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IDC Market Glance: Cloud Application Deployment Platforms, 3Q26

Matthew Flug — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Glance provides a visual overview of the cloud application deployment platforms (CADPs) market landscape. It maps the ecosystem of vendors addressing organizations' needs in building and deploying high-performing, modern, AI, agentic, and next-gen applications across the cloud and digital-first world. The landscape includes a mix of vendors, from new entrants to mature cloud service providers, and breaks the market into five submarkets: deployment-centric application platforms, container orchestration software, platform management solutions and portals, function-as-a-service software, and deployment operating systems.

Market Analysis Perspective: European Public Cloud Infrastructure as a Service, 2025

George Ayad, Carla Arend — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Analysis Perspective (MAP) provides insight into the current and future state of the European infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) market for 2026. It includes an overview of the regional market landscape, technology buyer perspectives across Europe, a market outlook, and IDC’s strategic advice for technology suppliers operating in this market.

“The European public cloud IaaS market is steadily expanding as enterprises establish the foundational infrastructure required to support emerging AI strategies. However, this deployment phase has intensified focus on cost containment and data localization. Consequently, the market is seeing targeted dual-track investments: global hyperscalers are expanding regional, ring-fenced operational zones, while established European providers scale specialized sovereign platforms to address highly regulated workloads amid ongoing geopolitical complexity,” said George Ayad, senior research analyst, IDC’s Cloud and Datacenter Infrastructure.

Market Forecast: Worldwide Cloud-Native Engineering Software Forecast, 2026–2030

George Mironescu — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC presentation provides a five-year forecast for the worldwide cloud-native engineering software market and delivers insights into the drivers and inhibitors of growth.

It examines market growth across various areas and highlights the key developments driving the growth, along with strategic implications and actions for technology vendors.

“Cloud native is the bedrock for AI — without it, shipping AI workloads at scale isn’t viable. To enable this, organizations are doubling down on maturing their cloud-native delivery engines, sharpening their focus on operating elastic, secure, and GPU-optimized environments.” — George Mironescu, associate research director, Software Development, Delivery, and Engineering, IDC

市场份额：中国音视频AI实时互动及智能媒体生产与处理市场份额，2025

Eric Wei — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMT

本IDC研究分析了2025年音视频AI实时互动及智能媒体生产与处理市场中领先供应商的市场份额。

在云厂商全面拥抱LLM、多模态模型、智能体的背景下，视频云厂商亦加快"视频云+AI"的探索步伐，并在线上社交、短剧创作与生产、游戏素材生产、企业营销等场景完成落地应用与商业化推广。

IDC中国云计算研究领域研究经理魏云峰表示："AI技术与产品服务，已经对音视频内容生产体系造成深刻影响，甚至造成了生产力的'大幅贬值'，当高频内容生产不再受限于人力、不再受限于技术门槛，当面向互联网场景的企业级云服务和半专业线上工具的边界逐步模糊，全网的音视频内容供给体系正在发生变化，继而改变'点播-直播-互动'背后的整套云计算产品与服务体系。"

IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Data Intelligence Platform Software 2026 Vendor Assessment

Stewart Bond, Marlanna Harrington — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC study evaluates the data intelligence platform software market as it moves from adjacent governance tooling to a first-order AI readiness decision, driven by the demands of generative AI and agentic AI and the need for trusted, AI-ready data. It assesses 15 vendors, Actian, Alation, Ataccama, AWS, BigID, Cloudera, Collibra, Experian, IBM, Informatica, OvalEdge, Precisely, Qlik, Quest Software, and Snowflake, evaluating their strengths, challenges, and suitability for a range of data management and AI initiatives. This document underscores the role of data cataloging, governance, quality, and lineage in delivering the context that both people and AI agents need and the growing convergence around embedded, increasingly agentic automation and open standards such as the Model Context Protocol, OpenLineage, and Apache Iceberg.

"Data intelligence platform software is the control plane for delivering AI-ready data and trusted context to both people and AI agents," says Stewart Bond, vice president, Data Intelligence and Integration Software research at IDC. "Every vendor in this evaluation is embedding increasingly agentic automation into cataloging, quality, and governance to close the skills and capacity gaps that hold AI back at scale, which is why buyers should now treat platform selection as an AI readiness decision measured by outcomes rather than a governance checkbox."

SaaS Vendors: Are You Ready for the Agentic Shift?

Bo Lykkegaard — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Web Conference Proceeding, presented by analyst Bo Lykkegaard in a focused 30-minute webinar, reveals where SaaS vendors are heading, with data showing 74% of enterprises with 500+ employees have already deployed at least one AI agent.

"Your customers are not waiting. The question is whether your software business is positioned to supply the agents they need, or risk becoming featureware," said Bo Lykkegaard, Associate VP, European Software Research at IDC.

IDC Survey: Cloud-Based Agentic AI Adoption Trends in the Middle East, Türkiye, and Africa, 2026

Jebin George — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey is based on IDC’s Q1 2026 Cloud Pulse Survey of 320 cloud and AI decision-makers in Saudi Arabia, Türkiye, South Africa, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The study maps how far organizations have really moved. It quantifies how much of the cloud AI budget agentic AI already commands, what it costs to run, which use cases lead, and what is blocking teams from scaling. It also examines the cloud providers, managed platforms, and foundation models on which organizations are building their agents, and what that means for competition among providers. Finally, it shows how demand and priorities diverge across the region’s four markets, giving technology providers a clear read on where to compete and enterprises a benchmark against their regional peers.

“Agentic AI has crossed from proof of concept into production across the Middle East, Türkiye, and Africa (META), but in small, carefully controlled deployments.” — Senior Research Manager Jebin George, Cloud and Datacenters, Enterprise Infrastructure, IDC

SAP 2Q26: Solid Cloud Growth as SAP Bets on the Autonomous Enterprise

Bo Lykkegaard, Mickey North Rizza, Robert Parker — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Note reviews SAP’s 2Q26 results, reviews the key events of the quarter, analyzes quarterly details by region, and discusses SAP’s performance and outlook.

“SAP’s 2Q26 proved its own resilience with strong cloud growth in the midst of macroeconomic uncertainty and regional conflicts. It is transforming itself, including its product stack, R&D road map, consulting approaches, and pricing strategies, to become a leading platform for agentic AI,” said Bo Lykkegaard, associate vice president, Software Research Europe at IDC.

“SAP continues to advance despite the issues of geopolitical strife and wars, inflationary aspects across regions, and the AI-native markets,” said Mickey North Rizza, group vice president, Enterprise Software and Agents at IDC. “It is clear SAP customers recognize the value of the systems they have and the updates they need to survive in the AI digital world and are investing in a vendor that is helping them make this transformational shift.”

Market Forecast: European Contact Center Applications Forecast, 2026-2030

Oru Mohiuddin — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC study provides a five-year forecast for the contact center market and delivers insights into the drivers and inhibitors of growth.

"The adoption of agentic AI is increasing in Europe, making its way into large enterprises, but it is being adopted alongside deterministic AI in a hybrid format to optimize AI resources. Trust will be key for AI penetration, and vendors should focus on AI security, governance, and observability features as a priority for this region."

Orange Business' New Trust the Future Strategy, 2026

Masarra Mohamed, Jitesh Bhayani — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Note examines Orange Business' Insights 2026 analyst event, where the company set out its Trust the Future strategy: a convergence of its transformation programs into a single AI-first platform business, anchored by a landmark partnership with Tech Mahindra and an increasingly product-level commitment to sovereignty that now spans cloud, connectivity, edge computing, IoT, and customer experience. IDC assesses the strategy as credible and differentiated, with execution risk concentrated in the Tech Mahindra transition and in converting trust and sovereignty into monetizable, at-scale revenue.

"Orange Business used Insights 2026 to show that Trust the Future is an acceleration of a strategy IDC has tracked since 2023, not a new direction, and one now backed by revenue, reference customers, and a coherent leadership narrative," said Jitesh Bhayani, research vice president, Worldwide Telecommunications Services at IDC.