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IDC MarketScape: Asia/Pacific Sovereign AI Platform 2026 Vendor Assessment

Deepika Giri, Daeil Chun — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC study assesses technology platform vendors competing in the Asia/Pacific sovereign AI market in 2026, positioning sovereignty as an enterprise AI agenda defined by a spectrum of adoption patterns spanning the infrastructure, data, and model layers. This report underscores the importance of balancing advanced AI capabilities with more controllable and portable architectures for enterprises building durable sovereign AI strategies as AI technologies advance rapidly, regional adoption accelerates, and continuity risks (such as a provider's market exit) emerge.

"A sovereign AI strategy is not a one-size-fits-all strategy. A buyer could want to optimize the data pipeline for AI for ease of use, whereas another could demand full-stack ownership, expecting fundamentally different partners. However, every buyer, regardless of pattern, should test continuity separately from sovereignty. Residency proves a provider cannot read your data, and continuity proves you can keep running if that provider leaves," says Deepika Giri, VP on Asia/Pacific AI platforms and advisory, IDC.

IDC MarketScape: Worldwide AI-Enabled Lease Administration Applications 2026 Vendor Assessment

Brian O'Rourke — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC study provides a vendor assessment of the worldwide AI-enabled lease administration applications market through the IDC MarketScape model.

Post-pandemic shifts toward shorter, more flexible commercial leases are reshaping lease administration software demands. Emerging trends include AI-driven automated lease abstraction, expanded sublease and lessor-side administration capabilities, and portfolio strategy tools with forecasting and scenario planning. In addition, AI has a growing role across data entry, classification, risk mitigation, and reporting throughout lease administration workflows.

“Leases have changed over the past several years, and lease administration applications are changing as well,” said Brian O’Rourke, research manager, Enterprise Asset Management and Smart Facilities at IDC, “evolving from static recordkeeping to a key component in strategic AI-driven enterprise workflows.”

IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Decision Intelligence Platforms 2026 Vendor Assessment

Megha Kumar — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC study represents a vendor assessment of decision intelligence platforms through the IDC MarketScape model. The evaluation is based on a comprehensive and rigorous framework that assesses vendors relative to the criteria and one another. The study highlights the factors expected to be the most influential for technology buyers as they seek a platform to support decision design, engineering, and orchestration, as well as the ability to understand the impact of the decisions being undertaken by the organization. This assessment can be used to help define a short list of vendors

“Decision intelligence continues to evolve with the introduction of generative AI and agentic AI capabilities. These capabilities are being used to accelerate how decision logic is authored, tested, and explained while keeping the deterministic core of the decision intact. It will be important for technology leaders to consider how AI is governed and how much control the organization retains over decisions that carry regulatory or operational significance,” said Megha Kumar, research vice president, Analytics and AI, IDC.

IDC's 2026 SaaS CSAT Awards

Tue, 15 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC presentation provides an overview of the results from IDC's SaaS CSAT Awards.This award program recognizes the leading SaaS vendors in each of the 22 application markets, based on the highest customer satisfaction scores received in IDC's SaaS and Agent Path survey.

SaaS Path is a global survey of roughly 2,845 organizations across all geographic regions and company sizes, in which customers are asked to rate their vendor on more than 30 customer satisfaction metrics.

Broadcom Consolidates Its AI Portfolio Under VMware Private AI Cloud

Matthew Flug — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Broadcom's announcements at VMware Explore 2026 center on consolidating the company's AI portfolio under a single Private AI Cloud banner. The company intends to move what agentic workloads require in production, including agent containment, credential isolation, and gateway-level governance, from custom engineering to VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) platform services, positioning the private cloud as a viable destination for AI workloads.

IDC Survey: 中国企业出海用云调研，2026

Rachel Liu — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

本IDC调查报告基于IDC在2026年5月进行的中国企业出海用云调研结果，主要分析了中国企业出海的动因和模式，出海用云的IT支出、挑战、采购偏好和未来采购计划。

调研显示，当前中企出海用云用户中，61.7%已经是多云用户，其中又有62.2%的企业将50%以上的云支出给了中国云；中企海外用云选择服务商时，最高比例（53.3%）的企业优先考虑的因素是本地化服务能力，技术实力（49.2%）、服务稳定性（46.7%）紧随其后，而品牌知名度选择比例仅15.8%。

未来两年，中企出海用云投入将稳中有升，1.7%的企业将大幅增投（增长30%以上），40.8%的企业将适度增投（增长10%-30%），说明企业信心稳健但克制，逐渐走向跟随业务扩张、按需增投的成熟阶段。出海企业衡量云厂商竞争力的头号标尺是综合使用成本（42.5%），紧随其后的是本地化支持和全栈能力，构成了”成本+能力”的双门槛——既要便宜，又要好用、能落地。

Broadcom Extends VMware Private AI Cloud with Tanzu Platform AI-Ready Data Foundations and VMware AI Factory at VMware Explore 2026

Adam Reeves — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

On August 31, 2026, Broadcom expanded VMware Private AI Cloud with VMware AI Factory and new VMware Tanzu Platform AI-ready data foundations and agent governance enhancements, extending its private cloud platform-as-a-service (PaaS) stack to support agentic AI development and deployment. Broadcom also announced TrueSource by Broadcom, a new open source security portfolio. These updates mark continued progress toward Broadcom's VMware Private AI Cloud and reinforce a broader shift in developer enablement toward platform-mediated governance.

IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Life Sciences R&D RWD/RWE for Data Platforms, Technology Solutions, and Consulting Services 2026 Vendor Assessment

Nimita Limaye — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC study presents an IDC MarketScape assessment of the worldwide life sciences R&D RWE, RWD, platforms, technologies, and consulting services market. It evaluates the strategies and capabilities of key vendors in this space and represents a qualitative and quantitative assessment based on criteria that should be important to life science companies when considering the selection of an RWD/RWE technology solution provider. As data volumes explode, AI reshapes what is possible, and regulators lean further into RWE, this study captures an industry in the midst of a decisive shift from experimentation to enterprise-scale execution. This is the second time that an IDC MarketScape assessment on this topic in life sciences has been performed.

"Real-world data has quietly become the connective tissue of modern drug development. As data volumes explode, AI reshapes the art of the possible for evidence generation, and regulators lean further into RWE, the life sciences industry is undergoing a decisive shift from experimentation to enterprise-scale execution. Those who can exponentially accelerate the transformation of data into evidence that regulators trust, payers accept, and patients ultimately benefit from, will win," said Dr. Nimita Limaye, research VP, Life Sciences R&D Strategy and Technology, IDC.

IDC Survey Spotlight: Which Customer Segments in Europe Are Adopting Neoclouds?

Carla Arend — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey Spotlight examines which customer segments are adopting specialized cloud providers (aka neoclouds) in Europe, breaking down adoption by country (France, Germany, Italy, and the United Kingdom) and by company size. It is based on responses from 355 IT decision-makers across Europe.

Market Share: Worldwide External Enterprise Storage Systems Shares, 2025

Carol Sliwa, Natalya Yezhkova — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC presentation examines the 2025 market shares of the leading vendors in the external enterprise storage systems market.

"External OEM enterprise storage revenue grew 3.9% in 2025, as AI, analytics, and mission-critical databases drove spending on high-performance all-flash arrays. Data growth continued to fuel demand, but storage drive shortages and rising media prices started to have an impact on the market as the year progressed." — Carol Sliwa, research director, Storage and Data Management Enterprise Infrastructure, IDC