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IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Construction Management Software 2026 Vendor Assessment

Jeffrey Hojlo — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC MarketScape report analyzes vendors in the construction management software segment.

“The AEC industry is accelerating toward digital, virtually overnight in some cases from paper and analog. They realize that the age-old challenges in the construction industry of cost and time overruns, quality and safety issues, as well as true integrated project delivery (IPD) and collaboration can be alleviated through much of the construction management software available today,” said Jeffrey Hojlo, research vice president, IDC’s Industrial Ecosystems, Engineering, & Product Innovation Strategies.

IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Retail Merchandise Financial Planning Solutions 2026 Vendor Assessment

Ananda Chakravarty — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC study assesses vendors in the worldwide retail merchandise financial planning market. Merchandise financial planning is a decades-old discipline that moved from manual spreadsheets to codified top-down/bottom-up reconciliation built around preseason, in-season, and postseason cycles, with OTB and WSSI tracking. That model has hit its limits, and MFP has begun a dramatic shift toward AI and forward-looking agentic models that run continuously and holistically. For buyers, the harder work is outside the software selection. Retailers need to evaluate their internal planning considerations to determine how to leverage upcoming capabilities in data, AI, and workflows that exceed those of standard spreadsheets. This usually means change management and new ways of working. However, the end results will provide the necessary edge to maintain a modern retail operation and plan accordingly.

“Retailers able to make the transition to leveraging compute technology — whether it is heuristic or more advanced AI — will come away with advantages over those resorting to manual engagement and merchant-only perspectives,” says Ananda Chakravarty, VP Research, IDC Retail, Hospitality, and Media Insights.

IDC MarketScape: 中国企业资源管理市场AI Agent 2026年厂商评估

Wenting Xu — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

本IDC研究聚焦在中国市场开展ERM AI Agent业务的技术厂商，针对入选技术厂商的能力和战略进行综合评估。2026年企业数字化转型持续深化，生成式AI与企业核心系统的融合从概念验证走向规模落地，推动ERM市场AI Agent进入能力升级与场景交付的关键期。当前，头部厂商已围绕财务共享、供应链协同、制造执行、人力资本管理等核心业务场景，构建从智能助手到自主执行Agent的产品体系，AI Agent在ERM领域的应用正从通用问答走向业务流程的深度嵌入。在此行业背景下，ERM AI Agent的核心价值与发展逻辑发生根本性转变，不再局限于单点查询辅助与流程自动化，而是朝着自主执行闭环、多智能体协同、可信治理、私有化适配、行业化深耕五大核心方向全面演进。

IDC企业级软件高级研究经理徐文婷表示："2026年AI Agent在ERM市场加速落地，产品形态与竞争格局呈现五大核心趋势，即从Copilot辅助向Agent自主执行升级，多智能体协同与跨系统打通成为标配，可信AI与幻觉管控成为企业采购刚需，私有化部署与信创适配加速渗透，行业化场景深耕成为差异化竞争关键。"

Market Analysis Perspective: Worldwide Talent Acquisition, 2026

Abhinav Shrivastava — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Analysis Perspective provides insight into the current and future state of the worldwide talent acquisition (TA) market. It includes an overview of the current market landscape, a technology buyer perspective, a market outlook, and IDC's advice for technology suppliers/service suppliers in this market.

"With the rapid transformation of talent acquisition, tech vendors' AI capabilities have outpaced most buyers' ability to operationalize them, so technology suppliers that document measurable adoption and defensible governance will separate themselves from those that only demonstrate features. Trust, auditability, and skills validation will become the deciding factors in vendor selection over the next 12 to 18 months, as buyers move past pilot programs and demand evidence that AI-augmented hiring decisions are more efficient, transparent, explainable, and fair," said Abhinav Shrivastava, research manager, Talent Acquisition and Strategy, IDC.

New Player Has Entered: Googlebook is Modern, AI-Forward Take on Notebooks

Linn Huang — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

A new Android-and-ChromeOS hybrid, five OEM partners, and a Gemini-first interface aim to turn the laptop into an intelligent system. In lieu of the growth of AI experiences, features, and workloads, this feels like the right product at the right time. However, getting to mainstream adoption requires crossing a chasm that's fraught with Microsoft partners, channels, and programs.

Worldwide Server Workloads Infrastructure by Operating System Environment Market Overview and Trends, 2026

Max Pepper — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Presentation provides an overview of workload spending trends for enterprise servers by operating system environment (OSE) and how these trends will impact future spending growth on OSEs. This overview serves as an update to Worldwide Server Infrastructure Workloads by Operating System Environment Forecast, 2025–2029 (IDC #US53804325, November 2025), providing a focused analysis of spending dynamics across workloads based on whether these workloads are running on servers supporting Windows, Linux, or mainframe or other OSEs such as Unix. As Linux continues to widen its lead as the default substrate for AI-driven infrastructure investment, and as Windows and mainframe/other OS settle into narrower, more specialized roles, understanding how these workload-level dynamics differ across operating systems is important for vendor strategy, deal positioning, and infrastructure planning.

IDC Survey: IDC 2026 Worldwide Supply Chain Survey: Oil & Gas

Simon Ellis, Gaurav Verma — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey presentation provides insight into the supply chain challenges and opportunities oil & gas companies are facing, their current priorities, the drivers of change in the strategic focus of their supply chains, the impact of ongoing disruptions (i.e., protectionism/tariffs, economic uncertainty), and the use of modern digital technologies, particularly AI. The data for this presentation comes from IDC's Worldwide Supply Chain Survey (May 2026) and reflects the oil & gas respondent base across all regions polled. Fielded in May 2026, the overall sample size for this survey was 1,374 organizations, of which 100 were specific to oil & gas.

Market Forecast: Worldwide Human Capital Management Applications Forecast, 2026–2030

Zachary Chertok, Leonardo Freitas, Abhinav Shrivastava — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC presentation provides the five-year forecast for the human capital management market (HCM) and delivers insights into the drivers and inhibitors of growth.

The global HCM applications market is expanding rapidly as organizations adopt dynamic, skills-first operating models to boost enterprise agility. Growth is being reshaped by structural AI integration — through AI-infused SaaS tools and agile AI-native entrants — while low-code "vibe coding" threatens to disrupt basic, contained task management. While shifting structural trends may redefine industry leaders, the overall market is set for sustained growth as platforms evolve from static administrative databases into intelligent engines for workforce strategy, productivity, and skill alignment.

"AI and digital agency are expanding growth in HCM applications as HR leaders seek to meet growing enterprise demand for agility and adaptability. Key growth areas center on workforce skilling, workforce planning, and continuous alignment between workforce performance and evolving enterprise goals. Overall, HR leaders are seeking to translate shifting corporate objectives into actionable workforce strategies, which requires them to migrate core HR capabilities into modern digital and AI-enabled tools that directly bolster productivity, collaboration, and performance." — Zachary Chertok, senior research manager, Employee Experience, IDC

Market Forecast: Worldwide Payroll Applications Forecast, 2026–2030

Zachary Chertok — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC presentation provides the five-year forecast for the payroll applications market and delivers insights into the drivers and inhibitors of growth.

"Payroll management is transitioning to real-time management and compliance automation models as it shifts from a back-end task to a data-driven and AI-enabled outcome. On-demand payroll is allowing employees to access their earned income on demand, decoupling payouts from traditional, employer-led pay cycles. At the same time, automated and AI-verified compliance and rules checks are giving way to instant error remediation, reducing financial risks for employers and employees." — Zachary Chertok, senior research manager, Employee Experience

IBM Engineering AI Hub 1.3 Extends MCP Access and Agent Interoperability

Melinda-Carol Ballou — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Engineering organizations contend with product data fragmented across PLM, ERP, and manufacturing execution systems (MES), with more than half reporting late-stage redesign as a result (see IDC Survey: PLM for Process Manufacturers, IDC #US52274425, April 2026). Agentic AI maturity for engineering life-cycle management (ELM) work currently lags this fragmentation problem, and AI governance depth varies meaningfully by vendor. Against this backdrop, IBM announced Engineering AI Hub 1.3 earlier this summer: a managed Model Context Protocol (MCP) endpoint for life cycle–aware access to ELM data and Rhapsody Systems Engineering (Rhapsody SE) models, agent-to-agent (A2A) interoperability for multiagent workflows, Amazon Bedrock support alongside watsonx.ai, and expanded air-gapped and Kubernetes deployment options. This extends IBM's March 2026 Engineering AI Hub 1.2 and Rhapsody MCP preview, concentrating current MCP tools in discovery and analysis, act/write, and trace-and-link capabilities, including creating requirements and writing operations. This strategy aligns with trends from tech leaders in the ELM and ALM/PLM arena.