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IDC Survey Spotlight: Do Buyers Prefer to Purchase Sustainability Capabilities as a Single Platform or Point Solutions for Specific Purposes?

Amy Cravens — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey Spotlight examines how buyer preferences for purchasing sustainability capabilities — as a single platform, point solutions, or a combination of both — have shifted between 2024 and 2026. Drawing on 816 organizations surveyed in IDC's April 2026 Sustainability Software Survey, trended against IDC's April 2024 survey, IDC finds that point solutions are losing ground as buyers gravitate toward hybrid and platform-centric buying strategies. Purchasing philosophy diverges sharply by region and sustainability, signaling that vendors need segment- and region-specific packaging rather than a single global go-to-market motion.

"There is no single winning playbook for how buyers want to purchase sustainability software. Preferences are converging on hybrid strategies rather than one dominant model, and the right mix depends heavily on a buyer's region and how mature their sustainability program is. Vendors that offer platforms with modular flexibility will be best positioned to win," says Amy Cravens, research manager, Sustainability and ESG Software, IDC.

IDC Survey: European Print-to-Digital Transition — Pace of Change, Key Drivers, and Attitudes to Printing

Gala Spasova, Jacqui Hendriks — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey includes an extract from IDC’s European Imaging, Printing, and Document Solutions Survey, conducted in April among 2,057 respondents in Czechia, France, Germany, Italy, the Nordics, Poland, Spain, and the United Kingdom.

This document examines how European organizations are managing the balance between digital and paper documents and how they view the path toward lower print dependence.

The survey covers topics including the current and expected mix of digital and paper documents, the main factors driving print reduction, attitudes toward near-paperless operations, and the operational, behavioral, and structural factors that continue to shape print use across organizations.

The document also explores how these patterns differ by country, industry, company size, and employee profile, helping clarify where print reduction is moving more easily and where paper remains more embedded in everyday processes.

IDC's Worldwide Circular Economy and ITAD Market Size, 2022–2030: 1H26

Lara Greden, Rob Brothers — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Pivot Table provides worldwide data for revenue, fair market value, and units for the circular economy for datacenter assets and PCs.

It includes ITAD services, decommissioned equipment, and resold equipment. Technology categories include desktops, laptops, servers (x86, nonx86), server accelerator types, routers, storage, and switches.

IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Hardcopy Peripherals Tracker Taxonomy, 2026: Update, July 2026

Tue, 11 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC study provides a comprehensive overview of and definitions for hardcopy peripherals. The definitions provided in this document represent the scope of IDC's HCP hardware research. This taxonomy outlines market segmentations and measurement methodologies for HCP, including classification by technology, vendor, geography, and revenue metrics.

"IDC's worldwide HCP taxonomy presents a standardized and detailed framework of the HCP market," said Phuong Hang, director, Worldwide Trackers at IDC. "The taxonomy document serves as a guideline to better understand and use IDC's HCP research."

Kyndryl FY 1Q27: Growth in Consult and Hyperscalers Sustains Confidence in FY28 Targets Despite Near-Term Revenue Headwinds

Jason Bremner — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Kyndryl announced its financial results for the FY 1Q27 (ending June 30, 2026) on August 5, 2026. On the same day, the company hosted a conference call with financial analysts. Kyndryl reported revenue of $3.6 billion for the quarter, reflecting a year-over-year (y/y) decline of 3% on both a reported basis and in constant currency. Kyndryl grew revenue 5% year over year in the United States and 2% year over year in constant currency in Japan (-8% as reported). The remainder of this document analyzes and reports on year-over-year revenue growth in constant currency, unless otherwise noted, with figures rounded to the nearest percentage point as disclosed in Kyndryl's financial release.

Market Forecast: Worldwide IT Leasing and Financing Forecast, 2026–2030

Lara Greden — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC presentation provides the five-year forecast for the IT leasing and financing market and delivers insights into the drivers and inhibitors of growth.

"Financing and leasing enable flexible, OPEX-based procurement that protects against technology obsolescence and depreciation risk while improving budget predictability, particularly valuable for AI infrastructure and rapid refresh cycles. These models conserve capital while also bundling sustainability benefits such as circularity and ITAD, which most buyers weigh as important decision criteria." — Lara Greden, senior research director, Networking and Infrastructure Services, Enterprise Infrastructure at IDC

Market Forecast: Worldwide and U.S. Document Solutions Software Forecast, 2026-2030

Tim Greene, Evan Hardie, Geoffrey Wilbur — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC study provides the five-year forecast for the document solutions software market and delivers insights into the drivers and inhibitors of growth.

"The document solutions software market faces headwinds as digital transformation shrinks print volumes and fleets. But there is a clear path to growth: vendors that shift from document digitization to actionable data delivery. Those that build AI-driven document processing, lead with cloud, and serve the compliance needs of healthcare, finance, and government will turn a declining print market into an automation opportunity." — Evan Hardie, research director, Consumer Devices Lead

Orange Business Insights Analyst Summit 2026

Chris Barnard, Dina Capelle, Leslie Rosenberg — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Note examines Orange Business' 2026 Insights analyst event in Brussels, where the provider outlined a shift toward an AI-infused platform model built around its Evolution Platform, Live Intelligence, and landmark outsourcing and go-to-market alliance with Tech Mahindra. IDC assesses the strategic logic and execution risk behind these moves and what they signal about Orange Business' evolution from network-centric integrator to AI-powered global systems integrator.

"Orange Business is making its platform, partnership, and sovereignty bets in the same direction at once by pairing an AI-infused platform and a services-as-a-product model with Tech Mahindra's scale and an open antilock-in architecture. If the guardrails hold as it scales, this combination could reset how it competes as an AI-powered global systems integrator," says Leslie Rosenberg, research VP, IDC

Worldwide Server Market Summary and Outlook, 1Q26

Kuba Stolarski — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Presentation offers an overview of the worldwide server market, related trends, and forecasts for the first quarter of 2026. Detailed results and forecasts were released in June 2026 based on data from IDC’s Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker. This presentation provides insights into regional, vendor, and market-level performance as well as details on key developments and trends in the market, including accelerated servers (GPUs and other accelerators). It offers advice to suppliers on how to navigate issues present in the current market and developing over the next five years.

2026年国内ゼロトラストエンタープライズネットワーク市場動向分析

Yoko Ono — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMT

本調査レポートは、国内ゼロトラストエンタープライズネットワーク（SASE／SD-WAN）市場における市場動向を定性的に分析した結果をまとめたものである。また、同市場における主要な通信事業者およびテクノロジーベンダーのオファリング内容とビジネス概況をプロフィールとして掲載している。

国内SASE／SD-WAN市場では、2025年のサイバー攻撃を契機にゼロトラスト導入がCEO（Chief Executive Officer）レベルの経営課題へと格上げされ、大企業層が成熟する一方、中堅中小企業（SMB：Small and Medium-sized Business）層への裾野拡大が新たな成長エンジンとなっている。導入コストが依然として障壁となる中、SASEベンダーやチャネルパートナーがこの層にどこまで対応できるかが問われている。「SASEベンダーとチャネルパートナーは、課金体系の工夫や提供機能のパッケージ化などを通じて、中堅企業層への裾野拡大を加速すべきである」と、IDC Japan、Network & Securityのリサーチマネージャーである小野陽子は述べている。