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IBM's Dual-Architecture Processor Brings Native Arm Execution to the Mainframe

Kuba Stolarski, Jeff Janukowicz, Brent Ellis, Dr. William Lee, Jim Hines — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMT

IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Transportation Management Systems 2026 Vendor Assessment

Simon Ellis, Reid Paquin — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC study analyzes software providers in the market today that support transportation management processes in planning, execution, visibility, optimization, and procurement. Global transportation is a fragmented market that transportation management systems (TMSs) software aims to synchronize into, and across, the supply chain. Automating processes and integrated analytics help organizations improve productivity and drive consistency by enabling practitioners to make more informed and timely decisions across the operational landscape.

"Constantly changing global trade complexities and the persistent, unpredictable disruption of transportation networks require that companies employ a fit-for-purpose TMS application," says Simon Ellis, group VP for Manufacturing and Supply Chain, IDC. "In this IDC MarketScape, we see a group of very strong vendors offering capabilities to make global multimodal shipping an integrated part of their broader supply chain. Advanced TMS capabilities allow clients to derive a competitive advantage versus many who still view it as a basic support function."

ILTACON 2026: Gather Round the Legal Tech Campfire

Ryan O'Leary, Esq. — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Every vendor is best friends with adjacent technology vendors. Point solutions continue to rule the day, but the vendors are so entrenched in their spaces that partnership is the name of the game as acquisitions have become too costly across technologies.

NVIDIA FY 2Q27 Results: Orchestrating the AI Infrastructure Economy

Matthew Eastwood, Ashish Nadkarni — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMT

OpenAI Pulls Its Models from Cursor as the Agentic Coding Battle Intensifies

Arnal Dayaratna — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Salesforce Expands Headless 360 Moving Beyond Developer Enablement to Enterprise-Wide Agentic Access

Adam Reeves — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMT

On August 19, 2026, Salesforce announced an expansion of Headless 360 from a developer-focused programmatic access layer into an enterprise-wide set of MCP servers, reusable skills, and cross-channel tools spanning every major cloud in its portfolio. The update reflects Salesforce's intent to make agentic access a means for both people and AI agents to interact with the platform.

Evaluating Business Office Operations and Services Vendors for the Media Industry 2026

Alex Holtz — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Perspective examines how media companies are converging production, distribution, monetization, media orchestration, and business operations data into a single agentic orchestration layer that surfaces variance in real time and routes corrective action back to back-office ERP systems. It assesses where agentic AI use cases in media stand in 2026, the human-in-the-loop governance that separates durable vendor deployments from stalled pilots, and the road map toward ERP convergence and cross-pillar autonomous orchestration by 2030. This document also profiles the ERP incumbents and media-native and AI-native specialists — including SAP, Oracle, Microsoft, Workday, Salesforce, Mediagenix, TwelveLabs, AWS, Dalet, and Vizrt — building this agentic layer and offers guidance for technology leaders on sequencing data, governance, and vendor selection decisions.

“The media companies that win the next five years won’t be the ones running the most AI pilots — they’ll be the ones whose agents see the whole business cycle and act on it in the same breath. When a production delay, a distribution cost spike, and a monetization shortfall all speak the same language to the same ERP, media stops reconciling its plan after the fact and starts steering it in real time,” said Alex Holtz, research director, Worldwide Media and Entertainment Digital Strategies, IDC.

IDC Innovators: AI-Native/Enabled Sustainability Software Across the Product Life Cycle, 2026

Amy Cravens — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMT

For a decade, sustainability software meant reporting: dashboards that counted carbon after the fact and tools built for the annual disclosure cycle. That era is ending.

This IDC Innovators presentation profiles eight companies embedding AI directly into the decisions that create environmental impact, from how a grocer orders produce to how an aluminum plant blends recycled scrap, from the fate of a returned sweater to which carrier moves a container. Afresh, Alternew, carbmee, Kaizen Circularity AI, LiquiDonate, Packgine, Refiberd, and VesselBot look nothing alike, yet all treat sustainability and profitability as the same optimization problem.

Who made the cut, what makes each genuinely AI native, and where incumbents are most exposed: this document has the answers.

IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Digital Forensics Platforms 2026 Vendor Assessment

Alison Brooks, Ph.D. — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC study evaluates seven digital forensics platform vendors — Cellebrite, Magnet Forensics, MSAB, OpenText (EnCase), Belkasoft, Exterro (FTK), and ADF Solutions — on the capabilities and strategies that determine how well their solutions address the demands of modern investigations. The assessment evaluates each vendor across the investigative workflow, from acquiring data off increasingly locked-down devices, through to maintaining an unbroken chain of custody, to synthesizing large data volumes and producing findings that hold up in court.

Priorities have shifted considerably since IDC last evaluated this market. Getting data off a device remains hard and is getting harder, but the volume of acquired data now overwhelms the capacity to make sense of it, and AI-assisted analysis has moved from novelty to working tool. That shift raises an important question: whether an AI-surfaced finding can be explained and defended under cross-examination. AI governance maturity varies more across these vendors than almost any other capability assessed.

This IDC MarketScape is intended for forensics unit commanders, digital investigations leads, and law enforcement technology officers evaluating platform investments. It is designed to help buyers match a vendor's demonstrated strengths to the stage of the workflow where their own caseload is most constrained.

"For a forensics unit, the solution is only as good as the evidence it can defend in court, not simply the speed at which it processes a device," said Dr. Alison Brooks, IDC Research VP, Worldwide Public Safety. "The vendors pulling ahead are the ones treating defensibility and AI governance as part of the product, rather than a compliance afterthought. As caseloads grow and AI enters the workflow, agencies are having to re-evaluate their priorities."

IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Trade Finance Systems 2026 Vendor Assessment

Maria Adele Di Comite — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC study presents the assessment of 12 vendors for 2026 that provide trade finance solutions to the corporate banking sector: Adria B&T, Aurionpro, BT Systems, CGI, China Systems, Finastra, ICSFS, Infosys Finacle, Intellect Design Arena, Newgen, Oracle, and Surecomp. This research is a quantitative and qualitative assessment of the features of different solutions, along with other characteristics that define vendors' ability to support trade finance activities, streamline bank and corporate operations, and facilitate interactions with the ecosystem. The evaluation is based on a standardized, comprehensive framework and a set of parameters identified as most conducive to success in providing trade finance services in the short and long term. This year's assessment places particular emphasis on the extent to which vendors have moved AI, generative AI, and agentic AI capabilities from road map ambition into production use, alongside their readiness to support the accelerating shift toward electronically recognized trade documents. Evaluation also considers features to support risk management and regulatory compliance evaluations, as well as the ability to address emerging needs in a challenging and fast-evolving market, in times of uncertainty.

"In 2026, trade finance vendors are facing three key challenges: proving that their AI claims hold up under customer scrutiny, preparing for a trade ecosystem that is steadily shifting from paper to electronically recognized documents, and proving they have strong governance to meet tightening regulatory requirements and support advanced risk management. Across this assessment, vendors show meaningful progress on each of these fronts, though the pace and depth of progress vary across the vendor landscape," said Maria Adele Di Comite, senior research director, IDC Financial Insights.