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IBM Content Cortex: Turning Decades of Content Services Investment into an Agentic AI Asset

Amy Machado — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 04:00:00 GMT

IDC Survey: CFO Buyer Insights 2026 — What CFOs and Finance Teams Want, Need, and Obstacles

Heather Herbst — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey analyzes how AI is the top priority for finance — that's no surprise. The real question is what's holding adoption back. Drawing on the results of IDC's 2026 CFO Buyer Insights Survey, this presentation gets straight to what CFOs and finance teams want and need: where they're placing their bets, what's blocking them, and the concerns shaping their priorities in the years ahead. The takeaway for technology buyers? Finance isn't shrinking — it's upskilling. Teams need the AI skills and tools to navigate their next move with confidence.

Market Forecast: Worldwide IT Automation and Configuration Management Software Forecast, 2026–2030

Shannon Kalvar — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC presentation projects that the IT automation and configuration management (ITACM) software market will grow at a 12.2% CAGR over the five-year forecast period. Growth will be driven by a specific market condition: Governed execution demand must expand beyond the installed base of dominant platform vendors into new workloads, new vendors, and new geographies before the first wave of platform renewals exhausts its momentum. Vendors that position themselves as trusted governance infrastructure for enterprise AI will access demand that did not exist in prior cycles; those that do not will find the market’s growth concentrating where they are not.

“In 2025, the ITACM market did not simply accelerate; it established a new structural baseline. Whether that baseline holds through 2030 depends on whether vendors use that new baseline to address the growing need for architectural and agentic governance in the agentic-application era,” said Shannon Kalvar, senior research director, Enterprise Systems Management, Enterprise Client Platforms, Observability, and AIOps, IDC.

Schneider Electric Acquires Cognite: Industrial AI Becomes an Architecture Decision for Manufacturers

Sarah Lee — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Schneider Electric's announcement of its acquisition of Cognite marks an advancement in industrial AI infrastructure. By folding Cognite's industrial DataOps platform and Atlas AI agentic workbench into AVEVA, Schneider is placing a substantial bet that the next competitive advantage in manufacturing lies not in another analytics layer, but in the data foundation beneath it. For process and discrete manufacturers across chemicals, food and beverage, automotive, pulp and paper, and semiconductors, this deal reshapes how AI will be deployed on the plant floor.

Supply Chain Planning Challenges and Remediation in 2026

Simon Ellis — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Perspective examines the current state of supply chain planning through the lens of persistent challenges and opportunities for remediation.

"As agentic AI is poised to change everything, supply chain planning sits in the crosshairs. Although traditionally performed by analog (aka human) planners, it is inherently a decision-making process that can, and often is, fully digitized," says Simon Ellis, Group VP, Manufacturing and Supply Chain, IDC. "It is also crucially important to the supply chain, and at IDC we have often noted that if you don't get planning right, you don't get the supply chain right."

The Next Phase of Network API Monetization — Part 1: 2026 Telco Priorities and Challenges

Masarra Mohamed — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Presentation is part 1 of The Next Phase of Network API Monetization presentation series. It focuses on CAMARA and GSMA Open Gateway progress in 2026 as well as telcos' investments, drivers, priorities, and challenges in network API adoption and monetization. Combining IDC survey data, market analysis, ecosystem tracking, and strategic interpretation, this presentation provides actionable insights into where commercial momentum is forming; which API categories are gaining traction; and what operational, regulatory, and organizational barriers continue to limit scale.

Part 2 of this series focuses on enterprise adoption patterns, CPaaS and aggregator positioning, and the increasing role of APIs as the execution layer for AI-enabled systems and contextual customer engagement. It delivers strategic guidance for telecom operators, CPaaS providers, hyperscalers, vendors, enterprises, and system integrators seeking to understand how AI, orchestration, identity, and programmable network capabilities are reshaping the future role of network APIs within enterprise systems and digital ecosystems.

从数字AI到物理AI：世界模型、仿真数据闭环与中国应用场景观察

Hongyu Cheng — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 04:00:00 GMT

本IDC看法报告围绕AI从数字任务走向真实世界行动的产业演进展开，重点分析物理AI的定义边界、全球产业链、中国市场图谱、软件基础设施方向和典型应用场景。报告指出，物理AI不是单一机器人、自动驾驶系统或仿真平台，而是AI与物理硬件在真实场景中形成“感知—理解—推理—规划—执行”闭环的系统能力。随着AI从Tokens驱动的数字任务，扩展到由连续场景片段Clips支撑的真实世界训练和验证，世界模型、仿真平台、合成数据和场景数据闭环将成为物理AI软件基础设施的重要方向。

报告进一步分析了智能驾驶、机器人、无人机与低空、工业设备和智慧城市相关物理场景的应用路径。智能驾驶由于具备较成熟的数据闭环和安全验证需求，将率先体现物理AI软件基础设施的产业价值；机器人、低空、工业和城市空间场景则将围绕动作片段、飞行片段、工程仿真和多主体推演逐步延展。整体来看，物理AI的落地路径将从场景数据化、数据资产化、仿真验证化，进一步走向模型闭环化和真实部署化。未来竞争重点不只在模型或硬件，而在于谁能更高效地把真实世界转化为可训练、可验证、可部署的数字资产。

IDC智慧城市分析师程鸿宇表示：“物理AI的产业价值不应只从机器人、自动驾驶或无人机等单一应用理解，而应放在AI能力从数字任务向真实世界行动扩展的过程中观察。与数字AI主要围绕Tokens、内容生成和软件流程不同，物理AI更依赖连续场景片段、世界模型、仿真验证和数据闭环。未来，模型能力仍是基础，但决定产业化进度的关键将转向场景数据质量、仿真可信度、安全验证能力和工程集成水平。智能驾驶由于具备较完整的数据回流、仿真测试和量产验证链路，将率先体现物理AI软件基础设施的价值；机器人、低空、工业设备和智慧城市相关物理场景，则会沿着动作片段、飞行片段、虚拟试验和多主体推演等方向逐步延展。整体来看，物理AI的竞争重点将从‘谁的模型更强’转向‘谁能更高效地把真实世界转化为可训练、可验证、可部署的数字资产’。”

2026火山引擎FORCE原动力大会——跨越质变点：从Token规模到生产交付

Lianfeng Wu, Nicholas Guo — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 04:00:00 GMT

全球企业正经历以AI为核心的业务重塑浪潮，AI驱动商业战略强调组织需将AI置于运营与竞争战略的核心位置，超越传统数字化转型，以AI驱动流程重构、决策加速与新价值创造。在这一框架下，大模型从“辅助工具”向“生产参与者”的演进，标志着AI业务价值兑现周期的开启。

伴随着Token的调用量的增长态势，MaaS市场的竞争重心正从Token调用规模转向Token价值的实际交付能力，即模型能力能否嵌入真实生产流程并创造可量化商业价值。大模型正由传统的问答、内容生成等基础应用，逐步具备复杂任务执行、工具调用和稳定交付能力，开始跨越“生产质变点”。伴随这一趋势，AI云基础设施需求同步放大，Agent长链路运行、多工具调用和多模态生成场景下的算力、存储和治理需求将进入加速增长周期。

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Harness and AWS Context: Managed Agentic AI Platform Services for Enterprise Developer Enablement

Adam Reeves — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Announced at AWS Summit, Amazon Bedrock AgentCore's managed harness and the preview of AWS Context extend AWS' agentic AI platform services with managed agent orchestration and organizational knowledge graph capabilities for enterprise developers. AWS asserts that the harness reduces the engineering cost of deploying production agents, and as PaaS continues its evolution toward agentic AI platforms, production deployments at scale will determine whether AgentCore emerges as the platform of record for enterprise agent development.

EY Showcases EY Studio+, Its Global CX Services Brand

Douglas Hayward — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Note discusses EY's launch of Studio+ in 2025. The launch marked a strategic consolidation of EY's global CX capabilities, uniting multiple acquired agencies under a single, integrated brand worldwide. With a strong industry focus and dynamic solution areas, Studio+ aims to drive client growth using AI while leveraging key alliances but maintaining a "boutique" client experience within a large organization. "The challenge ahead lies in ensuring clients continue to receive the expertise and familiarity they valued from the previous brands as EY positions Studio+ to compete with leading CX transformation brands," says Douglas Hayward, senior research director, CX Strategies and Services at IDC.