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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 MarketScape: 中国政务智能云解决方案2026年厂商评估

Janice Jin — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

本IDC研究通过IDC MarketScape厂商评估模型对中国政务智能云解决方案厂商进行了评估。报告聚焦中国市场上的主流厂商，选取了典型的政务智能云解决方案厂商进行重点研究，对入选厂商的能力和战略进行了综合评估，评估标准包括收入规模、产品技术能力、市场和生态以及未来发展战略等。各维度根据市场情况进一步划分为若干细分项，并配以不同权重，从而形成IDC MarketScape综合评分体系。IDC分析师通过对各个厂商和大量最终用户的深入访谈，综合分析并确定各厂商在IDC MarketScape中的相对位置，探讨厂商的特点和战略，总结发展趋势，为技术买家进行产品选型提供参考。

IDC政府行业研究经理金子惠表示：“中国政务智能云市场正处于由传统政务云向AI原生云转型的关键阶段。随着传统政务云进入存量优化阶段，云平台将加速围绕大模型、智能体和AI应用进行架构重构，推动云、算力、数据、模型与应用深度融合。未来市场竞争将从传统云资源能力，逐步转向AI原生架构、模型与智能体能力、安全合规及政务场景落地能力，具备完整AI能力体系和规模化服务能力的厂商将获得竞争优势。”

IDC PeerScape: Practices for AI Workload Placement

Stanley B. Gibson — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC PeerScape features interviews with IT leaders from Northern Trust, the U.S. Air Force, and a major financial services organization headquartered in the United States, examining the practices they have employed to optimize AI workload placement. These practices include focusing on appropriate, AI-ready workloads; weighing trade-offs and making judgment calls; hiring or training staff with the right skills; acquiring the tools necessary to manage workload placement; evaluating the methods in use; and adjusting based on performance.

“For IT leaders, the AI era is the top priority. Success requires matching AI workloads with the optimal platforms, whether on premises, in the cloud, or in colocation facilities. Doing so requires perceptive analysis, ongoing diligence, and awareness of the directions in which platforms are evolving. AI workloads will only tend to increase over time, and what works tomorrow might be different from what works today,” says Stanley B. Gibson, adjunct research advisor for IDC’s Executive Programs (IEP).

IDC Survey Spotlight: What Are the Reasons for Using Specialized Cloud Services (aka Neocloud Services) in Europe?

Carla Arend — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey Spotlight analyzes the reasons European organizations are adopting neocloud services, specialized AI accelerator–based cloud infrastructure such as GPUaaS, for their AI workloads. It analyzes responses from 493 IT decision-makers across Europe and shows which factors are driving adoption, including high performance for specialized workloads, AI-optimized infrastructure, immediate GPU access amid the global GPU shortage, integration of AI infrastructure with the AI stack, and flexibility and customer alignment.

IDC Survey: IDC Worldwide Supply Chain Survey: Manufacturing

Simon Ellis — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey provides insight into the supply chain challenges and opportunities manufacturing companies are facing, their current priorities, the drivers of change in the strategic focus of their supply chains, the impact of ongoing disruptions (protectionism/tariffs, economic uncertainty), and the use of modern digital technologies, particularly AI. The data for this presentation comes from the IDC's 2026 Supply Chain Survey and reflects the manufacturing respondent base across all regions polled. The sample size for this survey was 1,374, fielded in June 2026, with 792 specific to manufacturing.

Market Analysis Perspective: Worldwide Cloud Application Deployment Platforms, 2026

Matthew Flug — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Analysis Perspective provides insight into the current and future state of the cloud application deployment platforms market. It includes an overview of the current market landscape, a perspective from a technology buyer, a market outlook, and IDC's advice to technology suppliers in this market.

"AI has expanded the remit of application platforms. Buyers now expect application platform solutions to include data services and gateway controls for security, optimization, and cost control. These capabilities determine which model answers a request and what data that request can access and enable organizations to observe and monitor agentic actions for optimization and remediation. Vendors that let organizations move at the speed AI enables, while keeping security and cost under control, will separate themselves in this market." — Matthew Flug, research manager, Intelligent Application Modernization and Deployment Platforms, IDC

Market Analysis Perspective: Worldwide Cloud-Native Software Engineering, 2026

George Mironescu — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Analysis Perspective provides insight into the current and future state of the cloud-native engineering software 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.

“Success with AI at scale depends on the maturity of the cloud-native delivery engine powering it. Without well-industrialized cloud-native engineering environments, operationalizing AI falters. To execute on the AI strategy, organizations need to prioritize maturing the cloud-native capability across their delivery infrastructure,” said George Mironescu, associate research director, Software Development, Software Delivery, and Software Engineering at IDC.

阿里云栖大会2026：践行AI全栈，押注芯模云

Rachel Liu, Tina Cui, Qijin Chen, Eric Wei, Lee Zhang — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

2026年被业界定义为AI智能体元年，云厂商集体上调算力价格、模型企业业绩迅猛增长、Token经济成为中国AI产业最核心热点。IDC预测2026年全球Token消耗量约为40000万亿次，较2025年增长约20倍。Token使用量暴增为算力供给、模型迭代、单位Token成本降低、应用入口争夺等方面带来了一系列机遇和挑战。阿里云作为中国市场最领先的云厂商，正从计算、存储、网络、能源和设施、模型等各个方面进行投入和创新，致力于加快推动人工智能赋能千行百业。

IDC MarketScape: Worldwide AI-Enabled IT Service Management Software 2026 Vendor Assessment

Snow Tempest — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC study presents a vendor assessment of the worldwide IT service management software market through the IDC MarketScape model.

"The IT service management software market continues to evolve, often facilitated by automation and AI, which leads to needs for accurate organizational and technical context," said Snow Tempest, research manager, IT Service Management at IDC.