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Ericsson Private 5G Now Available Through Verizon Business Internationally

Alejandro Cadenas, Paul Hughes, Jason Leigh — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Figma Config 2026: Canvas, Community, and Design Convergence

Wayne Kurtzman, Roger Beharry Lall, Tatsuhiro Soga, Jordan Jewell, Adam Resnick — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Over 10,000 Figma (NYSE: FIG) fans joined the annual Figma Config 2026 conference live at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, California, from June 24 to June 26, 2026, with many more participating online. The event focused on four key themes: code as design material, AI-powered generative tools, motion and animation, and collaborative and creative workflows. These themes reflect Figma's broader message of expanding what is possible for designers by treating new materials as design tools, enabling AI-assisted creation, and fostering collaboration at every stage, from exploration to implementation.

HPE Juniper Networking Advances AI Networking Options for AI Training and Inference Deployments

Paul Nicholson — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 04:00:00 GMT

IDC Survey: Energy Affordability Trends by Generation — Insights from IDC’s 2026 Energy Consumer Affordability & Trust Survey

Gaia Gallotti — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey examines a portion of IDC's 2026 Energy Consumer Affordability & Trust Survey. This landmark study, run in May 2026, is a B2C survey that covers energy customers around the world.

The survey covered 1,507 energy customers from the following 18 countries: Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Italy, France, Germany, Malaysia, Mexico, the Netherlands, the Philippines, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, the U.K., the UAE, and the U.S.

This IDC Survey examines how energy affordability pressures differ across generational segments, comparing Gen Z and Millennial customers (aged 18 to 45) with those over 46.

The analysis covers:

Scale and severity of energy cost changes over the past 12 months
Perceived drivers behind cost increases
Actions taken to manage rising energy costs
Duration and persistence of payment difficulty
Concern about future energy costs
Perceived affordability relative to household income
Self-assessed ability to absorb further cost increases

Market Share: EMEA Financial Applications Software Shares, 2025

Bo Lykkegaard — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC study examines the financial applications software market in EMEA, detailing market shares for leading vendors in 2025.

The financial applications software market continues to expand as organizations accelerate investments in cloud-based, AI-enabled finance technologies that improve automation, compliance, financial visibility, and decision-making. Demand was further boosted by several new national e-invoicing mandates across the EMEA, partly in response to the EU ViDA initiative.

"In 2025, the financial applications market in EMEA recorded robust growth. This was largely driven by the migration of legacy solutions to cloud-based financial suites, new adoption of SaaS accounting packages for entry-level businesses, and the wave of e-invoicing mandates sweeping across the region. The EU ViDA initiative accelerated developments while new mandates have been announced in the U.K., Ireland, Norway, and in the Middle East and Africa," said Bo Lykkegaard, associate VP, European software research at IDC.

Salesforce releases three new modes of agentic shopping

Heather Hershey, Ornella Urso — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 04:00:00 GMT

On June 24, 2026, Salesforce released its largest Agentforce Commerce update to date.

The company also confirmed native connections to the major AI assistants, with ChatGPT arriving in July and the Google properties, including AI Mode and the Gemini app, following over the summer. Around those headline agents sit roughly a dozen additional updates covering B2C, B2B, order management, and point of sale, including a faster storefront framework, a new search engine from the recent Cimulate acquisition, and a modern point-of-sale system reaching Android and Windows later this year.

AWS New York Summit 2026: Implications for IaaS in the Agentic AI Era

Jasdeep Singh — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT

AWS' infrastructure commitment at the Summit reflects a multiyear buildout strategy. The $200 billion AI infrastructure commitment for 2026, spanning 39 global regions, 123 availability zones, and 4 GW of new power capacity added in 2025, provides the physical foundation for what AWS describes as its "silicon to agentic solutions" architecture. AWS has publicly stated a goal to double total compute capacity by the end of 2027, a signal that demand projections are running ahead of existing provisioned capacity. The new agentic services — AgentCore Harness, AWS Context, Amazon Quick, and AWS Continuum — indicate that AI Factories offer more than compute capacity alone, evolving toward an integrated infrastructure foundation designed to support and scale enterprise AI workloads.

Addressing the Pipeline Conversion Gap: What CMOs and CROs Must Do to Turn Marketing Demand into Measurable Revenue

Andrea Siviero, Sudhir Rajagopal, Heather Hershey, Roger Beharry Lall — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Web Conference Proceeding examines the structural disconnect between pipeline and revenue, starting with a clear diagnostic: where conversion breaks down across the customer buying journey, and why traditional pipeline metrics fail to reflect true performance. It also presents a cross-functional perspective across demand strategy, revenue operations, and sales alignment. IDC analysts share how high-performing organizations turn demand into measurable revenue by aligning to how customers actually buy, improving handoffs and orchestration, and adopting metrics leadership trusts.

Most organizations are generating more pipeline than ever, yet revenue performance isn’t keeping pace. While the marketing-sourced pipeline has grown, conversion rates, deal velocity, and win rates have stagnated or declined. The challenge isn’t about demand; it’s about what happens next.

This IDC Web Conference Proceeding explores:

Where pipeline-to-revenue breakdowns most commonly occur, and how to diagnose them
How buying behavior has changed, and the implications for conversion, engagement, and journey design
What high-performing organizations do differently to connect demand generation to revenue outcomes
How to improve marketing, sales, and RevOps alignment to reduce friction and accelerate deals
Which metrics truly reflect revenue impact, and how to move beyond volume-based reporting
How to build executive confidence in marketing’s contribution to revenue

Advertising Applications Banner Book: CX Path 2026

Nadia Ballard, Douglas Hayward, Tiffany McCormick, Eric Newmark, Aly Pinder — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Pivot Table banner book provides the data set for the advertising applications category of IDC’s 2026 CX Path program.

The CX Path program includes a total of 14 application categories: advertising, marketing, sales, digital commerce, configure price quote (CPQ), product information management/product experience management (PIM/PXM), contact center and customer service, voice of the customer (VOC), customer experience (CX) orchestration, content and experience management, customer data platforms (CDPs), customer and digital experience analytics, aftermarket service life-cycle management, and price optimization applications.

Coverage includes application adoption, deployment models, budget plans and replacement cycle timing, purchasing preferences and attitudes toward CX SaaS buying channels, packaging and pricing options, and generative AI and agentic AI adoption and use for CX use cases. In addition, the program provides in-depth vendor reviews, vendor ratings, spend, and advocacy scores for all 14 application markets.

Aftermarket Service Life-Cycle Management Applications Banner Book: CX Path 2026

Nadia Ballard, Douglas Hayward, Tiffany McCormick, Eric Newmark, Aly Pinder — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Pivot Table banner book provides the data set for the aftermarket service life-cycle management application category of IDC’s 2026 CX Path program.