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Adobe Workfront — Evolving AI-Driven Workflow, Collaboration and Workspace Management Across Adobe Experience Cloud

Melinda-Carol Ballou, Wayne Kurtzman — Fri, 22 May 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Adobe announced enhancements to Adobe Workfront at its Summit conference last month, centered on AI-driven workflow optimization, intelligent workspace management, and expanded collaboration capabilities across the Adobe Experience Cloud ecosystem. The announcements reflect a broader shift toward embedding AI agents and natural language interfaces directly into work management platforms to help improve execution speed, data access, coordination, and decision-making. These updates position Workfront as a more integrated system of execution within Adobe’s experience platform, linking planning, content production, and operational workflows.

As organizations must optimize business execution across widely distributed geographies amid economic, geopolitical and supply chain volatility, augmenting planning in conjunction with AI is a core focus across organizations in conjunction with effective AI governance and agentic orchestration. This IDCLink outlines key elements of the Adobe Workfront announcements and assesses implications for enterprise work management, effective planning and prioritization with AI-enabled process automation.

HPE Meets SAP Sapphire's "Autonomous Enterprise" with a New Compute Scale-Up Server

Max Pepper — Fri, 22 May 2026 04:00:00 GMT

HPE, which IDC identified as a leader in its 2026 MarketScape for SAP HANA-certified server appliances, has released the Compute Scale-up Server 3250, raising the bar for SAP HANA-certified appliances, just as SAP's "Autonomous Enterprise" pivot drives demand for infrastructure that can handle compute- and memory-intensive workloads such as text/media analytics, business intelligence/data analytics, and unstructured databases alongside core ERM. The 3250's memory density, low-latency node controller, and fault-tolerant uptime position HPE to capture intensifying demand from RISE customers activating Joule Assistants and modernizing their SAP environments at scale, although a backdrop of growing SAP-driven hyperscaler competition and rising component costs will test the 3250's market demand.

How the Global Memory Shortage Is Impacting the Used and Refurbished Datacenter Server and Storage Markets and Related Services

Lara Greden, Rob Brothers — Fri, 22 May 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC study discusses how the global memory shortage, fueled by AI infrastructure competing for the same DRAM, NAND, and storage capacity as enterprise servers, storage systems, and networking equipment, is reshaping the datacenter market in ways that will reverberate well into 2027. For OEMs, IT asset disposition (ITAD) providers, and enterprise technology buyers alike, the shortage is not a temporary disruption to wait out. It is a structural shift that demands new strategies around supply chain resilience, asset recovery, and infrastructure life-cycle management.

IDC Survey Spotlight: How Are Document Scanning Volumes Changing in Europe's Office Environment by Document Type?

Mitri Roufka — Fri, 22 May 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey Spotlight investigates how document scanning volumes are changing in Europe's office environment by industry and document type. It examines the document categories where scanning activity is increasing and the main reasons organizations are scanning more, including workflow efficiency, compliance requirements, legal obligations, increased business activity, reduced physical storage, and the need to capture paper-based information for digital use.

This document also highlights the industries and business functions most likely to see higher scanning demand. It examines how scanning supports the transition from paper-based input to digital document workflows, especially in document-heavy, regulated environments. The document provides insight into where scanning remains an important workflow-enabling function for organizations seeking to improve information access, process speed, auditability, storage management, and document routing.

IDC Survey Spotlight: Is There a Link Between Increased Scanning and Increased/Decreased Printing in Europe's Office Environment?

Mitri Roufka — Fri, 22 May 2026 04:00:00 GMT

IDC Survey Spotlight: What Are A4 Devices Used For?

Phil Sargeant — Fri, 22 May 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey Spotlight features results from IDC's European IPDS B2B Print Opportunity Survey, conducted in March 2026 among European organizations using printing and copying devices. This document focuses on the use of A4 laser printers and MFPs across business departments, as well as the functions regularly used on these devices.

The survey covered departmental use of A4 laser devices, including finance/accounting, IT, human resources, customer service, sales, purchasing, and operations, as well as regularly used functions such as color printing, black-and-white printing, copying, scanning to email, scanning to cloud, and faxing. The findings show that A4 devices continue to support broad office work, with print and copy remaining the main use cases, while scanning and fax extend their role into specific document workflows.

IDC Survey Spotlight: Where Do European Print Decision-Makers Source Advice on Digital Transformation/AI Solutions?

Jacqui Hendriks — Fri, 22 May 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey Spotlight highlights an extract from IDC's Imaging, Printing, and Document Solutions (IPDS) Survey, conducted in April 2026 among 2,057 respondents. This document examines where European print decision-makers turn for advice when evaluating or adopting digital transformation and artificial intelligence (AI) solutions — identifying both the primary advisory source consulted and the broader mix of channels drawn upon across the evaluation and purchasing process.

The findings map the advisory landscape shaping technology decisions among print decision-makers, covering whether organizations rely on vendors and resellers, industry analysts, peer networks, internal IT teams, or other sources when navigating digital transformation and AI adoption.

U.S. Department of Commerce Commits $2B in CHIPS Act Funding to Advance Domestic Quantum Computing Strategy

Heather West, PhD — Fri, 22 May 2026 04:00:00 GMT

The Department of Commerce’s $2 billion quantum initiative marks a significant shift in U.S. quantum strategy from research support toward industrial-scale ecosystem development and domestic manufacturing acceleration. While the investments could strengthen U.S. leadership across multiple quantum modalities, the program also introduces important long-term questions around market concentration, government influence, and the sustainability of funding across future administrations.

What the 2026 EMEA Analyst Forum Reveals About AWS' Strategy, AI Ambition, and Execution Gaps in META

Uzair Mujtaba — Fri, 22 May 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Note discusses AWS' 2026 EMEA Analyst Forum, which highlighted the company's intensified focus in the Middle East, Turkey, and Africa (META), positioning it as a transformation partner backed by large-scale infrastructure investment, the Humain AI Factory partnership in Saudi Arabia, and AI-powered modernization tooling. AWS' regional ambition is credible, though talent constraints and evolving regulatory frameworks require attention. The forum reinforced three priorities: migration and data modernization as prerequisites for AI adoption, agentic AI as an emerging services battleground, and sovereignty approaches calibrated to META's distinct regulatory requirements.

Closing the Inspection Gap: Quantum Sensing Enters Production-Scale Semiconductor Failure Analysis

Heather West, PhD, Jeff Janukowicz, Helen Chiang — Thu, 21 May 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Note covers QuantumDiamonds' deployment of its diamond nitrogen-vacancy (NV) quantum sensing platform at iST in Hsinchu, Taiwan, and assesses its significance for semiconductor failure analysis. As advanced packaging architectures push failure sites beyond the reach of legacy inspection tools, quantum sensing is emerging as a production-ready solution with implications that extend into the broader quantum hardware ecosystem.