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Amazon unBoxed 2026: Amazon Ads Agent Merges the Console and DSP and Puts AI in the Planning Seat for Advertisers of All Sizes.

Roger Beharry Lall, Allyson Leavy — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 04:00:00 GMT

IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Agentic AI Platforms 2026 Vendor Assessment

Neil Ward-Dutton, Melih Murat — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC study represents a vendor assessment of the agentic AI platform software market through the IDC MarketScape model. This assessment discusses both quantitative and qualitative characteristics, providing guidance about agentic AI platform software vendors and their offerings. The evaluation is based on a comprehensive and rigorous framework that assesses vendors relative to the criteria, and it highlights the factors expected to be the most influential for success in the market in both the short term and the long term.

"As organizations start to scale their use of AI agents, platforms that they can use not only to build and deploy — but also to operate, secure, evaluate and govern — AI agents become very valuable," said Neil Ward-Dutton, research VP, agentic automation and AI technologies at IDC. "IDC research shows that almost three-quarters of organizations are already at the stage of deploying multiple agent workflows, so the time for organizations to explore the benefits of these platforms is now."

Agentic Orchestration Checks In: The Opportunity for Media Networks Has Arrived for Healthcare

Alex Holtz, Nimita Limaye — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Perspective explores how agentic orchestration and the rise of health media networks are reshaping advertising as reimbursement pressure, concentrated therapeutic economics, and the loss of modeled health audiences push pharmacies, payers, PBMs, and digital health platforms toward compliant first-party data monetization. With operators such as CVS Media Exchange, Walgreens Advertising Group, Optum, GoodRx, and the point-of-care networks building closed-loop, high-intent advertising surfaces, this document maps the category into three archetype stacks and details the architectural, regulatory, and measurement challenges that determine who can credibly participate. It offers a blueprint for stakeholders to capture therapeutic and non-endemic demand while separating advertising decisioning from coverage and clinical judgment as agentic assistants reach the point of care.

"Healthcare has the highest-intent first-party data in commerce media and the least room for error in activating it," says Alex Holtz, research director, Worldwide Media and Entertainment Digital Strategies, IDC. "The closed-loop infrastructure that transformed retail, then travel, and then financial services is now arriving in pharmacies, plans, and digital health platforms — but here, the institution selling the ad may also control the formulary, the prior authorization, and the fill. The question isn't whether this market forms. It is whether operators build the disclosure and governance architecture now, while agentic care navigation is small enough to design."

"Healthcare's next margin frontier isn't a new service line — it's already sitting in the data. For pharmacies, plans, and digital health platforms, first-party assets represent a high-margin revenue opportunity that is reimbursement independent, clinically non-dilutive, and self-reinforcing as measurement closes the loop," said Dr. Nimita Limaye, research vice president, IDC Health Insights. "What separates sustainable advantage from short-term extraction is architecture: institutions that embed consent, de-identification, and disclosure into the core product — not the compliance stack — will compound. The ones that don't will discover that advertising revenue earned at the cost of patient trust carries the steepest hidden price in the industry."

FedRAMP 20x: How Continuous Authorization can Change Government IT Acquisition

Massimiliano Claps — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Perspective explains FedRAMP 20x, the U.S. program that replaces document-based cloud authorization with automated, continuously reported security evidence, and sets out what governments and suppliers should do about it.

“Certification speed is about to become a sales variable. Governments and suppliers that build compliance as an engineering pipeline will innovate faster than those that keep it as paperwork,” said Massimiliano Claps, research director, IDC.

IDC MaturityScape Benchmark: AI-Fueled Travel and Hospitality Organization Worldwide, 2026

Dorothy Creamer, Nigel Wallis, Claudia Medina — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC study presents results from IDC’s MaturityScape Benchmark AI Survey, released worldwide in May 2026, drawing on a travel and hospitality subsample of 130 organizations from the 1,900 organizations surveyed. It is the updated edition of IDC’s inaugural hospitality and travel benchmark (see IDC MaturityScape Benchmark: AI-Fueled Hospitality and Travel Organization Worldwide, 2025, IDC #US53354425, May 2025) and applies the framework set out in IDC MaturityScape: AI-Fueled Organization 2.0 (IDC #US54450625, April 2026). The most significant change this year is the elevation of governance to a distinct fourth dimension alongside strategy, people, and technology. Note: Because the underlying survey methodology and question set were revised for 2026, year-over-year figures are not directly comparable to the 2025 hospitality and travel benchmark, and this document does not present numeric comparisons against prior-year results.

Travel and hospitality organizations post an overall AI maturity score essentially identical to the worldwide average (mean of 2.43 versus 2.43 globally), led by governance (at 2.63, the most advanced of the sector’s four dimensions), echoing the global pattern, while technology (2.31), remains the least mature, reflecting persistent data and platform readiness gaps even in a sector where guest-facing digital channels generate substantial volumes of data.

“Hospitality and travel organizations have made real strides in governance, the most mature of the four dimensions we measured this year, but this strength has not yet spread evenly across the organization,” says Dorothy Creamer, senior research manager, Hospitality and Travel Digital Strategies, IDC Retail Insights. “Technology remains the sector’s weakest link, and as agentic AI moves from pilots into production, operators that have not modernized their guest data and platform foundations will find that governance maturity alone cannot carry the transformation.”

“This is consistent with the sector’s growing exposure to guest data privacy and payment-security obligations: Hospitality and travel organizations handle large volumes of personal, payment, and loyalty data across the guest journey, and a breach or misuse of this data carries direct reputational and revenue risk, giving organizations of all maturity levels a strong incentive to establish baseline AI governance practices even before other dimensions mature.”

IDC Tech Buyer Presentation: U.S. State CIO AI Priorities and Policies

Chelsea McCullough, PhD. — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation examines how AI is reshaping the role of U.S. state CIOs. It covers the gap between AI ambition and available funding/capacity, the wave of CIO leadership turnover, and the rapid rise of state-level AI legislation.

The deck also profiles how individual states — including Georgia, Maryland, Utah, Texas, California, Colorado, and Vermont — are organizing themselves to meet AI demands and closes with the political tensions surrounding AI datacenter development and a set of takeaways for state technology leaders.

NetApp Platform Launch: Agentic AI Data Infrastructure for Developer Enablement and Multicloud PaaS Environments

Adam Reeves — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Positioning the company's data layer as a governance and portability component for multicloud PaaS and agentic AI, NetApp announced updates to the NetApp Platform on September 29, 2026. The announcements included new autonomous operations and fleet management for NetApp Console, a heterogeneous NetApp AI Data Engine, Keystone Sovereign, an OCI-native storage service with Oracle, and the NetApp Novus architecture for AI factories.

Microsoft Copilot Managed Runtime: Application Platform Hosting and Governance for AI-Generated Applications in Microsoft 365

Adam Reeves — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Microsoft introduced Microsoft Copilot Managed Runtime, formerly Managed Apps, into public preview on September 25, 2026, as an application platform hosting layer and SDK in Microsoft 365 that governs AI-generated applications built in Microsoft and third-party tools. Governing the running artifact gives IT a single inventory, and the value of that approach depends on how many developers and outside builders route their apps through the SDK.

Navigating the Agentic Shift: AI Strategies for Wealth Management

Dr. Chris Marshall, Michael Sek Pheng Yeo — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Perspective examines the agentic AI moving from pilot to production in wealth management in 2026, productivity and ROI evidence supporting it, and governance practices technology buyers need to scale autonomy safely.

“The wealth managers winning with agentic AI are not the ones moving fastest; they are the ones who built the strongest foundations in platforms and governance before building the autonomy functions as well as those who are constantly evolving their budgets and decision-making based on the rapid cadence of development in the industry,” says Michael Yeo, associate research director, IDC Financial Insights.

Solving the Execution Gap: A Tech Vendor’s Playbook for Energy Transition

Roberta Bigliani — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation shows that buyer demand for energy transition programs has moved past the pilot stage, while the offers built to serve it have not kept pace. Targets are funded, budgets are rising, and CEOs, CFOs, and COOs now hold the main decision-making and spending roles on this agenda. What the survey exposes is a gap between the funded demand and the accountability, data, and commercial models technology vendors need to sell against it.

IDC’s 2026 Energy Transition Survey questioned 1,135 large organizations across 17 countries in North America, Europe, and Asia/Pacific. 81% have set a net-zero target, and 84% plan to raise investment over the next 24 months, yet only 18% report full profit-and-loss accountability for that spending. 52% say their carbon and energy data still sits across disconnected sources and formats, 70% expect a return within two to five years, and 74% are testing or already relying on performance-based contracts with their delivery partners.

The presentation sets out what vendor leadership, account teams, and portfolio leaders should each do to convert that gap into revenue: Sell to the economic owner by leading with payback, resilience, and operating performance; package energy assets, controls, data, and services into a single offer a buyer can approve in one decision; back the offer with named references, measured outcomes, and a shared verification method; and put financing, service levels, and partner accountability into the commercial terms from the start. Suppliers that put these four moves in place within the current buying cycle will own the sector value cases their buyers are already funding.