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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

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.

Market Share: Worldwide Cloud Application Deployment Platforms Software Share, 2025

Matthew Flug — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC presentation provides worldwide market size estimates and vendor share data for the worldwide cloud application deployment platforms software market in 2025. This presentation includes worldwide revenue, growth rates, and detailed revenue and market share breakdowns for leading vendors. The worldwide cloud application deployment platforms software market reached $23.7 billion in 2025, representing 25.7% year-over-year growth. As organizations scale AI workloads, application platform vendors are extending capabilities beyond traditional deployment tooling by combining compute access, deployment abstraction, AI inference, and developer-facing interfaces and, in some cases, AI hardware. Platform providers are also taking on greater responsibility for compliantly democratizing AI. By managing integrations between foundation models and organizations’ existing data and tools, these platforms are operationalizing AI investments at the enterprise level. Vendors that address infrastructure abstraction, enterprise integration, and secure data access for AI tools are well positioned to capture continued growth in this market.

“The demand for AI applications and agents is forcing humans, organizations, and tools to change. With heightened requirements for data, privacy, security, and abstraction, application platforms are well positioned to play a central role in helping organizations scale the development, deployment, and management of AI applications and agents.” — Matthew Flug, research manager, Intelligent Application Modernization and Deployment Platforms at IDC

SaaS and Agent Path: Vendor Ratings Report 2026

Nadia Ballard, Frank Della Rosa, Eric Newmark, Mickey North Rizza — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Presentation provides ratings for application and professional services vendors across 22 application areas from IDC's 2025 SaaS and Agent Path Survey.

The survey polled 2,845 respondents across 5 continents and 11 countries to collect information on SaaS and agentic AI adoption, the SaaS buyer's journey, and SaaS vendor preferences and ratings. This presentation covers in-depth vendor ratings, spending trends, and advocacy scores for more than 200 software vendors and professional services providers.

The functional application markets covered include enterprise resource planning (ERP), supply chain management (SCM), finance, procurement, core human resources (HR), travel and expense management (T&E), asset life-cycle management (ALM), professional services automation (PSA), treasury management, tax, accounts payable (AP), accounts receivable (AR), subscription management, learning experience management (LXM), payroll, talent management, facility management, contract life-cycle management (CLM), PLM/CAD, talent acquisition, employee experience, and collaboration applications.

Market Share: Worldwide Functions as a Service Shares, 2025 — Adapting to Support AI Workloads

Matthew Flug — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC presentation reports on market share for the functions-as-a-service (FaaS) market for CY25. It includes one year of prior-year data to provide context for how the market has evolved and presents a competitive analysis of FaaS market participants. The worldwide FaaS market reached $6.0 billion in 2025, exhibiting 38.2% growth over 2024. The document examines how demand for AI-powered applications and autonomous agents is shaping FaaS adoption and FaaS vendor innovation and positioning, as organizations leverage functions as an execution and orchestration layer for stateful, multistep AI workflows.

“The worldwide FaaS market reached $6.0 billion in 2025, a 38.2% increase over 2024. AI-powered application and agent development is a primary driver of this growth, as organizations seek to use functions to orchestrate stateful, multistep AI workflows that require memory persistence, ecosystem tool use, and event-driven coordination. AWS, Microsoft, and Google hold the top 3 positions in the market, while Cloudflare recorded the fastest year-over-year growth among named vendors at 79.8%; this growth reflects demand for edge-based FaaS as AI inference workloads expand beyond centralized cloud deployments.” — Matthew Flug, research manager, Intelligent Application Modernization and Deployment Platforms, IDC

Cisco Cloud Control: Can the Harness Become the Agentic Operating Plane ITOps Needs?

Archana Venkatraman — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC study analyzes Cisco Cloud Control, presented at Cisco Live 2026 as a new platform of record designed to simplify complex IT operations without sacrificing depth. Cisco Cloud Control is Cisco's attempt to turn four decades of product breadth into a single operating plane for the agentic era. It unifies networking, security, AI infrastructure, observability, and collaboration alongside third-party tools under one login, one view, and one operating model shared by human teams and AI agents, with identity and policy built into the control path rather than bolted on.

"Cisco Cloud Control is a credible attempt to turn portfolio breadth into an operating plane for the agentic era. Its key differentiation is the harness itself, with identity, policy, and enforcement built into the control path rather than bolted onto a dashboard. That is what lets agents act on real systems without breaking them and with human-in-the-loop for trust," says Archana Venkatraman, senior research director, Observability, AIOps and agentic governance, IDC.

Market Analysis Perspective: Japan Datacenter Facility and Colocation 2026

Mimei Ito — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 04:00:00 GMT

本プレゼンテーションは国内データセンターコロケーション市場およびデータセンターファシリティ市場の市場動向をまとめたものである。データセンターファシリティとは、データセンターの冷却システム、電気設備、建設躯体などを指す。

本プレゼンテーションには、国内データセンターコロケーション市場予測、国内データセンターの面積／電力キャパシティ予測、データセンターの利用に関するユーザー動向の分析などが含まれる。

HPE Juniper Networking Advances AI Networking Options for AI Training and Inference Deployments

Paul Nicholson — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 04:00:00 GMT

HPE CEO Antonio Neri set the tone from the main stage, declaring "architecture for AI starts with your network" and framing the network as "a security layer," not just a connectivity layer. On day 2, Rami Rahim, HPE's EVP and general manager for Networking, followed Neri directly on the main stage: a signal of strategic priority. Rahim's message was direct: "Your AI is as fast as your network." That framing, repeated across multiple sessions, reflects a company that has internalized the network's centrality to AI outcomes. Optimizing learning, inference, and operations were key datacenter areas covered.

Market Share: EMEA Financial Applications Software Shares, 2025

Bo Lykkegaard — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC study examines the financial applications software market in EMEA, detailing market shares for leading vendors in 2025.

The financial applications software market continues to expand as organizations accelerate investments in cloud-based, AI-enabled finance technologies that improve automation, compliance, financial visibility, and decision-making. Demand was further boosted by several new national e-invoicing mandates across the EMEA, partly in response to the EU ViDA initiative.

"In 2025, the financial applications market in EMEA recorded robust growth. This was largely driven by the migration of legacy solutions to cloud-based financial suites, new adoption of SaaS accounting packages for entry-level businesses, and the wave of e-invoicing mandates sweeping across the region. The EU ViDA initiative accelerated developments while new mandates have been announced in the U.K., Ireland, Norway, and in the Middle East and Africa," said Bo Lykkegaard, associate VP, European software research at IDC.