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Figma’s Product Expansion Illustrates Design-Led Development as an Emerging Form of Intent-Driven Development

Arnal Dayaratna — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Dassault Systèmes AEC Summit 2026: AI Datacenter Boom Expands the Engineering Software Opportunity

Jeffrey Hojlo — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Note provides key takeaways and analysis from the Dassault Systèmes AEC Summit recently held in Velizy-Villacoublay, France.

"Although construction organizations have often looked to manufacturing organizations for best practices in streamlining production and project processes, the datacenter or AI factory building boom of the past couple of years has brought the need for modularity and prefabrication to the fore. Although this strategy will be in complement to existing construction design, building information modeling (BIM), and project management solutions, there is an opportunity to expand this to other industries in which a more repeatable platform approach may be helpful, such as government, healthcare, and education." Jeffrey F. Hojlo, research vice president, IDC.

Eaton and Infleqtion Partner with U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory to Advance Quantum Computing for Critical Infrastructure Resilience

Heather West, PhD — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Eaton and Infleqtion's announcement reflects a broader shift in enterprise quantum adoption, where the focus is moving beyond scientific research toward decision support for critical infrastructure. As organizations navigate increasingly complex operational, cybersecurity, and governance challenges, hybrid quantum-classical computing is emerging as part of a broader enterprise resilience strategy.

Edge Delivery Services Transformation Update

Ghassan Abdo — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMT

"The vendors expanding beyond delivery toward security and edge AI inference are better positioned to win in this demanding marketplace. Security has already proven it can replace delivery margins. The open question is how quickly edge AI inference becomes a significant revenue and margin expansion driver for these providers," says Ghassan Abdo, research VP, WW Telecom.

Exostar Appoints Jeff Ladner as Chief Product Officer, Signaling a Strategic Acceleration of Customer-Focused Innovation Across Its Security, Compliance, and Identity Platform

Philip D. Harris, CISSP, CCSK — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Exostar has appointed Jeff Ladner as chief product officer (CPO), bringing more than 20 years of SaaS product leadership experience from Onspring, Intelex, Sphera, and IHS to lead the company's product strategy, road map, and innovation initiatives across the company's cybersecurity, compliance, identity and access management, and supply chain risk solutions. The appointment is paired with the elevation of former CPO Vijay Takanti to chief strategy officer, a dual leadership move that IDC views as a deliberate structural signal: Exostar is simultaneously deepening its long-term strategic planning capacity while accelerating near-term product execution for more than 200,000 companies and agencies across the Defense Industrial Base (DIB), aerospace and defense, life sciences, and healthcare industries. IDC views this leadership investment as consistent with Exostar's positioning as the dominant platform provider for highly regulated industry communities, arriving at a moment when the company's customers face compounding cybersecurity, CMMC compliance, and supply chain risk pressures.

IDC’s Worldwide Semiannual Cloud IaaS Tracker Taxonomy, 2026

Jasdeep Singh, Taranvir Singh, Dave McCarthy, Ashish Nadkarni, Rasmus Andsbjerg — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC study provides a detailed taxonomy of the public cloud infrastructure as a service and related SaaS — system infrastructure software markets. The scope of this document includes public cloud compute, storage, and networking services, as well as the data protection software, archiving software, and other computing and storage software markets.

“This taxonomy represents the classification of public cloud IaaS and related software markets,” said Jasdeep Singh, research manager, Cloud and Infrastructure Services at IDC. “It is designed to establish the market definitions and boundaries that serve as the foundation for IDC’s market sizing and forecasting activities.”

What We Saw: Trends and Developments in Large Format and Production Print —1Q26

Tim Greene — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Presentation highlights some major developments and new products in the production and large-format digital printing markets in the first quarter of 2026. A lot happened in the first quarter that will impact the rest of 2026 and beyond. The presentation also includes shipment data and strategic news from the quarter.

Apple Fiscal 3Q26: June Quarter Records; Looking Ahead, Memory Costs and Supply Constraints Could Hamper Growth

Tom Mainelli — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Apple reported fiscal 3Q26 (June quarter) revenue of $109.4 billion on July 30, 2026, up 16% YoY and a June quarter record, with revenue records in every geographic segment and double-digit growth in every region. Products revenue was $78.7 billion, up 18% YoY. iPhone set a June quarter record at $54.3 billion (22% YoY), and Mac posted its best June quarter ever at $10.4 billion (29% YoY). Services also hit a June quarter record at $30.7 billion (12% YoY).

Atlassian’s DX AI Measurement Framework Aims to Close the Gap Between AI Spend and Value

George Mironescu — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Note discusses the Atlassian DX platform's latest capabilities and approach to capturing and measuring AI's impact on software delivery.

"The hard realization emerging in the market is that the AI-related surge in code generation and spending has not yet translated into comparable value add. Atlassian's DX is positioning itself precisely around this gap, seeking to give leaders the measurement and benchmarking tooling to turn AI investment into demonstrable returns," says George Mironescu, associate research director, Software Development, Delivery, and Engineering at IDC.

Building Enterprise Quantum Competency: Six Strategic Decisions for Technology Buyers

Heather West, PhD — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Perspective presents six strategic decisions that enterprise technology buyers should evaluate today, and revisit over time, to build enterprise quantum competency: the organizational readiness required to evaluate, adopt, operationalize, and scale quantum technologies as commercial capabilities mature. Drawing on IDC PeerScape research, IDC MarketScape vendor assessment, and enterprise survey data, this IDC Perspective helps technology buyers align quantum investments with business priorities, build organizational readiness, and capture computational advantage as the quantum computing market evolves.

"Computational advantage does not automatically become business value. The organizations that lead in the quantum era will be those that build the capability to recognize where quantum creates value, operationalize it effectively, and continuously adapt as technologies, workloads, and business priorities evolve," said Heather West, PhD, senior research manager, Global Quantum Computing Research at IDC.