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AI Pricing Complexity Demands a New Monetization Stack: Zuora's AI Monetization Suite Announcement

Heather Hershey — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT

HPE 2Q26 Results: Two Years Ahead of Plan

Matthew Eastwood — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Cisco Live 2026: Cloud Control and AgenticOps Usher in a New Era of Unified, AI-Driven Campus Networking

Brandon Butler — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Cisco Live 2026 featured the announcement of Cisco Cloud Control, a unified operational hub for the company's AgenticOps vision that enables AI agents and human operators to collaborate across network domains. Cisco's announcements represent the culmination of years of work unifying the company's campus strategy into a unified platform and enabling advanced AI-powered capabilities. Now, the key will be adoption execution and proving the value of agentic-powered operations.

Digital Twins 2026: Five Key Trends for Industrial Engineering and Operations

Jeffrey Hojlo, Jonathan Lang — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation examines key technology and business trends impacting the evolution and development of digital twin strategies for industrial enterprises in 2026. Digital twin strategies continue to be an evolving architectural and business framework for developing and consuming data models pertaining to physical world products, assets, and processes. As data management, modeling, simulation, and other technology capabilities advance, the viability of true system-level digital twins advances along with them.

"With the big push to leverage AI, every industrial enterprise is looking for the right approach to compile data from multiple systems and improve user interactions and interfaces to drive data-driven decisions," says Jonathan Lang, research director, Worldwide IT/OT Convergence Strategies for IDC. "These principles of an intuitive graphical interface and dynamic data models combining simulation, real time, and other data are exactly what companies have hoped to achieve through digital twins for many years."

Google I/O 2026: Google Advances Android XR and AI with Project Aura Smart Glasses and Intelligent Eyewear

Francisco Jeronimo, Ramon T. Llamas — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT

At Google I/O 2026, Google made its most substantial commitment to smart glasses to date, unveiling two distinct product tiers under its Android XR platform. First, Project Aura (a collaboration between Google, XREAL, and Qualcomm) is a device running Android XR that delivers a 70-degree field of view optical see-through display with full Android app support and Gemini AI integration. The second is Intelligent Eyewear, a line of audio-first glasses developed with Samsung and fashion eyewear Warby Parker and Gentle Monster, powered by Gemini. Both devices will be available in the fall.

Taken together, these announcements represent Google's most coherent push into wearable computing since abandoning Google Glass over a decade ago. However, the focus shifted from hardware only to a platform strategy, powered by AI, which is a strong recognition that smart glasses compete across the full spectrum of the XR opportunity.

Honeywell Unveils New Brands Following Aerospace Spin-Off

Sarah Lee — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Honeywell (Nasdaq: HON) has announced the launch of two new brand identities, Honeywell Technologies and Honeywell Aerospace, effective June 29, 2026, as the company completes the spin-off of its aerospace business. The separation creates two independent, publicly traded companies, each with distinct end markets and capital structures.

Jenzabar Annual Meeting 2026: Charting the Path to Jenzabar One Web with Confidence

Matthew Leger — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Jenzabar held its 25th annual customer meeting (JAM 2026) at the Gaylord Texan in Dallas from May 27 to 30, drawing more than 1,200 higher education customers. Throughout the event, the company put customer confidence, collaboration, and trust at the center of its message, depicting the move to Jenzabar One Web — the company's cloud-based, modular enterprise resource planning (ERP) and student information system — as a journey focused on addressing each institution's unique needs, challenges, and opportunities. What stood out to IDC was how closely the agenda tracked the challenges documented in the IDC MarketScape: North America Higher Education SaaS and Cloud-Enabled Student Information Systems 2024 Vendor Assessment (IDC #, September 2024). Jenzabar provided concrete updates and strategic priorities to address each of the following key challenges: buggy releases, performance issues, limited change management support, and difficulty with migrating large on-premises systems to the cloud.

Market Share: Worldwide Service Provider Router Shares, 2025

Ajeet Das — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Presentation examines the 2025 market shares of the leading vendors in the worldwide service provider router market. Following a sharp contraction in 2024, the market rebounded to $11.2 billion as inventory normalization and renewed carrier investment in 5G, 800Gbps infrastructure, and cloud interconnect drove a broad but uneven recovery across vendors and regions.

“While Huawei maintains its global revenue lead, the 2025 data underscores a strategic pivot for Cisco. By achieving massive 55.8% growth in the core router segment, Cisco has effectively consolidated its dominance in the high-end backbone market, capturing nearly half of all global core revenue at 47.4%.” — Research Director Ajeet Das, Telecom Infrastructure, IDC

Overview of Europe Wide Format Printer Market, 2026

Mitri Roufka — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Note discusses Western Europe (16 countries) CAD and graphics wide format printer markets in terms of unit shipments' development for 2021–2025 and analyzes the key inhibitors and drivers influencing the demand in each segment and provides recommendations on what established vendors need to do to remain relevant and competitive.

Transforming Legacy Manufacturing: Insights from Schneider Electric's Le Vaudreuil Lighthouse Factory Visit

Gunjan Bassi — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Note summarizes key observations from a press and analyst visit to Schneider Electric's Le Vaudreuil factory in Normandy, France, in May 2026. It covers the factory as an illustration of brownfield digital transformation in European manufacturing, the key technology and organizational practices observed during the visit, and the implications of Schneider Electric's participation in the World Economic Forum's Lighthouse Operating System Advisory Board, announced on May 7, 2026.

"Le Vaudreuil shows that transformation in legacy manufacturing depends on more than new technology. Empowering people, unifying data, and establishing foundational data architecture and change management are prerequisites," said Gunjan Bassi, research manager, Worldwide Industrial Internet of Things and Intelligence Strategies at IDC. "While large-scale results require sustained investment and alignment, considering the sequence and integration of these priorities can position most industrial organizations for more effective transformation."