They are asking whether it can do so with the rail economics, fraud controls, and straight-through processing rates their business actually needs."

IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Embedded Payment Applications in Accounts Receivable Workflows 2026 Vendor Assessment

Jordan Steele, Kevin Permenter — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC study assesses vendors offering embedded payment capabilities inside accounts receivable and order-to-cash workflows, including payment acceptance, automated cash application, credit and collections intelligence, and dispute and deduction resolution. The study evaluates how directly vendors connect payment execution to the surrounding AR workflow rather than treating payments as a system requiring separate reconciliation.

"Cash application has quietly become the workflow where AI investment pays off fastest and most visibly," said Jordan Steele, research manager, Financial Applications at IDC. "The vendors pulling ahead are the ones closing the remaining exception queue, the short pays and unmatched remittances, rather than the ones still marketing an auto-application rate that the market has largely caught up to."

Market Analysis Perspective: Worldwide AI Infrastructure Strategies, 2026

Mary Johnston Turner — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Analysis Perspective provides insight into the current and future state of enterprise worldwide AI infrastructure strategies. It includes an overview of the current market landscape, technology buyer perspective, a market outlook, and IDC's advice for technology suppliers and buyers in this market.

Market Analysis Perspective: Worldwide Sales Productivity and Performance, 2026

Michelle Morgan — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Analysis Perspective provides insight into the current and future state of the sales productivity and performance 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.

"Salestech vendors have rushed 'agentic' onto every product page this year, but most of what ships still resembles workflow automation with a chat interface bolted on. Genuine autonomous action — an AI system that reliably prioritizes, negotiates, or closes without a rep double-checking its work — remains more road map than deployment." — Michelle Morgan, research director, AI-Enabled Sales, Customer Service, and Contact Center Strategies

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.